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The following file contains the same information available at my website:
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For each individual episode, all information above the Notes came straight from the official page:
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Thanks for visiting, hope you enjoyed it.

Tiny Dancer
rhonda@enterprise.ca

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                                               SEASON TWO EPISODES

"Little Green Men", "The Host", "Blood", "Sleepless", "Duane Barry" (Part 1), "Ascension" (Part 2)
"3", "One Breath", "Firewalker", "Red Museum", "Excelsius Dei", "Aubrey", "Irresistible"
"Die Hand, Die Verletzt", "Fresh Bones", "Colony" (Part 1), "End Game" (Part 2), "Fearful Symmetry", "Dod Kalm", "Humbug", "The Calusari", "F. Emasculata", "Soft Light", "Our Town"
"Anasazi" (Part 1), 
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                                                   2.1 Little Green Men

                                       US Airdate: September 16, 1994

                                     writers: Glen Morgan & James Wong 
                                               director: David Nutter

STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:
Senator Richard Matheson ....... Raymond J. Barry
Cancer Man.................... William B. Davis
Jorge Concepcion ............... Mike Gomez
Samantha (Age 8) ............... Vanessa Morley
Asst. Director Walter S. Skinner ........ Mitch Pileggi
Mulder (Age 12) ................ Marcus Turner

SCULLY SEARCHES FOR HER MISSING PARTNER AS MULDER SEEKS PROOF OF ALIEN 
CONTACT -- AND FAITH IN HIMSELF AGAIN.

Reassigned to separate jobs after the closing of The X-Files, Mulder and Scully meet clandestinely to keep in touch and try to resurrect the Files. Mulder is so shaken by Deep Throat's death and the loss of The X-Files that he begins to doubt even the foundation of his quest: the abduction of his sister, Samantha. Mulder is called in by his congressional patron to investigate the possibility of alien contact in Puerto Rico. Mulder journeys to an abandoned listening post in Arecibo, PR, while Scully strives to find him before a hostile UFO retrieval team does. Mulder must face fears stemming from his sister's abduction as a remarkable experience in the jungle tests his faith both in his quest and in himself. 

                                                          Notes

Here is the list of the names on the passenger list, almost all lucky real life xphiles:
Paulette Alves, Donald Anglin, Sylvia Bartle, Kinh Berreman, Sarah Brice, Kelly Brown, Tere Carstensen, Gail Celio, Cliff Chen, Hayden Dawson, Lori Dawson, Harle Erickson, Garn Ferguson, Jodi Giannini, Jan Gompf, Pat Gonzales (Keeper of the X-Files FAQ), Jeff Gostin, Charles 
Grant (X-Files author), Betty Grant, George E. Hale (One of Mulder's pseudo-names) George Ellery Hale : Designer of 5-metre Hale telescope in Southern California, Andrew Harrison, Melissa Harris, Linda Lee Hill, Scott Hill, Eliza Hofmann

Senator Richard Matheson is named after the popular sci-fi author, Richard Matheson. 

                                                           Quotes
____________________
(Mulder's opening monologue)
Mulder: "We wanted to listen... I wanted to believe, but the tools had been taken away. The X-Files 
             had been shut down. They closed our eyes. Our voices have been silenced. Our ears now 
             deaf to the realms of extreme possibilities."
____________________________________________________________
(Scully drifts off while teaching students)
Student: "Are you OK, Agent Scully? You kinda sounded, uh, a little spooky..."
Scully: (reacts to Mulder's nickname) 
____________________________________________________________
(Mulder and Scully in carpark)
Mulder: "$4 for the first hour of parking is criminal. What you got better be worth at least 45 
             minutes..."
Scully: "You know, Mulder, from back there you look like him."
Mulder: "Him?"
Scully: "Deep Throat."
Mulder: "He's dead, Scully. I attended his funeral at Arlington through 8-power binoculars from 
             1000 yards away. Now the picture frame was turned down, you wanted to talk? What have 
             you found?"
Scully: "I wanted to talk but I haven't found anything."
Mulder: "It's dangerous for us just to have a little chat." 
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "What makes you think they care about us anymore, anyway?"
Mulder: "So why have you bothered to come here covertly?"
Scully: "Because I realized that it was the only way that you would see me."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Actually the idea was presented to Hale one night while he was playing billiards. An elf 
             climbed in his window and told him to get money from the Rockefeller Foundation for a 
             telescope."
Scully: "And you're worried that all your life you've been seeing elves?"
Mulder: "In my case, little green men."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Seeing is not enough, I should have something to hold onto. Some solid evidence. I 
             learned that from you."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Mulder, even if George Hale only saw elves in his mind, the telescope still got built. Don't 
            give up."
____________________________________________________________
Samantha: "Mom and Dad said I could watch some movie, Buttmunch." 
____________________________________________________________
Sen. Matheson: "Do you know this, Fox?"
Mulder: "Bach, Brandenburg Concerto Number 3."
Matheson: (holding up 2 fingers) "Two."
Mulder: "Good thing it wasn't a Double Jeopardy question."
____________________________________________________________
Matheson: "Do you know the significance of this piece?"
Mulder: "Well, uh, recalling music appreciation with Professor Ganz, Bach had a genius for 
             polyphonic..."
Matheson: "This is the 1st selection of music on the Voyager Spacecraft."
____________________________________________________________
Matheson: "Do you like Bach, Mulder?"
Mulder: "I live for Bach."
Matheson: "Then let's hear it again."
____________________________________________________________
(Scully checking Mulder's answering machine)
Woman: "Mulder, you hounded me to have lunch with you today and you don't show? You're a 
               pig!"
____________________________________________________________
(Scully caught in Mulder's apartment)
Scully: "I was told by the Assistant Director that Mulder was gone."
Agent: "So?"
Scully: "So, whenever he's away I feed his fish."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "No, Jorge, don't touch the red button. Nojo on the Rojo." 
____________________________________________________________
(Mulder talking into tape recorder)
Mulder: "Deep Throat said 'Trust No One'. It's hard, Scully. Suspecting everyone, everything. It 
             wears you down. You even begin to doubt what you know is the truth. Before, I could only 
             trust myself. Now, I can only trust you. And they've taken you away from me."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "They came, Scully. The ones that took her. They were here."
Scully: "Here? Or here?" (putting hand on his head)
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Evidence is worthless if you're dead."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "A minute ago I was a four-bagger..."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "I still have my work. I still have you. I still have myself." 

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                                                             2.2 The Host

                                               US Airdate: September 23, 1994

                                                       writer: Chris Carter 
                                                   director: Daniel Sackheim

STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:
Detective Norman ............... Freddy Andeiuci
Agent Brisentine ............... Marc Bauer
Flukeman ....................... Darin Morgan
Asst. Director Walter S. Skinner ....... Mitch Pileggi
Mr. X. ............Steven Williams

AN ATTACK ON A NEW JERSEY SEWER WORKER LEADS MULDER TO SUSPECT A MUTANT LIFE FORM HIDING IN THE BOWELS OF A SEWAGE PLANT.

Assistant Director Walter Skinner sends Mulder to investigate a corpse found in a New Jersey sewer. Still angry about the closing of his X-Files, Mulder confronts his boss over the meaningless, make-work assignments he is being given. But Scully's autopsy of the corpse reveals the presence of a mutated parasite capable of growing to human size. When other workers are attacked by a sewer-dwelling monster, Mulder must track down a killer spawned in the belly of Chernobyl itself.

                                                                 Notes

Check those credits again...yup, Darin Morgan plays the flukeman! Under all that makeup is one of the finest writers the show ever had, Emmy-winning author of "Humbug", "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose", "War of the Coprophages", and "Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space' ". His brother, Glen Morgan, worked on the show "Space: Above and Beyond", and the two shows have borrowed each other's actors frequently.

The autopsy Scully performs is case number DP112148 (Chris Carter's wife, Dori Pierson, initials and birthdate) of John Doe number 101356 (Chris Carter's birthdate).

                                                                 Quotes
____________________
(sailor tells Dmitri to clear blockage in sewage tank)
Dmitri: "Why is this always my job?"
Sailor: "Because you are young. And because it is terrible and smelly work."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: (giving seeds to Boze) "Treat yourself."
Agent Boze: "You're flying out of National. Your contact in Newark is Detective Norman."
Mulder: "How'd I draw the assignment?"
Agent Boze: "Assistant Director Skinner made the request."
Mulder: "Skinner requested me?"
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: (steps in sewer) "Ugh!"
Det. Norman: "Watch yourself."
Mulder: "Yeah, wouldn't want to *step* into anything."
____________________________________________________________
Norman: "They say it cuts the smell if you don't breathe through your mouth."
Mulder: "They lied."
____________________________________________________________
Det. Norman: "Would you like us to turn the body over?"
Mulder: "No, I'll take your word on it."
Det. Norman: "Hey, Agent Mulder! What would you like us to do with the body?"
Mulder: (yells) "Wrap it up and send it to the FBI care of Assistant Director Skinner." 
____________________________________________________________
Skinner: "Is there a problem, Agent Mulder?"
Mulder: "Yeah, there is."
Skinner: "Then make an appointment."
Mulder: "It's kinda hard to make an appointment when you're up to your ass in raw sewage being 
             jerked from one meaningless assignment to another."
Skinner: "Excuse me?"
Mulder: "What's my next punishment? Scrubbing the bathroom floors with a toothbrush?"
Skinner: "You're way out of line, Agent Mulder."
Mulder: "So I gathered." 
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Is this seat taken?"
Mulder: "No, but I should warn you, I'm experiencing violent impulses."
Scully: "Well, I'm armed, so I'll take my chances. I hear you really endeared yourself to Assistant 
             Director Skinner today."
Mulder: "You know sometimes it just gets hard to smile through it when they ask you to bend down 
             and grab your ankles, you know?" 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: ..."There's nothing to it."
Scully: "There's a dead body, isn't there?" 
____________________________________________________________
(on Mulder's mobile phone)
Mr X: "You have a friend at the FBI." 
____________________________________________________________
(Mulder looks at flukeworm)
Mulder: "How big can these things get?"
Scully: (zoned out for a second) "Sorry, for a second there it felt like old times." 
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Apparently it had attached itself to the bile duct and was feeding off the liver."
Mulder: "LOVE-ly."
Scully: "Believe it or not something like 40 million people are infected worldwide."
Mulder: "This isn't where you tell me some terrible story about sushi, is it?"
Scully: "Well maybe you'd rather hear what you could catch from a nice rare steak?"
Mulder: "So, what? The murder weapon was a top sirloin?"
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "...they are not creatures that go around attacking people."
Mulder: "Well, that's good. I didn't want to have to tell Skinner that his murder suspect was a giant 
             bloodsucking worm..."
Scully: "No..."
____________________________________________________________
(Mulder at the sewer)
Reed: "City runs on several different systems. Some new, some built around the turn of the 
           century. Almost as old as Charlie here. Isn't that right, Charlie?"
Charlie: "Ah, yes sir."
Mulder: "And all the sewage comes through this plant?"
Reed: "560,000 people a day call my office on the porcelain telephone."
____________________________________________________________
Reed: "Wouldn't surprise me. No telling what's been breeding down there in the past 100 years."
____________________________________________________________
(Mulder and Scully looking at the fluke)
Scully: "Platyhelminthes are often hermaphroditic. Mulder, this is amazing. Its vestigial features 
            appear to be parasitic, but it has primate physiology. Where the hell did it come from?"
Mulder: "I don't know. But it looks like I'm gonna have to tell Skinner that his suspect is a giant 
             bloodsucking worm after all."
____________________________________________________________ 
Scully: "Somebody shoved this under my door. I guess you really do have a friend in the FBI."
____________________________________________________________
(on Mulder leaving the FBI)
Scully: "I want you to know that I'd consider it more than a professional loss if you decided to 
            leave."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "This is not a man, it's a monster. You can't put it in an institution."
Skinner: "And what do you do with it, Agent Mulder? Put it in a zoo?"
____________________________________________________________
Skinner: "This should have been an X-File."
____________________________________________________________
Skinner: "We all take our orders from someone, Agent Mulder." 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Whatta ya got?"
Norman: "Well we got a dead marshall and an escaped prisoner. Other than that we got Bupkis."
____________________________________________________________
(on Mulder's mobile phone)
Mr X: "Reinstatement of the X-Files must be undeniable."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Is this seat taken?"
Mulder: "No, but I should warn you I may reek a bit of the sewer."
Scully: "I'll take my chances."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Mulder, Nature didn't make this thing. We did..."
Mulder: "Three species disappear every day. Who knows how many new ones are being created?" 

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                                                               2.3 Blood

                                               US Airdate: September 30, 1994

                                             writers: Glen Morgan & James Wong
                                                        story: Darin Morgan
                                                       director: David Nutter

STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:
Frohike ........................ Tom Braidwood
Sheriff Spencer ................ John Cygan
Harry McNally .................. Andre Daniels
Bonnie McRoberts ............... Kimberly Ashlyn Gere
Langly ......................... Dean Haglund
Taber .......................... John Harris
Byers .......................... Bruce Harwood
Edward Funsch .................. William Sanderson
County Supervisor Larry Winter ....... George Touliatos

MASS MURDERS COMMITTED BY SOLID CITIZENS OF FRANKLIN, PENNSYLVANIA, DRAW 
MULDER AND SCULLY INTO A BAFFLING CASE, WHERE THE ONLY CLUES ARE SMASHED 
ELECTRONIC APPLIANCES.

A rash of killing sprees by otherwise tame citizens leads Mulder and Scully to a town whose off-the-scale murder rate may be the result of a toxic conspiracy. Mulder cannot fit these otherwise nondescript perpetrators into any serial killer profile he has ever known before. Meanwhile, Scully turns her attention to the bodies, discovering abnormally high levels of adrenaline. Mulder begins to suspect a massive deception when he links the murders to a string of smashed electronic 
appliances and a new pesticide program. A visit to the Lone Gunman conspiracy experts alerts him to the possibility of government involvement in a bizzare chemical experiment. But in tracking down the next potential mass murderer, Mulder risks his own life in a standoff with a real lone gunman.

                                                                 Notes

The title refers to Edward Funsch's aversion to blood, the thing that caused his paranoia.

This episode, one of my favorites, started for the writers as a simple concept, "Postal Workers", that grew to include the concern at the time of Southern California residents regarding malithion spraying (pesticide to kill fruit flies being dropped from helicopters, supposedly harmless to humans but deadly to the paint on people's cars...hmmm). Between viewing a segment on TV's "20/20" about DDT in the 50's (the news footage in this episode IS real, very scary stuff) and an idea Chris Carter wanted to work on about digital readouts and relatively new technology like fax machines and cellular phones, this classic episode was born. According to one of the writers, they have no idea as to who may have been behind the messages in this ep, and leave it up to you to
decide. 

The last message - "ALL DONE, BYE BYE" - is used as the final shot in the much-talked about, hard to find, X-Files blooper reel.

The bell tower scene was shot at the University of British Columbia.

That annoying buzz the nurse punches out on Funsch's doorbell is in fact the Morse Code for "Kill".

