#4x15 memento mori

[fine-nephrit]

🥏 TXF Fic Rec #31: "blackberry" by audries

A month after Philadelphia, a local cop lunges at Mulder, but Scully ends up with the black eye instead, and Mulder goes apeshit. Today’s fic shows how excellent writing can elevate a tropey prompt to the next level — into a new stratosphere, to unprecedented pinnacles, really. @audriesfic weaves words together like no other, making them dance. It’s by turns exquisite, funny, and heartbreaking. If post-“Never Again” and cancer arc angst is your thing, you cannot miss this one.

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🥏 on AO3 🥏 audio version on @audiofanficpod read by @red2007

length: short, 3,000+ words season: season 4, 4x13 Never Again, 4x15 Memento Mori pairing(s): M/S UST tags: vignette, episode-related, angst, humor, cancer arc, hurt/comfort rating: teen/PG-13

[mulders-too-large-shirt]

juni's x files liveblog masterpost (s4-?)

since tumblr only allows for 100 links per post, as i delve deeper and deeper into the x files, i will have to break my masterposts up!

click here for seasons 1 through 3.

so, on this new masterpost, i will (probably) fit s4-s6, but we shall see what happens. and as before, i'll update intermittently.

season 4:

4x01 Herrenvolk

4x02 Home

4x03 Teliko

4x04 Unruhe

4x05 The Field Where I Died

4x06 Sanguinarium

4x07 Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man

4x08 Tunguska

4x09 Terma

4x10 Paper Hearts

4x11 El Mundo Gira

4x12 Leonard Betts

4x13 Never Again

4x14 Memento Mori

4x15 Kaddish

4x16 Unrequited

4x17 Tempus Fugit

4x18 Max

4x19 Synchrony

4x20 Small Potatoes

4x21 Zero Sum

4x22 Elegy

4x23 Demons

4x24 Gethsemane

favorite scully moments

favorite mulder moments

favorite duo moments

season 5:

5x01 Redux, Part 1

5x02 Redux, Part 2

5x03 Unusual Suspects

5x04 Detour

5x05 The Post-Modern Prometheus

5x06 Christmas Carol

5x07 Emily (+ More Thoughts Re: Episodes 6 and 7)

5x08 Kitsunegari

5x09 Schizogeny

5x10 Chinga

[all-eyes-lead-to-the-truth]

All Eyes Lead to the Truth | Season Four Master Post

Season four is one of the most beloved seasons of The X-Files, and we had a lot of fun exploring the background characters that helped make it so special!

Check out this thread to see all the characters we got to meet this season!

Herrenvolk (4x01) | X

No one would remember him, and if they did, they would struggle to remember a name they were never told. The memory of his existence would remain occluded by the shadows he lived in.

Home (4x02) | Sheriff Andy Taylor

For protection, his father had said, as he pressed the unfamiliar cold metal into Taylor’s warm hand. To keep your family safe.

To keep your home safe.

He shuts the drawer. He isn’t ready for this reality, not now. Not yet.

Teliko (4x03) | Special Agent Sean Pendrell

With them, it was never something simple. It was a computer chip so fragile he could barely study it. It was a complex string of numbers and letters tracking a smallpox vaccination program for reasons he couldn’t even begin to fathom.

This was what he went to school for.

Unruhe (4x04) | Gerry Schnauz

Gerry knew she needed his help the moment they met. There was a howler inside of her head — a black mass invading her body and mind.

The Field Where I Died (4x05) | Melissa Rydell Ephesian

Melissa struggled with the idea of reincarnation, but dared not show it. And as it turned out, a broken link in the chain of her faith led to more broken links.

When she first saw Vernon hurt a child, the chain shattered.

Sanguinarium (4x06) | Dr. Theresa Shannon

The face on the computer had looked just like Jack, but that had to be impossible. The science of surgery hadn’t come that far. To spread the eyes further apart, change features completely… and besides, she knows him. Knows the person he is…

Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man (4x07) | Albert M. Godwinkle

All Albert M. Godwinkle wants today is to read a halfway decent manuscript that puts a smile on his disgruntled face. Today is not that day.

