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                                               SEASON FOUR EPISODES

"Herrenvolk", "Unruhe", "Home", "Teliko", "The Field Where I Died", "Sanguinarium", "Musings Of A Cigarette Smoking Man", "Paper Hearts", "Tunguska", "Terma", "El Mundo Gira", "Kaddish", "Never Again", "Leonard Betts"
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                                                        4.1 Herrenvolk

                                            US Airdate: October 4, 1996

                                                 writer: Chris Carter
                                              director: R.W. Goodwin

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

Guest Cast:
Agent Pendrell ..... Brendan Beiser
Second Senior Agent ...... Ken Camroux
Repairman ...... Garvin Cross
Marita Covarrubius .... Laurie Holden
Gray-Haired Man ..... Morris Panych
Senior FBI Agent ..... Michael David Simms
Jeremiah Smith ..... Roy Thinnes
Pilot ...... Brian Thompson
Mrs. Mulder ..... Rebecca Toolan
Elder ..... Don S. Williams
Mr. X ....... Steven Williams

SCULLY AND MULDER GO UP AGAINST AN INVINCIBLE ALIEN ASSASSIN TO PROTECT 
A TRAITOR TO THE CONSPIRACY WHO CAN LEAD THEM TO THE TRUTH...AND SAVE 
THE LIFE OF MULDER'S MOTHER.

Mulder and Scully desperately try to protect the life of Jeremiah Smith. Not only is this mysterious man a link to the colonization plan-- his paranormal healing powers are Mulder's only hope of saving his mother's life. Close on their trail is the relentless alien bounty hunter: an assassin who is hard to escape. And harder to kill.With the assassin close behind, Smith leads Mulder to an eerie, isolated farm community. There, Mulder is stunned to see clones of his sister Samantha, who had 
been abducted by aliens as a child. Smith tells Mulder that these children have been bred as worker drones. Before Smith can reveal more about the "Colonization" conspiracy, they are set upon by the alien assassin. Mulder is helpless to save Smith or Samantha.

Back in Washington, Scully's investigations into Smith's background lead her to a disquieting conclusion. All five of the identical men named Jeremiah Smith were secretly cataloguing the entire human population. But at whose orders? And why?

Meanwhile, the Cigarette-Smoking Man and the Elder have identified X as a traitor. He is ambushed and gunned down. As he dies, he leaves behind one last ambiguous clue: the letters "SRSG" scrawled in blood.

With his mother still in a coma, a despondent Mulder follows the last of his meager clues to the end of the line: the United Nations office of Special Representative to the Secretary General. An enigmatic official denies the Colony ever existed...as she hands him a folder containing photographs of the farm and of Samantha.

And finally, because "the fiercest enemy is the man who has nothing left to lose," the Cigarette-Smoking Man directs the Alien Bounty Hunter to heal Mulder's mother.

The search for the truth continues...

                                                             Notes

The title is a Nazi term meaning Master Race.

Tag line changes to "Everything Dies".

We meet the woman who may be Mulder's new informant in Marita Covarrubius, or as she's been nicknamed the UNblonde, because she works at the UN, or simply Uniblonde. Her last name translates as such: "rubia" means blonde but the whole word means yellow cave as rubia can 
also mean yellow. "Covarrubias" is a medievil town in Spain.

Some great direction: The telephone man falling from pole, straight into camera. When the Alien Bounty Hunter clicks open his icepick inside the bee hive, a bee stops in midflight at the tip. The wood chips pile gives us some beautiful images: Mulder hiding in them and sliding gracefully down them, Scully's hair being almost the same shade.

                                                             Quotes
____________________
Telephone man:(to kids) "A bee just stung me, eh? (notices that they all are identical) Well now, 
                        don't you all take the cake. Does your mom ever mix you up?" 
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Jeremiah Smith: "They'll know where to find us, they'll be waiting for us."
Mulder: "Who?"
Jeremiah Smith: "Your government men. They'll be waiting at the hospital with your mother."
Mulder: "What can they do? We're working in the light. They can't stop us without exposure, 
             without consequence."
Jeremiah Smith: "You have to understand something. I must perish. Whatever the consequences 
                          to that end, they are incalculable to the preservation of the larger plan."
Mulder: "The larger plan. You mean colonization."
Jeremiah Smith: "Hegemony, Mr. Mulder. A new origin of species."
Mulder: "I don't understand."
Jeremiah Smith: "I can show you."
Mulder: "My mother is dying. I need to take you to her right now."
Jeremiah Smith: "And if they are waiting for us? If they're willing to kill me and then face the 
                          consequence of their actions and stand before your ineffectual justice system, I 
                          will be dead. I won't be able to save your mother. The work will go on. The plan 
                          will continue to be executed. Or you can stop it."
Mulder: "HOW can I stop it?!"
Jeremiah Smith: "I can take you to a place, show you the work in progress, and you -- "
Mulder: "No, look, there's no time -- "
Jeremiah Smith: " -- and you can see your sister!"
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Mulder, he's coming after you."
Mulder: "Who?"
Scully: "The man you left for dead. He's alive."
____________________________________________________________
Mr. X: "I have information for him, a matter that would concern him greatly."
Scully: "Concern him how?"
Mr. X: "Concerning his mother."
Scully: "Has something happened to her?"
Mr. X: "No, not yet. I prefer to speak with Agent Mulder. Let's just say she is unprotected." (he 
           turns to leave)
Scully: "Not until you give me some information. These are data entries taken from Social Security 
            Records."
Mr. X: "You're going in the wrong direction, Agent Scully."
Scully: "All begin with the letters S-E-P. You know what these are. Confirm, or deny."
Mr. X: "Smallpox eradication program."
Scully: "Smallpox..."
Mr. X: "Don't unlock doors you're not prepared to go through. Protect the mother." 
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Skinner: "So what you're saying, Agent Scully, is that we're being cataloged, tagged, and 
              inventoried? By who?"
Scully: "I don't know... but it would have to be a government agency." 
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "You can't blame yourself for what you could only hope."
Mulder: "I've seen too many things not to believe."
Scully: "I've seen things too, but there are answers to find now. But I have hope that there is a 
            place to start. That's what I believe."
Mulder: "You put such faith in your science. The things I've seen, science gives no place to start."
Scully: "Nothing happens in contradiction to nature... only in contradiction to what we know of it. 
            Now that's a place to start. That's where the hope is."
Mulder: "I felt I was so close."
Scully: "I feel it too....I know it."
Mulder: "How?"
Scully: "I was warned by a man we both know, who I believe knows the truth, who can lead us to a 
            place to start." (as she is still talking, we see the recently shot Mr. X dragging himself 
            towards Mulder's apartment, writing SRSG in his own blood: Special Representative to the 
            Secretary General)
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Marita Covarrubius: "I know it's not the answer you wanted. Can I ask why this is so important to 
                              you?"
Mulder: "I've suffered some very... (his voice chokes) ...very personal losses recently and I was 
             hoping..." (he opens the file and his eyes light up when he sees it contains pictures of the 
             drones working in the fields) 
Marita Covarrubius: "Not everything dies, Mr. Mulder."
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Cancer Man: "You see, the fiercest enemy is the man who has nothing left to lose. And you know 
                     how important Agent Mulder is to the equation."

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                                                         4.2 Unruhe

                                          US Airdate: October 27, 1996

                                                writer: Vince Gilligan
                                               director: Rob Bowman

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

Guest Cast:
PRUITT VINCE as Gerry Schnauz
SCOTT HEINDL as the boyfriend
SHARON ALEXANDER as Mary LeFante
WALTER MARSH as the druggist
WILLIAM MACDONALD as Officer Trott
RON CHARTIER as Inspector Puett
MICHELE MELLAND as the doctor
ANGELA DONAHUE as Alice

MULDER'S ONLY HOPE OF STOPPING A PSYCHOTIC KILLER ARE PSYCHIC 
PHOTOGRAPHS THAT REVEAL THE MADMAN'S DARKEST FANTASIES.

Northern Michigan. A young woman is kidnapped and her boyfriend murdered. Her passport photographs, taken only moments earlier, don't show the expected smiling portraits. Instead, they display nightmarish images of the terrified girl. The photographs fascinate Mulder. Scully tries to find a logical explanation: the pictures were planted, or the film is damaged. But to Mulder, they are an example of "psychic photography": the paranormal ability to create images on film with the 
mind. Mulder theorizes that the suspect doesn't even know he possesses this gift...and that the photographs reveal the killer's darkest fantasies.

The kidnap victim is found: alive, but almost brain-dead. Her abductor had given her a primitive, botched lobotomy with an ice pick inserted through her eyes. Her mind almost gone, she endlessly repeats the word "unruhe", the German word for "trouble" or "unrest." Soon, the kidnapper abducts and kills again.

Scully realizes that the same construction company had job sites near each crime scene. While Mulder is in Washington to examine the photos at the FBI labs, Scully follows up on her lead. She knows foreman Gerry Schnauz is the kidnapper by his terrified reaction to the word "unruhe." She arrests him.

Schnauz is a formerly institutionalized paranoid schizophrenic with a history of violence. When confronted by the photographs of his victims, he's startled at the sight of his own paranoid delusions brought to life on film. Admitting the crime, he tells them where to find his other victim. She too has been lobotomized.

Schnauz kills a guard and escapes from jail. He returns to the scene of the first crime to steal the camera and film. Mulder's blood runs cold when he sees exposed photographs of Schnauz's next victim: Scully! Now, Mulder's only hope of saving her is studying the photos to get deep inside Schnauz's mind.

In captivity, Scully, too, must use everything she knows about Schnauz to keep herself alive. But she can't talk him out of his delusions. It won't be long before he wields the icepick to rid Scully of the "unruhe" he believes is tormenting her.

Mulder's insight into the madman's mind leads him to Schnauz's dark den. With hardly a moment to spare, he shoots Scully's kidnapper. And finds one last series of psychic photographs: Schnauz -- shot dead on the floor. 

                                                               Notes

The title is German, meaning "unrest."

The pictures are quite effective, they really unnerve you when you first see them. Spooky. 

                                                               Quotes
____________________
Scully: "Your film is out of date."
Druggist: "Is that against the law?"
Scully: "No, I was just making an observation." 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: (smiling after elderly druggist leaves to answer the phone) "So, which one of use gets to 
            use the stun gun on Bruno Hauptman back there?" 
Scully: "All right, so he doesn't exactly stand out as a suspect. (she shows him the picture of the 
            woman screaming)  Mulder, look at this.  You see this smeariness here?  I'm thinking it's 
            heat damage.  With the heater sitting under the film there, the emulsion probably melted."
Mulder: "So you think it would make it look like she posed screaming for a passport photo?"
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Yeah, but why stab her boyfriend through the ear? The magic was gone?"
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: (holding a camera) "Stand back, Scully, it's loaded."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: (holding up computer enhanced picture with a man's face) "Hey, Gerry, is this your 
             father?"  
Gerry: "Where'd you get that?"  (he looks spooked)
Mulder: "You left that for me, you left it like a fingerprint. Is this what you see when you close your 
              eyes, Gerry? Is that what you see?"
Gerry: (mouths the word) "Yes." 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Hey, Scully, that word -- unruhe, unrest... it's bothering me. Maybe, I mean, maybe he 
             thought he was curing them somehow, saving them from damnation.  Those things in the 
             pictures, he called them the Howlers."
Scully: "It's over, Mulder."
Mulder: "Well then, that photo wouldn't be his fantasy, it would be his nightmare."
Scully: "What the hell does it matter?"
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Scully: (she's duct-taped to the dentist chair, held hostage) "Why? Why me, Gerry? Do I remind 
            you of your sister? Why did your sister kill herself, Gerry? What did your father do to her?"
Gerry: "He didn't do anything.  It was the Howlers."
Scully: (trying to keep him talking) "Okay, then lets talk about the Howlers."  
Gerry: "They live inside your head, they make you do things and say things that you don't mean.  
           And all your good thoughts can't wish them away. You need help. You've got them,  (he 
           jabs a finger at her forehead)  right there.  Don't you feel them?"
Scully: "I don't have them, Gerry."
Gerry: "See, they made you say that just now, because they know I'm going to kill them." (he picks 
           up the awl he's used to kill the other people)
Scully: "What if you're wrong, Gerry -- what if there's no such thing as howlers, what if you made 
            them up inside your head to explain the things your sister said your father did."
Gerry: "Great. Now they've got you talking like Sigmund Freud. I am on to you! I know your tricks.  
           Besides, I've seen them. In that picture that your partner showed me. Pictures don't lie. You 
           saw them too."
Scully: "If there are such things as Howlers, Gerry, they live only inside your head."
____________________________________________________________
Scully's voiceover at end: "Addendum to case report. After his death, a diary was found along Gerald Schnauz's belongings written in the second person and apparently intended as an open letter to his father. It includes the names of his victims, the women he desired to save. My name is contained in the last entry. I have no further explanation for the existence of the photographs, nor am I confident one is forthcoming.  My captivity forced me to understand and even empathize with Gerry Schnauz.  My survival depended on it.  I see now the value of such insight, for truly to pursue monsters we must understand them, we must venture into their minds.  Only in doing so do we risk letting them venture into ours.

