Wrapping up Season 1 of X-Files

 It does seem as if in the past when I would get all knee-deep in the show again it would be starting with "Little Green Men" in the second season, and I would be once again off to the races. And, oddly enough, I'd watch "The Erlenmeyer Flask", which included the killing of Deep Throat by the Crew Cut Man (often sent on missions to assassinate), and seem to stop watching the show. Not sure what that is, but I'm still quite dialed-in, so I don't think finishing the first season of The X-Files with "The Erlenmeyer Flask" will lead to me abandoning the series again. Now I'm fastly approaching the Halloween season where series are often put on the backburner as I rev up my horror movie watching, concluding the year typically with Twilight Zone. I've watched a ton of episodes focused on alien/human hybrids, extraterrestrial DNA, clones being produced and then annihilated by the alien bounty hunter looking to get rid of all "abominations" that aren't "pure". So seeing really the genesis of all that playing out in the final episode of the first season is kind a cool. With such an ally as Deep Throat gone, and Skinner informing Mulder that the X-Files would be shut down, with Scully split apart from him, the two re-assigned elsewhere, so much in "The Erlenmeyer Flask" would lead us to believe that the pursuit of the truth and evidence of that brought out into public knowledge seemed destined to remain pretty much buried deep within the bowels of the Pentagon. Cancer Man looked as if he was once again able to hide another secret, a small alien, its tissue used to inject in humans for "evaluation". Mulder telling Scully that he wouldn't give up, even as his delivery and tone appeared nearly broken would seem to indicate he had suffered a major setback but not enough to totally say, "To Hell with it."