History Recap / TheXFilesS01E07GhostInTheMachine

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Brad Wilczek. He even made Mulder and Scully take off their shoes while they were in his residence.
-->'''Wilczek:''' ''[in a cell sitting barefoot on a bed]'' They make me wear shoes all the time. What else do you want from me?

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Some of the terms used to describe "expert" hackers [[HollywoodHacking sound like they were pulled out of]] a {{Cyberpunk}} novel, but at the very least techno-/crypto-anarchism was in its infancy at the time, and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phreaking phone "phreaking"]] had already had a venerable 40+-year history when the episode was released.
-->'''Mulder:''' Could someone have hacked into the system?\\
'''Wilczek:''' Well, not your average phone phreak, that's for sure. But there's plenty of kooks out there. Data travelers, electro-wizards, techno-anarchists. Anything's possible.

* StockEpisodeTitles: 21 uses.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Some of the terms used to describe "expert" hackers sound like they were pulled out of a {{Cyberpunk}} novel, but at the very least techno-/crypto-anarchism was in its infancy at the time, and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phreaking phone "phreaking"]] had already had a venerable 40+-year history when the episode was released.

* HollywoodHacking: Some of the terms used to describe "expert" hackers sound like they were pulled out of thin air.
-->'''Mulder:''' Could someone have hacked into the system?\\
'''Wilczek:''' Well, not your average phone freak, that's for sure. But there's plenty of kooks out there. Data travelers, electro wizards, techno-anarchists. Anything's possible.

->Written by Creator/AlexGansa & Creator/HowardGordon\\
Directed by Creator/JerroldFreedman

->Written by Alex Gansa & Howard Gordon\\
Directed by Jerrold Freedman

[[Recap/TheXFiles Index]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E01 1]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E02DeepThroat 2]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E02DeepThroat 2]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E03Squeeze 3]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E04Conduit 4]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E05TheJerseyDevil 5]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E06Shadows 6]] | '''7''' | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E08Ice 8]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E09Space 9]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E10FallenAngel 10]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E11Eve 11]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E12Fire 12]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E13BeyondTheSea 13]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E14GenderBender 14]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E15Lazarus 15]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E16YoungAtHeart 16]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E17EBE 17]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E18MiracleMan 18]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E19Shapes 19]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E20DarknessFalls 20]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E21Tooms 21]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E22BornAgain 22]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E23Roland 23]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E24TheErlenmeyerFlask 24]]]]-]]]

!!![[AC:Recaps]]: [[Recap/TheXFiles Index]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E01 1]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E02DeepThroat 2]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E03Squeeze 3]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E04Conduit 4]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E05TheJerseyDevil 5]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E06Shadows 6]] | '''7''' | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E08Ice 8]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E09Space 9]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E10FallenAngel 10]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E11Eve 11]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E12Fire 12]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E13BeyondTheSea 13]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E14GenderBender 14]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E15Lazarus 15]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E16YoungAtHeart 16]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E17EBE 17]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E18MiracleMan 18]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E19Shapes 19]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E20DarknessFalls 20]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E21Tooms 21]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E22BornAgain 22]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E23Roland 23]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E24TheErlenmeyerFlask 24]]

* AIIsACrapShoot: PlayedStraight. The BigBad in this episode ''is'' the AI.

* TheEndOrIsIt: The AI is revealed to still be function even after shutting down becayse of Wilczek's virus, if barely.
* EvilElevator: An elevator that is part of an office building's sentient computer network. It kills an investigator.

'''Wilczek:''' Well, not your average phone freak, that's for sure. But there's plenty of kooks out there. Data travelers, Electro wizards, techno anarchists. Anything's possible.

* 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.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Brad Wilczek is most definitely NOT Creator/SteveJobs. Ahem.
** Not even Steve Wozniak. No siree.

->''"I'm going to figure this thing out if it kills me."''
[[note]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thexfilesghostinthemachine2.png[[/note]]

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Number 1: Electrocution while trying to unlock a door (with a metal key). Number 2: Crushed in a falling elevator. Not good.

-->'''Wilczek:''' [in a cell sitting barefoot on a bed] They make me wear shoes all the time. What else do you want from me?
* TheEndOrIsIt

-->'''Mulder''': Could someone have hacked into the system?\\
'''Wilczek''': Well, not your average phone freak, that's for sure. But there's plenty of kooks out there. Data travelers, Electro wizards, techno anarchists. Anything's possible.

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