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Friday, June 12, 2009
Season 1, Episode 24: The Erlenmeyer Flask
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Season 1, Episode 23: Roland
Synopsis
At a jet propulsion lab in Washington, a rocket scientist is sucked into an experimental engine after a mentally retarded/idiot savant janitor named Roland activates a test. Roland kills another scientist after having visions about the murder. Mulder discovers that someone has beeen continuing the work of a Dr. Arthur Grable, who has been dead for several months.
It turns out that Grable's head is preserved, awaiting a future when a body can be cloned for him, and that he is twins with Roland. Mulder wonders if Grable is able to control Roland through heightened psychic abilities. A former associate, Dr. Frank Nollette, tampers with Grable's preservation container, as Roland manages to achieve the scientists' goals of breaking Mach 15 with the engine.
Roland tries to murder Nollette in the test chamber after Nollette tries to steal the work, but Mulder and Scully intervene. With help from Roland, they are just able to save him. Grable's noggin passes away, and Roland goes off for a psychological evaluation.
Zeljko Ivanek, who plays Roland, has had recurring roles in several shows, including as Governor James Devlin on Oz and the less-than-recurring Edmund Burke on Lost, who got flattened by a bus after appearing in a single flashback. Suleka Mathew, who plays Lisa Dole, starred in several episodes of Da Vinci's Inquest (a show that seems to have attracted a lot of X-Files vets) as Dr. Sunita Ramen.
Episode Body Count
Dr. Ronald Surnow: he got squished by a jet engine.
Dr. Arthur Grable: mostly died in a car accident prior to the episode, fully dies later after Nollette tampers with his preservation system.
Dr. Keats: dies after Roland freezes his head in liquid nitrogen and lets it smash on the floor.
Humans: 3
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0
Cumulative Body Count (23/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)
Humans: 173
Creatures: 10
Aliens: 7
Grand Total: 190
At a jet propulsion lab in Washington, a rocket scientist is sucked into an experimental engine after a mentally retarded/idiot savant janitor named Roland activates a test. Roland kills another scientist after having visions about the murder. Mulder discovers that someone has beeen continuing the work of a Dr. Arthur Grable, who has been dead for several months.
It turns out that Grable's head is preserved, awaiting a future when a body can be cloned for him, and that he is twins with Roland. Mulder wonders if Grable is able to control Roland through heightened psychic abilities. A former associate, Dr. Frank Nollette, tampers with Grable's preservation container, as Roland manages to achieve the scientists' goals of breaking Mach 15 with the engine.
Roland tries to murder Nollette in the test chamber after Nollette tries to steal the work, but Mulder and Scully intervene. With help from Roland, they are just able to save him. Grable's noggin passes away, and Roland goes off for a psychological evaluation.
Zeljko Ivanek, who plays Roland, has had recurring roles in several shows, including as Governor James Devlin on Oz and the less-than-recurring Edmund Burke on Lost, who got flattened by a bus after appearing in a single flashback. Suleka Mathew, who plays Lisa Dole, starred in several episodes of Da Vinci's Inquest (a show that seems to have attracted a lot of X-Files vets) as Dr. Sunita Ramen.
Episode Body Count
Dr. Ronald Surnow: he got squished by a jet engine.
Dr. Arthur Grable: mostly died in a car accident prior to the episode, fully dies later after Nollette tampers with his preservation system.
Dr. Keats: dies after Roland freezes his head in liquid nitrogen and lets it smash on the floor.
Humans: 3
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0
Cumulative Body Count (23/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)
Humans: 173
Creatures: 10
Aliens: 7
Grand Total: 190
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Season 1, Episode 22: Born Again
Synopsis
A detective, Rudolph Barbala, falls to his death at his Buffalo, New York precinct after trying to interview an eight-year-old girl found nearby. The mother of the girl notes how she used to scream whenever she got near the water of the swimming pool, and how she has somehow learned origami. The girl gives police a description of another man in the room who defenestrated the detective, but Mulder suspects telekinesis on her part.
The girl's description matches a picture of a long-dead police officer, Charlie Morris, and that she has mutilated dolls in the same way the officer was killed. The investigation causes a detective, Tony Fiore, and former cop Leon Felder to sweat a little over a conspiracy they and Barbala had going to murder Morris, and Felder is killed in a bizarre incident witnessed by the girl. The agents find that the detective's wife used to be married to Morris and had an origami hobby. Mulder now ponders reincarnation.
Cleaning up a flashed image that appears on a video recording of a hypnotherapy session with the girl, Mulder realizes that Morris was drowned in his own fish tank. Morris's ghost and/or the girl give Fiore a non-lethal scare, causing him to plead guilty to a murder charge, and the girl begins to live a more normal life.
Maggie Wheeler, who plays Detective Sharon Lazard, went on to irritate millions as Janice on Friends.
Episode Body Count
Detective Rudolph Barbala: evidently thrown through a window by Morris's ghost and falls to his death.
Officer Charlie Morris: narcotics cop killed nine years before the episode by his partner and a detective.
Leon Felder: Barbala's former partner and an insurance agent, strangled to death by a scarf stuck in the door of an accelerating bus.
Humans: 3
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0
Cumulative Body Count (22/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)
Humans: 170
Creatures: 10
Aliens: 7
Grand Total: 187
A detective, Rudolph Barbala, falls to his death at his Buffalo, New York precinct after trying to interview an eight-year-old girl found nearby. The mother of the girl notes how she used to scream whenever she got near the water of the swimming pool, and how she has somehow learned origami. The girl gives police a description of another man in the room who defenestrated the detective, but Mulder suspects telekinesis on her part.
The girl's description matches a picture of a long-dead police officer, Charlie Morris, and that she has mutilated dolls in the same way the officer was killed. The investigation causes a detective, Tony Fiore, and former cop Leon Felder to sweat a little over a conspiracy they and Barbala had going to murder Morris, and Felder is killed in a bizarre incident witnessed by the girl. The agents find that the detective's wife used to be married to Morris and had an origami hobby. Mulder now ponders reincarnation.
Cleaning up a flashed image that appears on a video recording of a hypnotherapy session with the girl, Mulder realizes that Morris was drowned in his own fish tank. Morris's ghost and/or the girl give Fiore a non-lethal scare, causing him to plead guilty to a murder charge, and the girl begins to live a more normal life.
Maggie Wheeler, who plays Detective Sharon Lazard, went on to irritate millions as Janice on Friends.
Episode Body Count
Detective Rudolph Barbala: evidently thrown through a window by Morris's ghost and falls to his death.
Officer Charlie Morris: narcotics cop killed nine years before the episode by his partner and a detective.
Leon Felder: Barbala's former partner and an insurance agent, strangled to death by a scarf stuck in the door of an accelerating bus.
Humans: 3
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0
Cumulative Body Count (22/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)
Humans: 170
Creatures: 10
Aliens: 7
Grand Total: 187
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Season 1, Episode 21: Tooms
Synopsis
Assistant Director Walter Skinner, with the Cigarette-Smoking Man standing by, chews out Scully and asks that the X-Files team be more conventional in their investigations (despite a high success rate with unconventional investigations). Our old friend, Eugene Victor Tooms, is released from a Baltimore mental hospital after he's believed to be rehabilitated. The review board doesn't believe Mulder's testimony of Tooms' murderous history or his warning that Tooms has to kill one more person to meet his 1993 quota.
Mulder keeps Tooms under surveillance; he, along with a child protective toilet lock, prevent Tooms' attempt to kill another victim. Tooms manages to set himself up as an assault victim and frame Mulder, which inhibits his surveillance. Mulder and Scully find that Tooms' dental records match bite marks found on a skeleton uncovered from one of his 1933 murders. Tooms manages to kill his fifth victim and return to hibernation in a nest in a mall that has replaced his old slumbering grounds. Tooms is killed when he gets sucked into an escalator, and his file is closed out.
First appearance of Assistant Director Walter Skinner (played by Mitch Pileggi, whose most recent sci-fi role was as Colonel Steven Caldwell in Stargate: Atlantis).
