“Ice” is the eighth episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. It was directed by David Nutter and written by Glen Morgan and James Wong. The debut broadcast of “Ice” was watched by 10 million viewers in 6.2 million households. The plot of the episode shows FBI special agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully investigating the death of an Alaskan research team.
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“Ice” is the eighth episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. It was directed by David Nutter and written by Glen Morgan and James Wong. The episode was inspired by an article in Science News about an excavation in Greenland, and series creator Chris Carter also cited John W. Campbell’s 1938 novella Who Goes There? as an influence. The debut broadcast of “Ice” was watched by 10 million viewers in 6.2 million households and received positive reviews at large from critics, who praised its tense atmosphere. The plot of the episode shows FBI special agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully investigating about the death of an Alaskan research team. Isolated and alone, the agents and their accompanying team discover the existence of extraterrestrial parasitic organisms that drive their hosts into impulsive fits of rage. A similar plot was featured in “The Enemy”, a 1995 episode of James Wong’s series Space: Above and Beyond and according to UGO Networks, according to the episode has the same plot as “Ice”. The episode introduced invertebrate antagonists as invertebrates as antagonists in the series; this plot device would recur in “Firewalker” and “The Host” The episode has been described as “basically the same” as “What Lies Below” in the book and film versions of “The Thing” by John Carpenter and Chris Carter, with the exception of the use of the word “flesh” in some of the dialogue.
The setting is similar to the setting of the films The Thing from Another World and The Thing From Another World. The characters cannot trust each other because they are uncertain who they seem to be, and it provided a new look on Mulder and Scully and provided it with an early recurring theme, such as “Darkness Falls and Firewalker’s” “Ice’s” premise became a recurring theme in series, with episodes such as ‘Firewalker and ‘The Enemy’ repeating the combination of remote locations and unknown lifeforms. “Ice”‘s producers thought that it would save money by being shot in a single location, but it ended up exceeding its own production budget. A mass murder–suicide occurs among a team of geophysicists at an outpost in Icy Cape, Alaska. Mulder wants to return to the site, but he is told that it has been destroyed by the government. When he is asked to provide a stool sample, he tries to flee. The group is informed that evacuation is impossible because of the weather. When Mulder finds Murphy in the freezer with his throat cut, the others believe that he has become infected and killed Murphy.
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