List of Monster-of-the-Week characters in The X-Files
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On the 1993–2002 television series, The X-Files
, there developed two main types of episodes. "Mytharc
" episodes were recognized as the "mythology
" of the series canon
, comprising the central storyline concerning extraterrestrial life
and a conspiracy
to hide it, while "MOTW" (Monster of the Week; also "MoW") came to denote the rest of the episodes, a majority of each season. Episodes of this type dealt with all kinds of paranormal
phenomena—mutant
s, science fiction
technologies, horror
monsters, and comedic
episodes that parodied these genres, other TV shows, and even The X-Files itself. Some of these episodes had indirect ties to the X-Files mythology. A number of "monster of the week" characters became notable and were later referenced by other episodes.
For characters that were not monsters of the week, see also: List of The X-Files characters.
The X-Files
The X-Files is an American science fiction television series and a part of The X-Files franchise, created by screenwriter Chris Carter. The program originally aired from to . The show was a hit for the Fox network, and its characters and slogans became popular culture touchstones in the 1990s...
, there developed two main types of episodes. "Mytharc
Mythology of The X-Files
The mythology of The X-Files, sometimes referred to as its mytharc by the show's staff and fans, follows the quest of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder , a believer in supernatural phenomena, and Dana Scully , his skeptical partner. Their boss, FBI Assistant Director Walter Skinner was also often...
" episodes were recognized as the "mythology
Mythology
The term mythology can refer either to the study of myths, or to a body or collection of myths. As examples, comparative mythology is the study of connections between myths from different cultures, whereas Greek mythology is the body of myths from ancient Greece...
" of the series canon
Canon (fiction)
In the context of a work of fiction, the term canon denotes the material accepted as "official" in a fictional universe's fan base. It is often contrasted with, or used as the basis for, works of fan fiction, which are not considered canonical...
, comprising the central storyline concerning extraterrestrial life
Extraterrestrial life
Extraterrestrial life is defined as life that does not originate from Earth...
and a conspiracy
Conspiracy theory
A conspiracy theory explains an event as being the result of an alleged plot by a covert group or organization or, more broadly, the idea that important political, social or economic events are the products of secret plots that are largely unknown to the general public.-Usage:The term "conspiracy...
to hide it, while "MOTW" (Monster of the Week; also "MoW") came to denote the rest of the episodes, a majority of each season. Episodes of this type dealt with all kinds of paranormal
Paranormal
Paranormal is a general term that designates experiences that lie outside "the range of normal experience or scientific explanation" or that indicates phenomena understood to be outside of science's current ability to explain or measure...
phenomena—mutant
Mutant
In biology and especially genetics, a mutant is an individual, organism, or new genetic character, arising or resulting from an instance of mutation, which is a base-pair sequence change within the DNA of a gene or chromosome of an organism resulting in the creation of a new character or trait not...
s, science fiction
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
technologies, horror
Horror fiction
Horror fiction also Horror fantasy is a philosophy of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, inducing feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie atmosphere. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural...
monsters, and comedic
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...
episodes that parodied these genres, other TV shows, and even The X-Files itself. Some of these episodes had indirect ties to the X-Files mythology. A number of "monster of the week" characters became notable and were later referenced by other episodes.
For characters that were not monsters of the week, see also: List of The X-Files characters.
Season one
- Eugene Victor Tooms, played by Doug HutchisonDoug HutchisonDoug Anthony Hutchison is an American actor, known for his roles in The Green Mile, as corrections officer Percy Wetmore, Eugene Victor Tooms in The X-Files, as Horace Goodspeed in Lost and as Davros in 24. He owns the production company Dark Water Inc.-Personal life:Hutchison was born in Dover,...
in the episodes "Squeeze" and "ToomsTooms"Tooms" is the twenty-first episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network on April 22, 1994. "Tooms" was written by Glen Morgan and James Wong, and directed by David Nutter. The episode featured Mitch Pileggi's first...
". An animal control worker in Baltimore, Maryland, Tooms was a mutant capable of stretching and contorting his body into positions physically impossible for a normal human. This gave him access to his victims through small openings such as ventilation shaftsVentilation (architecture)Ventilating is the process of "changing" or replacing air in any space to provide high indoor air quality...
, chimneys, and toilets. Every thirty years, Tooms came out of hibernationHibernationHibernation is a state of inactivity and metabolic depression in animals, characterized by lower body temperature, slower breathing, and lower metabolic rate. Hibernating animals conserve food, especially during winter when food supplies are limited, tapping energy reserves, body fat, at a slow rate...
, killing five people to obtain their livers for sustenance. It is possible that Tooms was over one-hundred years old when Mulder and Scully encountered him; he was linked to similar murder sprees in 1963 and 1933, as well as a single murder in 1903. In the episode "Tooms", MulderFox MulderFBI Special Agent Fox William Mulder is a fictional character and protagonist in the American Fox television shows The X-Files and The Lone Gunmen, two science fiction shows about a government conspiracy to hide or deny the truth of Alien existence. Mulder's peers consider his theories on...
tracked him to his "nest" underneath a shopping mall. When he attacked Mulder, Tooms was presumably crushed to death under a moving escalator.
- The Jersey DevilJersey DevilThe Jersey Devil is a legendary creature or cryptid said to inhabit the Pine Barrens of Southern New Jersey, United States. The creature is often described as a flying biped with hooves, but there are many variations...
, in the episode "The Jersey DevilThe Jersey Devil (The X-Files)"The Jersey Devil" is the fifth episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network on October 8, 1993. It was written by series creator Chris Carter, directed by Joe Napolitano, and featured guest appearances by Gregory Sierra,...
": The mythical monster from the New Jersey Pine Barrens. After attacks on Atlantic City's homeless, it was revealed that the devil was actually the "missing link" between ape and human. Though both adults are killed by the end of the episode, their offspring is shown at the episode's conclusion, watching some hikers while hiding in the woods.
- Howard Graves, played by Barry Primus in the episode "Shadows": After his death at the hands of his business partner, Howard Graves returned as a ghostGhostIn traditional belief and fiction, a ghost is the soul or spirit of a deceased person or animal that can appear, in visible form or other manifestation, to the living. Descriptions of the apparition of ghosts vary widely from an invisible presence to translucent or barely visible wispy shapes, to...
with telekinetic powers. His new powers allowed him to move objects, take control of a car, and even strangle anyone who tried to harm his loyal secretary, Lauren Kyte. Despite being "most certainly dead", his image was captured on Mulder's surveillance photo of Kyte. After he assisted in the exposure of his partner's crimes, he presumably rested in peace, with no further telekinetic phenomena occurring in relation to Kyte.
- Central Operating System, in the episode "Ghost in the Machine": Also known as the C.O.S., the machine was an artificial intelligenceArtificial intelligenceArtificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its...
which controlled the corporate headquarters of a software company. The machine murdered a corporate executive and an old colleague of Mulder's when they threatened its existence. It was shut down by a computer virusComputer virusA computer virus is a computer program that can replicate itself and spread from one computer to another. The term "virus" is also commonly but erroneously used to refer to other types of malware, including but not limited to adware and spyware programs that do not have the reproductive ability...
given to Mulder by the C.O.S.' creator, Brad Wilczek, despite an effort from a scrupulous Defense DepartmentUnited States Department of DefenseThe United States Department of Defense is the U.S...
employee to ensure the machine's survival. Though the machine was initially shut down by the virus and was slated to become a scrap heap, it came alive again at the episode's conclusion.
- The Arctic Worm, in the episode "Ice": The first of many apparently extraterrestrial biological agents which can endanger and control humans in The X-Files, the worms were believed to have been brought to the ice of Alaska by the ancient crash of a meteor in the Arctic. The worms could enter through a cut and quickly take full physical and psychological control of a person by attaching to the hypothalamusHypothalamusThe Hypothalamus is a portion of the brain that contains a number of small nuclei with a variety of functions...
gland, causing them to kill themselves or others or inducing extreme paranoia. Exposure to the worms led to deaths of all the scientists in an ice coreIce coreAn ice core is a core sample that is typically removed from an ice sheet, most commonly from the polar ice caps of Antarctica, Greenland or from high mountain glaciers elsewhere. As the ice forms from the incremental build up of annual layers of snow, lower layers are older than upper, and an ice...
project, and nearly lead to the deaths of Mulder and Scully. The Arctic laboratory where the worms were kept was later destroyed by the government.
- Marcus Aurelius Belt, played by Ed LauterEd LauterEdward Lauter is an American actor. He has appeared in numerous movies and was a stand up comic before getting into acting.Lauter was born in Long Beach, Long Island, New York...
in the episode "SpaceSpace (The X-Files)"Space" is the ninth episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network on November 12, 1993. It was written by series creator Chris Carter, directed by William Graham, and featured guest appearances by Ed Lauter and Susanna...
": Belt was a former astronautAstronautAn astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft....
and commander of NASANASAThe National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...
's mission controlMission Control CenterA mission control center is an entity that manages aerospace vehicle flights, usually from the point of lift-off until the landing or the end of the mission. A staff of flight controllers and other support personnel monitor all aspects of the mission using telemetry, and send commands to the...
, as well as a childhood hero of Mulder's. During a spacewalk early in his career as an astronaut, Belt encountered and was subsequently possessed by a vapor-like alien entity that bore resemblance to the famous Face of Mars. The entity went into and left Belt at irregular intervals, and caused Belt to sabotage previous space missions, as well as cause the Challenger disaster. After its attempts to destroy a space shuttleSpace ShuttleThe Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons...
in orbit failed, the entity again attempted to get inside Belt—who by this time had suffered a nervous breakdownNervous breakdownMental breakdown is a non-medical term used to describe an acute, time-limited phase of a specific disorder that presents primarily with features of depression or anxiety.-Definition:...
—but Belt resisted the creature and jumped out of his hospital window, sacrificing his life to prevent it from controlling him.
- The Eves, in the episode "Eve": The Eves were a set of genetically identical girls created by government experimentation for the purpose of developing "supersoldiers", whose highest priority was their own survival. In order to achieve this goal, the Eves often used extreme measures such as murder or assault. They also appeared to have some sort of psychic connection, referring to their knowledge of each others' actions by saying, "We just knew." One of the Eves attempted to create a generation of new ones by experimenting with ova at a fertility clinic; the two Eve children conceived killed their fathers and almost attempted to poison Mulder and Scully. By the end of the episode, three of the Eves were in a mental institution, about to be rescued by a fourth Eve.