Episode Body Count
Additional four Tooms murders: Mulder attributes 19 homicides to Tooms; my previous count was only at 15, probably because it didn't take into account the additional 1903 murders.
Roadkill rat: disposed of by Tooms while working his old job in animal regulation.
Roadkill cat: also disposed of by Tooms.
Dr. Aaron Monte: killed and de-livered by Tooms.
Eugene Victor Tooms: crushed after Mulder activates an escalator that drags him into the machinery.
Humans: 6
Creatures: 2
Aliens: 0
Cumulative Body Count (21/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)
Humans: 167
Creatures: 10
Aliens: 7
Grand Total: 184
Assistant Director Walter Skinner, with the Cigarette-Smoking Man standing by, chews out Scully and asks that the X-Files team be more conventional in their investigations (despite a high success rate with unconventional investigations). Our old friend, Eugene Victor Tooms, is released from a Baltimore mental hospital after he's believed to be rehabilitated. The review board doesn't believe Mulder's testimony of Tooms' murderous history or his warning that Tooms has to kill one more person to meet his 1993 quota.
Mulder keeps Tooms under surveillance; he, along with a child protective toilet lock, prevent Tooms' attempt to kill another victim. Tooms manages to set himself up as an assault victim and frame Mulder, which inhibits his surveillance. Mulder and Scully find that Tooms' dental records match bite marks found on a skeleton uncovered from one of his 1933 murders. Tooms manages to kill his fifth victim and return to hibernation in a nest in a mall that has replaced his old slumbering grounds. Tooms is killed when he gets sucked into an escalator, and his file is closed out.
First appearance of Assistant Director Walter Skinner (played by Mitch Pileggi, whose most recent sci-fi role was as Colonel Steven Caldwell in Stargate: Atlantis).
Episode Body Count
Additional four Tooms murders: Mulder attributes 19 homicides to Tooms; my previous count was only at 15, probably because it didn't take into account the additional 1903 murders.
Roadkill rat: disposed of by Tooms while working his old job in animal regulation.
Roadkill cat: also disposed of by Tooms.
Dr. Aaron Monte: killed and de-livered by Tooms.
Eugene Victor Tooms: crushed after Mulder activates an escalator that drags him into the machinery.
Humans: 6
Creatures: 2
Aliens: 0
Cumulative Body Count (21/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)
Humans: 167
Creatures: 10
Aliens: 7
Grand Total: 184
Season 1, Episode 20: Darkness Falls
Synopsis
The episode opens with a group of panicked loggers trying to escape the Olympic National Forest in Washington before we see a pair of men being attacked by a swarm of green bugs. Mulder notes how 30 loggers have disappeared since their arrival at the forest (paralleling a disappearance of a WPA crew in 1934) and ecoterrorists are suspected.
Investigating with a Forest Service agent and lumber company security man, the agents find a dessicated corpse cocooned in a tree. They also find Doug Spinney, an ecoterrorist who says the attacks occur after sundown. An examination of a felled 500-year-old tree finds tiny insects living within the trunk, and Mulder posits that the insects were lying dormant in the trees until the logging started. Mulder entrusts Spinney to use the last of the gasoline to go get a working vehicle.
After a harrowing night where it is determined that the insects don't swarm in the light, Spinney returns to pick up the survivors. However, the jeep is disabled and swarmed as the group tries to escape. Evidently due to timing with the light, Mulder and Scully as well as the Forest Service agent manage to survive the attack and are quarantined as the government begins efforts to destroy the swarm.
Titus Welliver, who plays Doug Spinney, had a recurring role on Deadwood as Silas Adams.
Episode Body Count
Forty-two loggers: the group finds only one body, drained of fluids, cocooned in a tree out of the party of 30 missing loggers. However, Scully says they "have a pretty good idea" as to what happened to that group after the discovery, along with the 12-member WPA group from 1934.
Steven Teague, Doug Spinney, and two other ecoterrorists: All killed by the swarm of insects.
Steve Humphreys: killed by a swarm of insects.
No, I'm not going to count every bug that flies into the zapper in the one scene. I'll declare insects as the cutoff point for recorded creature deaths.
Humans: 47
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0
Due to the extremely high body count in this episode, I'm going to create two "award" categories that can be shifted around as needed. First is Deadliest of Season, second is Deadliest of Show. This episode just won both, for now.
Cumulative Body Count (20/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)
Humans: 161
Creatures: 8
Aliens: 7
Grand Total: 176
The episode opens with a group of panicked loggers trying to escape the Olympic National Forest in Washington before we see a pair of men being attacked by a swarm of green bugs. Mulder notes how 30 loggers have disappeared since their arrival at the forest (paralleling a disappearance of a WPA crew in 1934) and ecoterrorists are suspected.
Investigating with a Forest Service agent and lumber company security man, the agents find a dessicated corpse cocooned in a tree. They also find Doug Spinney, an ecoterrorist who says the attacks occur after sundown. An examination of a felled 500-year-old tree finds tiny insects living within the trunk, and Mulder posits that the insects were lying dormant in the trees until the logging started. Mulder entrusts Spinney to use the last of the gasoline to go get a working vehicle.
After a harrowing night where it is determined that the insects don't swarm in the light, Spinney returns to pick up the survivors. However, the jeep is disabled and swarmed as the group tries to escape. Evidently due to timing with the light, Mulder and Scully as well as the Forest Service agent manage to survive the attack and are quarantined as the government begins efforts to destroy the swarm.
Titus Welliver, who plays Doug Spinney, had a recurring role on Deadwood as Silas Adams.
Episode Body Count
Forty-two loggers: the group finds only one body, drained of fluids, cocooned in a tree out of the party of 30 missing loggers. However, Scully says they "have a pretty good idea" as to what happened to that group after the discovery, along with the 12-member WPA group from 1934.
Steven Teague, Doug Spinney, and two other ecoterrorists: All killed by the swarm of insects.
Steve Humphreys: killed by a swarm of insects.
No, I'm not going to count every bug that flies into the zapper in the one scene. I'll declare insects as the cutoff point for recorded creature deaths.
Humans: 47
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0
Due to the extremely high body count in this episode, I'm going to create two "award" categories that can be shifted around as needed. First is Deadliest of Season, second is Deadliest of Show. This episode just won both, for now.
Cumulative Body Count (20/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)
Humans: 161
Creatures: 8
Aliens: 7
Grand Total: 176
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Season 1, Episode 19: Shapes
Synopsis
A Montana rancher, Jim Parker, is charged with murder after shooting Joe Goodensnake, a young Native American man. Parker says the man had attacked his son and appeared to be an animal, and that his cattle had been getting slaughtered prior to the incident. Mulder and Scully discover a piece of shed skin, footprints that go from human to animal, and fanged teeth on the body.
Mulder thinks that the man may have been able to transmogrify into an animal, and notes similar accounts from as far back as the Lewis and Clark expedition. Following Goodensnake's funeral, Parker is killed by another beast. A Native American tells Mulder of the legend of the manitou: an evil spirit that can turn a man into a beast by night, cause those he attacks to change into a manitou as well, and pass down the traits by bloodline.
Goodensnake's sister is suspected, but she says she witnessed the animal attack Parker. The agents realize Parker's son, Lyle Parker, was transformed. Lyle is shot and killed after trying to attack Scully.
Donnelly Rhodes, who played Jim Parker, also played Doc Cottle on the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica and Detective Leo Shannon on most episodes of Da Vinci's Inquest.
Episode Body Count
Bull: killed by Goodensnake while he is a manitou.
Joseph Goodensnake: shot and killed by Jim Parker while in manitou form.
Seven murders: Mulder says the first X-File was initiated in 1946 after a series of murders in the Northwest, with seven in the same Montana town. Other murders, occurring on eight-year intervals, are mentioned but not specified.
Richard Watkins: Mulder says the initial set of murders stopped after police shot what they thought was an animal but turned out to be a man.