                                                                    Quotes
____________________
1st Message on machine: KILL | KILL | KILL 'EM | KILL 'EM ALL
____________________________________________________________
Elevator Message: NO AIR | CAN'T BREATHE | KILL 'EM ALL | KILL 'EM 
____________________________________________________________
Spencer: "Things like this aren't supposed to happen here."
Mulder: "42 year old real estate agent murders 4 strangers with his bare hands. That's not 
              supposed to happen anywhere." 
____________________________________________________________
(to himself & Sheriff while examining dead suspect)
Spencer: "Played softball with this guy over Labor Day. He was one of those nice guys. Couldn't 
               play and didn't bitch about being stuck in right field..."
Mulder: "What's wrong with right field?"
Spencer: "Always the first to shake hands at the end of the game ...didn't matter whether he won 
               or lost."
Mulder: "You've gotta have an arm to play right field."
Spencer: "Bought a round of beer afterwards even though he didn't drink."
Mulder: "I played right field."
____________________________________________________________
(Ed Funsch at bank ATM)
Message on ATM screen: SECURITY GUARD | TAKE HIS GUN | KILL 'EM ALL
____________________________________________________________
(Mulder's field report and Scully's reaction to it)
Mulder: "There have been reported abductee paranoia in UFO mass abduction cases."
Scully: "I was wondering when you'd get to that."
Mulder: "I find no evidence of this to be the case."
____________________________________________________________ 
Winter: "Agent Mulder? Larry Winter, county supervisor."
Mulder: (shows gloved hand) "Pardon my rubber."
____________________________________________________________
(Mrs McRoberts at auto-repair place)
Message on screen: LIAR | HE'S A LIAR | HE'LL RAPE YOU | HE'LL KILL YOU | KILL HIM FIRST
____________________________________________________________
Mrs McRoberts: "Ok if I have my breakfast?"
Mulder: "It's the day's most important meal."
____________________________________________________________
Message on microwave screen: HE KNOWS | KILL 'EM BOTH 
____________________________________________________________
(Ed Funsch at department store, gun dept. behind him)
Pictures on TV monitor: Manson, LA riot, gang kicking man, riot, OJ Bronco.
Message on screen: BEHIND YOU | DO IT!
____________________________________________________________
Frohike: "Hmm..."
Byers: "In our April edition of The Lone Gunman we ran an article on the CIA's new CCD-TH 2138 
            fiber-optic lens micro video camera."
Langly: "Small enough to be placed on the back of a fly."
Mulder: "Imagine being one of those flies on the wall of the Oval Office..."
Frohike: "Been there... Done that..."
Byers: "That is an Eurasian Cluster Fly. They infest vegetation like, uh, apples or cherries and can 
            inflict a great deal of damage to crops."
Langly: "This one's probably been irradiated to control propagation."
Byers: "Or, agents of competing South American agricultural corporations 
posing as Franklin City employees are releasing fertile flies to destroy the crop."
Frohike: (dunks fly in petrie dish, fly fries) "Nope. This bug's been nuked."
Mulder: (patting Byers on back) "It was a fine effort, though. Have you ever come across this 
             chemical compound?"
Langly: "LSDM. Obviously you haven't read our August edition of TLG?"
Mulder: "Oh, I'm sorry, boys. It arrived the same day as my subscription to Celebrity Skin."
Byers: "Come over here."
Frohike: (playing with night goggles) "So, Mulder? Where's your little partner?"
Mulder: "She wouldn't come... She's afraid of her love for you."
Frohike: "She's tasty."
Mulder: "You know, Frohike, it's men like you that give perversion a bad name..."
____________________________________________________________
(asking for night vision binoculars)
Mulder: "Hey Frohike. Can I borrow those?"
Frohike: "If I can have Scully's phone number."
____________________________________________________________
(speaking to Mulder after he explains his theory about pesticide)
County Supervisor: "You have a penchant for "SPOOKY" evidence."
Mulder: "Don't start that tired crap. Don't start diverting blame."
____________________________________________________________
(when sheriff walks out of hospital room)
Mulder: "He's probably one of those people that thinks Elvis is dead."
Scully: "Mulder, I was wrong. ..... Exposure to the insecticide does induce paranoia."
Mulder: "I think this area is being subjected to a controlled experiment."
Scully: "Controlled by who? By the government, by a corporation, by Reticulans?" 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Scully, are you familiar with subliminal messages?"
Scully: "You mean like sex in ice cubes in liquor ads? That's paranoia."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Why would they......."
Mulder: "Fear. It's the oldest tool of power. If you're distracted by fear of those around you, it keeps 
             you from seeing the actions of those above." 
____________________________________________________________
(looking at broken doorbell)
Scully: "This is odd."
Mulder: "Frustrated Jehovah's Witness?"
____________________________________________________________
(Ed Funsch on bus going to blood drive)
Message on screen: THEY'RE WAITING | GET OFF
____________________________________________________________
Message on Mulder's cellular phone: ALL DONE | BYE BYE

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                                                          2.4 Sleepless

                                               US Airdate: October 7, 1994

                                                   writer: Howard Gordon
                                                   director: Rob Bowman

STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:
Cancer Man .................... William B. Davis
Salvatore Matola ............... Jonathan Gries
Agent Alex Krycek .............. Nicholas Lea
Asst. Director Walter S. Skinner ..... Mitch Pileggi
Augustus Cole .................. Tony Todd
Mr. X .......................... Steven Williams

MULDER AND SCULLY ANALYZE A SERIES OF MURDERS THAT LOOK AS IF THEY WERE 
COMMITTED BY A MAN WHO KILLS THROUGH DREAMS.

A prominent doctor calls 911 to report his apartment on fire; firemen later find him dead and the apartment untouched. Mulder investigates, curious about a delusion so strong it can kill. A new informant helps Mulder and Scully uncover a government conspiracy, dating back to the Vietnam War, to create the perfect soldier -- one who never sleeps. But the side effects of this sleepless state seem to indicate a psychic ability to project waking dreams into the consciousness of others. 
Mulder must not only track down a murderer who never sleeps, but battle the insidious forces working against him within the Bureau --including perhaps his new partner.

                                                                 Quotes
____________________
Mulder: "So, it's actually possible to alter somebody's dreams?"
Dr: "In theory, yes."
____________________________________________________________
Mr X: "The truth is still out there, but it's never been more dangerous." 
____________________________________________________________
Krycek: "I paid off your cab. I don't appreciate being ditched like somebody's bad date." 
Mulder: "Sorry if I hurt your feelings."
Krycek: "Where do you get off copping this attitude? I mean, you don't know the first thing about 
              me."
Mulder: "Exactly."
Krycek: "You know, back at the academy, some of the guys used to make fun of you."
Mulder: "Oh, stop it, or you're going to hurt my feelings."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "What's this scar right here?"
Krycek: "According to his medical history, the only surgery he ever had was an appendectomy."
Mulder: "Well, unless they got to his appendix through his neck..."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "I'm going over the reports you faxed me. They're incredible."
Mulder: "The military already sent troops through radioactive mushroom 
clouds. I guess they figured they had to top themselves, right?"
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Even if you're right, you'll have a much better chance of finding Cole if you work up a profile 
            and try and surmise his next move."
Mulder: "Alright, I'll sharpen my pencils and I'll see you later..."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Sounds like your new partner's working out."
Mulder: "He's alright. He could use a little more seasoning and some, uh, wardrobe advice. But 
             he's a lot more open to extreme possibilities than..."
Scully: "...than I was?"
Mulder: "Than I assumed he would be."
Scully: "Must be nice not having someone questioning your every move, poking holes in all your 
            theories?"
Mulder: "Oh oh, yeah... i-i-it's great, a-ah I'm surprised I put up with you so long..." (long and kinda 
             sad pause)
Scully: "You better go..."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Alright, what do you want to know?"
Krycek: "Just the truth. You know there's things you're not telling me that I need to know."
Mulder: "It's just that my ideas usually aren't very popular."
____________________________________________________________
Krycek: "...Scully's a problem..."
Cancer Man: (holding up cigarette) "Every problem has its solution." 
                   (crushes cigarette into ashtray)

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                                                         2.5 Duane Barry

                                                US Airdate: October 14, 1994

                                                       writer: Chris Carter
                                                    director: Chris Carter

STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:
Agent Alex Krycek .............. Nicholas Lea
Agent Lucy Kazdin .............. CCH Pounder
Duane Barry .................... Steve Railsback
Dr. Del Hakkie ................. Frank C. Turner

A FORMER FBI AGENT CLAIMS TO HAVE BEEN ABDUCTED BY ALIENS, AND THE 
BUREAU SENDS MULDER TO INVESTIGATE. BUT HE UNCOVERS MORE THAN THEY 
SUSPECTED, TO SCULLY'S DETRIMENT.

In this first of a three-part story arc, a mental patient who claims voices in his head are the result of alien abduction escapes from a psychiatric institution, taking hostages, including his doctor. Mulder is called in to negotiate in the resulting standoff, where he discovers that the mental patient, Duane Barry, is a former FBI agent whose UFO abduction stories ring eerily true. Mulder exchanges himself for one of the hostages, but Scully discovers evidence in Barry's medical records that all is not as it seems. Resolution of the hostage crisis poses even more questions, as medical evidence may bear out Barry's claims. But before Mulder can investigate further, Duane Barry kidnaps Scully.

                                                                  Notes

In my personal opinion, this episode is the beginning of the finest three hours on TV, period. The hostage situation scenes with Mulder and Duane are heart-stopping. The last scene, where we hear only Scully's anguished cries for help, then that frustrating "To Be Continued", argghhh! It was a killer at the time.

Contains the infamous Mulder Red Speedo scene!

Scully buys pickles and ice cream at the grocery store, a reference to her ongoing pregnancy in real life.

Part two of this story arc is "Ascension", part three is "One Breath".

                                                                   Quotes
____________________
Official: "Mulder, why are you so paranoid?"
Mulder: "It's not paranoia when you're right."
____________________________________________________________ 
Kazdan: "He's bent on taking the doctor with him to an alien abduction site, only he can't quite 
               remember where the site is so he stopped at a travel agency." 
____________________________________________________________
Kazdan: "...so whatever crap you gotta make up about spacemen or UFOs, just keep him on the 
              phone."
____________________________________________________________
(Mulder on the phone)
Mulder: "Duane?"
Duane: "Yeah?"
Mulder: "This is Special Agent Fox Mulder. Look I want to try to help you."
Duane: "Yeah? Well, we're just sitting here waiting for, uh, travel plans."
____________________________________________________________
Kazdan: "They would like it done as neatly and cleanly as possible."
Mulder: "Well you're getting off to a hell of a start."
Rich: "Negotiation IS a process, Agent Mulder."
Mulder: "Well if you just wanted somebody to come down and read the script you didn't have to 
              bring me out..."
____________________________________________________________
(after detailing some of the medical experiment horror stories people have told re: aliens)
Mulder: "Would you like to know what they do to a woman's ovaries?"
Kazdan: "Not particularly."
Mulder: "Well then understand that you might have to alter your approach a little here."
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Krycek: "Is there anything I can do?"
Kazdan: "Yeah. What's your name again?" 
Krycek: "Krycek."
Kazdan: "Krycek. Have you got a notepad?"
Krycek: "Yeah..." (starts to pull it from his jacket pocket)
Kazdan: "Grande, 2% cappuccino with vanilla. Agent Rich?"
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Duane: "How old was your sister when they took her?"
Mulder: "8."
Duane: "I seen girls there sometimes."
Mulder: "What are they doing to them?"
Duane: "Oh you know, testing 'em, just testing."
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Duane: "It's like living with a gun in your head. And never knowing when it's gonna go off..."
Mulder: "You can let the others go, Duane...Let the others go and take me."
Duane: "Aw, they heard you talk like that, they gonna have your ass!" *laughs*
Mulder: "I don't care about that, Duane."
Duane: "No. I wouldn't do that to you. Besides, Doc 'n I got an appointment. Ain't that right, Doc?"
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Krycek: "Calm down, Scully."
Scully: "Don't tell me to calm down. I'm not going to calm down until I can talk to someone who will 
            listen to what I'm saying!"
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Kimberley:(a hostage, to Duane, as she's let go) "I just want to say that I believe you."
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Scully: "Sometimes whenever you want to believe in something, you end up looking too hard."
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(Scully on the phone):
"Mulder, it's me. I just had something incredibly strange happen. This piece of metal that they took out of Duane Barry, it has some kind of code on it. I ran it through a scanner, and some kind of serial number came up. What the hell is this thing, Mulder? It's almost... it's almost as if somebody was using it to catalog him... (breaking glass, scuffling) Mulder! Mulder! I need your help!...MULDER!"

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                                                          2.6 Ascension

                                              US Airdate: October 21, 1994

                                                     writer: Paul Brown
                                                  director: Michael Lange

STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:
Cancer Man .................... William B. Davis
Margaret Scully ................ Sheila Larken
Agent Alex Krycek .............. Nicholas Lea
Asst. Director Walter S. Skinner ..... Mitch Pileggi
Duane Barry .................... Steve Railsback
Mr. X .......................... Steven Williams

MULDER BATTLES HIS OWN SUPERIORS AND ALLIES IN A DESPERATE RACE TO 
RESCUE SCULLY FROM A KIDNAPPER.

Searching for Dana Scully, Mulder must struggle against opposition within the Bureau as he races against time. Mulder tracks her kidnapper, Duane Barry, to the site of his earlier abduction; a death-defying race on a tramway leads Mulder to Barry's car and to Scully's bloodstained 
necklace. But though he nabs Duane Barry, there is no trace of Scully. While he interrogates the half-crazed Duane Barry as to her whereabouts, shadowy forces within the Bureau itself --including Mulder's new partner, Alex Krycek -- are maneuvering to thwart his efforts. In the end, Mulder is left only with questions, with no clue to Scully's whereabouts. Second part of three-parter that ends with "One Breath".

                                                                   Notes

Title refers to both Duane and possibly Scully's ascension into the sky when the aliens take them, and also refers to the advertisment Mulder reads, "Ascend to the stars", just as Duane described the mountain he was taken from.

Contains infamous playing of the song "Red Right Hand" as Duane drives car, stopped by cop, kills him

At the time of this ep, Gillian Anderson was very pregnant with her daughter, Piper, giving birth a few weeks after filming, so excuse her huge tummy during the abduction scenes okay?

It's 11:23 when Mulder plays Scully's frightening message on his machine, so was she taken at 11:21?

This ep contains our first clues concerning Krycek and his allegiance. Hmmm...just who IS he working for?

Tagline: Deny Everything

                                                                 Quotes
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(Krycek and Mulder are driving in a car and Mulder almost falls asleep at the wheel)
Krycek: "The Department of Transportation reports that over 10,000 accidents are caused each 
              year by sleepiness."
Mulder: "Did they mention how many of those people were put to sleep listening to their statistics?" 
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(Mulder interrogating Duane)
Mulder: "Now what happened after you took her out of the trunk?"
Duane: "We walked a little ways up to the top of the mountain right where you found me."
Mulder: "And where did you take her?"
Duane: "I didn't. They did. That was the deal. Her instead of me."
Mulder: (deathly quiet voice) "Did you kill her?"
Duane: "No. I swear!"
Mulder: "How did you get this?" (indicating burns on face)
Duane: "From the ship?"
Mulder: "What ship?"
Duane: "You saw it!"
Mulder: "I saw a helicopter."
Duane: "They were here. I'm not lying to ya. That's them!! (referring to men in suits in the window) 
            They know what happened."
Mulder: "Sit down Duane."
Duane: "No! You gotta stop them. Hurry, hurry they were right outside, they ..."
Mulder: "Duane! Settle down!" (grabs Duane, slams him on the table)
Duane: "They'll tell you where she is, the military's in on it, just ask them."
Mulder: (notices strands of Scully's hair stuck to Duane's wrist) (yells) "Did you hurt her?! Did you 
             hurt her?!"
Duane: "No!"
Mulder: "What is this?" (shows the hair to Duane, then starts to strangle him)
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(Krycek and Cancer Man hold covert meeting in car park)
Krycek: "Skinner's expecting my report on the Duane Barry incident. What do I tell him?"
Cancer Man: "The truth."
Krycek: "What do you mean?"
Cancer Man: "Confirm Mulder's version of events. You earned his trust. The object now is to 
                     preserve it."
Krycek: "For how much longer?"
Cancer Man: "Until this assignment is completed."
Krycek: "If Mulder's such a threat, why not eliminate him?"
Cancer Man: "That's not policy."
Krycek: "It's not? After what you had me do?"
Cancer Man: "Kill Mulder and you risk turning one man's religion into a crusade."
Krycek: "What about Scully?"
Cancer Man: "We've taken care of that."
Krycek: "How?"
Cancer Man: "We tell you only what you need to know."
Krycek: "I think I have a right to know."
Cancer Man: "You have no rights, only orders to be carried out. If you have a problem with that 
                     we'll make other arrangements."
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(Mulder in meeting with FBI superiors)
Mulder: "There is another plausible cause of death."
Skinner: "Which is ..?"
Mulder: "Poisoning by ingestion or injection."
Skinner: "Poisoning?"
Mulder: "You won't find that on the Navy pathologist's report."
Skinner: "What are you saying Agent Mulder?"
Mulder: "That the autopsy is incomplete. That the military covered up the toxilogical findings."
Skinner: "And why would they do that?"
Mulder: "Because they may know where Scully is."
Man in suit: "Why are you so paranoid, Mulder?"
Mulder: "Oh I don't know. Maybe it's because I find it hard to trust anybody." 
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(Mulder bumps into Mr X outside the Senator's office)
Mr X: "You wasted a trip, Mulder. There's nothing the Senator can do for you now. Not without 
           committing political suicide."
Mulder: "Why? Do they have something on him?"
Mr X: "They have something on everyone Mr Mulder. The question is when they'll use it."
Mulder: "I need his help."
Mr X: "No one can help you Mulder. Your channels of appeal and recourse are closed."
Mulder: "Your predecessor could have helped me. (pause) You know, don't you. You know what's 
              happened to her."
Mr X: "This reaches beyond any of us Agent Mulder. Even my predecessor." 
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Mulder: "I want an answer."
Mr X: "Why kill Duane Barry if there was nothing to hide?"
Mulder: "You mean the government."
Mr X: "There are no answers for you Mr Mulder. They have only one policy: Deny Everything."
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Skinner: "I can't protect you Agent Mulder. Past a point this will become a larger Bureau matter."
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(Mulder explains his theory to Skinner)
Skinner: "Why?"
Mulder: "Because Agent Scully got too close to whatever it is they're trying to deny, because she 
             had hard and damning evidence - that metallic implant in her possession. Or her 
             termination would prevent further involvement with me and my work."
Skinner: "Do you think Agent Scully is dead?"
Mulder: "I don't know. How far do you think they'd go? What do you know about Agent Krycek."
Skinner: "I didn't give him the assignment, I ... (phone rings) Yes, thank-you (hangs up) Agent 
              Krycek didn't show up for work this morning. His home number has been disconnected."
Mulder: "That's it? He's gone? He just disappears into the woodwork?"
Skinner: "So it would appear."
Mulder: "Who are these people, who can just murder with impunity and we can't do anything about 
              it?"
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Skinner: "Let it go Agent Mulder."
Mulder: "Like hell!"
Skinner: "There's nothing you can do."
Mulder: "What can YOU do about it?!"
Skinner: "There's only one thing I can do Agent Mulder. As of right now I'm reopening the X-Files. 
              That's what they fear the most." 
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(Mulder handing Scully's cross to her mother)
Mulder: "I found this. It's something I never considered about her. If she was ... if she was such a 
             skeptic, why did she wear that?"
Margaret Scully: "I gave it to her on her fifteenth birthday." (presses cross into Mulder's hand)
Mulder: "Don't you want to keep it?"
Margaret Scully: "When you find her, give it to her."