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                                                             4.3 Home

                                                US Airdate: October 11, 1996

                                           writers: Glen Morgan and Jim Wong
                                                    director: Kim Manners

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

Guest Cast:
Catcher .... Neil Denis
Batter .... Cory Fry
Right Fielder .... Lachlan Murdoch
Pitcher .... Douglas Smith
George Raymond Peacock ... Chris Nelson Norris
Sherman Nathaniel Peacock ... Adrian Hughes
Edmund Creighton Peacock ... John Trottier
Mrs. Peacock ..... Karin Konoval
Barbara Taylor ..... Judith Maxie
Sheriff Andy Taylor .... Tucker Smallwood
Deputy Barney Paster .... Sebastian Spence
Radio Singer ..... Kenny James

AN INVESTIGATION INTO INFANTICIDE IN AN IDYLLIC SMALL TOWN LEADS MULDER 
AND SCULLY TO AN EVEN MORE APALLING DISCOVERY: A FAMILY DEFORMED BY 
INBREEDING INTO A FERAL, MURDEROUS CLAN. 

Home, Pennsylvania.
An idyllic small town is the last place anyone would expect to find a hideously malformed newborn buried in a shallow grave. This gruesome discovery is enough for the local sheriff, Andy Taylor, to call in the FBI. Although the child's deformations indicate multiple genetic abnormalities, neither Mulder nor Scully believe this local tragedy is a matter for the X-Files: until they learn more about Home's reclusive Peacock clan. For over a century, this farm family has lived on the outskirts of town...and the outskirts of civilization. Generations of inbreeding have deformed their bodies and their souls into something less than human, and more than animal. Now that the family has dwindled down to three brothers, Mulder and Scully suspect that the Peacocks have devised a grotesque plan to propagate their species...by forcing a kidnapped woman into involuntary pregnancy.

While someone (or something) watches unseen, Mulder and Scully explore the Peacock farm and find the bloody evidence of a recent birth. Before they can arrest the Peacocks, the family strikes back. Later that night, the Peacock boys massacre the sheriff and his wife. As Mulder says, "They went caveman."

Fearing for the life of the Peacocks' prisoner, Scully and Mulder courageously invade the farmhouse with only the local deputy as back-up. When they discover the hiding place of the clan matriarch, they finally comprehend the appalling truth. Mrs. Peacock, a multiple amputee, is the 
mother of the murdered infant. And also the proud mother of three sons who'll do anything for mom.

With guile, luck, and firepower, Mulder and Scully manage to kill two of the rampaging Peacocks. In the confusion, the oldest boy and Mrs. Peacock escape in their long white Cadillac. Mother and son drive off in search of a new place to call Home.

                                                               Notes

The title may be a reference to Jayne Anne Phillips' short story "Home" from her debut collection Black Tickets (1979). Phillips is much admired and imitated, apparently, by the people behind the scenes. Also a possible homage to Sam Shepard's play "Buried Child" as David Duchovny is a big fan of Sam Shepard.

At the beginning, after the credits and the home birth, when the kids are playing baseball, the screen says "Home" and then pauses before saying "Pennsylvania". This is the closest I've seen to an actual onscreen title.

Johnny Mathis' "Wonderful, Wonderful" possible homage to his "Chances Are" from "Close Encounters" which was playing when the little boy was taken. Of course, I'll never be able to hear it the same way again!

First time Scully and Mulder visit the house we see a pig's head and hear flies buzzing around it (as we also hear a fly buzzing before we see Mom Peacock), is this a referral to "Lord Of The Flies" by William Golding? Boys alone on an island (or house) with no interaction with 
others, making their own rules and living outside of society.

Apparently on a personal appearance on Letterman, David Duchovny told a story about playing pick-up baseball as a kid, in an old Dutch immigrant cemetery in his neighborhood in New York and using the gravestones as bases. The scene where Mulder and Scully find the dead baby under home plate and Mulder drifts off remembering childhood pick-up baseball games is a possible reference to that.

Due to it being another fine Morgan-Wong episode, the first one since "Die Hand Die Verletzt," shown January 1995, we must have a "Space:Above and Beyond" reference, due to Glen Morgan being a co-creator. Tucker Smallwood (Andy Taylor) played Commodore Ross in "SAAB".

The effect of Mrs. Taylor, under the bed, as her husband's blood seeps towards her, inching her fingertips out of the way....eww! And the murder of poor Sheriff Taylor was one of the most gruesome ones I've seen on this show. Overall one of the nastiest eps so far. It's not that you actually *see* a lot, but so much is implied. Don't watch if you're squeamish. 

                                                              Quotes
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Scully: "Meanwhile I've quit the FBI and become the national spokesperson for the Ab-Roller." 
            (Mulder's not listening, he's lost in his childhood baseball memories)
Mulder:(putting ball under Scully's nose) "Smell that. (she does and wrinkles her nose) That's 
            perfume. Eau De Ball. You know, this brings back a lot of memories of my sister... all day 
            pickup games out in the Vineyard... ride your bikes down to the beach... eat baloney 
            sandwiches... The only place you had to be on time was home for dinner. Never had to 
            lock your door... no modems, no faxes, no cell phones --"
Scully:"Mulder, if you had to do without a cell-phone for two minutes you'd lapse into catatonic 
            schizophrenia."
Mulder: "You know, Scully, you don't know me as well as you think you do. My work demands that 
             I live in a big city, but if I had to settle down, build a home, it'd be a place like this."
Scully:"It'd be like living in Mayberry." (truck pulls up and black sherriff gets out)
Taylor:"Hi, I'm sheriff Andy Taylor."
Mulder:"For real?!?" (refers to "The Andy Griffith Show", as Andy's character's name was Sheriff 
             Andy Taylor)
____________________________________________________________
Scully:"Well, were there any local women who were pregnant and now suddenly aren't?" 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Sheriff, who lives in that house there? (the sheriff hesitates) Did you question them? 
             'Cause they've been watching us the entire time."
Taylor: "That farm belongs to the Peacock family. Three boys... well, they'd be men...I guess you 
            could call them human... Their folks were in a bad car wreck and we suppose they died."
Scully: "You suppose?"
Taylor: "Well, we tried to administer medical attention, but the boys hauled the bodies away -- took 
            them home. They haven't been seen in ten years, so we *suppose* they died."
Scully: "Have you questioned the men?"
Taylor: "The Peacocks built that farm during the Civil War. It still has no electricity... no running 
            water. No heat. They grow their own food, raise their own pigs, breed their own cows. 
            *Raise* and *breed* their own stock, if you get my meaning." (Mulder grimaces)
Scully: "It is, however, the closest residence to the crime scene."
Taylor: "Those boys are feeble, Agent Scully. It's sad... they wouldn't have any idea what you were 
            talking about."
Scully: "Well, they could have witnessed --"
Taylor: "Look. This town is my home. I love it. It's quiet, peaceful. I don't even wear a gun. Now I've 
            heard some of the sick and horrible things that go on outside my home. At the same time, 
            I knew we couldn't stay hidden forever; that one day the modern world would find us and 
            my hometown would change forever. And when I saw... it... in the ground, I knew that day 
            had come. And I want to find whoever did this. But in doing so, I'd like it if the way things 
            are around here didn't have to change. Now I know this is iffy Bureau jurisdiction, but I 
            didn't know who else to turn to. So I called the Bureau in Pittsburgh, and when I described 
            the victim, they said I should see you."
Mulder: "Then maybe we should take a look at the victim."
____________________________________________________________
Sheriff:"This is my deputy, Barney."
Mulder:"Fife?" (refers to "The Andy Griffith Show" again, as Andy's deputy was named Barney 
             Fife)
Barney:"Pastor!"
____________________________________________________________
Mulder:"There's something rotten in Mayberry."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Imagine all a woman's hopes and dreams for her child, and then nature turns so cruel. 
            What must a mother go through?"
Mulder: "Apparently not much in this case, if she'd just throw it out with the trash."
Scully: "I...I guess I was just projecting on myself."
Mulder: "Why? Is there a history of genetic abnormalities in your family?"
Scully: "No."
Mulder: "Well, just find yourself a man with a spotless genetic makeup and a really high tolerance 
             for being second guessed and start pumping out the little Uberscullies." (he rubs her 
             shoulder, and she grins)
Scully: "What about your family?"
Mulder: "Hmm? (Scully nods) Well, (he smiles) aside for the need for corrective lenses and the 
             tendency to be abducted by extraterrestrials involved in an international governmental 
             conspiracy, the Mulder family passes genetic muster. (he turns serious) Scully, that child 
             inside is a tragedy. Some scared parents, probably young kids, disposed of an unwanted 
             birth. In a very certain sense infanticide is involved, but this is not an FBI matter."
Scully: "But from what I know about genetic defects, Mulder, it is unlikely that child resulted from a 
            single polygenic mating."
Mulder: "We should let local authorities investigate."
Scully: "Those defects, Mulder, are autosomal dominant disorders. And from the degree, I'd say, 
            mutations that go back many generations."
Mulder: "Scully, Sheriff Taylor implied that the boys in that family were not really the type that could 
             easily get dates."
Scully: "But he also implied that they practice inbreeding. Now we all have a natural instinct to 
            propagate..."
Mulder: "Do we?" (he's smiling at her)
Scully: "There are theories that propose that our bodies are simply vehicles for genes needing to 
            replicate."
Mulder: "There's no sister...The mother has been dead for ten years..."
Scully: "But if the instinct and the need is strong enough, they will answer it any way that they can. 
            Now a woman gave birth to that child, and my guess is, against her will."
Mulder: "Kidnapping *is* a Bureau matter. (Scully gets up and heads to the car) Scully.... (she 
             stops and looks back at Mulder) I never saw you as a mother before." 
____________________________________________________________
Scully: (as Mulder is pointing the TV bunny-ears at her forehead) "You still planning on making a 
            home here?"
Mulder:"Nah. Not if Ican't get the Knicks game."
Scully:"Well, as long as the brutal infanticide doesn't weigh into your decision...G'night Mulder."
Mulder:"G'night MOM..."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder:"They really went caveman on them."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "This child's cells would have had to divide triple-fold in cell metaphase."
Mulder: "Triple? Hey, Scully, what if each of the Peacock brothers was the father of that child?" 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder:(after deputy pulls gun out and leaves) "Uh, that was a little bit too Chuck Bronson for me, 
            Scully."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder:(trying to push the pigs) "Scully, would you think less of me as a man if I told you I was 
             kind of excited right now? (pigs won't move) There some secret farmer trick to get these 
             things moving?"
Scully:"I don't know. Baa-ram-ewe! BAA-RAAM-EEEWE!!!!"
Mulder:"Yeah, that'll work."
Scully:"I babysat my nephew this weekend. He watches "Babe" 15 times a day!"
Mulder:"And people call ME spooky."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder:"Oh no!" (holds up newspaper with the headline ELVISPRESLEYDEADAT 42)
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: (to woman under the bed, thinking she's a hostage) "Take it easy, ma'am, take it easy. It's 
            all right, it's all over. We're from the F.B.I., we're here to help. We're gonna make sure that 
            you're safe. We're gonna make sure that you get home."
Scully: (shining her flashlight on a framed picture of two people sitting in front of the house) 
            "Mulder, she already *is* home. It's Mrs. Peacock. She's their mother."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "How I think it goes here is that Edmund is the brother and father of the other two."
Mulder:"Which means that when Edmund was a kid he could ground the other two for playing 
             with his things?"
____________________________________________________________
Mrs. Peacock: "This is our home. Why leave it?"
Scully: "Whatever pain you may be feeling -- "
Mrs. Peacock: "Don't feel pain. Runs in the family. Hafta check the boys, see if they hurt 
                        themselves."
Scully: "But what about you? Even after the accident -- "
Mrs. Peacock: "Right arm was torn off. Saw it sittin there, 'cross my dead husband's lap. Boys took 
                        me home, sewed me up just like the family learnt in the war of northern aggression. 
                        Whole time, felt the same as if I's makin breakfast. They're such good boys..."
Scully: "Mrs. Peacock, they murdered Sheriff Taylor and his wife. And Deputy Pastor."
Mrs. Peacock: "I can tell you don't have no children. Maybe one day you'll learn the pride... the 
                        love... when you know your boy would do *anything* for his mother."

