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As I said last week, I think the conclusion of this two-parter isn’t quite as good. It kind of seems like the writers didn’t know where they were going with any of the alien colony, alien bounty hunter, alien-human hybrid storylines.
And I mean, sure, some of that is fine (though, spoiler: none of this ever really gets resolved, as the writers just go in circles and different directions…) but it felt frustrating that we really got no conclusive answers to any of the various storylines from last week’s episode. The closest we get is some possible explanation of who the “Gregors” were and what their goal was but even there…it’s very vague, and unclear if the “explanation” is the truth. Also, as I’ll get into, the explanation is messy and not…great. Basically, we get an explanation of the “abortion doctor” aspect and just, Ugh. Why.
Now, this episode is still also an enjoyable watch. We still have a solid amount of action, intrigue, and suspense to keep the episode going. Both Mr. X and AD Skinner get big points for their (short) appearances in this episode. Plus, we once again get Scully coming in to save the day with 🧪science🧪, which always makes an episode solid for me. Science for the win!
There is still plenty to dig through this episode, though I think this review is likely to be at least slightly shorter than last week’s just because…again, we don’t really get much of a conclusion to anything.
Let’s get into it. Who are these aliens, and why are they here? 👽🛸
Aliens colonizing Earth
Well, I guess let’s get right into it, since the episode does.
Who exactly are (were) the “Gregors”, one of whom was apparently the adoptive father of “Samantha” after she was…returned…from being abducted by aliens?
Well, they are also aliens! Aliens that somehow do manage to look exactly like normal human beings, except for the fact that they are identical to one another.
Clones of two original alien “visitors” that came to earth in the 1940s, forming a community of exactly identical aliens aiming to establish a colony on Earth.
Why, you might ask? “Samantha” gives some story about how humans aren’t treating Earth right, and she’s not wrong there. These aliens seem to believe that for that reason alone, they are more worthy of Earth. But, I still have many questions. Why did the original two alien clones come to Earth in the 1940s? Was it just a crash landing, like Roswell, or did the aliens specifically target Earth as a good place to settle and colonize? That latter option would certainly be (somewhat) believable (if you believe in aliens), because, uh, the 1940s were not a good time if anyone was looking in from the outside. Especially if the aliens like, saw the atomic bombs get dropped and decided “yeah, uh, well clearly these humans are going to destroy themselves soon, looks like this would be a good planet to colonize!”
Semi-reasonable (again, if you believe in aliens). Still though I have the question of…why were the aliens looking for a place to colonize in the first place? What’s wrong with their home…planet, or wherever they came from?
Many, many questions. But still, none of this is completely out there. Aliens coming to colonize Earth is a very common story, and a very common conspiracy theory. And, I mean, some humans certainly believe we have a right to colonize Mars sooooooo it definitely isn’t actually farfetched that another intelligent species would want to colonize a planet that isn’t actually theirs to claim.
Where the story gets really mess is, once again, when the abortion doctor part of the story comes in. Because these aliens can apparently only reproduce through cloning, to look exactly identical to each other. Which is certainly no way to “blend in” as you slowly aim still to take over Earth one day in the future.
So, to blend in…these identical alien clones have been conducting experiments to create alien-human hybrids. It’s unclear if these are the same experiments that the government was doing in “The Erlenmeyer Flask”, though it is notable that the alien-human hybrid in that episode also released toxic green “blood”, as these aliens do. Though…Mulder being exposed to the “green blood” in that episode didn’t seem to expose him to the virus, just…irritated his eyes.
(This is one of those moments when you sit and think that, well, clearly the writers were trying to create some continuity throughout the show, but they didn’t really think it all through. We already had alien-human hybrids producing green toxic blood, and now we have aliens that do the same…is this actually the same, or did you just think the green toxic blood was “cool” or “creepy” and wanted to keep it around without explaining how two separate experiments could result in the same thing…???)
Aaaaaaaand here it is: The “Gregor” alien clones worked in abortion clinics so they could have access to human fetal tissue to experiment on, to create alien-human hybrids. To allow themselves to blend in, so they would no longer all be identical to one another.
Why. Whyyyyyyyyyyy are you like this, writers?! Stop using the exact same talking points as anti-abortion activists 😭😭😭
As I said last week, this is not the only time the show will do this. There are a lot of…unpleasant and awful storylines involving aliens, government experiments, and fertility or abortion clinics.