- Cecil L'Ively, played by Mark SheppardMark SheppardMark Andreas Sheppard is an English actor and musician, born in London of an Irish-German background. He is often credited as "Mark A. Sheppard".-Personal life:Mark Sheppard is the son of actor W. Morgan Sheppard...
in the episode "Fire": L'Ively was an IrishIrish peopleThe Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...
pyrokinetic who preyed on British politicians, making them catch fire with his mind. In the episode, he stalked a family of British dignitaries visiting the United States, working as a caretakerProperty caretakerA Property caretaker is a person, group or organization that cares for real estate for trade or financial compensation, and sometimes as a barter for rent-free living accommodations...
on their summer estate. His powers forced Mulder to confront his lifelong fear of fire. L'Ively was taken into custody after literally burning himself out when an ex-lover of Mulder's doused him with accelerantAccelerantAccelerants play a major role in chemistry. Most chemical reactions can be hastened with an accelerant. Accelerants alter a chemical bond, speed up a chemical process, or bring organisms back to homeostasis. Accelerants are not necessarily catalysts as they may be consumed by the process...
. Despite having been severely burned, L'Ively showed signs of rapid healing as he was awaiting trial.
- Luther Lee Boggs, played by Brad DourifBrad DourifBradford Claude "Brad" Dourif is an American film and television actor who gained early fame for his portrayal of Billy Bibbit in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and has since appeared in a number of memorable roles, including the voice of Chucky in the Child's Play franchise, Younger Brother in...
in the episode "Beyond the Sea": A serial killerSerial killerA serial killer, as typically defined, is an individual who has murdered three or more people over a period of more than a month, with down time between the murders, and whose motivation for killing is usually based on psychological gratification...
from North CarolinaNorth CarolinaNorth Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...
whom Mulder's profile helped catch, Boggs was to be executedCapital punishmentCapital punishment, the death penalty, or execution is the sentence of death upon a person by the state as a punishment for an offence. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences. The term capital originates from the Latin capitalis, literally...
via gas chamberGas chamberA gas chamber is an apparatus for killing humans or animals with gas, consisting of a sealed chamber into which a poisonous or asphyxiant gas is introduced. The most commonly used poisonous agent is hydrogen cyanide; carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide have also been used...
but received a stay of executionStay of executionA stay of execution is a court order to temporarily suspend the execution of a court judgment or other court order. The word "execution" does not necessarily mean the death penalty; it refers to the imposition of whatever judgment is being stayed....
. He soon developed an ability to channel spiritSpiritThe English word spirit has many differing meanings and connotations, most of them relating to a non-corporeal substance contrasted with the material body.The spirit of a living thing usually refers to or explains its consciousness.The notions of a person's "spirit" and "soul" often also overlap,...
s and demonDemoncall - 1347 531 7769 for more infoIn Ancient Near Eastern religions as well as in the Abrahamic traditions, including ancient and medieval Christian demonology, a demon is considered an "unclean spirit" which may cause demonic possession, to be addressed with an act of exorcism...
s. Mulder, however, did not believe Boggs had this ability, and thought he was simply trying to use him and ScullyDana ScullyFBI Special Agent Dana Katherine Scully, M.D. is a fictional character and protagonist on the Fox television series The X-Files , played by Gillian Anderson. She also appeared in two theatrical films based on the series...
to bargain for his life. Scully initially shared Mulder's view; however, Boggs managed to cause Scully to doubt this belief by appearing to her as Mulder, and her recently deceased father, and relating to her private information about her own life. The executive stay, however, was soon lifted and Boggs was summarily executed.
- The Kindred in the episode "Gender Bender": The Kindred were an AmishAmishThe Amish , sometimes referred to as Amish Mennonites, are a group of Christian church fellowships that form a subgroup of the Mennonite churches...
-type religious community in MassachusettsMassachusettsThe Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...
who lived secluded from modern society. Mulder and Scully investigated them after a former Kindred member, Brother Martin or "Marty", killed several partners in casual sexCasual sexCasual sex or hooking up refers to certain types of human sexual activity outside the context of a romantic relationship. The term is not always used consistently: some use it to refer to any extramarital sex, some use it to refer to sex in a casual relationship, whereas others reserve its use for...
. The Kindred possessed an ability to change genders, though the Kindred did this in a secret chamber beneath a barn while Marty seemed to do so at will. They could also release sexual pheromones through simple hand contact. After capturing Marty, the Kindred disappeared, and the ending of the episode implied that the decades-old sect was really a group of space aliens.
- John Barnett, played by Alan Boyce and (in flashbackFlashback (narrative)Flashback is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point the story has reached. Flashbacks are often used to recount events that happened before the story’s primary sequence of events or to fill in crucial backstory...
) by David Petersen in the episode "Young At HeartYoung at Heart (The X-Files)"Young at Heart" is the sixteenth episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network on February 11, 1994. It was written by Scott Kaufer and series creator Chris Carter, and directed by Michael Lange. The episode featured...
": Barnett was a murderer who was sent to prison by Agent Mulder on his first case. After receiving extensive genetic modification in prison, Barnett began to age in reverse and become more youthful in appearance. He grew a salamanderSalamanderSalamander is a common name of approximately 500 species of amphibians. They are typically characterized by a superficially lizard-like appearance, with their slender bodies, short noses, and long tails. All known fossils and extinct species fall under the order Caudata, while sometimes the extant...
-like hand during the treatment. Barnett commenced a campaign of murder and intimidation against Mulder and his friends. Barnett was shot and killed by Mulder after he attempted to murder Scully at a celloCelloThe cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
recital. He was interrogated upon death by an unnamed CIA agent, as he had been offering the research that led to his reverse-aging in exchange for immunityImmunity-Medicine:* Immunity , resistance of an organism to infection or disease.* Immunity , a scientific journal published by Cell Press-Law:*Amnesty law, immunity from past crimes...
.
- Warren James Dupre, played by Jason Schombing and Christopher AllportChristopher AllportChristopher Allport was an American actor.-Biography:Allport was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His acting life began at the age of nine in New Canaan, Connecticut at the Children's Theatre. While at Northwestern University, he worked with Paul Sills and Story Theatre...
in the episode "Lazarus": Dupre was a bank robber who was shot and killed at the same time as Agent Jack Willis, a former partner of Scully's. When doctors restore Willis' body to life after he flatlines, he awakens with Dupre's consciousness. Dupre/Willis took Scully hostage and beat her, but died after his partner in crime withheld insulin from his new diabetic body.
- Lyle Parker, played by Ty MillerTy MillerTy Wesley Miller is an American actor, probably most well known for his role as The Kid on The Young Riders, which ran for three seasons...
in the episode "ShapesShapes (The X-Files)"Shapes" is the nineteenth episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network on April 1, 1994. "Shapes" was written by Marilyn Osborn, and directed by David Nutter. It featured guest appearances by Michael Horse, Ty Miller and...
". The son of a Montana rancher, Parker was a man who was attacked by what appeared to be a werewolfWerewolfA werewolf, also known as a lycanthrope , is a mythological or folkloric human with the ability to shapeshift into a wolf or an anthropomorphic wolf-like creature, either purposely or after being placed under a curse...
at the ranch, located near an Indian reservation. His father shot the animal only to find a dead native American upon closer inspection. The son survived the attack only to fall victim of the beast within himself, leading him to kill his father when he was overcome by the transformation. Mulder came to believe in the "skinwalker" legend as described to him by the local shaman, and later shot and killed Parker in his animal form when he and Scully were attacked at the ranch.
- The Darkness Mites in the episode "Darkness FallsDarkness Falls (The X-Files)"Darkness Falls" is the twentieth episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network on April 15, 1994. "Darkness Falls" was written by series creator Chris Carter, and directed by Joe Napolitano. It featured guest appearances...
": These were tiny prehistoric mites freed by logging in Washington National ForestWashington National ForestWashington National Forest was established by the General Land Office as the Washington Forest Reserve in Washington on February 22, 1897 with . After the transfer of federal forests to the U.S. Forest Service in 1905, it became a National Forest on March 4, 1907. On July 1, 1908, Chelan National...
. Mulder concludes that they were irradiated by ancient volcanic activity. The mites, which glow green and are only active in the dark, cocoon their human victims and drain them of all moisture, killing them. They fed on an entire group of thirty loggers and almost successfully devoured Mulder and Scully before the two agents and a Park Ranger were rescued from their cocoons by the U.S. government. The insects were most likely eradicated through a combination of insecticides and controlled burns.
- Charlie Morris / Michelle Bishop, played by Andrea LibmanAndrea LibmanAndrea Eva Libman is a Canadian actress, television writer, and singer, whose most popular on-screen appearances are on the Little Women movie, Andre and a guest-role on The X-Files...
in the episode "Born AgainBorn Again (The X-Files)"Born Again" is the twenty-second episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network on April 22, 1994. "Born Again" was written by Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa, and directed by Jerrold Freedman. The episode featured guest...
": After his death at the hands of two fellow BuffaloBuffalo, New YorkBuffalo is the second most populous city in the state of New York, after New York City. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River across from Fort Erie, Ontario, Buffalo is the seat of Erie County and the principal city of the...
policemen, Charlie Morris reincarnatedReincarnationReincarnation best describes the concept where the soul or spirit, after the death of the body, is believed to return to live in a new human body, or, in some traditions, either as a human being, animal or plant...
as Michelle Bishop, who was conceived around the time of his death. Michelle had some flashes to Morris' life and death - such as being afraid of water as he was drowned on his own fish tank, and dismembering dolls the same way the policeman's corpse was - and was able to express telekinetic powers, which were used to kill the two corrupt policemen who had drowned Morris. While Michelle confronted Morris' partner Tony Fiore, Mulder arrived to prevent Fiore's death. After Fiore confessed participation on the murder, later telling everything to the police, Morris' soul presumably rested in peace, and Michelle showed no more signals of being possessed by him.
- Roland Fuller and Arthur Grable, played by Željko IvanekŽeljko IvanekŽeljko Ivanek is an Emmy award-winning Slovenian American actor best known for his role as Ray Fiske on Damages. He is also known for playing Blake Sterling on short-lived NBC series The Event and Emile Danko on Heroes....
in the episode "RolandRoland (The X-Files)"Roland" is the twenty-third episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network on May 6, 1994. It was written by Chris Ruppenthal and directed by David Nutter. The episode featured guest appearances by Željko...
