The X Files / Eve / Notes

 Ole reliable trope--superior humans created through Eugenics invitro with greater intellect, strength, and especially the side effect of psychosis--is introduced here in The X Files. Twin psycho girls who murder their fathers through exsanguination, their existence through invitro masterminded by a genius named Sally Kendrick (she looks as if she's highly unstable and ready to suffer a psychotic break at any moment), or Eve 8 (Eve 7 was taking medication to keep her own latent psychosis at bay) using digitalis (a type of paralyzing drug) eventually are a threat to Scully and Mulder, not realizing that they are already very dangerous, their own psychopathy developing earlier that usual (typically psychosis emerges during teenage years). These kids are creepy. When they smile to each other, having done what they have to their fathers--and eventually Eve 7--it is chilling. They plot and scheme without a hint of guilty conscience or moral issue. It is easy for them to kill. They are cold. They can poison without a hitch. Mulder and Scully are very fortunate they don't drink any more of the soda than they do. Of course, Mulder and Scully outsmart them, but the Eves still seem to have the last laugh. There are always these nefarious actors at work. Deep Throat showing up in California to fill us and Mulder in on the Litchfield experiments sets up super soldiers, later to factor into later seasons.

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The "genetics gone wrong" theme quite prevalent in horror and sci-fi is given a go by the X-files crew with Mulder and Scully (David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson) investigating two mysterious exsanguination murders (two fathers "bled dry" with two vampire bite like marks on their necks) that are separated by many miles with daughters that are identical twins. Soon Mulder learns from Deep Throat (Jerry Hardin) that a brilliant geneticist named Dr. Sally Kendrick (Harriet Sansom Harris) who was fired from a major in-vitro clinic in San Francisco when it was learned that she had been conducting "Litchfield experiments" (infamous Soviet Union experiments in trying to build a perfect race with superhuman abilities). Eves were created by Sally, with identical characteristics, with heightened intelligence, strength, and psychosis. Those two girls are eventually taken by a Sally look-alike (themselves Eves) with the hopes of providing an environment that attempts to deviate from the psychotic impulses inside them. Mulder and Scully soon learn that the girls were responsible for their fathers' deaths, when they themselves are nearly poisoned (the Sally look-alike is poisoned by the two Eves who tell her they culled it from a specific plant and liquefied it, with its sweet taste masked in a soft drink). Allowing the girls to get away would be quite a threat to mankind. However, even if the girls were possibly put away, there's still that last Eve 8 (Eve 7 and 8 were able to escape from law enforcement) unaccounted for.

Hard to beat that opening scene where the father is found on the swingset, pale-skinned and blood-dry. The girls (Erika and Sabrina Krievins) are both creepy, underlying that latent psychosis with this devious smile that can't help but surface when the mind produces something naughty or evil. Mulder's theory of the cattle mutilations and alien activity is wonderfully lampooned by Scully on numerous occasions (she just can't help herself). The conclusion at the truck stop (the girls in a cat and mouse with the agents) is clever and intense. An unsettling conclusion where Eve 8 makes her expected eventual appearance.