Line #23 Recap/TheXFilesS01E02DeepThroat


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3	'''Season 1, Episode 02:'''
4	!Deep Throat
5	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thexfilesdeepthroat.png]]
6	[[caption-width-right:350:''"People see what they wanna see."'']]
7	->Written by Creator/ChrisCarter\
8	Directed by Daniel Sackheim
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10	->''"When does the human cost become too high for the building of a better machine?"''
11	-->-- '''Fox Mulder'''
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13	Mulder and Scully receive a request from the wife of an Air Force test pilot to investigate what has happened to her husband. Maybe the pressure of the job just got to him, but after a mysterious informant warns Mulder off the case, he decides that he has to investigate. That decision proves costly...
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15	!!Tropes:
16	* BigDamnHeroes: Scully's rescue of Mulder, achieved single-handedly against the entire Air Force Base.
17	* CharacterTitle: Or pseudonym in this case.
18	* DistressedDude: After his investigation goes sour, Mulder is captured by government forces and needs to be rescued by Scully.
19	* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Deep Throat's enigmatic confrontation of Mulder and cryptic manner, and for the first time, we get to see how ferociously loyal and all-around badass Scully is when she makes a split-second decision to take a government employee hostage at gunpoint and use him as a bargaining chip to rescue Mulder.
20	* ETGaveUsWiFi: Mulder believes that the mysterious flying objects seen in the area are airplanes built by the Air Force based on UFO technology retrieved from the Roswell Incident in 1947.
21	* GunStruggle: One that Scully comes out on top of.
22	* HeroInsurance: How was Mulder not kicked out of the FBI for breaking into a top secret military base? Likely only his political connections and Deep Throat made that so.
23	* HeWasRightThereAllAlong: Deep Throat surprising Mulder in the bathroom.
24	* MemoryWipingCrew: There's one in the Air Force Base, which selectively removes memories from test pilots who see more than they can handle. They also work on Mulder at the end.
25	* MysteriousInformant: The episode introduces Deep Throat, Mulder's first government informant.
26	%%* MythArc
27	* NonIndicativeTitle: To the new watcher, the title makes no sense whatsoever, for it's never mentioned who or what Deep Throat exactly is.
28	* OffscreenTeleportation: Deep Throat vanishes as soon as he's left the bathroom, and there's no indication that Scully or anyone else in the bar saw him leaving.
29	* PrisonerExchange: Scully orchestrates one to rescue Mulder.
30	* ShoutOut: "Deep Throat" is a well-known term for a mysterious whistleblower. Those viewers not familiar with ''Film/AllThePresidentsMen'' may remain puzzled, however.
31	* StonersAreFunny: The stoner kids.
32	* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: Happens to Mulder when he's captured by Air Force Base troops.
33	* TimeSkip: Although it's not obvious, this episode is time-stamped as taking place roughly 15 months after [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E01 the pilot]]. Later episodes seemed to forget about this when mentioning how long Mulder and Scully had been partners, though.
34	* WorkoutFanservice: Mulder doing laps on the track at the end, mainly because of his bare arms.
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36	->'''Mulder:''' They're here, aren't they?\

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