And, OK, I will say it does make sense…kind of, in this case. In this particular case, these abortion doctor alien clones aren’t really doing any direct harm, and they aren’t a very “violent” colonizing species, for sure. Everything we are told points to the alien clones working as very highly respected abortion doctors, providing necessary healthcare to women in need. They simply…don’t dispose of the fetal tissue they collect, but instead use it for vague “experiments” to try to create viable human-alien hybrid…embryos.
It’s just…this type of storyline gets messy very quickly. Anti-abortion activists love to claim that doctors are profiting off abortions in some way, using fetal tissue for experiments. Some will even claim that doctors might pressure women into getting an abortion so they can have access to the fetal tissue. Which…I’m not going to say has never happened, but I’ve never read about a case of that happening. Abortion and fertility doctors are doing incredible work helping women make decisions about their bodies, health, and futures. And yes, they do sometimes use that fetal tissue in research, to help answer questions about developmental disorders, create vaccines, and potentially develop new treatments for many other brain and spinal cord disorders. To name just a few. But most states require the woman’s consent to use the fetal tissue for research, and it is against the law for a doctor to profit off of the use of that tissue, and definitely illegal to pressure anyone to donate that tissue.
This isn’t some grand evil conspiracy, despite want anti-abortion activists love to rant about. Almost everyone alive today has benefitted in some manner from fetal tissue research, which has saved many lives and continues to advance medicine.
So, I just…I really dislike this whole storyline, because it implies that some abortion doctors are doing nefarious “research” or “experiments” with the fetal tissue that comes from the (very necessary!!!) procedures they provide. I don’t know how I would change anything here, because the fact that it is (identical!) abortion doctors being murdered is what brought Mulder and Scully into this case, and what really did make this a legitimate “X-file” to be investigating.
But I do not enjoy it. Or any of the upcoming storylines that involve weird “experiments” done by fertility doctors that are supposedly, somehow, related to alien and government conspiracies.
Anyyyyyway. So, while this group of identical colonists is experimenting on Earth, it seems that those aliens still back “home” greatly disapprove. That is why this bounty hunter was sent, to destroy the group of colonists and stop them from “diluting their species” by hybridizing with human DNA.
And, you know, I’m actually kind of on the side of the Alien Bounty Hunter here. The “Gregor” aliens weren’t being directly violent, but they were experimenting with human tissue without permission, and they were apparently slowly trying to establish a colony of alien (…human hybrids) to take over Earth. So, it’s not like they were the good guys!
Of course, the Alien Bounty Hunter was ruthless and also killed a lot of other people along his mission to destroy the colony and get back home. So he’s not a good guy either. But, just saying. At this moment, I’m more on his side, and the side of this alien species who sent him. The ones who aren’t (at the moment) trying to colonize Earth and experimenting to hybridize with humans.
Who is “Samantha”?
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It is Samantha—Mulder’s sister returned after 2+ decades—who tells Mulder all of this information.
But who is Samantha, and how does she know all of this?
She tells us that after she was returned (from what/where, exactly? very vague…), she was adopted by a family of these alien clones. Well, she at least tells us that her adoptive father was Dr. James Dickens, AKA Gregor #5, one of many identical alien clones living across the country. “Samantha” never mentions a mother, actually.
Samantha says there are identical clones of her “father” all around the country, though we now know that actually all of the Gregors are now dead, with the bounty hunter disguising his way into the jail at the end of the last episode to kill the last three.
Now, the bounty hunter apparently has orders to destroy all evidence or knowledge of the work the Gregor aliens were doing on Earth. Which means killing…Samantha. 😱
Or, at least, that’s the reason Samantha gives her brother for why he will be coming after her, and why he will trade Scully’s life for the life of his returned sister.
So, Mulder makes the impossible decision to make that trade, because he can’t lose Scully, and he wants to trust that Samantha knows what she is doing. Enlisting Skinner’s help (!!!!), the trade is made, with an FBI sharpshooter given orders to shoot the bounty hunter at the base of his skull. Unfortunately, our supposedly highly trained FBI sharpshooter misses, sending the bounty hunter and Samantha both tumbling off a bridge into the icy January waters of…the Potomac?
