The X-Files – 6×21 – “Field Trip”

This is a monster of the week episode where the monster turns out to be a little more unique than most. In this case, a giant fungus. The episode starts out with a couple, Wallace and Angela,  returning home from a day out hiking. Angela comes down with a bad headache and seems to start having hallucinations of yellow ooze dripping down the walls while she is in the shower. The two head to bed but in the next scene we see police investigating the skeletal remains of a couple out in a field.

At some point, Mulder returns to the scene on his own and discovers the man alive. He claims to have been abducted by aliens. The viewers do not realize it right away but this is all a hallucination. Later Scully falls into the same trip. The area where the hikers was found is infested with a giant underground fungus that causes hallucinations, lures its victims into a cave where they become trapped and are slowly digested.

Overall this was a very good and relatively unique episode. You don’t realize immediately that Mulder is hallucinating but when you realize he is it becomes even more creepy. It is also interesting to observe how Mulder and Scully react in their hallucinated experiences. I would give this episode 4/5 stars.