98. Redux (part 2)guests: Mitch Pileggi (Assistant Director Walter Skinner) William B. Davis (Cigarette Smoking Man) Charles Cioffi (Section Chief Scott Blevins) Tom Braidwood (Frohike) Dean Haglund (Langly) Bruce Harwood (Byers) John Finn (Michael Kritschgau)
Scully helps Mulder fake his own death in order for him to go undetected through the Department of Defence and find out the answers to his new questions about the government hoax concerning the existence of extraterrestrial life. Meanwhile, at a joint FBI/DOD inquiry, Scully's attempt to drive out the Conspiracy's informant is halted as her cancer takes a bad turn.
NOTE: The vault that Mulder accesses at the DOD is the same seen in the Pilot and Finale of season 1, where Cigarette Smoking Man stores the implant and the alien foetus.
The premiere also features an altered tagline, this one being 'All Lies Lead To The Truth', symbolic of Mulder's journey of following the path of lies to find Scully's cure. 99. Redux II (part 3)
guests: Mitch Pileggi (Assistant Director Walter Skinner) William B. Davis (Cigarette Smoking Man) Charles Cioffi (Section Chief Scott Blevins) Sheila Larken (Margaret Scully) Pat Skipper (Bill Scully Jr.) Megan Leitch (Samantha Mulder) Tom Braidwood (Frohike) Dean Haglund (Langly) Bruce Harwood (Byers) John Finn (Michael Kritschgau)
Cigarette Smoking Man helps Mulder to obtain Scully's cure and also lets him see his real sister who doesn't turn out to be as happy to see Mulder as he would've liked.
In return for this, CSM asks that Mulder quit the FBI and work for him in the Syndicate where he could have power and respect which Mulder turns down, deciding to stay on the side of justice.
While Scully's cure appears to have worked, CSM faces his own enemies and disappears, presumed dead.
NOTE: Mulder's threat to CSM, "I don't care whose father you are, I will put you down", is a poignent piece of foreshadowing as we are introduced to Agent Jeffrey Spender later this season in 'Patient X', who we learn is CSM's son.
100. Unusual Suspects
guests: Richard Belzer (Detective John Munch) Signy Coleman (Susanne Modeski) Bruce Harwood (Byers) Tom Braidwood (Frohike) Dean Haglund (Langly) Steven Williams (X)
Set in 1989, the story of the founding of The Lone Gunmen is finally told as we see how a straight-laced federal employee, a sex mad AV expert and a nerdy computer hacker meet Susanne Modeski, a strange woman with evidence of a government conspiracy.
When their plan to expose the conspiracy fails and Susanne is captured by a group of men-in-black, led by none other than X, they soon become a paranoid group of government watchdogs.
NOTE: Richard Belzer appears in his role as Detective Munch from Homicide: Life on the Street and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
This episode was actually filmed before the conclusion to the season cliffhanger as David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson were still away filming the X-Files Movie and the studio needed to begin filming to keep their production schedule.
Susanne Modeski owes her alias to writer Vince Gilligan's girlfriend, Holly Rice.
Suzanne's dentist, Dr. Michael Kilbourne, is named after writer Vince Gilligan's own, real-life dentist.
Gillian Anderson does not appear in this episode. 101. Detour
guests: Colleen Flynn (Michele Fazekas) Anthony Rapp (Jeff Glaser) Scott Burkholder (Agent Kinsley) J.C. Wendel (Agent Stonecypher)
While on their way to an FBI group communication seminar, Mulder and Scully manage to escape when they come across a situation in the Florida forest area where three men have recently disappeared.
NOTE: Search and Rescue leader Michele Fazekas is named after writer/Executive Producer Frank Spotnitz's assistant, Michael Fazekas.
