Intense, action packed and morally engaging, this episode showcases how Gilligan would always bring a deft humanism to his X-Files stories. Cranston's performance in the episode was so great that Gilligan knew he only had one person in mind for the role of Walter White after that.Ĭranston plays a man that is suffering from an illness but is also on the run and being pursued by the police (later by Mulder whom he believes the man to be part of an X-File) in a high-speed car chase across the Nevada desert.

Gilligan, a driving force and co-executive producer of 'The X-Files,' actually wrote the episode. No, not the Nicolas Winding Refn art-house action classic, but this glorious standalone episode was actually the first collaboration between 'Breaking Bad' creator Vince Gilligan and Bryan Cranston. Granted for a series that ran as long as 'The X-Files' did, we're bound to miss on a couple of fan favorites, but hopefully these 15 are great examples of both stand alone episodes and mythology episodes. With talks of more episodes in the future, here are our 15 best episodes of the classic series (just don't go making up any conspiracies if your favorite didn't make the cut, all right?!). RELATED: The 15 Most Underrated Genre Shows Of The Last Decade Part paranoid conspiracy thriller ('All The Presidents Men' and '3 Days of the Condor' are massive cinematic influences), part alien invasion, all revolutionary television Carter's TV series remains a fierce and seminal piece of the genre.

Big, heady, and magically cinematic, 'The X-Files' was unlike anything that had come before. Created by Chris Carter and starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson (in career defining performances), 'The X-Files' became a groundbreaking TV phenomenon that reinvented what science fiction could do for television. it seems that phrase is more relevant now than ever and way back in the 1990s, it was the tagline that was on everyone's mind.

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