Tunguska (4x08) | Alex Krycek

If looks could kill, Alex would be a dead man. But he thrives off this, off making Mulder squirm. It’s just so fucking easy.

Terma (4x09) | Senator Albert Sorenson

He was a staunch proponent of holding insubordinate witnesses in contempt when the court was not being respected, and no one, not even a government employee, was immune to that.

Paper Hearts (4x10) | Addie Sparks

The little girl he loves is gone, and she is never coming back.

Just like me.

El Mundo Gira (4x11) | Migrant Worker

At the simple mention of El Chupacabra, the shack erupted in a cacophony of worry, as if merely saying the name might summon the beast.

Leonard Betts (4x12) | Michele Wilkes

Even through the panic she felt screaming through her that nothing about this was okay, she felt a moment of relief wash over her. Maybe it had all been a dream. Maybe her partner hadn’t died while she was at the wheel.

Never Again (4x13) | Ed Jerse

Deadbeat. Loser. Failure.

He’s heard it all, and he has had enough. No one humiliates Ed Jerse anymore. No, not now. Never again.

Memento Mori (4x14) | Kurt Crawford

What is destined for a creature borne of fluid and test tubes, guided by the hands of cruel men?

Kaddish (4x15) | Ariel Luria

Someone else’s hatred had taken her true love away. Just like that, in an instant, like it was nothing. But it was not hatred that led her to the gravesite that stormy night.

Unrequited (4x16) | Special Agent Kent Hill

Hill slides in his earpiece, watching as their eyes lock. His wife would call it eavesdropping, but as he steps closer, tilting his head just right to better hear their hushed voices, Hill simply calls it satisfying a long-standing curiosity.

Tempus Fugit (4x17) | Bartender

The man tried to fluff the pink ball back into shape after presumably squashing it in his pocket. “The woman I came in with— it’s her birthday, and she loves these things. I was wondering if there was any way you could ask someone in the back to put it on a plate and bring it out to her?”

Max (4x18) | Sharon Graffia

Sharon Graffia isn’t a liar. She’d only done what she needed to in order for people to believe her. All she’s ever wanted was someone to believe her.

Synchrony (4x19) | Jason Nichols

Naïveté and a complete lack of understanding of the consequences of their work had been their downfall. But how could they have known?

Small Potatoes (4x20) | Eddie Van Blundht

It didn’t take him long to realize he’d initially misread the situation when he saw them at the clinic. Based on the look Dana Scully shot him when he tried to hold her hand at the airport, he knew he was navigating territory Fox Mulder had yet to conquer.

Zero Sum (4x21) | Billy

He slowly twisted his neck to the right, and was horrified by the sight before him. In the next bed over was David from his class, his face covered in gross red bumps. He looked dead.

Billy didn’t know what else to do. He started crying.

Elegy (4x22) | Lauren Heller

She had an exam in the morning. Her mother’s birthday was the following weekend. She had plans.

Demons (4x23) | Amy Cassandra

As she speaks, the deep wound in her skull throbs, reminding her that that was true, until weeks ago when she’d traded the nightmare of one penetrating drill with the reality of another.

Gesthemane (4x24) | Father McCue

Her faith had come from God, yes… but it had also come from another, less expected source. Perhaps it still did.

Stay tuned for more perspectives coming in Season Five!

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

We spend so much time deliberating and chatting about who to use in a given episode or where certain characters would be best utilized in the series, and we'd love to hear any opinions or predictions you might have! Do you have a favorite minor character? What episodes do you think would be best for our favorite recurring characters? Your feedback is one of the most enjoyable parts of this project (and sometimes hearing other perspectives can help inform the decisions we have to make). - @admiralty-xfd, @fridaysat9, @monikafilefan, and @gaycrouton

[chavisory]

“Unruhe” (4x04)

“Leonard Betts” (4x14)

“Memento Mori” (4x15)

[dnscully]

Mulder and Scully Moments, volume 1

(4x15) Memento Mori

(5x5) The Post-Modern Prometheus

Fight The Future (1998)

[enigmaticxbee]