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                                                                2.7 3

                                               US Airdate: November 4, 1994

                                           writers: Glen Morgan & James Wong
                                               original script: Chris Ruppenthal
                                                       director: David Nutter

STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder

Guest Cast:
Detective Nettles .............. Frank Ferrucci
Detective Munson ............... Tom McBeath
The Son/John ................... Frank Military
The Father ..................... Gustavo Moreno
Kristen Kilar .................. Perrey Reeves
The Unholy Spirit .............. Justina Vail

MULDER IS INTRIGUED BY A BEAUTIFUL SUSPECT AS HE DELVES INTO A SERIES OF 
MURDERS WITH VAMPIRE-LIKE CHARACTERISTICS.

A businessman is killed in his own hot tub by a trio who drain his body of blood. Mulder, now without Scully to help him, tracks one suspect to a blood bank, where he finds the man drinking blood. Mulder arrests him but thinks his claims of vampirism are a psychotic delusion; he is 
astonished when his suspect dies as soon as he is touched by sunlight. Now determined to know if vampires really exist, Mulder plunges into a dark and dangerous underworld where sex, murder and blood intermingle in trendy nightclubs. His search is complicated by his involvement with an 
alluring suspect, who is linked to the unholy trinity of killers by ties of blood and desire.

                                                                Notes

The title refers to the three vampire killers and their view of themselves as an unholy trinity - the Father, the Son, the Unholy Spirit.

The only episode, so far, that is missing Scully. She was recovering from childbirth. In my opinion, she is sorely missed, as this ep is not one of my favorites. I just hope the Big Boys are paying attention. The X-Files is NOT the same without Scully!

Perrey Reeves and David Duchovny were dating at the time this episode was filmed.

                                                                    Quotes
____________________
Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood shall have eternal life,
and I will raise him up on the last day.
(John 6:54) Written in blood on wall
____________________________________________________________ 
Mulder: "They have the same feeble, literal grasp of the bible as all those big-hair preachers do."
____________________________________________________________
Policeman: "An FBI agent without a partner?"
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Mulder: "Hi, this is Marty Mulder from your payroll service?" 
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Janitor: "Easy, man! Easy! Sorry, man. I didn't know you were there. Damn freak night watchman 
            down there always breaking the light bulbs."
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John: "I'll only talk to him..."
Interrogator: (to Mulder) "Lucky you."
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John: "No! When a snake eats a fly, it's not murder. It just is."
Mulder: "Frogs eat flies... Are you dead?"
John: "I never will be."
Mulder: "Do you believe that?"
John: "Don't you want to live forever?"
Mulder: "Not if drawstring pants come back into style." 
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Mulder: "It's a stiff price though. Look at yourself, drinking blood, living in darkness, unable to see 
             your reflection in a mirror. Or is that just a myth?" (pulls out mirror, sees John's reflection)
John: "I can't be seen in no mirror."
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John: "Look, what nobody knows is that there is no after-life. I know this, but listen, listen. I know 
          this, because, when we prolong our lives by taking theirs, all I see is such horror, in their 
          eyes. And that's because at that moment, they're face to face with death and then suddenly 
          they realize there's nothing else. There's no heaven, there's no soul; there's just rot and 
          decay." 
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John: "He is. A spirit is one who believes. He knows we are possible." 
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Mulder: "It's more likely I'll be looking into your eyes at the moment before they lead you into the 
             gas chamber."
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Mulder: "...in another couple of hours, there'll be no escaping the sun, son..." 
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Policeman: "What if he turns into a bat and flies out through the bars?" 
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Policeman: "Why don't you go back to your hotel room and get some sleep?"
Mulder: "I didn't check into a hotel room. I don't sleep anymore."
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Coroner: "You are really upsetting me... On several levels."
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Coroner: (light bulb on hand) "An old coroner's trick."
Mulder: "I can make a quarter appear from behind your ear..."
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Krista: "Are you about to ask what a normal person like me is doing in a place like this?" 
Mulder: "How do you define normal?"
Krista: "Misha, red wine... I don't. How do you?"
Mulder: "All I know is, uh, normal... is not what I feel."
Krista: "You've lost someone. Not a lover... a friend."
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Mulder: "AIDS... Aren't you afraid?"
Krista: (laughs) "I wish I could die." 
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Policeman: "Agent Mulder? (hands over panties) All this time I've been putting raspberry sauce on 
                   ice cream..."

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                                                        2.8 One Breath

                                             US Airdate: November 11, 1994

                                           writers: Glen Morgan & James Wong
                                                   director: R.W. Goodwin

STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:
Frohike ........................ Tom Braidwood
Doctor Daly .................... Jay Brazeau
Nurse G. Owens ................. Nicola Cavendish
Captain William Scully ......... Don Davis
Cancer Man .................... William B. Davis
Langly ......................... Dean Haglund
Byers .......................... Bruce Harwood
Margaret Scully ................ Sheila Larken
Melissa Scully ................. Melinda McGraw
Asst. Director Walter S. Skinner ..... Mitch Pileggi
Mr. X .......................... Steven Williams

WHEN SCULLY SUDDENLY REAPPEARS IN A HOSPITAL, HER LIFE HANGS IN THE 
BALANCE AS MULDER PULLS OUT ALL THE STOPS IN AN EFFORT TO COUNTERACT THE 
BIZARRE EXPERIMENT THAT IS KILLING HER.

Mulder is shocked when Dana Scully finally reappears -- comatose -- in a Georgetown intensive care unit with no trace of where she has been or how she got there. She lingers on the brink of death, kept alive by machines, as Mulder frantically searches for her kidnappers, for an explanation and for a cure. Evidence points to an exotic and dangerous DNA experiment whose by-products are poisoning Scully, but no one can cure her. All his efforts fail him, leaving Fox Mulder at the end of his resources, his strength and his hope. Finally, he faces a stark choice between bloody revenge and a re-affirmation of his faith in his partner.

                                                                     Notes

The title refers to Mr. Scully's speech to his daughter where he equates his lifetime as being merely "one breath, one heartbeat". And for the whole show, Scully is merely one breath away from death.

On a personal note, one of my top ten faves this one, hence the large amount of quotes. Some very touching, human moments with Mulder, especially when he goes to her hospital room, despite knowing he is throwing away a chance at catching the men responsible. I've included the full speech that Skinner gives Mulder about his Vietnam out-of-body experience because it hit me as telling us more than we knew up to this point about Skinner and his allegiances. And besides, I'm just goofy about Skinner, so deal with it!

A definite nod in our general direction with the comment by Langley about "hopping onto the internet to nit-pick the scientific inaccuracies of Earth2", Xphiles on the net LOVE to nitpick!

The Thinker (talked about here, seen later in Anasazi) is a reference to xphile Yung Jun Kim (also known as 'DuhThinker').

Nurse Owens is named for Glen Morgan's grandmother.

                                                                      Quotes
____________________
Dana Katherine Scully
1964 - 1994 
Loving Daughter & Friend
The spirit is the truth.
--Inscription on Scully's tombstone
____________________________________________________________
Mrs Scully: "That day in the woods I felt for my daughter. But at this moment, I know how my 
                   daughter felt."
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(Scully has returned and Mulder rushes into the hospital room)
Mulder: "Who brought her here? How did she get here?"
Nurse: "Sir, will you please ..."
Mulder: (shouting) "How did she get here?"
Nurse: "Ms Scully was in this condition when I arrived for the evening shift. If you'll step outside, 
            perhaps Dr. Daly ..."
Mulder: "Is that Daly? Are you Dr. Daley? What's going on? How the hell did she get here?"
Daly: "Would you settle down .."
Mulder: "Was it paramedics, FBI, military? Answer me right now!"
Daly: "I ..."
Mulder: "What, you're telling me she just appeared?"
Daly: "Sir .."
Mulder: "Who did this to her?!"
Daly: "Sir .."
Mulder: "I want to see her admission forms. (starts searching main desk) Who did this to her? I 
             want to see what else they've done. (security guards drag Mulder away) Listen, if you're 
             hiding anything, I swear, I will do *anything*, whatever it takes, I will find out what they did 
             to her!"
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Mulder: (to Margaret) "She doesn't want to live this way."
Dr Daly: (to Mulder) "You signed the will as her witness."
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Melissa: "I was told not to call you Fox."
Mulder: "By who?"
Melissa: "Dana, just now."
Mulder: "Dana talked to you just now? If she talked, the EEG would have moved."
Melissa: "Her mind is here. (Mrs Scully walks in) Hi Mom."
Mrs Scully: "I'm glad you could come Melissa."
Mulder: "You're Scully's sister."
Melissa: "Dana's choosing whether to remain or move on. (Mrs Scully walks off) You can feel her, 
              here. (places hands above Scully). Here."

(we see Scully in a rowboat, tied to the shore, Mulder and Melissa on the wharf, a nurse figure, smaller than the others, in the distance)

Mulder: "She's not here."
Melissa: "No, your anger ... your fear's blocking your positive emotions she needs to feel"
Mulder: "I need to do more than just wave my hands in the air."
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Nurse: "May I help you?"
Frohike: (with flowers) "Dana Scully please."
Mulder: "Frohike?!"
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Byers: "Good work sneakin' out these charts..." (Scully's medical charts)
Frohike: "Tucked them in my pants."
Mulder: "There's plenty of room down there."
Langly: "You look down, Mulder? Tell you what, you're welcome to come over Saturday night. We're all hoppin' on the Internet to nit-pick the scientific inaccuracies of Earth 2..."
Mulder: "I'm doing my laundry."
Byers: "The charts show abnormal protein chains in the blood. The amino acids sequences are in 
            combinations I've never seen before. I've downloaded Scully's medical data to the nearest 
            Lone Gunman."
Frohike: "He goes by the name "The Thinker"."
Byers: "The guy's a hacking genius." (stuff appears on the computer screen)
Mulder: "What?"
Byers: "The Thinker reports that the protein chains are the byproducts of branched DNA."
Mulder: "Branched DNA?"
Langly: "The cutting edge of genetic engineering."
Byers: "The biological equivalent of a silicon microchip."
Langly: "This is way beyond cutting edge. This is technology 50 years down the line."
Mulder: "What's it used for?"
Frohike: "Could be a tracking system."
Byers: "Developmental stages of a biological marker."
Mulder: "You mean a high tech identity card?"
Langly: "Or something as insidious as grafting a human to something ...inhuman."
Byers: "Good theories, gentlemen, but all for naught. This branched DNA is inactive. Waste 
            product. Whoever was experimenting with Scully is finished. Now it's nothing more than a 
            biological poison."
Mulder: "Will she live?" (Lone Gunmen look uneasily at each other)
Byers: "Um, her immune system has been decimated, and uh ..I doubt even a healthy human 
            body has the ability to fight this. Mulder, there's nothing you can do."
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(in the hospital car-park)
Mr X: "I didn't expect you here until after visiting hours."
Mulder: "There was a man, he took Scully's blood."
Mr X: "Forget him."
Mulder: "Get that gun out of my face."
Mr X: "This high capacity compact Sig Sauer 40 caliber weapon is pointed at your head to stress 
          my insistence that your search for who put your partner on that respirator desist 
          immediately."
Mulder: "You ignore my call for help and you expect me to do what you say?!"
Mr X: "You got *him* killed. (refers to Deep Throat) You got her killed. That's not going to happen 
          to me. You're my tool, do you understand? I come to you when I need you. Right now you're 
          heading in a direction that can lead them right here."
Mulder: "What the hell are you talking about?"
Mr X: "You're not supposed to know. That's the point."
Mulder: "I owe her more than just sitting around doing nothing."
Mr X: "She was a good soldier, Mulder. But there's nothing you can do to bring her back."
Mulder: "She's not dead."
Mr X: "Listen to you. Listen. You're a damn schoolboy, Mulder. You have no idea, no idea."
Mulder: "OK, then tell me. Tell me."
Mr X: "I used to be you. I was where you are now. But you're not me, Mulder. I don't think you have 
          the heart. Walk away. Grieve for Scully. And then never look back. You will be able to live 
          with yourself Mulder. On the day you die."
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Mulder: "It's possible branched DNA can be treated with designer anti-biotics."
Dr Daly: "Agent Mulder, I don't know where you developed this bizarre theory, but I do believe you 
              are in no position to continue ..."
Mulder: "You've never provided an answer as to why she's here and what's wrong with her. We 
              need to study her."
Melissa: "She's not a piece of evidence."
Mulder: "She's here because of unnatural circumstances."
Melissa: "She's dying. That's perfectly natural."
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Mulder: "That's very politically correct."
Melissa: "That's very human." 
____________________________________________________________
Cancer Man: "If you're having trouble sitting on Mulder, Assistant 
Director, Skinner, I'm sure you know that we would have no trouble."
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Skinner: "Yeah, come in. Sit down. I called you right up here because of rumors about an incident 
               at the hospital last night?"
Mulder: "Is this about the tooth that was found in the cafeteria Jell-O?"
Skinner: "The rumor has it that you were involved? In the laundry room?"
Mulder: "No sir?"
Skinner: "A man was executed, Agent Mulder."
Mulder: "I was with Scully."
Skinner: "Traces of her blood were found at the scene."
Mulder: "May I see the police report?"
Skinner: "There is no police report of this incident, Agent Mulder, and there is no body. You know 
               that."
Mulder: "Since I am unfamiliar with any such incident, sir, no, how would I know that?"
Skinner: "Knock it off!"
Mulder: "How does it feel? Constant denial of everything. Questions answered with a question?"
Skinner: "I want to know what happened, dammit!"
Mulder: "Him! That's what happened. Cancer Man! He's responsible for what's happened to 
             Scully."
Skinner: "How do you know that?"
Mulder: "It's a rumor... Who is he?"
Skinner: "It's not your..."
Mulder: "Oh, you can have it all, my badge, you can have the X-Files. Just tell me where he is."
Skinner: "And then what? He sleeps with the fishes? We're not the Mafia, Agent Mulder. I know it's 
              easy to forget it, but we work for the Department of Justice."
Mulder: "THAT'S what I want."
Skinner: "Agent Scully was a fine officer. More than that, I liked her. I respected her. We all know 
              the field we play on and we all know what can happen in the course of the game. If you 
              were unprepared for all the potentials, then you shouldn't step on the field."
Mulder: "What if ... I knew the potential consequences but I never told her."
Skinner: "Then you're as much to blame for her condition as ... 'Cancer Man'." 
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(Dream sequence: Scully's dad comes along, Dana lying on a table)
William Scully: "Hello Starbuck. It's Ahab. People would say to me, "Life is short. Kids, they grow up fast. Before you know it, it's over." I never listened. To me, life went at a proper pace. There were many rewards until the moment that I knew, I understood, I would never see you again, my little girl. And my life felt as if it had been the length of one breath, one heartbeat. I never knew how much I loved my daughter until I could never tell her. At that moment, I would have traded every medal, every commendation, every promotion, for one more second with you. We'll be together again, Starbuck. But not now. Soon."
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Nurse Owens: "Dana, I know death is at arm's reach tonight, but Dana, your time is not over."
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(Mulder threating Cancer Man with a handgun)
Mulder: "Sit down!"
Cancer Man: "How did you find me?"
Mulder: "Tonight I ask the questions and you're going to answer them you son of a bitch."
Cancer Man: "Don't try and threaten me, Mulder. I've watched presidents die."
Mulder: "Why her? Why her and not me? Answer me!!"
Cancer Man: "I like you. I like her too, which was why she was returned to you."
Mulder: "You should be the one to die."
Cancer Man: "Why? Look at me - no wife, no family, some power. I'm in the game because I 
                     believe what I'm doing is right."
Mulder: "Right?! Who are you to decide what's right?" 
Cancer Man: "Who are YOU ? If people were to know of the things I know, it would all fall apart. I 
                     told Skinner you shot the man in the hospital, but I didn't really believe it. And here 
                     you are with a gun to my head. I have more respect for you Mulder. You're becoming 
                     a player. You can kill me now but you'll never know the truth. (Mulder's finger tightens 
                     on the trigger but slowly releases it) That's why I'll win. Don't worry. This will be our 
                     little secret. We wouldn't want others to start rumors." 
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(Mulder has resigned and is packing up his office)
Skinner: "When I started out this room was where they kept the copier."
Mulder: "At least back then it wasn't just wasted space."
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Skinner: "When I was 18, I went to Vietnam. I wasn't drafted Mulder, I enlisted in the marine corp the day of my 18th birthday. I did it out of blind faith. I did it because I believed that it was the right thing to do. I don't know, maybe I still do. Three months into my tour, a 10 year old North Vietnamese boy walked into camp, covered with grenades. And I blew his head off from a distance of ten yards. I lost my faith. Not in my country or in myself, but in everything. There was just no point to anything anymore. When out on patrol we were caught, and everyone, everyone fell, I mean everyone. I looked down at my body, from outside of it. I didn't recognize it at first. I watched the VCs strip my uniform, take my weapon, and I remained, in this thick jungle. Peaceful, unafraid. Watching my good friends, watching myself. In the morning the corpsmen arrived and put me in a body bag in Talmad, I guess they found a pulse, I don't know. I awoke in a Saigon hospital two weeks later. I'm afraid to look any further beyond that experience. You? You are not."
____________________________________________________________
Skinner: "Agent Mulder, every day, every life is in danger. That's just life." 
____________________________________________________________
Mr. X: "Your plane ticket..."
Mulder: "We barely know each other..." 
____________________________________________________________
(Mulder waits in the dark in his apartment for the men due to come trash the place)
Melissa: "Why is it so dark in here?"
Mulder: "Because the lights aren't on."
____________________________________________________________
Melissa: "I don't have to be psychic to see that you're in a very dark place." 
____________________________________________________________
Melissa: "Only the light..."
Mulder: "Oh, enough with the harmonic convergence crap. You're not saying anything to me."
____________________________________________________________
Melissa: "You know, just because it's positive and good, doesn't mean it's silly or trite." 
____________________________________________________________
(at the hospital, Scully has regained consciousness)
Mrs Scully: "Hello, Fox."
Scully: "Not Fox, *Mulder*."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "I brought you something... Superstars of the Superbowls."
Scully: "I knew there was a reason to live."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Mulder, I had the strength of your beliefs."
Mulder: (hands her the cross) "I was holding this for you."

