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"The X Files" Alpha (1999)
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Chris Carter (creator)
Jeffrey Bell (written by)
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Original Air Date:
28 March 1999 (Season 6, Episode 16)
Plot:
Mulder and Scully investigate a series of murders that may be connected to a Chinese breed of dog. full summary | add synopsis
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Will the sun ever shine again? more (6 total)
Cast
(Episode Credited cast) | David Duchovny | ... | Fox Mulder |
 | Gillian Anderson | ... | Dana Scully |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
 | Yau-Gene Chan | ... | Woo |
 | James M. Connor | ... | Jake Conroy (as James Micheal Connor) |
| Melinda Culea | ... | Karin Berquist |
 | Thomas F. Duffy | ... | Jeffrey Cahn (as Thomas Duffy) |
 | Dana Lee | ... | Yee |
| Mandy Levin | ... | Angie |
 | Michael Mantell | ... | Dr. James Riley |
 | Lisa Picotte | ... | Stacey Muir |
 | Andrew Robinson | ... | Dr. Ian Detweiler |
 | David Starwalt | ... | Fish & Wildlife Officer Frank Fiedler |
| Treva Tegtmeier | ... | Peggy |
| Tuan Tran | ... | Fong |
| Adrienne Wilde | ... | Nurse |
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Argentina:60 min
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Melinda Culea, who plays the role of Karin Berquist, is the wife of the episode's director, Peter Markle. more
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Alpha is a strange one, on the one hand it is a pleasingly dark X File that doesn't permit a ray of light to touch it's forty minutes, on the other hand it's a head-spinning and confusing episode that makes no sense and has, seemingly, no aim whatsoever. Andrew Robinson is superb as Dr Detweiler, his performance is full of blank-face menace and panto-villain nastiness. Melinda Culea does what she can with the character of Karin Berquist, but when you're playing a people-hating recluse the scope is a little limited. Peter Markle's direction is effective, he makes full use of all the darkness and gloom and you are left wondering if the sun will ever shine again. But the script is so full of holes that you wonder if the episode will fall apart before the end. A great idea poorly executed.