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“Lazarus”

Interestingly enough, this is yet another first season X-Files episode that I do not remember seeing at all. It is also another one that felt somewhat lacking.

It also is horribly dangerous to be a former friend or loved one of either Mulder or Scully as life expectancies seem to plummet.

On the other hand, Scully did shoot someone, and that doesn’t happen often.

With the spirit of the dead bad guy taking over the body of the dead FBI agent/friend of Scully, this had too much of the negative Freaky Friday vibe going on. The doctors worked on reviving the FBI guy for 13 minutes? Do they do that? Scully wanted more. I found that whole situation to be iffy.

Then, as the body of the dead bad guy was being shocked when they shocked FBI guy, this looked funny.

The relationships in the episode were weak. I had no connection with the FBI guy and there was nothing with him and Scully. The two bad guys did not work together well either and the twist that she betrayed him to the FBI did not make sense.

Then, apparently FBI guy had some kind of obsession with main bad guy and we never see any of this. We only hear it mentioned. I did not believe any of that either.

This one was quite disappointing. Second consecutive weak episode after the excellent Beyond the Sea.