#X-cops

[randomfoggytiger]

Do you think Wayne Federman used Mulder and Scully's COPS appearance to help market his upcoming movie?

[casuallycryingoverbooks]

The realest character in the xfiles is that one pathologist in x-cops who’s like “hey, why aren’t we wearing masks rn” BECAUSE CAN WE TALK ABOUT THE TOTAL LACK OF PPE IN ALL THE LABS IN THE SHOW

Scully put some fucking gloves on sometimes i’m begging you

Put some goggles on before start looking at things or mixing any chemicals

ESPECIALLY DURING FIREWALKER LIKE ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? (Like yes they do later find out the specimens shes studying are non-pathogenic when they are not immediately exposed but she didnt know that at the time and she was leaning close to it not wearing a mask to look through the microscope. That’s bad lab etiquette.)

[the1013file]

[x-files-polls]

Steve & Edy: Gays not buried! Also they manage to resolve conflict maturely and stay together. Pretty good queer rep for the year 2000.

Cher:

To jog your memory, here are the episodes they're from:

X-Cops: A filming of an episode of COPS gets in the way of the collaborative effort between the FBI and the local police department. Mulder later finds out that the monster feeds on fear. While Mulder embraces the publicity, Scully is not so sure of it. The episode was filmed as if it were an authentic episode of the TV series COPS.

The Post-Modern Prometheus: Filmed in black-and-white, Mulder and Scully investigate a letter from a single mother that leads them to a small town where a modern-day version of Frankenstein's monster lurks, Jerry Springer is an obsession, and Cher plays a significant part.

[carefulfears]

the way david tries not to burst out laughing at every scene with steve and edy in x cops is just iconic, i would not be any better tbh

my favorite is on the porch when everyone is just doing the scene and you can tell he can’t stop laughing until he finally ducks out of frame

[candlemassive]

can yew make some x-cops (band) blinkies pls^_^

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[i-used-to-be-a-spy]

I was not prepared for a COPS style episode and I also was not prepared for this to be the episode with a gay Black couple and they complain to Mulder for relationship advice like he's the wrong one to ask 😂

[nefertitisfjordd]

i love this scene from x-cops where scully is bein so sheepish and mulder is just cheesin like a fool. they are so cute.

[x-files-scripts]

The X-Files - “X-Cops”

Written by Vince Gilligan

December 6, 1999 (PRODUCTION DRAFT)

A note to the reader to establish the change in format...

Scully is camera shy with these alternate lines...

Mulder enjoys the attention in contrast to Scully...

Deleted scenes:

[bakedbakermom]

headcanon there is a missing scene in x-cops where the film crew catches m&s being all cuddly and sweet with each other until scully turns around and sees them and goes Full Attack Pomeranian on them until they delete the footage

[randomfoggytiger]

I have a prompt idea! Any character reacting to the episode of COPS that Mulder and Scully appear on when it finally airs.

Decided to make this part of the Bill Scully POV series (on Ao3, or Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, and Part V.)

Charlie hadn't bothered to call or catch up since New Years; nevertheless, the phone went off an hour after Matthew's head finally hit the pillow.

"Bill, you catching the COPS episode night?"

Bill, wrist-deep in receipt sorting, was not.

"Dana and her partner are on the air." And Charlie laughed and laughed, tears mingling with his wheezes while Bill yelled "What?" and stumbled from the kitchen to the couch.

Agent Mulder. He should have known. "Catch... catch him?" Dana's partner mumbled, pointing diffidently at a sketch of.... No.

Bill's stream of consciousness must have broken a new record because Charlie was now guffawing and Tara was whispering violently from the other room. Meanwhile, his eyes remained glued to his sister's awkward mannerisms while she relayed their superior's directive.

"'Nothing to hide'?" he exploded. "Wasn't Skinner the assistant director at the--" Bill caught the word back before the moment soured over past cancers and absences. "Why's he-- why's Dana still participating in this--"

"C'mon, Mulder, do the werewolf stance again!" Loud slaps echoed through the wire: Charlie was either smacking his thigh or the wall in unbridled ecstasy. "She hid behind the EMT door, Bill, you should have seen it."

Bill, unable to contain himself after Mulder's irrepressible ramble over werewolf technicalities, bellowed, "OH, for crying OUT--"

"Bill!" Tara hissed, head shooting through the doorway. He jolted, mouthed a sorry, and miserably watched her eyebrows scrunch skywards in recognition. "Hey, isn't that Dana on the tv?"

"Always wanted to be a cop when I was younger," his brother drawled, voice touched with regret. "Just couldn't trust 'em after their behavior during my truancy period."

"And you thought Wall Street was a more honest profession?" Bill scoffed. The anger of losing a hundred-dollar sure investment-- how many years ago was that? Too many-- would burn until his dying day.

"Can it, Bill."

But Charlie said it like he used to; and they hung up friends.

***** Thanks for reading~

Enjoy!

Tagging @today-in-fic

[california-112]

that episode F*CKED HARD

[x-files-polls]

Holly McClain: I don't know if anyone remembers her—she's only on screen for a minute, mostly dominated by digs at her appearance—but she has always stuck out to me because even though she still ends up murdered, she fought back against her attacker and gets critical dna evidence in the process

Chantara: So iconic for a character who's face we never even saw

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To jog your memory, here are the episodes they're from:

2Shy: Meeting insecure women through an online service, a serial killer seduces his prey with the right words. However, Mulder and Scully determine these killings are far from ordinary by the presence of a strange substance coating the victims, a substance which seems to digest the fatty acids in flesh.

X-Cops: A filming of an episode of COPS gets in the way of the collaborative effort between the FBI and the local police department. Mulder later finds out that the monster feeds on fear. While Mulder embraces the publicity, Scully is not so sure of it. The episode was filmed as if it were an authentic episode of the TV series COPS.

[corkinavoid]

DPxDC Places To Sleep

I've seen many fics and prompts with Homeless Danny, and I've just had a thought: what's the safest place to sleep at night when you a) don't have a home, b) can turn intangible and invisible, and c) are not afraid of mortals' justice system since you're dead and it doesn't really apply to you?

Cop cars.

Cops patrol the streets at night, but really, they mostly just pick a place and stay there until something happens, right? (I mean, I think that's right, I'm not very educated on the matter)

So, say Danny is in Gotham, and he needs a place to sleep, but it's the most crime-ridden city in the world, and sleeping out in the streets is cold and uncomfortable. And sure, he can climb into any car, but he chooses the cop car because, first, it's got a radio, so if the cops get any alerts about him (you can't tell me that GIW wouldn't use the help of local police, they are government agents after all), he will hear it first. Second, it's warm and cozy and soft. Third, and the most important: no one is going to look for him there! It's like hiding in plain sight but even better.

Or, well, it is, until one night the cop car he is sleeping in gets dispatched to some crime scene along with about a dozen others, and it turns out to be some trafficking rink that got busted or whatnot, and there are a lot of people who need to be taken to the GCPD station. So Danny, sleepy and grumpy because he was suddenly woken up, searches for the first still running but empty car, while staying invisible and intangible, and when he finds it, he just crashes in the back seat.

He is very surprised a few minutes later when the motherfucking Batman jumps in the front seat, and at least three of his sidekicks are trying to squeeze themselves in the back.

The Bats are even more surprised when they find a random teenager flickering in and out of visibility in the back seat of Batmobile, his eyes wide as saucers and Lazarus green.

[unremarkablehouse]

20yrs later, Mulder still talking to Scully about warewolves

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