Detour

Episode aired Nov 23, 1997
TV-14
44m

IMDb RATING

8.1/10

4.6K

YOUR RATING

Conspiracy Thriller Adventure Crime Drama Mystery Sci-Fi Thriller

In the unexplored woods of Florida's Apalachicola National Forest, Mulder and Scully investigate the disappearances of two land surveyors and a boy's claims that he and his father were attac... Read allIn the unexplored woods of Florida's Apalachicola National Forest, Mulder and Scully investigate the disappearances of two land surveyors and a boy's claims that he and his father were attacked by an invisible creature.In the unexplored woods of Florida's Apalachicola National Forest, Mulder and Scully investigate the disappearances of two land surveyors and a boy's claims that he and his father were attacked by an invisible creature.

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IMDb RATING

8.1/10

4.6K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
Visual effects supervisor Laurie Kallsen-George created the glowing red eyes, digitizing and blending various eyeball images, including shots of her family's dog.

Goofs
In the opening hunting scene, the forest is completely wrong. There are no temperate rain forests in Florida, much less in the Panhandle.

Quotes
Fox Mulder: I was told once that the best way to regenerate body heat is to crawl naked into a sleeping bag with somebody else who's already naked.
Dana Scully: Maybe if it rains sleeping bags, you'll get lucky.

Connections
Features The Invisible Man (1933)

Soundtracks
The X-Files
Written by Mark Snow
Performed by John Beal
[the show's opening theme]

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Review

Featured review

10/10

Mulder and Scully are trapped in the wilderness bad-ass horror episode in the fifth season

Detour feels like a rather conventional and old-fashioned episode, with Mulder and Scully encountering something strange in a rural setting, getting trapped in the wilderness, and encountering a monster threatened by the expansion of civilisation. One of my favorite episodes in the woods in which Mulder and Scully are trapped in the wilderness in Apalachicola National Forest in Leon County, Florida two invisible monsters are hunting and eating people who cross their paths in the woods. Really creepy and spooky episode.

Detour is the kind of story that The X-Files has always done very well. Sending Mulder and Scully off into a remote location with a cast of expendable supporting characters can be counted on to deliver all the requisite X-Files ingredients.

On the way to an FBI convention in Florida, Mulder and Scully stop to help in the investigation of the mysterious disappearance of three people in the woods, where a pair of invisible humanoids lurk.

Detour was broadcast between Unusual Suspects and The Post-Modern Prometheus. This episode is a really good example of the different characterization of Mulder and Scully by different writers. I love Detour to death.