Scully's jealousy broke out big time in the prior episode, 'War of the Coprophages", and it revs up a notch in this story when the FBI team is brought in to work a local case along side Detective Angela White (Dana Wheeler-Nicholson). I guess it didn't help things when Scully barged into Mulder's hotel room and found White mauling Mulder with a full court body press. To Mulder's credit, he did offer to get her a separate room.
I'm almost starting to sound like a broken record here with my third season episode reviews. After the first half dozen or so were out of the way, they began taking on titles that made you run for a dictionary to find out what they meant. The writers for the X-Files played it cagey as well, it was generally explained what the titles stood for but without making it obvious. In this one for example,'syzygy' relates to the straight line alignment of three celestial bodies, in this case, the sun, earth and moon. How it affected the principal players here is what the story is all about.
With a couple of unrelated high school girls sharing the same birthday virtually within seconds of each other, their combined mental power begins to display in strange and mysterious ways, not the least of which are the multiple deaths of fellow classmates. This leads to their school principal going off the deep end and turning his fellow citizens into a modern day lynch mob. It's not until the near-twins have a falling out over a guy that their combined powers neutralize each other and things return to normal. Or at least what might be considered normal after a slew of deaths and paranormal events like dead birds falling out of the sky.
So maybe that accounted for the weird behavior Scully and Mulder exhibited toward each other, which may or may not have been exacerbated by the presence of Agent White. Personally, I think Scully might have overreacted a bit. Yeah, right, whatever.
I'm almost starting to sound like a broken record here with my third season episode reviews. After the first half dozen or so were out of the way, they began taking on titles that made you run for a dictionary to find out what they meant. The writers for the X-Files played it cagey as well, it was generally explained what the titles stood for but without making it obvious. In this one for example,'syzygy' relates to the straight line alignment of three celestial bodies, in this case, the sun, earth and moon. How it affected the principal players here is what the story is all about.
With a couple of unrelated high school girls sharing the same birthday virtually within seconds of each other, their combined mental power begins to display in strange and mysterious ways, not the least of which are the multiple deaths of fellow classmates. This leads to their school principal going off the deep end and turning his fellow citizens into a modern day lynch mob. It's not until the near-twins have a falling out over a guy that their combined powers neutralize each other and things return to normal. Or at least what might be considered normal after a slew of deaths and paranormal events like dead birds falling out of the sky.
So maybe that accounted for the weird behavior Scully and Mulder exhibited toward each other, which may or may not have been exacerbated by the presence of Agent White. Personally, I think Scully might have overreacted a bit. Yeah, right, whatever.