Interesting concept, a blind vigilante, kinda reminds me of a female Dare Devil. I just don't understand the point of her character choosing to continue taking the blame; she's a strong woman and I can see that. (no pun intended) I like strong female characters
“Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A surprisingly touching but brutal story about a woman, blind since birth, who can see with her "mind's eye". She is a tough cookie at first, but as it turns out, she is basically trying to get arrested by confessing to murders that she "sees" but did not commit. She is actually able to "see" through the eyes of her father who is a drug running killer who she believes will eventually kill her.
She ends up killing him but is arrested for her crime. She is now safe and no longer has the visions, Mulder is particularly stricken with this woman and his budding relationship with her ends in a bittersweet fashion as he visits her in prison where they hold hands. As Mulder leaves, she turns and walks into the darkness where she fades away into the darkness of her cell.
Secondary Characters in this episode: none
The ending is don't make sense to me, he is an ex con with a criminal history who was trespassing and she shot him, the only time in prison she should take is hitting that agent
Review by WardVIP 8BlockedParentSpoilers2023-11-14T20:14:39Z
Utterly fantastic and underrated. Lili Taylor's performance is the exact kind of performance that should get a guest emmy, not the actress who played Spender's mother in those episodes she was in. She was good, but Lili in this episode was great (and it turns out Lili was indeed nominated for an emmy for this episode).
I didn't even know if the actress was really blind, and it turns out she wasn't, she was just that good at convincing me she might be.
I was spellbound in most of the scenes she appeared in.
I don't really want to write my thoughts because i just want to watch the next episode, but i am compelled to appreciate this episode and give it some justice as it seems to be underrated.
I've always been fascinated with morality, and here it is explored in ways i think a lot of people have missed. It seems there are either two sides on this, the first being she isn't a likeable character and may have deserved to go to prison in the end. The other side is that she is kinda likeable in her own way, and maybe didn't deserve to go to prison in the end.
I'm in the middle. I liked her, but i think she deserved to go to prison.
She didn't know he was her father, she just knew him as an asshole in the prison for many years, and then when he got out she then the real world around her, the true world, the colorful and fantastic and exciting and wonderful world. And when her visions disappeared, she was back seeing nothing.
That must have been painful. Perhaps us non-blind cannot fully comprehend that kind of pain she would feel. The hurt, the loss. And so she so desperately wanted to keep such sight, even if it was the sight of a bad man, because the world was so beautiful.
As soon as he killed someone in the beginning, she went straight over to the crime scene to clean it all up. To clean up all the evidence and help the guy, a stranger, get away with murder, because she wanted to keep these visions. Her visions were more important than other people's lives. That's what it comes down to.
Her hitting the cops head with the vase could have killed him, or the blow to his head could eventually cause a tumor in the short or long term. Or maybe the killer had somehow killed her first, and then killed the unconscious cop.
She was reckless. She was desperate. She denied wanting help and denied trying to help to catch the killer so she could keep her extra sight. How selfish. She deserves to go to prison for destroying evidence, obstruction of justice, aiding and abetting a killer, are some examples of the kind of charges she should face. And whatever charge that explains how she got people killed, whether due to her inaction or actively indirectly helping the killer.
She didn't even consider how since the guy was on a reckless killing spree, he was going to keep killing people and he'd be arrested or killed pretty soon i would imagine. Although, since he killed her mother, he's been killing for a very long time, so who knows.
No wonder she was so bitter, seeing through the eyes of an evil killer for years. Although it might have been pointed out she only started getting this sight after he left prison, that it was a kind of spark to more full visions. Or i think the exact wording was that her visions through his sight when he was in prison was like a blur. It's not clear, but i'll go with she's been having the sight for years when he was in prison, as that's probably the most realistic.
The logical reasoning given for her ability at first is when her mother was pregnant with her and the guy killed her and the damage caused her to be blind but she developed another sense, a connection with the killer. It doesn't really make sense, but you could buy it theoretically in a psychic kinda way. And then the writing of the reasoning gets even better in the episode. The killer is she father. So now the reasoning could be expanded in various ways that you could form theories around, and with him being her father it give more credibility to the sense of those theories. I loved it.
David was really good this episode in how he connected with her. I liked how Scully and Mulder split up, Scully going the science route in investigating the crime scene while Mulder took the psychological approach with Marty.
And at the end when they held hands through the prison bars. They have a connection. He and i liked her prideful nature, though i definitely think it's over the top, but i still like her. He even offered to still help her with the judge, but she shut that down immediately and said no, independent as ever. The music as well, Mark Snow and his team the geniuses as ever, with the sad and bittersweet music throughout just fits perfectly. I just Mulder being Marty's champion throughout and trying to help her.
Yet i realize again how spellbound i am with this woman, yet she let innocents die and aided a murderer. We must remember the truth, in our journey of discovering the truth. We must take a step back and realize how guilty she is, but still know she has a lot of good inside her.