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The X-Files: Resist or Serve is a dream come true for the hardcore X-Phile who
also happens to be a hardcore gamer. The first X-Files game released on PC
and the original Playstation, simply titled The X-Files Game, was somewhat
enjoyable, but also left a lot to be desired for X-Philes and gamers alike.
Resist or Serve has in most ways more than made up for the shortcomings of its
predecessor by giving fans of the survival horror genre a great game and by
giving fans of the television show an awesome X-Files experience.
One thing the first game did offer, however, was a whole lot of in-jokes.
In-jokes (or inside jokes) are small references to the various episodes of the
show and the people who worked on it. Fortunately, Resist or Serve continues
this tradition. This guide aims to identify as many of the in-jokes and other
X-Files trivia found within the game as possible. For those who may not be
crazy obsessed fans or those who are just entering the world of The X-Files
for the first time, short explanations will be given for each reference, as
will episode names and numbers, if applicable. Feel free to check out the show
in reruns or pick up some of the X-Files DVD sets to see what it's all about.
For the dedicated X-Files fans in the audience, let's see if we can get them
all, shall we? :)
Note about episode numbers and timeline:
For anyone confused by the episode numbers, (0x00) would be (season x episode).
This is the order the episodes were produced in, though not necessarily the
order in which they originally aired (though it's probably close). The games
also feature episode titles and numbers, as if they were a part of the show.
The original X-Files game was created as one "episode" of the show. It would
be "Agrippa" (3x99). This places the first game somewhere in the timeframe of
the show's third season. Resist or Serve is made up of three "episodes."
Their titles are "Renascence" (7x97), "Resonance" (7x98), and "Reckoning"
(7x99). This places the episodes in the timeframe of the show's 7th season.
According to interviews prior to the game's release, it was stated that these
episodes take place after the two-part 7th season premiere "The Sixth
Extinction" (7x03) and "The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati" (7x04) and
presumably before the season's other mythology episodes. According to Scully
in the game, the events of the premiere took place "months" ago.
Note about spoilers:
This guide does contain spoilers for the game (and the television show, for
that matter). Read at your own risk. Reading in-jokes for one section
probably won't spoil another, however.
03.a1. RED FALLS, CO --------------------------------------------
Red Falls seems to contain the greatest number of in-jokes of any section of
the game. Episode titles and other references are thrown in all over the town.
* STREET SIGNS
All of the streets in Red Falls are named after X-Files television episodes.
They are:
The Red Falls video store is full of in-jokes, starting with the store's name.
The episode "Wetwired" (3x23) centered around subliminal messages hidden in
video signals that resulted in paranoid psychotic behavior when viewed for
extended periods of time.
* MOVIE POSTERS
A number of episode titles are also featured as movie posters in the video
store. I couldn't make out the text on all of the posters (feel free to
e-mail me if you can), but the ones I could read were:
Field Trip (episode 6x21)
The Host (episode 2x02)
The Sixth Extinction II (episode 7x04)
Chinga (episode 5x10)
Quagmire (episode 3x22)
* ALIEN AUTOPSY VIDEO
On the counter in the video store is The Stupendous Yappi's "Dead Alien! Truth
or Humbug?" video featured in the episode "Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space'"
(3x20).
* ADULT VIDEOS
Walk into the adult video section with either Mulder or Scully, and they'll
each make an amusing comment about one of Mulder's favorite pasttimes.
* J.J.'S DINER
In addition to Wetwired, there are other stores around town with names that
reference episodes of the show. J.J.'s Diner was featured in the black and
white episode "Post-Modern Prometheus" (5x06).
* VINALRIGHT
The telemarketing company in "Folie a Deux" (5x19) was calling on behalf of
the VinalRight corporation.
* BURGERLICIOUS
I'm not sure if this place was ever featured in the show, but I believe this
was the working title for the episode "Hungry" (7x01), and the name of the
burger place before it was changed to Lucky Boy.
* SKYLAND TRAILER PARK
Skyland Mountain is where Scully was abducted in "Ascension" (2x06) and almost
killed in "Patient X" (5x13).
