The Body Count in the News!

This summer, while searching for websites to link this site to, I came across X-Files News. It seems like the show went off the air before the Internet became the massive powerhouse it is today, so fan sites are few and far between now. This one is quite impressive, keeping tabs on the actors and directors and various references to the show.

When I asked to be linked on their site, I was pleasantly surprised when editor-in-chief Avi Quijada asked if I would do an interview. She's been understandably busy with work and moving between countries and whatnot, so between the interview and now I've advanced from the first introduction of the black oil (and the deadliest episode of the series) to the end of the episodes. But the interview has appeared, and is available here.

The X-Files: I Want to Believe is ready to go, but right now I'm planning to check it out on Friday, since I intend to check out Sherlock Holmes with a friend tonight and ring in 2010 on Thursday. Stick around after that post for a final wrap-up!

Season 9, Episode 20: The Truth, Part 2

Synopsis
Against Mulder's wishes, Praise comes to offer his testimony. After saying he helped hide Mulder and confirming his mind-reading abilities, he accuses one of the judges of being something other than human. Doggett testifies about how he's seen super-soldiers and their stubborn refusal to die by means other than magnetite. Reyes testifies about William's birth and the presence of super-soldiers there, saying she believes they're aliens who have replaced humans. She says Scully was one of numerous women selected for biological experimentation, though the evidence for that was blown up aboard a ship in Baltimore. Reyes also says that she witnessed William's superhuman powers, but since he was given up for adoption there's no evidence.

Doggett manages to get ahold of the body the military is claiming is Rohrer and has it sent to Quantico. Scully examines the body and determines that it doesn't match Rohrer's medical records, but Kersh still denies Skinner's motion to dismiss despite the exonerating evidence. Mulder is found guilty of murder and sentenced to death. Rohrer arrives at the base looking good and not dead, evidently eager to finish off Mulder. Skinner and Doggett and, surprisingly, Kersh help Mulder escape the base. Reyes relays him to Scully, and Kersh advises them to escape from Canada. Instead, Mulder takes them south.

Doggett, Reyes, and Praise return to DC to find that the X-Files office has been scrapped. Praise warns that the non-human judge knows where Mulder and Scully are going. So do the spirits of The Lone Gunmen, who beg Mulder not to go on. He forges on anyway to an Anasazi Indian site in New Mexico, telling Scully that he was sent the keycard to the Virginia military facility from the site. It turns out to be Cancer Man, alive if not very well, hiding in a magnetite-rich region. Doggett and Reyes arrive at the site, shortly before Rohrer shows up as well. Cancer Man confirms Mulder's suspicion about the shadow government and invasion date, and Rohrer is killed after venturing too close to the magnetite.

The agents escape as a pair of black helicopters arrives, obliterating the pueblo (and Cancer Man) in a shower of missiles. In a motel in Roswell, Mulder considers how he's convinced Scully about the his theories but failed in every other respect, including coming up with any way to stop the conspirators and colonization. Scully tells him that he'll only fail if he gives up. She asks him what he wants to believe in, and he says he hopes that the dead can speak to them and give them the power to save themselves. Scully says they believe in the same thing. "Maybe there's hope," Mulder concludes.

Episode Body Count

Not Knowle Rohrer: a crispy corpse that the military claims belongs to Rohrer, but that Scully finds belongs to a man who broke his neck and was burned post-mortem.


Knowle Rohrer: destroyed by magnetite while pursuing Doggett and Reyes.


Indian woman: presumed killed when the black helicopters destroy the pueblo.

UNDEAD'D (sort of)


Cancer Man: it turns out he was alive, hiding out in New Mexico, but that doesn't last too long as he is obliterated by missiles fired from a pair of black helicopters. So he just won't count this time around.

Humans: 3
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0

Season Body Count
Humans: 196
Creatures: 2
Aliens: 0

Though I suppose the super-soldiers might be considered aliens if Reyes' theory is right...

Cumulative Body Count (202/202 episodes, 1/2 movies)

Humans: 2,299

Creatures: 131
Aliens: 64

Grand Total: 2,494

Woo. OK. I'm pretty sure the library has a copy of the second movie, and I'll try to pick it up to watch this weekend.

Season 9, Episode 19: The Truth, Part 1

Synopsis

Hey, remember that Mulder guy? Turns out he's sneaking into a military base inside a Virginia mountain, the site where he thinks the shadow government is set up. He discovers that the alien colonization is set to begin on December 22, 2012 (presumably when everyone is hung over from celebrating the Mayan prophecy turning out to be false the previous day). After seeing a vision of Kyrcek, Mulder scuffles with Knowle Rohrer and dozens of people witness him tossing Rohrer to his apparent death on an electrical grid. Mulder is arrested by the military, and Skinner and Scully arrive after Kersh is somehow informed.

A Marine general tells Kersh that Mulder's trial can be held before FBI personnel in a Marine court, but also hints that a guilty verdict should be the only outcome and that there are government forces in place that shouldn't be fooled with. Mulder asks Skinner to represent him, and Mulder and Scully have a tearful reunion where he says he's been looking for the truth in Mexico. Kersh leads a judicial panel at Mulder's trial; the prosecution considers it an open-and-shut case and calls no witnesses. Skinner decides to try to prove the government conspiracy as a way of justifying Mulder's action, even though his star witness (Marita) is unavailable.

Skinner calls Scully to the stand, where she says she believes that the alien black oil virus came to Earth via meteor in prehistoric times and lay dormant for thousands of years. She says the government learned of the virus and colonization efforts through the UFO crash in Roswell in 1947, keeping it secret to avoid panic. She also testifies about her own abduction by the government as part of an attempt to make a slave race of alien-human hybrids. The prosecutor simply lets the panel know about Mulder and Scully's romantic relationship and their love-child.

Next witness: Spender. He describes the government conspiracy, saying the human collaborators were forced to give up loved ones as part of their deal with the aliens, including Samantha. He says he grew up with Samantha, but she was subjected to horrible tests before her death; that his father (Cancer Man) had Mulder's father killed when Mulder started to get close to the truth; and that Cancer Man shot him when he confronted him about the conspiracy and performed the same tests when he didn't die. The prosecutor points out how Spender and Mulder didn't exactly get along before he found out about the conspiracy.

Gibson Praise senses that Mulder needs his help, and sends a friend to let Doggett and Reyes know that he wants to testify. Mulder gets another vision, this time from Mr. X, who somehow conveys Marita's address to him. Marita shows up at the trial, saying that the Syndicate was trying to develop a vaccine for the alien virus using innocent test subjects. She says she became a test subject herself as punishment after coming to hate the Syndicate and helping Mulder. The vaccine was simply a way to save themselves, she claims, but the group was wiped out by a group of alien rebels. Skinner suggests that the conspiracy continues and that's why she was reluctant to testify about how Mulder was taking on a super-soldier involved in the new plan. After Vision Krycek tells Mulder that the conspirators will kill Marita if Skinner persists, he asks that she be dismissed, despite Skinner's protest that she's the last best witness they have. To be continued...

