"Excelsis Dei" and "Aubrey" -- X-Philes World-The Old Episodes

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Date Posted: 12:23:14 06/19/03 Thu
Author: Islandgirl
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"Excelsis Dei" and "Aubrey"

While these were both stand alone eps, it's kind of odd how much they have in common. In both, an elderly man is the prime suspect in the crimes being comitted and in both Scully seems more interested in investigating the the case than Mulder does.
"ED" is probably best remembered for the classic scene at the beginning of the ep where Mulder disavows any knowledge of the video Scully found in the VCR and Scully calmly tells him she put it back in the drawer with all the other videos that aren't his. A lot of mention has been made, especially in fanfics, about Mulder's penchant for porn. This ep lets us know that: 1.) Scully doesn't have a problem with it and 2.) Mulder's tastes do *not* run toward porn that combines violence with sexuality, given his look and tone of disgust as he says "That's definitely not one of mine" when he sees the video Scully is viewing, made by a rape victim who can't get anyone to take her claims seriously. What's odd about ths whole ep is that Scully is the only one -- including Mulder -- who does take the women seriously. While Scully tries to come up with semi-plausible, scientifically rational theories to explain what happened to the woman (she suggests a "sick building" that may be causing both residents and employees of the nursing homes to experience violent behavior and hallucinations) Mulder seems to take the view of the nursing home director that the victim is just a disgruntled employee who fabricated her claims. He never comes right out and says this, but he keeps trying to get them to go home and saying things like "there's nothing for us to investigate here".
"Aubrey" is an an excellent, *extremely* scary episode. The parallels between B.J. and her boss and the MSR -- especially at the end, where Mulder and B.J. have both been injured and Scully and Tillman rush to their respective significant others and cradle them in their arms -- is intriguing. Again, this is an ep where Scully is behaving in an unusual manner; after meeting B.J. and Tillman both for the first time, she instinctively "knows" that they are having an affair and that B.J. is pregnant with his baby. . .when Mulder asks her how she knows she gives the highly unScullylike response of "woman's intuition". Later in the ep, when Mulder makes the suggestion that the killer may be an elderly man who was recently released from prison for committing similiar crimes back in the 1940s, Scully refuses to accept that solution, although it is certainly the most logical one. My one complaint about this ep is. . . .since B.J. was the child of a man who was placed for adoption "almost" 50 years ago (meaning her father, if he were still alive, would be 49), then she could certainly be no older than 30, even if her father had been only 19 or so when she was born. . .and she looked to be older than that.

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Bumping this up because. . . -- Islandgirl, 08:02:33 07/30/03 Wed
- Bumping up again because. . . -- Islandgirl, 09:42:20 03/19/07 Mon
  - Now I have to go and rewatch! (NT) -- CW, 12:54:46 12/13/07 Thu