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                                                          2.9 Firewalker

                                              US Airdate: November 18, 1994

                                                    writer: Howard Gordon
                                                     director: David Nutter

STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:
Peter Tanaka ................... Hiro Kanagawa
Eric Parker .................... David Kaye
Vosberg ........................ David Lewis
Dr. Adam Pierce ................ Tuck Milligan
Jason Ludwig ................... Leland Orser
Jesse O'Neil ................... Shawnee Smith
Dr. Daniel Trepkos ............. Bradley Whitford

A RESEARCH TEAM IS BEING DECIMATED BY A KILLER WHO MAY LURK AMONG THEM 
-- OR COME FROM THE HEART OF A VOLCANO.

Back at work after her abduction, Scully immediately joins Mulder in investigating a mysterious death at a volcanic research station. Isolated in the trashed station, they must track down a silent killer from the heart of the volcano, which is killing the research team one by one. Suspicion centers on the absent team leader, who claims to have discovered an entirely new form of life in the volcano. But this new life-form has deadly effects on the humans it encounters, and both 
Mulder and Scully may have been exposed. As time runs out, Mulder must find a missing genius, and Scully must find a way to halt the spread of a killer organism.

                                                                Notes

The title refers to the name of the robot made to collect samples from the volcano.

                                                                 Quotes
____________________
Mulder: "Scully, I don't think it's a good idea for you to go."
Scully: "Mulder, I appreciate your concern, but I'm ready. I want to work."
Mulder: "Maybe you should take some time off."
Scully: "I've already lost too much time!"
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "You think he's responsible for what happened?"
Pierce: "Whatever there is between, me 'n Trepkos, I pray that he isn't. We've got $20 million tax 
             dollars in this project. If word of it were to get out, it could destroy years of work. I'm afraid 
             to go through proper channels."
Mulder: "We're not exactly proper channels."
____________________________________________________________
(after Ludwig almost whacks Mulder with a baseball bat)
Ludwig: "This isn't what it looks like."
Mulder: "Just about took my head off... do you always greet people this way?" 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "What do you make of Mr. Trepkos' neighborhood?"
Scully: "What do you mean?"
Mulder: "Don't you think their behavior's a little bizarre? Almost paranoid?"
Scully: "Based on what?"
Mulder: "Based on when Ludwig tried to play T-Ball with my head. He knew I wasn't Trepkos."
Scully: "Now, Mulder, you're sounding paranoid." 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "I'm going to go find Trepkos."
Scully: "What if he's already dead?"
Mulder: "Then he'll have a tough time answering my questions."
Scully: "Will you at least let me go with you?"
Mulder: "No."
Scully: "Look, I know what you're thinking, but you have to get past that, we both do. I'm *back*, 
            and I'm not going anywhere." 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Why are you doing this, Trepkos? He's already dead. How many times do you have to kill 
              him?"
Trepkos: "It's not him I'm trying to kill."
____________________________________________________________
Trepkos: "If my intense desire to find the truth hasn't finally eclipsed the truth itself, our meddling 
               intellect misshapes the beauteous forms of things."
____________________________________________________________
Trepkos: "My mind is a tangled knot I can no longer untie. Daily I fight the urge to sever it 
               completely to stop this dissent."
____________________________________________________________
Trepkos: "I say the Earth holds some truths best left buried." 
____________________________________________________________
Trepkos: "You still believe you can petition heaven to get some penetrating answer. If you found 
                that answer, what would you do with it?"
____________________________________________________________
Trepkos: "In a single moment, everything that science held sacred suddenly turned on its head."

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                                                        2.10 Red Museum

                                               US Airdate: December 9, 1994

                                                       writer: Chris Carter
                                                      director: Win Phelps

STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:
Beth Kane ...................... Gillian Barber
Sheriff Mazeroski .............. Steve Eastin
Crew Cut Man ................... Lindsey Ginter
Richard Odin ................... Mark Rolston
Gird Thomas .................... Paul Sand

THE TERRIFIED TEENAGERS WHO SURVIVE A SERIES OF ABDUCTIONS ARE THE FOCUS 
OF AN INVESTIGATION THAT REVEALS THAT A QUIET CATTLE TOWN IS NOT WHAT IT 
SEEMS -- AND NEITHER ARE ITS CHILDREN.

The disappearances of several teenagers in Wisconsin convince a local sheriff to call in Mulder and Scully to investigate possible UFO abductions. But once on the scene, it appears that a mysterious cult, a bioengineered hormone and even alien DNA may be involved in an ongoing 
experiment involving the children of the town. A series of murders warns Mulder that someone wants both the experiment and the investigation shut down. Scully is shocked to recognize the face of Deep Throat's killer, and a quiet landlord confesses to an evil secret. Mulder and Scully must discover the link between the abductions and the death of the local doctor, in order to save the lives of the town's children.

                                                                 Notes

Title refers to the Church of the Red Museum, the vegetarian cult in this ep.

The peeping tom, Gird Thomas, who writes "he/she is one" on the kids' backs, is a reference to the real name of the original, famous Peeping Tom of Coventry.

                                                                   Quotes
____________________
Sheriff: "Well, Oden and the rest of them are a bunch of vegetarians. They drove the ranch right 
             into the ground. Turned 500 head of beef cattle into pets. Calls it a monument to 
             barbarism."
Mulder: "Probably went over big with the local ranchers."
Sheriff: (laughs) "Well you gotta admit it takes some big ones to set down in the middle of cow 
            country and start a church like his."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "They're Walk-Ins."
Scully: "What are Walk-Ins?"
Mulder: "Believers in soul transference, enlightened spirits that have taken possession of other 
             peoples' bodies." 
____________________________________________________________
(Mulder and Scully at a restaurant)
Scully: "You know, Mulder, with ribs like these I'd say the Church Of the Red Museum has its 
             work cut out for it."
____________________________________________________________ 
Mulder: "...you become open and vulnerable."
Scully: "To inhabitation by a new spirit."
Mulder: "A new Enlightened spirit. According to the literature, Abe Lincoln was a Walk-In. And 
             Mikail Gorbachev and Charles Colson, Nixon's advisor."
Scully: "But not Nixon?"
Mulder: "No. Not even they want to claim Nixon."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Looks like the sperm posse just arrived..."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Well, it's kinda hard to tell the villains without a score-card." 
____________________________________________________________
(in interrogation room with Oden)
Mulder: "You know, for a holy man you've got quite a knack for pissing people off."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "I don't know. In the absence of any plausible explanation, it's a novel theory." 
   
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                                                        2.11 Excelsius Dei

                                              US Airdate: December 12, 1994

                                                       writer: Paul Brown 
                                                    director: Stephen Surjik

STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:
Dorothy ........................ Frances Bay
Stan Phillips .................. Eric Christmas
Hal Arden ...................... David Fresco
Michelle Charters, RN .......... Teryl Rothery
Gung Bittouen .................. Sab Shimono

AN ASSAULT ON A NURSE LEADS MULDER AND SCULLY INTO A RETIREMENT HOME 
WITH UNUSUALLY LIVELY RESIDENTS -- WHO MAY BE GETTING SUPERNATURAL HELP.

The rape of a nurse in a home for the elderly turns out to have paranormal overtones when the victim claims her attacker was invisible. Mulder and Scully find some surprisingly lively old people, a sinister treatment for Alzheimer's disease, and hints of a strange and vengeful force at work among the residents. Mulder and Scully uncover a bizarre and ancient drug being secretly administered. Mulder is trapped by a malevolent unseen force seeking to stop his search in a bathroom rapidly filling with water; he's unable to escape. Scully must find a way to free him before he drowns.

                                                                 Notes

Personal notes: I loved the scene where Mulder and the nurse are trapped in the bathroom filling with water, very tense, and great effect when the door bursts open, pouring everyone out into the hall. Great effect when the nurse is thrown against the wall. Chilling scene when we see the full wall mural painting. And also of note, the scene where Scully is running down the hall, wowee!

                                                                   Quotes
____________________
Hal: "You like strapping me down, don't you?"
Nurse Charters: "Oh yeah, I really get off on it." 
____________________________________________________________
(Scully is watching a video in the office, we see a woman's face on the screen)
Mulder: "Whatever tape you found on that VCR, it isn't mine."
Scully: "Good, because I put it back in that drawer with all the other tapes that aren't yours."
Mulder: (looking at screen, woman is badly bruised) "Well, this definitely isn't mine."
____________________________________________________________
Michelle: "Look, when you bathe somebody every day for 5 years, you get to know more about 
               them than you really need to."
____________________________________________________________
Hal: "I've got plumbing older than this building, and it don't work much better, either!" (opens towel 
        to provide a view)
Mulder: "Thank you for sharing."
Hal: (noticing Mulder looking at Scully) "Oh, I didn't mean to step on your toes there."
____________________________________________________________
Hal: "I thought whats-her-name was Rogered by a ghost. I may have one foot in the grave, but I 
        certainly can't fly down hallways...spreading Amore."
Mulder: "Apparently not."
Hal: "If that's what it's like in Heaven, Lord take me now!"
____________________________________________________________ 
Scully: "What do you think, Mulder?"
Mulder: "About his plumbing?" 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "So you think Michelle Charters was raped by a 74 year old schizophrenic."
Scully: "It's possible."
Mulder: "An invisible 74 year old schizophrenic..." 
Scully: "Well, maybe it's not the medication, maybe it's the place itself."
Mulder: "Are you saying that the building's haunted? Because if you are, I think you've been 
             working with me too long." 
____________________________________________________________
Orderly: (chasing Stan) "What are you? Track star all of a sudden?" 
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Mulder, mushrooms aren't medication. They taste good on hamburgers but they don't 
            raise the dead..."
Mulder: "Shamans have been using them for centuries to gain entrance to the spirit world."
Scully: "I think you've been reading too much Carlos Castaneda." 

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                                                            2.12 Aubrey

                                                 US Airdate: January 6, 1995

                                                      writer: Sara B. Charno
                                                      director: Rob Bowman

STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:
Mrs. Thibedeaux ................ Joy Coghill
Lieutenant Brian Tillman ....... Terry O'Quinn
Detective B.J. Morrow .......... Deborah Strang
Harry Cokely ................... Morgan Woodward

A WOMAN DETECTIVE'S DISTURBING DREAMS ABOUT A 50-YEAR-OLD MURDER SPREE 
MAY BE HERALDING THE RETURN OF THE KILLER.

In the town of Aubrey, Missouri, a woman detective begins having strange, prophetic dreams about a string of 50-year-old unsolved murders. Mulder and Scully are called in when, in a fugue state, the detective uncovers the unmarked grave of a long-dead FBI agent who was investigating the murders. Matters escalate when young women in the area are murdered with the same MO as the older murders, leading Mulder and Scully to interrogate the original suspect, now 77 years old and paroled from prison. But the woman detective's terrifying nightmares continue, leading the agents into her own dark and tangled past, and an ancient evil that may have been passed down through the generations.

                                                                   Notes

The line about Mulder liking women named BJ may be a reference to his off-screen love life at the time. His girlfriend, Perry Reeves, played a woman named B.J. on "Doogie Howser".