William Devane, who plays General Mark Suveg, also played Janeway in Marathon Man, JFK in the TV movie The Missiles of October, and Gregory Sumner on Knot's Landing.

Episode Body Count

Knowle Rohrer can handle a little electrocution.

Humans: 0
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0

Cumulative Body Count (201/202 episodes, 1/2 movies)

Humans: 2,296

Creatures: 131
Aliens: 64

Grand Total: 2,491

Season 9, Episode 18: Sunshine Days

Synopsis

A pizza deliveryman in California swears to his friend that the house where he made his last delivery is the same place where The Brady Bunch was shot. They enter, though the friend is creeped out to find the interior setup matches the show exactly. After following some Bobby and Cindy lookalikes into a room, the deliveryman is somehow launched onto the roof of his friend's car. The friend wants homeowner Oliver Martin arrested and tells Doggett and Reyes about the Brady setup. Martin is reluctant to let the agents into the house, but when the friend barges in the interior is completely different. However, Doggett sees that the roof has been recently patched, with matching tiles found in the car and the house's Dumpster.

Scully's autopsy seems to support Doggett's theory that the deliveryman was ejected through the roof, and she also notes a residual electricity in the corpse. The friend stakes out the house again and sees the Brady Bunch inside, but they are gone when he enters again. Martin urges him to leave, but the friend ends up getting lifted through the roof to his death as well. A doctor tells the agents that Martin, who had a different name back then, displayed telekinetic abilities for a time as a child, and Reyes discovers that his alias is a reference to the Brady Bunch character "Cousin Oliver." Visiting the house with the doctor, Doggett is tossed through the ceiling, but ends up walking on the underside of the roof rather than being fully tossed out.

With some help from the doctor, Martin is able to control his ability and brings Doggett back to earth. Reyes and Scully also appear in the now Brady-themed house, and he says he has the ability to create settings by thinking about them. Oliver agrees to go to DC with the agents; Scully thinks he can do a lot of good with his power, while Doggett cautions that he could do a lot of harm as well. Shortly after demonstrating his telekinetic power on Skinner, Martin has a seizure and is hospitalized. Scully realizes that his health is declining as a result of the use of his power. Doggett posits that Martin's power goes away when he's happy, which was why he lost it after the enjoyable sessions with the doctor, and that happiness (like that he feels with the Bradys) is the only way he'll survive. The doctor visits Martin, forbidding him from using his power but promising to stay with him as a companion.

Michael Emerson, due to wrap up his role as Benjamin Linus in the final season of Lost, plays Oliver Martin here. David Faustino, who plays Michael Daley, formerly played Bud Bundy on Married with Children. John Aylward, who plays Dr. John Rietz, also played Dr. Donald Anspaugh on ER.

Episode Body Count

Blake McCormick: dies after he is blasted through the roof of Martin's home and lands on the roof of Michael Daley's car.


Michael Daley: somehow lifted through the roof of Martin's house, he falls to his death on the lawn.

Humans: 2
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0

Cumulative Body Count (200/202 episodes, 1/2 movies)

Humans: 2,296

Creatures: 131
Aliens: 64

Grand Total: 2,491

Season 9, Episode 17: Release

Synopsis

Doggett finds a young woman plastered behind the wall of an abandoned tenement on an anonymous tip. A cadet in Scully's class named Rudolph Hayes makes a surprisingly astute analysis of her death and says the woman is not the killer's first victim. After Hayes gives Doggett and Reyes a profile of the murderer, they identify a possible suspect named Nicholas Regali. Hayes' apartment has hundreds of photos of the victims of violent crime on his wall, including Doggett's son Luke. Doggett asks Hayes to look into Luke's murder, and Hayes lets him in on his wall of photos, saying they're unsolved murders that sometimes tell him things.

Hayes tells Doggett that while Bob Harvey took Luke, he did not murder him; he suggests that Regali was the killer. Doggett has his ex-wife take a look at Regali on the off-chance that she may have seen him hanging around the neighborhood, but Regali is released after she doesn't recognize him. Noticing that Regali has escaped serious charges despite his suspicion in several cases, Doggett figures he's bribing someone. Reyes confronts Follmer, saying she saw him take a bribe from a mobster in New York. He says he was actually paying a confidential informant, and further reveals that he's discovered Hayes' true identity: a former psychiatric patient named Stuart Mimms who was in New York at the time of Luke's death. A SWAT team storms Mimms' apartment, now devoid of the photos, and arrests him.

It turns out that Follmer actually was taking bribes from Regali, and he meets up with him to ask about Luke. Regali denies any involvement in the murder, and threatens to give a videotape of the bribe exchange to the Washington Post if Follmer tries to break off their relationship prematurely. Mimms admits to lying to get into FBI training and making the anonymous tip to Doggett, but only to help Doggett find Regali. Doggett confronts Regali in a bar, who says he "hypothetically" may have known Harvey in the course of his mob business, Harvey may have kidnapped Luke and sexually abused him, and Regali may have killed Luke after he accidentally walked in on them and Luke saw his face. Doggett seems like he's going to kill Regali, but Follmer does the job for him as Regali exits the bar. With closure finally at hand, Doggett and his ex-wife spread Luke's ashes into the ocean.

Barbara Patrick, who plays Doggett's ex-wife (also Barbara), is Robert Patrick's wife.

Episode Body Count

Ellen Persich: stabbed to death, Doggett finds her body in the wall of an abandoned tenement.

Rita Shaw: also stabbed to death about two weeks before Persich's body is found.


At least four cadavers: laid out in a field at the FBI's forensic training facility.


Approximately 77 bodies: seen in photos on the walls of Mimms' apartment. There are something like 400 photos on the wall, but it seems like there are about five photos for each victim. Some, namely Luke and the two recent murders, have already been counted.

Rudolph Hayes: Follmer mentions how he died in 1978 in a car accident, with Mimms apparently taking his name.


Nicholas Regali: shot by Follmer as he leaves a bar.