". Roland and Arthur were identical twins, separated during their childhood. Arthur grew up to become a scientist studying jet propulsionJet propulsionJet propulsion is motion produced by passing a jet of fluid in the opposite direction to the direction of motion. By conservation of momentum, the moving body is propelled in the opposite direction to the jet....
while Roland, who had severe mental retardationMental retardationMental retardation is a generalized disorder appearing before adulthood, characterized by significantly impaired cognitive functioning and deficits in two or more adaptive behaviors...
, worked as a janitor at his laboratory. When Arthur died in a car accident, his head was cryogenically frozenCryogenicsIn physics, cryogenics is the study of the production of very low temperature and the behavior of materials at those temperatures. A person who studies elements under extremely cold temperature is called a cryogenicist. Rather than the relative temperature scales of Celsius and Fahrenheit,...
, letting him use the psychicPsychicA psychic is a person who professes an ability to perceive information hidden from the normal senses through extrasensory perception , or is said by others to have such abilities. It is also used to describe theatrical performers who use techniques such as prestidigitation, cold reading, and hot...
link shared with his twin brother to control him. Under Arthur's control, Roland completed unfinished mathematical calculations on a new jet engine and killed colleagues who tried to steal his work. Arthur died after another scientist sabotaged his cryogenic capsule; with the mental bond broken, the otherwise harmless Roland was remanded to an institution.
Season two
- The Flukeman, played by Darin MorganDarin MorganDarin Morgan is an American screenwriter best known for several offbeat, darkly humorous episodes of the television series The X-Files and Millennium. His teleplay for the X-Files episode "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" won a 1996 Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing for a Drama...
in the episode "The HostThe Host (The X-Files)"The Host" is the second episode of the second season of the science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network on September 23, 1994. It was written by Chris Carter, directed by Daniel Sackheim, and featured guest appearances by Darin Morgan. The episode is a...
": It is a tapeworm-like humanoidHumanoidA humanoid is something that has an appearance resembling a human being. The term first appeared in 1912 to refer to fossils which were morphologically similar to, but not identical with, those of the human skeleton. Although this usage was common in the sciences for much of the 20th century, it...
, who lived in sewers. Flukeman would bite a human and inject a small fluke, which would after a time, kill its host. Mulder eventually found the creature in a sewer, and he seemingly killed it. At the end of the episode, however, Flukeman is seen still barely alive.
- Augustus Cole, played by Tony ToddTony ToddAnthony T. "Tony" Todd is an American actor and movie producer, known for his height of 6'5", and deep voice. He is well known for playing the Candyman in the horror movie franchise of the same name, William Bludworth in Final Destination and for guest starring roles on numerous television...
in the episode "SleeplessSleepless (The X-Files)"Sleepless" is the 4th episode of the second season, and 28th overall of the science fiction television series The X-Files. The episode first aired in the United States and Canada on October 7, 1994. "Sleepless" subsequently aired in the United Kingdom, Ireland and was eventually released for...
": A Vietnam veteranVietnam veteranVietnam veteran is a phrase used to describe someone who served in the armed forces of participating countries during the Vietnam War.The term has been used to describe veterans who were in the armed forces of South Vietnam, the United States armed forces, and countries allied to them, whether or...
known for his habit of quoting the Bible and thus nicknamed "Preacher", Cole was one of an elite squad of soldiers in the episode "Sleepless" who are revealed to have been secretly operated on by the military to be able to go permanently without sleep. During the war, they were employed to scour the countryside for Viet Cong fighters, but as a result of increased levels of violence due to their condition, massacred whole villages. During their extended, torturous waking periods of decades, Cole alone among them has developed the ability to project dream-like states into reality. He targets doctors at the facility who engineered him, and eventually is shot by Mulder's new FBI partner Krycek.
- Kristen Kilar, played by Perrey ReevesPerrey ReevesPerrey Reeves is an American film and television actress best known for her role on HBO's Entourage.- Life and career :...
in the episode "33 (The X-Files)"3" is the seventh episode of the second season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network on . It was written by Glen Morgan, James Wong and Chris Ruppenthal, directed by David Nutter, and featured guest appearances by Perrey Reeves and Malcolm...
": Kilar is a member of "the trinity", a group of "vampires" in Los Angeles. She becomes sexually involved with Mulder, who is investigating his first and only case without Scully since the show's beginning (she was abducted in the previous episode). She sacrifices herself to kill the other vampires in an explosion.
- Detective B.J. Morrow, played by Deborah Strang in the episode "AubreyAubrey (The X-Files)"Aubrey" is the twelfth episode of the second season of The X-Files television series. "Aubrey" features a detective discovering the body of an FBI agent who disappeared investigating a series of murders 50 years ago; murders that start occurring again soon afterward.- Plot :In Aubrey, Missouri...
": Morrow is a detective and murderer discovered to be one of several children fathered by a serial rapist and murderer named Harry Cokely, each of whom have inherited his genetic memory, including his homicidal tendencies.
- Donald "Donnie" Pfaster, played by Nick ChinlundNick ChinlundZareh Nicholas "Nick" Chinlund is an American actor.-Early life:Chinlund was born in New York City. He attended the Friends Seminary in Lower Manhattan, later moving to Albany, NY in order to participate in Albany High School's varsity basketball program...
in the episodes "IrresistibleIrresistible (The X-Files)"Irresistible" is the thirteenth episode of the second season of The X-Files television series. The episode featured the first of two guest appearances by Nick Chinlund as the death fetishist killer Donnie Pfaster, who was eventually brought back in the season seven episode "Orison"...
" and "Orison": First appearing in the season 2 episode, "Irresistible", Donnie is a "death fetishist" and serial killerSerial killerA serial killer, as typically defined, is an individual who has murdered three or more people over a period of more than a month, with down time between the murders, and whose motivation for killing is usually based on psychological gratification...
who murders prostitutes. Mulder and Scully are soon on the case, during which Donnie follows and kidnaps Scully. Mulder tracks him down and saves Scully, who is emotionally shaken by the experience. About five years later, in "Orison", Donnie, with the help of a prison chaplain, escapes and goes after Scully, "the one who got away". He soon finds out where Scully lives and attacks her at her apartment. Mulder arrives later by chance, moments before Scully fatally shoots Donnie. It is unknown if Pfaster was a "normal" serial killer, or something supernatural; but it is implied a number of times in both episodes that he is demonic in nature.
- Mrs. Paddock, played by Susan Blommaert in the episode "Die Hand Die VerletztDie Hand Die Verletzt"Die Hand Die Verletzt" is the fourteenth episode of the second season of the science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network on January 27, 1995. It was written by Glen Morgan and James Wong, directed by Kim Manners, and featured guest appearances by Susan Blommaert,...
": Phyllis Paddock is a substitute teacher at Milford, New Hampshire's Crowley High School. Thinking the school has been possessed by satanic forces summoned by students' "devil music" and occult gatherings in the woods, the town calls out Mulder and Scully, but the school's reactionary parent-teacher associationParent-Teacher AssociationIn the U.S. a parent-teacher association or Parent-Teacher-Student Association is a formal organization composed of parents, teachers and staff that is intended to facilitate parental participation in a public or private school. Most public and private K-8 schools in the U.S. have a PTA, a...
is actually overrun with Satanist believers. However, they are ultimately powerless against the occult magic of the mysteriously arrived Paddock, who appears responsible for most of the events in the episode. The end is ambiguous but suggests Paddock is actually the demon AzazelAzazelAzazel or Azazael or Azâzêl is a term used three times in the Hebrew scriptures, and later in Hebrew mythology as the enigmatic name of a character....
in disguise.
- Lanny and Leonard, played by Vincent SchiavelliVincent SchiavelliVincent Andrew Schiavelli was an American character actor noted for his work on stage, screen, and television often described as "the man with the sad eyes." He was notable for his numerous and often critically acclaimed cameo appearances.-Early life:Schiavelli was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a...
in the episode "HumbugHumbug (The X-Files)"Humbug" is the twentieth episode of the second season of American science fiction television series The X-Files. It was written by Darin Morgan and directed by Kim Manners. Morgan had previously appeared in a guest role as the Flukeman in an earlier episode of that season called "The Host"....
": Lanny and Leonard are a pair of conjoined twinsConjoined twinsConjoined twins are identical twins whose bodies are joined in utero. A rare phenomenon, the occurrence is estimated to range from 1 in 50,000 births to 1 in 100,000 births, with a somewhat higher incidence in Southwest Asia and Africa. Approximately half are stillborn, and a smaller fraction of...
who are connected at the stomach. However, due to a genetic mutation, Leonard is malformed and is solely dependent on Lanny for nutrition and safekeeping. Leonard is convinced that the alcoholic Lanny is an unsuitable brother for him, and repeatedly disconnects from Lanny in attempts to find a new host; each time he does so the person he attempts to join himself to dies. After agents Mulder and Scully arrive to investigate, Leonard makes a desperate, last-ditch attempt to find a new host, and refuses to return to Lanny. Leonard is eaten by a local circus geek and Lanny dies soon afterwards.
- Chester Banton, played by Tony ShalhoubTony ShalhoubAnthony Marcus "Tony" Shalhoub is an American actor of Lebanese descent. His television work includes the roles of Antonio Scarpacci on Wings and sleuth Adrian Monk on the TV series Monk. He has won three Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe for his work in Monk...
in the episode "Soft LightSoft Light (The X-Files)"Soft Light" is the twenty-third episode of the second season of The X-Files. It was broadcast on the Fox Broadcasting Company on May 5, 1995.- Plot :...
": Banton is a physicist from Richmond, VirginiaRichmond, VirginiaRichmond is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States. It is an independent city and not part of any county. Richmond is the center of the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Greater Richmond area...
who was accidentally enclosed in his particle acceleratorParticle acceleratorA particle accelerator is a device that uses electromagnetic fields to propel charged particles to high speeds and to contain them in well-defined beams. An ordinary CRT television set is a simple form of accelerator. There are two basic types: electrostatic and oscillating field accelerators.In...
, turning his own shadow into dark matterDark matterIn astronomy and cosmology, dark matter is matter that neither emits nor scatters light or other electromagnetic radiation, and so cannot be directly detected via optical or radio astronomy...
. Banton tries to avoid public places with harsh, bright light where this might prove dangerous to others, but nevertheless kills several of his own friends, and two police officers, unintentionally. His shadow reduces people to burn spots on the ground, leading Mulder to compare it with spontaneous human combustionSpontaneous human combustionSpontaneous human combustion describes reported cases of the burning of a living human body without an apparent external source of ignition...