                                                                   Quotes
____________________
(Mulder comparing dental X-rays)
Scully: "Any cavities?"
Mulder: "No, I brush after every meal." 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "During their time, Cheney's and Leadbetter's ideas weren't very well received by their 
             peers. Using psychology to solve a crime was something like ..."
Scully: "Believing in the paranormal?"
Mulder: "Exactly. But there's another mystery."
Scully: "Which is?"
Mulder: "Well, I'd like to know why this police woman would suddenly drive her car into a field the 
             size of Rhode Island and for no rhyme or reason, dig up the bones of a man whose been 
             missing for 50 years. I mean unless there was a neon sign saying 'Dig Here'."
Scully: "I guess that's why we're going to Aubrey."
Mulder: "Yes, and also, I've always been intrigued by women named BJ." 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Well, I've often felt that dreams are answers to questions we haven't yet figured out how 
             to ask."
____________________________________________________________
(while driving to suspects house in Nebraska)
Mulder: "You mean a hunch?"
Scully: "I seem to remember you having some pretty extreme hunches."
Mulder: "I never have."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Well, I don't want to jump to any rash conclusions, but I'd say he's definitely our prime 
             subject, huh?"
Scully: "Mulder, the man we're talking about is 77 years old."
Mulder: "Well, George Foreman won the heavyweight crown at 45. Some people are just late 
             bloomers." 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "There are countless stories of twins who are separated at birth who end up in the same 
              occupation, marrying the same kind of people, each naming their child Waldo."
Scully: "Waldo?"
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Well then how do you explain the cuts on her own chest?"
Mulder: "I can't explain everything. Maybe she carved them on herself or maybe it's some kind of 
             weird stigmata. Whatever it is, BJ's not herself."
____________________________________________________________
(BJ kneeling over Mulder with knife)
BJ: "This time you'll stay dead" 

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                                                        2.13 Irresistible

                                               US Airdate: January 13, 1995

                                                      writer: Chris Carter 
                                                    director: David Nutter

STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:
Donald Eddie Pfaster ........... Nick Chinlund
Toews .......................... Robert Thurston
Agent Bocks .................... Bruce Weitz
Agent Karen Kossef ............. Christine Willes
Marilyn ........................ Denalda Williams

AN FBI AGENT ASKS MULDER AND SCULLY TO LOOK INTO A SERIES OF GRAVE 
DESECRATIONS HE BELIEVES COULD BE THE WORK OF ALIENS.

The desecration of a woman's grave in Minneapolis leads local agents to call in Mulder and Scully, believing aliens are behind the outrage. Mulder, however, knows immediately that they are not dealing with aliens, but with a human fetishist who gets off on collecting hair and fingernails from the dead. His worst fears are confirmed when the fetishist, a zombie-like funeral home employee named Donnie Pfaster, begins committing murder to get his trophies. Scully, already deeply 
troubled by this case, becomes his next target, and Mulder must race against time to save her.

                                                                Notes

At the beginning, we see a graveyard. Note one of the names: Soames. Ray Soames was the person exhumed in the Pilot episode of the series.

Listen to the announcer on the football game in the background, the one that Mulder and Scully were supposed to go to. The name Chris Carter is tossed around.

Scully looks at the clock at 11:21 (Chris Carter's wife's birth date)

Personal note: one of the creepiest bad guys ever! And the final scenes where he has Scully are truly nerve-tingling! Great stuff, a classic example of how scary this show can be without going to any graphic extremes. The terror is all in our heads. 

                                                                   Quotes
____________________
Scully: "It took us 3 hours to get here, our plane doesn't leave until tomorrow night. If you 
            suspected ..."
Mulder: "Vikings versus Redskins, Scully. 40 yard line in the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. 
             You and me?" 
____________________________________________________________
Agent Bocks: "Anything slightly freakazoid, that's the drill. Call Mo Bocks. As if I'm tight with all the 
                      nut cases in town."
____________________________________________________________
Bosch: "You're saying some human's been doing this?"
Mulder: "Yeah, if you want to call him that."
____________________________________________________________
Donnie Pfaster: "Do you treat your hair? I mean... do you use chemicals?" 
____________________________________________________________
Sports announcer: "Oh, long pass, Cris Carter with the catch. And Carter is brought down by Lars 
                             Mayos at the Washington 5 yard line for a Viking 1st down!"
Bocks: "Sorry you had to miss your game but - we found more bodies dug up."
Scully: "Did you get your forensics report on the first murder?"
Announcer: "Carter's gotta be happy about that!" 
____________________________________________________________
Bocks: "There was somebody down there in the grave, cut the hair with a pair of pinking shears. 
             Gotta wonder about this guy..."
Mulder: "Well, at least he wasn't down there with his dippity-do and his blow-dryer."
____________________________________________________________
Prostitute: "You gonna catch this guy?"
Bocks: "We'll catch him."
Mulder: "It might be a good week to take that paid vacation the boss owes you."
Prostitute: "Yeah. Right."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "I don't want you to think you have to hide anything from me." 
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "I trust him with my life."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "I'm coming back. Do you need my help?"
Mulder: "Always." 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Well, some people collect salt and pepper shakers. Fetishists collect dead things - 
              fingernails and hair. No one quite knows why. Though I've never really understood the salt 
              and pepper shakers myself."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "...It's an unfathomable hatred of women. Probably going back to his mother." 
Bocks: "I'd say she's pretty fried at him too."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "You know, people videotape police beatings on darkened streets. They manage to spot 
             Elvis in three cities across America each day. But no one saw a pretty woman being 
             forced off the road in her rental car."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Where would he go?"
Bosch: "Anywhere but his mother's, right?"
Mulder: "Why do you say that?"
Bosch: "Being he's so pissed off at her, from what your profile says. Right?"
____________________________________________________________
(Pfaster searching the house for Scully)
Pfaster: "There's no way out, girlie-girl... I know this house, girlie-girl, there's nowhere to hide."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder's final monologue:
"The conquest of fear lies in the moment of its acceptance. In understanding what scares us most is that which is most familiar, most common place, that the boy-next-door, Donny Pfaster, the unremarkable younger brother of four older sisters, extraordinary only in his ordinariness, could grow up to be the devil in a button down shirt. It has been said that the fear of the unknown is an irrational response to the excesses of the imagination. But our fear of the everyday, of the lurking stranger and the sound of footfalls on the stairs, the fear of violent death and the primitive impulse to survive, are as frightening as any X-File, as real as the acceptance that it could happen to you."

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                                                    2.14 Die Hand Die Verletzt

                                                   US Airdate: January 27, 1995

                                              writers: Glen Morgan & James Wong
                                                      director: Kim Manners

STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:
Phyllis H. Paddock ............. Susan Blommaert
Jim Ausbury .................... Dan Butler
Pete Calcagni .................. Shaun Johnson
Shannon Ausbury ................ Heather McComb

A MURDER WITH RITUALISTIC TRAPPINGS BRINGS MULDER AND SCULLY INTO A 
SMALL TOWN WHOSE OCCULT SECRETS DATE BACK SEVEN GENERATIONS.

The school board of a small New Hampshire town closes a routine meeting with an invocation to the Lords of Darkness; a teenager is killed in a ritualistic manner. Mulder and Scully check out the local sheriff's fears of a "cult" operating in the vicinity, and discover that the town and high school are the focus of rumors of witchcraft and devil-worship going back seven generations. Meanwhile, the hysterical confessions of abuse and intimidation from several students lead them to the town's 
most upstanding and conservative citizens. A weird substitute teacher, a troubled teenager and a basement painted the color of blood all figure in their search for a demonic killer. Mulder and Scully are taken by surprise, and are led to slaughter in the school gymnasium. 

Notes

The title translates as "The hand, the wound."

Writers Glen Morgan and James Wong left the show after this episode to develop and produce "Space: Above and Beyond". The line "It's been nice working with you" was a parting gift to the cast and crew.

The opening credits contain a reference to Super Bowl XXIX, with the producers, both longtime Chargers fans, listed as James "Chargers" Wong and Glen "Bolts, Baby" Morgan. The Chargers were humiliated two days later, but no one believes these credits jinxed them.

"Crowley" High School is named for British ceremonialist Aleister Crowley, whose theories on "magick" shocked his contemporaries and heavily influenced the development of modern Wicca.

More lucky real-life xphiles mentioned in this episode: Characters Paula Vitaris and Deborah Brown, The Ausbury family (named for Jill Ausbury), Jerry (the boy who is killed) is named after Jerry Jones, host of the AOL X-Files forum. And school pscychologist Pete Calcagni is named after the husband of another AOL fan.

The satanic substitute teacher, Mrs. Paddock, is suitably named, since an Old English definition of 'paddock' is 'toad'.

                                                                Quotes
____________________
Paul: "Well if he wants to be young I have no problems with Grease or Annie or.."
Psych: "Doesn't Grease have the F-word?" 
____________________________________________________________
Cop: "What do you think?" (pointing out a stump)
Mulder: "I think with a few turquoise chips, a picture of John Wayne and three cans of schelack, it 
             would make a pretty nice coffee table."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "I mean, there's nothing weird about..." (toads start falling from the sky, then stop)
Mulder: "So, lunch?"
Scully: "Mulder, toads just fell from the sky!"
Mulder: "Guess their parachutes didn't open. What did you say about this place not feeling odd?" 
____________________________________________________________
Sheriff: "I know he and his friends listened to devil music."
Mulder: "The Night Chicago Died?"
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Better hide your Megadeth albums."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "I didn't want to excite his already clearly aggravated imagination." 
____________________________________________________________
Mrs. Paddock: "Extra credit will be given for dissecting the heart." 
____________________________________________________________
Mrs. Paddock: "Some kids just have trouble dissecting things." 
____________________________________________________________
Psych: "It's high school. It's normal for students to display abnormal behavior." 
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "The FBI recently concluded a 7-year study and found little or no evidence of the existence 
            of occult conspiracies."
Psych: "And J Edgar Hoover never admitted to the existance of the Mafia."
____________________________________________________________
Jim: "I would kill anyone who did the things to Shannon that she claims."
Mulder: "Not a very Christian tenet."
Osbury: "We skip over the ancient rituals that we didn't want to do."
Mulder: "Like drinking grape juice instead of wine at communion? Did you really think you could 
             call up the devil and ask him to behave?"
____________________________________________________________
(discussing the possiblity that the man was eaten by a snake)
Scully: "That's impossible. It would take a large python hours to consume and weeks to digest a 
             human body."
Mulder: "You really do watch the Learning Channel."
____________________________________________________________
Paul Vitares: "It [the showers] will make the blood easier to clean up." 
____________________________________________________________
Writing on blackboard: "Goodbye, it's been nice working with you." 

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                                                        2.15 Fresh Bones

                                                 US Airdate: February 3, 1995

                                                    writer: Howard Gordon
                                                    director: Rob Bowman

STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:
Colonel Wharton ................ Daniel Benzali
Private Jack McAlpin ........... Kevin Conway
Private Kittel ................. Roger Cross
Robin McAlpin .................. Katya Gardner
Private Harry Dunham ........... Matt Hill
Lieutenant Foyle ............... Peter Kelamis
Skinny Man ..................... Adrien Malebranche
Groundskeeper .................. Callum Keith Rennie
Chester Bonaparte .............. Jamil Walker Smith
Mr. X .......................... Steven Williams
Pierre Bauvais ................. Bruce Young

HAITIAN REFUGEES IN AN INTERNMENT CAMP SEEM TO KNOW MORE THAN THEY ARE 
TELLING ABOUT A SERIES OF INEXPLICABLE MURDERS IN NORTH CAROLINA.

A marine private dies mysteriously after contact with a group of Haitian refugees interned in a camp in North Carolina. Voodoo is suspected when ritual signs are found scrawled in the vicinity. Although local law enforcement dismisses them as graffiti, Mulder and Scully investigate to 
find a sinister plot hatching in the crowded camp. Their inquiries are complicated by the possibility of hypnotic suggestions, voodoo curses and outright poisoning. A surprising reversal reveals that not everyone at the camp is who -- or what --he seems to be.

                                                                    Notes

The final scene inside the coffin mirrors the final scene from the Wes Craven movie 'The Serpent and the Rainbow', which was based on a Wade Davis book about his experiences in Haiti.

The design painted on the tree into which McAlpin crashes his car is a "vever", a sign belonging to the 'loa' or spirits honored in the voudoun. Bauvais explains the vever as a loco-miroir, or mirror of the soul.

                                                                Quotes
____________________
Mulder: "Private John McAlpin, one of the few... proud... the dead."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Let's go, Mulder."
Mulder: "Wait, you should always carry protection." 
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "...I'll admit the power of suggestion is considerable, this [Chester's charm] is no more 
            magic than a pair of fuzzy dice..."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "He's non-verbal, non-responsive to voice, touch or pain. The neurologists suspect he 
            suffered a severe concussion in the crash resulting in in amnesia."
Mulder: "That's a plausible diagnosis though I'm more interested in how he came back to life."
____________________________________________________________ 
Scully: "Except this is strange. The lab detected trace levels of tetrodotoxin in his blood. That's a 
            poison found in the liver and reproductive organs of Puffer fish, a Japanese delicacy."
Mulder: "Only I get the feeling that Private McAlpin didn't frequent too many sushi bars."
Scully: "You have a theory on how it got into his blood?"
Mulder: "What do you know about zombies?"
Scully: "Well I hope you don't intend to tell Robbie McAlpin that she married one..."
____________________________________________________________
(Mulder and Scully watching the frogs Chester has caught in the graveyard hopping out of the bag)
Scully: "Maybe I should kiss a few and find out if one is Guitterez." 
____________________________________________________________
Chester: "He (Bauvais) even made my fries disappear!"
Mulder: "Well Chester, I got magic, too. And I bet I can make your fries reappear."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "You think he's telling the truth?"
Mulder: "Until I can figure out why he lied, yeah."
____________________________________________________________
(Mulder and Scully come into the Colonel's office as he's having breakfast)
Colonel: "I'm sorry, I'm having my breakfast."
Mulder: "That's alright, we already ate." 
____________________________________________________________
(Mulder talking to Mr. X, after he's received a 10 of diamonds playing card)
Mulder: "I was surprised to get your card."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "You O.K.?"
Scully: "I feel better than you look..." 
____________________________________________________________
Mr. X. : "In case you hadn't heard Agent Mulder, the Statue of Liberty is on vacation." 

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                                                             2.16 Colony

                                                US Airdate: February 10, 1995

                                                        writer: Chris Carter
                                           story by: Chris Carter & David Duchovny
                                                        director: Nick Marck

STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:
CIA Agent Ambrose Chapel ....... Tom Butler
Bill Mulder ................ Peter Donat
Dr. Landon Prince/Gregor's ..... Dana Gladstone
FBI Agent ...................... David L. Gordon
Field Doctor ................... Bonnie Hay
Federal Marshall ............... Tim Henry
Agent Barry Weiss .............. Andrew Johnston
Samantha Mulder ................ Megan Leitch
Military Policeman ............. Michael McDonald
First Jailer ................... Capper McIntyre
Asst. Director Walter S. Skinner ..... Mitch Pileggi
Mulder's Mother ................ Rebecca Toolan
Pilot .......................... Brian Thompson

MULDER AND SCULLY INVESTIGATE THE DEATHS OF THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS -- 
AND A MYSTERY FROM MULDER'S OWN PAST COMES BACK TO SHOCK HIM.

In this first part of a two-part story, Mulder and Scully are alerted to a strange coincidence: the recent murders of three abortion clinic doctors, who have nothing in common save their identical resemblance to one another. Tracing the murders, they are caught up in a web of deception, facing off against an alien assassin who has the ability to change his appearance to resemble anyone at all. A CIA agent who shares Mulder's agenda fills them in on an old Soviet cloning project, with devastating implications. Mulder's own family is dragged into the mystery, as his father calls him home to meet a stranger who claims to be his sister. Scully is confronted by the alien assassin, who enters her room and bears a perfect resemblance to Mulder. 

                                                                 Notes

When the fake Mulder wakes Scully, the time is 11:21.

Ambrose Chapel, the CIA agent who speaks with Mulder and Scully shares his name with a church in the Alfred Hitchcock movie 'The Man Who Knew Too Much'. In the movie, the phrase Ambrose Chapel was incorrectly assumed to be the name of a person.

Personal note: If you want to understand anything about Mulder and his search for his sister, you must see these two episodes. We also meet the Alien Bounty Hunter here, and he becomes important in later seasons. These two stand the test of time and are on my must see again list. We 
finally see some real concern for each other between the two agents. Personally, I was on the verge of tears a few times in these two hours, call me sentimental. 

