However, the character, now dressed as a Japanese swordswoman, cuts off Musashi's head and hands with a large medieval sword. Mulder takes the printout of the character and shows it to a detective, as he believes she is the killer.ĭarryl Musashi, a famous computer hacker, arrives at the building and enters the game to kill Maitreya. The agents are shown a video from the game, featuring the female character who killed the player. Ivan claims there is no way a real gun could have been brought into the highly-secured building. They look at the body of the player, which clearly displays a gunshot wound. She then kills the player with a flintlock pistol.įox Mulder ( David Duchovny) and Dana Scully ( Gillian Anderson) visit the headquarters of First Person Shooter's developers in Inland Empire, California, where they meet the Lone Gunmen, who work as consultants for the game.

She introduces herself as Maitreya, stating, 'This is my game'. Only one of the players makes it to the second level of the violent game, where he encounters a female character in a leather outfit. In a control room, Ivan and Phoebe, the game's programmers, are monitoring the players' vital signs. The episode opens with three men, fitted with futuristic combat gear and automatic weapons, entering the virtual reality game First Person Shooter. In addition, the episode serves as the spiritual successor to Gibson and Maddox's earlier episode ' Kill Switch.' Gibson was motivated to write the episode after the success of 'Kill Switch.' The episode featured several elaborate special effects sequences that nearly put the episode over budget. 'First Person Shooter' was written by noted authors William Gibson and Tom Maddox, and directed by series creator Chris Carter.

In this episode, The Lone Gunmen summon Mulder and Scully to the headquarters of a video game design company after a new virtual reality game, which the Gunmen helped design, is taken over by a bizarre female computer character whose power is much more than virtual. Mulder is a believer in the paranormal, while the skeptical Scully has been assigned to debunk his work. The show centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder ( David Duchovny) and Dana Scully ( Gillian Anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files.

The episode received mostly negative reviews from critics.

'First Person Shooter' was watched by 15.31 million people in its initial broadcast, with a 9.3 Nielsen household rating. The episode is a 'Monster-of-the-Week' story, unconnected to the series' wider mythology. It premiered on the Fox network in the United States on February 27, 2000. ' First Person Shooter' is the thirteenth episode of the seventh season of the science fiction television series The X-Files.

Krista Allen as Maitreya/Jade Blue Afterglow.

13th episode of the seventh season of The X-Files ' First Person Shooter'

X files first person shooter