The Power of Choice: X-Files Pre/Post Terrorism
5 min readJan 8, 2021
Reflecting on Deep Throat’s death in 1994 — after being chased by strange armed forces from a malevolent foreign dictatorship and authorized by the executive branch — Mulder states in This:
“He’s dead because the world was so dangerous and complex — then. Who’d have thought we’d look back and say, with nostalgia, what simpler times.”