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“Ghost in the Machine”

Artificial Intelligence as a bad guy is a fairly well known sci-fi trope.

This is the seventh episode of the X-Files and, in my opinion, Ghost in the Machine has been the worst of the X-Files episodes so far.

A machine designed by a genius Brad Wilczek runs a building, and the machine ends up murdering one of the partners.

Mulder is brought into the case by an old partner and friend who had been having some trouble with the Bureau. Mulder’s friend also wound up dead from the machine.

Overall I found this fairly derivative and dull. It is basically a rip off of 2001: A Space Odyssey and, honestly, not a good one. Yes, there are some good scenes between Mulder and Scully, as they are always the highlight of these episodes.

The finale of the episode was unintentionally funny at times and the actual last shot of the show was so obvious that it was almost insulting.

Not a good episode. Every series has them (especially those full season orders of 23 episodes in the old days).