Jim Parker: killed by his son in manitou form.
Lyle Parker: shot and killed by Sheriff Charlie Tskany while in manitou form.
Since they turn back into humans after they are shot, the manitou deaths will be recorded as human ones.
Humans: 11
Creatures: 1
Aliens: 0
Cumulative Body Count (19/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)
Humans: 114
Creatures: 8
Aliens: 7
Grand Total: 129
A Montana rancher, Jim Parker, is charged with murder after shooting Joe Goodensnake, a young Native American man. Parker says the man had attacked his son and appeared to be an animal, and that his cattle had been getting slaughtered prior to the incident. Mulder and Scully discover a piece of shed skin, footprints that go from human to animal, and fanged teeth on the body.
Mulder thinks that the man may have been able to transmogrify into an animal, and notes similar accounts from as far back as the Lewis and Clark expedition. Following Goodensnake's funeral, Parker is killed by another beast. A Native American tells Mulder of the legend of the manitou: an evil spirit that can turn a man into a beast by night, cause those he attacks to change into a manitou as well, and pass down the traits by bloodline.
Goodensnake's sister is suspected, but she says she witnessed the animal attack Parker. The agents realize Parker's son, Lyle Parker, was transformed. Lyle is shot and killed after trying to attack Scully.
Donnelly Rhodes, who played Jim Parker, also played Doc Cottle on the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica and Detective Leo Shannon on most episodes of Da Vinci's Inquest.
Episode Body Count
Bull: killed by Goodensnake while he is a manitou.
Joseph Goodensnake: shot and killed by Jim Parker while in manitou form.
Seven murders: Mulder says the first X-File was initiated in 1946 after a series of murders in the Northwest, with seven in the same Montana town. Other murders, occurring on eight-year intervals, are mentioned but not specified.
Richard Watkins: Mulder says the initial set of murders stopped after police shot what they thought was an animal but turned out to be a man.
Jim Parker: killed by his son in manitou form.
Lyle Parker: shot and killed by Sheriff Charlie Tskany while in manitou form.
Since they turn back into humans after they are shot, the manitou deaths will be recorded as human ones.
Humans: 11
Creatures: 1
Aliens: 0
Cumulative Body Count (19/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)
Humans: 114
Creatures: 8
Aliens: 7
Grand Total: 129
Friday, June 5, 2009
Season 1, Episode 18: Miracle Man
Synopsis
A young boy, Samuel Hartley, resurrects a dead man at the scene of a fire in Tennessee in 1983. In the present day, local authorities have turned to the FBI for help in shutting down the boy and his adoptive father, whom they believe to be scammers and possibly complicit in the death of an old woman. The agents confront Samuel, who seems to know about Mulder's sister's abduction.
Mulder believes Samuel is legitimate, and also has the ability to use his powers to kill. Another woman at a faith healing event dies, evidently of poisoning, and Mulder, who has been seeing images of Samantha, tries to secure Samuel's release. Samuel is beaten to death with a little help from the deputies, and Mulder and Scully find that the man Samuel saved is linked to the deaths. However, Samuel apparently rises from the dead, and the sheriff is implicated in his murder.
Episode Body Count
Lucy Kelly: (at left...lying down...almost dead) suffers from a malignant tumor and dies after going to faith healers for treatment.
Carol Wallace: apparently another suspicious death at the incompetent hands of the faith healers.
Margaret Hohman: dies after an encounter with Samuel.
Samuel Hartley: beaten to death by other prisoners, yet a nurse claims that he walks out of the hospital. And so he becomes the first UNDEAD'D of the blog.
Leonard Vance: commits suicide after betraying Samuel's ministry.
Humans: 5
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0
UNDEAD'D: One human.
Humans: 4
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0
Cumulative Body Count (18/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)
Humans: 103
Creatures: 7
Aliens: 7
Grand Total: 117
Human deaths exceed 100. Geez, we're not even past the first season.
A young boy, Samuel Hartley, resurrects a dead man at the scene of a fire in Tennessee in 1983. In the present day, local authorities have turned to the FBI for help in shutting down the boy and his adoptive father, whom they believe to be scammers and possibly complicit in the death of an old woman. The agents confront Samuel, who seems to know about Mulder's sister's abduction.
Mulder believes Samuel is legitimate, and also has the ability to use his powers to kill. Another woman at a faith healing event dies, evidently of poisoning, and Mulder, who has been seeing images of Samantha, tries to secure Samuel's release. Samuel is beaten to death with a little help from the deputies, and Mulder and Scully find that the man Samuel saved is linked to the deaths. However, Samuel apparently rises from the dead, and the sheriff is implicated in his murder.
Episode Body Count
Lucy Kelly: (at left...lying down...almost dead) suffers from a malignant tumor and dies after going to faith healers for treatment.
Carol Wallace: apparently another suspicious death at the incompetent hands of the faith healers.
Margaret Hohman: dies after an encounter with Samuel.
Samuel Hartley: beaten to death by other prisoners, yet a nurse claims that he walks out of the hospital. And so he becomes the first UNDEAD'D of the blog.
Leonard Vance: commits suicide after betraying Samuel's ministry.
Humans: 5
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0
UNDEAD'D: One human.
Humans: 4
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0
Cumulative Body Count (18/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)
Humans: 103
Creatures: 7
Aliens: 7
Grand Total: 117
Human deaths exceed 100. Geez, we're not even past the first season.
Season 1, Episode 17: E.B.E.
Synopsis
An Iraqi pilot shoots down a UFO, and the craft crashes within observing distance of a base in Turkey. A trucker in Tennessee sees a UFO, experiences a shutdown in his electrical systems, and fires upon some rustling in a bush. Mulder and Scully briefly question them before the police chief tells them there will be no further cooperation. Scully notes that the trucker has symptoms of Gulf War Syndrome, despite the fact that he didn't serve in the Gulf. The trucker says that he hasn't been himself since the night he observed the saucer.
The agents discover that they are being bugged, and that the trucker was hauling more than he said he was. Mulder considers that he may have been transporting wreckage from the UFO crash. After tracking the truck, Mulder and Scully are witness to a strange flash of light that leaves the truck abandoned with a life-support unit, but determine that it was a hoax. With help from a government watchdog group called The Lone Gunmen, the agents sneak into a government facility. Here, Deep Throat finds Mulder and reveals that there was an international agreement to exterminate any extraterrestrial creature that came to Earth, and that his role in killing in alien is part of the reason he feeds information to Mulder.
First appearance of The Lone Gunmen. Roger R. Cross, who has an uncredited role as Officer Green, played Curtis Manning in several episodes of 24.
Episode Body Count
Three aliens: Deep Throat says he is one of three men who has killed an extraterrestrial entity.
Humans: 0
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 3
Cumulative Body Count (17/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)
Humans: 99
Creatures: 7
Aliens: 7
Grand Total: 113
An Iraqi pilot shoots down a UFO, and the craft crashes within observing distance of a base in Turkey. A trucker in Tennessee sees a UFO, experiences a shutdown in his electrical systems, and fires upon some rustling in a bush. Mulder and Scully briefly question them before the police chief tells them there will be no further cooperation. Scully notes that the trucker has symptoms of Gulf War Syndrome, despite the fact that he didn't serve in the Gulf. The trucker says that he hasn't been himself since the night he observed the saucer.
The agents discover that they are being bugged, and that the trucker was hauling more than he said he was. Mulder considers that he may have been transporting wreckage from the UFO crash. After tracking the truck, Mulder and Scully are witness to a strange flash of light that leaves the truck abandoned with a life-support unit, but determine that it was a hoax. With help from a government watchdog group called The Lone Gunmen, the agents sneak into a government facility. Here, Deep Throat finds Mulder and reveals that there was an international agreement to exterminate any extraterrestrial creature that came to Earth, and that his role in killing in alien is part of the reason he feeds information to Mulder.
First appearance of The Lone Gunmen. Roger R. Cross, who has an uncredited role as Officer Green, played Curtis Manning in several episodes of 24.
