Index | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24
Tempus Fugit
"What they're telling you, what they're going to report, they're the opposite of the facts. A claim to ignorance of the facts."
Written by Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz
Directed by Rob Bowman
Directed by Rob Bowman
"Nine minutes that became a lifetime for those passengers, and now for their families. Someone has got to figure out what happened in those nine minutes. Somehow, we've got to get them back."
— Fox Mulder
Mulder and Scully investigate a plane crash that may have been caused by an encounter with a UFO.
Tropes:
- The Adjectival Man: The Dark Man, a sleeper agent on Flight 549 sent to neutralize Max Fenig.
- All There in the Script: You could be forgiven for not knowing that the unnamed Syndicate assassin that serves as this two-parter's primary villain was named Scott Garrett and not Moustache Man.
- The Atoner: Louis Frisch who feels horrible after his part in causing an airplane crash.
- Call-Back: Mulder and Scully get involved because one of the crash victims was Max Fenig, from the episode "Fallen Angel".
- Chase Scene: The car chase on the airport runway.
- Foreign Language Title: Latin for "time flies".
- Hollywood Acid: Agent Garrett uses this on the Dark Man's corpse, destroying his fingerprints and dental records before Scully has a chance to autopsy him.
- Lean and Mean: Agent Garrett is a wiry thin man.
- Myth Arc: A bare-bones entry, with no sign of the Cigarette-Smoking Man or any other senior members of The Syndicate.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Millar is skeptical of Mulder like everyone else but once evidence starts piling up, he quickly comes on their side.
- Shoot the Shaggy Dog: Pendrell, getting in the way of the bullet.
- Wham Shot: Mulder seeing the drowned alien in the wreckage at the end.
- Zipping Up The Body Bag: Mulder with Max.
