Season 4, Episode 23: Demons

Synopsis

Mulder has a dream where Samantha wakes him up, frightened because their parents are having a heated argument. He wakes up in an unfamiliar motel room in Rhode Island, covered in blood that isn't his. Scully comes up to help him out, and they find a variety of strange things, including the fact that two rounds have been fired from Mulder's gun and that Mulder arrived in a car not registered to him. Elsewhere, a man begins bleeding from his head as he cuts himself out of dozens of photographs.

Heading to the car owner's house, Mulder recognizes a house the car owner's wife has repeatedly painted. Heading there, Mulder is hit by a vision of his childhood and a visit from Cancer Man. In the house, which appears to have been abandoned for some time, the agents find the couple (David and Amy Cassandra) dead of gunshot wounds. Mulder worries about his possible involvement. Scully is intrigued by a puncture wound on Amy's forehead, while the cops arrest Mulder after ballistics evidence seems to match his gun to the crime and the blood on his shirt matches the two victims.

Scully finds that both Amy and Mulder were injected with ketamine, which could explain the blackouts. The man who was cutting up photos turns out to be a corrections officer, who kills himself in a cell. Scully believes he was linked to Amy after realizing that both believed in extraterrestrials (Amy believing she was an abductee) and have a forehead puncture. Mulder continues to suffer from visions.

Scully tells Mulder that contradictory evidence has been uncovered to suggest that Amy pulled off a murder-suicide, and that Mulder was probably investigating her link to aliens. She also wonders if everyone is suffering from Waxman-Geschwind syndrome, which can lead to trance-like states. Mulder is released, and the agents check out a psychiatrist who was using "aggressive" therapy (brain injections) to uncover repressed memories in Amy and the officer. Mulder figures he got it too, and wants to run with it to uncover the truth about his sister's abduction. Mulder confronts his mother, accusing her of having a relationship with Cancer Man and questioning who his father is.

Mulder returns to the psychiatrist for another round of therapy. The police arrive to arrest the psychiatrist, but Mulder has disappeared. Scully realizes Mulder has gone to the family's summer home after the shrink says he's gone to "exorcise his demons." She manages to talk him out of his trance. Mulder is cleared of any wrongdoing and doesn't suffer any medical damage, but Scully wonders what the price of his continued pursuit of Samantha will be.

Episode Body Count

David and Amy Cassandra: shot and killed in Amy's old house.

Michael Fazekas: commits suicide at the jail where Mulder is being held.

Humans: 3
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0

Cumulative Body Count (96/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)

Humans: 1,199

Creatures: 80
Aliens: 55

Grand Total: 1,334

Season 4, Episode 22: Elegy

Synopsis

The owner of a DC bowling alley sees a bunch of blood show up on one lane, as well as a wounded woman who seems to be wordlessly trying to tell him something. He sees several cops arrive nearby, and goes out to see that the same girl is lying in the parking lot with her throat cut. When Mulder and Scully check it out, the blood and woman are gone but the pin setter shows signs that someone may have been sitting on it. Mulder notes that this is the third such murder and sighting, and finds that "She Is Me" has been written in the lane's wax.

Mulder feels that the sightings are of the victims' apparitions. It turns out that the police received a call saying that one victim's last words were "She Is Me," a suggestion dismissed due to the fact that the woman's throat was severed. The agents visit a psychiatric center, which includes an autistic man named Harold Spuller who volunteers at the bowling alley and has a tendency to recite random numbers. Scully notes that the victims' rings have been switched from one hand to another, and also considers Spuller a suspect.

As Scully treats a cancer-related nosebleed, she not only sees "She Is Me" written in blood on the mirror, but also a woman's apparition...right before Mulder tells her there's been another victim, the same one that she saw. Spuller leaves the center, and Scully admits the sighting to the FBI psychiatrist. Mulder starts looking for Spuller on suspicion of murder, and finds him repeating "She Is Me" in the back of the bowling alley. He returns to numbers, and Mulder finds that he is reciting different numbers for each of the murdered women. They find that Spuller is keeping the scorecards in a back area, and can remember thousands of scores specific to individuals, including the victims.

Spuller sees an apparition of the alley owner, who has just died of a heart attack. Mulder finds that the other people who reported seeing apparitions are all dying of natural causes, and wonders if Spuller is also affected. At the center, Spuller's nurse taunts him and implies that he was in love with the women but they never would have loved him. Spuller apparently injures her and runs off. Spuller's roommate tells Scully that Spuller said the nurse was poisoning him, and also shows her photos Spuller has of the girls...which the nurse also knows about.

Scully goes to question the nurse, and wounds her with a gunshot when the nurse tries to attack with a scalpel. She also finds that the nurse had been taking Spuller's pills, which could have led to violent side effects. Mulder says Spuller has been found dead of respiratory failure. Scully reveals seeing the apparition to Mulder, something disturbing to both of them due to Mulder's theory about the apparition sightings. Scully sees an apparition of Spuller in the backseat of her car as the episode ends.

Episode Body Count

Penny Timmons, Missy Shapiro, and Michelle Chamberlain: murdered via slit throats within a six-block radius.

Lauren Heller: killed on her way home from a part-time job.

Angelo Pintero: dies of a heart attack at his bowling alley.

Harold Spuller: found dead in an alley of respiratory failure.

Humans: 6
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0

Cumulative Body Count (95/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)

Humans: 1,196

Creatures: 80
Aliens: 55

Grand Total: 1,331

Season 4, Episode 21: Zero Sum

Synopsis

A Virginia postal worker is killed when a swarm of bees mysteriously appears in the bathroom of the distributing center where she works. Skinner deletes all of the files related to the case from Mulder's computer, then sterilizes the center's bathroom and incinerates the woman's body. Masquerading as Mulder, he also gathers forensic evidence from the local police, but the cover-up hits a snag when the detective who sent Mulder the information questions Skinner about the case.

Mulder, who has found out about the cover-up, surprises Skinner by saying that someone murdered the detective. He also says Scully has been hospitalized since her cancer might be metastasizing. Skinner confronts Cancer Man, angry over the murder, and Cancer Man tells him he's in no position to be questioning their arrangement to save Scully; Skinner declares the arrangement over. However, he is angered to see that the Syndicate has apparently used his own weapon to kill the detective, and Cancer Man tells him there's no way to report it without casting suspicion on himself or admitting to evidence tampering. Skinner nevertheless threatens to turn state's evidence if anything happens to Scully.

