The Red and the Black (The X-Files)

Infobox Television episode
Title = The Red and the Black
Series = The X-Files


Caption =
Season = 5
Episode = 14
Airdate = March 8, 1998
Production = 5x14
Writer = Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz
Director = Chris Carter
Guests =
Episode list = List of The X-Files episodes
Prev = Patient X
Next = Travelers"The Red and the Black" is the fourteenth episode of season 5 of the television series "The X-Files". With Cassandra Spender missing, and her son Jeffrey angrily attempting to push his way up in the FBI, Mulder has Scully put under hypnosis to learn the truth. The Syndicate, meanwhile, quicken their tests for the alien vaccine, sacrificing their own to do so.

The beginning credits state "Resist Or Serve" where "The Truth Is Out There" normally is.

Actors

John Neville as The Well-Manicured Man
Laurie Holden as Marita Covarrubias
Nicolas Lea as Alex Krycek
Chris Owens as Agent Spender
Veronica Cartwright as Cassandra
John Moore as Third Elder
Alex Shostak as Dimitri
Jim Jansen as Dr Werber
Brian Thompson as Faceless Alien
Don S. Williams as First Elder
William B. Davis as Cigarette-Smoking Man
George Murdock as Second Elder
Mitch Pileggi as Walter Skinner
Chapelle Jaffe as Dr Patou

Trivia

* The title of this episode is taken from "Le Rouge et le Noir", a novel by the French writer Stendhal. Also, music group Blue Öyster Cult has a song with the same name.
* This is the first episode that insinuates that Cigarette-Smoking Man is the father of Agent Jeffrey Spender.
*resist or serve is the subtitle of the x-files game

References and external links

*imdb title|0751234|The Red and the Black
* [http://www.tv.com/the-x-files/the-red-and-the-black-2/episode/601/summary.html?tag=ep_list;title;13 The Red and the Black] at TV.com