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The ultimate weapon for killing the aliens is... a pointy metal stick. 
As if that's not absurd enough, the government is willing to kill Agent Fox Mulder for the pointy metal stick he recovered from his parents' summer home. Why doesn't the government simply make pointy metal sticks of its own? I could understand the government's urgency if the stick were made out of a rare extraterrestrial ore, but the episode doesn't indicate it is. It just seems to be an earthly pointy metal stick. 
Here's how the confrontation between X and Mulder should have transpired:
The episode was cool, but the lunacy of the pointy metal stick niggled at my mind throughout the whole thing.
As if that's not absurd enough, the government is willing to kill Agent Fox Mulder for the pointy metal stick he recovered from his parents' summer home. Why doesn't the government simply make pointy metal sticks of its own? I could understand the government's urgency if the stick were made out of a rare extraterrestrial ore, but the episode doesn't indicate it is. It just seems to be an earthly pointy metal stick. Here's how the confrontation between X and Mulder should have transpired:
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X: Give me what you found at the house.
Mulder: No, mine! Get your own pointy metal stick.
X: I can't. Just give me yours.
Mulder: The government of the United States, the sole remaining superpower on Earth, with the ability to put a man on the Moon and drive a global conspiracy of silence regarding the existence of extraterrestrials, can't make its own pointy metal sticks?
X: You idiot, we can't make them with sheet metal from Sears!
Mulder: No, mine! Get your own pointy metal stick.
X: I can't. Just give me yours.
Mulder: The government of the United States, the sole remaining superpower on Earth, with the ability to put a man on the Moon and drive a global conspiracy of silence regarding the existence of extraterrestrials, can't make its own pointy metal sticks?
X: You idiot, we can't make them with sheet metal from Sears!
The episode was cool, but the lunacy of the pointy metal stick niggled at my mind throughout the whole thing.