Skinner returns to the bathroom and finds honeycombs in the walls. After getting a forensic entomologist's independent opinion on it, Skinner finds that Mulder was looking into the idea of killer bees six months ago. Skinner finds the file related to the Canadian farm, as well as a contact for Marita on the case, and calls to let her know that he might have access to the bees (the sticking point of further investigating the prior matter). The entomologist is killed after he is attacked by bees, and his body is found to be infected by smallpox, apparently as a result of the stings; Mulder notes that the photos of the postal worker showed the same symptoms.

A co-worker of the postal worker tells Skinner that two men came to the center after the death demanding a package, which had been stored in a room adjacent to the bathroom. An analysis of security camera footage of the detective's murder seems to reveal Skinner as the killer. As part of the Syndicate's "trial run," a schoolyard is swarmed by bees. Skinner urges the hospital to start treating the injured children for smallpox. Mulder confronts Skinner about the surveillance tape, but covers for him after Skinner says he's innocent in the murder admits to entering an agreement with Cancer Man against his own advice to Mulder. Skinner confronts Cancer Man, but leaves him alive. Cancer Man gets a call from Marita, and she reveals that she's been taking orders from him.

Fred Keating, who plays Detective Ray Thomas, had a role on Da Vinci's Inquest as Councillor Jack Pierce. The episode is dedicated to the memory of Vito Pileggi, father of Mitch Pileggi.

Episode Body Count

Jane Brody: dies after being stung multiple times by a swarm of bees, which are apparently carrying smallpox. Skinner destroys her corpse.

Detective Ray Thomas: murdered by the Syndicate.

Dr. Valedespino: killed after he is swarmed by bees carrying smallpox. The Syndicate destroys his body, but not before Mulder gets a look at it.

Miss Kemper: presumed dead after she is swarmed by bees at a South Carolina school.

Student: dies in a hospital after being stung at his school.

Humans: 5
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0

Cumulative Body Count (94/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)

Humans: 1,190

Creatures: 80
Aliens: 55

Grand Total: 1,325

Season 4, Episode 20: Small Potatoes

Synopsis

At a West Virginia hospital, a pregnant woman says her child's father is from another planet. After giving birth to a healthy baby girl with a distinct tail, the doctor exclaims, "Good Lord, not another one." The matter attracts Mulder, since it's the fifth such birth in three months with the naturally occurring but extremely rare vestigal tail characteristic. The trip seems to be a waste when the woman tells the agents that the father is Luke Skywalker; apparently she's a huge Star Wars nerd.

Surprisingly, Scully digs a little deeper and finds that the tail babies all have the same father. They trace the cause to a doctor who used artificial insemination, and find him being waylaid by pissed parents who think he used the wrong sperm (a charge he denies). Mulder sees a janitor named Eddie Van Blundht working at the facility with a vestigal tail removal scar, who admits to involvement in the pregnancies. Scully wonders if he used date rape to impregnate the women. As he's being booked, Van Blundht changes his appearance to look like the admitting deputy and escapes.

Mulder quickly latches onto the shapeshifting theory, which he says could also explain how Luke Skywalker got involved in all of this. The agents meet with Van Blundht's father, but realize that it's actually Eddie Jr. when he refers to them by name without introduction. They find a body, Van Blundht's father, preserved in quicklime in the attic, and further analysis reveals that the body has 11 more muscles than usual. Van Blundht tries to take refuge as the husband of one of the tail baby mothers, and manages to leave as Mulder when the actual husband returns.

The Star Wars girl is visited by Van Blundht Mulder, and she reveals that she used to date Van Blundht but doesn't really have any feelings for him anymore. Mulder realizes what's going on and detains two men in the hospital's locker room, but ends up getting knocked out by Van Blundht, who heads to DC with Mulder's identity. Van Blundht tries to get into character, and also is disappointed that his tax dollars fund Mulder's conspiracy theories and that Mulder is socially a loser.

Van Blundht Mulder decides to hit on Scully, and the two end up chatting over a bottle of wine. Van Blundht Mulder goes in for a kiss just as real Mulder busts in. Van Blundht changes back, and one month later Mulder visits him in a reformatory, where he is being given a muscle relaxant to avoid shapeshifting. Van Blundht tells Mulder to stop being a "loser by choice," though Scully assures him that's not what he is.

Christine Cavanaugh, who plays Star Wars geek Amanda Nelligan, has done quite a bit of voice work including Dexter on Dexter's Laboratory, Gosselyn Waddlemeyer on Darkwing Duck, and Chucky on Rugrats. I usually don't mention notable people when they come around the second time, but it's interesting to note that Darin Morgan, a writer and editor with the show who plays Van Blundht here, was last an actor on the show as the Flukeman.

Episode Body Count

Eddie Van Blundht, Sr.: found mummified in the attic of his house, determined to have died of natural causes.

Humans: 1
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0

Cumulative Body Count (93/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)

Humans: 1,185

Creatures: 80
Aliens: 55

Grand Total: 1,320

Season 4, Episode 19: Synchrony

Synopsis

An old man approaches a student and associate professor bickering at MIT and warns that the student will die at 11:46 PM. The man is taken away by campus security, but the professor is horrified to see the student get hit by a bus at the exact time. He is arrested on suspicion of pushing the student into the path of the bus, and gives the old man's warning as an alibi but refuses to discuss what he was arguing about with the student. Meanwhile, the security officer is found frozen to death, with his body temperature continuing to drop after death.

The prof says the student was going to publicly accuse him of falsifying research on his grant project: cryobiology. Things look worse for him when Scully finds the prof's prints on the popsicle guard and his car. At a nearby hotel, the old man meets with a scientist, thanks him for helping him solve a problem in his work, then gives him an injection that freezes him to death. The prof's girlfriend tells Mulder and Scully that he was working on a catalyst for a a sustained endothermic reaction. The frozen scientist is brought back to life with a hypothermia treatment, but then his temparature rises so fast that he actually bursts into flames.

The prof's girlfriend sees the old man following her and confronts him; he threatens her with the injector, but lets her go. She admits to the agents that she falsified his data on the prof's behalf. The police think they find the old man, and in his hotel room they find a photo of the scientist, the prof, and his girlfriend celebrating something. Mulder thinks the old man is the prof from the future, having returned to try to prevent something, and that explains why his prints were found at the crime scene.

