6x15 Monday
Synopsis
A woman is forced to relive the same day over and over as she tries to prevent Mulder and Scully from being killed by her boyfriend during a bank robbery attempt; and as the events restart again and again, Mulder's sense of deja-vu grows stronger.
Writer: John Shiban, Vince Gilligan
Director: Kim Manners
Originally aired: February 28, 1999
Quotes
Mulder: I'm having the best damn day of my life. Any moment I'm about to burst into song - zip a dee doo dah.
Scully: Since when did you get a water bed?
Mulder: I-I might just as easily not have a water bed, and then I'd be on time for this meeting. You might just as easily have stayed in medicine, and not gone into the FBI, and then we would never have met, blah blah blah.
Scully: Fate.
Mulder: Free will. With every choice, you change your fate.
Scully: Then let's change yours.
Mulder: You can change your fate.
Pam: We're all in hell. I'm the only one who knows it.
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Episodes online and here and here
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Mods thoughts and discussion attempts
I'm one of the 5 people who watched some of Day Break (fun fact: there were a lot of X-Files alum involved in that show). Anyway that show proved that the idea of a repeating day can get old pretty fast. I adore this episode eons ago, I even did a fanart thing on it, however, by the end I'm always like "I'm glad it's over now" because the idea, the repetition...it can be draining.
The teaser is great. It's one of those things where you can't believe they'd kill off Mulder and Scully - there has to be something to it, but still, you're not too sure. Maybe they will? If they're alive, how can it be explained? Can the commercial break now be over now pls? I love Mulder and Scully's interactions in this and the whole idea of fate. Also, all the physical comedy with Mulder and the waterbed, and its variations each "day", is wonderful.
I really liked Carrie Hamilton (Pam)/Carol Burnett's daughter. She was really great in this. I was really sad to hear she passed away a few years ago. :(
Then the end, Pam dies and we all breathe a sigh of relief (not at her dying, just at the end of it all). But then...we see a bit of the familiar Mulder Waking Up Scene it's like "OH SHIT NOT AGAIN. I thought it was over dammit!" Tricksy writers!
The ScreenGrab Archive
Yellow!Jammies!Mulder is my favourite Mulder of all.
Things We Learned 101
Extra
According to writers John Shiban and Vince Gilligan, the inspiration for this episode didn't come from Bill Murray's 1993 comedy Groundhog Day, but from an episode of The Twilight Zone called 'Shadow Play.'
Writer Vince Gilligan gives us another reference to his girlfriend, Holly Rice. The Cradock Marine Bank is named for a suburb of Portsmouth, Virginia where Holly grew up, and Holly's mother's maiden name is Bernard.
Holly Reference Count Thus Far, The Obvious & The Not So Obvious: 9