The X-Files » Season 7, Season 7 » First Person Shooter (Episode)

format_quote Mulder: Maybe out past where the imagination ends our true natures lie, waiting to be confronted on their own terms. Born in anarchy with an unquenchable bloodthirst we shudder to think what might rise up from the darkness.

format_quote Dana Scully: Dressing up like high-tech warriors to play a futuristic version of "cowboys & indians"? What kind of moron gets his ya-yas out like that?
Fox Mulder: (points to himself)
Dana Scully: Mulder, what purpose does this game serve except to add to a culture of violence in a country that's already out of control?
Fox Mulder: Who says it adds to it?
Dana Scully: You think that taking up weapons and creating gratuitous virtual mayhem has any redeeming value whatsoever? That the testosterone frenzy that it creates stops when the game does?
Fox Mulder: Well that's rather sexist, isn't it? Maybe the game provides an outlet for certain impulses. That it fills a void in our genetic makeup that the more civilizing effects of society fail to provide for.
Dana Scully: Well that must be why men feel the great need to blast the crap out of stuff.

format_quote Fox Mulder: (to the Lone Gunmen) If I were you guys, right now I'd be checking my shorts for cake.

stars  It won 2 Emmy Awards for Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Drama Series and Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series.

stars  All the special effects needed for the episode meant the episode nearly went over budget. The production crew ended up borrowing different virtual game layouts from video game companies to cut costs.