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THE X-FILES SEASON 8
Distributor: Fox Home Entertainment 
Certificate: M15+ 
Available to buy

Extras:
Yes

ANYONE IN IT WE KNOW?

Gillian Anderson

WHAT’S IT ABOUT THEN?

The main themes throughout this series are the continuing search for Mulder, Scully's pregnancy and the introduction of Special Agents John Doggett and Monica Reyes.

 

Disk 1

Episode 1- Within

Special Agent Doggett assigned to the X-Files to discredit them.  The search for Mulder continues and a sighting of him is made as they race to protect Gibson Praise.  Gibson and Mulder go missing. Continues onto Episode 2

Episode 2 - Without

Scully finds Gibson Praise and he is taken from the hospital by an alien who looks like Assistant Director Skinner, who tries to kill Scully.

Episode 3- Patience

A vampire is loose in Idaho .  This is the episode where they build up the trust relationship between Doggett and Scully.

Episode 4 - Road Runners

A really creepy worm thing is put into people's spinal columns by a cult in a country town in Utah .  The parasite is put into Scully and Doggett must save her.

 

Disk 2

Episode 1 - Invocation

A child goes missing from an Oklahoma playground and 10 years later he returns looking exactly the same as when he was taken. 

Episode 2 - Redrum

D. A.  Martin Wells (Joe Morton) is jailed for the murder of his wife of which he has no memory. He goes backward in time in leaps to find the killer and in doing so he has the chance to redress an old wrong.

Episode 3-Via Negative

Doggett runs the investigation of a murderous cult member who takes to people with an axe.  Really creepy third eye thing happening.

Episode 4 - Surekill

A set of adult twins is running a bunch of scams.  One of the twins is legally blind, and the other has X-Ray vision.

 

Disk 3

Episode 1 - The Gift

Whilst re-visiting some of Mulders old files Doggett comes across a North American shaman or soul eater who cures diseases by eating the afflicted and then re-gurgitating their bodies. Doggett becomes a believer when he is shot and brought back to life.

Episode 2 - Salvage

Waste from a discarded experiment infected a man and turned him to steel.  He goes looking for vengeance.

Episode 3 - Badlaa

A Sedee mystic from India with the power to manipulate peoples' minds has had his family killed when a cyanide gas explosion accident kills off his tribe.

Episode 4 - Medusa

Toxic contaminant eats away at people in the tunnels of the Massachusetts train system.

Disk 4

Episode 1 - Per Manum

Scully investigates the birth of an alien baby and subsequent murder of the mother.  When she finds a medical facility that holds dead alien babies she freaks out about her pregnancy.  Scully has flashbacks to the conception of her baby.

Episode 2 - This is not happening

Mulder is found by an UFO cult.  Special Agent Monica Reyes introduced.

Episode 3 - Deadalive

When Mulders' body is exhumed after Billy Miles' body is found floating in the ocean it seems that he isn't dead after all.  Alex Krycek (Nicholas Lea) offers a vaccine conditional on Scully's baby being killed.

Episode 4 - Three Words

Mulder is recuperating, lots of flashbacks to his UFO torture.  He forces Doggett to investigate a conspiracy involving the Census office.

 

Disk 5

Episode 1 - Empedocles

A man gets fired, leaves his office and witnesses a car accident.  The soul of one of the accident victims enters his body and he turns evil.  Reyes tells Mulder about the death of Doggett's son.

Episode 2 - Vienen

Doggett and Mulder investigate the death of workers on an oilrig in the Gulf of Mexico .  It appears that they have stumbled upon the drilling of the black oil that infects people.  After the infected men blow the oilrig up Mulder gets fired.

Episode 3 - Alone

A really ugly reptile thing kills people.  The monster takes Doggett and Mulder saves him.  Scully goes on maternity leave.

Episode 4 - Essence

Billy Miles rampages through a couple of medical facilities that have had dealings with alien babies and it seems that he is after Scully's baby.  Krycek explains what is going on and Scully and Reyes take off to deliver her baby.  Continued on Disk 6.

Disk 6

Episode 1 - Existence

Reyes and Scully deliver her baby under the watchful eyes of Billy Miles and other alien abductees.  Scully and Mulder finally kiss.  Doggett and Reyes are assigned to the X-Files.

SO IS IT ANY GOOD?

On watching this series on DVD I was reminded of just how much I enjoyed the X-Files when they were on television.  I wish that I had the entire series, as I'd love to go back to the beginning and start all over again.  The creepy episodes still creeped me out and I still think David Duchovny is cute.  The extras on the DVD that covered the making of some of the episodes was excellent, as it explained how they reached some of their spectacular special effects.

ANY SPECIAL FEATURES?

Loads and loads of them.  Each disk contained special features, some were just cast lists, whilst some, such as "the making of" were really interesting.

 


                              

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