Noooooooooooo, Mulder has lost his sister once again!!!! 😭😭😭😭
Or, has he?
After Mulder leaves to give this information to his father, one body is pulled from the river. The body of the woman who said she was Samantha. The man who was holding her—our alien bounty hunter—is nowhere to be found.
It becomes clear pretty quickly that whoever this woman is, she’s not Samantha. As the body is brought out of the water and placed in an ambulance, it starts bubbling into that weird bright green fluid, slowly decomposing the entire body.
So. Yes. “Samantha” is definitely not Samantha Mulder, returned after 2 decades. Whoever this woman is, she appears to have the same biology as the Gregors—her dead body decomposes the same way into that toxic green liquid. Though, interesting (?) that neither Scully nor the 2 paramedics appear affected by the green “blood” or whatever in this case. But I’ll get into how confusing that is a bit later.
While Mulder doesn’t receive this information about “his sister” (Scully only tells him about the body being pulled from the river), he does get an address from his father, that “Samantha” left behind in case anything happened to her. At that address is yet another women’s health clinic, staffed by at least 4 clones of “Samantha”, including supposedly the “original” (alien?) who all the others came from.
Now, I think it is pretty clear that none of these women are actually Samantha Mulder. But at least one of them certainly did know enough about Samantha’s abduction and the Mulder family to get in contact with them, and apparently have enough memories of the real Samantha’s childhood to convince Mrs. Mulder at least that her daughter really had returned.
Which does bring up the interesting question/possibility: Do these clones perhaps actually know where the real Samantha is being held, after all these years? Is Mulder’s actual sister in fact still alive, somewhere out there?
It’s not impossible, but I think it is much more likely that this clone colony figured out they were in danger, and realized that the one man who might be willing to help them was one Fox Mulder. And so, if your female clone version does bear some resemblance to that man’s missing sister…well, it makes sense to pose as her to try to get Mulder’s help! And I’m sure there was enough news out there about Samantha Mulder’s abduction, and Mulder’s work over the years that could be pieced together into a semi-plausible story. Especially when you have Mulder and his mother (in particular) so desperately wanting to believe Samantha would someday be found. And, we never got any real confirmation that this “Samantha” remembered anything meaningful about her childhood; it’s also very easy to just claim that those memories were lost.
I don’t want to give away big spoilers about the show, but as I have said in the past, the Samantha storyline will come and go around in many circles throughout the next 5 seasons of the show. Was she abducted by aliens? Do these aliens know where the real Samantha is now?
Perhaps, but based on everything we are given here, I don’t think so.
And I’m not convinced Mulder truly believes these clones either. I think he does very desperately want to believe, especially after he thought he lost his sister again. But I don’t think he really, truly does.
The mystery of what happened to Samantha over twenty years ago, and where she is now, will go on.
Mulder’s dad is an ass
WILLIAM MULDER: Do you realize what losing her again is going to do to your mother?
Just a brief note here that oh my GOD, Bill Mulder is an asshole.
(If you’ve seen the show before, and remember some future episodes, you’ll be thinking he is a huge asshole).
I just…out of all of them, I got the sense that Mulder’s father did not believe that the woman really was Samantha. And, I mean, if anything, it’s his own fault that Mrs. Mulder believed Samantha had returned. “Samantha” called you, dude, not her mother! You were the one that brought your ex-wife out to Martha’s Vineyard!!!
And I think it is actually pretty clear that Mulder is devastated himself, and he does indeed know how this will affect his mother, because he’s feeling it too! Plus he volunteered to be the one to share the news with his mother.
I just…the only one who is really at fault here, for bringing the hope of Samantha’s return back, is Mulder’s dad. For many, many reasons that will become clear in the future, too.
Poor sad puppy dog Mulder. 😭
Mulder embraces his paranoia
I do want to give Mulder some credit here for re-discovering his paranoia and starting to question everything.
Good job. I mean, you could’ve used more of that last episode, but. Still. Nice that he realized he should not, in fact, trust everyone.