Humans: 85
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0

Cumulative Body Count (199/202 episodes, 1/2 movies)

Humans: 2,294

Creatures: 131
Aliens: 64

Grand Total: 2,489

Season 9, Episode 16: William

Synopsis
In the introduction, William has been given up for adoption to a Wyoming couple. One week earlier, a heavy-breathing man observes Scully coming home with William and later sneaks into the X-Files office, trying unsuccessfully to knock Doggett out. Captured, the man identifies himself as David Miller; he says his body has been heavily scarred after he was given an injection as part of the alien conspiracy, and that he was given a keycard by Mulder to access the building. Doggett finds that the Miller identity doesn't stack up, and proposes that he's actually Mulder...something Scully is reluctant to accept. Not Miller admits that he lied for his own protection, since there are people at the FBI who would kill him if they knew he was there.

Not Miller says he was disfigured as part of a failed attempt to turn him into a super-soldier, and that he was seeking files related to similar cases but they were missing. It turns out that Mulder and Scully agreed to remove the same cases from the X-Files before he went on the run, and she decides to let him see them (and also William, who Not Miller says is part alien). Scully seems to be considering that Not Miller might be Mulder, but is still unwilling to believe it even after the DNA matches.

After unsuccessfully trying to escape the agents, Not Miller fakes sleep and gives William an injection. William is taken to a hospital, where it is found that he's OK. Scully realizes that Not Miller is actually Jeffrey Spender, who says that the DNA test is a result of he and Mulder both being fathered by Cancer Man. Spender also says he injected William with a form of magnetite, apparently removing the alien part of his biology, as revenge on Cancer Man, but warns that William will still be in danger of those seeking to use him for the alien colonization. Reluctantly, Scully gives him up for adoption to protect him.

Directed by David Duchovny, who also had a role in the story.

Episode Body Count

UNDEAD'D


Jeffrey Spender: not killed by his father after all, but rather subjected to a horribly botched attempt to turn him into a super-soldier.

Humans: 1
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0

Cumulative Body Count (198/202 episodes, 1/2 movies)

Humans: 2,209

Creatures: 131
Aliens: 64

Grand Total: 2,404

Merry X-Mas!

Season 9, Episode 15: Jump the Shark

Synopsis

This episode serves as the wrap-up to the short-lived spinoff The Lone Gunmen where, among other things, our favorite geeky trio stopped 9/11 about six months before it actually happened, picked up the companionship of a good-hearted if somewhat dim-witted fourth member named Jimmy Bond as well as a mysterious woman alias Yves Adele Harlow, and a cliffhanger series finale involving a team-up with Morris Fletcher that uncovers a secret government organization known as Romeo-61.

We catch up with Fletcher in the Bahamas, where his boat is blown up as he tries to seduce a woman. He requests Doggett and Reyes to come see him, asking for protection because of what he knows. He says Harlow is a super-soldier, and the agents and Fletcher go to The Lone Gunmen with this tidbit. They deny it, and are still angry at Fletcher for helping them track down Harlow a year before and then abducting her. Harlow kills a New Jersey college professor, removes an organ from his body, and incinerates it. The agents find that he was involved in medical research involving sharks, bled phosphorescence, and had a cartilage shell grafted into his body; the shell has had something taken from it.

Fletcher lets the Gunmen know that Harlow's real name is Lois Runce, and Bond returns from a worldwide search for her. An associate geek (the twin of the one murdered in Las Vegas) tells the agents that the Gunmen have gone broke and given up publishing their paper in a similar effort to find her. The Gunmen finally track her down as she's about to assassinate another man, who flees when they interrupt her. They find that Fletcher has had a tracking device on him the entire time, and is running a scam to track down Runce for his employer, a billionaire arms dealer who is also Runce's father. She says that her father was sponsoring the creation of a deadly virus capable of killing thousands, to be delivered by the decay of a cartilage shell that will release it that night...Fletcher is a little unnerved to learn that he's sponsored terrorism.

The man Runce was trying to kill is captured, but doesn't have any sort of delivery system in him. The Gunmen team and Fletcher realize that he was a decoy, while the real second vessel is inside a friend of the professor's. The Gunmen, Bond, and Runce find him at a conference and pursue him into the basement. The Gunmen find the perp, but are too late to safely remove the shell. Instead, they activate a fire alarm to seal him and the virus in the basement hallway, though they have to expose themselves to the virus in order to do so. Skinner pulls a few strings to get the Gunmen buried at Arlington National Cemetery for their heroism.

Zuleikha Robinson, who plays Yves Adele Harlow/Lois Runce, now plays Ilana on Lost. Marcus Giamatti, who plays John Gillnitz, also played Peter Gray on Judging Amy.

Episode Body Count

Professor Douglas Houghton: shot with a poisoned pellet by Harlow/Runce.


Joey Ramone: another stretch, but eh. Fletcher refers to Ramone as a "dead teenybopper," showing that he at least knows enough about him to have heard that Ramone died in 2001.


Professor John Gillnitz: dies after exposure to the virus he's carrying inside his body in a cartilage shell.


The Lone Gunmen: or to recap my original reaction, WHAT? John Fitzgerald Byers, Melvin Frohike, and Richard "Ringo" Byers die in the basement of a convention center after sealing themselves in with Gillnitz to prevent the spread of the virus.

Humans: 6
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0

Cumulative Body Count (197/202 episodes, 1/2 movies)

Humans: 2,210

Creatures: 131
Aliens: 64

Grand Total: 2,405

Season 9, Episode 14: Scary Monsters

Synopsis

A young boy in Pennsylvania named Tommy Conlon thinks some monsters have made their home under his bed, and his father reassures him that he's imagining things. A routine scene, except for the fact that Tommy's father makes sure he holds the door shut when the boy tries to escape the renewed monster noises. Leyla Harrison thinks there's something about Tommy and his family, since his mother stabbed herself to death and his cat also died, with Tommy saying monsters were to blame in both cases. She tells Scully about the case and convinces Reyes and Doggett to investigate; she's also resourceful enough to get Tommy's dead cat to Scully, making her reconsider her opinion that there's nothing to the case after seeing that the cat chewed a hole in his own stomach.

Doggett and Reyes think something fishy is going on after observing Tommy's father's behavior, and they're marooned at the house after their car's engine spits out blood. The agents see Tommy being held at bay by a couple of insect-like creatures, one of which regenerates into two new creatures after Doggett shoots it. At Scully's request, the sheriff visits the Conlon home...except it's not him, just some sort of blood-filled automaton. Scully figures the cat was trying to get rid of something inside of it that was causing severe pain, and decides to make the trip to Pennsylvania.

