"The X Files" Unruhe (1996)

User Rating:

8.1/10   

Director:

Rob Bowman

Writers:

Chris Carter (creator)
Vince Gilligan (written by)

TV Series:

"The X Files" (1993)

Original Air Date:

27 October 1996 (Season 4, Episode 4)

Genre:

Drama | Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Plot:

An intended passport photo for a missing woman develops warped and twisted, showing her terrified and surrounded by beings...

Plot Keywords:

Missing Woman | Passport | Injection | Photograph | Kidnapping

Cast

David Duchovny	...	Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson	...	Dana Scully
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Sharon Alexander	...	Mary Louise Lefante
Ron Chartier	...	Inspector Puett
Michael Cram	...	Officer Corning
Scott Heindl	...	Billy
William MacDonald	...	Officer Trott
Walter Marsh	...	The Druggist
Christopher Royal	...	Photo Technician
Pruitt Taylor Vince	...	Gerry Schnauz

Runtime:

Argentina:60 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | German

Certification:

Argentina:13

Company:

20th Century Fox Television

Quotes:

Fox Mulder: [Interrogating Gerald Schnauz] Do you want to tell us about the first time you were arrested, Gerry?
Dana Scully: In 1980 you attacked your father with an axe handle. You beat him so severely that he spent the remainder of his life in a wheelchair.
Gerry Schnauz: I was not jailed, I was institutionalized. I had a kind of... chemical imbalance.
Fox Mulder: Yeah,
[reading from folder]
Fox Mulder: 'Gerald Thomas Schnauz diagnosed and treated for a paranoid schizophrenic disorder. Six years in Melvoyne Psychiatic Hospital. Released 1986.' So what have you been up to since 1986, Gerry?
Gerry Schnauz: Taking care of my father. Looking after him 24 hours a day. Making amends. He, uh... passed away in January.
Fox Mulder: How did you feel about that?
Gerry Schnauz: Sad...
Fox Mulder: It says here you have a sister. Where is your sister, Gerry?
[...]

Beware of the Howlers

Unruhe keeps the beginnings of season 4 strong. The episode features a deleted scene at the very beginning of the episode, where Mulder is on a phone call where he finds out how is mom was doing, going back to Herrenvolk. Without having watched the audio commentary on that deleted scene yet, I would imagine it was deleted after they moved that episode from being right after the season premiere to fourth in the season. Pruitt Taylor Vince does an outstanding job as Gerry Schauz. He's got this, uh, eye thing going, where is eyes are constantly moving back and forth. It just adds to his dementia. The psychic photography is kind of cool. Scully still tries to find a scientific explanation for the girl screaming in the photo. Won't this girl ever learn? What the computer guy at the FBI was able to do with the photograph was a bit of a stretch. But then again, so are Mulder's leaps in logic. However, Unruhe is a very entertaining episode with plenty of suspense to keep you on the edge of your seat.