102. The Post-Modern Prometheus
guests: John O'Hurley (Dr Pollidori) Pattie Tierce (Shaineh) Stewart Gale (Izzy) Chris Giacoletti (Booger) Chris Owens (Mutato) Miriam Smith (Elizabeth Pollidori) Vitaliy Kravchenko (JJ) Jerry Springer (Himself)
Filmed in glorious black and white with a comic book feel to it, this is a modern retelling of Frankenstein as Mulder and Scully get caught up in a town where the residents live on Jerry Springer episodes and fear a two-faced monster who has been impregnating the women.
NOTE: This episode was filmed between the 'Emily' 2 parter because David Duchovny was scheduled to be away from Vancouver while promoting his movie Playing God.
The role of Shaineh Berkowitz was originally written for, and offered to, comedienne and actress Roseanne but she turned down the offer.
'The Post-Modern Prometheus' was nominated for seven Emmy awards in 1998; Outstanding Writing, Directing, Art Direction, Cinematography, Single-Picture Editing, Makeup and Music Composition.
Graeme Murray, Greg Lowren and Shirley Inget walked away with the award for Outstanding Art Direction.
Chris Owens, who plays the great Mutato in this episode, goes on to play the reoccuring character of Agent Spender in the series. 103. Christmas Carol (part 1)
guests: Sheila Larken (Margaret Scully) Melinda McGraw (Melissa Scully) Pat Skipper (Bill Scully Jr.) Karri Turner (Tara Scully) John Pyper-Ferguson (Detective Kresge) Gerard Plunkett (Dr. Calderon) Lauren Diewold (Emily Sim) Patricia Dahlquist (Susan Chambliss) Rob Freeman (Marshall Sim)
On her christmas vacation with her brother's family, Scully recieves a mysterious phone call from a familiar voice who says 'She needs your help. Go to her'. The phone call leads Scully to a murder case where the victim's 3-year-old adopted daughter bears an uncanny likeness to her sister, Melissa, at that age. The emotional rollercoaster that follows has Scully believing that her sister had a baby during a period when she travelled the country and she tries to adopt the child, knowing that caring for the little girl would change her life.
NOTE: Mulder's absence in this episode was due to David Duchovny being in LA promoting his movie Playing God.
The young girl playing the teenage Dana is Gillian Anderson's real life 14-year-old sister Zoe, in her first acting role.
The person who ran the DNA analysis at the end of the episode was named John Gillnitz. This is yet another reference to the names of the three writers John Shiban, Vince Gilligan, and Frank Spotnitz.104. Emily (part 2)
guests: John Pyper-Ferguson (Detective Kresge) Sheila Larken (Margaret Scully) Pat Skipper (Bill Scully Jr.) Karri Turner (Tara Scully) Bob Morrisey (Dr. Vinet) Gerard Plunkett (Dr. Calderon) Patricia Dahlquist (Susan Chambliss) Lauren Diewold (Emily Sim) Tom Braidwood (Frohike)
DNA testing on Emily reveals that she is actually Scully's daughter and Mulder comes to assist her and to find out where and how the girl was born while Scully tries to help Emily with her own serious illness, a rare form of anemia.
NOTE: In a heartbreaking off-screen dilemma for the crew, Emily was originally played by a bright, energetic 4-year-old girl. Her scenes in the first part didn't require much dialogue and the child did fine. Unfortunately, when the time came to film the scenes in the hospital with Emily being given a CAT Scan, the little girl was so frightened by her surroundings she couldn't be comforted or calmed enough to be able to film the shot.
In what he ponders to be the worst thing he has ever done in the business, Executive Producer Robert Goodwin was forced to recast the part and luckily they were able to find slightly older Lauren Diewold in time to finish filming.
One of the mothers Frohike names had a child born on September 25th, 1994, the same day that Gillian Anderson gave birth to her daughter, Piper Maru. 105. Kitsunegari
guests: Mitch Pileggi (Assistant Director Walter Skinner) Diana Scarwid (Linda Bowman) Colleen Winton (Therapist) Robert Wisden (Robert Patrick Modell)
Pusher returns as Robert Patrick Modell escapes from the mental hospital and the FBI promptly organises a manhunt assuming that he will continue where he left off; but is he really trying to get revenge on Mulder or does he want to warn him of another evil?
