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“Plus One”

Who knew that playing Hangman could be so dangerous?

“Plus One” was the second consecutive really strong episode of season 11 that did not feature the show’s overall mythology. However, it does, once again, touch upon the biggest event in Scully’s life, that being her desire to be a mother.

Our antagonists, Little Judy Poundstone and Little Chucky Poundstone, are twins with some kind of psychic connection that can show people their doppelganger, which would drive them to suicide. Little Judy Poundstone and Little Chucky Poundstone were both played by Karin Konoval.

If you are a long time X-Files fan, you know who Karin Konoval was. She played Madame Zelda from “Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose” and Mrs. Peacock from “Home.” Both of these characters were creepy or over-the-top. Playing these twins add to Konoval’s rogue’s gallery of X-Files characters.

I liked this episode not only for the creepy villains and the strange story, but for the interactions between Mulder and Scully, as their banter continued to provide insights to these two characters, despite already knowing them for decades.

David Duchovny’s song “Unsaid Undone” was in the cold open for this episode. It was from an album that he put out in 2016, something that I had never heard before.