The prof's girlfriend also realizes what's going on, and future prof explains to her how there will be the discovery of tachyons with the ability to travel into the past at extremely cold temperatures, and that they will "change history." He injects himself, apparently without effect, and then the girlfriend. Mulder tells the prof his theory, as doctors manage to stabilize the girlfriend. Mulder and the prof go to the cryolab and find that future prof has checked in and is erasing his research. Future prof tells his younger self that the research will create a world without hope where everyone will know what can happen; he manages to kill both of his selves. Mulder cites an old theory of Scully's about how the future can't be altered, and so future prof's efforts were doomed; the episode ends with the girlfriend continuing the research.

Michael Fairman, who plays the older version of professor Jason Nichols, has had a number of roles including Adlai Stevenson in Thirteen Days and Patrick Murphy on The Young and the Restless. Patricia Idlette, who plays the hotel clerk, also played Kiffany on Dead Like Me.

Episode Body Count

Lucas Menand: dies of massive head trauma after getting hit by a bus.

Campus security officer: dies of after he is frozen inside his patrol car.

Dr. Yonechi: freezes solid after the old man injects him. He is brought back to life, but then his temperature rises so rapidly that he burns to death.

Dr. Jason Nichols: torched by his future self, apparently a result of his earlier injection. Yes, that's one death.

Humans: 4
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0

Cumulative Body Count (92/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)

Humans: 1,184

Creatures: 80
Aliens: 55

Grand Total: 1,319

Season 4, Episode 18: Max

Synopsis

The light turns out to be from a couple of divers coming down to the wreckage; Mulder tries to escape, but is captured and put under military arrest for interfering with military investigation into the plane crash. Pendrell's shooter gets away despite his wound, and Skinner informs Scully that the controller (Sgt. Louis Frish) is being put under military arrest on an order from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, due to suspicion of murder and providing false testimony. The military has concocted a cover story that a fighter jet accidentally collided with Flight 549.

Scully tells Mulder that the woman claiming to be Fenig's sister was actually an unemployed aeronautical engineer who met him in a mental institution. At Fenig's trailer, the agents find a recording of him declaring that he is devoting his life to finding proof of alien existence. At the lake, the military recovers the wreckage and alien bodies, and one man is seriously burned by radiation. Upon seeing this, the suspicious NTSB man declares, "We found it."

Mulder gives his theory: that Fenig was on board with an object proving alien existence, that a hitman was following him was trying to take it from him, and that Max was abducted by aliens mid-flight. Mulder believes everything would have been OK, and nine minutes would have been erased from everyone's memories, but instead the military shot down the UFO, leaving the plane's door open and leading to its crash. However, he feels the only way to prove it is if he finds the object Fenig was carrying. Unfortunately, his knapsack has been found but all it has is Fenig's NICAP hat.

Scully visits Fenig's not-sister, now re-committed, and she tells Scully that she stole a three-section alien power source from a military employer and divided it up. She and Fenig each had a piece, both apparently recovered by aliens during abductions. Back at Fenig's trailer, Mulder discovers a letter from a DC address with a luggage claim ticket. He recovers the third piece at an airport, and boards a flight back to the capital.

The NTSB man is also on board, but Mulder realizes who he is and imprisons him in the lavatory, vowing to bring him to justice and expose the artifact. Mulder sees his watch stop and tries to get a stewardess to have the captain do evasive maneuvers, but to no avail. The NTSB man gets free, takes the package, and ends up getting abducted; Mulder is left artifact-less and missing nine minutes. Fenig's not-sister takes over his work and the "Max Fenig Rolling Multimedia Library and Archive." The episode ends with Scully musing over Mulder's gift from the first part, and how advances are made through perseverance and cooperation and sacrifices must not be forgotten.

Episode Body Count

Agent Pendrell: dies after being shot in the lung by the NTSB man.

At least five more aliens: seen in body bags at the military's recovery operation.

Humans: 1
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 5

Cumulative Body Count (91/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)

Humans: 1,180

Creatures: 80
Aliens: 55

Grand Total: 1,315

Note: "Tempus Fugit" and overall count updated after a friend suggested that the surviving passenger probably didn't make it.

Season 4, Episode 17: Tempus Fugit

Synopsis

A friend from way back, Max Fenig, is on a commercial jet over upstate New York; as a suspicious man assembles a weapon in the lavatory, the plane is hit by turbulence and a glaring light, and a door is removed. In DC, it's Scully's birthday and Mulder gives her an Apollo 11 key chain. They're approached by Max's sister, who has told her to get in touch with them if anything happens. She also said he was on his way to DC with something the government would kill for, but his plane crashed before he arrived.

At a NTSB meeting, Mulder asks if there is any chance the plane was forced down, and says Fenig was a known alien abductee. At the crash site, two NTSB workers retrieve the assassin's gun and destroy his identifying features. Mulder also notes nine minutes of missing time on watches at the scene. Fenig's seatmate is found to have radiation burns. Scully wonders if Fenig was carrying plutonium, while Mulder thinks he's been abducted mid-flight. That theory is dashed when Fenig's body is recovered. Fenig's sister is apparently abducted.

Mulder finds that all of the wristwatches have been removed from the bodies. The official explanation for the crash is given as a complete systems failure. Mulder and Scully visit a nearby Air Force installation to see what their radar showed, but apparently there was nothing out of the ordinary; after they leave, we see that the two air traffic controllers there have been instructed to keep quiet about something. A NTSB official named Mike Millar tells the agents that the airframe shows signs of serious fatigue, despite the fact that it was a new plane.

One of the Air Force controllers kills himself, and the evidence-tampering NTSB man leads a group of soldiers to find the other one. He manages to escape, and tells the agents and Millar that he saw another aircraft on the radar and that the military apparently shot down the plane. Mulder believes that there was a stealth craft near the jetliner that was shot down by the military, apparently leading to the plane crash.

Millar sees a UFO hovering over the crash site, and is surprised when Fenig's sister is returned there. Mulder realizes that the stealth craft may have crashed into a nearby lake. Scully takes the controller under protection, and thence to a bar. The NTSB man enters and tries to kill the controller, but instead hits Agent Pendrell, a friend of hers, as Pendrell brings them a couple of beers. Scully plugs the NTSB guy in the leg. Meanwhile, in the lake, a scuba-diving Mulder discovers wreckage and the body of an alien, and a bright light suddenly appears. To be continued...

