Spoilers

“Surekill”

“Salvage”

This is two fairly average X-Files episodes. “Surekill” was a little more enjoyable than “Salvage” which is not much of an episode overall.

It does feel somewhat weird hearing Scully offer up the implausible solutions that Mulder used to offer. She moves into those ideas so quickly now with Doggett as the naysayer and I am not sure that I buy the reasoning behind Scully’s new open-mindedness. Sure, she would go along with Mulder’s old theories, but she always had a foot in the real world, even when you would think that she wouldn’t.

In “Salvage,” the plot is dumb and lacks a lot of intricacy. It was odd since it involved an unstoppable metal man, much like Robert Patrick played in T2. There were a couple of scripted lines to make a reference to the movie.

In “Surekill” we got a man who had x-ray vision and could then shoot his enemies through the walls, using armor piercing bullets. Where he was able to get armor piercing bullets is beyond me. Maybe they are easier to get than I know.

The ending of “Salvage” was ridiculous and went against the entire episode leading up to it. Not that there was much to the episode prior to this ending, but it was a total crap end playing on some lackluster idea of kindness.

Neither of these are episodes that I will remember moving on. Both are disposable monster-of-the-week episodes that do little for any of the characters involved.