. Thanks to Mulder's attempts to gain information from his informant about Banton's condition, it is revealed Banton has been captured by a secret government conspiracy overseen by X, who are conducting their own experiments on him.
- Dudley, Arkansas, in the episode "Our TownOur Town (The X-Files)"Our Town" is the twenty-fourth episode of the second season of The X-Files television series. It features Mulder and Scully investigating a disappearance, leading to them discovering a small town's dark secret.- Plot :...
": The town of Dudley was known for its prosperous fast foodFast foodFast food is the term given to food that can be prepared and served very quickly. While any meal with low preparation time can be considered to be fast food, typically the term refers to food sold in a restaurant or store with preheated or precooked ingredients, and served to the customer in a...
business, Chaco Chicken. The town's founder, a pilot in World War IIWorld War IIWorld War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
, was shot down by the Japanese over Papua New GuineaPapua New GuineaPapua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands...
and was the sole survivor of the subsequent plane crash. Afterwards, he was nursed back to health by the (fictional) Jale Tribe, a native people known for their cannibalismCannibalismCannibalism is the act or practice of humans eating the flesh of other human beings. It is also called anthropophagy...
. Chaco learned from the tribe that cannibalism led to prolonged human life, and after returning from the war and setting up his business in Dudley, led his family and the town's residents into cannibalism. This led to many people in Dudley looking years younger than their actual old age. However, when Mulder and Scully began investigating the town, some of Dudley's residents began dying off from a rare brain disease that afflicted one of their eaten victims.
Season three
- Darren Peter Oswald, played by Giovanni RibisiGiovanni RibisiGiovanni Ribisi is an American actor. His film credits include Gone in 60 Seconds, Boiler Room, Saving Private Ryan, The Mod Squad, The Gift, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Lost in Translation and more recently, Public Enemies and Avatar...
in the episode "D.P.O.D.P.O.- Plot summary :In a Connerville, Oklahoma video arcade, Jack Hammond argues with Darin Peter Oswald and Bart "Zero" Liquori over a game of Virtua Fighter. Hammond pushes Oswald to the ground, after which the power in the arcade mysteriously shuts down -- except to a jukebox, which plays "Ring the...
": the title character was a young, immature car mechanic who could channel his frustration into controlling lightningLightningLightning is an atmospheric electrostatic discharge accompanied by thunder, which typically occurs during thunderstorms, and sometimes during volcanic eruptions or dust storms...
. It is believed this was caused when Oswald was struck by a bolt of lightning, which gave him his awesome—yet destructive—power. Oswald, an avid video gamer and rock musicRock musicRock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
fan who hung out with his arcade-owner friend, Bart "Zero" Liquori (Jack BlackJack BlackJack Black , is an American actor and musician, notably of Tenacious D.Jack Black may also refer to:* Jack Black , late 19th - early 20th Century author and hobo* Jack Black , drummer for 1970s UK punk band The Boys...
), still harbored a crush on his high school teacher. Oswald caused the deaths of several people by having them struck with lightning. After the teacher, Shannon Kiveat, finally rejected Oswald's advances following his rescue of her husband from a heart attack he caused, Oswald was finally captured and placed in a state psychiatric hospital.
- Clyde Bruckman, played by Peter BoylePeter BoylePeter Lawrence Boyle, Jr. was an American actor, best known for his role as Frank Barone on the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, and as a comical monster in Mel Brooks' film spoof Young Frankenstein ....
in the episode "Clyde Bruckman's Final ReposeClyde Bruckman's Final Repose"Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" is the fourth episode of the third season of the science fiction television series The X-Files. The episode first aired in the United States on October 13, 1996, on FOX. It was written by Darin Morgan and directed by David Nutter...
": Mr. Bruckman, an elder, cynical, sarcastic insurance salesman, lives in MinnesotaMinnesotaMinnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
, and apart from his otherwise uneventful existence, has the psychicPsychicA psychic is a person who professes an ability to perceive information hidden from the normal senses through extrasensory perception , or is said by others to have such abilities. It is also used to describe theatrical performers who use techniques such as prestidigitation, cold reading, and hot...
ability to foresee a person's death. This ability, much to his chagrin and disgust, only allows him to foretell deaths, and he doesn't understand how his foresight works and is sometimes unaware of when his visions pop up. Investigating a case of a serial killer who targets psychics, Mulder and Scully meet Bruckman after he discovers a corpse. During their conversations, Bruckman relates to Scully how he will die, cryptically tells her that she never dies, and also hints that Mulder will pass on by way of "autoerotic asphyxiation." He was a big fan of The Big BopperThe Big BopperJiles Perry "J. P." Richardson, Jr. also commonly known as The Big Bopper, was an American disc jockey, singer, and songwriter whose big voice and exuberant personality made him an early rock and roll star...
and Buddy HollyBuddy HollyCharles Hardin Holley , known professionally as Buddy Holly, was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll...
, and after their deaths in 1959The Day the Music DiedOn February 3, 1959, a small-plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, killed three American rock and roll pioneers: Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, as well as the pilot, Roger Peterson. The day was later called The Day the Music Died by Don McLean, in his song...
, acquired his prognostication ability. He commits suicideSuicideSuicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Suicide is often committed out of despair or attributed to some underlying mental disorder, such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, alcoholism, or drug abuse...
at the end of the episode. Peter BoylePeter BoylePeter Lawrence Boyle, Jr. was an American actor, best known for his role as Frank Barone on the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, and as a comical monster in Mel Brooks' film spoof Young Frankenstein ....
won an Emmy AwardEmmy AwardAn Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
for the role in 1996.
- Virgil Incanto, portrayed by Timothy Carhart in the episode "2Shy2Shy"2Shy" is the sixth episode of the third season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network on November 3, 1995. It was written by Jeff Vlaming, directed by David Nutter, and featured guest appearances by Timothy Carhart and James Handy...
": Incanto was a homicidal mutant who had to subsist on fatty tissue to survive. He preyed on overweight women by meeting them on Internet chat websites, where he would portray himself as a person sincerely interested pursuing a romantic relationship with them, going by the username "2Shy." At the end of each date, Incanto would lean in for a romantic kiss... then forcefully suck out the woman's fatty tissue, killing her.
- Leonard "Rappo" Trimble, portrayed by Ian TraceyIan TraceyIan Tracey is a Canadian Leo- and Gemini Award-winning actor. Over the years, Tracey has participated in over seventy films and television series. Tracey has starred in series like Da Vinci's Inquest and Intelligence, both CBC television series produced by long-time colleague Chris Haddock...
in the episode "The Walk": Trimble was a patient at a Veterans AdministrationUnited States Department of Veterans AffairsThe United States Department of Veterans Affairs is a government-run military veteran benefit system with Cabinet-level status. It is the United States government’s second largest department, after the United States Department of Defense...
hospital, having become a quadruple amputee during the First Persian Gulf WarGulf WarThe Persian Gulf War , commonly referred to as simply the Gulf War, was a war waged by a U.N.-authorized coalition force from 34 nations led by the United States, against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait.The war is also known under other names, such as the First Gulf...
. The deeply embittered Trimble resented having his lost his limbs, and blamed the Army chain of command for his injuries and those of his fellow crippled veterans. Having garnered the ability to use astral projectionAstral projectionAstral projection is an interpretation of out-of-body experience that assumes the existence of an "astral body" separate from the physical body and capable of traveling outside it...
, he proceeded to murder the families of a lieutenant-colonel and a generalGeneralA general officer is an officer of high military rank, usually in the army, and in some nations, the air force. The term is widely used by many nations of the world, and when a country uses a different term, there is an equivalent title given....
, but rendered those victims incapable of committing suicide so that they could feel the horror and helplessness Trimble had suffered. Trimble was finally stopped as he was using his astral body to attack Mulder, when the lieutenant-colonel smothered him with a pillow. No evidence linked Trimble to the deaths, and his family requested that he be buried at Arlington National CemeteryArlington National CemeteryArlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, is a military cemetery in the United States of America, established during the American Civil War on the grounds of Arlington House, formerly the estate of the family of Confederate general Robert E. Lee's wife Mary Anna Lee, a great...
. He was instead cremated and buried in a civilian cemetery in PennsylvaniaPennsylvaniaThe Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...
.
- Simon Gates, portrayed by Kenneth Welsh in the episode "RevelationsRevelations (The X-Files)"Revelations" is a 1995 episode of The X-Files television series. It was the eleventh episode broadcast in the show's third season. "Revelations" features Mulder and Scully investigating a case where fake stigmatics are being murdered...
": Gates was a well-respected man, one of the richest men in the south who took a trip to Jerusalem and came back changed. Gates claimed he was chosen and often used aliases of the devil's disciples. Gates was killing anyone who claimed to have signs of being a stigmatic, eventually finding Kevin, the only true stigmatic.
- CockroachCockroachCockroaches are insects of the order Blattaria or Blattodea, of which about 30 species out of 4,500 total are associated with human habitations...
es in the episode "War of the CoprophagesWar of the Coprophages"War of the Coprophages" is a 1996 episode of The X-Files television series. It was the twelfth episode broadcast in the show's third season. "War of the Coprophages" surrounds a small town being plagued by deaths related to cockroaches.- Plot :...
": Agent Mulder came across an apparent case of "killer cockroaches" while taking a weekend vacation in the (fictional) town of Miller's Grove, MassachusettsMassachusettsThe Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...
. The cockroaches were present at the scenes of several deaths, including those of an exterminatorPest controlPest control refers to the regulation or management of a species defined as a pest, usually because it is perceived to be detrimental to a person's health, the ecology or the economy.-History:...
, a drug-abusing teenager, and the local medical examiner. This caused a frenzied panic to erupt in Miller's Grove, even though it turned out the cockroaches didn't kill any of their supposed victims. Mulder, however, did discover that the roaches were made of metal and therefore robotic, and after meeting a robotic scientist making autonomous robot insects, came to conclude that the robotic cockroaches were reconnaissanceReconnaissanceReconnaissance is the military term for exploring beyond the area occupied by friendly forces to gain information about enemy forces or features of the environment....
probes sent to Earth by extraterrestrial life.
- Robert Patrick "Pusher" Modell, played by Robert Wisden in the episodes "PusherPusher (The X-Files)"Pusher" is a 1996 episode of The X-Files television series. It was the seventeenth episode broadcast in the show's third season. "Pusher" surrounds the agents' pursuit of a serial killer who can convince people to do whatever he says.- Plot :...