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                                                          4.4 Teliko

                                             US Airdate: October 18, 1996

                                                 writer: Howard Gordon
                                                 director: Jim Charleston

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

Guest Cast:
Assistant Director Skinner ..... Mitch Pileggi
Businessman ..... Don Stewart
Flight Attendent ..... Maxine Guess
Samuel Aboah ..... Willie Amakye
Seat Mate ..... Geoffrey Ayi-Bonte
Dr. Simon Bruin .... Bob Morrisey
Marcus Duff ..... Carl Lumbly
Agent Pendrell .... Brendan Beiser
Alfred Kittel ..... Dexter Bell
Marita Covarrubias .... Laurie Holden
Diabria .... Zakes Mokae
Lt.Madsen .... Sean Campbell

MULDER AND SCULLY COMBINE FOLKLORE AND SCIENCE TO SOLVE THE MYSTERIOUS 
DISAPPEARANCES OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN.

Four African-American men have vanished off the streets of Philadelphia. An FBI/Police task force has come up with no leads...until the body of the most recent victim is discovered. Surprisingly, violence isn't the cause of death. The body's bizarre lack of pigmentation hints at some unknown ailment. The Centers for Disease Control calls in Scully to unravel the medical mystery. Mulder, however, believes that more than a simple pathogen is involved. His investigations lead to a cover-up of a similar death on a flight from West Africa, and the presence of a toxic plant native to that area. Meanwhile, Scully discovers that the victim's pituitary gland-- which produces melanin among other hormones--has somehow been destroyed.

While their investigation is under way, the killer strikes again. This time a young black student is stalked and kidnapped from a bus stop. The evidence leads Scully and Mulder to a recent West African immigrant, Samuel Aboah. They arrest him when he attempts to escape. Hospital tests 
reveal that, among other peculiar abnormalities, Aboah lacks a pituitary gland.

A tip from his UN informant sends Mulder to Minister Diabira, a diplomat from the West African country of Burkina Faso. Reluctantly, Diabria admits he had ordered the cover-up of the first murder -- because he knew the identity of the killer. It was one of the mythical Teliko: evil spirits of the air, who emerge at night to suck the life and color out of their victims. Who would have believed that a terrifying West African folktale could come to life in 20th century America? No one...except 
Mulder.

Mulder explains his theory to a skeptical Scully: the Teliko are not ghostly entities, but members of a lost African clan, who have survived over generations by hunting down other humans to steal what they lack: hormones from the pituitary gland. 

                                                                Notes

In this ep, "teliko" refers to the ancient African spirit that lives off the pituitary gland (a small ductless gland at the base of the brain which has an important influence over the growth of the body) of others, turning them white when it extracts pigmentation.

According to the newsgroup, telikos is Greek for final. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Everybody repeat after me now..."Deceive, Inveigle, Obfuscate". The tagline for this ep and I count 3 times you're gonna hear it, so here's what it all means: "Deceive": Persuade of what is false, mislead ; use deceit, "Inveigle": Entice, seduce (into place, conduct etc., into doing), "Obfuscate": Darken, obscure (mind etc.) ; stupefy, bewilder.

Contains a much-talked about scene where Scully crawls through a factory vent, flashlight in hand, very artistic, but some VCRs may cause strain if you rewind and appreciate it too much, so be careful ;-)

                                                              Quotes
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(as Scully is performing an autopsy)
Mulder: "Hey, I heard you were down here slicing and dicing. Who's the lucky stiff?"
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(looking at the body, a once black man, now albino) 
Mulder: "There's a Michael Jackson joke in here somewhere but I can't quite find it." 
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Scully: "Mulder, not everything is a labyrinth of dark conspiracy, and not everybody is plotting to 
            deceive, inveigle, and obfuscate."
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Agent Pendrell : "Shouldn't we wait for Agent Scully? Just so I don't have to repeat myself."
Mulder:"She's not coming."
Pendrell: "Why not?!"
Mulder: "She had a date."
Pendrell: (sighs and looks dejected)
Mulder: "Breathe, Agent Pendrell, it's with a dead man. She's doing an autopsy."
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Marita Covarrubias: "I can't help you." (she turns to walk away, Mulder grabs her arm)
Mulder: "You can't, or you won't? You made an overture to me. You left me an opening. Tell me 
             I'm wrong, tell me there's nothing here and I'll walk away. Either way, I need to know."
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Scully: "Where are you going?"
Mulder: "To find someone who I know plotted to deceive, inveigle, and obfuscate."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Thank you for seeing me on such short notice."
Minister Diabira: "I did not have much of a choice. Someone from the UN talked to the 
                         ambassador directly....." 
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Minister Diabira: "Even if I tell you what I know, you'll never believe it."
Mulder: "You'd be surprised at what I believe, sir."
Minister Diabira: "I had hoped if I closed my eyes, it would go away this time."
Mulder: "This time?"
Minister Diabira: "My people... the Bambara... are farmers. I grew up hearing the old stories, 
                          believing them as only a child can believe." 
Mulder: "What kinds of stories?"
Minister Diabira: "The Teliko... spirits... of the air... It was said they rested by day in close, dark 
                          places deep inside tree hollows and in holes beneath the ground. Too small even 
                          for a child to hide himself. Only when the sun fell, when the rest of the world was 
                          sleeping, would they come out." (we see Aboah has disappeared...camera pans 
                          to food cart)
Mulder: "Come out to do what, sir?"
Minister Diabira: "I was seven years old. Lying awake one night, I saw him. He was standing over 
                          me. His hair was like straw... his eyes like water... staring down at me. I closed my 
                          eyes and screamed and felt myself being swept up into the air. But when I 
                          opened my eyes I saw my father holding me."
Mulder: "Then it was a nightmare." 
Minister Diabira: "That's what my father said, and I believed him... until the next day... when they 
                          found my cousin dead among his cattle... (he picks up a photograph from his 
                          desk) ...looking exactly like this man. Which is why when this photograph came 
                          across my desk three months ago, I knew the Teliko was more than just a 
                          children's story. (the camera pans down the food cart to the drawer, which opens 
                          to show Aboah's eyes) I knew it was real, I knew he was here!"
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Dr. Bruin:"You'd be amazed at what I've seen removed from people's throats in emergency rooms."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: (looking at food cart) "I think this was the getaway vehicle. (looks up and says with mock 
             disgust) He didn't even touch his jello."
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Scully: "So you're basing this theory on a folktale?"
Mulder: "It's just another way of describing the same truths, right? I mean, all new truths begin as 
             heresies and end as superstitions. We fear the unknown, so we reduce it to the terms that 
             are most familiar to us, whether that's a folktale, or a disease, or... conspiracy."
Scully: "Well, even if you're right, I mean, especially if you're right, why would he leave his own 
             country to come here?"
Mulder: "Free cable! (Scully looks away) I don't know, the same reasons that anybody comes to 
             this country... liberty, the freedom to pursue your own interests." 
____________________________________________________________
(after Scully's shot the albino, Mulder's been hit with a dart and is down for the count. Note: a good Start sound for your computer)
Scully: "It's okay Mulder, I'm here, okay?"
____________________________________________________________
Scully's voiceover at end: 
"Special Agent Dana Scully, field journal entry number 74. Despite acute trauma to his pituitary gland, Marcus Duff was discharged early this morning from Mt. Zion Medical Center. He is expected to testify before a grand jury in the capital case against Samuel Aboah, who is being 
charged with five counts of murder. It remains uncertain, however, whether Aboah will live long enough to stand trial. His response to hormone therapy has been poor; his deterioration, progressive. My conviction remains intact that the mechanism by which Aboah killed and, in turn, survived can only be explained by medical science and that science will eventually discover his place in the broader context of evolution. But what science may never be able to explain is our 
ineffable fear of the alien among us, a fear which often drives us not to search for understanding, but to deceive, inveigle, and obfuscate. To obscure the truth not only from others, but from ourselves." 

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                                                 4.5 The Field Where I Died

                                                US Airdate: November 3, 1996

                                            writers: Glen Morgan and Jim Wong
                                                    director: Rob Bowman

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

Guest Cast:
KRISTEN CLOKE as Melissa Riedal-Ephesian
MICHAEL DOBSON as BATF Agent
MICHAEL MASSEE as Vernon Ephesian
LES GALLAGHER as the attorney
DOUG ABRAHAMS as Harbaugh
DONNA WHITE as the therapist
ANTHONY HARRISON as Agent Riggins
DOUGLAS ROY DACK as Mighty Man

AGENTS MULDER AND SCULLY INVESTIGATE EVIL GOINGS-ON AT A CULT COMPOUND

Agent Mulder's search for an informant inside a cult compound leads to a suspect to whom he may have an unexpectedly close personal connection.

Apison, Tennessee, once the site of a Civil War battle, is now the home of the Temple of the Seven Stars, a doomsday religious cult that believes in reincarnation. A member named "Sidney" calls the FBI with accusations of child abuse and weapons stockpiling. Fearing another Waco 
or Jonestown, the BATF and the FBI lead a joint raid on the compound. No weapons are found. Neither is Vernon Ephesian, the cult's dangerously charismatic leader, who dominates his followers with a mix of Biblical prophecy, New Age channeling and old-fashioned intimidation. An odd compulsion leads Mulder to search a nearby field where he finds an underground Civil War bunker concealing Ephesian and his six wives--all on the verge of committing mass suicide. One of the wives, Melissa, catches Mulder's attention. She feels somehow familiar to him. Ephesian, his wives and the cultists are taken into custody. But with no evidence of abuse or illegal weapons, the FBI can hold them for only one day. Mulder and Scully are assigned to interrogate Ephesian and his wives. Preaching fire and brimstone, Ephesian admits nothing. Melissa is a different story. Under questioning, this withdrawn and hostile girl suddenly shifts personalities into the mysterious informant Sidney, a gruff male New Yorker. But somehow Mulder knows Melissa's case is even 
more unusual than Multiple Personality Disorder. He is certain that "Sidney" is one of Melissa's past lives. Scully, who has a hard enough time with MPD let alone reincarnation, can't understand why Mulder is so obsessed with Melissa, and so certain he is right. Then comes a revelation that surprises even Mulder. Melissa shifts into yet another identity: a Civil War nurse named Sarah Kavanaugh. She tells them she watched as her fiancee Sullivan Biddle died in the aftermath of the 
long-ago battle. And that Biddle is one of Mulder's past lives. Mulder unconditionally believes her.

Desperate to discover the truth...Mulder has himself regressed. Scully listens as Mulder cycles through a series of his past lives. He says that same souls reincarnate together over and over again: he, Samantha, Scully, even the Cigarette-Smoking Man are destined to play out many 
lifetimes together. Melissa and Mulder are soulmates...fated always to be star-crossed lovers. The current Melissa hears Mulder's story, but she won't allow herself to believe. She returns to Ephesian. Scully doesn't know what to think--especially when she discovers photographs of Sarah and Sullivan in historical archives. After Ephesian and his cultists are released, everyone's worst fears come true. Ephesian leads the cult in a mass suicide. Mulder discovers the body of Melissa...clutching the photograph of Sarah Kavanaugh in her hand. 

                                                                Notes

The name Vernon Ephesian, the guy who seems very similar to David Koresh, actually comes from Koresh's real first name, Vernon.

