When Scully sees Patti (the woman she is helping) taking an unusual interest in baby William, we the viewers know that things have hit the proverbial fan. Meanwhile, Scully takes it upon herself to help out a troubled woman and her child from what appears to be a strained relationship with the father. Doggett and Reyes come to her at Quantico with news that a shadowy informant is reaching out for Mulder so that he may tell him vital information about the so-called super soldiers that have surfaced since last season. Things begin, as they are wont to do in the land of the extraterrestrial and paranormal, with Scully dealing with two separate issues that turn out to be the same issue about halfway through the episode’s running time. However, I believe notions of surveillance were better explored back when our heroes were searching for and coming across bugs in pens and wall outlets as opposed to the more obvious approach of closed circuit feeds. The episode’s motif of constant surveillance - in the new age of the internet - was meant to hammer home this point. The writers (particularly Chris Carter, who penned the episode himself) I feel wanted to refocus the mythology and bring it back to a place that it was during the salad days of Vancouver. Max: “Trust No 1” is an episode that wants to do so many things right by the mythology, the characters, and the audience that it actually ends up letting all of the above down at least a little.
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