Now let us forget for a moment the scene of one guy getting the defibrillator shock but the dead body of another guy convulsing from that shock or the tattoo of one guy appearing on the arm of another or that same tattoo disappearing from the skin later. This is X-Files – it can be forgiven. Each episode of X-Files gets a second chance to recover…Ok, in this case, let’s say 5 chances.
What really messes this episode up are Chris Allport and Cec Verrell making their guest appearances as the baddies. It is not so much their acting but the cheesy roles and dialogue they are given. The other side characters and their dialogue only make things worse. The whole episode has a tint of a B-movie.
Funny enough, the episode also has a gritty 80’s atmosphere, and apart from the body-switching element, this is actually one of the more down-to-Earth FBI investigations of the series.
The body-switching premise could have been executed better though, both in terms of believability and fun. This is one of the more awkward episodes.