X-Cops

About X-Cops in brief

“X-Cops” is the twelfth episode of the seventh season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. Originally aired in the United States by the Fox network on February 20, 2000, it received a Nielsen rating of 9. 7 and was seen by 16. 56 million viewers. The episode earned positive reviews from critics, largely due to its unique presentation, as well as its use of humor. Since its airing, the episode has been named among the best episodes of the series by several reviewers. It is one of only two episodes to be presented in real time, in which events are presented at the same rate that the audience experiences them. In the tradition of the real-life Cops program, the entire episode was shot on videotape and featured several members of the crew of Cops. In this episode, Mulder and Scully are interviewed for the Fox reality television program Cops during an X- Files investigation. Mulder, hunting what he believes to be a werewolf, discovers that the monster terrorizing people instead feeds on fear. The group also meets Steve and Edy, a couple who witnessed the incident but did not see Ricky’s attack, saying that it appeared he was being attacked by nothing. When the agents track down Chantara Gomez, whose face is pixelated, she claims that he will kill her. Inside a police car, the agents find a pink fingernail, which they identify as belonging to a couple. The two are drawn back outside when Wetzel encounters the entity, wildly shooting wildly at him.

When Mulder questions Wetzel about the monster, he admits that he thought he saw him shooting at him with his older brother, a man called a ‘wasp’ Mulder is enthused at the prospect of paranormal proof being presented to a national television audience. The agents and the police interview Mrs. Guerrero, who describes the monster to Ricky, a sketch artist. To Mulder’s surprise, she describes not a were wolf, but the horror movie villain Freddy Krueger. The police soon discover and surround Mulder and Dana Scully, believing them to be criminals, before they realize that the pair are FBI agents. The pair claim that they are investigating an alleged werewolf that killed a man in the area during the last full moon. According to Mulder,. the entity that they were tracking only comes out at night. Mulder believes that he saw a man with a broken neck, but he thought it was a man who had died in a car accident. The couple also identify the victim as a prostitute, who claims that her pimp had attacked her and that he had pimped her down. The duo find a fingernails at the scene, and they assist the police in a crack house raid in a fictional high-crime district of Los Angeles, California. The entire episode is shot on video and features members of a Cops film crew, including Keith Wetzel.