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\u201cYoung at Heart\u201d is your average monster-of-the-week episode (how many times have I started a review with that sentence?) that manages to give you some solid freaky moments for the hour and gives you a bit of insight into Mulder and Scully, but without going deep enough or spooky enough to put it in the pantheon. There are a lot of ideas floating around in \u201cYoung at Heart,\u201d which makes it seem kind of crowded. It still works well enough for me to give it a pass though.<\/p>\n
In the cold open, we see a prisoner stumble upon something he probably shouldn\u2019t. A doctor is amputating a fellow inmate named Barnett, and pushes a scapel against the prisoner\u2019s neck, telling him Barnett is dead. But the prisoner sees him blink. In present day, an old boss of Mulder\u2019s, Agent Reggie Purdue (Dick Anthony Williams), calls him and Scully in on a bank robbery with a murder that at first seems routine. Mulder and Purdue both see the similarities to Mulder\u2019s first case on the job, in which a bank robber kills bystanders and hostages just for spite. The spooky thing is, the robber has already been caught years ago and died in prison: Barnett.<\/p>\n
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Obviously he\u2019s not as dead as our heroes previously thought.<\/p>\n
Full article: The X-Files S1, E16: \u201cYoung at Heart\u201d | The Soul of the Plot<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n