Even at the start of the episode, he finally started to question “Samantha” more about what she knew, as he realized that she really had told him nothing at all, and now his lover partner’s life was in danger because of it. At this point, Mulder does take too much of Samantha’s word, trusting that she is telling him the full truth, but at least he did ask for more of an explanation. And I’ll also give him a pass because he was scared that he was going to lose Scully again, after he put her in danger again (though, she’s the one that chose to go to that warehouse all by herself. TWICE.)
Once he loses “Samantha” though, and discovers her identical clones at the warehouse, then all bets are off. Mulder is pissed, determined, and he’s not just going to trust anyone…for now.
I was so proud of him for not trusting that the one guy still on the submarine was actually a crewmember who managed to survive—he’s the alien, the bounty hunter you’ve been tracking down, the one who might have some answers.
Of course, he’s going to forget this learning experience, and go back to his frustratingly selective paranoia soon. Often. Around and around in circles.
But it was nice to see Mulder finally ask the questions he should’ve been asking all along.
An alien virus! 😱🦠
Well, one of the aspects of this convoluted storyline that we do get a (mostly) conclusive answer for is the question of that toxic green blood/gas that the alien (human hybrids…) produce.
The alien blood contains a virus, which is apparently somehow released into the air when one of the aliens is traumatically injured. I…don’t think that’s how any viruses work. You have blood-borne pathogens (HIV, Hepatitis, syphilis, etc) and you have air-borne pathogens (COVID, influenza, tuberculosis, measles, etc). And, uh, as far as I know, a blood-borne pathogen doesn’t just become airborne. When someone with HIV bleeds, we don’t all start panicking just being in the same room as that person. Healthcare professionals will wear appropriate PPE, cover any open wounds they might have, and wear gloves, but…HIV doesn’t just get into the air. That’s not how viruses work.
But whatever, I guess this is an 👽 alien 👽 virus, so it can work however the writers want it to. Alien blood isn’t like human blood—for one thing, it is apparently green, and it bubbles. So sure. Expose the blood to the air, and I guess the virus carried in the blood becomes airborne and very quickly travels to infect any human that was nearby.
What actually kills the humans (i.e. FBI Agent Weiss from last week) isn’t the virus itself, but an intense immune reaction (this is basically always what kills people—our bodies overreact. You probably heard the phrase “cytokine storm” at least once during the COVID pandemic). In this case, the body’s red blood cells are overproduced and, while this isn’t explicitly said, I think they agglutinate—or form clumps, basically—in response to the virus. Thus, causing the thickening of the blood, which ultimately kills. The heart can’t pump this thicker blood through the vessels.
But! This virus can fairly easily be stopped, just by lowering the temperature of the vessel where it is being grown. Unfortunately, the virus seems to grow quite quickly at human body temperature, as Agent Weiss died very quickly. But when Mulder is infected with the virus at the end of the episode, it is very lucky that he was stranded outside on the ice in Alaska, lowering his body temperature so the alien virus couldn’t grow.
Notable, though: the virus isn’t killed by the cold temperature, it just goes dormant and cannot replicate. Which is good, but obviously, uh, Mulder also can’t live forever at that lower body temperature. So, you still need antivirals to actually kill the alien virus, but luckily, it seems that human antivirals—an aggressive combination of multiple—are able to kill the virus completely, when it is present at (likely) low concentrations initially.
Scully: Ride or die for Mulder
I pointed out several times in last week’s review that in many ways Scully is just as insane as Mulder. She went to a random warehouse address alone, at night, and then returned the next day also alone despite knowing she was being followed.
Why? Because Scully also wants to know the truth. Maybe she doesn’t think it’s 👽 aliens 👽, but there is without question some very odd science happening here, and our scientist canNOT just let those questions go unanswered.
So, she has her own reasons for investigating this case.
But, Scully also knows and understands how difficult this particular case was, and still is, for Mulder. She knows that he’s not just “taking a few days off”. He went and did something stupid again, by himself, without telling her.
I also want to point out that I think her reaction to Mulder running off to Alaska here is such a change from her exasperated reaction to him running to “follow a UFO” in Wisconsin in “Fallen Angel”. Sure, part of that is probably all of the circumstances surrounding this particular case, with Mulder thinking he found and then lost his sister again. But I also just think that after a year and a half together, Scully has a lot more affection for Mulder—rather than just her early exasperation with his antics. Plus, with everything she’s seen in the last 18+ months with him, she knows that he is going to need her help, and he can’t find the truth by himself.
