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'''Season 7, Episode 05:'''
!Rush
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"It was such a [[TitleDrop rush]]... moving fast like that."'']]
->Written by David Amann\\
Directed by Robert Lieberman

->''"Speed, Scully. Somehow, Max Harden has found a way to move faster than the eye can see."''
-->-- '''Fox Mulder'''

Mulder and Scully investigate a bizarre murder and find a group of teenagers with SuperSpeed.
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!!Tropes:
* AntagonisticOffspring: Max assaults his sheriff father for uncovering the heavy-duty flashlight he'd killed the deputy with, saying that he no longer needs to be afraid of him.
* AntiVillain: Chastity, who goes along with her boyfriend more out of fear than devotion.
* BaitAndSwitch: In an inversion of the usual way this sort of plot goes down, [[TheCorrupter Max]] is the one who wanted a real friend in [[NaiveNewcomer Tony]]; Tony quickly gets cold feet and turns on Max while he's indisposed.
* BlessedWithSuck: The cave grants adolescents SuperSpeed; unfortunately, it also omits the RequiredSecondaryPowers, which leads to the users of the power literally tearing their bodies apart.
* DeconstructedTrope: Max has the ability to move at SuperSpeed... but the forces this puts on his body and the lack of any RequiredSecondaryPowers means that he's tearing himself apart every time he does it.
* DrivenToSuicide: Chastity after killing Max, stepping into the path of the same bullet she uses to do it.
* EnhanceButton: Chuck Burks' experimental technology is used to extract an important clue from blurred security footage.
* EvilIsPetty: Max drives a teacher into a wall with a cafeteria table and then launches a chair at his head just because the teacher failed him on a test for cheating despite no proof...a test which he had perfectly filled out after coming to class in the final minute.
* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: The delinquent Max's father is the town's sheriff.
* MonsterOfTheWeek: An ordinary, albeit delinquent, teenager that found a way to gain SuperSpeed powers.
* MotionBlur: A key plot-point where security footage at a high school was found to show a strange blur. Using experimental technology to colorize it, the agents reveal the blur is made up of the school colors, suggesting that it comes from the jacket of one of the (superpowered) students.
* MurderSuicide: Chastity chooses to [[OneHitPolyKill stand in the path of the bullet she kills Max with]], claiming to Tony that she "can't go back" to what her life was like without SuperSpeed.
* OneHitPolykill: A teen essentially commits murder-suicide in this way, shooting someone in the back, and then using her super speed to step into the path of the bullet as is passes through.
* PetTheDog: Max sticks up for Tony when the kids in their class ostracize him.
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Notably averted. To put it in comic book terms, Max and the other teenagers are basically given Franchise/TheFlash's main power of SuperSpeed, but at the same time none of his SuperToughness or HealingFactor. Their very average human bodies therefore takes the full brunt of being subjected to stress that it isn't designed to handle, resulting in appropriate medical issues (exhaustion, muscular and skeletal damage, etc.).
* SuperSpeed: What the cave provides to teenagers.
* TeensAreMonsters: Some of them are responsible for the deaths appearing in this episode.
* TheEndOrIsIt: The ending implies that Tony either still has his SuperSpeed, or is at least going through a form of withdrawal where regular time feels painfully slow in comparison to the Rush.
* TheUnreveal: The source of the teens' super-speed is never explained. All that is known is they go into a cave, interact with a strange metal, and emerge with superpowers. Sadly before Mulder or Scully can test their theory about it effecting teenagers the cave is filled up with concrete.
* YouthIsWastedOnTheDumb: Max uses his SuperSpeed powers for murder, cheating at tests, and playing a prank where he abandons a car mid-drive and then saves Tony right before it crashes.
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->''"What if we're too old? Well, you said that teenagers differ from adults chemically and physiologically."''