From: ask-me-in-public-if-you-want-my-address@address.invalid   
      
   Yesterday night my beloved wife and I went back to The X-Files and   
   watched together the next episode, s01e11 Eve.   
      
   Mulder and Scully investigate a strange homicide, where the body   
   presents the kind of puzzling features seen in alleged alien cattle   
   mutilation cases: cicatrised punctures on the jugular, with no blood   
   visible on the scene anywhere, following a death by blood loss.  Mulder   
   and Mulder speak with the victim's nine-year-old daughter, who appears   
   understandably shaken.  The girl recounts seeing red lightning and men   
   from the sky.   
   The conversation is interrupted by a phone call Scully receives: another   
   identical death has happened, exactly at the same time, in a different   
   State.   
      
   The other victim also has a daughter, looking exactly identical to first   
   girl.  After learning that the girls were conceived through in-vitro   
   fertilisation the agents travel to the clinic where IVF happened, nine   
   years before.  The director of the program, then a recent hire, was   
   experimenting with human cloning.   
      
   We learn that the first girl has just been kidnapped; despite the   
   agent's protection the same happens to the second girl: a strong female   
   figure overpowers Scully and leaves with the girl.   
      
   Deep Throat (unsolicited, if I understand correctly) volunteers help,   
   directing Mulder and Scully to interview the subjects of a Cold-War era   
   eugenics program which was aimed at producing very intelligent subjects.   
   The program failed when all subjects exhibited psychotic traits; most of   
   them are now interned in a psychiatric facility.   
   The girls, the doctor who implanted them as embryos, and the women   
   interned are all clones, each named "Eve" followed by a number: they   
   feel an instinctive connection with each other and collaborate.   
      
   Eventually Mulder and Scully manage to prove the girls' role in the two   
   murders, and the girls end up interned in the same facility as the other   
   clones, reunited.  The doctor clone is also with them.   
      
      
   This was a good episode, built around the uncanny feeling of seeing   
   apparently cute and innocent girls deviously intelligent and capable of   
   cold deception and plotting.  The girls lie, very competently, and use   
   poison -- digitalis, which has a sweet taste to mask its true nature; in   
   a scene near the end they attempt to frame Mulder as their kidnapper and   
   play the victims in a convincing manner.   
      
   --   
   Scruffy Beard   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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