                                                                  Quotes
____________________
(Mulder's opening monologue)
"I have lived with a fragile faith built on the ether of vague memories from an experience that I can neither prove nor explain.When I was twelve, my sister was taken from me, taken from our home by a force that I came to believe was extraterrestrial. This belief sustained me, fueling a quest for truths that were as elusive as the memory itself. To believe as passionately as I did was not without sacrifice, but I always accepted the risks...to my career, my reputation, my relationships ... to life itself ... What happened to me out on the ice has justified every belief. If I should die now, it would be with the certainty that my faith has been righteous. And if, through death, larger mysteries are 
revealed, I will have already learned the answer to the question that has driven me here ... that there is intelligent life in the universe other than our own... that they are here among us ...and they have begun to colonize."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Oh, hey. I've been looking for you."
Scully: "I was just down the street. Someone fired more shots at the White House last night."
Mulder: "You gotta wonder about a country where even the President has to worry about drive-by 
             shootings." 
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Triplets?"
Mulder: "Nope. I can't find any blood connection between them. In fact, I can't find any records on 
             them at all. It's as if before they died, they never existed."
Scully: "What?"
____________________________________________________________
Policeman: "Dr. Prince performed legal clinical abortions. He seems to be having his own share of 
                  occupational hazards these days."
____________________________________________________________
Policeman: "We're hoping for an indictment."
Mulder: "Soon as you locate Dr. Prince's remains..."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "I've got a bad feeling about this case, Mulder."
Mulder: "What do you mean?"
Scully: "Well, nothing about it makes sense. We've got 3 deaths of identical victims, no bodies, a 
             virtual non-suspect..."
Mulder: "Sounds just like an X-File..." 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "If somebody really wanted to set us up would they give us this little to go on?" 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "How would you access that?" (voice mail)
Receptionist: "Well, you'd start by paying the bill."
____________________________________________________________
Dana's computer reads:
--Date-- Mail 485723 Image enclosed
To: D_Scully@FBI.gov
From: 82974@anon.server.ca
Dr. James Dickens, Washington
____________________________________________________________
(after Mulder gets hit by a car)
Scully: "How are you feeling?"
Mulder: "Like I should have used the crosswalk. (picks up remains of his cell phone) A lot better 
             than my phone."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Our 'friend' from the CIA is about as unbelievable as his story. As is everything about this 
            case. I mean, whatever happened to 'Trust No One,' Mulder?"
Mulder: "I changed it to 'Trust Everyone'. I didn't tell you?"
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: (to Scully) "I think *you're* paranoid."
____________________________________________________________
Samantha: "Is it too late for a game of Stratego?"
Mulder: "It's twenty-two years too late."

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                                                          2.17 End Game

                                             US Airdate: February 17, 1995

                                                    writer: Frank Spotnitz
                                                    director: Rob Bowman

STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:
Lieutenant Terry Wilmer ........ Colin Cunningham
Bill Mulder ................ Peter Donat
Samantha Mulder ................ Megan Leitch
Asst. Director Walter S. Skinner .... Mitch Pileggi
Pilot .......................... Brian Thompson
Mr. X .......................... Steven Williams

MULDER'S DESPERATE SEARCH FOR HIS SISTER TAKES ON NEW URGENCY AS HE 
CHASES THE ONE MAN WHO MAY KNOW HER WHEREABOUTS INTO THE ARCTIC WASTES. SCULLY ENLISTS SKINNER'S AID TO FIND HIM.

Mulder faces an excruciating choice when he is forced to ransom his partner by turning over the woman he believes is his sister to the alien assassin. Guilt-ridden, he must answer to his father for losing his sister yet again, bringing more grief upon his family. But his further search turns up a surprising secret about "Samantha," leading him on a quest that takes him literally to the ends of the earth. Scully must enlist the aid of Assistant Director Skinner to rescue him before the alien assassin kills him. In the frozen desert of the Arctic ice shield, Mulder finally gets an answer about his sister -- even though the asking price is his life.

                                                                  Notes

The title refers to the term given to the last set of moves in a chess game.

The scene shown at the beginning, which mirrors the last scene of "Colony", is slightly different. In "Colony", Scully's face is seen as she hears Mulder's voice on the phone, then she turns around and we see the fake Mulder. In this episode, as she hears his voice, the fake Mulder is seen in the background, slightly out of focus.

                                                                Quotes
____________________
Captain: "Prepare to surface!"
Midshipman: "Surface into what? We're under 32 feet of glacial ice!" 
____________________________________________________________
(Scully has her gun drawn on Mulder/Alien Bounty Hunter)
Mulder: "Okay, I'm going to take my left hand and reach into my pocket and get my ID, okay? Just 
             don't shoot me. I got shot once and I didn't much care for it..."
____________________________________________________________
Samantha: "I know how to kill him."
Mulder: "How?"
Samantha: "By piercing the base of the skull..."
Mulder: "That would kill anybody."
____________________________________________________________ 
Samantha: "I'm fairly sure it will work"
Mulder: " 'Fairly sure' "?? 
____________________________________________________________
(after Samantha tells long tale about alien/human testing etc.)
Mulder: "That's a good story. But I've heard a lot of good stories lately."
____________________________________________________________
(Mulder lounging around in his darkened apartment)
Mulder: "Make yourself at home..."
Skinner: "What's going on here, Agent Mulder? Why are all the lights out?"
Mulder: "Orders from my opthalmologist."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "These guys can hollow out a dime at 200 yards."
____________________________________________________________ 
Header on Mulder's computer:
Mail- 238479 (man she gets a lot of e-mail!)
To: Dana Scully, 001013
From: Fox Mulder, 000517
____________________________________________________________
Mr X: "You wanted to see me?"
Mulder: "How was the opera?"
Mr X: "Wonderful. I've never slept better. I don't like these hasty public meetings, Agent Mulder."
Mulder: "I'm sorry. I need your help."
Mr X: "It's over. The fat lady is singing." 
____________________________________________________________
Mr X: "The key to winning the war, Mr. Mulder, is knowing which battles to fight." 
____________________________________________________________
(Mr. X and Skinner in the elevator after X has seen Scully in Mulder's apartment)
Mr. X: "Excuse me.."
Skinner: "Did you tell her what she needed to know? (slams X against the elevator wall) How hard 
              do you want to make this?"
Mr. X: "No harder than it has to be." (Headbutts Skinner, they exchange blows, Skinner finally 
           tossing X down on the floor. X pulls gun)
Mr. X: "I've killed men for far less."
Skinner: "You pull that trigger you'll be killing 2 men. Now I want to know where Mulder is..."
____________________________________________________________
(Skinner appears at her door, cut, bleeding, tie askew, from his run-in with Mr. X with info on Mulder's whereabouts)
Scully: "How did you get this?"
Skinner: "Unofficial channels."
____________________________________________________________
Assassin: "Is the answer to your question worth dying for? Is that what you want?"
Mulder: "Where is she? Just tell me where she is."
Assassin: "She's alive......Can you die now?"
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Hey, how you feeling?"
Mulder: "Like I got a bad case of freezer burn." 
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Thanks for ditching me..."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Did you find what you were looking for?"
Mulder:(whispering) "No... no. But I found something I'd thought I'd lost. Faith to keep looking."
____________________________________________________________ 
Scully's closing monologue: 
"Transfusion and an aggressive treatment with anti-viral agents have resulted in a steady but gradual improvement in Agent Mulder's condition. Blood tests have confirmed his exposure to the still unidentified retrovirus whose origin remains a mystery. The search team that found Agent Mulder has located neither the missing submarine nor the man he was looking for. Several aspects of this case remain unexplained, suggesting the possibility of paranormal phenomena ...but I am convinced that to accept such conclusions is to abandon all hope of understanding the scientific events behind them. Many of the things I have seen have challenged my faith and my belief in an ordered universe but this uncertainty has only strengthened my need to know, to understand, to apply reason to those things which seem to defy it. It was science that isolated the retrovirus Agent Mulder was exposed to, and science that allowed us to understand its behavior, and ultimately, it was science that saved Agent Mulder's life."

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                                                      2.18 Fearful Symmetry

                                               US Airdate: February 24, 1995

                                                    writer: Steve DeJarnatt
                                                director: James Whitmore, Jr.

STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:
Ray Floyd ...................... Charles Andre
Willa Ambrose .................. Jayne Atkinson
Frohike ........................ Tom Braidwood
Kyle Lang ...................... Lance Guest
Byers .......................... Bruce Harwood
Ed Meecham ..................... Jack Rader

ELEPHANTS AND TIGERS FALL FROM THE SKY AS MULDER AND SCULLY EXPLORE A 
SERIES OF ZOO ABDUCTIONS.

A rampage by an invisible force leads Mulder and Scully to a zoo where strange abductions may be taking place. In a zoo where no births have taken place in decades, Mulder and Scully seek evidence for alien involvement in human conservation efforts. Their search is obstructed by old rivalries and new betrayals, while humans and animals continue to die. Only a gorilla who can use sign language can interpret events for them -- and her time is running out.

                                                                  Notes

The title comes from William Blake's poem 'The Tyger' - "Tyger, tyger, burning bright // in the forests of the night // What immortal hand or eye // could frame thy fearful symmetry?" and the construction site where the tiger is killed is named Blake Towers after William Blake.

                                                                    Quotes
____________________
Janitor: "They don't pay you to dance, Roberto... God is watching..."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Mulder, if you're still suggesting that the elephant did this, it just defies logic. Somebody 
            would have seen it."
Mulder: "Well if somebody would have seen it, Scully, we wouldn't be here."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "I'd be willing to admit the possibility of a tornado, but it's not really tornado season. I'd 
             even be willing to entertain the notion of a black hole passing over the area or some 
             cosmic anomaly but it's not really black hole season either. If I were a betting man, I'd say 
             it was ..."
Scully: "An invisible elephant?"
Mulder: "I saw David Copperfield make the Statue of Liberty disappear once."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "What'cha looking for, Mulder?"
Mulder: "Uhh... local paper. I wanna see if David Copperfield is in town."
____________________________________________________________
(Mulder looking at the fence)
Willa: "Elephants aren't particularly good jumpers, if that's what you're thinking..."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "How's your relationship with Ed Meacham?"
Willa: "I'm his boss and I'm a woman, and Ed doesn't like that much."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "And you consider that inhumane treatment?"
Kyle: "It's like you or I living in a pickle barrel."
____________________________________________________________
Kyle: "...All animals should run free."
Scully: "Even if that means trampling a man to death?"
Kyle: "Maybe he should have gotten out of the way."
Mulder: "I'm sure he would have if he had seen it coming."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "It's all happening at the zoo, Scully."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "And where are you going?"
Mulder: "To talk to the animals." (refering to the Lone Gunman)
____________________________________________________________
(Mulder in video room talking to LGM via satellite)
Frohike: "Beam me up, Scotty."
Mulder: "Anybody ever tell you the camera loves you, Frohike?"
Frohike: "Yeah, the arresting officers at the free James Brown rally."
Byers: "So what's this costing the tax payers, Mulder?"
Mulder: "About one-hundred-fifty bucks an hour."
Frohike: "Ouch, almost as much as Bill Clinton's haircuts."
Mulder: "Where's Langley?"
Byers: "He had a philisophical issue with bouncing his image off a satellite."
____________________________________________________________
(Mulder's cell-phone beeps)
Frohike: "If that's the lovely Agent Scully, let her know I've been working out...I'm buff!"
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Is this who you wanted to speak with?" (meaning Sophie the ape)
Mulder: "It's basic investigative procedure, Agent Scully. Interview all the possible witnesses." 
____________________________________________________________
(Scully is about to go inside the dead elephant, ewww!)
Scully: "I hope you know what you're getting us into, Mulder."
Mulder: "I'm pretty sure of what we're gonna find."
Scully: '"Cause this isn't exactly in my job description."
Mulder: "Ah, next thing you know they'll be doing it on MTV Sports."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "There's evidence of hyperplasia and the corpus luteum is ruptured."
Willa: "That's not possible."
Mulder: "Neither is an invisible elephant." 
____________________________________________________________
(after he kills the rampaging tiger)
Ed: "It's all right, Willa. They don't all talk and draw pictures."
____________________________________________________________
Willa: "Aliens impregnating zoo animals?"
Mulder: "Yes, and harvesting embryos." 
Willa: "Why?"
Mulder: "Maybe their own Noah's ark? To preserve the DNA of these animals that we're depleting 
             to extinction. Whatever it is, that's probably the reason why you've never had a successful 
             birth at this facility."
Willa: "I think that's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard."
Mulder: "I understand that you might think it was ridiculous and maybe you should ask Sophie..."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "I was looking for a pen to finish my report in Willa's office. I found this in a drawer. " 
            (Picture of Willa and Kyle)
Mulder: "It's a Small World After All..." 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder:(showing the hand gestures Sophie used) "What does this mean?"
Willa: "It doesn't make any sense....Man....Save....Man..."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder's closing monologue:
"Willa Ambrose and Ed Meecham have been charged with manslaughter for the death of Kyle Lang. But though the courts will rule on this matter and justice will no doubt be served, the pall of a greater tragedy remains. The motives of the silent visitors who set these events in motion remain unclear. Could this be a judgement on a global rate of extinction that incurs to over 1000 times its natural rate in this century? Knack of alien conservation of animals we are driving hard toward oblivion? And if so, might it follow, that our own fate could finally be determined by the conservatorship of an extraterrestrial race? More, in the simple words of a creature whose own future is uncertain, will man save man?"
____________________________________________________________
Sign outside church:

Man has no preminence over beast;
for all is vanity.

(same quote is used in season 4 ep "Sanguarium")

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                                                         2.19 Dod Kalm

                                                 US Airdate: March 10, 1995

                                          writers: Alex Gansa & Howard Gordon
                                                   story by: Howard Gordon
                                                      director: Rob Bowman

STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:
Halverson ...................... Mar Anderson
Lieutenant Richard Harper ...... Dmitry Chepovetsky
Captain Barclay ................. David Cubitt
Ionesco ........................ Stephen Dimopoulos
Olafsson ....................... Vladimir Kulich
Sailor ......................... John McConnach
Nurse .......................... Bob Metcalfe
Burke .......................... Claire Riley
Henry Trondheim ................ John Savage

THE SAME PHENOMENON THAT AGED AN ENTIRE SHIP'S CREW IN A MATTER OF DAYS 
MAY CLAIM SCULLY AND MULDER UNLESS THEY CAN DISCOVER THE CAUSE.

When a crew of healthy young men ages 50 years overnight, Mulder and Scully take off for the North Atlantic to probe a new version of the "Bermuda Triangle." Suspecting military experiments in wormholes and other phenomena may be responsible, they travel to a stranded, abandoned 
destroyer. But once on board, they find themselves not only stranded and adrift but at the mercy of the strange force that is aging the survivors overnight. A pirate, a bewildered captain and a water-recycling system hold tantalizing clues; Mulder and Scully must find the cause and counteract it before they die of old age.

                                                                  Notes

The liferaft the crewman are jumping into in the opening teaser is numbered 925 (9/25 is the birthdate of Gillian Anderson's daughter, Piper).

                                                                  Quotes
____________________
Scully: "Something very strange is going on here, Mulder."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Off by about half a century. You don't seem too surprised." 
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Mulder where are we going?"
Mulder: "I'm not sure yet but we've got to get there soon."
____________________________________________________________
(Mulder looking very sick)
Mulder: "You're lucky you inherited your father's legs."
Scully: "What?"
Mulder: "Sea legs."
Scully: "Oh."
____________________________________________________________ 
Trondheim: "I guarantee it was Olaffson's men took my boat and left him stranded here. It's just like these dogs to slit each other's throats."
____________________________________________________________ 
(Mulder is getting really old)
Mulder: "You know, I always thought when I got older, I'd maybe take a cruise somewhere. This isn't exactly what I had in mind...The service on this ship is terrible, Scully. It's not fair...It's not our time. We still have work to do..." 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "I think I just lapped George Burns."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "What do you know about free radicals?"
Mulder: "Is this a quiz?" 
____________________________________________________________
Trondheim: "It's a ghost ship. I mean, look at all this corrosion. No-one's been on this ship in 
                  20...30 years."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "You're almost out of pages. It's good you kept a record." 
____________________________________________________________
Olafsson: "You don't have to die."
Trondheim: "We all have to die." 
____________________________________________________________
Trondheim: "Why don't you just go ahead and shoot me if you think I'm going to let Mulder have 
                   another *drop*!"
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "I looked everywhere. And this is all I could find...It's sardine juice, half a dozen lemons and 
            uh... the water from a snow globe."
Mulder: "Slurp" (licking lips)
Scully: "It's not Evian..."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "As certain as I am of this life, we have nothing to fear when it's over." 
____________________________________________________________
Scully's final monologue: 
"Agent Fox Mulder lost conciousness at approximately 4:30 this morning, the 12th of March. There is nothing more I can do for him... or for myself. Supplies are exhausted - no food or liquid consumed for over 24 hours. The outer hull most probably flooded, though for now the inner hull is supporting the ship's mass. Among Halverson's belongings I found a children's book of Norse legends. From what I can tell, the pictures show the end of the world - not in a sudden firestorm of damnation as the Bible teaches us, but in a soft, covering blanket of snow. First the moon and the stars will be lost in a dense white fog, then the rivers and the lakes and the sea will freeze over. And finally, a wolf named Skall will open his jaws and eat the sun, sending the world into everlasting night...I think I hear the wolf at the door..."