The name of the soldier Mulder was in his his past life, Sullivan Biddle, is very similar to the name Sullivan Ballou who was a real soldier during the Civil War, a major with the Second Rhode Island 
Volunteers, according to Ken Burns' "Civil War" which has been shown many times on PBS. One of the most poignant parts of this documentary was a letter that Sullivan wrote to his young bride describing his everlasting love for her. For your enjoyment, and with mucho thanks to Laura Abel (dable@iglou.com) for transcribing it, here's the letter:

July the 14th, 1861
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sarah,

The indications are very strong that we shall move in a few days, perhaps tomorrow. And lest I should not be able to write you again, I feel compelled to write a few lines that may fall onto your eye when I am no more. I have no misgivings about or lack of confidence in the cause in which I am engaged. And my courage does not halt or falter. I know how American Civilization now leans on the triumph of the government. And how great a debt we owe to those who went before us 
through the blood and suffering of the Revolution. And I am willing, perfectly willing, to lay down all my joys in this life to help maintain this government. And to pay that debt.

Sarah, my love for you is deathless. It seems to bind me with mighty cables that nothing but omnipotence can break. And yet, my love of country comes over me like a strong wind and bears me irresistibly with all those chains to the battlefield. The memory of all the blistful moments I have enjoyed with you come crowding over me and I feel most deeply greatful to God and you that I have enjoyed them for so long. And how hard it is for me to give them up and burn to ashes the hopes in future years when, God willing, we might still have lived and loved together and see our boys grown up to honorable manhood around us.

If I do not return, my dear Sarah, never forget how much I loved you. Nor that when my last breath escapes me on the battlefield, it will whisper your name. Forgive my many faults and the many pains I have caused you. How thoughtless, how foolish I have sometimes been.

But, oh Sarah, if the dead can come back to this earth and flit unseen around those they love, I shall always be with you in the brightest day and the darkest night. Always. Always. And when the soft breeze fans your cheek, it shall be my breath. Or the cool air your throbbing temple, it shall be my spirit passing by. Sarah, do not morn me dead, think I am gone and wait for me. For we shall meet again.

Sullivan Ballou was killed a week later at the first battle of Bull Run.

The poem Mulder reads at the beginning and end of this ep from "Paracelsus" by Robert Browning:

Mulder's version:

At times I almost dream
I too have spent a life the Sages way
And tread once more familiar paths
Perchance I've perished in an arrogant self-reliance an age ago
And in that act of prayer for one more chance went up so earnest
So...
Instinct with better light let in by death
That life was blotted out not so completely
But scattered wrecks enough of it to remain dim memories
As now one seems
Once more the goal in sight again.

Browning's version:

For me, I estimate their works and them
So rightly, that at times I almost dream
I too have spent a life the sages' way.
And tread once more familiar paths. Perchance
I perished in an arrogant self-reliance
Ages ago; and in that act, a prayer
For one more chance went up so earnest, so
Instinct with better light led in by death,
That life was blotted out--not so completely
But scattered wrecks enough of it remain,
Dim memories, as now, when once more seems
The goal in sight again. All which, indeed,
Is foolish, and only means--the flesh I wear,
The earth I tread, are not more clear to me
Than my belief, explained to you or no.

                                                                  Quotes
____________________
Melissa: (as Sarah to Mulder in the field) "I was here. As were you. This is the field where I 
              watched you die."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "You - you were there, Scully! You saw it, you heard it, why can't you feel it? How could I 
             know about a bunker in a field where I've never been?"
Scully: "Then why is it that Vernon Ephesian is reported by you a paranoid sociopath because he 
             believes he lived in Greece a hundred years ago, and you're not because you died in that 
             field?"
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "There's nothing we can use to prove that this is the truth."
Mulder: "There's one way."
Scully: "Mulder, Ephesian's arraignment is in two hours! There is no time to be doing this."
Mulder: "Wouldn't you, Scully? Wouldn't anybody?"
____________________________________________________________ 
Mulder: "Souls...come back together...different, but always together." 
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Mulder, no! You're dead!"
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Evil returns as evil"
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "I wouldn't change a day. Except for that flukeman thing, I could have lived without that."

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                                                      4.6 Sanguinarium

                                            US Airdate: November 10, 1996

                                     writers: Valerie Mayhew & Vivian Mayhew
                                                  director: Kim Manners

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

Guest Cast:
Andrew Airlie as the attorney
Norman Armour as the ER Doctor
Richard Beymer as Dr. Jack Franklyn
Martin Evans as Dr. Hartman
O-Lan Jones as Rebecca Waite, R.N.
John Juliani as Dr. Harrison Lloyd
Arlene Mazerolle as Dr. Shannon 
Paul Raskin as Dr. Eric Ilaqua
Gregory Thirloway as a Doctor

A SERIES OF MYSTERIOUS DEATHS WHICH PLAGUE A COSMETIC SURGERY CLINIC 
LEAD MULDER TO BELIEVE IT MAY NOT BE HUMAN ERROR, BUT HUMAN SACRIFICE.

Everyone wants to be beautiful. And the Aesthetic Surgery Unit of Chicago's Greenwood Memorial Hospital can make anyone more attractive...for a price. For one patient thought to be undergoing a 
scalp-reduction the price is a grisly death, when Dr. Lloyd goes insane and during surgery and performs a violent liposuction instead...and literally sucks the life blood out of the man. Scully and Mulder are called in to investigate the doctor's unusual defense: demonic possession. Scully logically assumes the doctor's sleeping pill addiction caused a psychotic break. When Mulder discovers evidence of a pentagram--an occult symbol of protection-- on the floor of the operating room, he concludes that some kind of magic is at work. Scully is dubious, to put it mildly. Another surgeon goes into an uncontrollable frenzy, using a laser to burn through the flesh of a patient's face . Mulder discovers the mark of the pentagram on this body as well -- placed there by Nurse Waite, a practicing witch. Dr. Franklyn admits that Nurse Waite worked at the clinic ten years 
earlier when similar deaths had occurred. Scully and Mulder search her house, finding a spooky den of candles, incense, herbs and witchy objects. But Nurse Waite is gone. She's lying in wait for Dr. Franklin; submerged in a tub full of gore in his bathroom. Her sneak knife attack fails, and she's arrested.

Before Nurse Waite can explain herself to Mulder, she dies horribly, in what Mulder recognizes from Nurse Waite's occult books as a classic case of death by hex.

Waite was trying to protect the patients...but against what or whom? Maybe Dr. Franklyn -- who smiles inscrutably as he levitates a few feet above his bed.

Putting all the clues together, Mulder deduces that Franklyn is a black magician. Cursed with the sin of vanity, Franklyn transforms his looks beyond the limits of surgery: using sorcery and human sacrifice. Ten years ago, he had escaped suspicion. Today, he manages to escape even Mulder. Mulder is too late to stop the final sacrifice that completes the spell. Dr. Franklyn slices off his own face, to disappear forever...

...And the classically handsome Dr. Hartman is welcomed aboard at a Los Angeles cosmetic surgery clinic.

                                                                Notes

Sanguinary means carnage, bloodthirsty, consisting of blood. Sanguinaria means bloodroot.

Was this ep a homage to "Twin Peaks"? Consider that the airdate was November 10, and according to Peaks fans on the newsgroup, this is the date that "Twin Peaks" climaxed with Ray Wise seeing Bob in the mirror. And, of course, Richard Beymer played Ben Horne on "Twin Peaks", so it's interesting to see David Duchovny (who was also on "Twin Peaks") interacting with Beymer.

Written on the wall as one word: Vanitas Vanitatum (vanity of vanities)

The address where Dr. Franklyn lived, 1953 Gardner Street, was refering to Gerald Gardner, whose form of witchcraft, called Gardnerian, started in 1953, and is the largest type of withcraft in the U.S. today. Also, Nurse Rebecca Waite may have been refering to Rebecca Nurse, a witch 
tried during the Salem Trials and/or the Rider-Waite tarot (same initials R.W.) and/or early 20th century author of books of witchcraft, Arthur Edward Waite, who was also, among many things, a practicing "white" magician.

                                                               Quotes
____________________
Dr. Lloyd: "I think this patient is finished!"
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "What could she have been doing in here?"
Mulder: "Probably not tax returns."
____________________________________________________________
Doctor: "May we ask you to sit down?"
Mulder: "It appears we have interrupted a gathering."
Doctor: "Gathering..."
____________________________________________________________
Doctor: "We give any credence or credibility to Dr. Lloyd's story...they're going to burn us at the 
             stake."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: (reading) "...an anti-spasmodic whose active ingredients include belladonna alkaloids..."
Mulder: "Belladonna. It's also known as witches' berry. That's a herb used in hexing rituals."
Scully: "Mulder, do you know how many pharmaceuticals listed in the PDR contain belladonna?"
Mulder: "Yeah, just one. The one that Dr. Lloyd was taking."
Scully: "Well, if it's that simple, why don't you put out an APB for someone riding a broom and 
            wearing a tall black hat?"
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "This kind of transformation is medically impossible."
Mulder: "It's not medicine, Scully, it's blood sacrifice."
Scully: "Blood sacrifice."
Mulder: "The most potent offering in black magic."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Everybody wants to be beautiful, Scully."

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                                       4.7 Musings Of A Cigarette Smoking Man
 
                                            US Airdate: November 17, 1996

                                         writers: Glen Morgan and Jim Wong
                                                   director: Jim Wong

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

Guest Cast:
William B. Davis ...... Cigarette Smoking Man
Chris Owens ...... Young Cigarette Smoking Man
Colin Lawrence ..... The troop leader
Dean Aylesworth ...... The soldier
Anthony Ashbee ...... The Corporal
Donnelly Rhodes ...... General Francis
Peter Mele ....... The Mob Man
Dan Zukovic ..... Agent Man
Gonzalo Canton ...... Cuban Man
Steve Oatway ..... The Supervisor
David Fredericks ...... The Director
Peter Hanlon ...... The Aide
Michael St. John ...... The Major General
Paul Jarret ..... James Earl Ray
Laurie Murdoch ....... Lydon
Marc Baur ...... Matlock
Jude Zachary ...... Jones
Jerry Hardin ...... Deep Throat
Tom Braidwood ...... Frohike
Bruce Harwood ...... Byers
Morgan Weisser ...... Lee Harvey Oswald

FROHIKE PEICES TOGETHER WHAT COULD BE THE SECRETS BEHIND THE MYSTERIOUS 
CIGARETTE-SMOKING MANS PAST. HIS SPECULATION COULD COST HIM HIS LIFE.

In the Lone Gunmen's office, Scully and Mulder listen, as Frohike reveals what he suspects to be the chilling, secret past of the Cigarette- Smoking Man. Hiding in a nearby high rise, the 
Cigarette-Smoking Man eavesdrops on them with electronic listening devices, his sniper's rifle trained on the office's front door. Who will be his next target?

Frohike tells of how the Cigarette-Smoking Man was orphaned as a baby. His father, a Communist spy, was electrocuted. His mother died of lung cancer. In 1963, he was an Army Captain (whose only friend is the proud father of 1-year-old Fox Mulder). Recognizing his capabilities, the right-wing conspiracy that operates within the shadows of the official government recruits the young officer - his first assignment: the assassination of JFK. In its successful aftermath, he lights his first 
smoke...and becomes the Cigarette-Smoking Man.

By 1968, even J. Edgar Hoover takes orders from the Cigarette- Smoking Man, and no President has ever suspected he exists. The Cigarette-Smoking Man personally takes charge of the operation against Martin Luther King. Yet, even the Cigarette-Smoking Man has a dream. He longs to be a published author, and writes political potboilers under a pen name. Despite a pile of scathing rejections, he keeps trying.

Christmas 1991. The Cigarette-Smoking Man is in charge of the men we think are in charge. He's covertly started wars, assassinated world leaders, rigged elections, the Oscars, the Olympics, the Super Bowl and moved the Rodney King trial to Simi Valley. Despite his power, he's a lonely man leading an empty life. He still can't get his written works published. And with the Soviet Union gone, he doesn't even have any more enemies.

Then it happens. A survivor is discovered in the wreckage of an alien craft. His mysterious associate known to Mulder and Scully as Deep Throat executes the only alien which survived the crash The Cigarette- Smoking Man has a new purpose, and new truths to conceal.. He goes forth 
on this mission with a vengeance. Young FBI agents Fox "Spooky" Mulder and Dana Scully take on the "X-Files." Unknowingly they are part of the Cigarette-Smoking Man's plans.

This year. The Cigarette-Smoking Man is jubilant when a magazine finally accepts one of his stories. He prepares his resignation, and lights his last cigarette. Until he realizes the magazine is nothing but a cheap girlie rag -- whose editors even had the nerve to change the story's ending. With all his dreams destroyed, he sits on a park bench and muses about the similarity of life to a cheap, tasteless box of chocolates. Resuming his role, the Cigarette-Smoking Man lights up a smoke.

