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* TheBusReturns: The Black Oil returns as a threat for a final time after a lengthy absence from the show.
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* TheBusReturns: TheBusCameBack: The Black Oil returns as a threat for a final time after a lengthy absence from the show.
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* TheBusReturns: The Black Oil returns as a threat for a final time after a lengthy absence from the show.
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'''Mulder:''' Scully, if these men are infected, the last place we want to is onshore where they can infect other people.
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'''Mulder:''' Scully, if these men are infected, the last place we want to be is onshore where they can infect other people.
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* PutOnABus: The Black Oil/Purity is never seen again after this episode.
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* CollapsingLair: Or exploding lair, as it's an oil refinery sabotaged by its own workers. Though it's not entirely clear what the black oil-infected workers have to gain from this.
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* ExplodingLair: Justified as it is an oil refinery sabotaged by its own workers. Though it's not clear what the black oil-infected workers have to gain from this.
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* ExplodingLair: Justified as it is an oil refinery sabotaged by its own workers. Though it's not clear what the black oil-infected workers have to gain from this.
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* TheImmune: Diego Garza and Simon de la Cruz are not infected by the black oil.
* TheInfiltration: Mulder suggests this is the EvilPlan of the black oil, using humanity's universal dependence on it to spread across the globe.
* ItsQuietTooQuiet: Mulder suddenly realise no-one's trying to kick down the door. Turns out they've decided to blow up the oil rig instead.
* TheInfiltration: Mulder suggests this is the EvilPlan of the black oil, using humanity's universal dependence on it to spread across the globe.
* ItsQuietTooQuiet: Mulder suddenly realise no-one's trying to kick down the door. Turns out they've decided to blow up the oil rig instead.
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* TheImmune: Diego Garza and Simon de la Cruz are not infected by the black oil.
oil. They are Huecha Indians who, due to a genetic mutation, have a natural immunity.
* TheInfiltration: Mulder suggests this is theEvilPlan goal of the black oil, using humanity's universal dependence on it to spread across the globe.
* ItsQuietTooQuiet: Mulder suddenly realise no-one's trying to kick down the door. Turns out they've decided to [[TakingYouWithMe blow up the oil riginstead.instead]].
* TheInfiltration: Mulder suggests this is the
* ItsQuietTooQuiet: Mulder suddenly realise no-one's trying to kick down the door. Turns out they've decided to [[TakingYouWithMe blow up the oil rig
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* BaitAndSwitch: At first it looks like the two Mexican workers are the villains, especially when one kills a fellow worker in cold blood. Then it turns out the man he killed was infected by the black oil.
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* BaitAndSwitch: At first it looks like the two Mexican workers are the villains, especially when one kills a fellow worker in cold blood. Then it turns out the man he killed was infected by the black oil.
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* BorrowedCatchphrase: Doggett tries to get
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* BorrowedCatchphrase: Doggett tries to get Diego to trust him, but he replies with Spanish that Doggett ironically translates as "Trust no-one."
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* LockDown: There's an attempt to quarantine the rig, but Kersh overules it. There are also repeated attempts to destroy the radio to prevent calling others in.
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* LockDown: There's an attempt to quarantine the rig, but Kersh overules it. There are also repeated attempts to destroy the radio to prevent calling others in.
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* AlienBlood: Diego slashes Doggett to confirm he's not infected by the black oil.
* AsYouKnow: Done by having Mulder and Doggett argue over whether the case of the dead Mexican oil worker killed by radiation burns should be investigated by the Bureau.
* AsYouKnow: Done by having Mulder and Doggett argue over whether the case of the dead Mexican oil worker killed by radiation burns should be investigated by the Bureau.
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* BaitAndSwitch: At first it looks like the two Mexican workers are the villains, especially when one kills a fellow worker in cold blood. Then it turns out the man he killed was infected by the black oil.
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* FatalFamilyPhoto: Diego has a photo of his family, with the expected results.
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* TheInfiltration: Mulder suggests this is the EvilPlan of the black oil, using humanity's universal dependence on it to spread across the globe.
* ItsQuietTooQuiet: Mulder suddenly realise no-one's trying to kick down the door. Turns out they've decided to blow up the oil rig instead.
* LockDown: There's an attempt to quarantine the rig, but Kersh overules it. There are also repeated attempts to destroy the radio to prevent calling others in.
* ItsQuietTooQuiet: Mulder suddenly realise no-one's trying to kick down the door. Turns out they've decided to blow up the oil rig instead.