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                                                           2.20 Humbug

                                               US Airdate: March 31, 1995

                                                     writer: Darin Morgan
                                                   director: Kim Manners

STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:
Mr. Nutt ....................... Michael Anderson
Curator ........................ Alex Diakun
The Conundrum .................. The Enigma
Sheriff Hamilton ............... Wayne Grace
Jerald Glazebrook .............. John Payne
Dr. Blockhead aka Jeffrey Swaim ..... Jim Rose
Lenny .......................... Vincent Schiavelli
Waiter ......................... Debis Simpson
Glazebrook (older) ............. Blair Slater
Hepcat Helm .................... George Tipple
Glazebrook (younger) ........... Devin Walker

THE MURDER OF A SIDESHOW PERFORMER LEADS MULDER AND SCULLY INTO THE 
SURREAL WORLD OF CIRCUS FREAKS, WHERE THEIR SEARCH FOR A KILLER TAKES 
SOME BIZARRE TURNS INTO AN ALTERNATE REALITY.

The Alligator Man, a circus performer afflicted with a rare skin disease, is the latest victim in a series of inexplicable attacks that have ranged over the entire country in the past few years. When Mulder and Scully arrive to investigate, however, they find an entire town full of circus performers and carnival freaks. Unraveling the mystery takes them to the limits of the bizarre and the surrealistic, as they must chase a killer through a community of freaks. Black humor abounds as the solution to the mystery --and the fate of the killer -- stuns even the unflappable X-Files team.

                                                                 Notes

The title is a reference to the great showmaster PT Barnum, who invented the term "humbug" to mean the selling of some real or fake object to the public by means of persuasion.

This episode originally aired 3/31/95 - the day before April Fool's Day. 

The trailer park is named Gulf Breeze, a place known as a hotbed for UFO sightings.

Jim Rose, the man playing Dr. Blockhead in this ep, is world famous for his travelling "world of freaks" and The Enigma is one of his featured acts. Those ARE real crickets he chomps on!

Personal notes: All hail the mighty pen of Darin Morgan! I'm one of those suckers born every minute that Barnum refers to, and I'm a sucker for Darin's work. A truly classic episode with wonderful humor, hence the large amount of quotes. I could have printed out the whole script, it's that good. And there are plenty of gruesome effects to keep the fans happy, the best being Leonard of course. Great scene where Lenny comes to Scully's trailor. They're both in bathrobes, he looks at her exposed cleavage, she looks at his stomach growth, then both cover themselves.

The scene where Scully is invited by the museum curator to see something wonderful is again based on PT Barnum. He was well-known for doing the same thing. Saying "tell no soul what you witness here", leading people into a room with an empty box. When the box was opened, the exit door was triggered, exactly the same as Scully's scene. 

                                                                   Quotes
____________________
Jerry's kid: (to his Dad, the Alligator Man) "Did ya see a lot of weird stuff this year?"
Jerry: "Yep, it was the weirdest show ever."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: (referring to photo of corpse) "This shows the entry wounds of the undetermined weapon. 
           There were no other injuries inflicted upon the body, no internal organs were removed 
           and/or cannibalized, and there's no signs of any sexual molestation, either."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Imagine going through your whole life looking like this?" 
____________________________________________________________
Eulogist: "...for although Jerry was a world-renowned escape artist, there is one strongbox from 
               which none of us can escape..." (coffin begins to shake violently, as if Jerry's about to 
               make an escape, Dr. Blockhead climbs out of grave)
____________________________________________________________
Dr B.: "...But as an admirer of the man's work, I am in a position to perform an impromptu tribute in 
           his honor! Namely, ramming this spike INTO MY CHEST!"
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: (to Scully) "I can't wait for the wake."
____________________________________________________________
Sheriff: "...on the inside, they're as normal as anybody."
Scully: "Until their arrest, many serial killers are considered by their friends and family to be quite 
            normal. If you truly regard these people as normal, then you must also consider the 
            possibility that they are capable of committing these crimes."
____________________________________________________________
Helm: "Who are the rubes?" (nodding towards Mulder and Scully)
____________________________________________________________
Helm: "..it's not a funhouse, it's a tabernacle of terror."
Sheriff: "It's a funhouse." 
____________________________________________________________
Sheriff Hamilton: "You don't mean to tell me you think these tracks were made by the Fiji 
                           Mermaid?!"
Scully: "Do you recall what Barnum said about suckers? " (nods towards Mulder)
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Tell me, have you done much circus work in your life?"
Mr Nutt: "And what makes you think I've ever spectated a circus? Much less been enslaved by 
              one?"
Mulder: "I know that many of the citizens here are former circus hands, and I just thought that..."
Mr Nutt: "You thought that because I am a person of short stature, that the only career I could 
               procure for myself would be one confined to the so-called 'Big Top'. You took one quick 
               look at me, and decided that you could deduce my entire life. Never did it occur to you 
               that a person of my height could have possibly obtained a degree in Hotel Management."
Mulder: "I'm sorry. I meant no offense."
Mr Nutt: "Well then why should I take offense? Just because it's human nature to make 
               instantaneous judgements of others based solely upon their physical appearances? Why 
               I've done the same thing to you, for example. I've taken in your all- American features, 
               your dour demeanor, your unimaginative necktie design, and concluded that you work for 
               the government; an FBI agent... but do you see the tragedy here? I have mistakenly 
               reduced you to a stereotype. A caricature, instead of regarding you as a specific, unique 
               individual."
Mulder: "But I am an FBI agent." (pulls out badge)
____________________________________________________________
Lenny: "Mr. Nut, the kind-hearted manager here, convinced me that to make a living by publicly 
            displaying my deformity lacked dignity. So... now I carry other people's luggage. I believe 
            these are your trailers; if they are not... then I am wrong."
____________________________________________________________
Lenny: "Good night, sleep tight, don't let the bedbugs bite. (staggers down the road, realizes what 
            he said and comes back) No, no, that's...that's not what I meant.. I... I didn't mean to imply 
            that we had bedbugs... I... I meant to say don't let... don't let the..."
Mulder: "The Fiji mermaids bite."
Bellman: "Yes, that's right... the Fiji Mermaids..."
____________________________________________________________
Dr. B.: "How many people do you know who can get out of a straightjacket in under three 
            minutes?"
Scully: "Fortunately, none."
____________________________________________________________
(Dr Blockhead has hammered a nail up his nose)
Mulder: "Have you ever performed this... act on anyone else?"
Dr B: "What, are you sick? I tell my audiences that if they're stupid enough to try this on 
          themselves they'll end up with a slight lobotomy. I am a professional."
Mulder: "Exactly how does one become a professional Blockhead? May I?" (pulls out the nail) 
____________________________________________________________
Dr. B: "Did you know that through the protective Chinese art of tu bwan you can train your testicles 
           to draw up into your abdomen?"
Mulder: "Oh, I'm doing that as we speak." 
____________________________________________________________
(The Conundrum pops out of the cauldron)
Mulder: "I saw him this morning by the river. He was eating a fish."
Dr. B: "He knows between show snacks will ruin his appetite."
Mulder: "I could be mistaken. Maybe it was another bald-headed jigsaw-puzzle tattooed naked guy 
             I saw."
Scully: "Is this man also a body manipulator?"
Dr B: "No, in the classical sense The Conundrum is a geek."
Mulder: "He eats live animals..."
Dr B: "He eats anything: live animals, dead animals, rocks, light bulbs, corkscrews, battery cables, 
          cranberries..."
Scully: "Human flesh?"
Dr B: "Only The Conundrum can answer that question. But, he doesn't answer questions, he 
          merely poses them. When an audience partakes in The Conundrum's human piranha act, 
          they are left to ask themselves... (feeds Conundrum a fist full of live crickets) .....why? But, 
          where are my manners?" (offers Scully a cricket-filled jar)
Scully: (takes one) "Thank you." (eats cricket, smiles at Mulder then walks away. Mulder looks 
            shocked, refuses the crickets) 
____________________________________________________________
(Scully pulls cricket she "ate" from behind Mulder's ear)
Scully: "It's an old sleight of hand my uncle taught me. He was only an amateur magician but he 
            was still better than those two."
Mulder: "Well I'm going over to the lab to see if they can test the blood on the window against the 
              blood on Dr. Blockhead's nail. (produces nail from mid-air) Everybody's uncle's an 
              amateur magician."
____________________________________________________________
(regarding siamese twins joined together, one died, the other died hours later)
Curator: "At the autopsy it was officially concluded that Chang died of a cerebral hemorrhage."
Scully: "And what was the official cause of Eng's death?"
Curator: "Fright."
____________________________________________________________
(after Mulder finds Mr Nutt crawling under Scully's trailer)
Mr Nutt: "I know what you're thinking my friend, but you're grossly mistaken...Just because I'm not 
              of so-called average height does not mean I must receive my thrills vicariously. Not all 
              women are attracted to overly tall, lanky men such as yourself. You'd be surprised how 
              many women find my size intriguingly alluring."
Mulder: "You'd be surprised how many men do as well."
____________________________________________________________
(Mulder and Scully are digging up object buried by sheriff)
Mulder: (pauses from his digging) "Scully, hypertrichosis does not connote lycanthrophy."
Scully: "What are you implying?"
Mulder: "We're being highly discriminatory here. Just because a man was once afflicted with 
              excessive hairyness, we've no reason to suspect him of aberrant behavior."
Scully: "It's like assuming guilt based solely on skin color, isn't it?" 
            (they look embarrassed, but keep digging)
____________________________________________________________
(Mulder and Scully are caught digging in Sheriff Hamilton's back yard)
Sheriff Hamilton: "May I ask what you're doing?"
Mulder: "We're exhuming...(uncovers buried object)....your potato."
Scully: (gives long explanation about serial killers posing as police officers) 
Mulder: "We found out you used to be Dog-faced boy." (gives pamphlet to Sheriff)
Sheriff: "Boy, look how skinny I was back then."
____________________________________________________________
Sheriff: "...I spent the first half of my life as Jim Jim. Then one morning I noticed a bald spot on top 
            of my head and realized I wasn't only losing my hair but my career as well. Eventually all 
            the hair went, on top my head anyways. The rest of my body's still pretty hairy, which is... 
            why I never go to the beach."
Scully: "That doesn't quite explain the potato."
Sheriff: "I got... ah, some warts on my hand."
Mulder: "That doesn't quite explain the potato."
Sheriff: "To get rid of warts, you... rub a sliced potato on your hand and bury it under a full moon. 
             Investigation isn't going too well, is it?" (Mulder tosses potato back into hole)
____________________________________________________________
Mr Nutt: "So tell me, Commodore? Why are the weirdos the only ones that pay their rent checks in 
               advance?"
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "You know, Mulder. For a while there I was beginning to suspect this case involved 
             something a bit more... uhm..."
Mulder: "Freakish? You really shouldn't complain about banality Scully, when your main suspect is 
             the human Blockhead..."
____________________________________________________________
(Dr. B. has fishing lines attached to his body, a spiritual journey of some sort)
Dr B: "If people knew the true price of spirituality, there'd be more atheists."
____________________________________________________________ 
Dr. B: "I don't answer any questions until I talk to my lawyer."
Mulder: "Who's your lawyer?"
Dr. B: "I represent myself."
Scully: "Sir, if you're going to be uncooperative, I'll have to handcuff you."
Dr B: "What gives you fascists the right to do that?" 
Scully: "Did I not mention we're federal agents?"
Dr B: "Did I not mention that I'm an escape artist?" (Dr B. breaks free, pushes Mulder down and 
          goes out the door, Mulder falls onto bed of nails)
Scully: "Mulder, are you okay?"
Mulder: "It's more comfortable than a futon..."
Sheriff: "Hey, look what I caught!" (has Block by his fishing lines, tugs at them)
Dr B: "Ouch!"
____________________________________________________________
Dr B: "So..., your twin can, uh (makes 'exiting' motion) and then...? (makes 'entering' motion) 
          [Lenny nods] What an act!"
____________________________________________________________
Sheriff: "Now you're sure it was the twin running around here? Now maybe it was the Fiji Mermaid, 
            he jumped back in the river and swum his way back to Fiji..."
Mulder: (to Scully) "Now you know how I feel."
____________________________________________________________
(during Dr. Blockhead's rant about the banality of the future due to genetic engineering)
Dr B: "...You see, I've seen the future, and the future looks just like him...[points to Mulder, who is 
          in a classic GQ pose] Imagine, going through your whole life looking like that. That's why it's 
          left up to the self-made freaks like me 'n The Conundrum to remind people..."
Scully: "Remind people of what?"
Dr B: "Nature abhors normality. It can't go very long without creating a mutant." 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "What's the matter with your friend?"
Dr B: "I don't know what his problem is. Maybe it's the Florida heat?"
Scully: "Hope it's nothing serious."
Conundrum: "Probably something I ate."
(Mulder and Scully stare at each other in realisation) 

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                                                        2.21 The Calusari

                                                 US Airdate: April 14, 1995

                                                    writer: Sara B. Charno
                                                    director: Michael Vejar

STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:
Charlie/Michael Holvey ......... Joel Palmer
Golda .......................... Lilyan Chauvin
Maggie Holvey .................. Helena Clarkson
Dr. Charles Burk ............... Bill Dow
Head Calusari .................. Kay E. Kuter
Steve Holvey ................... Ric Reid
Teddy Holvey ................... Oliver & Jeremy Isaac Wildsmith
Agent Karen E. Kosseff ......... Christine Willes

WHEN A LITTLE BOY'S LIFE IS THREATENED BY HIS SUPERSTITIOUS GRANDMOTHER, 
MULDER MUST SOLVE AN OLD-WORLD RIDDLE TO SAVE THE BOY'S LIFE -- AND 
SCULLY'S.

After a toddler dies on the railroad tracks at a local fair, Mulder suspects a supernatural force at work in the boy's family. To protect the surviving son, he and Scully probe a family with old-world roots and a grandmother with old-world superstitions. Scully suspects a psychological disorder, but Mulder is convinced by poltergeist-type activity that some sort of paranormal activity is taking place. When evil strikes at the family twice more, they discover a surprising family secret about the dead, a secret that threatens the living. Mulder must enlist the help of a band of old men, the Calusari, to exorcise a demon spirit. 

                                                                 Notes

Spooky, but too long-winded and serious for me, although the kid that plays Charlie/Michael is a real Omen-type and fits the part well. The final scenes are worth the price of admission though, the exorcism is the climax of this episode and highlights the wonderful art direction throughout this series. And the scene where first the face then the body of Michael appears from out of the darkness behind the hospital door...eeeek!

Let it be noted that in the episode....Mulder smiles at Scully's joke. Well, it doesn't happen much, so it should be noted ;-) 

                                                                   Quotes
____________________
Mulder: "You see this is a helium balloon here, and the only thing I learned in kindergarten is when 
             you let them go they float up, up and away. But you see this is moving away from him. 
             Horizontally."
Scully: "Did you learn about wind in kindergarten?"
____________________________________________________________
Chuck: "...but with this special software which... I designed..."
Mulder: (gives Scully an 'I don't know...' look about Chuck)
Chuck: "...we can detect hidden 'information.'" 
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "So you're saying that a... a ghost killed Teddy Holvey..." 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "...I think from the... 'information'... here, this is clearly some kind of poltergeist activity."
Scully: "Mulder, this information is the same reason why I'll see a newspaper photo with Jesus' 
            face appearing in the foliage of an Elm tree!"
____________________________________________________________
(when told the 2 yr old got out of a child-holster)
Scully: "I've seen some pretty slippery 2 year olds..."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "...So unless Teddy Holvey was the reincarnation of Houdini...and that would have been an 
             X-File in itself."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Well I think this boy needs as much protection as he can get, but just not from ghosties 
             and beasties."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Have you ever heard of Munchausen by Proxy?"
Mulder: "Yeah, my grandfather used to take that for his stomach."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Before Chuck succumbed to the glamours of academia he did a tour of duty on the old 
             Hippie Trail."
____________________________________________________________
Chuck: "In 1979 I witnessed a guru named Sala Baba create an entire feast out of thin air."
Scully: "Too bad you didn't take a picture. You could have run it through your computer and seen 
             the entire Last Supper." (NOTE: Mulder smiles at her joke!)
____________________________________________________________
Calusari #1: "It is over for now. But you must be careful. It knows you." 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "..Neither innocence nor vigilance may be protection against the howling heart of evil."