Episode Body Count
Three aliens: Deep Throat says he is one of three men who has killed an extraterrestrial entity.
Humans: 0
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 3
Cumulative Body Count (17/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)
Humans: 99
Creatures: 7
Aliens: 7
Grand Total: 113
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Season 1, Episode 16: Young at Heart
Synopsis
The episode opens in 1989, where a creepy doctor, Joe Ridley, is doing some sort of experiment on a man named John Barnett. In the present day, a jewelry store robbery includes a written message from Barnett to Mulder. It turns out Mulder helped put Barnett away for armored car thefts and the murders of two men, but supposedly died in prison in 1989. At his trial, Barnett threatens that he'll get Mulder.
Barnett begins toying with Mulder. A prisoner tells the agents how he witnessed Ridley's operation. Mulder and Scully find that the Ridley was experimenting with sufferers of progeria, a rare genetic disease which rapidly ages children, to find anti-aging techniques. Mulder theorizes that Ridley was using prisoners to experiment on, and that Barnett might be using his youth as a disguise.
Ridley meets with the agents and tells them that the U.S. government sponsored him after he lost his medical license. Deep Throat tells Mulder that the government is trying to bargain with Barnett to get the research he stole from Ridley. Scully finds that Barnett has been in her apartment, and the FBI stakes out a cello recital that was mentioned on her answering machine. Barnett takes a cello player hostage, but Mulder manages to shoot and kill him. He and Scully ponder what become of the research, and the episode ends with a shot of a rental locker at an airport.
Robin Mossley, who plays Dr. Joe Ridley, was recycled as a doctor for three other X-Files episodes. Merrilyn Gann, the prosecuting attorney at Barnett's trial, played Rose Abbott on Everwood.
Episode Body Count
Jewelry store clerk: taken out in a robbery by John Barnett.
Armored car driver and Agent Steve Wallenberg: killed by Barnett in one of Mulder's early cases
Agent Reggie Perdue: choked to death by Barnett.
John Barnett: shot and killed by Mulder.
Humans: 5
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0
Cumulative Body Count (16/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)
Humans: 99
Creatures: 7
Aliens: 4
Grand Total: 110
The episode opens in 1989, where a creepy doctor, Joe Ridley, is doing some sort of experiment on a man named John Barnett. In the present day, a jewelry store robbery includes a written message from Barnett to Mulder. It turns out Mulder helped put Barnett away for armored car thefts and the murders of two men, but supposedly died in prison in 1989. At his trial, Barnett threatens that he'll get Mulder.
Barnett begins toying with Mulder. A prisoner tells the agents how he witnessed Ridley's operation. Mulder and Scully find that the Ridley was experimenting with sufferers of progeria, a rare genetic disease which rapidly ages children, to find anti-aging techniques. Mulder theorizes that Ridley was using prisoners to experiment on, and that Barnett might be using his youth as a disguise.
Ridley meets with the agents and tells them that the U.S. government sponsored him after he lost his medical license. Deep Throat tells Mulder that the government is trying to bargain with Barnett to get the research he stole from Ridley. Scully finds that Barnett has been in her apartment, and the FBI stakes out a cello recital that was mentioned on her answering machine. Barnett takes a cello player hostage, but Mulder manages to shoot and kill him. He and Scully ponder what become of the research, and the episode ends with a shot of a rental locker at an airport.
Robin Mossley, who plays Dr. Joe Ridley, was recycled as a doctor for three other X-Files episodes. Merrilyn Gann, the prosecuting attorney at Barnett's trial, played Rose Abbott on Everwood.
Episode Body Count
Jewelry store clerk: taken out in a robbery by John Barnett.
Armored car driver and Agent Steve Wallenberg: killed by Barnett in one of Mulder's early cases
Agent Reggie Perdue: choked to death by Barnett.
John Barnett: shot and killed by Mulder.
Humans: 5
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0
Cumulative Body Count (16/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)
Humans: 99
Creatures: 7
Aliens: 4
Grand Total: 110
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Season 1, Episode 15: Lazarus
Synopsis
Acting on a tip, Scully and Agent Jack Willis stake out a bank in Maryland about to be robbed. The robber, Warren Dupre, and Willis are both shot in the process, and Willis is narrowly rescued by doctors. Dupre's tattoo and personality shift to Willis, who steals a ring from the robber and begins tracking down his female accomplice and lover, Lula Phillips, after recovering. Mulder notices that Willis' EKG seems to show two heartbeats and grows suspicious of Willis.
Scully and Willis/Dupre track down and capture Phillips, and Willis orders Scully to handcuff herself to a radiator. Willis/Dupre uses his memories and a ring to prove his identity to Lula and lets the FBI know that Scully is kidnapped. Scully tries to snap Willis's consciousness back into his body, and also notes how Willis' diabetic condition still applies with his new consciousness.
Phillips reveals that it was actually her who sold out Dupre, orders Scully to not give Willis/Dupre his insulin, and demands a one million dollar ransom for Scully. Willis and Dupre fight for personality space in Willis' body; acting on clues from the phone calls, the FBI swarms the building shortly after Willis regains control, kills Phillips, and dies of diabetic shock.
Kallum Keith Rennie, who plays Tommy Phillips, had a minor role in another X-Files episode and the second movie but is better known for his role as Leoben Conoy in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica.
Episode Body Count
Warren Dupre: shot and killed during a bank robbery.
Seven people: Scully says the robber, Warren Dupre, and his accomplice, Lula Phillips, have killed seven people in their crime spree, including a 65-year-old teller who was pistol-whipped because she didn't put money in the bag fast enough.
Three other people people: Professor Varnes tells a story of a pilot in his support group who survived a plane crash that killed three passengers after experiencing an out-of-body experience.
Pilot's wife: Varnes said the pilot strangled his wife with an extension cord after discovering via transferred memories that she had been having an affair with one of the passengers.
Tommy Phillips: Shot by possessed Willis after being accused of tipping the FBI off about the bank robbery.
Lula Phillips: shot and killed by Willis.
Agent Jack Willis: dies of diabetic shock and/or cardiac arrest.
Humans: 15
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0
Cumulative Body Count (15/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)
Humans: 94
Creatures: 7
Aliens: 4
Grand Total: 105
The count goes into three digits!
Acting on a tip, Scully and Agent Jack Willis stake out a bank in Maryland about to be robbed. The robber, Warren Dupre, and Willis are both shot in the process, and Willis is narrowly rescued by doctors. Dupre's tattoo and personality shift to Willis, who steals a ring from the robber and begins tracking down his female accomplice and lover, Lula Phillips, after recovering. Mulder notices that Willis' EKG seems to show two heartbeats and grows suspicious of Willis.
Scully and Willis/Dupre track down and capture Phillips, and Willis orders Scully to handcuff herself to a radiator. Willis/Dupre uses his memories and a ring to prove his identity to Lula and lets the FBI know that Scully is kidnapped. Scully tries to snap Willis's consciousness back into his body, and also notes how Willis' diabetic condition still applies with his new consciousness.
Phillips reveals that it was actually her who sold out Dupre, orders Scully to not give Willis/Dupre his insulin, and demands a one million dollar ransom for Scully. Willis and Dupre fight for personality space in Willis' body; acting on clues from the phone calls, the FBI swarms the building shortly after Willis regains control, kills Phillips, and dies of diabetic shock.
Kallum Keith Rennie, who plays Tommy Phillips, had a minor role in another X-Files episode and the second movie but is better known for his role as Leoben Conoy in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica.
Episode Body Count
Warren Dupre: shot and killed during a bank robbery.
Seven people: Scully says the robber, Warren Dupre, and his accomplice, Lula Phillips, have killed seven people in their crime spree, including a 65-year-old teller who was pistol-whipped because she didn't put money in the bag fast enough.
Three other people people: Professor Varnes tells a story of a pilot in his support group who survived a plane crash that killed three passengers after experiencing an out-of-body experience.
