Conduit (The X-Files)

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“Conduit”
The X-Files episode

Conduit
Episode no. Season 1
Episode 1X03
Written by Alex Gansa
Howard Gordon
Directed by Daniel Sackheim
Guest stars Carrie Snodgress,
Michael Cavanaugh,
Donald Gibb,
Joel Palmer,
Charles Cioffi
Production no. 04-104
Original airdate October 1, 1993 (Fox)
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"Conduit" was the fourth episode of the first season of The X-Files science-fiction television series created by Chris Carter. It dealt with alien abduction.

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[edit] Plot

As Division Chief Blevins expresses his concern with the direction of the X-Files department, Mulder becomes obsessed with solving a new case that closely parallels an 'encounter' he experienced as a child: the abduction of his younger sister, Samantha.

The episode starts off with a girl, Ruby, getting abducted in an obscure lake near Sioux City, Iowa. The boy of the family starts having nightmares and becomes a conduit (the medium between the aliens and his family), scribbling binary later translated as fragments of Leonardo Da Vinci's Universal (Vetruvian) Man, a strand of Double helix DNA, Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G major, and defense codes to American satellites.

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[edit] Guests

  • Carrie Snodgress as Darlene Morris
  • Michael Cavanaugh as Sheriff
  • Donald Gibb as Kip
  • Joel Palmer as Kevin Morris
  • Charles Cioffi as Division Chief Scott Blevins
  • Shelley Owens as Tessa
  • Don Thompson as Mr. Holtzman
  • Akiko Morrison as Leza Atsumi
  • Taunya Dee as Ruby Morris
  • Anthony Harrison as 4th Man
  • Glen Roald as M.E. Worker
  • Mauricio Mercado as Coroner

[edit] Trivia

Mulder quotes Jacob Bronowski when he says "That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer"

[edit] References and external links

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