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The X-Files :: Pilot (01x01)
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| Title: | Pilot |
| Episode #: | 01x01 |
| Production Number: | 1X79 |
| Original Airdate: | Friday September 10th, 1993 |
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Episode Summary |
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Special Agent Dana Scully is partnered with Special Agent Fox Mulder to validate his work in a division called The X-Files. While he is a believer in the paranormal, due to memories in which his sister was abducted by aliens, she is a skeptic and a scientist who prefers to look for rational, logical explanations.
After a number of Oregon high school teens begin to die mysteriously, Agents Scully and Mulder are called to investigate the matter. Mulder believes those murders are linked to alien abduction.
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For his work on this episode, Thomas Del Ruth (Director of Photography) was nominated for the ASC Award of the American Society of Cinematographers.
| This episode was filmed in 14 days in March 1993.
| This episode was shot on a budget of $2 million.
| In the scene on the plane, the person who was sitting behind Scully is David Duchovny's father.
| In Chris Carter's original script for the pilot episode, Scully was with her boyfriend, Ethan Minette, but his scenes were cut from the aired episode.
| According to Nielsen ratings, 7.4 million people tuned into The X-Files pilot.
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Mulder: Ah, you gotta love this place, everyday is like Halloween.
| Scully: Agent Mulder, I'm Dana Scully, I've been assigned to work with you.
(He shakes her hand.)
Mulder: Oh, isn't it nice to be suddenly so highly regarded? So, who did you tick off to get stuck with this detail, Scully?
Scully: Actually, I'm looking forward to working with you. I've heard a lot about you.
Mulder: Oh, really? I was under the impression that you were sent to spy on me.
| Mulder: I was twelve when it happened. My sister was eight. She just disappeared out of her bed one night. Just gone, vanished. No note, no phone calls, no evidence of anything.
| Mulder: ... in most of my work, the laws of physics rarely seems to apply.
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While examining the molecule, Scully says it looks like a protein, but proteins don't look like that.
| The first time Scully walks into Mulder's office, the poster, I want to Believe was in full view, but later in the scene, there are papers stacked in front of it.
| Mulder and Scully both lost nine minutes, and even the car lost nine minutes, too. However, Mulder's watch didn't lose nine minutes.
| When Scully and Mulder are driving in the car, just before the radio goes haywire, watch Scully's arm. One second it's resting on the window, but when the show from a different angle, her arm is down by her side.
| The town of Bellefleur, Oregon, in which the story is set, doesn't actually exist.
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11:21: Dori's Birthday
Before Mulder calls Scully, she is in bed staring at the clock. The time is 11:21. It is a reference to November 21st, the birthday of Chris Carter's wife, Dori.
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