Season 1 Episode 8 of Project Blue Book
Aidan Gillen as Dr. J. Allen Hynek - Photo by Eduardo Araquel/HISTORY
The 3 creepiest moments from Season 1, Episode 8 of Project Blue Book
In War Games, Hynek and Quinn must investigate the grounds where an attack, possibly alien in nature, occurred against an army platoon.
The farther Project Blue Book strays from true stories, the stranger and creepier it is becoming (in a good way). "War Games" is much darker than some of the previous episodes of the season with the tone more akin to a horror-scifi story than the historical-scifi slant found in prior episodes. Between the mind controlled soldiers, dangerous neurological gasses that act similar to viruses, and lots of dead birds, this week had plenty of scares to go around.
Corporal Wells makes contacts with "them".
Corporal Wells is a damaged soldier leftover from a government experiment that has long since been shut down. At least, it was supposed to be shut down. When we're first introduced to Wells he is brought in on the back of an army surplus truck to the stony-faced Generals Harding and Valentine.
Their next goal is to "test" Wells and see if he can make contact with "them." We don't ever find out exactly what or who Wells is speaking with but I think we can safely assume it is an extraterrestrial being. He goes into a weird shock, as if possessed, his head lolling and eyes rolling back into his head. It is one of the most disturbing moments of the show thus far.
Unfortunately, Wells isn't long for this world as not long after he winds up dead. Although not before getting picked up by Hynek and Quinn and having a strange reaction to the artifact Hynek has stored in his trunk.
L to R: Aidan Gillen as Dr. J. Allen Hynek and Michael Malarkey as Captain Michael Quinn – Photo by Eduardo Araquel/HISTORY
The dead birds.
While investigating the grounds where the attack happened, Quinn and Hynek come across a "murmuring" of darling birds. They fly in patterned swarms overhead, swooping down, to, and fro, all in eerie unison. The act itself is enough to be creepy but "War Games" takes it farther by having a majority of the birds drop dead.
Hynek and Quinn are suddenly standing in a mass grave of darlings as the remnants fly away, leaving their brethren behind. It's always creepy to see mass amounts of death of any living being, but something about birds is even more frightening. Maybe because typically we see birds in flight and to see their carcasses littering the ground in a matte of black wings is downright spine-tingling.
Turns out, the birds were likely infected by the same thing fired at the soldiers. A dangerous neurotoxin that acts similar to a virus, causing aggression and volatility. Even worse, the entire thing was a test by the Secretary of Defense to test the loyalty of Harding and Valentine.
L: Michael Malarkey as Captain Michael Quinn – Photo by Eduardo Araquel/HISTORY
Quinn almost loses his head.
Speaking of scary neurotoxins and war games, Quinn almost gets shot because of them when a squadron of soldiers he's instructed to stay with following a power outage (caused by Wells and his weird communications apparently) are all under the influence of the toxin. Immediately the commander takes issue with Quinn's attitude.
He and the rest of his team get paranoid that Quinn is out to get them. There is also a random guy on the truck who continuously beats his head on the wall for some reason (I guess to hammer in the point they're losing their minds?) When they get off the truck, the commander holds Quinn at gunpoint until Hynek shows up! His knight in shining armor.
Hynek is able to talk down the commander and his men by explaining the entire set-up was an elaborate experiment to test their loyalty. I mean the moment itself is tense sure, and no I didn't think Quinn would really die, but mind control of any kind is creepy. I mean this wasn't explicit mind control, but these men were still being tested like lab rats by the government in charge.
If you need a quick recap of last week's episode, "The Scoutmaster":
Odds & Ends
- The sexual tension between Mimi and Susie is there, whether it's supposed to be or not. Susie had more chemistry with Mimi while teaching her how to shoot than she has with Hynek all season.
- If Project Blue Book adheres to Chekhov's rules, then how do we think her gun is going to go off?
- Is it just me or are the General characters kind of useless? I mean Harding seems to be an antagonist but he really doesn't appear to hold much weight in the story and Valentine literally doesn't do anything but stand there.
- Disappointed in both Mimi and Susie's storylines in "War Games". Mimi gives Hynek an ultimatum instead of becoming part of the story like I thought she was going to when they set up the object a couple weeks ago. Then Susie has lost the upper-hand with her grumpy partner who is now bullying her every chance he gets. I liked it better when she was in charge. And while I love their characters, they need better plots in season two because right now they're not involved enough in the main one.
- I honestly forgot Hynek and Mimi's son Joel even existed until I saw him this week.
A new episode of Project Blue Book titled "Abduction" premieres March 5th on History.
Source: https://hiddenremote.com/2019/02/26/creepiest-moments-s1e8-project-blue-book/
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