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“Agua Mala”

The thirteenth episode of the sixth season of The X-Files is an episode that I do not remember ever seeing before. It was entitle “Agua Mala” which is Spanish for bad water.

Mulder and Scully get called down to Florida by the man who helped originate the actual X-Files at the FBI decades before, Arthur Dales, who was featured in an episode during the fifth season. There was a hurricane underway and he was worried about neighbors, who had contacted him about some kind of tentacled creature that had attacked the family.

The story was strange because the agents wound up at the neighbors house and met a deputy there. They went apart and wound up together later at another location. There were other people in this location (basically an apartment building of some kind) and the water monster was here too. I am not sure why it was here and at the other location.

I did like how Scully showed her take charge side. She was quite the leader during the episode and made several of the decisions. As Arthur Dales stated, Mulder is lucky to have a partner like Scully.

The resolution of the story was fairly silly and, even though I just praised Scully, she certainly had a Batman-leap (a term my friends and I had dubbed about Adam West’s Batman from the 1960s show-who would make unbelievable leaps of logic/guesses from ridiculous clues) involving the way to stop the creature. I am not sure there was any evidence for Scully to have made that leap.

Overall, this was not the worst episode of the X-Files I have ever seen, but it was nothing that really stood out as a strong installment either.