NOTE: As mentioned in the episode, 'Kitsune-gari' is Japanese for "Fox hunt" (with "Kitsune" meaning "fox", and "Gari" meaning "hunting").
106. Schizogeny
guests: Chad Lindberg (Bobby Rich) Sarah Jane Redmond (Karin Matthews) Katharine Isabelle (Lisa Baiocchi)
A therapist working with children from abusive families is found to be implanting them with the memories of her own abuse suffered at the hands of her late father, when one of her patients tries to kill his stepfather.
NOTE: 'Schizogony' (spelled slightly differently than the title) means reproduction by multiple asexual fission.
Scully's line about the town getting "400 inches of rain a day" is a reference to a comment David Duchovny jokingly made about Vancouver during his appearance on Late Night with Conan O'Brien. Mulder's response "Now that's a bit of an exaggeration, don't you think" made the reference particularly humorous.
Katherine Isabelle, who played Lisa Baiocchi, is the daughter of X-Files production designer Graeme Murray.
Sarah-Jane Redmond (Karin Matthews) starred as Inga Fossa in Chris Carter's short lived drama series Harsh Realm.107. Chinga
guests: Susannah Hoffman (Melissa Turner) Larry Musser (Captain Jack Bonsaint) William MacDonald (Buddy Riggs) Jenny-Lynn Hutcheson (Polly Turner) Henry Beckman (Fisherman) Carolyn Tweedle (Jane Froelich)
Master of Horror Stephen King's first effort at an X-File sees Scully's well deserved vacation going terribly wrong and landing her in a small Maine town where one of the residents is believed to be a witch and her autistic daughter's doll has frighteningly evil powers.
NOTE: The coastal Maine town as the setting for this episode is typical for a Stephen King story. Maine is his home state and is the principal setting for almost all of his novels.
'Chinga' is the name of Polly's evil doll, as well as the title. Unbekownst to writer Stephen King at the time, Chinga is also an offensive Spanish slang term (apparently the equivalent of the F-word). When Chris Carter realized this, the episode name was changed to "Bunghoney" when it aired outside of the US.
The name of the boat in this episode is "Working Girl", a reference to the movie of the same name in which David Duchovny had a small part.108. Kill Switch
guests: Kristin Lehman (Esther Nairn) Tom Braidwood (Frohike) Bruce Harwood (Byers) Dean Haglund (Langly) Kate Luyben (Nurse Nancy)
A super-intelligent virus program is let loose on the Internet and begins to grow and expand by itself, eventually killing its creator when he tries to eradicate it.
NOTE: Guest writer William Gibson is best known for his many "Cyberpunk" sci-fi novels and is also the writer of 1995's Johnny Mnemonic starring Keanu Reeves. He and long-time writer friend Tom Maddox will return in season 7 as the writers of 'First Person Shooter'.
109. Bad Blood
guests: Mitch Pileggi (Assistant Director Walter Skinner) Luke Wilson (Sheriff Lucius Hartwell) Patrick Renna (Ronnie Strickland)
After Mulder chases down and kills a young man whom he believes to be a vampire but Scully realises that his fangs are fake, the agents return to DC aware of the mistake they just made. Faced with a lawsuit from the family of the man, they recount each of their sides to the story leading up to the event.
In the extremely humourous stories that follow we see how Scully and Mulder both perceive each other. (On this case at least)
Scully sees Mulder as overly-exuberant with childlike giddiness as he explains the case which may concern vampiric activity.
On the other side, Mulder sees Scully as totally unenthusiastic, questioning all of his theories about the case and more content with lusting after the cute Sheriff Hartwell. (Whom Mulder observes has big buck teeth!)
In the end, the Agents return to the town where they learn that all the residents are actual vampires who, except for one, have learned to live in civilised society.
NOTE: Sheriff Hartwell is named for Vince Gilligan's girlfriend, Holly Hartwell Rice.
