Deep Throat X-Files Episode
Deep Throat (episode 1x01) is an episode of the television show The X-Files. It originally aired on September 17th, 1993.
The episode is written by Chris Carter and directed by Daniel Sackheim. Guest stars include Charles Cioffi as Section Chief Blevins, Jerry Hardin as Deep Throat, Gabrielle Rose as Anita Budahas and Andrew Johnson as Colonel Robert Budahas.
Agent Mulder and Agent Scully invesitage the disappearance of a US Air Force colonel Robert Budahas. Mulder thinks that it's related to disapperanaces of six other pilots from an air base after flying experimental aircraft. Specifically, Mulder believes that these aircraft were built using extraterrestrial technology procured from UFOs.
A mysterious man known in the series as Deep Throat contacts Mulder and recommends him to stop investigation. Mulder ignores that, and with Scully visits Anita Budahas, wife of Colonel Budahas. She describes her husband's somewhat erratic behaviour as well as unwillingness to discuss any questions related to his work.
Mulder tells Scully of Aurora, a mysterious aircraft supposedly created by the Pentagon with UFO technology. During the night, they witness two objects flying in the sky. The agents find two teenagers who sneaked into an airforce base. They tell agents that they have seen all sorts of strange flying objects above the air base, and Mulder believes them.
Unexpectedly, Anita Budahas reports that her husband has returned. The agents visit the Budahas residence, but the colonel can't remember any interesting details, simply insisting he has been in a hospital for some time. He appears, however, absolutely sane. Mulder theorizes that colonel's memory might have been changed to prevent him from remembering his test flights.
Mulder and Scully are stopped, while driving, by a group of men in black who destroy the pictures of strange objects the agents earlier took and order them to leave the city. Mulder, however, decides to sneak into the air base the same way as two teenagers did. He is eventually discovered by the base security and doctors can be seen performing some procedures on him.
Scully is able to exchange Mulder for a military man who, as she discovered, was spying on the agents, but Mulder is unable to remember anything. Back in Washington, Deep Throat meets Mulder again. Deep Throat mentions that Mulder has chosen a dangerous path and both he and agent Scully are now in danger.
Quotes
Mulder: "They're here, aren't they?" Deep Throat: "Mr. Mulder, they've been here for a long, long time..."
Man in Black: "Please, step out of the car."
Mulder: "You think if maybe we ignore him, he'll go away?"
Man in Black: "Please, step out of the car now."
Mulder: "I guess not."
| Preceded by: Pilot | X-Files episodes | Followed by: Squeeze |