The X-Files, season 3 episode 20 "Jose Chung's From Outer Space"
10/10
Dear Damon Lindelof -- this is how you write something that provides no real answers to its mysteries, but nevertheless intrigues, engages, entertains, and, in its own strange way, ends up moving you. Darin Morgan's final script for the series sends him off with a bang, a tour de force that is hilarious, scary and touching in equal measure, as well as being a genius homage to the work of John A. Keel, with every aspect of the story making no sense or contradicting every other element, but there is still some disturbing sense of unknowable, unsolvable truth linking them together. And then there is that amazingly bittersweet final monologe, which ends the episode with a grounded sense of melancholy after all the weirdness that precedes it:
"Then there are those who care not about extraterrestrials, searching for meaning in other human beings. Rare or lucky are those who find it. For although we may not be alone in the universe, in our own separate ways on this planet, we are all... alone."
