2x06  -   Ascension
written by Paul Brown 
directed by Michael Lange
SUMMARY:
Mulder pursues Duane Barry in a desperate search for Scully.
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MISC:
--> RESOURCES:
  • The truth is out there: The official guide to The X-Files: p. 173 - 175
  • Unofficial X-Files companion: p. 139 - 141
  • Book of the Unexplained, Vol 2: p. 306 - 317, "Alien Abduction" 

    • --> TITLE DERIVATION:
    The motto for Skyland Mountain was "Ascend to the stars" 
    --> LINKS:
  • Tiny Dancer's X-Files Script archive
  • the official site summary 
  • X-review
  • Further X-Plorations: post-episodic fanfic

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    EPISODE INFO:
    Principle Location: Skyland Mountain, Virginia
    original airdate: 10/21/94
    German title: Seilbahn zu den Sternen 
    BACKGROUND INFO:
  • It is actually GA's pregnant torso that we see in Mulder's vision of what Scully's abductors may be doing to her. Her daughter, Piper Maru, was born a few weeks later on September 25, 1994.
  • DD performed his own stunts in the aerial tram sequence
  • tagline: deny everything
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    CAST LIST:
    DAVID DUCHOVNY  Special Agent Fox Mulder
    GILLIAN ANDERSON  Special Agent Dana Scully
    STEVE RAILSBACK  Duane Barry
    NICK LEA  Alex Krycek
    WILLIAM B. DAVIS  the Cigarette-Smoking Man
    SHEILA LARKEN  Margaret Scully
    MITCH PILEGGI  A.D. Skinner
    STEVEN WILLIAMS  X
    MERIDETH BAIN WOODWARD  Doctor Ruth Slaughter
    PETER LACROIX  Dwight
    STEVE MAKAJ  the Patrolman
    ROBYN DOUGLAS the Video Technician
    BOBBY L. STEWART  the Deputy
     
    QUOTES:
    AGENT: "What are you so paranoid about, Mulder?"
    MULDER: "Oh, I don't know. Maybe it's because I find it hard to trust anyone."
    KRYCEK: "The US Department of Transportation estimates that over 190,000 fatal car crashes every year are caused by sleepiness?"
    MULDER: "Did they estimate how many people are put to sleep listening to their statistics?"
    CANCER MAN: "We tell you only what you need to know."
    KRYCEK: "I think I have the right to know."
    CANCER MAN: "You have no rights. Only orders to be carried out. If you have a problem with that we'll make other arrangements."
    MULDER: "Why? Do they have something on him?"
    X: "They have something on  everyone, Mr. Mulder. The question is when they'll use it."
    X: "They only have one policy: Deny Everything."
    SKINNER: "There is only one thing that I can do, Agent Mulder. As of right now, I'm reopening the X-Files. That's what they fear the most."
    X: "No one can help you now. Your channels of appeal and recourse are closed!"
    Mrs SCULLY: (Handing Mulder back Scully's cross) "When you find her, give it to her."
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