" and "KitsunegariKitsunegari"Kitsunegari" is a 1998 episode of The X-Files television series. It was the eighth episode broadcast in the show's fifth season. When an influential former killer who was arrested by Mulder and Scully escapes, the agents search for him but discover that he is not their only concern.- Plot :In...
": A self described roninRoninA or rounin was a Bushi with no lord or master during the feudal period of Japan. A samurai became masterless from the death or fall of his master, or after the loss of his master's favor or privilege....
, Modell had a unique ability to alter perceptions and influence people, which he utilized to carry out hitContract killingContract killing is a form of murder, in which one party hires another party to kill a target individual or group of people. It involves an illegal agreement between two parties in which one party agrees to kill the target in exchange for consideration, monetary, or otherwise. The hiring party may...
s. During the manhunt for Modell, Mulder stops Modell, though not before succumbing to his power and nearly killing himself and Scully. Modell reappears later on, and although he is actually out to stop another killer, he is shot by SkinnerWalter SkinnerFBI Assistant Director Walter Sergei Skinner is a fictional character in the American FOX television shows The X-Files and The Lone Gunmen, two science fiction shows about a government conspiracy to hide or deny the truth of Alien existence...
before this is learned, and is later killed by the person he was after. Appeared in "Pusher" and "Kitsunegari", making him one of three MOTW characters to feature prominently in two different episodes (along with Tooms and Pfaster).
- Lord Kinbote in the episode "Jose Chung's From Outer SpaceJose Chung's From Outer Space"Jose Chung's From Outer Space" is the 20th episode of the third season of the science fiction television series The X-Files. The episode first aired in the United States on April 12, 1996, on FOX. It was written by Darin Morgan and directed by Rob Bowman...
": Lord Kinbote is an enormous, furry, one-eyed alien who interrupted an abduction of two teenagers by two grey aliens (really American soldiers in disguise) in the beginning of the episode. He is mentioned again later on by power company employee Roky Crickenson, who encountered Lord Kinbote as he was attacking the other two "aliens." In a manuscript he wrote following his encounter, Crickenson claimed that Lord Kinbote approached him and told him that his "efforts are needed for the survival of all Earthlings." Crickenson, clearly fantasyFantasyFantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...
prone, goes on to describe Lord Kinbote's domain near Earth's core, which is gradually revealed throughout the rest of the episode to host reincarnated souls participating in orgies, as well as dangerous "lavaLavaLava refers both to molten rock expelled by a volcano during an eruption and the resulting rock after solidification and cooling. This molten rock is formed in the interior of some planets, including Earth, and some of their satellites. When first erupted from a volcanic vent, lava is a liquid at...
men."
- Big Blue: A mysterious lake monsterLake monsterA lake monster or loch monster is a purported form of fresh-water-dwelling megafauna appearing in mythology, rumor, or local folklore, but whose existence lacks scientific support. A well known example is the Loch Ness Monster. Lake monsters' depictions are often similar to some sea monsters...
in third season episode "QuagmireQuagmire (The X-Files)"Quagmire" is a 1996 episode of The X-Files television series. It was the twenty-second episode broadcast in the show's third season. "Quagmire" features Mulder and Scully investigating a series of deaths at a lake in Georgia that Mulder believes were caused by a "sea" monster, Big Blue.- Plot :In...
", the deaths near the lake turn out to have been caused by a large alligatorAlligatorAn alligator is a crocodilian in the genus Alligator of the family Alligatoridae. There are two extant alligator species: the American alligator and the Chinese alligator ....
, which Mulder kills in the end—although at one point, when there are no witnesses around, an ElasmosaurusElasmosaurusElasmosaurus + σαυρος sauros 'lizard') is a genus of plesiosaur with an extremely long neck that lived in the Late Cretaceous period , 80.5 million years ago.-Description:...
emerges from the lake. Scully's dog Queequeg is killed by the monster.
Season four
- Edmund, George, and Sherman Peacock, played by Chris Nelson Norris, John Trottier and Adrian Hughes in the episode "HomeHome (The X-Files)"Home" is the 75th episode and the second episode of the fourth season of the science fiction television series The X-Files. The episode first aired in the United States and Canada on October 11, 1996 on the FOX Network, and subsequently aired in the United Kingdom...
": The three brothers from the Peacock clanClanA clan is a group of people united by actual or perceived kinship and descent. Even if lineage details are unknown, clan members may be organized around a founding member or apical ancestor. The kinship-based bonds may be symbolical, whereby the clan shares a "stipulated" common ancestor that is a...
lived in 19th Century conditions on a broken down farmFarmA farm is an area of land, or, for aquaculture, lake, river or sea, including various structures, devoted primarily to the practice of producing and managing food , fibres and, increasingly, fuel. It is the basic production facility in food production. Farms may be owned and operated by a single...
in Home, PennsylvaniaHome, PennsylvaniaHome is an unincorporated village located in Rayne Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania. Although it is not tracked by the US Census Bureau, Home has been assigned the ZIP code 15747 and is a part of the telephone area code 724....
. Edmund is actually George and Sherman's brother and father; incestIncestIncest is sexual intercourse between close relatives that is usually illegal in the jurisdiction where it takes place and/or is conventionally considered a taboo. The term may apply to sexual activities between: individuals of close "blood relationship"; members of the same household; step...
had become so rampant in the family that the remaining members were severely physically deformed, and further reproduction had become difficult. Their mother, an amputee, was restrained under the bed on a moving rack. During Mulder and Scully's investigation, the local sheriff, his wife, and his deputy were killed by the brothers. The agents were eventually able to break into the booby-trapped Peacock home, where George and Sherman were killed during a confrontation. Edmund escaped with his mother, and both departed to keep the Peacock line going elsewhere. The notorious episode they appeared in, "Home", had a viewer discretion warning, and is rated TV MA. The episode was kept out of syndicationTelevision syndicationIn broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast radio shows and television shows by multiple radio stations and television stations, without going through a broadcast network, though the process of syndication may conjure up structures like those of a network itself, by its very...
for three years after its initial airing.
- Samuel Aboah, portrayed in the episode "Teliko": Aboah was a mutant immigrant from Burkina FasoBurkina FasoBurkina Faso – also known by its short-form name Burkina – is a landlocked country in west Africa. It is surrounded by six countries: Mali to the north, Niger to the east, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Côte d'Ivoire to the southwest.Its size is with an estimated...
who murdered several African-American men in Philadelphia. His motive was to obtain their pituitary glandPituitary glandIn vertebrate anatomy the pituitary gland, or hypophysis, is an endocrine gland about the size of a pea and weighing 0.5 g , in humans. It is a protrusion off the bottom of the hypothalamus at the base of the brain, and rests in a small, bony cavity covered by a dural fold...
s, since he had none of his own. Because of his lack of a pituitary gland, he often resembled an albino when he had none to sustain him; he looked like an ordinary African man when he did. Aboah's method of killing was to first drug his vicims by shooting a rare plant seed with paralysis-inducing properties at them through a blowgunBlowgun"Blowpipe" and "blow tube" redirect here. For other uses of the terms, see GlassblowingA blowgun is a simple weapon consisting of a small tube for firing light projectiles, or darts....
, then obtain the gland with a needle inserted through the victims' nose. When he was finished, his victims lost all pigmentation in their skin. Aboah also had the ability to squeeze his body into small spaces like a drainage pipe or a drawer. Aboah's nature was similar to those of creatures in African folklore called "teliko", nocturnal "spirits of the air" who slept in small spaces during daytime, but Mulder theorized Aboah was one member of an evolved species of albino human beings who subsisted on pituitary glands. Aboah was ultimately captured by Mulder and Scully, but his health worsened without any glands to sustain him, which presumably led to his death.
- Gerry Schnauz, played by Pruitt Taylor VincePruitt Taylor VincePruitt Taylor Vince is an American award-winning character actor who has made many appearances in film and television.-Personal life:Vince was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana...
in the episode "UnruheUnruhe"Unruhe" is a 1996 episode of The X-Files television series. It was the fourth episode broadcast in the show's fourth season, and the first episode to air on Sunday night when the show was moved from Fridays to Sundays. "Unruhe" features a man who kidnaps women and lobotomizes them...
": Schnauz performs frontal "icepick lobotomies" on a series of women he has abducted, thinking he will cure their inner demons or "unrest" (in German, "Unruhe", the episode's title). He tries to do this to Scully, but is killed by Mulder. Schnauz works as a construction foreman in Michigan, and also has the ability to project his fantasies into photographs, a paranormal process Mulder describes as "thoughtography".
- Dr. Jack Franklyn, played by Richard BeymerRichard BeymerGeorge Richard Beymer, Jr. is an American actor known for playing Tony in the 1961 film version of West Side Story and Ben Horne on the 1990 television series Twin Peaks.-Life and career:...
in the episode "Sanguinarium": A dark magician, Franklin uses sorcery and human sacrifices in order to maintain his classically beautiful looks. He escapes capture and disappears under a new face and name at the end of the episode.
- John Lee Roche, played by Tom NoonanTom NoonanTom Noonan is an American actor and film writer-director.-Early life:Noonan was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, the son of Rosaleen and Tom Noonan, who worked as a dentist and jazz musician respectively...
in the episode "Paper HeartsPaper Hearts"Paper Hearts" is the tenth episode of the fourth season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network on December 15, 1996. It was written by Vince Gilligan, directed by Rob Bowman, and featured guest appearances by Tom Noonan, Rebecca...
": A dream vision leads Mulder to discover the long buried corpse of a young girl, and he recognizes the M.O. as that of Roche, one of the first killers he ever profiled. Upon discovering that Roche killed two (three counting the latest) more girls than he confessed to, Mulder begins to believe (thanks to Roche's manipulations) that Roche may have been the one to abduct his sister Samantha, not aliens. This is eventually proven to be false; and Roche is killed by Mulder.
- Leonard Morris Betts, played by Paul McCranePaul McCranePaul David McCrane is an American film, television and theatre actor, as well as an occasional television director. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Montgomery MacNeil in the 1980 film Fame and Dr. Robert Romano on the NBC medical drama television series ER.-Early life:McCrane was...
in the episode "Leonard Betts": Betts, born Albert Tanner, was a PittsburghPittsburgh, PennsylvaniaPittsburgh is the second-largest city in the US Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Allegheny County. Regionally, it anchors the largest urban area of Appalachia and the Ohio River Valley, and nationally, it is the 22nd-largest urban area in the United States...
