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Vince Gilligan started out with writing for the nineties TV series, The X files. This was long before he was setting up meth labs run by chemistry teachers and plotting Walter White’s morale demise. As the cult TV series about the two FBI agents Mulder and Scully chasing down aliens and government conspiracies is up for revival, this is the perfect time to rewind and take a look at Gillgan’s best work for the show: Episode: Drive (Season 6) Gilligan first met Walter White on the sets of this episode. Bryan Cranston plays a role he would reprise for the writer a decade later: of a man who gets mortally sick, and loses his mind. Though most of the episode is set inside a car where Mulder who is forced to drive Cranston in a high-speed police chase across towns under the …show more content…

Vince Gilligan infused dark and twisted plot narratives with a pinch of humor, and that’s what makes it brilliant. This episode has another one of Gilligan’s favourite plot devices; how a harmless ‘nobody’ can cause havoc. Pusher (Season 3) One of most highly rated episodes in the series; the premise focuses on a man ‘pusher’ who has the ability to push others to act on his will and ultimately harm themselves. This episode will definitely keep you at the edge of your seat with the Russian roulette scene at the end. Soft Light(Season 2) Tony Shaloub (of Monk fame) guest stars as physicist Chester Ray Banton; whose shadow acts as a black hole and vaporizes anyone it touches because of a lab accident. This also debuts the launch of Gilligan’s writing stint on the X files. Gilligan’s patent of unhappy endings and open ended climaxes makes a start here as the end scene cuts to Banton locked up in a government facility where scientists are running tests on him. The X files revival premiers on January 24th on

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