* HOLLY'S GAS STATION / KEYCHAIN
Holly is the name of series writer Vince Gilligan's girlfriend (wife now?),
and he put a reference to her in nearly every episode he wrote.
* MORLEY CIGARETTES SIGN
There is a sign for them in Holly's Gas Station and a couple of packs near
the register in the supermarket. Morley is the brand of cigarettes smoked
by the Cigarette-Smoking Man. The brand was featured prominently in the
episode "Brand X" (7x19).
* VENDING MACHINE
The "Cold Drinks" vending machine is the same as the one that held the bomb in
the 1998 feature film "The X-Files: Fight the Future."
* ARCADE MACHINE
When you look at one of the arcade machines in the bar, you'll get a close-up
of the screen with the top scores. All of the initials will be D.P.O., as in
short for Darren Peter Oswald, the kid who could control lightning in the
episode "D.P.O." (3x03). Darren was identified in the episode by a similar set
of top scores on a Virtua Fighter 2 machine.
* BETTY'S ERGOT ALE
When you pick up the beer bottles in the bar, Chaco's trailer, or the
supermarket, you may notice a familiar face on the label. Betty was the
jealous talking tattoo from the episode "Never Again" (4x13), and ergot was
the parasite that lived off of the rye in the tattoo's ink, possibly causing
hallucinogenic ergotism.
* PEPPERONI PIZZA
During Scully's autopsy, she notes that the stomach contains pepperoni pizza.
A stomach full of pizza is what led Scully to realize that the "vampire" was
the pizza boy in the episode "Bad Blood" (5x12).
* CHACO
The character Chaco's name might sound familiar. In the episode "Our Town"
(2x24), Mulder and Scully investigate the Chaco Chicken processing plant.
"Good people, good food," indeed.
* JOHN GILLNITZ
John Gillnitz is a name used before on both The X-Files and The Lone Gunmen
series. The name is a combination of the names of series writers John Shiban,
Vince Gilligan, and Frank Spotnitz.
* 1013
In Renascence, 10:13 PM appears as a timestamp at the beginning of the episode
directly after the opening credits. It also appears on the P.O. Box key, and
P.O. Box 10-13 is where Mulder finds the stiletto. As most X-Philes know,
Ten Thirteen is the name of the X-Files production company. October 13th is
series creator Chris Carter's birthday, and Mulder's birthday as well.
03.a2. BRIAR LAKE INSTITUTE --------------------------------------------
* COMPUTER RECORDS
The list of names containing the Winslow girls' records on the computer in the
beginning of Scully's Act 2 also contains 17 other names. I've been able to
identify most of these people as members of the development team. They are...
1 Neal Addicott - audio programmer
2 Heather Barclay -- lead game programmer
3 Ivan Bouinatchov -- animator
4 Jesse Burneko -- programmer
5 Narry Cinelli -- 2D artist
6 Jake Cotton -- sr. 3D artist
7 Michael Field -- art director
8 Seth Kleinberg -- designer/associate producer
9 Rob Kohout -- programmer/additional designer
10 Kirk Lambert -- lead designer/producer
11 Maggie Langley -- lead animator
12 Eric Matson -- artist
13 Heather Poon -- 3D artist
14 Brian Sanchez -- animator
15 David Turner -- 3D artist
16 Sam Ware -- animator
17 Williams -- (made up name)
Thank you to the person who sent in additions and corrections to this list. :)
If I've made any other mistakes here, please send your corrections. And,
again, if any of you talented folks who worked on this game happen to be
reading this, congratulations on an excellent game, and feel free to
contact me... :)
The opening credits for "Resonance" are the same as the sequence that appeared
in the final episode of the show's first season, "The Erlenmeyer Flask" (1x23).
This was the first time the show's famous tagline "The Truth Is Out There" was
changed, though it was certainly not the last. In "The Erlenmeyer Flask," the
tagline was changed to "Trust No One." These were the last words spoken to
Scully by Mulder's informant Deep Throat after Scully witnessed him being shot
to death. These are words the agents have lived by ever since. In
"Resonance," these words are repeated to Mulder by Skinner in Act 4.
