What's the Connection?

[LondonLady]

This connection has been used before, but that's okay.
The connection is that both episodes feature a bank robbery.

[SpecialAgent88]

That's correct LondonLady.

[LondonLady]

Hurrah!

Next: What's the connection: "Genderbender" and "3"?

[LondonLady]

Bumpity bump. Would anyone like a clue?

[SpecialAgent88]

Yes, how about a clue LondonLady.

[LondonLady]

Okay, since nobody is guessing this one at all, here is a big clue:

Both episodes occur before, "The X Files: Fight the Future"!



Okay, here is the real clue: both episodes feature a scene in the same type of place.

[Agent Skulder]

Special Agent - I think you've got this now...

[LondonLady]

Agent Skulder or SA88, do either of you know the answer? Would anyone else like to guess?

[Agent Skulder]

Both eps feature a prominent scene with Mulder in a bar...

This is the direction I thought SA88 was going in.

[LondonLady]

That's close enough, I suppose: both episodes feature an important scene in a nightclub.

Your turn, next, Agent Skulder.

[Agent Skulder]

Alrighty then; it's been too long... All I could recall was the actual bar, not the dancing.

New puzzle later this weekend... I'll aim for a crickets theme.

[LondonLady]

If crickets are hanging out at XFU and nobody else is there, do they make a sound?

[LondonLady]

Agent Skulder, would you like to take your turn, or would you prefer to pass it? Maybe JC would like to try.

[Agent Skulder]

What's the connection between "War of the Coprophages" & "Humbug?"

[JoseChung]

It isn't that Darin Morgan wrote them both is it? It was a sad day when he left the X-Files...

[Agent Skulder]

Very sad... you've got that right! Your answer however is too "deep" - think simpler...

[JoseChung]

They both involve a series of bizarre deaths?

[Agent Skulder]

Nooooo.... what annoying things appear in each ep, that normally send chicks fleeing...? (Generally speaking)

[JoseChung]

There are cockroaches in Humbug? What the bug eating scene?

[Agent Skulder]

You're there, you just don't realize it... Both eps featured 'insects' (and Humbug featured a cricket I think, not a cockroach, getting eaten ... G'ross!)

The next Connection is all yours...

[JoseChung]

All right. I think I've got one. Easy I think.

Folie a Deux and Shadows. What's the connection?

[LondonLady]

Is the connection that both episodes feature people who came back from the dead? In "Shadows," Lauren Kyte's boss came back from the dead to seek vengeance, and in "Folie a Deux," the zombie nurse came back from the dead.

[JoseChung]

Nope. Its much more simple.

Hint: Think about who the central bad guy in each is.

[LondonLady]

Is it that in each episode, the protagonist is actually dead?

[JoseChung]

Wow, that's a much better answer than the one I actually have. I'm tempted to give you credit for that one.

Nah, its a less interesting or cool answer than that. Sadly...

[LondonLady]

Oh, thank you, JC! However, I'm still trying to think of your connection!
Do both episodes feature Brian Markinson? I know that he plays Gary Lambert in, "Folie a Deux," and I know that he's in an episode in the first series as well, but I'm not sure whether he's in, "Shadows." I think that he might be in, "Born Again," actually.

[JoseChung]

Nah, that's not the one. Its like the main villains have a position in the workplace in common. And the main villain in Shadows really isn't the vengeful ghost. He's kind of badass.

[LondonLady]

Okay, is the connection that in both episodes, the main villain is the president of the company?

[JoseChung]

Yep, they are both bosses though in Shadows, the guy has no powers. While Folie a Deux is that really creepy bug thing. Congratulations.

[LondonLady]

Hurray! Thanks for all your help, JC.

Next: What's the connection: "Hollywood AD" and "Je Souhaite"?

[JoseChung]

People come back from the dead? The old guy in Hollywood AD though he may have faked his death (though the bowl does seem to bring folks back from the dead too; dancing skeletons). The invisible guy came back from the dead from his brother's wish.

[LondonLady]

Now, that is an excellent connection, and I didn't think of it! My connection is different.

[JoseChung]

Both hint at Mulder and Scully being romantically involved, which is new at that point. At the end of Je Souhaite, Mulder and Scully are drinking beers and watching a movie together like a date night. At the end of Hollywood AD, Scully reminds Mulder she have a credit card they can use for a night on the town. All I could think of.

[LondonLady]

Keep thinking, JC! There is another, perhaps simpler, connection.

[JoseChung]

They're both comedic episodes?

[LondonLady]

LOL! No, perhaps not that simple!

[LondonLady]

Bumpity bump. Next guess?

[JoseChung]

Sorry, I'm out of ideas.

Maybe one of the others can think of something.

[Agent Skulder]

London Lady, since this started back on the 16th, if you'd like to pose another puzzle before or after the long US weekend, it might help. I've no idea what the connection might be either...

[LondonLady]

LOL! This connection is easier than you all think. I'll give a slight clue, but then if nobody has guessed the connection by the next time that I check here, I shall declare myself the winner and then give the answer.

Clue: The connection involves Mulder and Scully.