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                                                        2.22 F. Emasculata

                                                   US Airdate: April 28, 1995

                                            writers: Chris Carter & Howard Gordon
                                                     director: Rob Bowman

STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:
CHARLES MARTIN SMITH as Dr. Osbourne
JOHN TENCH as Steve (prisoner)
ANGELO VACCO as Angelo Garza
MORRIS PANYCH as Dr. Simon Auerbach
JOHN PYPER-FERGUSON as Paul (prisoner)
DEAN NORRIS as U.S. Marshal Tapia
MITCH PILEGGI as Assistant Director Walter Skinner
WILLIAM B. DAVIS as Cancer Man
LYNDA BOYD as Elizabeth
ALVIN SANDERS as the Bus Driver
KIM KONDRASHOFF as Bobby Torrence
CHILTON CRANE as Mother at Bus Station
BILL ROWAT as Doctor Torrence
JUDE ZACHARY as Winston

THE OUTBREAK OF A GROTESQUE PLAGUE IN A PRISON TRAPS SCULLY IN THE PATH 
OF AN EPIDEMIC AS MULDER CHASES ESCAPED FELONS WHO MAY BE CARRYING THE 
DISEASE INTO SOCIETY.

When two prisoners break out of a federal penitentiary, Mulder and Scully are surprised to be assigned to the case. But when they learn that a deadly disease is infesting the inmates, they fear the contagion may be about to be loosed on the populace by the escapees. In a frantic race against time and biology, Scully must help discover the origin of the plague and ensure its containment. Her research convinces her that this outbreak was no accident, and may be part of a massive conspiracy and cover-up. Mulder's attempts to get to the bottom of the cover-up are 
thwarted by a sniper, The Cigarette-Smoking Man, and his own superiors. 

                                                                   Notes

The title is a reference to the full name of the insect which carries the disease, Faciphaga Emasculata.

The package mailed to the inmate is package number DDP112148 (Chris Carter's Wife, Dori Pierson, and her birthday)

The house number of the escaped prisoner's wife is 925, the birthdate of Gillian Anderson's daughter, Piper.

Production assistant Angelo Vacco plays gas station attendant Angelo Garza, a part Chris Carter wrote especially for him.

                                                                   Quotes
____________________
Scully: "According to the briefing, prisoners escaped by hiding in a laundry cart."
Mulder: "I don't think the guards are watching enough prison movies."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "I thought this was about escaped prisoners..."
Scully: "It is."
Mulder: "Then who are the men in the funny suits?"
____________________________________________________________
Marshall: "FBI, we're not a crook and politician sting."
____________________________________________________________ 
Marshall: "Well then you'd be a real big help is you just tried to...stay out of the way."
Mulder: "Well, we'd be happy to, soon as we can talk to someone who's in CHARGE..." 
Marshall: (peeved) "I'm in charge here."
Mulder: "Apparently not, or you'd know why our involvement was requested."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Where are you going?"
Mulder: "To see if I can get in the way." 
____________________________________________________________
Mean Doc: (to Scully) "You see what I let you see."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Kid's got a lot of hair - probably absorbed the blow." 
____________________________________________________________
Marshall: "Until we can access them [the prisoners' records] this is Smokey and the Bandit."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "My badge number is JTT047101111."
____________________________________________________________
Cancer Man: "Then you don't know much, Agent Mulder."
____________________________________________________________ 
Cancer Man: "The truth would have caused panic. Panic would have cost lives. We control the 
                    disease by controlling the information."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "You can't protect the public by lying."
Cancer Man: "It's done every day..."
____________________________________________________________
Cancer Man: "How many people are being infected while you stand here not doing your job? 10? 
                     20? What's the truth, Agent Mulder?"
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "There'll be a time for the truth, Mulder, but this isn't it." 
____________________________________________________________
Skinner: "You really have no idea who you're dealing with, do you?"
Mulder: "I THOUGHT I was dealing with you."
____________________________________________________________
Skinner: "I stand right on the line that you keep crossing!"
____________________________________________________________ 
Skinner: "Agent Mulder. I'm saying this as a friend. Watch your back. This is just the beginning."

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                                                          2.23 Soft Light

                                                  US Airdate: May 5, 1995

                                                     writer: Vince Gilligan
                                                   director: James Contner

STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:
Government Scientist ........... Forbes Angus
Second Officer ................. Steve Bacic
Detective Barron ............... Nathaniel Deveaux
Barney ......................... Guyle Fraizer
Dr. Christopher Davey .......... Kevin McNulty
Doctor ......................... Robert Rozen
Dr. Chester Ray Banton ......... Tony Shalhoub
Detective Kelly Ryan ........... Kate Twa
Mr. X .......................... Steven Williams 
Night Nurse .................... Donna Yamamoto

A PHYSICS EXPERIMENT GONE WRONG LEAVES A DISTURBED SCIENTIST WITH A 
SHADOW THAT CAN KILL.

A former student of Dana Scully's asks for her help in solving some puzzling disappearances: people who have vanished, leaving only strange scorch marks behind. Mulder and Scully pursue a scientist whose shadow has become a terrible weapon as a result of a freak lab accident. But the X-Files team is not the only one chasing the scientist, and Mulder goes up against his own ally in an attempt to keep the secret from falling into the wrong hands.

                                                               Notes

The title refers to the fact that the sharper the lighting is, the more dangerous Banton's shadow becomes - in other words, if people are to survive then, as Mulder states, he needs soft light.

Morleys cigarettes are the brand of cigarettes Cancer Man smokes.

                                                               Quotes
____________________
Kelly: (to Mulder) "Heard a lot about you..." 
Mulder: (to Scully) "We'll talk later..."
____________________________________________________________
Kelly: "Agent Scully, what are you looking at?"
Scully: "Uh, the heat register."
Kelly: "You don't think anyone could have squeezed in there?"
Mulder: "You never know..." (reference to the character Tooms from the episodes "Tooms" and 
            "Squeeze")
____________________________________________________________
(Mulder & Scully discussing the possibility of a spontaneous combustion theory)
Scully: "Let's just forget for the moment that there's no scientific theory to support it."
Mulder: "Okay." 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Hey Scully, can you spare a prophylactic?"
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Darkness covers a multitude of sins."
Mulder: "Check this out. My newest tool in the fight against crime. $49.95 at your local hardware 
             store."
Scully: "Neat trick. For your birthday I'll buy you a utility belt."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Yeah but half of Richmond earns their paycheck making cancer sticks." 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Maybe it's not so spontaneous. Get on the phone to your 'young detective' and tell her to 
             get a detail down to the train station."
____________________________________________________________
Banton: "Oh god, not again!"
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Chances are he's not walking around carrying a sign with an arrow on it." 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Why's he doing that?" (looking at the floor)
Scully: "Probably the same reason he spends his whole afternoon in the train station."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Powered by what?"
Davey: "Couple billion megawatts. Virginia Power loved us."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "...Nonsensical repetitive behavior is a common trait of mental illness."
Mulder: "You trying to tell me something?"
____________________________________________________________
Det. Beren: "Yeah, I was just wondering what your involvement is here."
Mulder: "We caught the guy."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "...He believes the government is out to get him."
Mr X: "It's tax season. So do most Americans."
____________________________________________________________
Mr X: "Dead men can't keep promises. The next time the blood and regret might be yours."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you, Scully." 

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                                                            2.24 Our Town

                                                    US Airdate: May 12, 1995

                                                        writer: Frank Spotnitz
                                                        director: Rob Bowman

STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:
Sheriff Tom Arens .............. Gary Grubbs
Doris Kearns ................... Caroline Kava
George Kearns .................. John MacLaren
Creighton Jones ................ Hrothgar Matthews
Walter Chaco ................... John Milford
Paula Gray ..................... Gabrielle Miller
Dr. Vance Randolph ............. Robin Mossley
Jess Harold .................... Timothy Webber

MULDER AND SCULLY INVESTIGATE DISAPPEARANCES IN A REMOTE ARKANSAS TOWN 
WHERE LEGENDS ABOUT MYSTERIOUS LIGHTS IN THE WOODS GO BACK FOR DECADES.

When a federal inspector vanishes in a remote Arkansas town, Mulder and Scully look into reports of strange lights. Legends mentioning the fox fire lights, linked with strange disappearances, go back for years in the lore of the region. But the deeper they dig into the missing man's connections in the town, the stranger the town begins to look. Unusually long life spans and youthful appearances cause Mulder and Scully to suspect that there may be more to the local chicken-processing industry than meets the eye. Mulder stumbles onto the horrifying secret even as Scully's life is threatened by a masked murderer.

                                                               Notes

The title is probably a homage to the Thornton Wilder play, "Our Town", about life in a small town.

Mr. Chaco and Chaco Chicken are named for Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, where the Anasazi tribe lived and where boiled bones such as those depicted in the episode were uncovered.

                                                              Quotes
____________________
Scully: "They're sending us on some kind of a wild goose chase."
Mulder: "Chicken chase."
____________________________________________________________ 
Scully: "I'm surprised she didn't call Oprah as soon as she got off the phone with the police."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Well, most legends don't leave behind 12 foot burn marks." 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "...It gave me nightmares."
Scully: "I didn't think anything gave you nightmares."
Mulder: "Well I was young."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "The state police found his car on the I-10, right in the middle of Dudley, Arkansas. Home 
              of Chaco Chicken."
____________________________________________________________
Chaco Motto: Good Food. Good People.
____________________________________________________________
(after being told that chicken feed contains dead chickens)
Mulder: "Chickens eat chickens?"
____________________________________________________________
Mr Chaco: "Not many people I know as useful as these chickens." 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Who knows, Scully? This could turn out to be even *more* interesting than foxfires."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "I just came up with a sick theory."
Mulder: "Oooo, I'm listening!" 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Well I'd like it (the river) dragged as soon as possible."
Sheriff: "Why would ya wanna do that?"
Mulder: "To see what's in there."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "All of them share one strange detail, Mulder."
Mulder: "Well they seem to have lost their heads..."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Someone's been playing with matches..."

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2.A  The Secrets of the X-Files
      US air date: May 19, 1995          

     w: Ron Scalera & Bart Montgomery


This was a one hour special retrospective on the last two seasons
 of the show.


        Narrator  .......................  Richard Courtney

=========================================================================


                                                           2.25 Anasazi 

                                                  US Airdate: May 19, 1995

                                                        writer: Chris Carter
                                        story by David Duchovny & Chris Carter
                                                     director: R.W. Goodwin

STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:
Frohike ........................ Tom Braidwood
Thinker aka Kenneth Soona ...... Bernie Coulson
Cancer Man .................... William B. Davis
Antonio ........................ Aurelio Dinunzio
Bill Mulder .................... Peter Donat
Langly ......................... Dean Haglund
Byers .......................... Bruce Harwood
Agent Alex Krycek .............. Nicholas Lea
Agent Kautz .................... Paul McLean
Father ......................... Byron Chief Moon
Josephine Doane ................ Renae Morriseau
Asst. Director Walter S. Skinner .... Mitch Pileggi
Senior Agent ................... Michael David Simms
Albert Hosteen ................. Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman

MULDER'S WORLD FALLS APART AROUND HIM AS EVERY SINGLE PERSON HE TRUSTS 
SEEMS TO TURN AGAINST HIM IN A CONSPIRACY LEADING TO THE HEART OF THE 
MYSTERY HE CHASES.

When a computer hacker breaks into the most secret files of the Department of Defense, he uncovers a secret going back to the end of World War II. Mulder is drawn in as he is handed what may be the ultimate proof of extraterrestrial existence, government conspiracy and the fate of his sister. But his increasingly irrational behavior alarms Scully, who must save him from himself as his actions take him farther and farther from the tenuous hold the Bureau has on him, into the realms 
of the most extreme possibility. The conspirators Mulder has fought against emerge with a vengeance, threatening the lives not only of Mulder's family but of Mulder himself in a season-finale cliff-hanger, the first of a three-part series.

                                                                   Notes

The title refers to an ancient tribe of Indians who lived in the American Midwest in the Middle Ages; the name translates as 'ancient aliens', and they vanished without trace in the seventeenth century.

Chris Carter himself appears in a cameo (his acting debut) as one of Scully's interrogators in Skinner's office.

Director R.W. Goodwin makes a cameo appearance as a gardener.

On Mulder's screen, as the gibberish scans by, you can see the line "do-ray-me-fa-so-la-todo" (5 lines under the Department of Defense heading).

Tagline: EI 'AANIGOO 'AHOOT'E

Personal notes: What a season ender !!! Not only did we have all summer to fret about how Mulder was going to get out of that boxcar (an answer we'd STILL like!), but we were forced to deal with Cancer Man having a working relationship with Mulder's father, Bill. Of course, Bill never had a chance to explain it all to Mulder as he gets killed by....looks like Krycek right? Maybe, we're still debating who else may have been in that shower...or whether it was really an alien shape-shifter!
This episode is the beginning of our long journey towards the truth about smallpox vaccinations and alien/human hybrids. More questions come up in part two "The Blessing Way" and part three "Paper Clip". Such questions upon questions, where will it end? Who cares, I'm in for the long-haul, however long that may be!

                                                                Quotes
____________________
Albert Hosteen: "Leave the snakes alone today, they'll be angry and afraid."
____________________________________________________________
Thinker: "BITCH! Beautiful!" (as he gains access via computer hacking)
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: (to Lonegunmen) "I'm not feeling well. I didn't sleep last night. Really not in the mood for 
            the Three Stooges."
Frohike: "I don't think we've been followed."
Mulder: "Who would follow YOU?"
____________________________________________________________
Langly: "Trained killers. School of the America's alumni."
Mulder: "You boys been defacing library books again?"
____________________________________________________________
Thinker: "I..I don't want you to know my real name. I..I just don't think it's that important that you 
              know."
Mulder: "Sounds like a line I used in a bar once."
____________________________________________________________ 
Mulder: "Are you familiar with the 10 Commandments, Scully?"
Scully: "You want me to recite them?"
Mulder: "Just number 4, the one about obeying the Sabbath. The part where God made heaven 
             and earth but didn't bother to tell anybody about his side projects?"
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "What is this?"
Mulder: "The Holy Grail..."
____________________________________________________________ 
Scully: "Where did you get this?"
Mulder: "Your friendly neighborhood anarchist."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Mulder, are you okay?"
Mulder: "Yeah, I just haven't been sleeping." 
____________________________________________________________
Cancer Man: "As always, we maintain plausible denial. The files are only as real as their possible 
                     authentication."
____________________________________________________________
Bill Mulder's dying words: "Forgive me..."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "I came home. Must be running a fever. Maybe it's the threat of being burned at the 
             stake."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "So you can clear your conscience and your name? You've been making reports on me 
             since the beginning, Scully, taking your LITTLE NOTES !!!"
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "You have my files and you have my gun...don't ask me for my trust." 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "You shot me!"
Scully: "Yes, I did. You didn't give me much choice. You were about to kill Krycek."
Mulder: "Why'd you shoot ME? HE'S the one..." 
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Albert: "You're lucky she's a good shot."
Mulder: "Or a bad one..." 
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Scully: "My name is in those files."
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Mulder: "What is the truth?"
Albert: "Nothing disappears without a trace." 
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Mulder: "What's buried out there?"
Albert: "Lies. You will see for yourself." 
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Cancer Man: "You're a hard man to reach."
Mulder: "Not hard enough, apparently."
Cancer Man: "Where are you?"
Mulder: "I'm at the Betty Ford Center, where are you?"
Cancer Man: "I need to talk to you, Mr. Mulder. In person. There are things to explain." 
Mulder: "I'll save the government the plane fare. I just need to know which government that is." 
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Mulder: "No, he couldn't live with it because you had him killed." 
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Mulder: "But these aren't human, Scully. From the look of it I'd say they were alien."
Scully: "Are you sure?"
Mulder: "I'm pretty damn sure." 
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Cancer Man: "Nothing disappears without a trace. Burn it!"
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