Tommy's father explains to the agents that he was trying to keep Tommy in with the creatures because they wouldn't hurt him, whereas anyone else they will. Tommy shows Reyes a picture of her with the creatures in her belly, and she finds herself with a painful infestation soon after; not surprisingly, the agents realize that Tommy is behind everything. Tommy also tricks Doggett into a void full of the creatures and makes Harrison's eyes bleed. Doggett is unhurt, since he's realized that it's all imaginary and can't hurt him. Escorting everyone outside, Doggett tells Tommy he needs to stop him, douses the living room in gasoline, and ignites it. Except that he just used water to trick Tommy, making him pass out in fear. Harrison gives Doggett a backhanded compliment, saying his lack of imagination saved them all, and Tommy undergoes psychiatric treatment to stifle his imagination: deadening his mind with a ton of TV programs.

Brian Roth, who plays Gabe Rotter, also played Tyler Jenson on CSI: Miami.

Episode Body Count

Mrs. Conlon: dies of 16 self-inflicted stab wounds in an attempt to remove a monster conjured up by Tommy.


Spanky: Tommy's cat, he claims a monster killed it as well.

I won't count the not-sheriff, since he's just a bag of blood conjured up by Tommy's imagination and that body disappears somewhere anyway.

Humans: 1
Creatures: 1
Aliens: 0

Cumulative Body Count (196/202 episodes, 1/2 movies)

Humans: 2,204

Creatures: 131
Aliens: 64

Grand Total: 2,399

Season 9, Episode 13: Improbable

Synopsis

At a casino, a friendly man credited only as Mr. Burt strikes up a conversation with a sketchy-looking fellow named Wayne moments before he kills a woman in the restroom. Mr. Burt seems to know it's going to happen, but does nothing to stop it. Opening screen: Dio Ti Ama. Reyes thinks the murderer is committed this and other crimes based on numerology; Scully is less certain, but agrees that the victims have consistent bruising, possibly from a single ring. Wayne is annoyed to see that Mr. Burt has set up a three card monty table not far from his apartment, and threatens to kill him if he doesn't leave him alone.

Reyes goes to a skeptical numerologist for help, and returns to the FBI to rousing applause, since two new cases have been found and it seems that a killer is choosing his victims in threes in 1999 and 2002. Wayne kills the numerologist, just as she's calling Reyes to disclose some interesting news about their number charts. Scully discovers that the victims' markings seem to come from the worn-away markings of a 666 insignia, and Doggett notices that the pattern of the killings seems to form a number six along the eastern seaboard. Scully and Reyes run across Wayne by chance at the numerologist's building and Scully recognizes his ring, but he gets away, leaving the agents trapped in the parking garage.

Scully and Reyes find Mr. Burt in his car. He says he's meeting a friend for a game of checkers, and reveals a board and hundreds of music CDs in his trunk. With nothing else to do, they play a few games and listen to some cha-cha until Reyes realizes that Wayne apparently kills by hair color and they may be the next targets. Scully is fed up with Reyes theory that everything, including the serial murders, can be reduced to numbers, but ultimately agrees that Wayne may not have left the garage. Searching for him, they are saved when Doggett enters and shoots him. He says he realized that Wayne's pattern actually indicated nine victims, and Scully and Reyes may have been next. Mr. Burt disappears without a trace

Wouldn't you know it, Mr. Burt is played by Burt Reynolds, whose movies include Smokey and the Bandit, Deliverance, and Cannonball Run. Ellen Greene, who plays Vicki Louise Burdick, now plays Vivian Charles on Pushing Daisies.

Episode Body Count

Amy Sheridan Aufsbergher: killed by Wayne in a casino restroom.

Three other women: Reyes thinks Aufsbergher's murder is linked via numerology to the murders of three women that occurred within the past couple of years.

Two other women: murders linked to the same string of killings.


Vicki Louise Burdick: also killed by Wayne.


Mad Wayne: shot by Doggett.

Humans: 8
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0

Cumulative Body Count (195/202 episodes, 1/2 movies)

Humans: 2,203

Creatures: 130
Aliens: 64

Grand Total: 2,397

Season 9, Episode 12: Underneath

Synopsis

In 1989 in Brooklyn, a cable man named Bob Fassl reluctantly goes into a house on orders from a bearded man in his van. Though he doesn't seem to kill the family inside, they somehow wind up dead in front of him and it doesn't look good when an NYPD force led by Doggett arrives on scene and finds him there. Thirteen years later, Doggett is enraged that Fassl is going to be released following exoneration by DNA evidence, since he considers that Fassl can't possibly be innocent. Fassl sees a vision of the bearded man as soon as he is freed, and not long after sees a message in blood urging him to kill his lawyer after she lets him stay at her home. After seeing the bearded man again, Fassl begs him not to kill the attorney; he responds by slapping Fassl and sauntering off with an icepick.

Scully finds that even if the DNA evidence found at the old crime scenes didn't belong to Fassl, it was similar enough that it would have had to have come from a blood relative of his, even though Fassl is supposedly an only child. Reyes visits the prison warden, and he shares an image of the bearded man captured by a security camera shortly after Fassl's cellmate was murdered. At his attorney's home, Fassl is forced to clean up after the murders of a housekeeper and an assistant district attorney, both at the hands of the bearded man. Doggett discovers that another officer on the case planted phony evidence to help convict Fassl.

Noting Fassl's devout Catholicism, Reyes proposes that he may be able to manifest a second personality to commit the crimes due to an incapability to admit that he has a sinful side. Staking out the attorney's house, Doggett and Reyes see the bearded man flee and they pursue him into a cable access tunnel, where Reyes finds a cache of corpses. The bearded man holds Doggett hostage, and Reyes addresses him with Fassl's name. She ends up shooting him, and Doggett turns him over to reveal Fassl.

Arthur J. Nascarella, who played Carlo Gervasi on The Sopranos, plays Duke Tomasick here. W. Earl Brown, who plays Bob Fassl, also played Don Dority on Deadwood. Lisa Darr, who plays Attorney Jana Fain, also played Jane McPherson on Popular.

Episode Body Count

Seven people: Doggett believes Fassl is responsible for the deaths of three members of a family, and apparently four other people as well.


Mrs. Dowdy: killed by Fassl in bearded man form.

Spud Jennings: the warden at Sing Sing Correctional Facility says Fassl's cellmate was killed, and a surveillance camera catches an image of the bearded man.


Assistant District Attorney Damon Kailer: also stabbed to death by Fassl in bearded man form.

At least four bodies: found in the cable access tunnel by Reyes.


Bob Fassl: shot by Reyes.

Humans: 15
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0

Cumulative Body Count (194/202 episodes, 1/2 movies)

Humans: 2,195

Creatures: 130
Aliens: 64

Grand Total: 2,389

Season 9, Episode 11: Audrey Pauley

Synopsis

Reyes and Doggett come back from a friendly outing and completely blow the chemistry between them. Soon after, Reyes is involved in a bad car accident and awakens in a sort of limbo, seeing herself in a deserted hospital floating in the sky. She comes across two other patients in this netherworld, one who was admitted with chest pains and one who fell at a construction site. In the tangible world, Scully tells Doggett that Reyes has been rendered brain-dead. A doctor tells them that Reyes has a living will about such a circumstance and is an organ donor, but Doggett is reluctant to consider letting anyone pull the plug.

