"Man makes a death which Nature never made."
-- Edward Young, "Night Thoughts"
The overcoming of death is a recurrent theme on The X-Files. Death is something which is as natural as life itself. It's a part of the deal. Yet on this show, we are constantly introduced to people or characters which have, in one way or another, managed to have cheated death. They pervert the natural order of things, and it is up to Mulder and Scully to right this crime against nature. "Unrequited" is another in a long list of episodes wherein a protagonist defies one or more laws of nature simply by existing, and this temporary suspension of natural law is what makes the case an X-File. Perhaps, then, this is the definition of what makes an X-File. But it is not the definition of what makes a good X-File. It is the writing, the acting, the nature of the beast, the inter-relationship of the characters, and the direction of the story that makes an episode of The X-Files special, good, average or, rarely, poor. So let me tell you what I saw in "Unrequited."
Apparently, while you were reading my review, the text disappeared in a blind spot that you didn't know you had. ;-)
My Score: 3 out of 10