Pilot's wife: Varnes said the pilot strangled his wife with an extension cord after discovering via transferred memories that she had been having an affair with one of the passengers.
Tommy Phillips: Shot by possessed Willis after being accused of tipping the FBI off about the bank robbery.
Lula Phillips: shot and killed by Willis.
Agent Jack Willis: dies of diabetic shock and/or cardiac arrest.
Humans: 15
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0
Cumulative Body Count (15/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)
Humans: 94
Creatures: 7
Aliens: 4
Grand Total: 105
The count goes into three digits!
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Season 1, Episode 14: Gender Bender
Synopsis
Young people between Boston and Washington, D.C. are dying of coronary attacks after sex, with the latest security footage showing a woman entering the dead person's hotel room and a man exiting. Mulder and Scully's investigation of a possible killer takes them to Massachusetts and an Amish-like religious sect in Massachusetts known as The Kindred. After their first attempt to get some answers from the sect is unsuccessful, the agents sneak back onto their property. One of the men at the village, Brother Andrew, gives Scully some information, while Mulder observes a strange ritual involving the body of another brother, which seems to bring him back to life.
Scully is seduced by Brother Andrew, but rescued by Mulder. They find another man who survived a night club encounter. They attempt to apprehend the Gender-Bender with the information they've gathered, but are unable to capture the culprit. Or any of the sect, which disappears mysteriously and leaves only a crop circle behind.
Strangely enough, the man who survives the night club seduction is played by Nicholas Lea...the same person who would play a major role in future X-Files episodes as Alex Krycek (credit to Mulder's Big Adventure on this one).
Episode Body Count
Club guy: dies of a blown artery after sex with the Gender-bender.
Four other deaths: recent cases of healthy young persons' deaths by massive coronary arrest during sex.
Dead UMW organizer: a similar case in Massachusetts that Mulder mentions in the past year.
Dead man: killed by Marty the Gender-bender.
Humans: 7
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0
Cumulative Body Count (14/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)
Humans: 79
Creatures: 7
Aliens: 4
Grand Total: 90
Young people between Boston and Washington, D.C. are dying of coronary attacks after sex, with the latest security footage showing a woman entering the dead person's hotel room and a man exiting. Mulder and Scully's investigation of a possible killer takes them to Massachusetts and an Amish-like religious sect in Massachusetts known as The Kindred. After their first attempt to get some answers from the sect is unsuccessful, the agents sneak back onto their property. One of the men at the village, Brother Andrew, gives Scully some information, while Mulder observes a strange ritual involving the body of another brother, which seems to bring him back to life.
Scully is seduced by Brother Andrew, but rescued by Mulder. They find another man who survived a night club encounter. They attempt to apprehend the Gender-Bender with the information they've gathered, but are unable to capture the culprit. Or any of the sect, which disappears mysteriously and leaves only a crop circle behind.
Strangely enough, the man who survives the night club seduction is played by Nicholas Lea...the same person who would play a major role in future X-Files episodes as Alex Krycek (credit to Mulder's Big Adventure on this one).
Episode Body Count
Club guy: dies of a blown artery after sex with the Gender-bender.
Four other deaths: recent cases of healthy young persons' deaths by massive coronary arrest during sex.
Dead UMW organizer: a similar case in Massachusetts that Mulder mentions in the past year.
Dead man: killed by Marty the Gender-bender.
Humans: 7
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0
Cumulative Body Count (14/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)
Humans: 79
Creatures: 7
Aliens: 4
Grand Total: 90
Season 1, Episode 13: Beyond the Sea
Synopsis
Scully's parents leave after visiting for Christmas, and Scully gets the news that her father has died shortly before she sees a vision of him. Mulder and Scully begin investigating the abduction of two Jackson University students (under similar circumstances to a previous kidnapping that left two students dead), and whether a death row inmate named Luther Lee Boggs has visions that can help them or if he's orchestrating the kidnappings from the inside.
The agents visit Boggs to see what visions he can get, though Mulder determines that he's a fraud when he receives visions from a piece of cloth unconnected to the kidnapping. When he starts singing the song played at Scully's father's funeral, however, Scully follows the clues he gave and finds evidence related to the kidnapping.
With Boggs' assistance, the FBI finds the kidnapped girl, but Mulder is shot and seriously wounded in the process. The girl IDs a man named Lucas Henry, whom the FBI believes assisted Boggs with his murders. Scully suspects that Boggs set Mulder up because of his role in putting him away, but Boggs is steadfast in demanding a deal in exchange for information. In a role reversal, Mulder thinks Boggs is just playing mind games while Scully is more open to the supernatural.
Under a false deal arrangement, Boggs gives Scully information on the kidnapped boy's whereabouts before saying that he knew all along it was a setup. With the information, the FBI rescues the boy, and Scully becomes convinced that Boggs was not involved in the kidnapping. Boggs is nevertheless executed. Though he promises to give Scully her father's final message, she does not show up as a witness, telling Mulder she is afraid to believe.
Brad Dourif, who plays Boggs, was also Grima Wormtongue in the Lord of the Rings movies; I haven't seen Deadwood, but he's been in several episodes as Doc Cochran. I've also never seen Stargate SG-1, but Don S. Davis (who plays Scully's father) played Major General George Hammond on that show; Davis died last year.
Episode Body Count
Captain William Scully: Dana Scully's father, dies of a heart attack at the beginning of the episode.
Two Duke University students: abducted, tortured, and killed a year prior to the episode.
Five of Luther Lee Boggs' family members: strangled by Boggs at Thanksgiving, after which he takes in the football game; also killed every animal in his housing project, and perhaps other people, though those numbers aren't specified.
Lucas Henry's girlfriend and mother: killed in a car accident, somehow prompting Henry to commit murders on the anniversary of the crash.
Lucas Henry: falls through a catwalk to his death.
Luther Lee Boggs: executed.
Humans: 12
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0
Cumulative Body Count (13/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)
Humans: 72
Creatures: 7
Aliens: 4
Grand Total: 83
Scully's parents leave after visiting for Christmas, and Scully gets the news that her father has died shortly before she sees a vision of him. Mulder and Scully begin investigating the abduction of two Jackson University students (under similar circumstances to a previous kidnapping that left two students dead), and whether a death row inmate named Luther Lee Boggs has visions that can help them or if he's orchestrating the kidnappings from the inside.
The agents visit Boggs to see what visions he can get, though Mulder determines that he's a fraud when he receives visions from a piece of cloth unconnected to the kidnapping. When he starts singing the song played at Scully's father's funeral, however, Scully follows the clues he gave and finds evidence related to the kidnapping.
With Boggs' assistance, the FBI finds the kidnapped girl, but Mulder is shot and seriously wounded in the process. The girl IDs a man named Lucas Henry, whom the FBI believes assisted Boggs with his murders. Scully suspects that Boggs set Mulder up because of his role in putting him away, but Boggs is steadfast in demanding a deal in exchange for information. In a role reversal, Mulder thinks Boggs is just playing mind games while Scully is more open to the supernatural.
Under a false deal arrangement, Boggs gives Scully information on the kidnapped boy's whereabouts before saying that he knew all along it was a setup. With the information, the FBI rescues the boy, and Scully becomes convinced that Boggs was not involved in the kidnapping. Boggs is nevertheless executed. Though he promises to give Scully her father's final message, she does not show up as a witness, telling Mulder she is afraid to believe.
Brad Dourif, who plays Boggs, was also Grima Wormtongue in the Lord of the Rings movies; I haven't seen Deadwood, but he's been in several episodes as Doc Cochran. I've also never seen Stargate SG-1, but Don S. Davis (who plays Scully's father) played Major General George Hammond on that show; Davis died last year.
Episode Body Count
Captain William Scully: Dana Scully's father, dies of a heart attack at the beginning of the episode.
Two Duke University students: abducted, tortured, and killed a year prior to the episode.
