Drawn (The X Files)
| Episode of the X-Files series | |
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| title | Drawn |
| Original title | pilot |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| length | approx. 43 minutes |
| classification | Season 1, Episode 1 1st episode overall ( list ) |
| First broadcast | September 10, 1993 on Fox |
| German-language first broadcast |
September 5, 1994 on ProSieben |
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| Director | Robert Mandel |
| script | Chris Carter |
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The drawing is the pilot episode of the American mystery television series The X-Files - The Scary Cases of the FBI , which was broadcast on television from 1993 to 2002. The pilot episode was first shown on September 10, 1993 on FOX Network in the United States and Canada . The episode forms the basis for the later mythology of the series, which is about a global conspiracy that collaborates with alien colonists.
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The FBI -Agenten Fox Mulder, the fresh from the FBI Academy coming Dana Scully assigned as partner to his work on the so-called X-Files to monitor or even discredit (a collection of paranormal phenomena).
While Mulder finds it easy to believe the reports in the X-Files due to the alien abduction of his sister , his partner Scully is a rational scientist who always tries to find a logical explanation for all paranormal phenomena.
Their first case takes them to Bellefleur, Oregon , where various murders of high school students with mysterious marks on their bodies caught the attention of the two agents. While exhuming the body of one of the students, they discover the carcass of an orangutan in the coffin , with a metal implant in its nose. The two agents question two of the victims' classmates, Billy Miles and Peggy O'Dell, who have been in a nursing home since a car accident. On O'Dell's body you will also find the already familiar characters.
They later learn from an anonymous phone call that Peggy O'Dell was killed on the highway after escaping the home. While the two agents are at the scene of the accident, the autopsy building catches fire and all evidence in it is apparently destroyed. During this event, Mulder and Scully meet Theresa Nemman, the coroner's daughter who made the anonymous call and who also has the marks on her skin. She reports that on the night she was out with Billy Miles and Peggy O'Dell, she saw a bright light appear. Mulder is convinced that Billy Miles is under the control of an alien power.
The agents go into the forest to look for more evidence. Mulder witnesses Billy Miles holding the unconscious Theresa Nemman in his arms and standing in a white light. Shortly afterwards the light disappears and both young people regain full consciousness. None of them can remember how they got to this place and the strange signs have also disappeared.
In Washington, DC , Scully presents her superiors with the metallic object she found in the nose of the orangutan carcass. It is the only evidence that has not been destroyed. In the last scene, the Cigarette Smoking Man (“the smoker, the cancer candidate”) deposits the object alongside others in a gigantic warehouse in the Pentagon .
reception
When it was first broadcast in the USA, the episode achieved an audience rating of 7.441 million households and a market share of 15 percent. It also achieved a Nielsen rating of 7.9 and a share of 15. In Germany, the series was followed by 3.52 million households and achieved a market share of 12.5 percent.
Trivia
- At the beginning of the episode the words: "The following film is based on factual reports." However, this does not mean that Agents Mulder and Scully or their work on the X-Files really existed. The events in Bellefleur, Oregon, and even the city itself, are pure fiction, too. The facts mean the individual typical phenomena that are normally associated with UFO appearances and abductions by aliens. These include implants , lost time, scars on the bodies of kidnap victims and the characteristic glistening light.
- Drawn is the only episode of the series, which has no opening credits.
- The episode had a budget of $ 2 million.
- At first, attempts were made to incorporate the agents' lives outside of the X-Files into the series as well. For example, several scenes with Scully and her boyfriend Ethan Minette were filmed, but they didn't make it into the final TV version. In the complete edition of the first season, however, these are included.
- Chris Carter was born in Bellflower, California and the name Bellefleur is a reference to his hometown.
- In the final episode of season seven, Mulder and Scully return to Bellefleur to investigate a UFO crash. Several characters from the pilot episode make a new appearance in the series.
Web links
- Signed in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ English-X-Files encyclopedia . Retrieved July 16, 2011.
- ↑ German X-Files Encyclopedia. Retrieved July 16, 2011.