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“Eve”

Interestingly enough, this was another episode of The X-Files that I do not remember ever seeing before. This rewatch has really been a treat with some of these episodes that, if I have seen, I do not recall because “Eve,” the 11th episode of season one, was a taut, tense episode with some great acting and anxiety-filled moments.

As the “Monster-of-the-week” episode, “Eve” features a great acting performance from Harriet Harris, who has been a great character actor for years including work on Desperate Housewives and Marvel’s Werewolf by Night. She plays several roles as a woman who had been involved in a program where a group of men and women, ‘Adams’ and ‘Eves’ were cloned and given extra chromosomes. Unfortunately, it also created a higher level of homicidal tendencies.

The twin actors, Erika and Sabrina Krievins, played Cindy and Teena respectfully and they did a great job as these somewhat creepy children who were discovered to have been continuation of this cloning program by ‘Eve 7’ under the alias of Dr. Sally Kendrick. The girls were raised on different coasts and both of their fathers had been killed by exsanguination.

I feel that the show really took a huge step in storytelling by making these girls the ones who had killed their fathers, using their advanced intelligence to figure out how to do it. They also “just knew” that the other had existed. They also poisoned Eve 7, who had kidnapped them, as well as attempting to poison Mulder and Scully.

The Krievin twins did a great job being these cold-blooded killers. They certainly worked very well as the trope of creepy kids that we see often in horror films.

“Eve” is an excellent episode of The X-Files and I am so glad that I got a chance to see it either again or for the first time. I wonder how many episodes of season one will be like this?