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"The X Files" Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space' (1996)
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"The X Files" (1993)Original Air Date:
12 April 1996 (Season 3, Episode 20)Plot:
The story of two teenagers who were abducted by aliens interests popular writer Jose Chung. He seeks out Scully to retell her account of what happened... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Perhaps the best X-Files episode of all! moreCast
(Episode Cast overview, first billed only) | David Duchovny | ... | Fox Mulder |
 | Gillian Anderson | ... | Dana Scully |
 | Charles Nelson Reilly | ... | Jose Chung |
| William Lucking | ... | Roky Crikenson |
 | Daniel Quinn | ... | Lieutenant Jack Schaefer |
 | Jesse Ventura | ... | Man in Black |
 | Sarah Sawatsky | ... | Chrissy |
| Jason Gaffney | ... | Harold |
| Alex Trebek | ... | Man in Black |
| Alex Diakun | ... | Dr. Fingers |
| Larry Musser | ... | Detective Manners |
| Allan Zinyk | ... | Blaine |
| Andrew Turner | ... | CIA Man |
 | Michael Dobson | ... | Sargeant Hynek |
| Mina E. Mina | ... | Dr. Hand |
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The name of the 'alien', Lord Kinbote, is a reference to Charles Kinbote, the unreliable and probably insane narrator of Vladimir Nabokov's ‘Pale Fire’. moreQuotes:
Lieutenant Jack Schaefer: [to Mulder] Have you ever flown a flying saucer? Afterwards sex seems trite. moreSoundtrack:
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This X-Files has it all: a superb guest cast of both unknowns and extremely well-knowns, great writing, wry tongue-in-cheek humor, and homages to more sci-fi (and abduction fanatic "fact") stories than one would think possible in the alloted time. Charles Nelson Reilly gives a beautifully understated performance in the title role (showing that he's more than a one-trick pony when someone gives him a chance); Jesse Ventura utters more polysyllabic words than I thought he knew, and the other "Man in Black" (whose face is obscured until late in the story) is a hoot.
I've watched this episode more times than I can count, and it seems I'm always noticing a new detail that further enhances the tale. If you have the opportunity to purchase a collection with this as one of the episodes -- jump on it!