1.24 "The Erlenmeyer Flask"
US Airdate: May 13, 1994
writer: Chris Carter
director: R.W. Goodwin
STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully
Guest Cast:
SIMON WEBB as Dr. Secare
JERRY HARDIN as Deep Throat
KEN KRAMER as Dr. Berube
LINDSEY GINTER as the Crew-Cut Man
ANNE DESALVO as Dr. Carpenter
WILLIAM B. DAVIS as the Cigarette-Smoking Man
JAYLENE HAMILTON as the Reporter
JIM LEARD as Captain Roy Lacerio
PHILLIP MACKENZIE as the Medic
MIKE MITCHELL as the Cop
JOHN PAYNE as the Guard
A TERRIFYING EXPERIMENT IN ALIEN BIOLOGY TESTS SCULLY'S SKEPTICISM AND RISKS MULDER'S LIFE, WITH FATAL CONSEQUENCES FOR MULDER'S MOST TRUSTED ALLY.
A fugitive running from police is shot trying to escape but jumps into a bay; he leaves traces of green blood behind. Deep Throat, Mulder's mysterious government informant, eggs him on to investigate a case even though there seems nothing to go on. They visit a researcher connected
with the fugitive and find him conducting DNA experiments; later the researcher is killed and Mulder asks Scully to analyze the contents of some of the laboratory flasks. When the fugitive resurfaces and Scully's research turns up some highly unusual viruses, Mulder and Scully begin to close in on the biggest secret they have ever uncovered. Mulder risks death to protect the fugitive, whose very blood may prove the existence of extraterrestrial life. Scully confronts evidence that shakes her fundamental beliefs, and Deep Throat puts his life on the line to save Mulder.
Notes
Very familiar ending to this this ep, not Deep Throat's death, but the phone call at 11:21 and Cancer Man shelving the paperwork deep within the belly of the Pentagon, just like "The Pilot" ep.
Note the number of the room where the tanks with all the people are, 1056, Chris Carter's birth month and year.
Quotes
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Scully: "If this is monkey pee, you're on your own."
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Scully:"Do we even know why the suspect was being chased?"
Mulder: "As far as I can tell, he wouldn't pull over for a moving violation."
Scully: "Well, that ought to put him on the ten most-wanted list."
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Mulder: "You think he does it because he gets off on it?"
Scully: "No, I think he does it because *you* do."
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Deep Throat: "Calling it a night, Mr Mulder?"
Mulder: "My mother usually likes me home before the street lights come on."
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Mulder: "I'm not going to give up. I can't give up. Not as long as the truth is out there."
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Scully: "I know by now to trust your instincts."
Mulder: "Why? Nobody else does."
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Mulder: "The man we met yesterday kept this place like he was waiting for the people from Good Housekeeping to show up. I never would have pegged him to be the type to do all this. Or a Greg Louganis out the window."
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Mulder: "There's only one [scientist] who owned a silver sierra and went bungee jumping with medical gauze around his neck."
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MIB: "Your cellular phone has been ringing off the hook."
Mulder: "I'm a popular guy. Why don't you answer it for me?"
MIB: "Oh, I don't like talking on the phone. I have this thing about unsecured lines."
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Deep Throat's dying words: "Trust no one..."
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