Joe Spano, who plays Mike Millar, also played Detective Harry Goldblume on Hill Street Blues.

Episode Body Count

133 passengers and crew: killed when Flight 549 crashes. An NTSB official says there were 134 people aboard, but Max is missing. Another passenger, Larold Rebhun, survives the crash, but considering he has serious radiation burns and Mulder refers to him in the past tense, he probably didn't make it.

Max Fenig: never mind, there he is. Also killed in the Flight 549 crash.

Sgt. Armando Gonzales: commits suicide due to his guilt over being told to lie about the crash.

Alien body: found by Mulder in a submerged UFO.

Humans: 135

Creatures: 0

Aliens: 1

The Zeus Faber outdoes Flight 549 by a few people, so this doesn't quite get Deadliest of Show. Definitely good enough for Deadliest of Season, though.

Cumulative Body Count (90/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)

Humans: 1,179

Creatures: 80
Aliens: 50

Grand Total: 1,309

Season 4, Episode 16: Unrequited

Synopsis

The episode opens with Mulder, Scully, Skinner, and another agent keeping an eye out for a suspicious character as a general named Benjamin Bloch gives a speech at the Vietnam Memorial. Everyone manages to get a sighting on him, but he always manages to slip away before he can be caught. As the man gets close to Bloch, he fades from view.

Twelve hours earlier, a lieutenant general is shot in the back of his limo by the same man. The FBI goes on alert, since several military leaders are arriving for the rededication of the Vietnam Memorial. Mulder and Scully go to see the leader of a revolutionary group in Virginia called The Right Hand, which the limo driver was affiliated with. The strange man shows up in a photo, and is identified as a former POW named Nathaniel Teager. The leader says Teager supposedly died in a crash in Vietnam, was rescued from a POW camp by the group in 1995, and disappeared upon his return to the United States.

Teager appears before a woman whose husband was supposedly killed in the war, and tells her that he is actually a POW; when the agents question her later, her eye bleeds a bit. Mulder ponders whether Teager is targeting the people who left him for dead, and also sees that the Army has recovered a couple of his teeth from the crash site and declared him dead despite inconclusive evidence. Scully finds that the woman who suffered the bleeding eye had a "floating blind spot." Another general is murdered, and though Teager is in the room Mulder doesn't see him.

After Teager shows up on a security feed, Mulder posits that Teager has the ability to selectively erase himself from people's field of vision by manipulating blind spots. In trying to find the next target, Mulder meets with Marita and discovers that the generals were involved in a covert project to leave behind commandos and spies in Vietnam, despite the fact that they would certainly be captured or killed. Bloch's parade is halted, and Scully sees Teager but immediately loses him again.

Mulder feels that the case was foisted on the FBI with the intent of letting the generals die to maintain the military's policy of denial about POWs. A former military friend of Teager's recognizes him, and Teager gives him a list of dozens of men left trapped in Vietnam. As the first scene repeats, Teager manages to get away, and Mulder realizes that Teager can only hide in a direct line of sight. He is shot and mortally wounded while hiding in Bloch's car, repeating his name and number as he dies. However, the military is able to cover up the incident by claiming Teager was another soldier.

Scott Hylands, who plays General Benjamin Broch, also played Detective Kevin "O.B." O'Brien in the 1980s series Night Heat.

Episode Body Count

Lt. General Peter McDougal: shot in his limo by Teager.

General John Steffan: shot and killed by Teager in his Pentagon office.

Sgt. Nathaniel Teager: shot and killed by Agent Cameron Hill as he tries to drive off in Bloch's car.

Teager had 26 confirmed kills in Vietnam, according to the leader of The Right Hand, but I'll invoke the Gimpy Rule on mass wartime tallies on that one.

Humans: 3

Creatures: 0

Aliens: 0

Cumulative Body Count (89/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)

Humans: 1,044

Creatures: 80
Aliens: 49

Grand Total: 1,173

Season 4, Episode 15: Kaddish

Synopsis

A funeral is held in Brooklyn for a Jewish shopkeeper and hate crime victim named Isaac Luria, but he apparently comes back to life after someone creates a man of dirt in the cemetery. Mulder and Scully get on board after one of three boys who murdered Luria is found strangled to death with Luria's prints on his body. They look to track down the other two killers, and chat with the print shop owner across the street from Luria's store after Luria's father-in-law, Jacob Weiss, shows them a hateful pamphlet slipped under their door. The print shop guy is a racist jerk who is harboring one of the murderers in the back room.

The boys dig up Luria's grave and find that he is duly buried, but something is quick to kill one of them. Mulder and Scully find a Jewish book of creation in the grave, which bursts into flames when Mulder picks it up; it is imprinted with Weiss's name. Luria's fiance, Ariel, says she and Luria were about to be married, and shows them a communal wedding ring that Weiss (a Holocaust survivor) was finally digging out again for the ceremony. Weiss is arrested after the agents find the last murderer hanging in a synagogue, but Ariel refuses to believe he's guilty.

Though Weiss gives a confession, Mulder thinks he's trying to cover for something else. The copy shop Nazi is strangled while cranking out hate pamphlets. Mulder finds that the book also allows for the creation of a golem, a creature made of mud and brought to life through mystical incantation. At Ariel's apartment, the agents find the wedding ring gone. In the synagogue, Weiss tells Ariel, who has summoned the golem, that the creature is not the man she loved. Mulder and Scully arrive to find Weiss hanging, but manage to save him. Ariel performs a brief wedding ceremony with the golem, then returns him to dust by removing a defining mark on his hand.

Justine Miceli, who plays Ariel Weiss, had a recurring role as Detective Adrienne Lesniak on NYPD Blue. David Groh, who plays Jacob Weiss and died in 2008, also played Joe Gerard in the 1970s show Rhoda. The episode is dedicated to the memory of Lillian Katz, grandmother of episode writer Howard Gordon.

Episode Body Count

Isaac Luria: shot to death in his store by three teenagers.

Tony Oliver: a 16-year-old Nazi punk who is strangled to death by the golem.

Clinton Bascombe and Derek Banks: two more Nazi kids golem'd to death. One is killed while exhuming Luria, the other found hanging in a synagogue.

Seven civilians: Scully says Weiss was part of an Israeli military underground and arrested in 1959 for a bombing that killed seven civilians.