Reyes sees a woman in the netherworld hospital, who we later see in the tangible world's counterpart. The construction worker disappears in a sort of electrical meltdown as he dies in the tangible world. Doggett is perplexed about why Reyes suddenly went comatose when she shouldn't have been too badly injured. The woman, a patient aide named Audrey Pauley who has a model of the hospital stashed away, visits Reyes and the other patient again; Reyes gives her a message to deliver to Doggett based on their last conversation. A nurse lets the doctor know that he forgot to log an injection he gave Reyes, and the doctor ends up killing her.

Doggett is even more suspicious about Reyes condition following the nurse's death, and Reyes companion also dies, leaving her alone. Pauley gives Doggett the message and lets her know about the people she's started to see through interaction with her model, and he suspects that the doctor is poisoning his patients (altering their readouts so he can pull the plug on them) after finding that he attended to the other two patients Pauley saw. Doggett begs Pauley to help save Reyes, and she pays another visit to let her know that Reyes has to give a sign that she's still alive. Reyes realizes that the netherworld hospital exists in Pauley's mind, and so Pauley can help her escape. Instead, Pauley leaves her behind and is faced by the homicidal doctor and his syringe. Pauley returns and urges Reyes to step off the edge of the floating hospital. She does, and comes out of her coma. Doggett stops the doctor, but is too late to save Pauley.

Vernee Watson-Johnson, who plays Nurse Whitney Edwards, also played Viola Smith on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Lucille Banks on the 1970s show Carter Country.

Episode Body Count

Val Barreiro: dies of his injuries after he falls at a construction site.


Nurse Whitney Edwards: dies after Dr. Jack Preijers injects her with something.


Stephen Murdoch: dies after he is admitted to the hospital with chest pains.


Audrey Pauley: dies after being injected by Dr. Preijers.

Humans: 4
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0

Cumulative Body Count (193/202 episodes, 1/2 movies)

Humans: 2,180

Creatures: 130
Aliens: 64

Grand Total: 2,374

Down to single digits in terms of episodes now...I'll probably have this wrapped up in a few weeks.

Season 9, Episode 10: Providence

Synopsis

In a bit of back story, it is shown that one of the cult members (who have now completely uncovered the spacecraft in Canada) formerly served in the Persian Gulf War; he observed four super-soldiers take out an enemy position and considered them angels. In present day, Doggett is in a coma, Comer is in critical condition, William has been kidnapped, and Scully is angry at Skinner and thinks Kersh and Follmer are complicit in all of it. To that end, The Lone Gunmen agree not to identify the kidnapper to the FBI and instead help Scully to find William's location based on a cell phone Byers was able to tuck into his car seat. Scully and Reyes find the cult woman's car and the car seat in Pennsylvania, but she and William are both gone.

In Canada, parts of the spacecraft start moving and it ends up sealing two men inside of it. Follmer shows Reyes how Comer has written "jacket" on a piece of paper, and Scully recognizes that it's a reference to the alien artifact. Bringing the artifact to the hospital, Scully and Reyes revive Comer and he tells them that the cult believes that the spacecraft is a temple for the physical manifestation of God, and also that William is a miracle child who will fight the aliens' return unless his father is killed; Comer says the cult killed Mulder to fulfill the prophecy, and that the death of William will save mankind (apparently because he'll be in league with the aliens otherwise). The spacecraft reopens when William is brought to it, revealing that the two cult members have been burned to death.

Comer also dies, and the artifact goes missing. Doggett awakens and immediately tells Scully that "they're going to come for you, but you can't trust them" as a result of a dream or vision. Soon after, Scully is contacted by the cult leader. In meeting him, he says he thinks William is destined to lead the alien race and Mulder is the only thing preventing that; it seems Mulder is still alive, as he wants Scully to bring him confirmation of his death. The agents track the leader to the excavation site, where William has managed to activate the spacecraft. The cult members are killed as it blasts off, but William is left unscathed. Follmer is a little uncertain about the circumstances of Comer's death, while Kersh apparently helps the "Toothpick Man," who was seen just before Comer died, to cover up the matter. We also see that the Toothpick Man is a super-soldier.

Episode Body Count

At least seven soldiers: killed in a mortar blast during the Persian Gulf War. I've counted wartime deaths unless they're mass casualty counts, so I'll allow this.


Two cult members: found dead inside the spacecraft some time after they are sealed inside.


Agent Robert Comer: dies in a hospital, by murder according to Reyes.


At least 15 cult members: burnt to death when the spacecraft in Canada blasts off.

Humans: 25
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0

Cumulative Body Count (192/202 episodes, 1/2 movies)

Humans: 2,176

Creatures: 130
Aliens: 64

Grand Total: 2,370

Season 9, Episode 9: Provenance

Synopsis

The Border Patrol pursues a dirt biker who is trying to enter the United States from Canada. After the biker wipes out, he is found to be carrying rubbings of alien symbols that Scully previously found on the spacecraft in Africa. Scully is promptly questioned about them by Kersh and his cronies, but refuses to give any answers; instead, she warns Doggett and Reyes about the power of the symbols and their possible misuse by the FBI. Doggett travels to the crossing site in North Dakota, where he is told that the biker's body has not been found. In fact, he's still alive, carrying an alien rune artifact that heals his wounds.

Reyes has been reviewing Scully's previous work with the symbols, and Scully tells her that she's come to think that they may contain answers about William. We see that the rubbings came from another buried spacecraft in Canada, which is being excavated. After confronting Skinner about his willingness to keep secrets, Doggett raids his office for the rubbings and also finds that the missing biker was an FBI agent named Robert Comer who was infiltrating a UFO cult that moved into Canada. Reyes realizes that there's a second spacecraft that the cult has found after finding that the new set of rubbings doesn't match the set from Africa.

Comer breaks into Scully's apartment, but she guns him down as he tries to smother William. Before he is carted off to the hospital, Comer tells Scully that William has to die but doesn't say why. Scully finds the alien artifact in his jacket, and the cult archaeologists discover that Comer is an FBI agent. At another meeting with the Kersh Krew, Skinner says the case wasn't assigned to the X-Files because he didn't think Scully could handle it...namely because Comer was sent to infiltrate the cult due to threats on Mulder's life, and that Comer had told them that Mulder was already dead.

