Fic recs: 2x19 Død Kalm
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xfilesficrecsJust because they can, Mulder and Scully charter a fishing boat and head to the North Atlantic off the coast of Norway. They're investigating the mysterious deaths of the crew of the USS Ardent. The ship vanished at the 65th parallel where there is a history of ships going missing dating back to WWII. Unfortunately, they get stranded on the ghost ship when pirates hijack their boat.
This episode shouldn't work. The plot makes no sense. The science makes no sense. We never find out what happens to the dread Pirate Olafsson. The bottom line is the X-File investigation goes nowhere, nothing gets explained, and the only people who survive--whatever it is--are Mulder and Scully themselves. Yet director Rob Bowman manages to create dramatic tension, evoking a range of feelings from fear to claustrophobia to grief. And naturally, it's always a treat to watch Scully do science. She cobbles together a lab and documents what's happening to them in real time. In the end, once they're rescued, it's her research, her science, that saves Mulder's life.
Their final scene together on the ship is very moving.
"It's not fair," he says to her. "It's not our time. We still have work to do." He doesn't want to give up fighting.
She knows the end is close for him and she doesn't want him to be afraid. "Mulder ... When they found me, after the doctors and even my family had given up, I experienced something that I never told you about. Even now it's hard to find the words. But there's one thing I'm certain of. As certain as I am of this life, we have nothing to fear when it's over."
"I'm so tired," he says. He's weakening.
"You should sleep," she tells him and strokes his head.
It isn't fair. The only consolation is that if they had died, at least they'd have been together at the end, not like that poor selfish bastard, Trondheim, who tried to save himself at the expense of the others, and died alone.
Scully's final journal entry was lovely.
FANFICTION RECS:
From my AO3 bookmarks. These are each part of much longer series the authors have been (separately) laboring over for years, now.
Dod Kalm (479 words) by leiascully
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The X-Files
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Dana Scully, Fox Mulder
Additional Tags: Episode Related, Aging
Series: Part 47 of The FBI's Most Unwanted
Summary:
Dod Kalm (428 words) by scullywolf
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The X-Files
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Fox Mulder/Dana Scully
Characters: Fox Mulder, Dana Scully
Additional Tags: Missing Scene, MSR
Series: Part 43 of TXF: Scenes in Between
This episode shouldn't work. The plot makes no sense. The science makes no sense. We never find out what happens to the dread Pirate Olafsson. The bottom line is the X-File investigation goes nowhere, nothing gets explained, and the only people who survive--whatever it is--are Mulder and Scully themselves. Yet director Rob Bowman manages to create dramatic tension, evoking a range of feelings from fear to claustrophobia to grief. And naturally, it's always a treat to watch Scully do science. She cobbles together a lab and documents what's happening to them in real time. In the end, once they're rescued, it's her research, her science, that saves Mulder's life.
Their final scene together on the ship is very moving.
"It's not fair," he says to her. "It's not our time. We still have work to do." He doesn't want to give up fighting.
She knows the end is close for him and she doesn't want him to be afraid. "Mulder ... When they found me, after the doctors and even my family had given up, I experienced something that I never told you about. Even now it's hard to find the words. But there's one thing I'm certain of. As certain as I am of this life, we have nothing to fear when it's over."
"I'm so tired," he says. He's weakening.
"You should sleep," she tells him and strokes his head.
It isn't fair. The only consolation is that if they had died, at least they'd have been together at the end, not like that poor selfish bastard, Trondheim, who tried to save himself at the expense of the others, and died alone.
Scully's final journal entry was lovely.
Among Halverson's belongings, I found a children's book of Norse legends. From what I can tell, the pictures show the end of the world - not in a sudden firestorm of damnation as the Bible teaches us, but in a slow covering blanket of snow. First the moon and the stars will be lost in a dense white fog, then the rivers and the lakes and the sea will freeze over. And finally a wolf named Skoll will open his jaws and eat the sun, sending the world into an everlasting night. I think I hear the wolf at the door.
FANFICTION RECS:
From my AO3 bookmarks. These are each part of much longer series the authors have been (separately) laboring over for years, now.
Dod Kalm (479 words) by leiascully
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The X-Files
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Dana Scully, Fox Mulder
Additional Tags: Episode Related, Aging
Series: Part 47 of The FBI's Most Unwanted
Summary:
Once or twice she had contemplated growing old with Mulder.
Dod Kalm (428 words) by scullywolf
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The X-Files
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Fox Mulder/Dana Scully
Characters: Fox Mulder, Dana Scully
Additional Tags: Missing Scene, MSR
Series: Part 43 of TXF: Scenes in Between