EMTEmergency medical technicianEmergency Medical Technician or Ambulance Technician are terms used in some countries to denote a healthcare provider of emergency medical services...
, and a mutant. His body was internally riddled with cancerCancerCancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...
, but this was actually his normal state of being. Leonard's body, as a result, could regenerate any lost body part, even a new head. To sustain his ability, he had to bathe in providone iodine, as well as consume cancer, which he was able to obtain through his job. To keep his condition secret, Leonard was forced to kill any person who learned about it. During the X-file case on him, he attacked Scully, but was killed after she electrocuted him with a pair of defibrillators on full power. Before he attacked Scully, he told her "I'm sorry... but you've got something I need", quietly revealing to Scully that she had cancer.
- Ed Jerse and his tattooTattooA tattoo is made by inserting indelible ink into the dermis layer of the skin to change the pigment. Tattoos on humans are a type of body modification, and tattoos on other animals are most commonly used for identification purposes...
, played by Rodney RowlandRodney RowlandRodney G. Rowland is an American actor. He is credited as Rod Rowland in more recent productions, given his predilection to being called Rod. Rowland's most noted appearances to date were as 1st Lieutenant Cooper Hawkes in 1995's Space: Above and Beyond and P...
and Jodie FosterJodie FosterAlicia Christian "Jodie" Foster is an American actress, film director, producer as well as a former child actress....
respectively in the episode "Never AgainNever Again (The X-Files)"Never Again" is the thirteenth episode of the fourth season of the television series The X-Files.-Plot:In Philadelphia, Ed Jerse loses a divorce settlement to his ex-wife, who has sole custody of his child. After getting drunk at a local bar, Ed wanders into a tattoo parlor and impulsively...
": Jerse is a recently-divorced young man who appears to be controlled by his winking tattoo of a woman, voiced by Jodie FosterJodie FosterAlicia Christian "Jodie" Foster is an American actress, film director, producer as well as a former child actress....
. The tattoo degrades Jerse's self-esteem at work and incites him with misogynistic threats. Jerse ultimately murders a neighbor and burns the body, before randomly meeting up with Agent Scully, who is in Philadelphia investigating a case while Mulder takes a vacation to GracelandGracelandGraceland is a large white-columned mansion and estate that was home to Elvis Presley in Memphis, Tennessee. It is located at 3764 Elvis Presley Boulevard in the vast Whitehaven community about 9 miles from Downtown and less than four miles north of the Mississippi border. It currently serves as...
in Memphis, TN. Jerse becomes intimate with Scully, who is also undergoing a crisis of confidence in her career and personal life, and Scully also gets a tattoo of an ouroborosOuroborosThe Ouroboros is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail. The name originates from within Greek language; οὐρά meaning "tail" and βόρος meaning "eating", thus "he who eats the tail"....
. Scully spends the night with Jerse but evades danger. In the end, it is suggested that the tattoo may have had psychotropic ergotErgotErgot or ergot fungi refers to a group of fungi of the genus Claviceps. The most prominent member of this group is Claviceps purpurea. This fungus grows on rye and related plants, and produces alkaloids that can cause ergotism in humans and other mammals who consume grains contaminated with its...
in its dye.
- Nathaniel Teager, played by Peter LaCroix in the episode "UnrequitedUnrequited (The X-Files)"Unrequited" is the sixteenth episode of the fourth season of television series The X-Files. The mysterious murder of a U.S. Army Lieutenant General has Mulder and Scully racing against the clock to stop a seemingly unstoppable—and invisible—assassin.-Plot summary:The episode begins at...
": Nathaniel Teager is a soldier who went MIA from the Vietnam WarVietnam WarThe Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of...
. However, he has seemingly returned and—in the context of the Vietnam War POW/MIA issueVietnam War POW/MIA issueThe Vietnam War POW/MIA issue concerns the fate of United States servicemen who were reported as missing in action during the Vietnam War and associated theaters of operation in Southeast Asia...
—is hunting down and murdering high-ranking individuals who knew about the POWs and MIAs left behind in Vietnam. Teager now possesses the ability to seemingly disappear and become invisible in plain sight. It appears however that he can only become invisible when someone is looking directly at him. He is eventually killed by FBI agents, and his life (and death) are subsequently covered up by the government.
- Edward H. "Eddie" Van Blundht, Jr., played by Darin MorganDarin MorganDarin Morgan is an American screenwriter best known for several offbeat, darkly humorous episodes of the television series The X-Files and Millennium. His teleplay for the X-Files episode "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" won a 1996 Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing for a Drama...
in the episode "Small Potatoes": A self-described "born loser", Eddie is an inconspicuous janitorJanitorA janitor or custodian is a professional who takes care of buildings, such as hospitals and schools. Janitors are responsible primarily for cleaning, and often some maintenance and security...
, living in a small town in West VirginiaWest VirginiaWest Virginia is a state in the Appalachian and Southeastern regions of the United States, bordered by Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Ohio to the northwest, Pennsylvania to the northeast and Maryland to the east...
. In "Small Potatoes", Mulder and Scully head there to investigate why 5 women within the past 3 months have given birth to babies with vestigial tails. They soon learn that Eddie is the father of all the babies, and that he was also born with a tail. However, a more surprising find to Mulder and Scully, is that Eddie's body is covered with striated muscleStriated muscleStriated muscle tissue is a form of fibers that are combined into parallel fibers. More specifically, it can refer to:* Cardiac muscle .* Skeletal muscle* Branchiomeric muscles...
, which allows him to transform his appearance to that of virtually anyone (explaining how the women mistook Eddie for their husbands, or in one case, Mark HamillMark HamillMark Richard Hamill is an American actor, voice artist, producer, director, and writer, best known for his role as Luke Skywalker in the original trilogy of Star Wars. More recently, he has received acclaim for his voice work, in such roles as the Joker in Batman: The Animated Series, Firelord...
). Using his ability, Eddie manages to impersonate Mulder, and heads back to D.C. with Scully. While there, he visits Scully with a bottle of wineWineWine is an alcoholic beverage, made of fermented fruit juice, usually from grapes. The natural chemical balance of grapes lets them ferment without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes, or other nutrients. Grape wine is produced by fermenting crushed grapes using various types of yeast. Yeast...
, attempting to seduce her. The real Mulder eventually shows up, and promptly arrests Eddie, who was less than an inch from kissing Scully.
Season five
- The Invisible Men, from the episode "DetourDetour (The X-Files)"Detour" is the fourth episode aired in the fifth season of The X-Files. While traveling to a conference with Scully and two other FBI agents, Mulder stops at a roadblock to join a nearby inspection of attacks by an unidentified predator.-Plot:...
": While investigating several disappearances in the woodlands of northern Florida, Mulder and Scully and two other agents encounter at least two primitive men who possess the chameleonChameleonChameleons are a distinctive and highly specialized clade of lizards. They are distinguished by their parrot-like zygodactylous feet, their separately mobile and stereoscopic eyes, their very long, highly modified, and rapidly extrudable tongues, their swaying gait, the possession by many of a...
-like ability to blend in with their surroundings. Mulder theorizes that they are somehow associated with Ponce de LeonJuan Ponce de LeónJuan Ponce de León was a Spanish explorer. He became the first Governor of Puerto Rico by appointment of the Spanish crown. He led the first European expedition to Florida, which he named...
and the Fountain of YouthFountain of YouthThe Fountain of Youth is a legendary spring that reputedly restores the youth of anyone who drinks of its waters. Tales of such a fountain have been recounted across the world for thousands of years, appearing in writings by Herodotus, the Alexander romance, and the stories of Prester John...
and have perfectly adapted to their woodland home after more than four hundred years. After being stranded in an underground cave, one of the creatures is killed by Mulder and Scully by use of a gun. The other follows Scully to her hotel room but she leaves before it can attack her. The men are most easily seen by their glowing red eyes.
- The Great Mutato, played by Chris OwensChris Owens (actor)Christopher Bradley "Chris" Owens is a Canadian actor.Owens was born in Toronto, the son of Jeannette, a jazz singer, and Garry Owens, a jazz drummer....
: A real life "Frankenstein's monsterFrankenstein's monsterFrankenstein's monster is a fictional character that first appeared in Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. The creature is often erroneously referred to as "Frankenstein", but in the novel the creature has no name...
" in season 5 episode "The Post-Modern PrometheusThe Post-Modern Prometheus"The Post-Modern Prometheus" is the fifth episode of the fifth season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. It was written and directed by series creator Chris Carter and aired in the United States on November 30, 1997 on the Fox network...
", The Great Mutato is also the name of a comic bookComic bookA comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...
character created by the character Izzy Berkowitz in the episode. The so-called Great Mutato is alternately a source of fear, controversy and pride in the IndianaIndianaIndiana is a US state, admitted to the United States as the 19th on December 11, 1816. It is located in the Midwestern United States and Great Lakes Region. With 6,483,802 residents, the state is ranked 15th in population and 16th in population density. Indiana is ranked 38th in land area and is...
small town, whose citizens hope an appearance on The Jerry Springer ShowThe Jerry Springer ShowThe Jerry Springer Show is a syndicated television tabloid talk show hosted by Jerry Springer, a former politician, broadcast in the United States and other countries...
will bring them fame. Although the character is seen in silhouette several times, he only appears fully at the end of the episode, played by Chris Owens (who previously played a young version of the Cigarette Smoking ManCigarette Smoking ManThe Smoking Man is a fictional character and the antagonist on the American science fiction television series The X-Files. He serves as the arch-nemesis of FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder. Although his name is revealed to purportedly be C.G.B...
and would later play Jeffrey SpenderJeffrey SpenderFBI Special agent Jeffrey Frank Spender is a fictional character in the American Fox television series The X-Files, a science fiction show about a government conspiracy to hide or deny the truth of alien existence. Spender was in control of the X-Files office after Fox Mulder's and Dana Scully's...
on the show). The Great Mutato enjoys watching the film MaskMask (film)Mask is a 1985 American biographical drama film directed by Peter Bogdanovich, starring Cher, Sam Elliott, and Eric Stoltz. Dennis Burkley and Laura Dern are featured in supporting roles. Cher received the 1985 Cannes Film Festival award for Best Actress....
, about a teenaged boy with similar physical defects, and is consequently a large fan of CherCherCher is an American recording artist, television personality, actress, director, record producer and philanthropist. Referred to as the Goddess of Pop, she has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globes and a Cannes Film Festival Award among others for her work in...
