The X-Files, "First Person Shooter"

“First Person Shooter.” The X-Files. Fox-TV. 27 Feb. 2000. Chris Carter, dir., exec. prod. William Gibson and Tom Maddox, script. (Partial source, “Tiny Dancer” web site www.fandom.com/x-files/Editorial. [The official site can be reached through www.fox.com. To aid searches, try “7.13”: for 13th show of the 7th season.])

Female programer, fed up with the males around her, develops a female warrior program on her computer; the warrior somehow “imputs herself” into into a VR combat game and starts killing men. In addition to the motif of humans inside a VR game, see for Mulder and Skully very uncharacteristically in cyberpunk “Road Warrior” mode (our characterization of the costuming and acting). For opening shots of the VR game and the monitoring thereof, cf. ALIENS (film), WESTWORLD, FUTUREWORLD (this Category); see also Gibson and Maddox’s “Kill Switch” episode, also this Category.