A dead bolt turns, locking her within. She hears the unidentified man's voice refer to her as "a snoop. Mulder discovers that Karin's father was pulled from the mud of an orchard twenty years earlier. He finds it strange that Karin failed to mention the coincidence. Ramirez tells Mulder that Karin Matthew's father's death brought about an end of a blight affecting the trees. Karin attributes the tale to her father's stature, believing powerful men inspire fantasy.
Later, Mulder digs up Mr. Matthews' casket. He finds the body missing but the casket full of roots. When Lisa's aunt, Linda, arrives at Karin's house, Karin informs her that Lisa left for a bus station. Before Linda drives off, Lisa smashes the glass of a window in the basement. Linda rushes to her niece's aid, but she is attacked and killed by an unseen force as tree branches sway in the wind above her. Later, Bobby tells Mulder that, as part of therapy, Karin made him pretend he was Phil and that, all along, he was never a really a victim.
Lisa hears the cellar door bolt slide. She stands up only to realize the unidentified male voice has been coming from Karin all along. Scully and Mulder search Karin's house, where they come upon the corpse Lisa discovered earlier in the root cellar.
Mulder concludes the body is that of Karin's father. Karin locks the agents in the root cellar, but Mulder forces it open. They find Lisa frightened but unharmed in a corner of the kitchen.
Mulder attempts to pursue an escaping Karin, but his car crashes into an enormous tree. Karin drives to the Rich residence, where she chases Bobby into the orchard. Suddenly, Bobby is dragged downward into the mud. While attempting to rescue the teenager, Mulder simultaneously encourages Karin to break the cycle and to fight the voice inside her head.
But Karin is unable. A tendon-like root snakes out of the mud and drags Mulder downward. Ramirez appears, axe in hand, and decapitates Karin. Mulder and Bobby are released by the unseen force. X-Files Wiki Explore. The X-Files. Fight the Future I Want to Believe. He's been more complicated this season, and while Frank eventually winds up taking center stage by the end of "Hand," at least this episode gives him the depth of a man who isn't entirely sure he's doing the right thing. He, as the saying goes, wants to believe it.
But history is full of men and women who wanted and found themselves betrayed in the end. Here, Peter's quest for answers takes him and Frank over to Germany, to follow the treads left by a Dr. Schlossburg, who's discovered a burial circle for Millennium group members from a thousand years ago.
Hall referred in the credits as "Group Elder" tells Peter not to go, but he needs something to help him understand, and he asks Frank to come along for the ride because of Frank's "gift. Maybe that's due to the intensity of faith and the iconic power of the saint's near death, and obvious being close to the body changes things, but I wonder how comfortable Frank is at walking through cemeteries. When Frank and Peter arrive overseas, they find that Schlossburg's been killed, and the police have his lab staked out.
A bit of miscommunication follows, but once the cops contact the Group who are still giving Peter their full support, even if they aren't completely happy with his current direction , they throw their support behind Peter—which is a good thing, seeing as how Peter and Frank are nearly blown up when they leave the police station. Despite the mysticism that drives the plot here and the show , there's something gratifyingly solid about much of "Hand," as Peter works feverishly to recover whatever Schlossburg had discovered before he died, while at the same time, creepy men in dark coats dog his and Frank's every move.
It very much has the feel of a spy thriller mixed in with the kind of crazy religious paranoia the series loves so much. There's even a plot point that has Peter getting in touch with Roedecker to help discover Schlossburg's computer password. I'm torn between liking Roedecker, and finding him over-done.
It's nice to have someone on the show routinely cracking wise, but there's something annoyingly relentless about him that takes the fun out of a lot of the jokes. Then again, anyone who loves Planet of the Apes movies can't be all bad. Even if he does love Beneath the Planet of the Apes , which is the most mean-spirited of the bunch. Much to his glee, Roedecker discovers that Schlossburg was a huge porn addict, and used the name of his favorite starlet as his password.
As always in the movies and on TV, no one ever uses a random string of letters and numbers for their password, because that would be difficult. Still, unlocking Schlossburg's computer fails to provide Peter with the information he wants, and he's about to give up completely, when Frank discovers the good doctor is still alive—apparently, Schlossburg has been logging into porn sites post-corpsification. It's the sort of plot point that I find both ridiculous and endearing, even after learning that the whole thing is a set up by the bad guys to get Peter to come to the hospital where Schlossburg is being held in protective custody, so they can murder the doctor and pin the crime on Peter.
Which is even more ridiculous, frankly. The timing here is bizarre. The bad guys log into a porn site, pretending to be Schlossburg, and the next day, a woman from the porn site tries to flirt with Schlossburg while Peter and Frank are in his lab. So the villains somehow knew that Peter would be checking into the porn sites, and they knew that if they were online one day, whoever was operating the site would mention this the following day?
It actually makes more sense if it's just Schlossburg being randy; at least then, there'd be no intent that needed all the pieces to come together to work out properly. Ha, I said "come together. I'm having a hard [ha! Peter tracks down Schlossburg and gets the information he needs, and Schlossburg exits the picture soon after, while Peter and Frank head to a peat bog where Frank sinks up to his neck in the muck, which is a pretty good visual metaphor for his history on the show thus far.
They find the body they were looking for, just as the cops arrive to take Peter into custody for Schlossburg's death, and it looks bad for our heroes.
But no worries—CCH Pounder has returned as Andrews, and she's shouting at everyone to get their heads on straight and release Peter. He was an assistant director at the FBI for ten years!
Of course he wouldn't kill some poor defenseless German dude. Frank managed to store the body they found, and he tells Andrews to meet him at a storage facility that night. When he gets there, the bad guys chase him, and then things get twisty. I'm not sure how I feel about Andrews turning out to be a bad guy.
For one thing, I don't really understand what "being a bad guy" means in this world for non-demons. She and the others are working against the Group, and that's not good, but are they in league with the Devil?
Or is there some other group that feels the Millennium folks don't have humanity's best interests at heart? As betrayals go, it's surprising, but once the surprise fades, it's hard to get all that excited about it. She's been on three episodes before this, which is enough for her to be a semi-recurring character, and yet we're given no sense as to what changed her mind, or why we should care why she did this beyond the "Oh crap, how will Frank get out of this one?
It turns out, he set her up—when she and her men open the door to the storage unit where Frank says he stashed the body, the cops pour out. It's not a horrible reveal, but it does, unfortunately, expose one of my few problems with this season: I love the batshit insanity, but too much of that, and it becomes hollow.
Enough of "Hand" is built on the solid foundation of conspiracy thrillers to hold together, but Andrews as the head villain doesn't work as well as it probably was meant to. One of the reasons I loved "Curse of Frank Black" is that, however briefly, it gave us a sense of a status quo worth protecting: Frank hanging out, being a dad, and the world being relatively normal on the surface. In all this running around and digging up bodies and friends turning into foes, the important idea is that Peter felt lost, and wanted some kind of assurance that he was making the right choices.
In the end, though, despite finding what he was looking for, there no real assurances. Which is probably what the Elder was talking about when he said Peter was on a quest with no beginning, and no end. It's important to ask some questions, but in the end, you'll never get as many answers as you'd really like.
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