This September, we’re taking a trip back in time to review the seventh season of The X-Files and the first (and only) season of Harsh Realm.
And now as we drift off the laughing agents and back to the graveyard , we see the Lazarus Bowl lying discarded beneath a tree.
A SWITCH, a broken tipped branch of the tree gets blown by the fan’s wind force down toward the plastic grooves of the replica as we move down toward it, we can read a “MADE IN ISRAEL” sticker on its bottom – the branch reaching toward the plastic, like a woman’s arms to her lover —
Close on the splintered wood making contact on the colored plastic like a phonograph needle on vinyl —
And now MUSIC COMES UP – scratchy like an old record, the fourth track from BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB, in a superior interpretation rendered by Mark Snow, called “PUEBLO NUEVO” – a beautiful stately cha cha instrumental —
We pull back wide as APPARITIONS appear to rise from their graves, rotting, but standing at atte ntion and then —
When the music kicks in, they begin to dance, all of them, in the round – dignified, changing partners… we hear the bones creaking, we see the gentlemanly half skulls smiling…
And now by the magic of Bill Millar & Co., the GREEN SCREEN becomes the rest of a HUGE GRAVEYARD with corpses dancing stately and dignified upon it as we begin a slow pull out to a heavenly perspective…
This is what life’s about. This is what the dead would do if only they could. As we slowly fade to black, the band plays on.
And we end.
– David Duchovny takes his bow
Everything ends.
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