"The X Files" The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati (1999)

Director:

Michael W. Watkins

Writers:

Chris Carter (creator)
David Duchovny (written by) ...

TV Series:

"The X Files" (1993)

Original Air Date:

14 November 1999 (Season 7, Episode 2)

Genre:

Drama | Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Plot:

Mulder's condition continues to deteriorate. He is kidnapped from the hospital by the Cigarette Smoking Man for insidious purposes...

Plot Keywords:

Roman Numeral In Title | Punctuation In Title | Male Female Relationship | Reference To Hamlet | Number In Title

Cast

David Duchovny	...	Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson	...	Dana Scully
Mitch Pileggi	...	Walter Skinner
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Anthony Anselmi	...	Paramedic
David Brisbin	...	Second Doctor
Andrew Cavarno	...	Dream Boy
Steven Cavarno	...	Dream Boy
William B. Davis	...	Cigarette Smoking Man / CGB Spender
Glen Eberspecher	...	Peter
John Finn	...	Michael Kritschgau
Brian George	...	Project Doctor
Fritz Greve	...	Bearded Man
Martin Grey	...	Agent Flagler
Jerry Hardin	...	Deep Throat
Nicholas Lea	...	Alex Krycek
Megan Leitch	...	Samantha Mulder
Mimi Rogers	...	Agent Diana Fowley
Warren Sweeney	...	Dr. Harriman
Rebecca Toolan	...	Mrs. Teena Mulder
Arlene Warren	...	Skinner's Assistant (as Arlene Pileggi)
Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman	...	Albert Hosteen

Runtime:

60 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Argentina:13

Company:

20th Century Fox Television

Goofs:

Continuity: (At 16:45) Mulder is on his bed without his pyjamas, but still wearing handcuffs.

Quotes:

The Cigarette Smoking Man: [to Mulder] Don't be so dramatic. Only part of you is dying. The part that played the hero. You've suffered enough - for the X-Files, for your partner, for the world. You're not Christ, you're not Prince Hamlet - you're not even Ralph Nader!

Weakest of the trilogy

After two underrated episodes, 'The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati' really disappointed me with its boring storyline. For instance, Mulder has a unidentified brain disease, which makes Cancer Man kidnap him to a strange house where in dream-like visions Mulder sees his abducted sister and Diana Fowley tries to seduce him into living with her.

Then, I started to wonder about the spaceship? Answer: Forget about all that, this episode only really focuses on Mulder and Cigarette-Smoking Man, giving us no answers.

3/10 I've never been a mythology lover, but this is just annoying and far too confusing for me to enjoy.