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345:"X-Cops" is a fictitious crossover with "Cops." The episode was inspired by "Cops," which Gilligan enjoyed watching. He pitched the idea several times to series creator Chris Carter and the series writing staff. The idea was met with a mixed reception, but Gilligan was eventually given the green light to produce the episode because the series was nearing its end with the conclusion of the seventh season. In keeping with the format of the real-life "Cops" program, the entire episode was shot on videotape and featured several members of the "Cops" crew. The episode has been thematically analyzed for its use of postmodernism and its presentation as reality television.
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ran back to the crew screaming for them to flee. They ran back to Wetzel's police car, but the windows were smashed, blocking their view. After the X-Files theme song, Wetzel, an injured man, claims to have encountered gang members. The police soon surround Mulder and Scully, believing them to be criminals. But the police soon realize that Mulder and Scully are FBI agents investigating an alleged werewolf that killed a man during the last full moon. Mulder and Scully interview Mrs. Guerrero, who describes the monster to a sketch artist. To Mulder's surprise, Mrs. Guerrero describes not a werewolf, but the horror movie villain
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outbreak. The entity suddenly kills her with the disease. When Mulder discusses the death with Scully, he realizes that Wetzel is in danger of being revisited by the entity. The agents and police return to the crack house, where the entity has trapped an injured Wetzel in an upstairs room. The agents
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to correspond with its victims' worst fears. Wetzel, Ricky, and
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the episode. Gilligan noted that "the longer we've been on the air, the more chances we've taken. We try to keep the show fresh ... I think appreciates that". "X-Cops" was not
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film crew are at Willow Park, California, a fictitious high-crime district of Los
Angeles. Mrs. Guererro (Perla Walter) reports a monster in her neighborhood. Wetzel visits her home to investigate. Wetzel followed the creature around a corner, expecting to find a dog. But when he saw what it was, he
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Watkins and Mills likened the filming process to live theater, with the former noting, "In a sense, we were doing theater: we were doing an act or half of a whole act in one take." Anderson called the performance "fun" to shoot, and highlighted "Scully getting
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named the episode's main antagonist as one of the greatest "Top 11 X-Files
Monsters," noting that the creature is a "perfect if only because the monster in question is a living, breathing metaphor, a never-seen specter that shifts to fit the fears of the person witnessing it." Narin Bahar from
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school of thought. Postmodernism has been described as a "style and concept in the arts is characterized by the self-conscious use of earlier styles and conventions mixing of different artistic styles and media". According to Booker, the episode helps to "identify the series as postmodern
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gave the episode a negative review and wrote, "'X-Cops' is a wearisome episode. Watching the agents and police repeatedly run through the darkened streets of Los
Angeles after an unseenâand uninterestingâfoe evokes merely a sense of futility. The use of the format of the Fox TV show
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They head to their house, only to find the couple in the middle of an argument. After Edy expresses fear of a separation from Steve, the couple reconciles. Based on this situation, Mulder proposes that the entity ignored Steve and Edy because they did not exhibit
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named the episode one of the "Best Sci-Fi TV Mockumentaries" and wrote, "Whether you see this as a brilliantly post-modern merging of fact and fiction or shameless cross-promotion of two of the Fox
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American culture", or, in this case, the show's merging with another popular television series. The episode also serves as an example of the series' "self-consciousness in terms of its status as a (fictional) television" show.
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Gilligan reasoned that, because Mulder and Scully would appear on a nationally syndicated television series, the episode's main monster could not be shown, only "hinted at". Gilligan and the writing staff applied methods previously used in the
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of 9.7 and was seen by 16.56 million viewers. The episode earned positive reviews from critics, largely due to its unique presentation, as well as its use of humor. Since its airing, the episode has been named among the best episodes of
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Mulder believes that the entity travels from victim to victim like a contagion. At his request, Scully performs an autopsy on
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style of the episode, and several takes were needed for scenes during the first few days, but these problems receded as taping progressed. On one night, three-and-a-half pages of script were shot in only two hours; the normal rate for
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relied on gimmicks to prop itself up, "X-Cops" is "the work of a creative team which may be running out of ideas, but still has enough gas in the tank to get us where we need to go." Furthermore, Handlen felt that the show used the
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crew members, were featured during the episode's climax. During rehearsals, Watkins kept the cameras away from the set, so that when videotaping commenced, the cameramen's unfamiliarity would create the "unscripted" feel of a
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required editors to make between 800â1200 film cuts, but "X-Cops" only required 45. During post-production, a minor argument broke out between Vince
Gilligan and the network. Originally, Gilligan did not want the
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show in this episode". Bahar praised the scene featuring the terrified lady telling Mulder that Freddy Krueger attacked herâcalling the scene the "best in-joke"âand applauded the two series' cohesion.
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awarded the episode an "Aâ" and called it "witty, inventive, and intermittently spooky". He argued that the episode was a late-series "gimmick episode" and compared it to the last few seasons of
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pissed off at the camera crew" as her favorite part to play. She further noted that "it was interesting to make the adjustment to playing something more real than you might play for television."
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attacked Ricky and fears that he will kill her. She pleads with the agents for protection. Mulder and Scully have Wetzel guard Chantara while they assist the police in the raid of a
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parody (complete with full "Bad Boys, bad boys" intro) is just brilliant stuff". Not all reviews were positive. Kenneth Silber from
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407:Production
400:Hantavirus
320:Fox Mulder
141:44 minutes
130:2000-02-20
105:Written by
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1935:"X-Cops"
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