Ronnie's middle name is LaVelle. An odd name, LaVelle is also the middle name of character Xander Harris from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer".
Scully's "It's not that Mexican goat-sucker, either" refers to the 'Chupacabra' from season 4's 'El Mundo Gira'.
Thought you x files fans might like to know about a quirky cultural thing about this episode. There is a hartwell ga that has a strickland's funeral home in it. Apparently there is no connection because I see in the notes that Sheriff Hartwell was named for a person and Ronnie Strickland had no connection to the funeral home.I discovered this by doing an internet search on my home town.110. Patient X (part 1)
guests: Nicholas Lea (Alex Krycek) Veronica Cartwright (Cassandra Spender) Laurie Holden (Marita Covarrubias) Brian Thompson (Bounty Hunter) Jim Jansen (Dr. Heitz Werber) John Neville (Well-Manicured Man) Chris Owens (Special Agent Jeffrey Spender)
When Mulder and Scully meet Cassandra Spender, a woman who claims to be a multiple abductee, Mulder's now disbelief in aliens is stretched while Scully forms a special bond with the woman.
NOTE: Veronica Cartwright was nominated for an Emmy award in 1998 for her performance as Cassandra Spender.
Nicholas Lea is now credited under the "Also Starring" heading. 111. The Red and the Black (part 2)
Mitch Pileggi (Assistant Director Walter Skinner) Nicholas Lea (Alex Krycek) Veronica Cartwright (Cassandra Spender) John Neville (Well-Manicured Man) George Murdock (2nd Elder) Chris Owens (Special Agent Jeffrey Spender) Laurie Holden (Marita Covarrubias) Brian Thompson (Bounty Hunter) Don S. Williams (1st Elder) Jim Jansen (Dr. Heitz Werber) Alex Shostak Jr (Dmitri) William B. Davis (Cigarette Smoking Man)
After the gathering at the abduction site where everyone is killed by the bounty hunters, Cassandra Spender disappears and Mulder is blamed by her son, Jeffrey, who is an up-and-coming FBI agent and opposed to Mulder's work.
Meanwhile, the Syndicate are continuing their tests to create a vaccine for the Black Cancer and Marita Covarrubias becomes an unwilling test subject.
NOTE: Another altered tagline 'Resist Or Serve', spoken by Krycek: "A struggle for heaven and earth. Where there is one law: Fight or Die. And one rule: Resist or Serve".
Jack Finn, who played Cigarette Smoking Man's young messenger, is the son of Producer Joseph Patrick Finn. 112. Travelers
guests: Fredric Lehne (young Arthur Dales) Garret Dillahunt (Edward Skur) Brian Leckner (Hayes Michel) David Moreland (Roy Cohn) Darren McGavin (Arthur Dales)
In 1990 Agent Fox Mulder visits an aging FBI Agent Arthur Dales and listens to a story of the agents assigned to a would-be X-File in the Cold War era of the 1950's and how Mulder's father was connected to a series of strange deaths.
NOTE: Darren McGavin was originally spearheaded by Chris Carter to portray Agent Mulder's father during season 2, but scheduling problems didn't allow it.
McGavin is, indeed, something of a "father" to the X-Files having played intrepid reporter Carl Kolchak in two TV movies and a one season show, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, an acknowledged influence for Chris Carter, when creating The X-Files.
The absence of Scully and the limited screen time of Mulder were due to David and Gillian doing reshoots for the X-Files movie in LA.
J. Edgar Hoover's paranoid rant to Arthur Dales about the Communist menace was taken almost verbatim from a speech given by Senator McCarthy.
"Fellow Travelers" were Americans who were sympathetic toward the Communist cause during the Cold War, as mentioned in the senate hearing watched by young Agent Dales.
David Fredericks reprises his role as J. Edgar Hoover from "Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man". 113. Mind's Eye
guests: Lili Taylor (Marty Glenn) Blu Mankuma (Detective Pennock) Richard Fitzpatrick (Charles Wesley Gotts)
Mulder and Scully try to get answers out of a stubborn blind woman found at a murder scene who may have the ability to look through the killer's eyes in her mind.
