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This episode opens to the first-class compartment, where there is definite tension among Team Amazon. Courtney and Sierra are planning on eliminating Gwen from their team the next time they lose a challenge. The reasons are as follows: for Courtney, Gwen's kiss with Duncan in the confessional (which resulted in her breaking up with Duncan by throwing food at him and kicking him in the groin); for Sierra, Gwen getting together with Courtney's boyfriend.
[screams] Gwen is going down! I can't believe I ever trusted that sun-fearing, emo-loving liar! [pants] Well, at least I broke up with Duncan on my terms. Ha, it was totally empowering. At least I still have my… pride. [cries]
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Meanwhile, Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot sits in the economy-class section. Duncan holds an ice pack to his eye, while Tyler talks about Duncan being a jerk, saying he'd never cheat on Lindsay the way Duncan hurt Courtney. Owen asks for permission to speak freely as an athlete, and Tyler notices something is wrong with Owen's medals from the previous episode, which he says were chocolate that he ate, prompting him that Duncan is a two-time gold medalist in the "Total Drama Babe Olympics," as he scored twohotties, which makes Tyler say that the "punk's got mojo."
Problem: Duncan is a strong player. Solution? Courtney is volatile. She'll throw the Amazons off their game and Duncan off his game, too. All she needs is a little push.
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The camera then shows Ezekiel and Chef's inflatable dummy sitting in the cockpit while the plane is on autopilot. The contestants glare at Owen farting and comments of how the dark is his witness that was not him. Suddenly, two UFOs appear and shoot strange electricity beams at the plane, which causes it to waver in its flight. Chris calls the "potential crash victims" to visit the culinary for a "last meal" while their autopilot tests some of the equipment. Alejandro takes advantage of the turbulence to suggest Courtney to flirt with Tyler as payback to make Duncan jealous. Tyler accidentally hits his eye while attempting to eat a banana, but Courtney ignores his stupidity and smiles at the chance to get back Duncan.
Duncan will lose it! It's basic break-up math. The more mad Duncan gets, the more jealous he looks. The cruddier Gwen feels, the more vindicated I am. It's perfect!
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Courtney follows Alejandro's strategic advice, mentioning that Tyler is "super cute." Tyler, who is holding onto a bar, accidentally lets loose of his shoe, which hits Courtney, but she keeps her act, laughing at him. Then, as the plane is falling downwards before landing, a zapping light moves it back to its position, making it land safely, but Owen is still screaming. Alejandro hypnotizes Owen into calming down, the latter who says he's so over his "flying thing."
My uncle Julio is a hypnotist. Manipulating runs in the family, and that wasn't the only post-hypnotic suggestion I gave Owen. [chuckles]
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The plane finally lands and Chris explains that they are in Area 52 — except for Duncan, who is in Area 51 and gets shocked with lasers. Chris thanks a coronel on the phone and jokingly says that it's good to have friends in "area 51 places," to which Courtney exaggeratedly laughs while holding Tyler by his shoulders.
Flirting with Tyler? I knew she hated me, but I had no idea she hated me that much. Wow.
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There, he explains the challenge: Break into Area 51 and bring back an intact alien artifact. Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot and Team Amazon reach their respective sides of Area 51 and form plans to get across.
As Team Chris Is Really Really Really Hot is running runs, Duncan tells them to split up and goes with Owen. Alejandro nudges Tyler, saying Courtney can't stop flirting with him. Tyler is amazed by this, but he says he can't cheat onLindsay, and Duncan interrupts them by calling them, as he found the base protected by a electrical wired fence, which Tyler asks if it's safe to cross. A bunny hops along the road, getting electrocuted by a laser and runs away, as Duncan says he's got a plan.
Team Amazon finds the fence, too. Heather asks Cody for his clammy hands to stop touching his leg, to which he says he isn't, and they all notice she has a Gila monster on her legs, making them run away while it blows up by a mine. Gwen notices they are in a mine field, and Sierra sarcastically "compliments" Gwen's way to lead, calling her "New Heather."
Meanwhile Duncan instructs his team to throw rocks in direction to the fence, so the rocks are electrocuted instead, allowing them to enter the base. Alejandro succedes; Tyler bumps into a cactus; and Owen gets electrocuted, allowing him to go over the fence, before he gets sucked in a tube by the Black Ops. Tyler, worried, climbs the electrified fence in order to safe Owen, but Duncan and Alejandro notice a door, walking in, laughing at Tyler. On the other hand, Team Amazon is forced to sing. Ignoring the girls' insulting Gwen in their song, "Boyfriend Kisser," Cody throws his candy at the mine field, triggering the land mines and allowing his team to run across the field unscathed. Both teams enter Area 51's secret warehouse at the same time.