Five of Luther Lee Boggs' family members: strangled by Boggs at Thanksgiving, after which he takes in the football game; also killed every animal in his housing project, and perhaps other people, though those numbers aren't specified.
Lucas Henry's girlfriend and mother: killed in a car accident, somehow prompting Henry to commit murders on the anniversary of the crash.
Lucas Henry: falls through a catwalk to his death.
Luther Lee Boggs: executed.
Humans: 12
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0
Cumulative Body Count (13/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)
Humans: 72
Creatures: 7
Aliens: 4
Grand Total: 83
Friday, May 29, 2009
Season 1, Episode 12: Fire
Synopsis
British Parliament members are being burned alive, and Phoebe Green, a British investigator and old classmate of Mulder's, requests help from the FBI. Specifically, a fellow named Malcolm Marsden is staying with his family in Cape Cod after escaping a blaze in England.
A man named Cecil L'Iveley is present as a gardener at one combustion, and redubs himself Bob the Caretaker to begin work at the Marsden's Cape Cod house. L'Iveley manages to sicken the Marsdens' chauffer so he can drive the family to a party in Boston. Scully ponders whether diluted rocket fuel could be diluted to be put into hand cream or other such substances, while Mulder and Scully discuss the possibility that the assassin is pyrokinetic.
A fire breaks out at the hotel where the party is taking place, and L'Iveley saves the children from harm. Scully finds that L'Iveley was hired as a gardener by some of the victims and has entered the country at Boston. With a sketch of the suspect from a mysterious bar fire, Scully is able to determine that the new driver is the culprit. In a final showdown in the rocket fuel-laced house, Mulder rescues the children and Phoebe douses L'Iveley with accelerant. L'Iveley is admitted to the hospital with fifth and sixth degree burns over his entire body after bursting into flames, but manages to survive and begin recovery.
Mark Sheppard, who played the pyro caretaker, has appeared in a number of small sci-fi roles, notably Badger in Firefly, Romo Lampkin in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, and Tanaka in Dollhouse.
Episode Body Count
Three ranking members of parliament: Phoebe says a person has been giving the aristocracy a good scare by burning blokes alive...and Windsor Castle.
Dead caretaker: killed and ineptly buried by Pyroman to take over responsibilities at the Marsden residence
The driver: burns to a crisp, apparently thanks to some diluted rocket fuel in his cough syrup
No, I doubt Phoebe was being serious with the story of the British Minister of Parliament blown up by a tape cassette.
Humans: 5
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0
Cumulative Body Count (12/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)
Humans: 60
Creatures: 7
Aliens: 4
Grand Total: 71
British Parliament members are being burned alive, and Phoebe Green, a British investigator and old classmate of Mulder's, requests help from the FBI. Specifically, a fellow named Malcolm Marsden is staying with his family in Cape Cod after escaping a blaze in England.
A man named Cecil L'Iveley is present as a gardener at one combustion, and redubs himself Bob the Caretaker to begin work at the Marsden's Cape Cod house. L'Iveley manages to sicken the Marsdens' chauffer so he can drive the family to a party in Boston. Scully ponders whether diluted rocket fuel could be diluted to be put into hand cream or other such substances, while Mulder and Scully discuss the possibility that the assassin is pyrokinetic.
A fire breaks out at the hotel where the party is taking place, and L'Iveley saves the children from harm. Scully finds that L'Iveley was hired as a gardener by some of the victims and has entered the country at Boston. With a sketch of the suspect from a mysterious bar fire, Scully is able to determine that the new driver is the culprit. In a final showdown in the rocket fuel-laced house, Mulder rescues the children and Phoebe douses L'Iveley with accelerant. L'Iveley is admitted to the hospital with fifth and sixth degree burns over his entire body after bursting into flames, but manages to survive and begin recovery.
Mark Sheppard, who played the pyro caretaker, has appeared in a number of small sci-fi roles, notably Badger in Firefly, Romo Lampkin in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, and Tanaka in Dollhouse.
Episode Body Count
Three ranking members of parliament: Phoebe says a person has been giving the aristocracy a good scare by burning blokes alive...and Windsor Castle.
Dead caretaker: killed and ineptly buried by Pyroman to take over responsibilities at the Marsden residence
The driver: burns to a crisp, apparently thanks to some diluted rocket fuel in his cough syrup
No, I doubt Phoebe was being serious with the story of the British Minister of Parliament blown up by a tape cassette.
Humans: 5
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0
Cumulative Body Count (12/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)
Humans: 60
Creatures: 7
Aliens: 4
Grand Total: 71
Season 1, Episode 11: Eve
Synopsis
A man is found dead by blood drainage in Connecticut, and another man is also found dead by the same means in San Francisco; both have traces of the poison digitalis in their system. The Connecticut man's daughter, Teena Simmons, recalls red lightning occurring shortly before her father's death. The San Francisco girl, Cindy Reardon, is an identical twin of Simmons but her mother tells Mulder and Scully that Cindy was an only child. Simmons is kidnapped.
The agents suspect Dr. Sally Kindrick, who was an in vitro fertilization specialist for both families. Deep Throat informs Mulder that the girls were part of a eugenics experiment modeled after Russian tests, with the girls all named Eve and the boys all named Adam. Visiting a twin of Kendrick imprisoned in an insane asylum, the agents discover that the children were given extra chromosomes to heighten strength and intelligence, though it also leads to increased psychosis. Reardon is also kidnapped.
Kendrick reunites the girls, and asks why they killed their fathers. The girls say they "just knew," and that they were created and not born. They also poison Kendrick with digitalis and claim that she was trying to poison them all. The girls also try to poison Mulder and Scully, though Mulder discovers the murder attempt before it can do any harm. The girls are captured and imprisoned in the same asylum as Eve 6...and then visited by a doctor who looks just like Kendrick.
Fun fact: the band Eve 6 took their name from this episode.
Episode Body Count
Joel Simmons: death by hypovolemia (low blood volume).
Dead cow: at least one cattle mutilation is shown on slide by Mulder.
Tina Simmons' mother: died of ovarian cancer two years prior to episode.
Doug Reardon: dies in same manner, and at the same time, as Joel Simmons.
Sally Kendrick? Eve 8?: death by four ounces of digitalis in her soda placed there by Simmons and Reardon. I'm presuming this is Kendrick; there's a lot of clones flying around this episode.
Eve 6 says the children are prone to suicide, but there is no clear number as to how many died.
Humans: 4
Creatures: 1
Aliens: 0
Cumulative Body Count (11/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)
Humans: 55
Creatures: 7
Aliens: 4
Grand Total: 66
A man is found dead by blood drainage in Connecticut, and another man is also found dead by the same means in San Francisco; both have traces of the poison digitalis in their system. The Connecticut man's daughter, Teena Simmons, recalls red lightning occurring shortly before her father's death. The San Francisco girl, Cindy Reardon, is an identical twin of Simmons but her mother tells Mulder and Scully that Cindy was an only child. Simmons is kidnapped.
The agents suspect Dr. Sally Kindrick, who was an in vitro fertilization specialist for both families. Deep Throat informs Mulder that the girls were part of a eugenics experiment modeled after Russian tests, with the girls all named Eve and the boys all named Adam. Visiting a twin of Kendrick imprisoned in an insane asylum, the agents discover that the children were given extra chromosomes to heighten strength and intelligence, though it also leads to increased psychosis. Reardon is also kidnapped.
Kendrick reunites the girls, and asks why they killed their fathers. The girls say they "just knew," and that they were created and not born. They also poison Kendrick with digitalis and claim that she was trying to poison them all. The girls also try to poison Mulder and Scully, though Mulder discovers the murder attempt before it can do any harm. The girls are captured and imprisoned in the same asylum as Eve 6...and then visited by a doctor who looks just like Kendrick.
Fun fact: the band Eve 6 took their name from this episode.
Episode Body Count
Joel Simmons: death by hypovolemia (low blood volume).
Dead cow: at least one cattle mutilation is shown on slide by Mulder.
Tina Simmons' mother: died of ovarian cancer two years prior to episode.
