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3 | '''Season 1, Episode 07:''' |
4 | !Ghost in the Machine |
5 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thexfilesghostinthemachine.png]] |
6 | [[caption-width-right:350:[[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey HAL 9000]]'s got nothing on this machine.]] |
7 | ->Written by Creator/AlexGansa & Howard Gordon\ |
8 | Directed by Jerrold Freedman |
9 | |
10 | ->'''Deep Throat:''' How much do you know about artificial intelligence?\ |
11 | '''Mulder:''' I thought it was only theoretical.\ |
12 | '''Deep Throat:''' It was, until two years ago. |
13 | |
14 | When the CEO of a technology company is found dead, suspicion turns to the founder of the company, whom the CEO was trying to force out. However, the true killer may be a little harder to put in handcuffs... |
15 | ---- |
16 | !!Tropes: |
17 | * AIIsACrapShoot: PlayedStraight. The BigBad in this episode ''is'' the AI, and it's entirely willing to kill for the sake of preserving itself. |
18 | * AirVentPassageway: Scully tries to make her way through one to beat the technology, and is very nearly killed in the process. |
19 | * ArtisticLicenseLinguistics: Scully analyzes a COS-generated synthesized recording of Wilczek's voice against [[MadLibsDialogue another reading of the same line she creates by splicing together various clips of Wilczek's real voice]]. Somehow the two clips have identical spectrographs. Needless to say, that wouldn't happen and the analysis wouldn't work. |
20 | * ArtisticLicensePhysics: When the elevator plummets, Larry is pinned to the floor rather than experiencing freefall. |
21 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: Number 1: Electrocution while trying to unlock a door with a metal key. Number 2: Crushed in a falling elevator. Both are unpleasant. |
22 | * TheEndOrIsIt: The AI is revealed to still be functioning even after being shut down by Wilczek's virus and taken apart piece by piece, even if only barely. |
23 | * EvilElevator: An elevator that's part of an office building's sentient computer network. It kills an investigator. |
24 | * HauntedTechnology: Not quite. It's got a mind of its own, that's all. |
25 | * IJustWantToBeYou: Jerry explains that some of his JerkAss tendencies have to do with his jealousy of Mulder's superior skills as a profiler and agent. |
26 | * ItsPersonal: Once the AI kills Mulder's former partner. |
27 | * LaserGuidedKarma: Jerry Lamana steals Mulder's brilliant profile of the killer and passes it off as his own. A few scenes later, he meets with his death in a falling elevator. |
28 | * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Brad Wilczek is most definitely NOT Creator/SteveJobs. Ahem. Not even Steve Wozniak. No siree. |
29 | * NotQuiteDead: Looks like the AI might have survived the virus after all! |
30 | * OneHeadTaller: Agents' height difference is especially noticeable in the scene where Brad Wilczek asks them to remove their shoes and there are a few shots without the aid of anything to make up for it (no box, no high heels). Gillian Anderson looks positively tiny; she barely comes up to David Duchovny's shoulder. |
31 | * PrefersGoingBarefoot: Brad Wilczek. He even made Mulder and Scully take off their shoes while they were in his residence. |
32 | -->'''Wilczek:''' ''[in a cell sitting barefoot on a bed]'' They make me wear shoes all the time. What else do you want from me? |
33 | * ShoutOut: COS is heavily inspired by another famous murderous AI, [[Film/TwoThousandAndOneASpaceOdyssey HAL-9000]]. This becomes particularly clear during its (seeming) death scene, where its voice gradually slows, degrades and stops. |
34 | -->'''COS''': What are you doing, Brad? |
35 | * TemptingFate: The suit trying to rebuild the murderous AI says, "I'm going to figure this thing out if it kills me." |
36 | * WeUsedToBeFriends: Mulder and his former partner, Jerry Lamana. |
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38 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thexfilesghostinthemachine2.png]] |
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