EVE Episode 11 Season 1 of The X-Files

EVEil Genius 10/10

Synopsis: Mulder and Scully investigate two identical murders that happened at the exact same time only miles apart.

EVE is an amazing episode full of red herrings and twist. From start to finish the unfolding plot keeps Mulder and Scully guessing on the potential suspects. The likelihood that a sophisticated Murder could be carried out by an eight year old girl was beyond the realms of thinking even for Mulder. As a viewer it was nice to see a tightly woven story unravel in front of my eyes.

There is no denying that twins in horror works as for some reason they are able to possess a certain unnerving quality much like a china doll. The younger EVE twins are murders are evil and genius, a scary group of attributes to hold. They are capable of killing without feeling regret but instead share jubilation in their methods homicide, gleefully watching as their self-cultivated poison terminates the closes thing the girls could ever come to calling a mother. This gives much reason behind the elaborate ways in which the fathers of the two girls met their demise. Exsanguination is a word I had to look up not a method of murder, least that is what I thought. The creativity involved in the murders inevitably contributed to the girls undoing as it was quickly passed down as an X-File due to its oddness in nature and without Fox Mulders intuitive observance the girls break for freedom would have been successful.

Harriet Harris turns in some credible performances playing Dr Sally Kendrick, EVE 6 and EVE 8. As the psychotic EVE 6 she was very convincing, chattering her teeth whilst telling stories of biting a guard eyeball and I really wouldn’t like to be locked in a cell with her. She had an air of unpredictability about her and played unhinged very well. Another of her scenes is also rather thrilling. Cindy Reardon lies in bed when her wardrobe doors begin to open, we then see from Mulder and Scully’s view point that she is then quickly snatched. Scully runs to Cindy’s aid entering the house she doesn’t know what she will find and neither do we. Whoever or whatever it was that snatched Cindy had to have been waiting in that wardrobe for two days as the house was under surveillance. The music adds to potential scare we’re about to receive. Scully makes her way up the stairs and is knocked down by EVE 7 who then bursts through a patio window and escapes the waiting Mulder by holding a gun to Cindy’s head. A top sequence in the episode of which there are so many highlights. My favourite sequence of the lot has to be the rest stop scene. The girls poison the agents drink only to be thwarted by Mulders intuition. I thought it was filmed really well and showed Mulders at his think ‘outside the box’ best.  Not many agents would evaluate the evidence in such a way as to suspect little girls.

Deep Throat makes an appearance here, divulging the project that created the EVEs called the Lichfield experiments. These experiments were designed to rival that of the Russians attempt of creating a super race at the height of the cold war. They created a group of genetically modified children, the boys were called Adam and the girls were called Eve. We know from meeting Eve 6 that the experiments still continue and that these children grew to be psychotic. We learn from EVE 7 that the young EVEs; Cindy and Teena have developed at a greatly accelerated speed, meaning they’re very dangerous. On their capture they are returned to the Lichfield experiment.

Quotes I have picked out for this episode are:

Mulder’s unwitty quip to Scully whilst she reads from the autopsy report.

Scully: Death by hypovolaemia. 75% blood loss. That's over 4 liters of blood.

Mulder: I'd say the man was running on empty.

Mulder’s and Scullys banter. He also points to the sky and says that maybe their looking in the wrong place.

Mulder: One girl was just abducted.

Scully: Kidnapped.

Mulder: Potato, potahto.

Two psychopathic girls that have never met murder their fathers in exactly the same bizarre manner at exactly the same time on different sides of the country. Psychotic clones run amok. Exsanguination, poisoning and biting eyeballs. A supposedly expired highly classified experiment continues. Creepy twins that may in-fact be cloned to create more of the little murderers. This episode had a lot I think I enjoy it more than any other in this series and as I realise I can be stingy with my scoring I feel it is only right to slap a 10/10 on this one.

Join me once more for the next episode ‘FIRE’ coming in the next couple of days. Thank you for reading.