Doug Reardon: dies in same manner, and at the same time, as Joel Simmons.
Sally Kendrick? Eve 8?: death by four ounces of digitalis in her soda placed there by Simmons and Reardon. I'm presuming this is Kendrick; there's a lot of clones flying around this episode.
Eve 6 says the children are prone to suicide, but there is no clear number as to how many died.
Humans: 4
Creatures: 1
Aliens: 0
Cumulative Body Count (11/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)
Humans: 55
Creatures: 7
Aliens: 4
Grand Total: 66
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Season 1, Episode 10: Fallen Angel
Synopsis
A deputy observes strange lights in the woods outside Townsend, Wisconsin. A military tracking station picks up a UFO crashing outside Townsend. Deep Throat lets Mulder know that a reported chemical spill that evacuates the city is a cover-up, and Mulder is off to the cheese state.
Mulder is captured trying to infiltrate the military operation, where he meets conspiracy theorist and UFO chaser Max Fenig. Scully arrives to free Mulder, tell him the section chief is pissed over his stunt, and reveal the cover-up story that the cover-up is based on: that a Libyan fighter jet with a nuclear warhead crashed in Wisconsin. Max and Mulder bond a bit over the paranormal, as well as some transmissions Max picked up from local emergency responders.
Several soldiers are attacked and severely burned by some sort of cloaked creature after the military tries to kill it. Mulder finds Max having an epilectic seizure and discovers marks on his ears suggesting he was abducted. A second UFO is tracked heading to Townsend, and Mulder grows suspicious of Max's trip being coincidental. Max is apparently summoned by the aliens and abducted.
At a disciplinary hearing, Mulder is openly insubordinate to his superior, Section Chief McGrath, and warns that the government cannot keep the truth hidden forever. Deep Throat countermands McGrath's order to shut down the X-Files, telling McGrath that it is better to keep Mulder from being exposed to the wrong people and that you always keep your friends close and enemies closer.
Episode Body Count
Deputy Wright: killed after he's attacked by something when investigating the bogey
Three firefighters: Dr. Oppenheim says Wright and three other people were dead on arrival with severe burns
At least four soldiers: die after they are attacked and severely burned by the alien
Two more soldiers: killed after trying to capture Max
Humans: 10
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0
Cumulative Body Count (10/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)
Humans: 51
Creatures: 6
Aliens: 4
Grand Total: 61
A deputy observes strange lights in the woods outside Townsend, Wisconsin. A military tracking station picks up a UFO crashing outside Townsend. Deep Throat lets Mulder know that a reported chemical spill that evacuates the city is a cover-up, and Mulder is off to the cheese state.
Mulder is captured trying to infiltrate the military operation, where he meets conspiracy theorist and UFO chaser Max Fenig. Scully arrives to free Mulder, tell him the section chief is pissed over his stunt, and reveal the cover-up story that the cover-up is based on: that a Libyan fighter jet with a nuclear warhead crashed in Wisconsin. Max and Mulder bond a bit over the paranormal, as well as some transmissions Max picked up from local emergency responders.
Several soldiers are attacked and severely burned by some sort of cloaked creature after the military tries to kill it. Mulder finds Max having an epilectic seizure and discovers marks on his ears suggesting he was abducted. A second UFO is tracked heading to Townsend, and Mulder grows suspicious of Max's trip being coincidental. Max is apparently summoned by the aliens and abducted.
At a disciplinary hearing, Mulder is openly insubordinate to his superior, Section Chief McGrath, and warns that the government cannot keep the truth hidden forever. Deep Throat countermands McGrath's order to shut down the X-Files, telling McGrath that it is better to keep Mulder from being exposed to the wrong people and that you always keep your friends close and enemies closer.
Episode Body Count
Deputy Wright: killed after he's attacked by something when investigating the bogey
Three firefighters: Dr. Oppenheim says Wright and three other people were dead on arrival with severe burns
At least four soldiers: die after they are attacked and severely burned by the alien
Two more soldiers: killed after trying to capture Max
Humans: 10
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0
Cumulative Body Count (10/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)
Humans: 51
Creatures: 6
Aliens: 4
Grand Total: 61
Season 1, Episode 9: Space
Synopsis
The episode begins with a news broadcast of the Observer mission to Mars, which includes images of the enigmatic Face on Mars. The project director and one of Mulder's heroes, Lt. Col. Marcus Aurelius Belt, dismisses the Face as being wind-sculpted. However, Belt had something of a close encounter while an astronaut on Gemini 8 and continues to be haunted by the Face and ghostly images.
A space shuttle launch is aborted during present day, and mission control communications commander Michelle Generoo tips off Mulder and Scully that the shuttle may have been sabotaged. Belt and other NASA workers deny any sabotage or continuing problems.
A replacement shuttle, with Generoo's husband commanding, launches without an issue but experiences problems with its communication and maneuvering abilities soon after. It is determined that something is interfering with the shuttle telemetry, and a risky move restores shuttle control. Soon after, however, the shuttle starts losing oxygen. The agents and Generoo are horrified by Belt's determination to deliver the shuttle's payload, despite the risks, to avoid bad press or lost federal funding.
Belt melts down when the astronauts report a ghost outside the shuttle. He tells Mulder that he didn't sabotage the shuttle, but couldn't stop whatever did, that it "lives in me" and "they don't want us to know." He helps the shuttle make an emergency landing, but commits suicide soon after.
Episode Body Count
Lt. Col. Marcus Aurelius Belt: jumps out of a hospital window, seemingly in an attempt to escape the ghosts.
Humans: 1
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0
Cumulative Body Count (9/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)
Humans: 41
Creatures: 6
Aliens: 4
Grand Total: 51
The episode begins with a news broadcast of the Observer mission to Mars, which includes images of the enigmatic Face on Mars. The project director and one of Mulder's heroes, Lt. Col. Marcus Aurelius Belt, dismisses the Face as being wind-sculpted. However, Belt had something of a close encounter while an astronaut on Gemini 8 and continues to be haunted by the Face and ghostly images.
A space shuttle launch is aborted during present day, and mission control communications commander Michelle Generoo tips off Mulder and Scully that the shuttle may have been sabotaged. Belt and other NASA workers deny any sabotage or continuing problems.
A replacement shuttle, with Generoo's husband commanding, launches without an issue but experiences problems with its communication and maneuvering abilities soon after. It is determined that something is interfering with the shuttle telemetry, and a risky move restores shuttle control. Soon after, however, the shuttle starts losing oxygen. The agents and Generoo are horrified by Belt's determination to deliver the shuttle's payload, despite the risks, to avoid bad press or lost federal funding.
Belt melts down when the astronauts report a ghost outside the shuttle. He tells Mulder that he didn't sabotage the shuttle, but couldn't stop whatever did, that it "lives in me" and "they don't want us to know." He helps the shuttle make an emergency landing, but commits suicide soon after.
Episode Body Count
Lt. Col. Marcus Aurelius Belt: jumps out of a hospital window, seemingly in an attempt to escape the ghosts.
Humans: 1
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0
Cumulative Body Count (9/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)
Humans: 41
Creatures: 6
Aliens: 4
Grand Total: 51
Friday, May 15, 2009
Season 1, Episode 8: Ice
Synopsis
Mulder and Scully, and a team of scientific redshirts, head to Alaska after a disturbing transmission from a project that has been drilling into a meteorite crater in the Arctic ice in Alaska. When they get there, they discover a strange organism that was found by the original team as well as a dog showing signs of the plague. The team is marooned after their pilot is killed by the parasitic organism.
The isolation and deadly parasitic alien organism spark a little bit of paranoia amongst the castaways, with Mulder being quarantined after a scientist is found dead. The team discovers that two parasites will kill each other, and that another scientist is infected. They're able to save her by introducing another worm into her system. Mulder wants to further explore the parasite, only to discover that the research station has been destroyed.
Felicity Huffman, later of Desperate Housewives fame, appears in this episode as Dr. Nancy DaSilva.
