The X-Files - 6.

writer: Daniel Arkin

director: Michael Watkins

STARRING:

David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder

Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:

Abraham Benrubi as Big Mike

Tom Virtue as Dave Klein

Tom Gallop as Win Shroeder

Juli Donald as Nancy Kline

Debra Christofferson as Pat Verlander

Marnie McPhail as Cami Shroeder

Tim Bagley as Gordy

Peter White as Gene Gogolak

PLEASE NOTE: This episode has not been shelved, as rumours may have led you to believe. According to sources I trust, it is being "reworked" and the special effects are being tinkered with. It WILL be shown, just not when originally planned. This was to be Mulder and Scully's first case upon returning to the X-Files department so I'm not sure what will be done to fix that discrepancy.

From the dictionary, Arcadia means, "any region of simple, quiet contentment (from a region of ancient Greece famous in tradition for the simple, contented life of its pastoral people)".

From Cinescape <http://www.cinescape.com>:

"This time the monster is the emotionally antiseptic social system created by an elitist body of people. In a small close knit exclusive neighborhood a community of "perfection" exists. The sub text of the episode is what becomes of all the "emotional refuse" in a perfect society freed from conflicts of a personal or emotional nature? Where does it go? What does it turn into.... This refuse takes on the form of monsters created from out of the "garbage" of the utopian establishment. The cast off unwanted byproduct of a society (waste material produced by physical living) creates violence and death brought about by ‘monsters’ manufactured out of repression. The imperfection rises up to

destroy those who cannot maintain the image that is the sterile standard of this community. Our pair of FBI agents pay a visit to this little Xanadu. Mulder and Scully (being the misfits that they are) soon find that the trash wants to take them out!"

Welcome to Hell, suburban style! Mulder and Scully pose as a married couple, Rob and Laura, in a subdivision where the neighbors really go overboard keeping the place neat and tidy. Two words ... garbage monsters. This ep is probably the one loaded with special effects we've been hearing about.

And look who gets her own little X-File salute, none other than our own Autumn Tysko <http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Vault/1411/main_rev.html>. The name of the place Mulder and Scully move to: Autumn Terrace. According to her, the script calls for "Rob" (Mulder) to wear a

pink golf shirt and "Laura" (Scully) to be attired in capri pants. Adorable, hope they keep it!

Another part of the script (hope it stays as well) has their neighbors asking how they met. Mulder tells them they met at a UFO convention ... but, no, he doesn't go for that stuff, "Laura" is the New Ager and goes for all those crystals and magnetic bracelets. Cute.

If the names Rob and Laura mean nothing to you, I feel sorry for you, my friend :-) A homage to one of my all-time favorite shows, "The Dick Van Dyke Show", Dick's character was Rob Petrie and Mary Tyler Moore played his wife, Laura.