Both teams finally get inside the black box warehouse. Tyler says Owen was stolen, and Courtney, still acting in front of Duncan, tells Tyler if he wants to go somewhere quiet to talk about it. Meanwhile, in a PA system, Chris says that finding intact relics will be difficult considering the black ops security system, which he set off.
Heather searches inside a box, complaining as she throws what she considers junk, hitting Courtney in the head. Courtney kicks a robot, which triggers an elimination process by ejecting a large gun, but it only falls stories below the house, with Courtney staring at it dropping. Heather finds a machine in which she becomes trapped, and Courtney considers leaving her there to be stuck, until she remembers that she needs Heather's vote to save Gwen. which Courtney kicks over on purpose. Heather is angered when she realizes Courtney is throwing the challenge in hopes of eliminating Gwen.
Tyler forces Team Chris to help him look for Owen, who may be having his memory erased. Alejandro angrily claims that an artifact won't fall from the sky, but Tyler causes a small box to fall into Alejandro's arms, releasing a pair of aliens that electrocute the both of them. Duncan and Gwen run into each other in the warehouse and Gwen mentions although everyone on her team now hates her, she enjoyed their kiss. However, she points out that Courtney's "ridiculous" flirting seems to be getting to Duncan, but before she can go on, Duncan kisses her, popping his foot up in the process. Gwen asks if Duncan kissed her just to shut her up, and Duncan says that is not entirely the reason. The two smile and decide to start a relationship and just let things happen. They are interrupted by an alien spaceship, reminding them they are competing against each other. Duncan runs off to capture the alien, and Gwen trips him. She tells him to try not to get eliminated, and Duncan replies with, "same to you," with a dreamy expression.
Cody is shown to be searching alone. However, when he finds an alien pod, an alien Cody is created as a result. Sierra is enthusiastic and hugs both so tight, the alien Cody explodes, covering Sierra and Cody in slime. Duncan finds Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot and rescues them as long as Alejandro promises not to vote him off in return, so he punches the alien in Tyler's face but fails to free Alejandro, unintentionally freeing Owen, who claims to have no memory, despite clearly showing he remembers everyone and the competition, bothering Alejandro as he calls him "Al" multiple times, so he hypnotizes Owen, who gives himself a wedgie and sings and dances to "Take Me Out to the Ball Game," distracting the alien long enough for Duncan to remove it. The alien then latches itself on Owen and electrocutes him.
Alejandro gets the alien off Owen, which Tyler traps an alien into a cardboard box, confident. Owen then faints, forcing Alejandro and Duncan to carry him out while Tyler takes the alien.
Gwen brings Team Amazon the original box Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot had found, which Courtney and Sierra object to. However, Heather tells them to "save it for first class" as they run out of the warehouse. Tyler, on the other hand, is too busy gloating to notice that Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot is now on a mine field. Tyler is blown up and launched into the air, landing by Chris with the charred remains of the alien. When he lands, Tyler can only see hallucinations. Chris announces that the specimen is not alive. Team Amazon almost loses their box because Courtney trips Gwen, but Chris catches it and they win the challenge. In first class, Heather is surprised at Courtney's obsession with eliminating Gwen, noting that Courtney seems insane.
In the meantime, Gwen disappears to spy on the elimination ceremony, where Chris is explaining how Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot failed due to their lack of teamwork. Tyler, now bandaged up due to his injuries from the mine explosion, is ecstatic due to thinking that Duncan is out, remembering his earlier discussion with Alejandro, only to discover that he's been voted off instead. Courtney protests at first, but when Tyler asks if there can be a re-vote, she angrily knocks the severely injured Tyler out of the plane. Courtney says she will have her revenge on Duncan and Gwen next. Since she said the key word "revenge," Owen is hypnotized and starts dancing again. Chris signs off the show while wondering whether or not Courtney will ever get her revenge on Gwen and Duncan.