Curt Brunjes: a Nazi print shop owner murdered by the golem.

Humans: 12

Creatures: 0

Aliens: 0

Cumulative Body Count (88/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)

Humans: 1,041

Creatures: 80

Aliens: 49

Grand Total: 1,170

Season 4, Episode 14: Memento Mori

Synopsis

Scully is diagnosed with cancer after a tumor is found very close to her brain and probably inoperable. She decides to keep working, and make another visit to the group of abducted women in the Mutual UFO Network who all came down with cancer. They visit the home of the group's leader and find that she has died. When someone starts downloading files from the woman's computer via remote access, Mulder and Scully find a man named Kurt Crawford who says he was downloading the files for protection and that most of the MUFON group has died of identical brain tumors.

Mulder and Crawford find that some of the women were childless and being treated for infertility, and he goes to check it out. Someone, probably the Alien Bounty Hunter, murders Crawford, who turns out to be an alien-human hybrid. Scully visits with the sole survivor of the group and checks herself into the hospital, using Dr. Scanlon, the same doctor that is treating the other woman to begin treatment. At the clinic, Crawford shows up and he and Mulder hack into the system. They find a directory of women that includes Scully. Mulder asks Skinner to set up a meeting with Cancer Man so he can access a mainframe for the file, but Skinner refuses.

Mulder goes to The Lone Gunmen instead to hack the mainframe, but they only manage to get gene code information on Scully taken after her abduction, showing the likely the cause of her illness. Skinner runs into Cancer Man in Mulder's office, and Cancer Man toys with the idea of striking some sort of deal for Scully's life. Mulder and The Lone Gunmen infiltrate the research facility where the mainframe is; Mulder sees that Scanlon is on the staff at the facility and sends one of The Lone Gunman, John Byers, to warn her.

The Lone Gunmen lose contact with Mulder, who finds a room full of Crawford clones and a setup of clone tanks similar to ones previously encountered. The Crawfords say they aim to subvert the project that created them, and that they want the same thing Mulder does because they see the abducted women as their mothers. They also show Mulder how ova have been taken from the abducted women to help in the hybridization process in a procedure that left them irradiated and barren. Mulder leaves with a vial of Scully's eggs.

Mulder makes it to the hospital with Byers, and they find Scully talking with the last survivor, who passes away soon after. Mulder remains confident that they'll find a way to save Scully, and that they'll also catch Scanlon. He calls Skinner and says Skinner is right about there being a way to save Scully without going to Cancer Man. Skinner agrees, but as he hangs up we see that Cancer Man is in the room, willing to deal if Skinner pays the right price.

Episode Body Count

Betsy Higopian and nine other MUFON women: die of brain cancer within the space of a year.

Kurt Crawford clone: neck-stabbed, apparently by the Alien Bounty Hunter.

Penny Northern: dies of cancer.

Humans: 11

Creatures: 0

Aliens: 1

Cumulative Body Count (87/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)

Humans: 1,029

Creatures: 80

Aliens: 49

Grand Total: 1,158

Season 4, Episode 13: Never Again

Synopsis

After getting a divorce, a depressed Philadelphia broker named Edward Jerse gets a tattoo of a winking woman over a banner reading "Never Again." After he passes out, the tattoo opens both eyes. In Washington, Scully gets bored as Mulder questions a man about a UFO sighting near the Vietnam Memorial. Mulder reluctantly heads out on vacation, having arranged for Scully to travel to Philly to follow up on a UFO conspiracy. Scully's not too enthused, and says she feels like she's lost control of her own life during her work with the X-Files.

Jerse hears a voice at work calling him a loser, and trashes a woman's desk after mistakenly thinking she is the culprit; he is fired as a result. The voice continues to heckle him about being a weak guy, and Jerse is driven to murder his downstairs neighbor. Jerse realizes that the tattoo is the source of his problems, and tries to get it removed. He runs into Scully, who is in Philly investigating the matter Mulder gave her, and the two hit it off. The tattoo is not pleased. Mulder, who is visiting Graceland, checks in with Scully, who says she has handed off the case to the Philly bureau.

After a date, Jerse convinces Scully to get a tattoo of her own: a Millenium symbol of a snake eating its own tail. The two spend the night together. The next morning, a couple of detectives stop by during their investigation of the neighbor's disappearance. Scully tells them she's with the FBI, and they let her know that blood that was not the neighbor's was found at the scene. She worries that there may have been ergot, a hallucinogenic parasite, in the materials used in the tattoos, and tells Jerse that they should both be checked out at the hospital.

Jerse feels that Scully has betrayed him, and tries to kill her. There is a showdown as Scully tries to reason with him and the tattoo tries to get him to kill Scully. Jerse ends up burning the tattoo off in the flames of a furnace. Ergot is found in both Jerse's and Scully's bloodstream, but not in Scully's to the degree that it would cause hallucinations.

The voice of Betty, the tattoo, is provided by Jodie Foster, known for her roles in Taxi Driver, The Silence of the Lambs, Contact, and other fine films...and for a guy shooting President Reagan in an attempt to impress her.

Episode Body Count

Kaye Schilling: murdered by Jerse after he thinks she's mocking him.

Humans: 1
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0

Cumulative Body Count (86/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)

Humans: 1,018
Creatures: 80
Aliens: 48

Grand Total: 1,146

Season 4, Episode 12: Leonard Betts

Synopsis

Shortly after diagnosing cancer in a patient just by looking at him, a Pittsburgh EMT named Leonard Betts is decapitated when his ambulance is hit by a truck. He still manages to leave the morgue without his noggin. Scully suspects body snatching for medical purposes, while Mulder is open to the idea of a headless Betts walking around. The agents find Betts' head in a bin of medical waste, and it still shows signs of life when Scully examines it. At Betts' apartment, Mulder finds a bathtub full of iodine and a fully-headed Betts rises from the tub shortly after Mulder leaves.

Meanwhile, security camera and PET scan images of Betts are showing a strange fogging up. Betts' head undergoes a biopolymerization process and is cut into slices, and a pathologist finds that the entire head is riddled with cancer. Betts' partner thinks she hears him over the dispatch. Mulder proposes that life force (chi) may be leading to the fogging effects; a photographic examination suggests a ghostly image of a body joining the head slice. Mulder thinks Betts may have been cancerous by birth and was able to regrow a new head like lizards are able to regrow tails.

