Eve (The X-Files)

In Greenwich , Connecticut , a couple in the morning jogging notices 10-year-old Tina Simmons standing alone near her home. In the backyard, they find the girl’s dead father, Joel, who has two round penetrating wounds on his neck.

Mulder tells Scully that Joel Simmons had more than 4 liters of blood pumped out and herbal sedatives were found in the tissues. Mulder is sure that the death of a man is similar to a case of cattle injuries from a UFO. Arriving in Connecticut, agents learn from Tina that she saw the “red lights”, and the “man from the clouds” wanted to suck out her father’s blood. Agents receive a call that in California, in the same way, at the same time as Simmons (taking into account the time zone difference), another man was killed by the name of Reardon. Arriving at this crime scene, the agents discover that the witness to the murder, 10-year-old Cindy Reardon, is like two drops of water like Tina.

Cindy's mother tells Mulder and Scully that she conceived the girl using IVF at a clinic in San Francisco . Scully finds out in the clinic that both families - Simmons and Reardons - were being treated by the same doctor - Sally Kendrick, who was fired from her job for conducting egg-breeding experiments in the clinic's laboratory. The US Department of Health declined to investigate, and Dr. Kendrick disappeared. In Connecticut, meanwhile, someone is abducting Tina from a shelter where she was placed by social services.

Mulder comes in contact with Deep Throat , which reveals details of the Cold War government’s efforts to create genetically enhanced children as future super-soldiers. The project was called the Lichfield Experiment. The children who appeared during the experiment grew up in a camp near Lichfield (Connecticut) and wore the identifiers "Adam" or "Eve" in accordance with their gender. Deep Throat tells Mulder about a woman associated with the Lichfield Experiment, which is currently being held in a mental hospital.

Mulder and Scully go to the hospital and meet with Eva 6, who tells them that the clones created during the Lichfield experiment have extra chromosomes that give them superhuman intelligence and power, coupled with a killing obsession. The last three clones, Eve 6, 7, and 8, were jailed after completing the experiment. However, Eva-7 escaped, settled in an in vitro fertilization center like Sally Kendrick and modified the eggs of the clinic’s patients to create new clones of Eva. Eve 8 also escaped and was still at large. On the wall of the camera, agents see photos of little Evas, and they all look like Cindy and Tina.

Anticipating the abduction of Cindy, Mulder and Scully are monitoring the girl's house. Their prediction is justified: Cindy is trying to kidnap someone. In the light of the lantern, Mulder recognizes Sally Kendrick, but she manages to slip away from Cindy. Agents put Kendrick on the wanted list and publish her photo through the media. Kendrick takes Cindy to a motel where Tina is already held and introduces the girls to each other. Sally tells the girls about the project and explains that they must adapt to life in society and suppress the genetic urge to kill. But, as it turns out, the girls have already mixed poison into her drink, and Kendrick, although he grabs a kitchen knife, does not have time to “fix his mistake”.

On a tip from the motel owner who recognized Kendrick on the news, Mulder and Scully arrive and find Eve 7 dead. The girls claim that they were abducted by Eva 7 and 8, who persuaded them to commit mass suicide. They explain the death of Eva-7 by the fact that the escaped Eva-8 did it. When leaving, the agents decide to take the girls with them. That same night, when the company stops at a truckers' parking lot, one of the girls pours the poison into the Coca-Cola, which was ordered by agents. Mulder in time unravels the girls' plan, but they run away. After a short pursuit, they manage to catch them.

Tina and Cindy are imprisoned in separate cells in the same compartment as Eva-6 and are nicknamed Eva-9 and Eva-10. A woman in medical clothing - Eva-8 - enters the department. When she asks girls about how they learned that she will come for them, each of the girls replies - “We just knew” ^[2] .

The original script for the episode entitled “Girls from Greenwich” was written by freelancers Kenneth Biller and Chris Bracanto tossed the idea of ​​this episode to the creator of the series, Chris Carter , in the center of the plot were genetic experiments performed on twins ^[3] . The plot was inspired by the film “ Boys from Brazil ”, in which Nazi scientists create clones of Adolf Hitler ^[4] . The characters Tina and Cindy got their names in honor of the wives of Glen Morgan and James Wong ^[2] , who reworked the original script ^[5] . Producer Robert Goodwin said the script was “amazingly good,” and all the crew needed was “don't ruin it.”

Producers initially looked for twins for the roles of Tina and Cindy in Los Angeles , but California child labor laws made the search very difficult. Difficulties in finding suitable actors for roles in the episode led Goodwin to think of hiring one actor, using special effects and understudies to create the illusion of twins. However, this idea was rejected due to impracticality and high cost. ^[5] . As a result, female performers, Erica and Sabrina Krivins, were found in Vancouver ^[2] .

Scenes in the parking lot were shot in a cafe in White Rock (British Columbia), whose large gravel parking lot looked like "village scenery." A large canopy was used to complement the on-site surveys of buildings ^[6] .

"Eve" is the first and only episode of The X-Files directed by Fred Gerber ^[7] , whom Carter considered "capable of bringing something interesting to the series" ^[5] .

The premiere of the episode in the United States took place on December 10, 1993 on the Fox channel (premieres in other countries took place later) ^[8] . On the Nielsen scale , the series rating was 6.8 points with a 12 percent share. This means that during the premiere screening, 6.8 percent of all households with a television and 12 percent of households watching television that evening were set to watch the episode. The total number of households that watched the premiere is estimated at 6.4 million ^[9] .

The episode received mostly positive reviews from critics. In a retrospective review of the first season, Entertainment Weekly magazine rated the series “B +” (3.5 points out of 4), describing it as “neat, satisfactory, and exciting.” Among the highlights of the episode, the magazine attributed its original message and acting to Harris ^[10] . Keith Phipps, in an article for The AV Club, rated the episode at B + (3.5 out of 4 points), calling it “well implemented.” The acting play of the Krivins sisters with their “icy gaze” made a special impression on the author ^[11] . Matt Haye (Den of Geek) found the episode to have a “good, original plot” and proves that the twins and the horror movie are a “win-win” ^[12] . Jessica Morgan (Television Without Pity) rated the episode “A” (4 points out of 4) ^[13] .

Chris Carter spoke positively about the selection of actors, highlighting the "magnificent" game Harriet Harris ^[5] . Erica and Sabrina Krivins, according to Carter, were “wonderfully minimalistic and creepy” ^[14] . In honor of one of the heroines of the episode, the group “ Eve 6 ” took its name, and in 1997 the plot of the episode was adapted for the novel by writer Ellen Styber ^[15] .

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• "Eve" episode on TV.com