* CHUCK BURKS
One of the men standing alone in the hall is Mulder and Scully's buddy Chuck
Burks. He specializes in para science and has helped the agents out on many
occasions with his research into the paranormal. He's got some great lines
in this game.
* A.D. ALVIN KERSH
The man standing over by the elevator is Mulder and Scully's former boss,
Assistant Director Kersh. He was in charge of the agents for about half of
the show's sixth season, when Mulder and Scully were forced off of the
X-Files division following the events of the fifth season finale, "The End"
(5x20). He would again make life a living hell for Mulder and Scully (and
Skinner and Doggett, too) when he is promoted to Deputy Director in the
show's eighth season. He has no shortage of belittling comments to dish out
at Mulder and Scully in the game.
* SPITZ SUNFLOWER SEEDS
Mulder's favorite snack makes an appearance as well when he searches the
basement office. They also act as a health item. The packaging is a take
off of the "David" brand sunflower seeds. One episode where the Spitz brand
is featured prominently is "The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati" (7x04).
When you first start out in Mulder's apartment, the television will be flashing
the pictures used on Kritschau's ESP testing machine in "The Sixth Extinction"
(7x03). I guess this was used as a bit of foreshadowing for the events of
Mulder's Act 4.
* PLAYPEN MAGAZINE
Another reference to Mulder's fondness of pornography. His magazine of choice
can be found on his coffee table and elsewhere around the apartment.
* MULDER'S BEDROOM
The door in Mulder's apartment that's blocked by storage boxes is his bedroom.
It was hotly debated before the sixth season whether or not Mulder even had
a bedroom, since he always seemed to sleep on his couch. In the sixth season
episode "Dreamland II" (6x05), Morris Fletcher (in Mulder's body) discovers
Mulder's bedroom full of boxes, porn magazines, and other junk and cleans the
place up in a rather amusing attempt to seduce Scully. Morris' changes to the
apartment remain in place even after other events of the episode are reversed,
and Mulder is seen using his bedroom a couple of times later in the sixth
season and into the seventh season. One would assume that it remained cleared
out until it was last seen in the eighth season, but the developers needed an
excuse to block off that unused room, and this in-joke was a cute means of
doing so as opposed to the standard "this door won't open." It does beg the
question of how Mulder is supposed to access his bathroom, though, considering
that in "all things" (7x17) it is shown that the bathroom is connected to the
bedroom when Scully spends the night. Of course, this was a problem on the
show as well as in the game, and the set for Mulder's apartment has always
been somewhat confusing, so it's probably best not to put too much thought
into it. :)
* LONE GUNMAN CLIPPING
Among the many, many things stuck to Mulder's refrigerator is a large clipping
from the Lone Gunman newspaper, published, obviously, by the Lone Gunmen. There
is also a copy of this paper on his coffee table.
* APARTMENT DETAILS
Not really an in-joke since these things are supposed to be there, but they did
a pretty decent job of replicating important elements of Mulder's apartment,
such as Mulder's basketball (there's one in the office, too) and his picture of
Samantha.
* "TRIANGLE" REFERENCE
When Mulder finds himself back at the FBI headquarters after escaping the
hallways of his apartment, Skinner and his secretary speak a few lines in
German. This is a reference to the episode "Triangle" (6x03) where Mulder
boards a ghost ship to find that he's been taken back to the year 1939 and
Nazis have overtaken the ship. He discovers alternate versions of Scully,
Skinner, CSM, Spender, Kersh, and Kersh's secretary here. What happens in
the game doesn't necessarily have much to do with the episode, but it is an
interesting nod toward it. Cheezmonky Is I on the GameFAQs board gives a
translation of what is said in German:
"I remember the secretary said something around the lines of, 'You're too late.'
and 'Go! Quickly!', and Skinner said what sounded like, 'I've been waiting',
although if I'm not mistaken the full sentence he used was, 'I've been waiting
gladly.' Hey, I can't blame the developers/writers, they didn't know any
better."
