The Erlenmeyer Flask

What a great way to end the first season of the x-files.An apparent unrelated.minor car chase leads the agents to the discovery of what seems to be concrete evidence of a government conspiracy.The early sequence of the man being chased who then is shot emits green blood which has toxic properties is a classic.Also Deep Throat plays an important part i this episode though can the agents trust him after his lies in E.B.E?A stunning moment happens when Mulder enters the warehouse and before his very eyes is bodies in tanks of water.When he returns with Scully the bodies are gone much to Mulders disgust.He thought he had irrefutable,indisputable proof.This episode must be watched!

Imagine my surprise when Agent Mulder pointed out the FBI got a wiretap on his phone WITHOUT a court order. No kidding!

One couldn't possibly ask for better finale for the season one as is 'The Erlenmeyer Flask'. This episode makes the real full circle with establishing the mythology for the rest of the show, but doesn't draw any conclusions. Open ending of the episode is perfect in two ways - either you want to see what is going to happen next, or when you are grown tired of the show then the ending gives some sort of solution.

Fast paced and thrilling episode starts in medias res of the high speed car chase. One of these episodes where the beginning is equally effective and exciting as its ending.

I can't describe the story of the episode as it would spoil too much, but it is the best written one of the first season.

Deep Throat has been a complex figure from the start, once again he gives Mulder a titbit of information, only this time he's reluctant to follow the lead blindly.

What a way to end the first series, this episode is outstanding, for me it feels like the end of the show, I wonder if there was a doubt about a future returns it feels very final.

It's exciting, it's intriguing, I love how the duo finally reach point zero, but will Dana still believe, or will she dismiss events as a hoax.

We are once again unsure if Deep Throat is friend or foe, but he is great in this episode, I enjoyed his conflict with Scully.

I've thoroughly enjoyed this first series, and this is a definite high point. 10/10.

We finally get some real alien lore in this episode as Mulder and Scully discover a plot to breed alien-human hybrids for an unknown purpose.

This episode really got me thinking about all the security guards, military personnel, test pilots, research scientists, engineers, CIA agents, Men in Black, politicians, and international powerbrokers it requires to maintain conspiracies about aliens by those in the know. Think of how many we've seen this season! Mulder definitely picked the wrong line of work, he could have just tried to get a job as a security guard at the alien sample research lab and he'd have gotten all his answers in no time. When you think about it, it must require literally thousands of people on the inside to pull off. And every decade the majority of them would rotate out and need replaced by thousands more. And this is only one of the major nations involved, they would need to do this in every country that's a part of this conspiracy, which was at least half a dozen. By the time this show takes place, that hundreds of thousands of people involved in an alien conspiracy.

You'd think it'd be easier to get some answers!