And so, I just really love that Scully went to Skinner directly, asking him to basically break bureau rules (which he does, more on that soon) for her so she can go save Mulder yet again.
If Skinner didn’t already realize it, he now should definitely understand that these are two agents that are impossible to separate, who will quite literally go to the ends of the earth to save and support each other.
Mr. X’s intentions
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So, Mr. X provides the smallest amount of information in this series of episodes, and he does not provide that information willingly. Mulder pulls him out of the opera—though it sounds like Mr. X wasn’t unhappy about that—to demand information. So Mr. X grudgingly sends Mulder off to Alaska, not actually telling him what he will find there. Honestly, I think he mostly probably wanted to get rid of Mulder at that moment, and knew Mulder wouldn’t stop hounding him.
But, what’s interesting is that it seems that Mr. X doesn’t actually know that Mulder followed his directions, because he responds to the “X” that Scully shines onto the window. When he finds Scully there, though, he denies all knowledge.
Why was Mr. X going to Mulder’s apartment, then? From my memory, in the past the two of them had always met in public places, with Mulder using the “X” as just a note that they wanted to meet. Did Mr. X try to call Mulder, and then when he couldn’t reach him, get worried or concerned? Was he maybe trying to confirm his suspicions that Mulder did leave for Alaska? Or, did he suddenly have a (slight) change of heart and decide to share more information with Mulder?
It just seems like…quite the decision to go to Mulder’s apartment, even at night. As it turns out, he does not find Mulder there, but instead runs into Scully and Skinner, exposing his “double agent” work to two more FBI agents. He does a very good job of denying any knowledge, until, of course:
Skinner saves the day!!!!
I don’t actually have too much to say here, but just, bless. A.D. Skinner is amazing and I love him, and I love that despite his hard attitude, he is also willing to break rules for his two trouble children—Mulder and Scully.
Beating up a guy who likely works for some government agency, in public, to get the information you need?
Just, incredible. Skinner doesn’t get enough credit.
The drive for Truth: Mulder and Scully’s motivations
Just briefly here at the end, I want to go back to Mulder’s opening monologue from last week and tie this whole two-episode journey together:
MULDER: I have lived with a fragile faith built on the ether of vague memories from an experience that I can neither prove nor explain.
It very much did feel like at the start of this season, Mulder had completely lost almost all of his motivation to keep investigating, to keep searching for the truth about government cover-ups, the existence of extraterrestrials, and even about what happened to his sister. Even when the “X-files” were re-opened when Scully was abducted, Mulder’s heart wasn’t fully in the work. It was like he couldn’t remember why he was searching so hard, swimming against the current, and what he was searching for.
Through this whole case, Mulder did rediscover his faith and determination. For one, he remembered the key question he was trying to answer: What happened to his sister?
But, that’s the fairly obvious drive behind Mulder’s search for the truth.
Looking a bit deeper, I really think that throughout this case, both Mulder and Scully realized for the first time why they are both on this journey.
They’re in it for each other.
Mulder was willing to sacrifice his sister to save Scully. Scully flew off to nowhere, Alaska, on a whim to save her partner, while directly urging her superior to break rules.
Nothing else really matters if they don’t find the truth together. Because neither of them can do this alone. The truth is in each other, and it’s the people you love that are truly worth fighting for:
“It’s a show about the existential question: Are we alone in the universe? One character looks for answers in the sky, the other in The Book and the lab. It takes 7 years for him to look down and her to look up and realize the answer is each other.”
The X-Files is a comedy
Yes, indeed, piercing the base of the skull would kill anyone
Second time now that Mulder has cracked a joke about it being dark in his apartment. He really is so dramatic 😂
Our “Completely Platonic Coworkers”
Well, I mean, first we have the mere fact that Mulder was willing to trade his sister to save Scully’s life. You could argue that he trusted “Samantha” to know the risks, and to know what she was doing—and he did have the FBI sharpshooter to back him up across the bridge.
But still. He let his sister walk into the arms of a bounty hunter, just so he could save Scully’s life. Because he can’t lose Scully either. 🥹
When Scully finds out that it was his sister, she is immediately concerned for him, because she knows, she knows how much the search for Samantha has driven Mulder.