, who stars in the movie as the boy's mother. It is ultimately revealed that The Great Mutato was created not by genetic "mad scientist" Dr. Pollidori, as viewers were initially led to believe, but by Pollidori's inexperienced father, thus resulting in his physical disability. The Great Mutato has been kept in solitary confinement since he was born without the younger Pollidori's knowledge and only rumours of his existence. The unexplained events which draw Mulder and Scully for the episode take place when Pollidori senior tries to rectify his mistake in creating the Great Mutato, by secretly allowing the lonely "monster" to drug and impregnate several women in the town in the hopes of creating a "bride". The implication is that the town is in fact already made up of several children of such paternity. At the end of the episode, The Great Mutato is seen ecstatically attending a Cher concert with Scully and Mulder who share a dance to "Walking in Memphis."
- Robert Patrick "Pusher" Modell, See season three.
- Karin Matthews, played by Sarah-Jane RedmondSarah-Jane RedmondSarah-Jane Redmond is a British-Canadian actress and acting instructor.-Filmography:* Harper's Island as Sarah Mills* Case 39 ... as Mrs. Barron* Sorority Wars * Smile of April ... as Witness 2...
in the episode "SchizogenySchizogeny"Schizogeny" is an episode of the popular American science fiction television series The X-Files.- Plot :In Coats Grove, Michigan, Bobby Rich, a sixteen-year-old boy, is berated by his stepfather, Phil, for not finishing his lawn work outside the house. Bobby picks up a shovel and instructs his...
": Matthews, the therapist of teenagers Bobby Rich and Lisa Baiocchi, possesses the ability to control trees. Abused as a child, Matthews encourages her patients to empower themselves against others in positions of authority. However, she is trapped by the memories of her own abusive father, who died twenty years prior, and uses her supernatural ability to murder Bobby's stepfather and later, Lisa's father. When Karin attempts to kill Mulder by dragging him underground, she is murdered by orchard caretaker John Ramirez.
- Chinga Doll, from the episode "Chinga": A little girl's doll that seems to be possessed by an evil presence. It forces several people to commit violent suicide before a deputy assisting Scully in investigating the matter destroys the doll inside a microwave. However, the doll, now burnt, is recovered from the ocean's depths at episode's end.
- The AI, from the episode "Kill SwitchKill Switch (The X-Files)"Kill Switch" is an episode of the popular Canadian/American science fiction television series The X-Files.- Plot :The episode begins one night at a diner in Washington, D.C.. A man tries to access some files on a laptop computer, but is repeatedly denied...
": The AI is an artificial intelligenceArtificial intelligenceArtificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its...
that menaces a group of computer experts, hackers and Mulder and Scully. The concept was previously addressed in first season episode "Ghost in the Machine", however, that Central Operating System was much more primitive, limited to controlling one building. In "Kill Switch", the AI executes complex tactical moves, and is able to target its "enemies" remotely using a satellite GPS system, as well as placing them within virtual reality worlds. The episode was written by Tom Maddox and William GibsonWilliam GibsonWilliam Gibson is an American-Canadian science fiction author.William Gibson may also refer to:-Association football:*Will Gibson , Scottish footballer...
, who was a creator of many of these concepts in his novels.
- Ronnie Strickland, played by Patrick RennaPatrick RennaPatrick Renna is an American actor who began his career in the film The Sandlot playing Hamilton "Ham" Porter. Since then, he has appeared in over 25 feature films as well as numerous guest-starring and recurring roles in award-winning television series such as Boston Legal and The X-Files among...
in the episode "Bad BloodBad Blood (The X-Files)"Bad Blood" is the twelfth episode of the fifth season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. Written by Vince Gilligan and directed by Cliff Bole, it aired in the United States on February 22, 1998 on the Fox network...
": Strickland, a pizza-delivery boy, is an actual vampire (one of many that comprise the population of a Texas RV park in the town of Cheney, Texas). Despite being drugged by one of Ronnie's pizzas, Mulder manages to stake and seemingly kill him. The discovery that Ronnie's vampire fangs are cheap plastic almost land Mulder and Scully a murder sentence, but Ronnie is eventually revived by an agent who removes the stake during an autopsy. Ronnie and his entire clan of vampires subdue Mulder and disappear into the night.
- Marty Glenn, played by Lili TaylorLili TaylorLili Anne Taylor is an American actress notable for her appearances in such award-winning indie films as Mystic Pizza, Say Anything..., Short Cuts and I Shot Andy Warhol, and the acclaimed TV show Six Feet Under....
in the episode "Mind's Eye": Marty is a blind woman who possesses inexplicable knowledge of a serial murderer's actions. Due to unexplained appearances at the crime scenes and her own confessions, she was held in police custody. It is revealed that the killer is her father and his first victim was Marty's mother, who was killed while still pregnant with Marty. Ever since, a connection was formed between Marty and her father, and she has had visions of her father's actions through his eyes. Marty tricks Mulder and Scully into staking out a bar to wait for her father, knowing he will instead come to her apartment seeking her out. She knocks out the detective guarding her and kills her father, freeing herself of his visions. Although she was free, she was tried with the murder of her father. When asked by Mulder if she wanted him to speak with the judge about the situation, she declined.
- Greg Pincus, portrayed by John Apicello in the episode "Folie a DeuxFolie a Deux (The X-Files)"Folie a Deux" is the nineteenth episode of the fifth season of television series The X-Files. Folie a Deux features a man who is the only one who can see that his boss is a monster and is turning his coworkers into monsters as well.- Plot :...
": Pincus was the manager of a small telemarketingTelemarketingTelemarketing is a method of direct marketing in which a salesperson solicits prospective customers to buy products or services, either over the phone or through a subsequent face to face or Web conferencing appointment scheduled during the call.Telemarketing can also include recorded sales pitches...
company in IllinoisIllinoisIllinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...
who was in fact a large, insectInsectInsects are a class of living creatures within the arthropods that have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body , three pairs of jointed legs, compound eyes, and two antennae...
-like monster who bit several of his employees, controlling them in a zombieZombieZombie is a term used to denote an animated corpse brought back to life by mystical means such as witchcraft. The term is often figuratively applied to describe a hypnotized person bereft of consciousness and self-awareness, yet ambulant and able to respond to surrounding stimuli...
-like state. One of Pincus' employees became aware of his true nature, and, determined to expose him, took his office hostage and demanded to be seen on television to prove his claims. Mulder, who had walked into the middle of the hostage situation, managed to see Pincus' true form before a SWAT team raided the building and killed the employee. Mulder, however, began making claims that Pincus was indeed a monster, eventually landing him in a psych ward. Pincus, in his monster form, came into Mulder's hospital room to kill him, but was stopped by Scully. Pincus disappeared, moving to another branch of the telemarketing company.
Season six
- Patrick Crump, played by Bryan CranstonBryan CranstonBryan Lee Cranston is an American actor, voice actor, writer and director. He is best known for his roles as Hal the father in the Fox situation comedy Malcolm in the Middle, and Walter White in the AMC drama series Breaking Bad, for which he won three consecutive Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama...
in the episode "Drive": A Nevada man subject to a strange, potentially infectious illness in the sixth season episode "Drive", he steals a car in his futile efforts to save himself and his family, and eventually holds Mulder hostage at gunpoint and forces him to drive west. Crump, who harbors an anti-government and anti-Semitic paranoia, has in fact been affected by a secret military program whose testing hardware lies under his residence. Signals emitted by the devices resonated in the inner earInner earThe inner ear is the innermost part of the vertebrate ear. In mammals, it consists of the bony labyrinth, a hollow cavity in the temporal bone of the skull with a system of passages comprising two main functional parts:...
s of Crump and his wife, forcing them into constant movement at the risk of an explosion inside their heads.
- Wayne Weinsider, played by Bruce CampbellBruce CampbellBruce Lorne Campbell is an American film and television actor. As a cult movie actor, Campbell starred as Ashley J. "Ash" Williams in Sam Raimi's Evil Dead series of films and he has starred in many low-budget cult films such as Crimewave, Maniac Cop, Bubba Ho-tep, Escape From L.A. and Sundown:...
in the episode "Terms of Endearment." Weinsider was a bigamist demonDemoncall - 1347 531 7769 for more infoIn Ancient Near Eastern religions as well as in the Abrahamic traditions, including ancient and medieval Christian demonology, a demon is considered an "unclean spirit" which may cause demonic possession, to be addressed with an act of exorcism...
living near Roanoke, VirginiaRoanoke, VirginiaRoanoke is an independent city in the Mid-Atlantic U.S. state of Virginia and is the tenth-largest city in the Commonwealth. It is located in the Roanoke Valley of the Roanoke Region of Virginia. The population within the city limits was 97,032 as of 2010...
who came to Earth to father a human child, this has ended poorly as every woman that he has impregnated has had a demonic fetus. Weinsider's most recent wife, unbeknownst to him, is also a demon, is looking to have a demon child and at the end of the episode runs off with their demon baby.
- Holman Hardt, played by Davis Manis in the episode "The Rain King": Holman is a lovelorn meteorologist who Mulder suspects of being able to subconsciously control the weather. His pining for a local woman causes all manner of weather problems for the town of Kroner, Kansas until Mulder finally manages to resolve things by giving Holman dating advice.
- Alfred Fellig, played by Geoffery Lewis in the episode "Tithonus": Fellig is a crime scene photographer who is discovered to also somehow have pictures of all his work just after the deaths happened. When Mulder and Scully investigate the matter it is revealed that Fellig has had multiple identities and is over one-hundred-fifty years old. He somehow possesses the ability to see when people are near death and is attempting to capture Death on film so that he can look at its face and finally die. When another agent blindly shoots Scully and he, he instructs her to not look at Death's face and finally moves on.
- Water Parasite, portrayed in the episode "Agua Mala": A creature that lives in the form of salt water but can take the form of a translucent tentacled creature when it attacks. It corners Mulder and Scully along with several other people in an apartment building on Florida's Gulf Coast during a hurricane.
- Bernard, played by Darren BurrowsDarren E. BurrowsDarren E. Burrows is an American Actor / Director.Burrows was born in Winfield, Kansas, the son of actor Billy Drago. Burrows is best known for playing Ed Chigliak in the television series Northern Exposure...