S4 Rewatch

4x01 Herrenvolk

4x02 Home

4x03 Teliko

4x04 Unruhe

4x05 The Field Where I Died

4x06 Sanguinarium

4x07 Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man

4x08 Tunguska

4x09 Terma

4x10 Paper Hearts

4x11 El Mundo Gira

4x12 Leonard Betts

4x13 Never Again

4x14 Memento Mori

4x15 Kaddish

4x16 Unrequited

4x17 Tempus Fugit

4x18 Max

4x19 Synchrony

4x20 Small Potatoes

4x21 Zero Sum

4x22 Elegy

4x23 Demons

4x24 Gethsemane

Link to Rewatch Masterlist

[dreamingofscully]

4x15. “Kaddish” - X-Files Rewatch

I don’t find this episode to be great, except for the fact that it comes after Memento Mori. There are several things that happen that are incredibly sad and meaningful when taken in this context.

Mulder gazing at Scully in the car. Scully licking her lip.

Together in the grave.

Speaking about marriage, looking at the wedding ring. Mulder looking at Scully through this whole conversation, particularly when Ariel says: "He knew how much I loved Isaac." Scully's sadness at the story - about something else, too?

Their first case after Memento Mori has to do with someone's love dying and the other doing something desperate to get them back.

Scully doctoring/touching Mulder at the end to see if he's OK.

"What is she doing?" - Scully "Saying goodbye." - Mulder

😭

[enigmaticxbee]

Scully Describing Her Week to a Friend

(Let’s pretend she still has one other than Mulder 😩)

Season 4

4x01 Herrenvolk

4x02 Home

4x03 Teliko

4x04 Unruhe

4x05 The Field Where I Died

4x06 Sanguinarium

4x07 Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man

4x08/09 Tunguska/Terma

4x10 Paper Hearts

4x11 El Mundo Gira

4x12 Leonard Betts

4x13 Never Again

4x14 Memento Mori

4x15 Kaddish

4x16 Unrequited

4x17/18 Tempus Fugit/Max

4x19 Synchrony

4x20 Small Potatoes

4x21 Zero Sum

4x22 Elegy

4x23 Demons

4x24 Gethsemane

Link to Rewatch Masterlist

[dreamingofscully]

Season 4/Cancer Arc Rewatch Masterlist

4x01. “Herrenvolk” (2 of 2)

4x02. “Home”

4x03. “Teliko”

4x04. “Unruhe”

4x05. “The Field Where I Died”

4x06. “Sanguinarium”

4x07. “Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man”

4x08. “Tunguska” (1 of 2)

4x09. “Terma” (2 of 2)

4x10. “Paper Hearts”

4x11. “El Mundo Gira”

4x12. “Leonard Betts”

4x13. “Never Again”

4x14. “Memento Mori”

4x15. “Kaddish”

4x16. “Unrequited”

4x17. “Tempus Fugit” (1 of 2)

4x18. “Max” (2 of 2)

4x19. “Synchrony”

4x20. “Small Potatoes”

4x21. “Zero Sum”

4x22. “Elegy”

4x23. “Demons”

4x24. “Gethsemane” (1 of 3)

SEASON 5

5x01. “Redux” (2 of 3)

5x02. “Redux II” (3 of 3)

Season 4/Cancer Arc Summary - Theme: BARRIERS

[enigmaticxbee]

S4 Rewatch - Episode Guide

The Best: 4x02 Home, 4x12 Leonard Betts, 4x13 Never Again, 4x14 Memento Mori, and 4x20 Small Potatoes

Great emotional MOTW: 4x04 Unruhe, 4x10 Paper Hearts, 4x22 Elegy and 4x23 Demons

Solid Mytharc: 4x08 Tunguska, 4x09 Terma, 4x17 Tempus Fugit, 4x18 Max and 4x21 Zero Sum

Ok Mytharc: 4x01 Herrenvolk, 4x07 Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man and 4x24 Gethsemane

Ok MOTW: 4x05 The Field Where I Died, 4x06 Sanguinarium and 4x15 Kaddish

Eh: 4x03 Teliko, 4x16 Unrequited and 4x19 Synchrony

The Worst: 4x11 El Mundo Gira