The present. The Cigarette-Smoking Man's finger is on the trigger of a sniper rifle, ready to repeat the act which started his shadowy career. He watches Frohike leave the office. Does he shoot? No. He can kill Frohike any time he chooses, and he revels in that power.

                                                                 Notes

WARNING: Lots of notes and quotes coming, look out!!!

Finally we learn more about our mysterious black-lunged friend....or do we? Over an hour we explore Cancer Man's past history, through assassinations of major political leaders from Kennedy to Martin Luther King, Jr. to his years spent as a frustrated writer going year after year being rejected by one magazine after another. The whole tale comes from a story published in a cheesy magazine, that Frohike of the Lone Gunmen (with their hide-out's door clearly marked, Cancer Man watching and listening from across the street) reveals as CM's past. So is it a story or the truth?

Fascinating and entertaining, I thought. Any episode that can make me feel sorry for our beloved, evil, cruel smoky villian, is doing something right. Morgan and Wong's words, coupled with William B. Davis' characterization made for an outstanding, if somewhat unsettling episode. He was certainly humanized for us; handing out Christmas presents of identical, gaudy ties to his staff, living vicariously through Bill Mulder and his family, stubbornly using the same battered typewriter over all the years of toil, composing his resignation letter the day the article is printed, ready to throw in the towel and become a full-time writer, and we can't help but join in the giddy excitement he revels in when he speaks to the publisher about his article being printed.

But how much of what we learn here is truth? Unless the whole thing was a dream, I go with the fact that Cancer Man IS a frustrated writer, and he DID publish an article in a cheesy magazine, but it seems like the tale he writes is just that, a story, with maybe a basis in some truths from his life but embellished to make him more important than he really is. I mean, Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr.?! See the conversation below between Cancer Man and Deep Throat where he says: "our names can never grace any pages of record, no monument will ever bear our image". 
He's a man of the shadows and he'll never get the recognition he thinks he deserves, so why not write a fanciful story about himself? Another telling point is the final line of the show, "I can kill you whenever I please....... but not today." This same line is in one of the stories he types on his typewriter. It's all one big, entertaining fiction.

Another story-line involves Cancer Man being Fox Mulder's father, as many on the newsgroup believe. From a conversation between Mrs. Mulder and Cancer Man in the season finale last year, "Talitha Cumi", we were led to believe that they may have had an affair. From there, naturally, came the idea of Cancer Man being Fox's daddy (or even Samantha's, it goes on and on!), but from this episode, I've come to a different conclusion. We learn that Cancer Man is an orphan, his mother dying of cancer before he was one year old and his father killed as a communist spy. Bill Mulder hooks up with Cancer Man during the army, showing CM a photo of his young wife and baby. This same picture is seen later, either CM stole it, or Bill gave him a copy. A good point was made on the newsgroup that army buddies tend to look out for each others' families, just in case anything ever happens to them. Is it so hard to believe that Bill asked CM to do this for his family? One telling scene, taking place at Christmas, shows CM's co-workers asking him to join them for the holidays, and he declines, saying he has "family" to visit. Next we see him pausing then walking past a door in the basement of the FBI building....Fox Mulder's door. Is he looking at his son's door, or his army buddy's family? Hmmm...

There are so many thoroughly amusing scenes and lines in this one, where to start? His tobacco habit is a running gag, first starting when he meets up with Oswald (his first real task under his new hidden life) and coming and going over the years. Whenever he seems close to starting a new life, ridding himself of his past, he vows to quit, but a new assignment comes along more heinous than the last, and he's puffing away again. The scenes where he tugs at his nicotine patch are a great touch. See? He IS human!

The overall effect of Cancer Man as a frustrated writer and literary consumer is another humanizing trait. He says, "I'd rather read the worst novel ever written, than sit through the best movie ever made", then later tells Oswald, "I love the movies" and even smokes his first Morley cigarette at the movies. To get rid of his fellow Martin Luther King, Jr. conspirator, he tells him to "go to a movie or something". And, of course, when asked what his choices are for the Oscar nominations, he says he "couldn't care less". His only desire is to be a writer, but he can't catch a break. Rejection slips pile up over 30 years, can you blame him for becoming evil personified?

The inscription on Cancer Man's lighter: Trust No One. Maybe when Deep Throat was murdered in the season finale of season one, he was pointing the finger at Cancer Man?!

Roman-a-Clef: The name of the cheesy, possibly sleazy magazine that prints his article and which Frohike subscribes to. Quite possibly the key to the whole episode, as it is the source of the story Frohike tells. The dictionary definition: "Novel in which real persons or events appear in disguise".

The name of the publisher of "Roman-a-Clef", Walden Roth, comes from a mix of Dana Walden, head of drama at Twentieth Century Fox Television, and Peter Roth, one of Fox's network heads.

Eagle eyes noted that on the racks of the news stand where Cancer Man buys his magazine, is a magazine called "End Credits" and one of the stories on the cover is titled "Where the hell is Darin Morgan?". If you don't know WHO that is by now, you haven't been paying attention to this guide or the show :-)

Sign on "hideout" door: "Lone Gunmen, publishers of "The Magic Bullet" newsletter". Any true xphile will tell you that this is NOT the name of their newsletter, it is simply the Lone Gunmen.

Cancer Man appeared (or was born) on the same day as Trotsky was killed with an ice pick. A nice connection with the Alien Bounty Hunter who could only be killed by an ice-pick to the base of the skull.

Cancer Man is reading "The Manchurian Candidate", a book all about conspiracies and assasinations, when we meet him with Bill Mulder in the army barracks scene.

I can't confirm this, but other people said the military interview scene with Cancer Man was taken right from "Apocalyse Now".

His pseudonyms are Raul Bloodworth, Jack Colquitt, and Mr. Hunt (leading to the silly sounding Fox Hunt if Mulder were his son!). In real life, the late E. Howard Hunt was a CIA agent, involved with everything from the Bay of Pigs invasion to Watergate to possibly setting up Oswald as a 
"patsy", and to top it all off, he published novels similar to what the character writes here, adventure/spy novels. The address on Cancer Man's envelopes:

Mr. Raul Bloodworth
555 Brookabank Ave., Apt. 24
Washington, D.C. 20091

Some comments on the newsgroup linked this episode with The Rolling Stones song "Sympathy for The Devil", which fits well with the line in the song about "who shot Kennedy when everybody knows it was you and me".

The package of cigarettes Oswald gives to Cancer Man have Marlboro Miles written on the side. Not exactly sure what THAT means, but there it is.

Oswald is shown shooting Officer Tippitt, as he did in "real life", just not in the sequence shown here. An in-joke maybe to the movie "Ruby" starring Danny Aiello as Jack Ruby and David Duchovny as Officer Tippitt?!

Nice effect of the crystal-clean, spotless ashtray where Cancer Man deposits the tinfoil packaging from his nicotine patch at the beginning of the Christmas Eve boardroom scene.

Lovely scene with Cancer Man listening in on Mulder and Scully's conversation from "The Pilot" episode (the only time we see Scully), and when Mulder says "I was under the impression that you were sent to spy on me." , the smile on Cancer Man's lips speaks of a certain amount of pride at Mulder picking up on this. Maybe Scully IS a spy?!

The novel or novels we see him working on are "Take a Chance: A Jack Colquitt Adventure", and "Second Chance". The second one may be a sequel, or simply a revised version. Easy enough to read these as comments on Cancer Man's life, what started as an adventure of chances has become one man's plea for a second chance to redeem himself.

The Robert Kennedy speech that Cancer Man recites along with Robert: "(He who learns must suffer.) And even in our sleep pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God." 
Aeschylus "Agamemnon" (line 177)

During the "box of chocolates" speech, note the [POST] NO BILLS signs, a reference to the Super Bowl comments.

What he types at home after pausing outside Fox Mulder's door, hearing him typing: "Jack Colquitt sat alone in his apartment at Christmas. He believed in sacrifice. But some nights he longed for a second chance..." A lot of discussion among the xphiles about these lines and how they relate to Cancer Man. Was Bill Mulder's family the sacrifice he made to be who he became? And would he take back all the power he has now if he only had a "second chance"?

Space: Above and Beyond connections yet again: Morgan Weisser as Oswald, Jack Colquitt was a character on an episode written by Morgan and Wong ("Who Monitors the Birds"), the name of one of Cancer Man's books "Choice or Chance" is also the title of a Space episode and a character 
on the show's parents were killed because of a coin toss, very much like Cancer Man and Deep Throat do here with the alien. The line "Payback's a bitch" was apparently also used on Space a lot.

This episode was broken down into four parts and labelled on the screen as such:

Part One - "Things really did go well in Dealey Plaza."
Part Two - "Just down the road aways from Graceland."
Part Three - "The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year!!"
Part Four - "The X-Files"

Quotes
____________________
Langly: "Frohike's close."
Frohike: "Don't use my name! What the hell's wrong with you?! Now I'll have to kill you!" 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "I've been here 20 minutes and I still don't know what the hell is wrong! No one would kill 
             you Frohike, you're just a little puppy dog."
Frohike: "I don't utter another syllable until the CSM-25 counter-measure filter is activated."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Now tell us what you're so close to."
Frohike: "Not a "what", who. If you find the right starting point and follow it, not even secrets of the 
              darkest of men are safe."
Mulder: "Cancer Man? What did you find?"
Frohike: "Possibly everything. Maybe his background, who he is and who he wants to be."
____________________________________________________________
Cancer Man: "I'd rather read the worst novel ever written, than sit through the best movie ever 
                     made."
____________________________________________________________
Bill Mulder: (re: little baby Fox Mulder) "My one year old just said his first word."
Cancer Man: "What was the word?"
Bill Mulder: "JFK" 
____________________________________________________________
General Francis: "Cigarette?"
Cancer Man: "No thank you sir, I never touch 'em." 
____________________________________________________________
General Francis: "And then Captain...then there are extraordinary men. Those who must identify, 
                          comprehend and ultimately shoulder the responsibility for not only their own 
                          existance, but their country's and the world's as well. Your father Captain, 
                          believed his country should look to another form of government. And he took 
                          control of that belief. So, in that respect, we view him as an extraordinary man. 
                          And we believe...we KNOW Captain, that it runs in the family."
____________________________________________________________
Cancer Man: (to Oswald) "You shouldn't smoke those Lee. I'm reading studies that say they can 
                     kill ya."
____________________________________________________________
Cancer Man: "I'm going to the movies at the Texas Theatre, it's only 90 cents. I love the movies."
____________________________________________________________
Cancer Man: (re: the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr.) "I'll do it myself. I have too much respect 
                    for the man."
____________________________________________________________
Staff Member: "I'm working on next month's Oscar nominations, any preference?"
Cancer Man: "I couldn't care less. What I don't want to see is the Bills winning the Super Bowl. As 
                     long as I'm alive, that doesn't happen."
Staff Member: "Could be tough sir, Buffalo wants it bad."
Cancer Man: "So did the Soviets in '80."
Staff Member: "What are you saying, you rigged the Olympic hockey game?"
Cancer Man: "What's the matter? Don't you believe in miracles?"
____________________________________________________________
Staff Member: "One thing internally. That "Spooky" kid who talked his way into opening the X-
                       Files? Feels like trouble."
Cancer Man: "He's mine to keep an eye on." 
____________________________________________________________
Deep Throat: "You'll never believe what we just got for Christmas." 
____________________________________________________________
Cancer Man: (to Deep Throat) "How many historic events have only the two of us witnessed 
                    together Ronald? How often did we make or change history? And our names can 
                    never grace any pages of record, no monument will ever bear our image, and yet, 
                    once again, tonight the course of human history will be set by two unknown men 
                    standing in the shadows." 
____________________________________________________________
Cancer Man: "A living E.B.E. could advance Bill Mulder's project by decades."(E.B.E. stands for 
                     Extraterrestrial Biological Entity) 
____________________________________________________________
Deep Throat:"I'm the liar, you're the killer".
Cancer Man: "Your lies have killed more men in a day than I have in a lifetime. I've never killed 
                     anybody."
Deep Throat: "Maybe I'm not the liar."
Cancer Man: "I have a chance to go an entire lifetime without killing anybody or anything."
Deep Throat: "In all of our work in the past 30 years, all of our victories, if the world were to see 
                     this, it would destroy all we've gained in a few hours. Tonight, we have a new enemy." 
____________________________________________________________
Cancer Man: (handing Deep Throat the gun to kill the alien) "Go ahead. Make history."
____________________________________________________________
Frohike: "Henry David Thoreau said, 'The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.' His life has 
              been anything but quiet, yet *I* believe nothing but desperate. He's the most dangerous 
              man alive. Not so much because he believes in his actions, but because he believes 
              these actions are all which life allows him. And yet the only person that can never escape 
              him is himself." 
____________________________________________________________
Cancer Man: (reading his published story) "This isn't the ending that I wrote...it's all wrong!"
____________________________________________________________
Cancer Man: "Life...is like a box of chocolates. A cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that nobody 
                     ever asks for. Unreturnable, because all you get back is another box of chocolates. 
                     So, you're stuck with this undefinable whipped mint crap that you mindlessly wolf 
                     down when there's nothing else left to eat. Sure, once in a while, there's a peanut 
                     butter cup, or an english toffee, but they're gone too fast, and the taste is...fleeting. 
                     So you end up with nothing but broken bits filled with hardened jelly and teeth-
                     shattering nuts. And if you're desperate enough to eat those, all you've got left is an 
                     empty box filled with useless brown paper wrappers."
____________________________________________________________
Frohike: "So far this is based only on a story I read in one of my weekly subscriptions that rang a 
              few bells. I'm going out to check on the private hacker sources and work on tracking a few 
              leads that can produce definitive proof. And THEN we'll have him nailed."
Cancer Man: "I can kill you whenever I please....... but not today."