The agents find that Betts had an alter ego named Albert Tanner, also living in Pittsburgh. In talking with his mother, they find a photo of a man identical to Betts in her home, but the mother says Tanner died in a car wreck six years ago. Betts' partner finds him, and he apologetically kills her with some sort of injection, apparently to hide his secret. He is caught and handcuffed to a car by a security guard, but escapes after detaching a thumb. The agents find his car full of cancerous medical waste, and Mulder wonders if it's "snack food" for a Betts who has evolved beyond human limits and needs to eat cancerous growth to survive.

The car is registered to Mrs. Tanner, who denies that her son would kill anyone. But Betts ends up killing a man suffering from lung cancer soon after, using his heightened abilities to detect the illness. In a storage locker, Betts sheds his skin to grow a new body. He tries to escape in a car as Mulder and Scully arrive, but they shoot and blow up the vehicle. Mulder thinks this second death is a ruse. Sure enough, Mrs. Tanner is helping Betts back to life with an iodine bath. He thanks her by removing her lung for a nibble.

Betts, who has caught a ride atop Mrs. Tanner's ambulance, tries to attack Scully, leading her to realize that she has cancer. She manages to kill him, apparently for the last time. Scully wakes up hacking with a nosebleed.

Paul McCrane, who plays Leonard Betts, also played Dr. Robert Romano on ER

Episode Body Count

Michele Wilkes: killed by Betts after he injects her with a lethal dose of potassium chloride.

John Gilnitz: dies of blood loss after his left lung is removed by Betts.

Leonard Betts: pronounced dead after Scully blasts him in the head with a defibrillator. Kind of difficult to keep track of the number of bodies he produces, but apparently they're all one person in the end.

Humans: 3
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0

Cumulative Body Count (85/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)

Humans: 1,017
Creatures: 80
Aliens: 48

Grand Total: 1,145

Season 4, Episode 11: El Mundo Gira

Synopsis

At a migrant labor camp in California, a goat and a young woman are killed shortly after a bright flash in the sky and cascade of yellow rain. An old woman tells Mulder and Scully that a chupacabra is to blame, while another Maria's husband says his brother, Eladio Buente, killed Maria because she did not love him. Mulder finds Buente segregated in INS custody, where he denies killing Maria; Scully thinks that Maria died of a massive fungal infection after seeing her body.

The agents find the bus transporting Buente off the road with a fungal-infected dead driver, and several people running the hell away. Buente is not found, but others say they were running from the chupacabra; Scully suspects a viral infection rather than anything supernatural. A mycologist tells scully that a yellow enzyme isolated from the fungal samples causes rapid fungal growth; Buente also seems to be sweating yellow at a construction site he's working at on his way back to Mexico. Buente's brother goes to attack him, but instead finds the foreman dead in a Port-a-Potty.

Scully thinks Buente might be a carrier of a new disease, and warns Mulder against touching him since that's the likely way the disease spreads. Buente goes to his cousin's house and asks her to flee with him, then manages to elude capture by hiding in a truck full of goats (all of whom show up dead). Buente gets more and more ill, and the agents arrest his brother as he continues his search for vengeance.

The agents realize that Buente is going to face his brother. In telling the story, the cousin says that Buente's brother was also cursed with the disease; an old woman says other chupacabras or aliens took them away, but that turns out to be her mistaking a HazMat team that contains the infection. In the final report, the agents say the brothers apparently have an abnormal tolerance for the enzyme, which Mulder feels has arrived via space debris falling onto Earth. The brothers, deformed by the virus, have managed to elude custody as they try to hitch a ride.

Episode Body Count

Goat and Maria Dorantes: both found dead of fungal infection after a bright flash and strange yellow rain.

Some poor stiff: the coroner is working on a body when Scully asks to see Maria's corpse.

Bus driver: also dies of fungal infection after being on a bus with Buente.

Rick Culver: found dead of a fungal infection in a portable toilet.

At least 20 goats: die of a fungal infection after Buente hides among them.

Store clerk: death by fungicide after Buente infects an area of a grocery store.

Conrad Lozano: an INS agent shot and killed in a showdown between Buente and his brother, and infected in the process.

Barber: previously established as a person involved in shuttling illegal immigrants over the border, dies of an infection while trying to take the brothers to Mexico.

Humans: 7
Creatures: 21
Aliens: 0

Cumulative Body Count (84/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)

Humans: 1,014
Creatures: 80
Aliens: 48

Grand Total: 1,142

Season 4, Episode 10: Paper Hearts

Synopsis

Mulder has a recurring dream where a red dot that forms words (including "Mad Hat" on the side of an El Camino) leads him to where a young girl has been buried in Virginia. Mulder eventually calls in a forensic team that finds a body there, and realizes it is the 14th victim of John Lee Roche, a former traveling salesman/serial killer who killed 13 young girls and took heart-shaped trophies from their clothing. Mulder says the hearts were never found. The agents ID the victim as a girl who went missing in 1975 (earlier than Mulder thought Roche started killing), and her father questions whether there were other victims the agents didn't know about. The question leads them to search the Roche's Camino, and find 16 hearts in a copy of Alice in Wonderland in the camper shell.

Mulder and Scully visit Roche in prison, who says he'll tell them about the last two victims if they bring him the hearts. In another dream, Mulder recalls Samantha's abduction, but this time sees Roche taking her away. Roche says he sold a vacuum to Mulder's father on Martha's Vineyard in 1973, the date of Samantha's abduction, but refuses to talk about Muler's sister. Scully thinks Roche is just messing with Mulder's emotional vulnerability and has gotten information on Mulder online. On a second victim, Roche gives some details about the night of Samantha's abduction, saying he was watching the two of them that night. He gives the location of another victim in West Virginia, but it isn't Samantha.

Mulder gets a removal order on Roche; Skinner's none too pleased, and orders Scully to help him track them down. Mulder takes Roche to his father's house in Martha's Vineyard, Roche tells how he abducted Samantha, but Mulder says he's lying because it's not the house where Samantha was abducted. Roche insists he's telling the truth, but Mulder says he thinks Roche is somehow getting into his dreams. In another dream, Mulder rescues Samantha from a Camino, before both disappear. Roche has apparently convinced Mulder to let him go while sleeping and takes Mulder's badge, phone, and gun.