But to Mulder, Scully means just as much, if not more. She wouldn’t have let him sacrifice his sister for her, but for Mulder, that was a truly impossible choice. And in the end, saving Scully was more important. 🥹
Finally, look how happy Scully is to find Mulder alive. This is the biggest smile she’s shown to date!!! Relieved, happy work wife
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The 90s™
I actually don’t have much here. We still have Scully at the beginning in her silly very 1995 outfit, complete with grabbing her gun out of her fanny pack.
And we have another very basic 1990s e-mail message. Which I say again, actually looks much nicer to read than my dumb Outlook e-mails with their stupid emoji reactions people send.
Goofs/Bloopers/Fun Facts
Just a couple, mix of things here:
OK, my main question, and to my knowledge this never gets definitively answered: Why does the green “blood” goo only…sometimes appear to be toxic? I mean, part of me can understand that maybe it has to be when someone is immediately exposed to it in the air (i.e. when the FBI agent last episode shot the bounty hunter). But, when “Samantha” starts collapsing into the green goo, Scully and the 2 paramedics are right there as it is happening, and seem completely unaffected??? Does the alien clone “blood” have to be traumatically released to become toxic/release the weird virus? And otherwise, the bodies just…decompose to “cover up” any evidence? Very strange…
“Samantha” and the Alien Bounty Hunter tumble off a bridge into a body of water in “Bethesda”. There…there is no river or body of water I can find running through Bethesda. And there was no reason it had to be Bethesda that they were in! I mean, other than I guess Bethesda is a semi-well-known Maryland city, but last episode they were in Germantown and Frederick, which aren’t well known. So just, say they met on a bridge in Potomac, MD, over the Potomac, and leave it there. Try to do a little bit of research on U.S. geography, maybe????
Steven Williams (Mr. X) and Mitch Pileggi improvised the elevator fight scene
Williams broke a knuckle when he “accidentally” punched Pileggi
In a second take, Pileggi slammed Williams so hard against the wall of the elevator that the fake wall broke
Is…is the flag hung upside down here? Shouldn’t the blue be on the top?
Mulder injury check for this series of episodes:
Hit by a car
Smoke inhalation in a fire (side note, what happened to Mulder’s deathly fear of fire from season 1????)
Infected with the weird alien virus
Almost froze to death in the Arctic
Overall Thoughts/Summary
Episode rating: 8/10. Again, I don’t think it is quite as strong as last week’s episode. There was still plenty of action and suspense to keep us going, but the lack of conclusive answers to really…any of the questions posed in this two-parter was frustrating. I know, I know, it’s part of ongoing show mythology, but it would’ve been nice to really get the answer to one question here. The closest we got was a vague explanation of the “alien virus”, but even there it’s really not clear (as I noted above) why it only sometimes seems to be released into the air to infect people.
Also, the obnoxious “aliens working as abortion doctors to obtain access to human tissue” will always remain a messy storyline to me. As I’m sure is clear, as I thought this would be a shorter review, until I went on a 1200-word rant about that 😂
Even still, I did very much enjoy the interactions we got in this episode between Skinner, Scully, and Mr. X. And between Mulder and Scully. And, I did enjoy that by the end of the episode, Mulder and Scully are back together, both with renewed drive to find the truth. This episode was still an enjoyable watch that definitely leaves you wanting to know more, and travel on the journey with our agents.
X-files cases “solved” to date: Still nothing solved. Again, closest we got was to solving the alien virus, and we could maybe give Scully some credit there for saving Mulder—though, it was the infectious disease doctor who actually found that lowering the temperature made the virus inactive, thus allowing time for antivirals to act.
And anyway, the actual case here was the murder of all the (alien) abortion doctors, and they definitely didn’t actually solve the case, at least certainly not in the eyes of the FBI. Mulder did “catch” the alien bounty hunter, but he got away so.
Sorry, guys. You’re starting to slack off this season as far as cases solved goes.
10/17 for the season, 31/41 overall.
We’re about to go into another couple of “meh” episodes from my memory, starting with “Fearful Symmetry” next week, which I have vague memories of involving either circus or zoo animals getting abducted? Given that I now work directly with zoos to monitor their animals, I’m sure I’ll have feelings and THOUGHTS.