Spoilers

“E.B.E.”

This is a episode with a lot of important things happening.

Deep Throat’s motivations are revealed. Or are they? He was certainly portrayed as a liar and someone that, now, Mulder could not believe. The image of Deep Throat strolling off into the fog at the end of this episode was something else.

It was also an episode that I did not remember so it is another season one episode that falls into my blind spot.

This episode also saw the introduction of three of the most popular recurring characters on The X-Files, The Lone Gunman, conspiracy theorists John Fitzgerald Byers (Bruce Harwood), Richard Langly (Dean Haglund) and Melvin Frohike (Tom Braidwood). The idea with the Lone Gunman was to try and make Mulder a little less coo-coo for Cocoa Puffs by comparison.

This episode was one of the governmental conspiracy/X-Files mythology episodes, as opposed to the monster-of-the-week episodes. The X-Files really went out of its way to set up a shadowy government running everything behind the scenes. Sounds very much like Qanon these days.

I’m not sure how much longer Deep Throat has for this series. I remember being totally shocked by the death of Deep Throat, and, for awhile, I thought this was that episode. Of course, it was not.