Mulder finds that Roche has used the credentials to abduct a girl he saw on the flight to Boston. The agents find Roche and the girl in a bus graveyard and get into a standoff, where Roche tries to play on Mulder's emotions by saying he'll never know where Samantha is if he is killed. Mulder blows him away regardless. Scully says there's little the lab can find from an analysis of the last heart, but assures Mulder that they'll find whoever it belongs to; Mulder stashes away the evidence in his desk.

Episode Body Count

13 girls: Mulder said John Lee Roche has strangled 13 girls, aged 8 to 10, and taken a piece of cloth in the shape of a heart from their clothing.

Addie Sparks: went missing in 1975, found buried in Bosher's Run Park in Manassas, Virginia.

Karen Ann Philiponte: abducted in 1974 and found buried in the Forks of Cacapon in West Virginia.

Sixteenth victim: presumed dead after the trophy heart is found, but never found.

John Lee Roche: shot and killed by Mulder in an abandoned bus.

Humans: 17
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0

Cumulative Body Count (83/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)

Humans: 1,007
Creatures: 59
Aliens: 48

Grand Total: 1,114

Human deaths exceed 1,000. Thanks, Roche.

Season 4, Episode 9: Terma

Synopsis

In Florida, a woman is taken from a convalescent home and given a lethal injection by a family member, and the black oil exits her body. The title screen is "E Pur Si Muove" (and yet it moves). In Russia, Mulder's fellow prisoner tells him that hundreds have died in Tunguska in the recovery efforts related to the "Tunguska Rock," and Krycek has been taken away to be wined and dined by the torturers. Scully and Agent Pendrell find that the infected scientist has some sort of growth on his pineal gland.

A former KGB agent named Vassily Peskow is summoned to duty and travels to Virginia, where he kills a virologist who was supposed to receive the diplomatic package (and who was in favor of destroying the last remaining smallpox samples). Using a knife his prisoner gives him, Mulder escapes in a truck and takes Krycek with him. Krycek bails, and Mulder crashes the truck on a curve. Back in Virgina, Cancer Man meets with the Well-Manicured Man, and reveals that the virologist was the WMM's personal physician; Cancer Man also wants the Senate's investigation called off.

In Russia, Krycek is found by a group of men, all missing their left arms, who agree to help him. At the Senate hearing, Scully is held in contempt of Congress. Mulder is found by the truck driver's family, whose son is also missing his left arm, and the father seems intent on doing the amputation after seeing a scar from the black oil test on Mulder's arm. Krycek's cohorts disarm him.

Peskow kills the scientist, causing the oil to leave his body, and also apparently takes the meteorite. Cancer Man thinks the Russians have found out U.S. smallpox inoculation tag efforts. Mulder returns, with both arms, to Washington, and Scully tells him that the virologist was chief physician for several Florida convalescent homes. They arrive shortly after Peskow has killed a few test subject patients. An imprisoned skinhead who helped rescue Krycek says the "black cancer" was developed by the Soviets and used in the Gulf War, and that there was a second bomb kept in Terma, North Dakota.

The agents find a truck near an oil refinery. Scully searches the refinery, and Peskow lets her live after pulling a gun on her. The second bomb explodes, igniting a jet of oil. Before the Senate subcommittee, Scully says the signs point to a conspiracy to control a biotoxin of extraterrestrial origin. Krycek remains in Russia. The Senator heading the committee hands the file on the matter to Cancer Man, who reviews it briefly before tossing it in the trash.

Episode Body Count

Auntie Janet: mercy-killed by a family member and doctor, at which point some black oil leaves her body.

Dr. Bonita Sayre: murdered by Peskow and covered up to make it seem like a horse crushed her throat.

Dr. Sacks: given a lethal injection by Peskow.

At least two other patients: poisoned by Peskow in a Boca Raton, Florida convalescent home.

The prisoner with Mulder says hundreds of men have been killed in Tunguska, but of course no solid number is given.

Humans: 5
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0

Cumulative Body Count (82/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)

Humans: 990
Creatures: 59
Aliens: 48

Grand Total: 1,097

Season 4, Episode 8: Tunguska

Synopsis

Before a Senate intelligence subcommittee, Scully says she believes there are people in the government who no longer believe in the country and are behind the crimes the committee is investigating. She also refuses to disclose Mulder's whereabouts, which the Senators are particularly interested in.

Ten days earlier, a customs agent is infected with the black oil as a diplomat tries to transport vials of it from Japan to the Republic of Georgia. In New York City, the FBI busts a plot by some skinheads to try to blow up a truck bomb. Mulder and Scully find that Krycek is in the vehicle, and that he has been feeding the FBI the tips about the bomb. He tells them that he wants to expose the Syndicate, and that Mulder and Scully can have revenge for their dead loved ones if they help out. He leads them to Dulles International Airport, where another diplomat is coming in. He flees when he sees the agents, dropping a bag that contains only a black rock.

The agents take the rock to the Goddard Space Flight Center, where a scientist says it's consistent with Martian meteorites found in Antarctica. Cancer Man confronts Skinner on the street and tells him that the meteorite being in the agents' hands is causing a foreign policy flap. Krycek is imprisoned in Skinner's apartment, and ends up pulling the diplomat over the balcony after he breaks in. A scientist is infected after drilling into the meteorite and finding it full of black oil, and goes into a sort of coma.

Marita informs Mulder that the meteorite was headed for a place in Russia just north of Tunguska. She also offers to make travel arrangements for him, and he takes along Krycek as an interpreter. In Russia, Mulder tells Krycek that Tunguska was the site of a massive, unexplained explosion in 1908, and that someone may have found an explanation that no one ever dreamed of. The two are captured after sneaking into some sort of mining site. Scully and Skinner are summonsed to see a Senator about the incident on Skinner's balcony; Mulder is called as well, but of course doesn't make it.

In the gulag, another prisoner warns Mulder that experiments are being conducted at the site. Mulder is given an injection and wakes up in a chicken wire enclosure, one of several men in such a predicament overseen by a creepy bald guy. A pipe over Mulder's head leaks black oil onto him, and he is infected. To be continued...

Episode Body Count

Terrorist truck driver: shot and killed by Krycek as he tries to escape with the bomb.

Diplomat: dies after being pulled over Skinner's balcony by Krycek and falling 17 stories.

