“Sunshine Days” is episode eighteen of season nine of The X-Files.
Van Nuys at night and two people are sitting on a car, looking at a house and drinking. One, Blake, tells the other, Michael that it’s The Brady Bunch house. Not from the outside but from the inside; he was delivering pizza and got a glimpse. He heads across the street to prove it, knocking on the door to no answer. The door is open and inside the house is how he described it. Michael doesn’t understand this. An American football rolls down the stairs. Michael decides he’s had enough and leaves. Blake hears children giggling upstairs and goes up. He sees two of the Brady children and follows them into a room. Michael is waiting outside in the car when he hears a crash. Then something lands on the car. Blake.
Doggett is looking up and telling Reyes he could have fallen from a plane or a helicopter. Reyes asks how Blake McCormick ended up in a helicopter when he was breaking in to someone’s house. Details. Doggett finds something on the car’s roof which he collects. A police car rolls up and Michael Daley gets out. He wants them to arrest the freak. Who thought this could happen at The Brady Bunch house?
Reyes tells him it’s not the house. Michael insists the show was filmed inside. Reyes tells him it was filmed on a sound stage in Hollywood and the house used for the exterior is a split level in Studio City. She took a picture once. Doggett gives her a look. Michael insists it looks like the house and the cops wouldn’t search it.
They knock on the door and an Oliver Martin answers it. Doggett asks if they can come in. Martin says he didn’t hear anything; he wasn’t here. Doggett says they can spend five minutes looking around, or hours with a warrant. Michael pushes past. The house is not how it was last night.
Outside, Doggett looks at the roof. He wants to check something. Part of the roof has been replaced and the bits of roofing shingle replaced match the piece he found on the car. He could smell fresh plaster inside. He says to connect the facts. Reyes suggests that, like Daffy Duck or Wile E. Coyote, McCormick shot through the roof, flew high in the air and crashed onto the car. She wasn’t being serious. Doggett is. He thinks he’s finally getting the hang of this job.
Scully has McCormick’s body. A scalpel starts rattling and she gets an electrical shock from it.
At the LA field office, Doggett and Reyes videoconference with Scully. She says McCormick died before landing on the car; his skull was pulverised by a previous impact and there were bits of roofing shingle in it. This matches Doggett’s theory. Scully thinks electricity has something to do with it. She’s connected McCormick to an EEG and has been getting a faint reading. He isn’t alive, but electricity is draining from him. She knows the theories that Mulder would have.
Michael pours out part of a can in memory of Blake, finished it then heads to Martin’s house. He peers in and sees the Bradys sitting down for a meal. He breaks in to find them gone, but the table and food are still there. Martin tells him to leave before it’s too late. He doesn’t and flies through the roof.
Doggett and Reyes look at the body that has indented the ground. Martin won’t let them in and says to get a warrant. Doggett doesn’t think they’ll get one. Scully calls; she’s watching them on the television at the LA field office. There’s someone she wants them to meet.
They’re shown a film of a young boy, but it goes blank. The man who filmed it, Dr John Rietz, says the boy, Anthony Fogelman, lifted four blocks off the table. Reyes says it’s too bad it wasn’t on film. An understatement. The electromagnetic field was strong enough to fog the image. Call him crazy; everyone does.
Doggett believes him. Because he’s realised that Fogelman is a young Oliver Martin. Scully found the case in Mulder’s books. Dr Reitz was the parapsychologist who investigated the case. Reitz spent six months with Anthony, who was as bewildered as everyone else. He was the Mozart of psychokinesis, but over time his abilities faded and vanished.
Oliver Martin seems to have the ability to do things with his mind again. However, he seems to lack any sort of control over this.