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!!![[AC:Recaps]]: [[Recap/TheXFiles Index]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E01Redux 1]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E02ReduxII 2]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E03UnusualSuspects 3]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E04Detour 4]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E05ThePostModernPrometheus 5]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E06ChristmasCarol 6]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E07Emily 7]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E08Kitsunegari 8]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E09Schizogeny 9]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E10Chinga 10]] | '''11''' | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E12BadBlood 12]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E13PatientX 13]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E14TheRedAndTheBlack 14]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E15Travelers 15]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E16MindsEye 16]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E17AllSouls 17]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E18ThePineBluffVariant 18]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E19FolieADeux 19]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E20TheEnd 20]]
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'''Esther:''' That’s the AI protecting itself. It’ll find David and.... me. It's only a matter of time. Donald was writing a concatenation of viruses designed to find and immobilise the rogue system. The file name was [[TitleDrop "Kill Switch"]]. Without it, nobody can catch it.
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'''Esther:''' That’s the AI protecting itself. It’ll find David and....and... me. It's only a matter of time. Donald was writing a concatenation of viruses designed to find and immobilise the rogue system. The file name was [[TitleDrop "Kill Switch"]]. Without it, nobody can catch it.
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'''Season 5, Episode 11:'''
!Kill Switch
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->Written by Creator/WilliamGibson & Tom Maddox\\
Directed by Rob Bowman
'''Season 5, Episode 11:'''
!Kill Switch
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->Written by Creator/WilliamGibson & Tom Maddox\\
Directed by Rob Bowman
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Written by {{cyberpunk}} pioneers Creator/WilliamGibson and Tom Maddox.
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->'''Scully:''' Electrons chasing each other through a circuit - that isn’t life, Mulder.\\
'''Mulder:''' Yeah, but what are we but impulses? Electrical and chemical through a bag of meat and bones.
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->'''Scully:''' Electrons chasing each other through a circuit - that isn’t life, Mulder.\\
'''Mulder:''' Yeah, but what are we but impulses? Electrical and chemical through a bag of meat and bones.
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'''Esther:''' That’s the AI protecting itself. It’ll find David and.... me. It's only a matter of time. Donald was writing a concatenation of viruses designed to find and immobilise the rogue system. The file name was [[TitleDrop "Kill Switch"]]. Without it, nobody can catch it.
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'''Season 5, Episode 11''':
!Kill Switch
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* BlastOut: A rogue A.I. sends messages to several Washington D.C. drug dealers telling them that their arch rivals are meeting at this diner. All of them come and set up to wait. The final message is sent to a pair of U.S. Marshals, claiming that a fugitive is there, so they burst in to arrest him and cause a shootout. All to kill one nerdy guy in the middle booth.
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A sentient computer program begins targeting its creators. Mulder and Scully track down the rogue system with the help of a young woman.
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* AmbiguousEnding: TheStinger shows another RV filled with computer equipment and with a hard internet connection. It's unclear if it's set up by the original AI or Esther, however, given that it's stated that the brain uploading architecture is maintained by the AI, the likely answer is both.
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* DistressedDude: Mulder is captured by the AI and subjected to a virtual reality torture/interrogation session.
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*KillSatKarmaHoudini: The AI. If it wasn't destroyed when the RV was, it gets away with murder and escapes into the world, innoculated against the only thing that could kill it.
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* KillSat: Employed by the AI.
* PlayingBothSides: How the AI kills Donald at the beginning of the episode. It manipulates various groups of criminals into coming to the diner, and then makes a call to some US Marshals that causes them to come in guns blazing and set the whole thing off.
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* YourMakeupIsRunning: Esther Nairn wears huge circles of black mascara around her eyes. Once she learns of David's death, she starts crying and this is theresult.
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* AGlitchInTheMatrix: Mulder realizes that his reality is not real when Scully saves him from evil nurses, but is not compassionate and comforting about his amputated limbs. The reality from his perspective starts to short out.
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* DressedToHeal: The nurses and the doctor who rush Agent Mulder into an operating theatre look a little too much nurse-like and doctor-like in their obsolete white outfits. Especially the nurses' caps. It's the first but very subtle hint that Mulder is trapped in a virtual reality simulator.
* HelloNurse: The nurses are sexy in white and tight uniforms with nails painted bright red.
* LotusEaterMachine: Mulder in the hospital scene is less of a utopia than is usual for this trope, but the sexy nurses might be a product of his imagination induced by his porn habits. Ass-kicking Scully who comes to his rescue is not unlike her real self, but it's undoubtedly enhanced.
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