* LockDown: There's an attempt to quarantine the rig, but Kersh overules it. There are also repeated attempts to destroy the radio to prevent calling others in.
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* BuddyCopShow: Or Buddy Agent Show. at least for this single episode.
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* BuddyCopShow: Or Buddy Agent Show. at At least for this single episode.
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Tenemos que detenerlos antes que sea muy tarde. Ya [[TitleDrop vienen]]! Ya vienen!"'' [[labelnote:Translation]]"We have to stop them before it's too late. They're coming! They're coming!" in Spanish.[[/labelnote]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Tenemos que detenerlos antes que sea muy tarde. Ya [[TitleDrop vienen]]! Ya vienen!"'' [[labelnote:Translation]]"We have to stop them before it's too late. They're coming! They're coming!" in Spanish.[[/labelnote]]]]
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* ContinuityNod: In the first scene after the opening credits, which is set in the X-Files office, one can see a picture of the [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E11TheGift North American shaman cross]].
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'''Scully:''' No Mulder, you need to get off the rig. Have Agent Doggett give the order. We can quarantine you and the crew when we get back here.\\
'''Mulder:''' Scully, if these men are infected, the last place we want to be is onshore where they can infect other people.
'''Mulder:''' Scully, if these men are infected, the last place we want to be is onshore where they can infect other people.
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'''Scully:''' No Mulder, you need to get off the rig. Have Agent Doggett give the order. We can quarantine you and the crew when we you get back here.\\
'''Mulder:''' Scully, if these men are infected, the last place we want tobe is onshore where they can infect other people.
'''Mulder:''' Scully, if these men are infected, the last place we want to
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->'''Mulder:''' We got to quarantine this rig.\\
'''Scully:''' No Mulder, you need to get off the rig. Have Agent Doggett give the order. We can quarantine you and the crew when we get back here.\\
'''Mulder:''' Scully, if these men are infected, the last place we want to be is onshore where they can infect other people.
'''Scully:''' No Mulder, you need to get off the rig. Have Agent Doggett give the order. We can quarantine you and the crew when we get back here.\\
'''Mulder:''' Scully, if these men are infected, the last place we want to be is onshore where they can infect other people.
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-->'''Mulder:''' Answer the phone, Agent Doggett. You're in charge here now.
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* WhamShot: The reveal that the entire crew is infected with the Black Oil.
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* WhamShot: The reveal that the entire crew is infected with the Black Oil.Oil.
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->''"That oil should stay right where it is. You should do everything in your power to make sure that it does."''
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->''"That oil should stay right where it is. You should do everything in your power to make sure that it does."''
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Mulder and Doggett are [[TeethClenchedTeamwork forced to come to an understanding]] after they become trapped on an oil rig where the crew are infected with the alien black oil.
Doggett was sent to investigate the oil rig, but Mulder went along on his own initiative, disobeying orders, and this leads to him being dismissed from the agency at the end of the episode.
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Mulder and Doggett are [[TeethClenchedTeamwork forced to come to an understanding]] after they become trapped on an oil rig where the crew are infected with the alien black oil.
oil. Doggett was sent to investigate the oil rig, but Mulder went along on his own initiative, disobeying orders, and this leads to him being dismissed from the agency at the end of the episode.
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* BittersweetEnding: On the bitter side all the oil workers are dead and Mulder takes the fall for the rig's destruction, being fired from the FBI once and for all. On the sweet side Mulder and Doggett have saved countless lives from the Black Oil, and prevented it from contacting the aliens UFO's. Doggett fully takes up Mulder's role as the head of the X-Files, and the two men part on good terms, respecting one another at last.
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* FireForgedFriends: Mulder and Doggett become this at last, at least come to respect one another from their experiences fighting the Black Oil together in this episode.
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* TakingUpTheMantle: In the end Mulder takes the fall for the incident and is fired from the FBI altogether, while Agent Doggett fully takes over running the X-Files for him. The two part ways with a hand shake and mutual respect.
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* BadBoss: Kersh is a particularly insufferable jerkass in this episode, and fires Mulder once and for all at the end of the episode.
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* CasualDangerDialogue: Mulder engages in some of this to Doggett while the radio room is being attacked.
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* HeroicSacrifice: A non lethal kind from Mulder, who takes the fall for the incident and is fired from the FBI, protecting Doggett and the X-Files.
