Nothing Lasts Forever
- Episode aired Mar 14, 2018
- TV-14
- 44m
IMDb RATING
6.6/10
2.6K
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While investigating human organ theft, Mulder and Scully uncover a mysterious cult consumed with macabre rituals.While investigating human organ theft, Mulder and Scully uncover a mysterious cult consumed with macabre rituals.While investigating human organ theft, Mulder and Scully uncover a mysterious cult consumed with macabre rituals.
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- TriviaThis is not the first time Mulder is seen wearing glasses. In Pilot (1993), Mulder is down in his office and has glasses on, plus a pocket protector. However, those were myopia glasses, while now he's wearing presbyopia ones, which mark the passage of time and how he's grown older.
- GoofsWhen Mulder and Scully leave the church they find that three steel piles were detached from the church's fence near the entrance just at the sidewalk. It makes no sense for Juliet to remove those piles right at the entrance and moreover to remove three piles just beside each other. This way everybody can easily spot the missing piles just by walking at the sidewalk next to the church and while removing them she must be extra cautious not to get spotted.
- Quotes
Fox Mulder: Well, I may not believe in God, but I believe in you. And therefore I speak to Him through you. Through the transitive property of equality, if "A" equals "B" and "B" equals "C", therefore "A" equals "C". Reason and faith in harmony. Isn't that why we're so good together?
- Crazy creditsAfter the opening credits, the tagline "I Want to Be Beautiful" is in place of the traditional "The Truth Is Out There" tagline.
- ConnectionsReferences Dragnet (1951)
Featured review
What about SciFi/Horror Show do people not understand?
Any fan of The X-Files should be familiar with the show's periodic and famous forays into the truly disturbing in episodes such as "Home", "Sanguinarium", and "Our Town." "Home" had a hard time getting past the censors and after it's initial airing was not rerun on network TV for many years. So nothing about "Nothing Lasts Forever" is really out of keeping with The X-Files more gruesome offerings which dabble in such subjects as cannibalism to stay young (Our Town), organ theft to prolong life (I Want to Believe), incest (Home) and parasitism (Sanguinarium). Director James Wong, who also works these days on American Horror Story clued most of us into the fact that this was going to be a bumpy, bloody ride. That may not be your cup of tea, but it is completely in character for the show.
What is also keeping in character with the show is that some of the most gruesome cases also serve as a backdrop to some of the most personal discussions between the two leads. That is also the case for Nothing Lasts Forever in which we find Mulder and Scully having deeply personal conversations about Scully's faith and the future of their relationship in between the machinations of the cult of personality and internal organs.
For fans, and especially shippers, who have been waiting and waiting and waiting for the show to make a definitive statement on where Mulder and Scully's relationship stands before the series' ends, this episode is an instant classic.
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