Episode Body Count
Five team members: considering that only a dog greets the agents and scientists when they arrive at the Arctic Ice Core Project, it's safe to assume that the original team has died, including these two who point their guns at each other before committing suicide and a couple of dead bodies seen in the opening.
Bear: nope, not an animal; the inevitable pilot death. Dies after a parasite is removed from his neck.
Denny Murphy: shows up dead in a freezer.
Four dead worms: Two parasitic worms kill each other, leaving the dog and Dr. DaSilva unharmed.
Humans: 7
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 4
Cumulative Body Count (8/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)
Humans: 40
Creatures: 6
Aliens: 4
Grand Total: 50
Note: edited to count the worms as aliens. I'm guessing the fact that the research was being done over a meteor crater would be a sign of that.
Mulder and Scully, and a team of scientific redshirts, head to Alaska after a disturbing transmission from a project that has been drilling into a meteorite crater in the Arctic ice in Alaska. When they get there, they discover a strange organism that was found by the original team as well as a dog showing signs of the plague. The team is marooned after their pilot is killed by the parasitic organism.
The isolation and deadly parasitic alien organism spark a little bit of paranoia amongst the castaways, with Mulder being quarantined after a scientist is found dead. The team discovers that two parasites will kill each other, and that another scientist is infected. They're able to save her by introducing another worm into her system. Mulder wants to further explore the parasite, only to discover that the research station has been destroyed.
Felicity Huffman, later of Desperate Housewives fame, appears in this episode as Dr. Nancy DaSilva.
Episode Body Count
Five team members: considering that only a dog greets the agents and scientists when they arrive at the Arctic Ice Core Project, it's safe to assume that the original team has died, including these two who point their guns at each other before committing suicide and a couple of dead bodies seen in the opening.
Bear: nope, not an animal; the inevitable pilot death. Dies after a parasite is removed from his neck.
Denny Murphy: shows up dead in a freezer.
Four dead worms: Two parasitic worms kill each other, leaving the dog and Dr. DaSilva unharmed.
Humans: 7
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 4
Cumulative Body Count (8/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)
Humans: 40
Creatures: 6
Aliens: 4
Grand Total: 50
Note: edited to count the worms as aliens. I'm guessing the fact that the research was being done over a meteor crater would be a sign of that.
Season 1, Episode 7: Ghost in the Machine
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Monday, May 11, 2009
Season 1, Episode 6: Shadows
Synopsis
Mulder and Scully are called to examine two bodies which are electrostatically charged and have had their throats crushed from within. They are able to determine that they are members of an Iranian extremist group who attacked a woman named Lauren Kyte at an ATM. Kyte shows several signs of having telekinetic powers.
Scully begins to suspect that Howard Graves, Kyte's boss and a CEO at a technology company, may have faked his death, but is disproved by medical tests. Other government agents reveal that the company was under investigation for selling restricted parts to the extremist group. It later appears that the incidents are a result of Graves' ghost, who spares the man who murdered him to gain control of the company and instead shows Mulder where to find incriminating evidence.
Lorena Gale, who plays a medical examiner in this episode, also played Priest Elosha in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica series.
Episode Body Count
Howard Graves: Murdered prior to the start of the episode, disguised to look like a suicide.
Mohamed Amalaki and another man: Two members of an extremist group killed by Graves' ghost.
Sarah Lynn: Graves' daughter, who drowned at age three.
Two more hoods: Killed while trying to attack Kyte, again by Graves' ghost.
Humans: 6
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0
Cumulative Body Count (6/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)
Humans: 31
Creatures: 6
Aliens: 0
Grand Total: 37
Mulder and Scully are called to examine two bodies which are electrostatically charged and have had their throats crushed from within. They are able to determine that they are members of an Iranian extremist group who attacked a woman named Lauren Kyte at an ATM. Kyte shows several signs of having telekinetic powers.
Scully begins to suspect that Howard Graves, Kyte's boss and a CEO at a technology company, may have faked his death, but is disproved by medical tests. Other government agents reveal that the company was under investigation for selling restricted parts to the extremist group. It later appears that the incidents are a result of Graves' ghost, who spares the man who murdered him to gain control of the company and instead shows Mulder where to find incriminating evidence.
Lorena Gale, who plays a medical examiner in this episode, also played Priest Elosha in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica series.
Episode Body Count
Howard Graves: Murdered prior to the start of the episode, disguised to look like a suicide.
Mohamed Amalaki and another man: Two members of an extremist group killed by Graves' ghost.
Sarah Lynn: Graves' daughter, who drowned at age three.
Two more hoods: Killed while trying to attack Kyte, again by Graves' ghost.
Humans: 6
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0
Cumulative Body Count (6/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)
Humans: 31
Creatures: 6
Aliens: 0
Grand Total: 37
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Season 1, Episode 5: The Jersey Devil
Synopsis
Mulder and Scully find an uncooperative detective in the investigation of a homeless man found dead and partially cannibalized outside of Atlantic City. Mulder brings up the Jersey Devil, a legendary "East Coast Bigfoot" which attacks cars from the woods. Mulder begins conducting his own investigation, and spots a creature in the outskirts of the city. Scully, meanwhile, gets into the dating scene.
When the remains of a long-dead male beast are found, Mulder realizes that a female beast may have killed the homeless man. In trying to find and tranquilize it, the beast attacks Mulder but doesn't kill him, leading him to think that it only kills when threatened. However, the beast is shot and killed after trying to escape into the woods. An autopsy finds that the beast woman gave birth, and the episode ends with a father and son hiking in the state park, near the daughter of the beasts, as they discuss the Jersey Devil.
Episode Body Count
Paul: Father of two children, killed in 1947 after stopping to fix a flat tire. Scully dismisses this as a tall tale, but it was in the introduction and I say it happened.
Roger Crockett: Crockett, a homeless man, is found dead in a state park outside Atlantic City missing his right arm and shoulder.
The "beast man": Mulder says a giant man was gunned down by police responding to the 1947 death and found to have human flesh in his digestive tract.
Rabbit: a park ranger finds a dead rabbit with a human tooth in it.
Another beast man: the park ranger reports to Mulder that he's found the body of a man that seems to be a male beast
Beast woman: shot by the police
Humans: 2
Creatures: 4
Aliens: 0
Cumulative Body Count (5/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)
Humans: 25
Creatures: 6
Aliens: 0
Grand Total: 31
Mulder and Scully find an uncooperative detective in the investigation of a homeless man found dead and partially cannibalized outside of Atlantic City. Mulder brings up the Jersey Devil, a legendary "East Coast Bigfoot" which attacks cars from the woods. Mulder begins conducting his own investigation, and spots a creature in the outskirts of the city. Scully, meanwhile, gets into the dating scene.
When the remains of a long-dead male beast are found, Mulder realizes that a female beast may have killed the homeless man. In trying to find and tranquilize it, the beast attacks Mulder but doesn't kill him, leading him to think that it only kills when threatened. However, the beast is shot and killed after trying to escape into the woods. An autopsy finds that the beast woman gave birth, and the episode ends with a father and son hiking in the state park, near the daughter of the beasts, as they discuss the Jersey Devil.
Episode Body Count
Paul: Father of two children, killed in 1947 after stopping to fix a flat tire. Scully dismisses this as a tall tale, but it was in the introduction and I say it happened.
Roger Crockett: Crockett, a homeless man, is found dead in a state park outside Atlantic City missing his right arm and shoulder.
The "beast man": Mulder says a giant man was gunned down by police responding to the 1947 death and found to have human flesh in his digestive tract.
Rabbit: a park ranger finds a dead rabbit with a human tooth in it.
Another beast man: the park ranger reports to Mulder that he's found the body of a man that seems to be a male beast
Beast woman: shot by the police
Humans: 2
Creatures: 4
Aliens: 0
Cumulative Body Count (5/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)
Humans: 25
Creatures: 6
Aliens: 0
Grand Total: 31
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