Humans: 2
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0

UNDEAD'D

Alex Krycek: rescued from the North Dakota missile silo by a group of skinheads looking for destructive material.

Humans: 1
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0

Cumulative Body Count (81/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)

Humans: 985
Creatures: 59
Aliens: 48

Grand Total: 1,092

Season 4, Episode 7: Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man

Synopsis

From an abandoned warehouse, Cancer Man sets up a sniper rifle to keep an eye on the Lone Gunmen's place, which he has bugged. Frohike, a member of The Lone Gunmen, believes he has uncovered Cancer Man's background due to similarities to his character in a pulp novel and is spilling the beans to Mulder and Scully.

After losing both parents at a young age, Cancer Man joined the Center for Special Warfare at Fort Bragg, where he meets Mulder. He was approached by a group of mysterious men in 1962, who say nuclear war nearly occurred due to President Kennedy's failure to support the Bay of Pigs invasion with air support and the subsequent Cuban Missile Crisis. He is ordered to kill the President, and does so from a river overflow pipe; Lee Harvey Oswald has been set up as a patsy.

Later on, Cancer Man has some more influence in the organization and writes novels in his spare time under a nom de plume. Cancer Man was also part of a conspiracy to inhibit the power of Martin Luther King, Jr., who Cancer Man respects but feels will lead to a United States defeat in Vietnam if he can convince black men to refuse to go to war. Cancer Man also assassinates King, pinning the blame on another patsy, James Earl Ray. A publisher refuses his novel, saying it's "frankly, crap."

At a Christmas Eve session at the FBI in 1991, we see that Cancer Man and some friends apparently have links to Anita Hill, Rodney King, and Saddam Hussein, and also rigged the 1980 "Miracle" hockey game at the Olympics and continue to rig the Oscar nominations. Cancer Man also brushes off a suggestion that "that Spooky kid" who managed to get the X-Files reopened could be trouble. When they receive news that Gorbachev has resigned, it seems there are no more enemies.

That same day, however, Deep Throat tells Cancer Man that a UFO has been found in West Virginia. He orders Cancer Man to execute an alien captured with it as part of a government directive, and says that the organization has a new enemy. However, Cancer Man wins a coin toss and the kill goes to Deep Throat. In present day, Cancer Man gets a publishing offer for his novel and types up a letter of resignation, but is horrified to find that his ending has been changed and that the magazine isn't the most high-end publication. Frohike says he's planning on gathering some more evidence before going public with the story; Cancer Man watches him through the scope and declares that he can kill Frohike whenever he wants, but not at that point.

Episode Body Count

Leon Trotsky: Frohike mentions the assassination of Trotsky by ice pick in Mexico City in 1940.

Cancer Man's parents: Frohike says Cancer Man's father was a Communist activist executed in 1917 under the Espionage Act, and his mother died of lung cancer from smoking cigarettes.

Patrice Lamumba: Cancer Man denies aiding a coup in the Congo that led to the assassination of Prime Minister Lamumba in 1961.

Rafael Trujillo: Cancer Man also denies complicity in the assassination of the Dominican ruler in 1961.

John F. Kennedy: the President of the United States, assassinated by Cancer Man from a river overflow pipe along the parade route in Dallas, Texas in 1962.

J.D. Tippit: a Dallas police officer, shot and killed by Oswald in 1962 after Oswald thinks he's part of the group of people who set him up.

Martin Luther King, Jr.: shot and killed by Cancer Man from vegetation near the Lorraine Motel in 1968.

Certainly the most historical body count thus far. The alien killed by Deep Throat is presumably the same one counted in "E.B.E."

Humans: 8
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0

Cumulative Body Count (80/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)

Humans: 984
Creatures: 59
Aliens: 48

Grand Total: 1,091

Season 4, Episode 6: Sanguinarium

Synopsis

A cosmetic surgeon in a Chicago hospital kills a patient after carving away much too vigorously with the scalpel. The surgeon claims that he was possessed during the incident. Scully notes how the surgeon is taking a controversial sleep aid whose long-term effects are unknown, while Mulder is more interested in burn marks in the shape of a pentagram on the operating room floor.

Several doctors at the hospital are trying to cover something up, and one creates a series of pentragram dots on another patient's stomach. The stomach is killed soon after by another doctor, also taking the sleeping pills. Dr. Franklin tells the agents that a nurse named Rebecca Waite, an employee at the time of several other "accidental" deaths 10 years ago, has recently returned to the hospital. Waite performs some kind of ritual at her home; the agents search the home after seeing a pentagram symbol on the door and find the altar.

Waite, hidden in a bathtub full of blood, attacks Franklin, but is overpowered and caught. She warns the agents that she tried to stop Franklin but he was too powerful, then vomits up blood and straight pins. Franklin takes a lie-down...about two feet off the bed. Waite dies, and in studying a book on witchcraft Mulder realizes that the dead patients' dates of births match the witch's sabbaths and wonders if Waite is trying to save the patients with the pentagrams.

After another patient death, the agents look into the prior fatalities and realize that a "deceased" doctor looks a good deal like Dr. Franklin with a little tinkering. Mulder wonders if he was using blood sacrifice to stay young, and now continues to do so. Franklin transfers some surgical implements into another doctor's stomach, but other surgeons manage to save her. Another patient isn't so lucky, however, and is apparently the last sacrifice Franklin is looking for; he gives himself a new face and absconds to Los Angeles.

Richard Beymer, who plays Dr. Jack Franklin, is best known for playing Tony in West Side Story and Benjamin Horne in Twin Peaks. Andrew Airlie, who plays an attorney, also has a role as Mr. Oliver on Reaper.

Episode Body Count

Liposuction patient: dies after Dr. Lloyd goes to town with a scalpel.

Skin peel patient: dies after Dr. Ilaqua burns a whole through her head with some sort of laser drill.

Rebecca Waite: dies from internal bleeding when Dr. Franklin manages to transfer hundreds of straight pins into her digestive system.

Chemical peel patient: dies after Dr. Kaplan dissolves her face in phenol.

Four patients: number of victims from the incidents 10 years prior.

Another patient: also dies after a doctor loses it.

Scully also notes how there are upwards of 80,000 doctor error deaths, but I'll call the Gimpy Rule on massive casualty counts on that one.

Humans: 9
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0

Cumulative Body Count (79/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)

Humans: 976
Creatures: 59
Aliens: 48

Grand Total: 1,083