8x04 Patience
Synopsis
While tackling his first X-File case about a series of gruesome murders surrounding a bat-like creature, Doggett quickly learns that his investigative techniques are somewhat dissimilar to Scully's.
Writer/s: Chris Carter
Director: Chris Carter
Originally aired: 19th November 2000 (in the US) - 21st February 2001 (in Australia)
Quotes
Doggett: Some friends... they're just curious.
Scully: I'm not here to be a curiosity, Agent Doggett. I'm here to work.
Doggett: I am, too, Agent Scully. I've been here all weekend and early this morning, I went over every X-File in the cabinet there. I just left to get some coffee.
Scully: Well... do you have any questions?
Doggett: Just a few. Maybe first you could tell me where your area is here and... uh... where mine's going to be.
Scully: This is my partner's office, Agent Doggett. You and I will just be using it for a while.
Doggett: A more basic answer, is what we're dealing with here is simply a man. A psychotic killer with a deformed foot. You're familiar with the principle of Occam's Razor?
Scully: Yeah. You take every possible explanation and you choose the simplest one. Agent Mulder used to refer to it as 'Occam's Principle of Limited Imagination'.
Links
Episodes: Fanpop and SideReel.
Transcripts: Episode transcript.
Screen captures at: The X Files Screen Grab Archive
Episode related fanfic: Page 1
Season 8 Gag Reels: Part 1 and Part 2
Mods thoughts and discussion attempts
A human-bat hybrid thing is an ok-ish monster of the week. The story behind it however, is not. Its just ... I dunno, the bat is killing people because they smell like the guy who captured it 40 odd years ago. Uh-huh, ok then.
The thing that I disliked in this episode was the sexism Scully has to deal with. Its not unusual sure, but it made me think that when Mulder spouted off weird theories to the local law enforcement, they'd laugh at him like he was crazy (or sometimes agree with him), but never would they run him out of town and tell him he couldnt do his job. Poor Scully cant win - even Doggett was joining in being sexist and telling her that her theories were stupid. She was right though, wasnt she? Thinking like Mulder is good.
Ernie Stefaniuk's life kinda of made me think thats how I'd like Mulder and Scully to be living post-the Truth. Living on a six acre island, with nothing but each other and having lots of sex because what else would there be to do. Ernie Stefaniuks comment about living a life in hiding ect made me laugh too. Because it will totally be Scully's life in less than 2 years ... you know, minus the bat monster part.
Also? I love that Scully is wearing the green sex top of lurve at the end.
Extra
This is the first episode of the series without David Duchovny and as such he no longer appears in the credits and some extra images have been added.