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

                                                      4.8 Paper Hearts

                                          US Airdate: December 15, 1996

                                                 writer: Vince Gilligan
                                                director: Rob Bowman

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

Guest Cast:
MITCH PILEGGI as Assistant Director Skinner
TOM NOONAN as John Lee Roche
REBECCA TOOLAN as Mrs. Mulder
BYRNE PIVEN as Robert Sparks
VANESSA MORELY as Samantha Mulder 
SONIA NORRIS as the young mother
CARLY MCKILLIP as Caitlin Ross
PAUL BITTANTE as the local cop
JOHN DADEY as the local agent

AGENT MULDER IS HAUNTED BY AN OLD CASE

A serial killer imprisoned by Agent Mulder exerts a strange influence over him. 

                                                               Notes

The title refers to the hearts that Roche cuts out of his victims' clothing. Not exactly "paper" though.

Or, as I like to call this ep, "Mulder's Adventures In Wonderland". Besides the book itself ("Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll ) being a major clue, a posting on the newsgroup by Chris Tweney alerts us that "Wonderland" is the last stop on Boston's Blue Line (the subway that serves Revere, Roche's home in 1973). Also, numerous postings noted the similarities between the book and the plot, such as: the book starting with Alice sleeping in the park, seeing the odd White Rabbit, following him, and then falling down the rabbit hole, while in the ep Mulder is sleeping, sees a strange red light, follows it to the park, and then sees a girl sinking into the ground. The light's "Follow Me" message was also similar to the novel's "Drink Me" message. And not forgetting the obvious, the hearts themselves seem to be a ref to the Queen of Hearts in the book.

                                                             Quotes
____________________
Scully: "Are you saying you're out here because of something you saw in a dream?"
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "You said it once yourself. Once you said that a dream is an answer to a question we 
             haven't learned how to ask yet. You do good work Mulder."
____________________________________________________________ 
(after telling Sparks about finding his daughter's body)
Sparks: "You do this full-time, telling people this kind of news?"
Scully: "No sir, not full-time."
Mulder: "It's not a good job."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Don't you think the car would have been searched at least once already?"
Mulder: "Not by me."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "16 victims John! How come you said there were only 13?"
Roche: "I don't know...13 sounds more mystical, you know?"
____________________________________________________________
Roche: "I understand you take this very personally Mulder." 
____________________________________________________________
Roche: "Did you bring me my hearts?"
____________________________________________________________
Roche: "This man hit me."
Guard: "I didn't see it."
Scully: "I did." 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "You heard him in there, he knew something...he mentioned being on Martha's Vineyard!"
Scully: "Is it a state secret that you lived in Martha's Vineyard?" 
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "But on the net Mulder he can find out practically anything about you." 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Scully, do you believe that my sister Samantha was abducted by aliens?"
Scully: (shoulders droop, eyes drop)
Mulder: "Have you ever believed that?....No."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: (to his mother, miraculously cured from that nasty coma!) "Dad never bought you a 
            vaccuum cleaner did he?"
____________________________________________________________
Skinner: (to Mulder) "You're lucky I don't have your ass in a sling!"
____________________________________________________________
Skinner: "Tread very lightly. (to Scully) You see that he does."
____________________________________________________________
(as Mulder begins to dig for what might be his sister's body)
Scully: "Mulder let's get a team out here. Let somebody else do this."
Mulder: "Help me Scully." (she starts digging) 
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "You're right, it's not a match. It's not her."
Mulder: "But it's somebody." 
____________________________________________________________
Roche: "It's your sister."
Mulder: "If that's true, tell me where."
Roche: "You wanna know a lot more than that don't you? You wanna know everything right? The 
             big mystery revealed."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "You just want to get out of here."
Roche: "You're damn right I do! If only for a day or two, I'm realistic. And more than that I......I can't 
             wait to see your face."
Scully: "You're gonna see the inside of your cell instead! You're gonna rot there!"
____________________________________________________________ 
Scully: "And I would hope that you'd appreciate the uniqueness of this situation and it's effect on 
            Agent Mulder."
Skinner: "Oh I fully understand the effect it has on him Agent Scully as I recall, that was the sum 
              and total of my last words to you on the subject! You let me down. Let's clean up this 
              mess before it gets completely out of hand."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "That's exactly how it happened? Right here in this room?"
Roche: "Yeah."
Mulder: "Wrong house."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "You screwed up, you were never here, you didn't take Samantha!"
Roche: "Wishful thinking."
____________________________________________________________
Roche: "You're just resisting me."
Mulder: "And you're in the wrong house, you stupid son of a bitch!"
____________________________________________________________
Rosche: "I'm beginning to believe we do share that..nexus that you spoke of? You always seem to 
               find me."
____________________________________________________________
(regarding last paper heart)
Roche: "How sure are you that it's not Samantha? Huh? How will you know?"(Mulder shoots him 
            as the counting reaches 19 and Roches' finger twitches)
____________________________________________________________ 
Scully: "Why don't you go on home and get some sleep?"
Mulder: (laughs at what she said...she smiles...he puts his arms around her waist...she pats his 
             head....she leaves...he puts heart in his desk drawer....)

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

                                                          4.9 Tunguska

                                             US Airdate: November 24, 1996

                                         writers: Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz
                                                    director: Kim Manners

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

Guest Cast:
MITCH PILEGGI as Assistant Director Skinner
WILLIAM B. DAVIS as The Cigarette-Smoking Man
NICK LEA as Krycek
CAMPBELL LANE as Committee Chairman
FRITZ WEAVER as Senator Sorenson
JOHN HAINSWORTH as Gaunt Man
OLESKY SHOSTAK as Bundled Man
JAN RUBES as Vassily Peskow
STEFAN ARNGRIM as the prisoner
ROBIN MOSSLEY as Dr. Kingsley Looker
BRENDAN BEISER as Agent Pendrell
JOHN NEVILLE as Well-Manicured Man
MALCOLM STEWART as Dr. Sacks
JESSICA SCHREIER as Dr. Bonita Sayre
BRENT STAIT as Terry Edward Mayhew
EILEEN PEDDE as Angie
DAVID BLOOM as Stress Man
LEE SERPA as Swarthy Man
LAURIE HOLDEN as Marita Covarrubias

SCULLY RISKS CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS WHEN SHE REFUSES TO DIVULGE MULDER'S 
WHEREABOUTS TO A SENATE SUBCOMMITTEE.

While performing a random search of a suitcase being carried by a man claiming to have diplomatic immunity, an airport customs agent is attacked by a black oil that congeals into tiny worms which penetrate his skin. An anonymous tipster warns Mulder about a right-wing militia 
organization planning a bombing which could be the next Oklahoma City. The informant turns out to be Alex Krycek, the traitor Mulder blames for his father's murder. Left trapped in an abandoned missile silo by the Cigarette-Smoking Man, Krycek says he was freed by the militia group during a salvage operation. Claiming he wants revenge on the Cigarette-Smoking Man, Krycek promises Mulder that he can help expose the Cigarette-Smoking Man and the Shadowy Syndicate. Despite his hatred for Krycek, Mulder reluctantly believes him.

Krycek leads Mulder and Scully to intercept a Russian courier at the airport. The courier escapes, but the diplomatic pouch he is carrying is recovered. The pouch contains a four-billion-year-old rock of extraterrestrial origin. Dr. Sacks, a government exobiologist, drills into the rock. The same black worms which killed the customs agent emerge from the rock and attack him. Scully and Pendrell investigate this deadly enigma. Mulder's possession of the artifact alarms the 
Well-Manicured Man, who orders the Cigarette-Smoking Man to take care of the problem.

Mulder seeks out his UN contact, Marita Covarrubias, who finds out the origin of the Russian courier's flight. Mulder learns the flight originated near Tunguska, Siberia and instantly recognizes the significance. In 1908, a fireball crashed to earth in Tunguska, igniting a series of cataclysmic explosions. It was the most massive and most mysterious event of its kind in history. Until now, no one had been able to discover what really happened. Maybe someone has finally found out the truth...

Part 1 of 2 (continues with "Terma")

                                                                Notes

Well looky here...he's baaaaaack! Yes sir, our favorite bad guy, Ratboy himself, Krycek, has returned. So how did he get out of that missile silo we last saw him in? And good golly mommy, where's Skinner's SHIRT?! Oh man....breathe in...breathe out...okay, I'm calm, let's continue with the notes.

Nice effects as the oil breaks up into worm-like creatures that slither along the floor, up the pants leg of the nosy guard and next, right up under his skin! The tell-tale sign that we're dealing with the same oily alien from before, his eyes begin to cloud over.

Some people were disturbed by the repeated attacks on Krycek in this ep, to which I say, lighten up, it's just a TV show! The man has betrayed Mulder and Scully over and over again and, whether by orders from Cancer Man or not, has definately killed someone over the years, maybe Mulder's 
Dad, possibly Scully's sister, as well as getting his "kicks" in on Skinner, so he had it coming, period. If you think his treatment was bad in this ep, wait 'till you see what happens in the next one! I had the pleasure of watching these two together, without the week long wait between episodes. It was torture to have to wait two weeks, saving all the messages (at least the ones that bothered to say "spoiler" in the header, I already knew about Krycek's return thanks to the non-spoiler postings), but it was pure pleasure at the end of the long wait.

A lot of us xphiles with WAY too much time on our hands, saw a great deal of what's come to be known as UST, or Unresolved Sexual Tension, between Mulder and Krycek in this episode. I know, just indulge us okay? Watch the ep again with this in mind and you'll see what we mean. The 
closeness, the fits of anger (which may be overwhelming desire to NOT be attracted to someone) and the way they take care of each other even when you're not sure whose side Krycek is on. Whatever you think, we enjoyed it!

Are we being nitpicky again or did the opening Senate scene seem to be a dig at all the off-screen negotiations going on between Gillian Anderson and 1013 Productions?! Job security huh? Let's face it, there would be no X-Files without Gillian, just my humble opinion, but there ya go.

Agent Pendrell, our usually love-sick puppy-dog, finally got a chance to prove he's no dummy as he and Scully worked together on the doctor. Not one ounce of sexual tension here, just pure professionalism.

The testosterone was really flowing in this one gals (and guys I guess, it IS the 90's after all!). I can only speak for myself here, but WOW!!! For strictly personal reasons, my fave scene is when Mulder takes Krycek to Skinner's apartment, and Krycek is beaten, punched and otherwise 
knocked senseless by our shirtless hero...ahhhh! Delightful. He is then handcuffed to Skinner's balcony, to be dealt with later. "He'll be safe here, relatively safe." He, he, he, you naughty boy Skinner! I'm not going to go on and on here, the ladies out there will already know my stand...get yourself a good VCR, slow it down, rewind, pause, and please for the love of Skinner, scan these pics onto the net!!! I never tire of seeing Krycek get the crap beaten out of him anyway, it happens so rarely, but the added bonus of a half-naked Skinner doing the deed was just too much for my hormones here! Forgive me for a moment, but hubba-hubba and rowr rowr!!

