Although I've mainly been enjoying my rewatch of The X-Files, I found the first season finale, "The Erlenmeyer Flask", to be a bit disappointing.
It has plenty of good points. I enjoyed the exciting chase scene at the beginning of the episode, in which some unlucky cops pursue a mysterious man with superhuman abilities. There were some effective moments of coalescing paranoia. I really liked a scene where Mulder, sneaking through a scientist's office, takes a call from the mysterious man, pretends to be the scientist, and all the while he's being watched and listened to by another party.
However, and I don't usually like to complain about "plot holes", this one has the show's sceptic character, Scully, find herself able to obtain an alien foetus by bluffing her way past one security guard, wrapping the thing up in a cardboard box, and apparently just walking right out again without being stopped. Later, another mysterious character is apparently killed and we hear nothing about her attempts to identify the body. I dimly remember that this is all revealed to be a charade in the next season (my memory could be wrong) but that still wouldn't explain why Scully didn't stop and question any of this.
Maybe everyone was tired because it was the last episode of the season.
The X-Files is available on Disney+/Hulu.
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