In this sequence, the Cigarette-Smoking Man is also dressed like his Nazi
counterpart. (Skinner is not... I'm still trying to figure out what the hell
he's wearing...) The flags in this part have also changed, but I'm having
trouble identifying what flags they were changed to. If anyone knows,
please drop me a line. The pattern on the rugs in here seem to be different
as well.
* HALLWAY GROWTHS/SLIME
In the episode "Field Trip" (6x21), Mulder and Scully are subject to
hallucinations as a result of being exposed to a fungus. All of Mulder's
Act 4 has a similar feeling to it, and the strange growths found in Mulder's
hallway may be a reference to the fungus/slime in the underground cave in that
episode. It's also been suggested that the small glowing spots might be the
glow-in-the-dark bugs from "Darkness Falls" (1x19), though I think this isn't
as likely because of the amount of light in the hallway, and the slime would
better fit in with the events of this act.
In addition to Mulder's name, four other names appear on this list. Michael
Field was the art director for the game, and David Turner, Randy Mills, and
Chris Barnes were 3D artists.
**easter egg**
Before you enter Mulder's number in to get the optical disk, enter the number
next to Chris Barnes' name as many times as you want. This will supply you
with extra health in your inventory. This trick was added as a thank you to
Mr. Barnes for helping out another member of the team.
* FIGHT THE FUTURE POSTER
Not positive about this one, but the image on one of the monitors here seems to
strongly resemble the green ("FIGHT") version of the X-Files movie poster.
* ROUSH
The significance of Roush will be explained in the story section.
Like the opening for the previous episode, the tagline for "Reckoning" was also
taken from an episode of the show. The tagline, "Resist or Serve," which the
game was named after, was originally used in the episode "The Red and the
Black" (5x14). These were the words originally spoken by Alex Krycek as a
warning to Mulder. At this point in the series, Mulder's belief in
extraterrestrial life had been shaken after the events of "Gethsemane" (4x24),
and Krycek, knowing what he did about plans for colonization, was determined
to set Mulder back on track. As Krycek said, "Kazakhstan, Skyland Mountain,
the site in Pennsylvania. They're all alien lighthouses where the colonization
will begin, but where now, a battle's being waged. A struggle for heaven and
earth. Where there is one law: Fight or die. And one rule: Resist or serve."
This scene is where Mulder sees the truth of the situation, and by the end of
the episode, his beliefs are restored. In "Reckoning," these words are
repeated by the Cigarette-Smoking Man. "Resist or Serve" was also used as the
title of the official 5th season episode guide.
* FLUKEMAN
In one of the buildings in Tunguska, there is a small picture of the Flukeman
on one of the monitors. The Flukeman is the name given to the popular
worm-like creature from the episode "The Host" (2x02). The Flukeman was played
by writer/actor Darin Morgan, brother of series writer Glen Morgan. Darin
Morgan also played the role of Eddie Van Blundht in "Small Potatoes" (4x20),
and wrote the humorous episodes "Humbug" (2x20), "Clyde Bruckman's Final
Repose" (3x04), "War of the Coprophages" (3x12), and "Jose Chung's 'From Outer
Space'" (3x20). The Flukeman was also featured as an in-joke in the episode
"Pusher" (3x17), appearing on the front page of a supermarket tabloid.
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Thanks, guys. It's great to see people who were just as excited about this
game as I was. :)
Thank you to FadedStarX for your assistance and proofreading.
Thank you to the person who contacted me with corrections to members of the
development team. :)
Thanks to CJayC for hosting this guide on GameFAQs.
And a big thanks to Black Ops, The Collective, Vivendi Universal, and everyone
involved in the creation of Resist or Serve for helping to put together a great
game that caters to hardcore X-Philes as well as the average gamer. And of
course where would we be without Chris Carter, Ten Thirteen Productions, and
all of the insanely talented cast and crew of The X-Files? Thanks for giving
us all of your in-jokes. :)
Now just give us another game and another movie, and maybe we can forgive you
for how seasons 8 and 9 turned out, eh? :)
For additions, corrections, and general X-Files discussion, please e-mail me at
souldreamx [at] yahoo [dot] com (replace [at] with "@" and [dot] with "." of
course) with "In-jokes Guide" as the subject line.
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