The whole Grissom thing again

The honor of being the first to step foot on the Moon was originally meant for Virgil "Gus" Grissom, the Masonic martyr with strange, semiotic connections to Barackobamun. But Gus fell victim to an allegedly accidental fire aboard Apollo 1. It turns out that Bryan Cranston, star of Breaking Bad and Malcolm in the Middle played Gus Grissom in That Thing You Do.

After playing Grissom, Cranston appeared on The X-Files, playing a man who also meets his death through nefarious means:

Scully: "Well, I think I have a loose theory as to what caused this."

Mulder: "Well, lay it on me."

Scully: "Okay. Mulder, you know what ELF waves are? Extremely Low Frequency radio transmissions?"

Mulder: "Yeah, use an antenna, like, 50 miles long. And the military use it communicate with the Trident submarines; Project Seafarer, Project Haarp."

Scully: "Well Seafarer has an antenna array stretching beneath the edge of Patrick Crump's property. Now, ELF fields have been shown to... to produce biological effects on human tissue; inducing electrical currents, altering chemical reactions."

Mulder: "Not to mention that as a potential weapons application its been referred to as 'electrical nerve gas' or may be behind the so-called 'Taos Hum'."

That episode was written by the great Vince Gilligan, who created Breaking Bad with Cranston in mind. Coincidentally, that series takes place in UFO hotspot New Mexico. Strangely enough, Cranston then played Buzz Aldrin in From the Earth to the Moon, almost as if Tom Hanks were ritually rebirthing Grissom and bringing him to the Moon. Or something.

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