On another Skinner note, he has a new apartment, no wife in sight and is not wearing his wedding ring, so obviously the divorce went through right? No other clues, so that's my theory and I'm sticking to it!

When Cancer Man is telling the Well-Manicured Man (gee I wish these folks would get some real names! No I don't really, I love the nicknames) about the unknown agent going to Tunguska, there was the slightest hesitation on CM's part before saying "Fox Mulder". He looks to the ground before saying his name, almost like a child afraid to tell his parent he's done something wrong. Even more fuel for the fire being built up around CM's real attachment to Mulder.

We all got a kick out of Krycek saying, "You go underground, you gotta learn to live with the rats." as his nickname among the newsgroup fans has been Ratboy for quite some time. Thanks Chris Carter, we appreciate the nod in our general direction!

According to the newsgroup, people with closed-captioning on their TVs saw the word "Bambi?" on screen when Mulder pulled the cockroach out of his soup. His lips on screen don't move, so if it's true, this was a cute joke for the closed-captioned fans. The reference is to Doctor Bambi from the ep with all the cockroaches, "War Of The Coprophrages".

Far too many people want to believe that Mulder and the UNblonde, Marita, did the nasty, but, sorry fans, it didn't happen. There were some looks and comments made between the two that should satisfy some folks who worry about Mulder's lack of a social life, but the guy slept in all his clothes, in the chair, while Marita made the phone calls she had to make to obtain Mulder's special papers. No nooky going on with Mulder, awww!

Just how much help is this UNblonde, Marita? Sure, she helped Mulder get to Russia, but did she actually set him up with the Ruskies? And why the heck was Krycek left in the car right outside her apartment for the hours Mulder was there?! Pretty trusting on Mulder's part, don't you think? Krycek now has the informant's address, how handy will that info be in the future? Or did he know already because he's working with Marita to set up Mulder?! And did Krycek set the whole thing up? When he was being chased in the truck, he could have easily gotten away, but he shoots the driver and is captured by Mulder and Scully, too easy. And was a "look" and nod exchanged between one of the militia guys and Krycek as the guy's being taken away? And how darn convenient that all of a sudden we learn that Krycek can speak Russian right before Mulder is set to go there? So many questions...

Personal Favorite Header On The Newsgroup (lost the original posting):
"Tunguska: Big Spoilers! Small Spoilers! Come and Get 'em! What are ya, yellah?"

When Skinner calls Mulder and orders him to get to his place and help explain to the police why there's a dead man right under his balcony (ya just knew this would cause trouble!), off goes Mulder as Scully heads over to NASA to investigate the rock, as he orders her to do (Mr. All High and Mighty all of a sudden isn't he?) he dumps her once again!

The last scene in this episode should not be viewed by anyone with claustraphobic feelings, it's a doozy! We see Mulder in a room full of people all strung up with chicken wire, hanging suspended from metal bedframes, a bandaid covering what looks to be a smallpox vaccination on his left arm. Think of the movie "Coma" and add some wire to keep everyone stable. We end with an extreme close-up of Mulder's face, squeezed against the wire, terror in his eyes as a spout above his face 
starts dropping oil on him, the oily alien enters Mulder, worms crawling up his nose, his eyes cloud over and....To Be Continued...argggghhhh!!!!! 

Quotes
____________________
Scully: (reading from her prepared statement) "I left behind a career in medicine to become an FBI 
            agent four years ago, because I believed in this country. Because I wanted to uphold its 
            laws, to punish the guilty and to protect the innocent. I still believe in this country, but I 
            believe there are powerful men in the government who do not. Men who have no respect 
            for the law and who flout it with disparity. I have come to the conclusion that it is no longer 
            possible for me to carry out my duties as an FBI agent."
Senator: "Are you tendering your resignation Agent Scully? Is that what you're trying to say?"
Scully: "No sir. What I AM saying is that there is a culture of lawlessness that has prevented me 
             from doing my job. That the real target of this commitee's investigation should be the men 
             who are beyond prosecution and punishment. The men whose secret policies are behind 
             the crimes that you are investigating."
Senator: "Either you tell us what you know about Agent Mulder's whereabouts or you will be held in 
               contempt of congress......Agent Scully?"
____________________________________________________________ 
Krycek: "I handed you this bust Mulder!"
Mulder: "Oh come on Krycek!"
Krycek: "Who do you think sent you those receipts?"
____________________________________________________________ 
Krychek: "They found me in North Dakota. They liberated me on a salvage hunt... You go 
               underground, you gotta learn to live with the rats."
Mulder: "Sure you had no trouble adapting?"
Krycek: "These men are pathetic revolutionaries who would kill innocent Americans for their bone-
              head ideologies."
Mulder:"You're full of crap Krycek. You're an invertebrate scum sucker whose moral dipstick is 
             about two drops short of bone dry."
Krycek: "I love this country."
Scully: "What do you want Krycek?"
Krycek: "Same thing you do...to find the man who tried to kill me... (looks at Mulder) the same man 
              who's responsible for your father's death... (looks at Scully) your sister's."
Scully: "You want this man brought to justice?"
Krycek: "You can't bring these men to justice! Protect...the laws of this country protect these men 
              under the name of national security! They know no law!"
Mulder: "Then why don't you put a bullet in his head like you did that man out there?"
Krycek: "These men fear one thing, exposure. You expose him, expose his crimes, you destroy the 
              destroyers ability to destroy."
Mulder: "The only thing that will destroy this man is the truth."
Krycek: "The truth? The truth? There is no truth, these men, they make it up as they go along! 
              They're the engineers of the future. They...they are the real revolutionaries. I can get them 
              for you too."
Mulder: "We can't help you Krycek."
Krycek: "Mulder! This is just one bomb I'm sitting on here, you didn't ask me how many more I 
              knew about."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Is this some kind of joke?"
Krycek: "What?"
Mulder: "Show him." 
Krycek: "What is it?"
Mulder: "Expose it for him, Scully. (opens pouch, shows him rock) What did you get for Halloween, 
             Charlie Brown?"
____________________________________________________________
Skinner: "He'll be safe here... (punches Krycek in the stomach) ... relatively safe. We're not even 
              yet, boy! That's a start!"
____________________________________________________________ 
Krycek: "You can't...if you leave me out here I'm going to freeze to death!" 
Skinner: "Just think warm thoughts."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "I think we'd all like to know what's in that rock."
____________________________________________________________ 
Cancer Man: "As a friend, I should advise you, Mr. Skinner, that withholding information on 
                    matters of national security is punishable under this country's laws of treason and 
                    sedition."
Skinner: "Thank you, I'll consider myself advised...as a friend."
Cancer Man: "I need that pouch Mr. Skinner. And I need to know who gave them the order to 
                     intercept it."
Skinner: "I'll get back to you."
Cancer Man: "Wars have broken out over far less Mr. Skinner, far far less."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "I think that what Alex Krycek has given us is the pivotal piece to an even larger plot."
Scully: "What he's given us Mulder is a rock. Alex Krycek is a liar and a murderer." 
Mulder: "Who wants to expose the same men that we do, and will go to any lengths to succeed." 
Scully: "What I'm worried about is you Mulder, how far you'll go... and how far I can follow you." 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Stupid ass haircut!" (another punch to Krycek)
____________________________________________________________
Marita: "I can help you Agent Mulder."
Mulder: "Find my cell phone?"
Marita: "No, with cover credentials, a diplomatic passport, visa."
Mulder: "Why, why are you helping me?"
Marita: "Because I can. Because there are those of us who believe in you. Believe in your search 
            for the truth."
Mulder: "How long will it take?"
Marita: "How long do you have?"
____________________________________________________________
Krycek: "Where have you been?"
Mulder: "Making travel arrangements."
Krycek: "To go where?"
Mulder: "Follow the pouch."
Krycek: "You're gonna keep me in the dark."
Mulder: (after a punch to Krycek's face) "Yeah." 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "(mumbled) I'll leave the window rolled down. If I'm not back in a week, I'll call Agent Scully 
            to come and bring you a bowl of water."
Krycek: "Mulder! Mulder you're not gonna leave me here!" (yells from behind the glass)
Mulder: "What did you say to me?"
Krycek: "What?!"
Mulder: "You called me a bad name. (Krycek says something in Russian) You speak Russian, 
              Krycek?"
Krycek: "My parents were cold war immigrants, what's it to you?" 
____________________________________________________________
Well-Manicured Man: "Can this expose us?"
Cancer Man: "No, of course not. Our neccessary implausible denial is intact."
____________________________________________________________
Well-Manicured Man: "You fool! You stupid fool, this must be corrected, this must be handled!"
Cancer Man: "Well of course it can be. You know my capabilities in a crisis."
Well-Manicured Man: "I don't think you realize what's at stake here. What level this has been 
                                carried to. This will take more than just a good aim."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "I think somebody found that evidence and the explanation is something nobody ever 
             dreamed of."
____________________________________________________________
Krycek: "They were questioning me, trying to get me to confess."
Mulder: "To what?"
Krycek: "To being a spy."
Mulder: (throwing him against the wall) "What did you tell them?!"
Krycek: "That we were stupid Americans lost in the woods! Mulder, you're gonna need me in here. 
             (Mulder lets him go) Don't touch me again."
____________________________________________________________
(Russian translations from the newsgroup, I've lost the original postings)
The prisoner in the next cell, as Mulder wakes up: "Are you awake? Do you hear me? Speak to me. Speak, it's the only path to sanity. You'll see what I mean."

Krychek: "I wanna get out of here!"
Guard: "And who told you that you'll never get out of here?" 
Krycek: "I wanna get out of here none the less. Take me to your boss, he'll want to talk to me." 
Guard: "Okay, you can talk to him. But if he doesn't want to listen to you--"
Krycek: "Yeah, yeah, I'll answer for it."
Guard: "--you will answer to me."
Krycek: (to Mulder) "Bye."

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                                                          4.10 Terma

                                           US Airdate: December 1, 1996

                                      writers: Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz
                                                director: Kim Manners

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

Guest Cast:
MITCH PILEGGI as Assistant Director Skinner
WILLIAM B. DAVIS as The Cigarette-Smoking Man
NICK LEA as Krycek
CAMPBELL LANE as Committee Chairman
FRITZ WEAVER as Senator Sorenson
JOHN HAINSWORTH as Gaunt Man
OLESKY SHOSTAK as Bundled Man
JAN RUBES as Vassily Peskow
STEFAN ARNGRIM as the prisoner
ROBIN MOSSLEY as Dr. Kingsley Looker
BRENDAN BEISER as Agent Pendrell
JOHN NEVILLE as Well-Manicured Man
MALCOLM STEWART as Dr. Sacks
JESSICA SCHREIER as Dr. Bonita Sayre
BRENT STAIT as Terry Edward Mayhew
EILEEN PEDDE as Angie

A RUSSIAN ASSASSIN IS BROUGHT OUT OF RETIREMENT TO ERASE ALL LINKS TO 
AMERICAN EXPERIMENTS INVOLVING THE MYSTERIOUS "BLACK CANCER".

In Tunguska, Mulder has survived his ordeal for now, but is still being held captive in a Siberian Gulag. The prisoner in the next cell explains that all the men in the camp are injected with "black cancer" until the toxin finally kills them. Escape is impossible. Resistance is futile. Mulder swears he will survive, long enough at least to kill Krycek. Impressed by Mulder's will to survive, the prisoner gives Mulder his own home-made knife. Back in Washington, Dr. Sacks is alive after being infected by the black worms from the rock that was recovered in the diplomatic pouch, although he is comatose. For Scully and Agent Pendrell, the medical mystery starts to unravel when tests reveal a black vermiform organism attached to his brain's pineal gland.

St. Petersburg. A former KGB assassin, Vassily Peskow, comes out of retirement when a messenger from "Comrade Arntzen" requests his help, and tells him the Cold War isn't over. Peskow makes his way to a horse farm which belongs to the Well-Manicured Man where he assassinates Dr. Bonita Chung-Sayre, a well-known authority on viruses and the Well-Manicured Man's personal physician.

Due to testify before the Senate Subcommittee hearing, Skinner presses a reluctant Scully for more information about the pouch and its contents. Skinner surprises her with his news: the pouch's intended recipient was the late Dr. Chung-Sayre, who was killed in a "riding accident."