Scully and Reyes witness the artifact fly toward William, who placidly makes it hover above his head. Reyes tells Doggett that William has some sort of connection with the aliens, and that Comer and the cult are both willing to kill the child due to this belief. Doggett is struck by a cult member driving a car as he goes to investigate her, and Scully and Reyes give William to The Lone Gunmen for safekeeping. Unfortunately, the cult member is soon able to track down their van, disable it with a few gunshots, and point a gun at Byers as he tries to protect William. To be continued...

Before he was Charles Widmore on Lost, Alan Dale was the "Toothpick Man" in this episode; and before that, he played Jim Robinson on over 250 episodes of Neighbours. Neal McDonough, who plays Robert Comer, also played David McNorris on Boomtown and Dave Williams on Desperate Housewives, along with a role as Officer Fletcher on Minority Report.

Episode Body Count

Rumors of Mulder's death have always been greatly exaggerated.

Humans: 0
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0

Cumulative Body Count (191/202 episodes, 1/2 movies)

Humans: 2,151

Creatures: 130
Aliens: 64

Grand Total: 2,345

Season 9, Episode 8: Hellbound

Synopsis

An ex-con in Virginia is skinned to death, not long after telling an anger management group that he was having dreams of just such a thing. Reyes seems particularly affected by the case. One of the group members, Terrance Pruit, thinks another one, Ed Kelso, is involved. Like the dead man, he also sees Kelso without his skin. Scully finds another skinned victim from 1960, and in interviewing the doctor from that case finds that he was part of a string of murders. Pruit is killed via skinning at the slaughterhouse where he works. Reyes also has a dream about the killing and is horrified to see that it has actually happened.

Pruit has managed to survive his skinning, and points the agents to Kelso; they arrest him as he tries to leave town. Reyes thinks he was trying to flee something else and trys to make a connection with him, but Kelso is freed after his alibi checks out. Scully finds that the two current victims were born on the same days that two people in the 1960 murders were killed. Kelso also turns up dead, and Reyes tells Doggett that she is somehow connected to the case, given her recollection and premonition of details. She also thinks that the men are being murdered by someone who doesn't want their souls to rest, and so the cycle is repeated every 41 years.

Since a rag with coal dust on it has been stuffed in Kelso's mouth, Doggett and Reyes investigate a nearby coal mine on a hunch. There, they find newspaper clippings from a set of murders in 1960 and 1909, as well as the skins of the dead men. Reyes is held at knifepoint by a local detective who tells her she can't stop him, and never does. Reyes realizes that detective has the persona of a man who was killed in an 1868 mining dispute, whose murderers were never punished; she says he kills the four men each time and then commits suicide so he can start the cycle again. Reyes warns the final victim, the leader of the anger management group, before can be skinned and also shoots the detective. At the hospital, Reyes says the men were trying to atone for their sins but not allowed to do so, and also ponders her own role in the cycle. The detective dies, and his soul is apparently transferred to an infant in the nursery.

Episode Body Count

Victor Dale Potts: dies after his skin is removed.

John Doe: Scully discovers a case from 1960 where the victim's skin has been removed in the same way as Potts'.

Sheriff Carl Hobart: Dr. Mueller says the sheriff committed suicide not long after the discovery of the John Doe's body.


Terrance Pruit: he survives a skinning, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that probably didn't last too long.

Three 1960 bodies: Reyes says that four people are killed in every cycle, meaning three other people were skinned in 1960. Scully has two of the corpses exhumed for examination.


Ed Kelso: found skinned in his home.


1868 Van Allen: skinned after a mining dispute.


Five 1909 bodies: Reyes says she also failed to stop a 1909 set of killings. The body of a sheriff is also found in the mine.


Detective Van Allen: dies in a hospital after he is shot by Reyes.

Hoo boy. These circumstances make it a little difficult, but since this is a body count and an immortal soul count would be no fun, I thought I should add each of the fleshy remains that are left behind in this 150-odd-year-old sparring match. It's unclear whether Van Allen's killers are also murdered in 1868.

Humans: 15
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0

Currently tied for Deadliest of Season, so I'll let Daemonicus hold onto it for now.

Cumulative Body Count (190/202 episodes, 1/2 movies)

Humans: 2,151

Creatures: 130
Aliens: 64

Grand Total: 2,345

Season 9, Episode 7: John Doe

Synopsis

Doggett wakes up in a small town in Mexico, and after confronting a man who steals one of his shoes he realizes that he can't remember his name or anything else about his life or circumstances. After spending a week in jail, a human smuggler named Domingo Salmeron bails him out and demands that he do a job for him. Doggett refuses, tracks down the thief, and discovers that he also had a small silver charm of a skull on him. He later decides to start working for Salmeron, although he refuses to break the law.

The FBI has been searching for Doggett, and Kersh calls it off due to increased national security demands even though a border crossing surveillance camera has caught Doggett on film. Doggett has flashbacks of a happier time with his son, and calls a Marine office for information after seeing that he has a Marine tattoo. His description leads Scully and Reyes to realize that Doggett may be south of the border. Meanwhile, a friend of Salmeron's tries to kill Doggett after meeting with a mysterious old man who wears a necklace of the skull charms with one missing. Doggett survives and confronts Salmeron at gunpoint; Salmeron says that the Cartel makes those who cause trouble for them disappear.

After Doggett has another flashback, Salmeron disarms him and visits the old man. He denies telling Doggett anything at gunpoint, but the old man doesn't believe him and gets into his head by touching his temples, leaving the same marks that Doggett has on his head. Reyes travels to Mexico and tracks down Doggett at Salmeron's garage. The Cartel-owned cops try to smoke them out, but the agents are rescued when American and Mexican federal officers arrive. Doggett recovers his memory (which, unfortunately, means having to relive getting the news of his son's death) and leads the agents to the Cartel memory eraser; he thinks he's done Doggett a favor by cutting him off from his painful memories, but Doggett says he's fine as long as he can remember the good times as well.

Episode Body Count

Two murder victims: Salmeron says Doggett matches the description of Henry Bruck, who is wanted by the FBI for a double homicide.


Nestor: killed by Doggett after he tries to shoot him.


American man: Reyes search for Doggett first leads her to a man who was beaten to death.

Doggett's tattoo refers to the 1983 bombing of a Marine barracks in Lebanon, which killed 299 people, but I'll have to chalk that up to a mass wartime count.