Going home early stinks! But on the bonus side, I'll get to see Lindsay! Hey, babe, remember me?! I hope! All in all, my best season yet! Woo-hoo! My name is Ty—! (screams) Oh, yeah? It's gonna take more than one of you to stop me… Yup, that ought to do it. (screams)
Although it may seem random, Gwen being referred to as the "New Heather" is a call back to "Search and Do Not Destroy" where Heather kissed Trent, Gwen's boyfriend at the time.
Cody's candy that he collected from the reward in "Broadway, Baby!" is used to help get his team through the mine field.
Owen mentions his mom's cheese cellar, which is first mentioned in "The Aftermath: III" (Action).
Tyler is the fourth person in the Total Drama series to be eliminated while severely injured. The others are:
Sierra's anti-Gwen song at the beginning of the episode is a rewording of the famous lullaby "Rock-a-bye Baby."
This episode features the most amount of film/TV references/parodies of any episode in the series.
The title of the episode is a parody of the American science fiction television series, The X-Files.
Owen's painted white face, red lips, black eyes, and green hair is a reference to the appearance of Heath Ledger's Joker in the Batman film, The Dark Knight.
Cody's alien clone could also be a reference to the Shapeshifters in the American science fiction television series, Fringe.
Furthermore, the way the alien imitated anything it touched could also be a reference to The Thing. The green slime that covered Cody and Sierra after it was squeezed to death is also similar to the green innards that were seen coming from The Thing in one scene.
This is the third reference to a John Carpenter film in the series.
Chris' line about blaming a casualty on a "freak weather balloon accident" is a reference to The Roswell Incident.
The song Owen sings while being hypnotized by Alejandro is "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer.
Additionally, the dance he does while singing, as Duncan points out, is the Running Man.
Goofs
When Courtney mutters "Gothie's going down" while writing on her notepad, she is writing backwards (from right to left instead of from left to right).
When Chris is explaining the challenge, Duncan is not present.
There are several scenes in which Duncan's black eye is missing, such as when Chris is announcing the paths each team took, when he is in the confessional, and in the scene with Tyler climbing the electric fence.
When Cody's alien replica emerges from his pod, the clone has slime on his shoulder, hands, and behind his knee, but in the next shot, his shoulder and hands are shown to be clean.
Also, when the clone emerges from his pod, the wrists on his shirt face inward. When Sierra runs over, the wrists are facing outward.
At the beginning of the episode, an intern is seen tending the bar at first class, despite the fact that this intern is thrown out of the plane in the previous episode.
When everyone is shown standing in Area 52, there isn't a line there, but after Chris says Duncan is out of the border, there is a line separating Duncan from everyone else.
Cody lifts his hands up when he tells Heather that he isn't touching her leg, but when the camera shows the lizard on Heather's leg, Cody has his hands down. When showing Team Amazon's reaction to the lizard, Cody has his hands up again, but close to his mouth in fists instead of out and open.
When Duncan is pulling the alien off of Alejandro, the zipper of Alejandro's pants moves out of place.
When returning to Chris, Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot is running down the minefield from Team Amazon's path, although Chris assigned both teams two different paths.
During the flashback of the elimination, Alejandro is seen on the right of Tyler, but when they switch from Gwen back to the elimination, Alejandro is back on Tyler's left.
In the recap, they are shown to be leaving the U.S. However, the previous episode took place in Greece and the plane is supposed to head there from England.
There are no gates around Area 51, as Area 51 is surrounded by cliffs.
When Tyler is thrown out of the plane half his hair is missing.
While everyone glares, Owen proclaims that the dark is the witness after farting. (From left to right: Duncan, Gwen, Heather, Sierra, Cody, Tyler, Owen, Alejandro, and Courtney)
Two UFOs appear in front of the plane.
Alejandro convinces Courtney to flirt with Tyler.
Tyler about to eat a banana.
Courtney laughs at Duncan's pain while embracing an uncomfortable Tyler.
Alejandro congratulates Tyler for succeeding with Courtney.
Everyone listens to Chris.
Team Chris gets a better view of the warehouse behind a rock.
A bunny passing by gets zapped by a laser.
Heather thinks Cody is touching her leg.
A Gilla Monster latches onto Heather's leg.
Gwen realizes and informs her team that they are on a minefield.
"New… Heather?!"
—Gwen
Duncan's plan of throwing a rock and running in the other direction doesn't end well for Tyler.
Owen gets trapped in a tube.
Tyler climbs up an electrical fence, unaware that there is a door to the right.
Team Amazon has to choose between singing or tap dancing in the mine field.