Tunguska. The prisoners, including Mulder, are on the march. Nearby, Krycek is laughing it up with Mulder's tormentors. The sight spurs Mulder to action. Armed only with the knife, Mulder steals a battered truck and makes his escape, knocking Krycek into the back of the truck and taking him along for the ride. The chase ends when the truck's brakes give out. Krycek bails out before the crash, but Mulder is trapped inside. Krycek flees through the woods where he runs into a group of men - all of which are missing their left arm. Krycek tells them he is an escaped prisoner, and the men take him in. Meanwhile, Mulder has survived the accident and hides in the forest from his pursuing captors.

In Washington, Scully is jailed for contempt of Congress when she refuses to reveal Mulder's whereabouts at the Senate hearing. As she explains to Skinner, someone with a secret agenda is deliberately obfuscating the case: focusing on a missing FBI agent, rather than the existence of a toxic biohazard of extra-terrestrial origin and the deaths of those connected to it.

Mulder is discovered hiding in the woods by a family, who explains that the villagers' only means of saving themselves from the fatal Gulagian experiments is a drastic one: amputation of the left arm. Mulder must persuade them to take him to St. Petersburg, or they may amputate his arm to "save" him. Unfortunately for Krycek, his rescuers "save" him as he sleeps.

Peskow continues his mission, paying a visit to the comatose Dr. Sacks whom he injects with the same amber fluid that had been shot into Mulder at the Gulag. The worms emerge, and he kills Sacks. At the Senate hearing, Scully is just about to be charged with contempt again...when 
Mulder appears, arm intact. Mulder's presence puts the attention back on the rock and the biotoxin, but when Scully tries to bring up the subject of the biotoxin's extraterrestrial origin, her claims are not taken seriously. Mulder interrupts the hearing, challenging the skepticism of the Senators when the most conservative scientists and science journals have every reason to believe that life exists outside our terrestrial sphere. Taken aback by Mulder's statement, the chairman of the subcommittee abruptly adjourns the hearing, calling for a recess until the evidence can be properly evaluated.

Following the lead that Dr. Chung-Sayre was the supervising physician at a nursing home in Boca Raton, Mulder and Scully travel to Florida to investigate. She and Mulder arrive too late. Peskow has already poisoned all of the patients and black worms have emerged from their deceased bodies. Mulder realizes a similar experiment to the one being conducted in Russia had been conducted at this nursing home. Still bent on finding a trace of evidence left behind, Mulder and Scully travel to New York where they interview the head of the militia group Krycek was running with. The militia member tells them Krycek told them his name was Arntzen, and that Krycek approached them. Everything Krycek told him was a lie. They also learn that the US government covered up their knowledge that Soviet-developed "black cancer" was deployed by Saddam during the Gulf War. Mulder now believes the whole thing was a set up from the beginning by someone who doesn't want the rocks in American hands. Finally, he discovers where Krycek is hiding another rock: Terma, North Dakota, in the stolen truck carrying the Militia's fertilizer bomb.

Again, Peskow is one step ahead of Mulder and Scully. He drives the truck to a Canadian oil refinery, intending to destroy the remaining rock. Mulder and Scully arrive too late to prevent Peskow from igniting a fiery explosion which engulfs the last peice of evidence. Both barely escape with their lives.

The final report on their investigation is turned over to the Senate subcommitte, but in vain. The Cigarette-Smoking Man controls the Senator who chairs the committee, and her evidence is destroyed. In St. Petersburg, Peskow returns home to find Krycek, sporting a prosthetic left arm, who commends Peskow for a job well done.

                                                                Notes

"Terma", or more accurately pronounced, tyurma, means jail or prison, or imprisonment.

At the end of the credits, we see the tag line has changed to "E PUR SI MUOVE", which my sources tell me means "and yet it moves" and refers to what Galileo said under his breath after being forced to retract his ideas about the earth rotating around the sun by the Spanish Inquisition. And who said this show isn't educational? 

Speaking of which, the quote by the Well-Manicured Man, "They're all honourable, these honourable men." is a take on a quote from William Shakespeare's play "Julius Ceasar": "For Brutus is an honourable man, So are they all, all honourable men."

The re-run of the first scene from "Tunguska" with Scully before the Senate, is not exactly the same the second time around, as some parts that were obscured in the beginning are now viewable, such as Skinner seated behind Scully and a note that is passed to Senator Sorenson. We also see Skinner's reaction of shock when he speaks about possible resignation (awww) and the look of oh-no-what's-she-doing-now? when she talks about the men in government that are holding back justice.

Personal notes: What the hey??!! Good luck figuring this thing out folks, I've seen it twice so far and I'm still lost. Not that I don't enjoy these adventures, I do, and this two-parter was terrific, with 
some great Mulder angst, beautiful imagery (not counting the half-naked Skinner from the first one, yowza!) and some half-decent acting from all concerned. It was satisfying to have Krycek back, although he'll now be only half the villian he was before, poor guy. But part two has more questions than part one did!

Lots of problems accepting that the Russian spy could just walk into the NASA medical facility and inject the doctor. No security cameras recording all this?! It's a possibility that he was "let" in by any contacts he may have had in the American government. He does appear to be an older, experienced spy, as he tells Krycek he is now retired and won't do any more favours for him. So the trip to Florida was a favour for Krycek? Just how big IS this Ruskie Ratboynik?

What the heck happened to Mulder? One minute he's barely capable of walking unaided and is being threatened by a large Russian man with a knife, the next he's in Washington, all cleaned up with nothing but some scratches on his head to show he's been through any turmoil! Details, Chris and company, we need details!!

So Krycek's been a Russian spy all along? Okay, we can accept that, I guess, but why go through all this for that rock when he could have just grabbed it himself from the courier right?! Why the milita group contact? Just to torment Mulder by dragging him into it? And why go to Russia with Mulder when he already knew where the rock was? What was the deal with the evil, bald officer? Just getting paid off was he? Questions, and yet more questions...

A lot of concern regarding the smallpox vaccinations and chopped off arms, so here it is in a nutshell. Everyone who had been vaccinated was being used as a test subject in experiments dealing with the black cancer and a cure for its effects. When experimenting in this manner, the doctors or scientists need to examine the area around the vaccination for changes etc. With no left arm, the people who had already been injected could no longer be used as test subjects. Also 
remember back in "Paper Clip" we learned that apparently ALL humans who received a smallpox vaccination were also injected with a DNA "tag" of identification, so, again, no arm, no ID.

There is some truth to be found here, namely that the smallpox virus really does still exist and is being kept in parts of Russia today, as well as the Centre for Disease Control in America. The science community is embroiled in debate about what to do with the samples, some want it 
destroyed so it doesn't accidently get released among the populace, while others argue that it should be kept for research purposes. So you see, the truth really IS still out there! Check yourself thoroughly, have YOU been innoculated against smallpox, hmmmm?! Scary huh?

Sheesh, even I felt sorry for our poor Ratboy here, what a bummer! He may never be thought of as harmless...but he IS arm-less! Bad pun, sorry.

The Mulder and Scully hug, really close, had the shippers on the newsgroup agog!

                                                              Quotes
____________________
Well Manicured-Man: "Find her killer . . . ."
Cancer Man: "Call off this congressional investigation!"
WMM: "I can't, but Senator Sorenson is an honorable man. They're all honorable - these honorable 
            men." 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "I'm not going to die."
Prisoner: "No? Why not?"
Mulder: "I have to live long enough to kill that man Krycek."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Several of the men on this committee are lawyers. It is my experience that lawyers ask the 
            wrong question only when they don't want the right answer." 
____________________________________________________________
Cancer Man: "I heard Mulder was captured in Tunguska. I hear now he's escaped . . . . . . Wake 
                    the Russian bear and it may find we've stolen its honey."
____________________________________________________________
Skinner: "These are congressmen we are talking about Agent Scully."
Scully: "I know that sir, and it is my natural inclination to believe that they are acting in the best 
            interest of the truth - but I am not inclined to follow my own judgement in this case."
Skinner: "So, you're going to follow Agent Mulder's? Is that it?"
____________________________________________________________
Scully: ".... a wide ranging conspiracy to control a lethal bio-toxin that is in fact extraterrestrial."
Senator: "Are we talking little green men here?"
____________________________________________________________ 
Mulder: (hugging Scully upon his return) "It's good to put my arms around you - both of them"

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                                                      4.11 El Mundo Gira

                                              US Airdate: January 12, 1997

                                                    writer: John Shiban
                                                  director: Tucker Gates

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

Guest Cast:
MITCH PILEGGI as Assistant Director Skinner
RUBEN BLADES as Conrad Lozano
RAYMOND CRUZ as Eladio Buente
PAMELA DIAZ as Maria Dorantes
JOSE YENQUE as Soledad Buente
LILLIAN HURST as Flakita
SUSAN BAIN as the County Coroner
ROBERT THURSTON as Dr. Larry Steen
SIMI as Gabrielle Buente
TINA AMAYO as the older shanty woman
MIKE KOPSA as Rick Culver

AGENTS MULDER AND SCULLY INVESTIGATE A BIZARRE EVENT AT A MIGRANT 
WORKERS CAMP

Deadly rain in a migrant workers camp sends Agent Mulder and Scully on the trail of a mythical beast.

                                                              Notes

"El Mundo" is Spanish for "the world" and "Gira" translates as "spin or turn"

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                                                            4.12 Kaddish

                                                US Airdate: February 9, 1997

                                                    writer: Howard Gordon
                                                    director: Kim Manners

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

Guest Cast:
JUSTINE MICELI as Ariel Luria
DAVID GROH as Jacob Weiss
HARRISON COE as Issac Luria
CHANNON ROE as Derek Banks
JABIN LITWINIEC as Clinton Bascombe
TIMUR KARABILGIN as Tony
JONATHAN WHITTAKER as Curt Brunjes
DAVID WOHL as Kenneth Ungar
GEORGE GORDON as the Detective
MURREY RABINOVITCH as 1st Hasidic man

AGENTS MULDER AND SCULLY INVESTIGATE A HATE CRIME IN A JEWISH COMMUNITY

A murder in a Jewish community leads to the deaths of the killers, forcing Mulder and Scully to determine whether vengeance or larger forces are at work.

                                                               Notes

Kaddish is the name of the prayer Jews say over the dead.

Looking at the guest cast list, for what it's worth, David Groh may be better known to you as Rhoda's husband Joe on the '70's TV show, "Rhoda", Justine Miceli played officer Lezniak on "NYPD Blue" last year and I recognize the name Jonathan Whittaker from the '60's, red-headed 
kid then all freckles and starred in "Tom Sawyer" and "Family Affair", I believe. Hmmm...seems like some kind of reunion episode going on huh?

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

                                                         4.13 Never Again

                                US Airdate: January 26, 1997 (Super Bowl Sunday)

                                       writers: Glen Morgan and James Wong
                                                    director: John Shiban

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

Guest Cast:
RODNEY ROLAND as Ed Jerse
CARLA STEWART as the Judge
BARRY "BEAR" HORTIN as the Bartender
IGOR MOROZOV as Vsevlod Pudovkin
JAN BAILEY MATTIA as Mrs. Hadden
RITA BOZI as Ms. Vansen
MARILYN CHIN as Mrs. Shima-Tsuno
JILLIAN FARGEY as Kaye Schilling
B.J. HARRISON as Hannah
NATASHA VASILUK as Russian Store Owner
BILL CROFT as Comrade Svo
PETER NADLER as Ed's Lawyer
JEN FORGIE as Ed's Ex-Wife
JAY DONAHUE as Detective Gouveia

AGENT SCULLY INVESTIGATES ONE OF MULDER'S CASES ALONE

Reluctantly pursuing one of Mulder's leads alone, Agent Scully finds her life in danger when she becomes involved with a man bearing a deadly tattoo.

                                                                Notes

Apparently Morgan and Wong are leaving the show again, and from the title I would hazard a guess that this WILL be their swan song. A shame really, as they have been a real asset to the show.

Insiders on the newsgroup tell us that the tattoo mentioned in the summary comes to life! 

Whether or not this has anything to do with this episode, Gillian Anderson has a tattoo of a tortoise on the inside of her ankle, we'll have to wait and see if it comes to life I guess :)

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

                                                         4.14 Leonard Betts

                                                 US Airdate: February 2, 1997

                                                   writers: (not available yet)
                                                   director: (not available yet)

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

Guest Cast:
(not available yet)

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