Humans: 4
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0

Cumulative Body Count (189/202 episodes, 1/2 movies)

Humans: 2,136

Creatures: 130
Aliens: 64

Grand Total: 2,330

Season 9, Episode 6: Trust No 1

Synopsis

Scully gets an e-mail from Mulder, who expresses his wish to come home to her. When Doggett tells her that someone is willing to leak the names of the super-soldiers to Mulder, however, she says she doesn't know how to contact him. Doggett doesn't believe her, and says the information will allow Mulder to come home, but she thinks it will compromise his safety. Doggett and Reyes manage to track the source to his building, which we see includes a big surveillance operation. Scully takes in a woman named Patti, who appears to be having marital difficulties, but is actually in league with the source. The agents expose them as the source, an NSA man, tries to break into Scully's apartment.

The NSA man and Patti say their daughter has also shown signs of supernatural powers like William, and they feel that Mulder is the only one who can connect all the dots about that and the super-soldiers. Scully gets a call from a shadowy guy who works with the NSA man; using a distorted voice, the Shadow Man directs her to an isolated location to meet. He says he knows everything about Scully's life, and that he needs to reach Mulder for the good of humanity. Doggett is second-guessing the meeting, but by the time he sees Scully again she's already called Mulder back via train.

Scully and Reyes wait for him at the train station, as the NSA man arrives and spray-paints over the surveillance cameras. The train arrives, the Shadow Man shows up and kills the NSA man, and Doggett shoots the Shadow Man, who falls onto the tracks. Due to the melee, the station manager orders the train to keep moving, despite Scully's protests. The Shadow Man isn't found, and that coupled with an FBI analysis of some clothing he gave Scully makes Doggett realize that the Shadow Man is a super-soldier who managed to board the train. Both Mulder and the Shadow Man jump off the train farther down the tracks, and the agents go to investigate. The Shadow Man confronts Scully, saying either Mulder or her son must die. Then he gets sucked into a band of an iron compound at the quarry, destroying him. Scully sends Mulder another e-mail, vowing to see him again and carry on the fight.

Mrs. Landingham as an FBI agent? Yep, Kathryn Joosten, who played the President's assistant on The West Wing and currently plays Karen McCluskey on Desperate Housewives, plays Agent Edie Boal here. And my Lost addiction requires me to mention Terry O'Quinn appears in this episode as well as the Shadow Man.

Episode Body Count

Cadaver: Scully uses a dead body in one of her classes; it seems like there may have been a separate one for an earlier class, but that's not certain.


Man on the Street: on the left there. An NSA guy, dies after being shot by the Shadow Man at the train station.


Shadow Man: destroyed after exposure to some sort of iron compound at a quarry.

Humans: 3
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0

Cumulative Body Count (188/202 episodes, 1/2 movies)

Humans: 2,132

Creatures: 130
Aliens: 64

Grand Total: 2,326

Season 9, Episode 5: Lord of the Flies

Synopsis

A New Jersey teen dies while filming stunts for a Jackass-like program called "The Dumb Ass Show," and his skull is found to be partially caved in and full of flies. Scully concludes that the flies somehow got in there and ate so fast that his head collapsed from the inside. Doggett suspects the kid's best friend of involvement, but he and Doggett are surprised to see a rash spelling "Dumb Ass" break out on his back due to a lice attack. The principal's son, Dylan Lokensgard, has a crush on the dead kid's girlfriend, Natalie Gordon, but seems to have more of a way with insects. His mother also wants him to have nothing to do with her.

Reyes and Doggett question Lokensgard, since he showed up at the stunts and had a run in with the dead kid's friend; during the questioning, he is swarmed by flies but unharmed. Reyes thinks Lokensgard is, as Doggett calls it, "a horse whisperer for bugs," and the theory seems sound when he is found to be secreting insect pheremones. Lokensgard is quite surprised when Gordon visits him and says she's attracted to him, but she is freaked out when he somehow cuts her mouth as they kiss. The "Dumb Ass" kids confront Lokensgard about the bugs and take him on a ride, but Lokensgard causes the car to crash after disgorging insect-like mandibles from his mouth and spraying them all with webbing.

Lokensgard escapes, and Reyes visits Gordon to get her help in stopping him. He shows up, admitting that he killed her boyfriend so she wouldn't be hurt in the last "Dumb Ass" stunt, and takes Gordon away after webbing Reyes. Scully checks out Lokensgard's house with an entomologist, who gets webbed by Lokensgard's mother. Lokensgard's mother tells her son that she knows about his mutation, which is why she didn't want him going hormone-crazy over Gordon, and takes him away. The entomologist survives, but four other bodies are found in the Lokensgards' attic; as they drive off, Dylan uses his ability to write "I Love You" in fireflies outside Gordon's window.

Aaron Paul, who plays David Winkle ("Sky Commander Winky") now plays Jesse Pinkman on Breaking Bad and Scott Quitman on Big Love. Jane Lynch, who plays Anne Lokensgard, now plays Sue Sylvester on Glee. Samaire Armstrong, who plays Natalie Gordon, also plays Juliet Darling on Dirty Sexy Money and formerly played Anna Stern on The O.C.

Episode Body Count

Bill, aka "Captain Dare": dies after the inside of his head is eaten out by flies.

Four attic bodies: found in the Lokensgards' attic, apparently killed by Anne Lokensgard.

Humans: 5
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0

Cumulative Body Count (187/202 episodes, 1/2 movies)

Humans: 2,129

Creatures: 130
Aliens: 64

Grand Total: 2,323

Season 9, Episode 4: 4-D

Synopsis
Doggett and Reyes are involved in a sting operation attempting to bring in a sicko named Erwin Lukesh known for cutting out woman's tongues and disappearing before he can be caught. Lukesh manages to kill Reyes, vanish in a moment's time as Doggett confronts him in an alley, and shoot Doggett with Reyes' gun after reappearing behind him. So it's kind of odd when Doggett visits Reyes in her new apartment, right before Skinner calls her to let her know that Doggett has been found shot and seriously injured. Reyes can't understand why how Doggett could have visited her right before the call, and Scully suggests it might be something along the lines of the visitation from her dead father.

Reyes becomes a suspect in the shooting after the ballistics are matched to her weapon. Follmer also says someone witnessed her shoot her partner: Lukesh. Reyes is flabbergasted and enraged, but Doggett regains enough in the way of motor skills to tap out "Lukesh" in Morse code with his fingers. It turns out that Lukesh is feeding the women's tongues to his bedridden mother. Skinner finds that Lukesh is a former mental patient living near the crime scene, and using a new communications method Doggett reveals that he's surprised that Reyes is alive.

Reyes wonders if Lukesh can travel between parallel universes and vegetable Doggett ended up following him into one, forcing out apartment-visiting Doggett. She also directly accuses Lukesh of using this power to live out his sick fantasies. Lukesh's mother has also grown suspicious of him and demands to know why he has a gun and is sneaking around; Lukesh ends up killing her. Doggett tells Reyes that if she's right, the Doggett that got forced out should come back if she pulls the plug. Expecting that Lukesh will try to kill Reyes in her apartment, the FBI does a sting and manages to kill him. Reyes tearfully pulls the plug on Dogget and finds herself back in her apartment, both agents still alive.