NOTE: For her performance as Marty Glenn, Lili Taylor was nominated for an Emmy award in 1998 in the category of Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series.
114. All Souls
guests: Arnie Walters (Father McCue) Glenn Morshower (Aaron Starkey) Jody Racicot (Father Gregory) Emily Perkins (Dara/Paula) Lauren Diewold (Emily)
Scully faces her Catholic faith and the loss of her daughter Emily when she is asked to help a family whose adopted daughter was found dead in a position that it looked like she was struck down by God himself.
115. The Pine Bluff Variant
guests: Mitch Pileggi (Assistant Director Walter Skinner) Daniel Von Bargen (Jacob Steven Haley) Michael McRae (August Bremar) Sam Anderson (Leamus)
Scully fears that Mulder has gone to the other side when she sees him assisting a federal suspect escape custody. In truth he has infiltrated a terrorist group testing a deadly biological weapon that can eat through a person's flesh.
NOTE: Skinner says that August Bremar took an interest in Mulder when he heard him speak about the government hoax at an alien abductee conference. This is most likely the conference that Mulder was at in the beginning of 'Patient X'.
The title probably refers to the fact that a U.S. biological warfare compound existed in Pine Bluff, AK, during the Cold War. 116. Folie a Deux
guests: Mitch Pileggi (Assistant Director Walter Skinner) Brian Markinson (Gary Lambert) John Apicella (Greg Pincus) Cynthia Preston (Nancy Aaronson)
Mulder is held hostage inside an office where a man claims his boss is a monster and has clouded all their minds while he turns them into zombies one by one, which is disbelieved until Mulder opens his mind and allows himself to see it too.
NOTE: As Mulder quotes during the episode, 'Folie a Duex' is a Latin saying which translates into: "A Madness Shared By Two".
When Scully calls Mulder to tell him about the X-File involving "hiding in the light", she says that the case was from August 9th, 1992. August 9th is also Gillian Anderson's birthday.
The agent in charge of the hostage situation, Agent Rice, is named for writer Vince Gilligan's girlfriend, Holly Rice.
Some good use of continuity: Mulder's fingers, which were injured in the previous episode, "The Pine Bluff Variant", are still bandaged in this episode. 117. The End
guests: Mitch Pileggi (Assistant Director Walter Skinner) William B. Davis (Cigarette Smoking Man) Nicholas Lea (Alex Krycek) Mimi Rogers (Agent Diana Fowley) Jeff Gulka (Gibson Praise) Martin Ferrero (Assassin) Chris Owens (Special Agent Jeffrey Spender) George Murdock (2nd Elder) Tom Braidwood (Frohike) Dean Haglund (Langly) Bruce Harwood (Byers) Don S. Williams (1st Elder) John Neville (Well-Manicured Man)
Cigarette Smoking Man returns as Mulder investigates the attempted assassination of a young boy with psychic powers who may be the proof that he has looked for all his life. On his way he encounters many enemies especially in the finale' as his office and every X-File is torched by CSM.
NOTE: The only X-File that CSM takes with him is the one on Samantha Mulder.
This episode's tagline is changed, simply, to 'The End'.
When Mulder, Scully, and Folwey first approach Gibson Praise, he is watching a clip from "The Simpsons" episode "The Cartridge Family".
SCULLY: Trying to open my gun. If I can separate the shell from the casing maybe I can get the powder to ignite.
MULDER: Oh. And maybe it'll start raining weenies and marshmallows.
MULDER: No. Yes ... actually. Yeah.
SCULLY: Mulder, you need to keep warm. Your body's still in shock.
MULDER: I was told once that the best way to regenerate body heat was to crawl naked into a sleeping bag with somebody else who's already naked.
SCULLY: Well, maybe if it rains sleeping bags, you'll get lucky.
