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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 |
9 | |
10 | ->''"When does the human cost become too high for the building of a better machine?"'' |
11 | -->-- '''Fox Mulder''' |
12 | |
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... |
14 | ---- |
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. |
35 | ---- |
36 | ->'''Mulder:''' They're here, aren't they?\ |
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