Dedicated to the memory of Ricky Loyd Arreguin, a 16-year-old boy who was murdered for no apparent reason by a Los Angeles gang in 2001. According to the X-Files Wiki, Arreguin's stepfather worked on props on the show.

Episode Body Count

Lukesh's mother: stabbed to death by Lukesh after she says she'll talk to the FBI about him.


Erwin Timothy Lukesh: shot by Follmer as he holds Reyes hostage with a razor.

And then there's Bizzarro Doggett and Reyes, plus all the women Lukesh kills in other universes, but considering how I haven't been counting alternate universes I won't add them. It seems like the actions may well have put everyone into yet another parallel universe, meaning none should count, but the theme seemed to be that the events of the episode put everything right in the main universe.

Humans: 2
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0

Cumulative Body Count (186/202 episodes, 1/2 movies)

Humans: 2,124

Creatures: 130
Aliens: 64

Grand Total: 2,318

Season 9, Episode 3: Dæmonicus

Synopsis

A kindly West Virginia couple is confronted in their home by a couple of men with demonic faces; they are discovered dead at their Scrabble board with Daemonicus, the Latin word for Satan, spelled out in the tiles. A couple of non-venomous snakes are also found sewn into the bodies, and Reyes gets a profound sense of evil at the place. The agents find signs that two men were involved in the murders, and a nearby mental institution lets the FBI know that a committed doctor named Kenneth Richmond and a guard named Paul Gerlach have gone missing. We see that the two men are wearing demonic masks; Gerlach lets Richmond shoot him in the middle of the woods.

The agents find Gerlach's body with some help from another mental patient named Josef Kobald. Doggett is a little skeptical of Kobald's supposed connection to the men and thinks he may have even planned the killings, especially since he committed several murders himself while a professor, but Reyes is less skeptical. After Kobald reveals a few details of Doggett's life, he goes into a seizure and says the Latin word for doctor. The police arrive at Richmond's physician's house just as Richmond leaves and find her dead. Doggett discovers that Kobald was an expert on satanic history and continues to suspect him of setting up the murders; Kobald suggests that Doggett may have the hots for Reyes or Scully, then vomits all over the place.

Kobald tells a guard they can find Richmond at a place called Happy Landing and Scully recognizes it as a marina she passed on her way back to DC. She gets there first and is immediately attacked by Richmond, who holds her at gunpoint. The full complement of the fuzz and Kobald arrive, at which point Richmond kills himself. Doggett realizes it's all an elaborate escape plan and shoots Kobald as he tries to run off. It is found that Kobald was manipulating the agents after finding out about them via the Internet. Doggett also discovers that the victims were chosen because their names could spell out Daemonicus, and that the man shot was actually a guard assigned to Kobald.

James Remar, currently playing Harry Morgan on Dexter, plays Josef Kobald here. Lou Richards, who plays Officer Custer, voiced Leader-One on the 1980s show Challenge of the Go-Bots and played Deputy Dennis Putnam on another 1980s show, She's the Sheriff.

Episode Body Count

Evelyn Mountjoy: shot by her husband, who mistakes her for a home invader.


Darren Mountjoy: shot by Richmond and/or Gerlach.

Happy: the Mountjoy's dog; Doggett says he was found outside with a broken neck.

Three patients: a doctor at the Chessman State Mental Hospital says Richmond killed three patients by sewing strychnine tablets into their stomach lining.


Paul Gerlach: shot by Richmond.

Six co-eds: Doggett says Kobald has been institutionalized after grinding up several students and using their remains for fertilizer in his garden.


Dr. Monique Sampson: dies after she is stuck with 11 syringes containing the anti-psychotic medication droperidol.


Dr. Kenneth Richmond: commits suicide at the Happy Landing marina.


Officer Custer: mistaken by Doggett for Kobald and shot as he tries to escape.

Humans: 15
Creatures: 1
Aliens: 0

Cumulative Body Count (185/202 episodes, 1/2 movies)

Humans: 2,122

Creatures: 130
Aliens: 64

Grand Total: 2,316

Season 9, Episode 2: Nothing Important Happened Today II

Synopsis

In the opening scene, a biological science team is doing secret work on board a merchant ship. Follmer warns Reyes to cut the shenanigans, but she thinks he's just trying to get Doggett fired. Meanwhile, he's revived by McMahon, who says she was just keeping him hidden from Follmer's agents; she also says that she's a biologically engineered super-soldier devoid of such weaknesses as the need to sleep and the inability to breathe underwater. She tells Doggett that the two men she killed were "preparing the water supply." The ship makes port in Baltimore, and the captain tries to call the dead EPA administrator; he returns to find that Rohrer has taken over as second-in-command (in a rather deadly fashion, as we see later).

Doggett and Reyes invite Scully over to hear what McMahon has to say: the chloramine additive will lead to the mutation of human offspring into super-soldiers like her. The Lone Gunmen discover how calls are being made to the EPA administrator, and Frohike impersonates him as the captain calls begging to have the horrors on board the ship exposed. Reyes finds that the two men McMahon killed were whistleblowers on this latest conspiracy, meaning she's lying about her motives. The captain takes a hostage to try to get the scientists' data to expose, but ends up getting killed by Rohrer.

Doggett, Scully, and Reyes show up at the ship. Rohrer presents a bit of a problem before McMahon shows up and their struggle takes them underwater. Investigating the ship, Doggett finds a bomb on a timer and Reyes and Scully find the lab. Scully realizes that they're manipulating ova for transplantation and wants to see if she's among them, but is forced to flee with her comrades before the ship explodes. Doggett tells Kersh he hasn't found anything concrete on him, but figures his hands are dirty. He turns in his badge and his gun, but takes them back after Kersh hints that he's actually on his side (and was the one who leaked the administrator's obituary to Doggett); Follmer is less certain, thinking Kersh has Doggett just where he wants him.

The episode is dedicated to the memory of Chad Keller, a friend of Chris Carter's who was killed on Flight 77 during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks about two months before the episode aired.

Episode Body Count

Petty Officer Bramford: apparently killed by Rohrer, his body is found near the Valor Victor.


Captain: beheaded by Rohrer.

Both McMahon and Rohrer presumably survive their fight.

Humans: 2
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0

Cumulative Body Count (184/202 episodes, 1/2 movies)

Humans: 2,107

Creatures: 129
Aliens: 64

Grand Total: 2,300