Two FBI agents, Fox Mulder the believer and Dana Scully the skeptic, investigate the strange and unexplained, while hidden forces work to impede their efforts.
It works because it's silly and over the top and yet also strangely plausible...it's nice to have something this old still be capable of something so new.
I'm such a sucker for concept episodes, and "Rm9sbG93ZXJz" is one of the niftiest experiments in The X-Files' long history...It's a boldly small-scale reconsideration of Mulder and Scully.
"Rm9sbG93ZXJz" somehow found a new tone for the series after 200-plus episodes. With that, it still maintained a sense of humor in the face of urgency.
A quarter century later, The X-Files is circling back around to one of its earliest fears, one that felt outdated halfway through the show's original run but has since been proven valid, if clichéd.