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* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Mulder and Doggett at first, though fighting the Black Oil together they come to respect one another by the episode's end, and make peace.
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* VisualGag: The door to the radio room that the Black Oil infected are trying to kick down has an instruction written on it for workers to wipe off their boots before entering.
* WhamShot: The reveal that the entire crew is infected with the Black Oil.
* VisualGag: The door to the radio room that the Black Oil infected are trying to kick down has an instruction written on it for workers to wipe off their boots before entering.
* WhamShot: The reveal that the entire crew is infected with the Black Oil.
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* BigDamnHeroes: Mulder swoops in just in time with a metal pipe to beat down a Black Oil infected worker just before it could kill or infect Doggett.
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* FireForgedFriends: Mulder and Doggett become this at last, at least come to respect one another from their experiences fighting the Black Oil together in this episode.
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* NoEscapeButDown: Mulder and Doggett jump off an oil rig after realizing the crew is destroying it.
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* NoEscapeButDown: Mulder and Doggett jump off an oil rig after realizing the crew is destroying it.it.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Kersh, true to form.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Mulder and Doggett at first, though fighting the Black Oil together they come to respect one another by the episode's end, and make peace.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Kersh, true to form.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Mulder and Doggett at first, though fighting the Black Oil together they come to respect one another by the episode's end, and make peace.
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[[WMG:[[center:[-'''RECAP:'''\\
[[Recap/TheXFiles Index]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E01Within 1]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E02Without 2]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E03Patience 3]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E04Roadrunners 4]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E05Invocation 5]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E06Redrum 6]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E07ViaNegativa 7]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E08Surekill 8]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E09Salvage 9]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E10Badlaa 10]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E11TheGift 11]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E12Medusa 12]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E13PerManum 13]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E14ThisIsNotHappening 14]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E15Deadalive 15]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E16ThreeWords 16]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E17Empedocles 17]] | '''18''' | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E19Alone 19]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E20Essence 20]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E21Existence 21]]]]-]]]
'''Season 8, Episode 18:'''
!Vienen
->Written by Steven Maeda\\
Directed by Rod Hardy
Mulder and Doggett are [[TeethClenchedTeamwork forced to come to anunderstanding understanding]] after they become trapped on an oil rig where the crew are infected with the alien black oil.
[[Recap/TheXFiles Index]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E01Within 1]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E02Without 2]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E03Patience 3]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E04Roadrunners 4]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E05Invocation 5]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E06Redrum 6]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E07ViaNegativa 7]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E08Surekill 8]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E09Salvage 9]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E10Badlaa 10]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E11TheGift 11]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E12Medusa 12]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E13PerManum 13]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E14ThisIsNotHappening 14]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E15Deadalive 15]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E16ThreeWords 16]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E17Empedocles 17]] | '''18''' | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E19Alone 19]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E20Essence 20]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E21Existence 21]]]]-]]]
'''Season 8, Episode 18:'''
!Vienen
->Written by Steven Maeda\\
Directed by Rod Hardy
Mulder and Doggett are [[TeethClenchedTeamwork forced to come to an
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Mulder and Doggett are forced to come to an understanding after they become trapped on an oil rig where the crew are infected with the alien black oil.
Doggett was sent to investigate the oil rig, but Mulder went along on his own initiative, disobeying orders, and this leads to him being dismissed from the agency at the end of the episode.
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* MockingMusic: Agents Mulder and Doggett are pursued by oil rig crew members who have been infected by the black oil. They are violently banging on the door of the communications room, while Doggett tries to get the radio working. The static changes to The Ride of the Valkyries.
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* MockingMusic: Agents Mulder and Doggett are pursued by oil rig crew members who have been infected by the black oil. They are violently banging on the door of the communications room, while Doggett tries to get the radio working. The static changes to The Ride the "Music/{{Ride of the Valkyries.Valkyries}}".
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* ForeignLanguageTitle: Spanish for "they come".
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* MythArc: Functions like a Monster of the Week but with the return of the black oil and the usual authority figures acting obstructive.
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* MythArc: Functions like a Monster of the Week but with the return of the black oil and the usual authority figures acting obstructive.obstructive.
* NoEscapeButDown: Mulder and Doggett jump off an oil rig after realizing the crew is destroying it.
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* TheImmune: Diego Garza and Simon de la Cruz are not infected by the black oil.
* MythArc: Functions like a Monster of the Week but with the return of the black oil and the usual authority figures acting obstructive.