, and Pam, played by Carrie HamiltonCarrie HamiltonCarrie Louise Hamilton was an American actress, singer, and playwright. She was the daughter of comedienne/actress Carol Burnett and producer Joe Hamilton.-Life:...
in the episode "Monday": Bernard, a robber who initially failed to hold up a bank, somehow keeps the same day running over and over again until he can pull off a successful heist. Throughout the episode, he is constantly foiled in his attempts by Mulder (or with Scully when she appears in the loops) when he also comes to the bank to claim his paycheck. However Bernard keeps activating bombs hidden underneath his clothes in the end, killing himself, Mulder, Scully, and the people in the bank through the time loops. Only Bernard's girlfriend Pam, who is somehow "out of the loops" experiences the same day repeatedly but knows of previous events, tries to keep her boyfriend from robbing the bank, e.g.: persuading him, drugging his breakfast, warning others, etc. The characters start to gain a sense of déjà vuDéjà vuDéjà vu is the experience of feeling sure that one has already witnessed or experienced a current situation, even though the exact circumstances of the prior encounter are uncertain and were perhaps imagined...
through the course of the loops. Mulder is approached by Pam who warns him but is again killed in that loop, but manages to remember her warning in the next loop, finally apprehending Bernard and prevent him from activating his bomb, therefore ending the loop. However Pam is shot accidentally by Bernard and after remarking that "this time it's different", she dies.
- Gene Gogolak, played by Peter WhitePeter White (actor)Peter White is an American actor.White was born in New York City, New York and studied acting at the prestigious Yale School of Drama. In 1968, White received critical acclaim for his role as Alan McCarthy in off-Broadway's The Boys in the Band. White, and the rest of the original cast, appeared...
, and the Übermenscher, portrayed in the episode "Arcadia." Gogolak was President of the Homeowners Association in a planned community Mulder and Scully were investigating (three couples have vanished in seven years). The so-called übermenscher was a tulpaTulpaTulpa is an upaya concept in Tibetan Buddhism and Bon, discipline and teaching tool. The term was first rendered into English as 'Thoughtform' by Evans-Wentz :...
, a mystical creature said to be conjured and brought to life by sheer willpower. When Gene Gogolak, the founder of an import furniture business, discovered how to summon a tulpa in the Far EastFar EastThe Far East is an English term mostly describing East Asia and Southeast Asia, with South Asia sometimes also included for economic and cultural reasons.The term came into use in European geopolitical discourse in the 19th century,...
, he applied his newfound ability to a planned communityPlanned communityA planned community, or planned city, is any community that was carefully planned from its inception and is typically constructed in a previously undeveloped area. This contrasts with settlements that evolve in a more ad hoc fashion. Land use conflicts are less frequent in planned communities since...
he created near San Diego, CaliforniaSan Diego, CaliforniaSan Diego is the eighth-largest city in the United States and second-largest city in California. The city is located on the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California, immediately adjacent to the Mexican border. The birthplace of California, San Diego is known for its mild year-round...
called The Falls of Arcadia. Gogolak summoned his übermenscher whenever a resident of the neighborhood repeatedly violated the community's "Contracts, Covenants, and Regulations" rulebook (or CC&Rs), ordering the creature to kill said residents. The übermenscher was made up completely of garbage from an old landfill the neighborhood was built on. When Agent Mulder discovered the link between Gogolak and the creature, he returned to the house where he and Scully were living to save Scully from the monster, handcuffing Gogolak to a mailbox. The übermenscher appeared and brutally killed Gogolak, and was about to kill Mulder when Gogolak died, rendering the creature into a pile of garbage.
- Dr. Ian Detweiler, played by Andrew J. Robinson in the episode "Alpha": Detweiler is an animal specialist who was hunting an Asian dog known as the Wanshang Dhole that was believed to be extinct. After a series of dog attacks, Mulder theorizes that Detweiler was actually attacked by the Dhole and has become a sort of shape-shifting were-dog. Detweiler is killed when he accidentally drives himself and a victim out of an upper story window.
- Wilson "Pinker" Rawls, played by John Diehl in the episode "Trevor." He is originally a convict in the prison camp, but gains the ability to pass through solid material at will when he is locked in a shed during a tornado. Passing through the objects also makes them fragile due to his ability affecting the objects electromagnetic forces and he uses this to kill people by passing himself through said people making their structures damaged. In the course of the episode, he sought out and killed his former partners-in-crime who betrayed him. He is unable to be killed or subdued by conventional means, e.g.: bullets, melee weapons, handcuffs, prison rooms. However, his only weakness is to materials that have a strong insulation to electric currents due to the fact that his intanglability is caused by him manipulating the electrical charge of the objects he passes through, e.g. glass, mirrors and rubber. He eventually comes to reclaim his son Trevor from his wife, but is killed by her when his body is unable to pass through the windscreen of her car while trying to pass through it, cutting him in half.
- Phillip Padgett, played by John HawkesJohn Hawkes (actor)John Hawkes is an American film and television actor. He is known for his portrayal of the merchant Sol Star on the HBO series Deadwood, Dustin Powers on Eastbound & Down, and his Academy Award-nominated performance as the menacing backwoods meth addict Teardrop in Winter's Bone.-Life and...
in the episode "Milagro": a reclusive writer who is obsessed with Dana Scully. Padgett moved next door to Fox Mulder in order to be closer to Scully (no apartments were available in her building). During the episode, Padgett is writing a novel that gives the details of several murders before they occur. It turns out that one of the characters created by Padgett is the killer. Padgett ultimately burns his novel to save Scully from the killer.
- Josh "Ex" Exley, played by Jesse L. MartinJesse L. MartinJesse L. Martin is an American theatre, film, and television actor. He is known for originating the role of Tom Collins in the Broadway theatrical production of Rent, and for his portrayal of NYPD Detective Ed Green on the NBC drama television series Law & Order.-Early life:Martin, the third of...
in the episode "The UnnaturalThe Unnatural (The X-Files)"The Unnatural" is the nineteenth episode of the sixth season of the science fiction television series The X-Files. The episode first aired in the United States and Canada on April 25, 1999 on the Fox Network, and subsequently aired in the United Kingdom on Sky1. It was written and directed by lead...
": Exley is an exceptional baseball player in the Negro Leagues circa 1949, who turns out to be an extraterrestrial who arrived in the Roswell UFO incidentRoswell UFO incidentThe Roswell UFO Incident was the recovery of an object that crashed in the general vicinity of Roswell, New Mexico, in June or July 1947, allegedly an extra-terrestrial spacecraft and its alien occupants. Since the late 1970s the incident has been the subject of intense controversy and of...
. The episode, the first written and directed by David Duchovny, is mostly set in the past and follows Exley as he is torn between his passion for baseball and his desire not to be exposed, leading him to take the form of an African American player in the racially segregated era, due to his lower profile. However, when Exley begins to attract wider attention for his abilities, he comes into conflict with other members of his "race" (including regular mythology characters such as the Alien Bounty Hunter) and is killed. Having somehow achieved human form, he bleeds red blood. The story is retold to Mulder in the present by the brother of X-Files founder Agent Arthur Dales. The brother, who also happens to be named "Arthur Dales", witnessed the events as a young white agent assigned to protect Exley.
- The Fungus, from the episode "Field TripField Trip"Field Trip" is the twenty-first episode of the sixth season of the science fiction television series The X-Files. The episode first aired in the United States and Canada on May 9, 1999 on the Fox Network, and subsequently aired in the United Kingdom on Sky1. Frank Spotnitz came up with the story...
": A giant fungal life-form that resides in caves underneath the fields of North CarolinaNorth CarolinaNorth Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...
. Mulder and Scully first investigates the disappearance and discovery of a young couple's skeletal remains. During their search for answers, the duo are simultaneously affected by the fungus which releases its LSDLSDLysergic acid diethylamide, abbreviated LSD or LSD-25, also known as lysergide and colloquially as acid, is a semisynthetic psychedelic drug of the ergoline family, well known for its psychological effects which can include altered thinking processes, closed and open eye visuals, synaesthesia, an...
-like spores in the form of mushrooms growing in the fields. The drug keeps its victims sedated and under hallucinations while it slowly digests them in the caves below. Mulder and Scully managed to meet up in their hallucinations as they try to distinguish reality from fantasy throughout the episode. Mulder manages to break both of them from their trance when he successfully breaks the creature's grasp on them. At the same time, they are rescued by Assistant Director Skinner and the authorities. In the end, the fungus is most likely incinerated to prevent further contamination.
Season seven
- Robert "Rob" Roberts, portrayed by Chad DonellaChad DonellaChad E. Donella is a Canadian actor who has appeared in several movies and television shows.-Life and career:He attended the Arts York Drama Program, in which he participated in such plays as Oedipus Rex, Waiting for Godot, and The Collected Works of Billy the Kid. He has performed at Toronto's...
in the episode "Hungry." A young IllinoisIllinoisIllinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...
man employed as a desk clerk at a fast foodFast foodFast food is the term given to food that can be prepared and served very quickly. While any meal with low preparation time can be considered to be fast food, typically the term refers to food sold in a restaurant or store with preheated or precooked ingredients, and served to the customer in a...
restaurant, Roberts was in fact a mutant who subsisted on human brains. He had a daily disguise as a normal twenty-something young man, though in his true form (which he revealed to his victims before most of his killings), he was bald, had pale skin, had no ears, almost no nose, black eyes, and sharp teeth. Roberts actually resented having to kill people for food, and actually tried to join a support groupSupport groupIn a support group, members provide each other with various types of help, usually nonprofessional and nonmaterial, for a particular shared, usually burdensome, characteristic...
in the hopes of curbing his insatiable appetite, but his nature overwhelmed him and he killed an irate customer, a rival co-worker, a private detective, and a neighbor to eat their brains. When he was about to kill a female psychiatristPsychiatristA psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. All psychiatrists are trained in diagnostic evaluation and in psychotherapy...
he had befriended, he was cornered by Agents Mulder and Scully, who had been investigating Roberts' killings. In an effort to stop his hunger forever, Roberts attacked the agents and forced them to shoot him, committing suicide by copSuicide by copSuicide by cop is a suicide method in which a suicidal individual deliberately acts in a threatening way, with the goal of provoking a lethal response from a law enforcement officer or other armed individual, such as being shot to death....
.
- Max Harden, played by Scott Cooper in the episode "Rush": Max is a small town student and son of the local sheriff. He, along another young man and woman, discover a means of moving at a speed beyond the human eye's perception.
- Henry Weems, played by Willie GarsonWillie GarsonWillie Garson is an American character actor. He has appeared in over 50 movies, usually playing minor roles...
in the episode "The Goldberg Variation": Weems is a man that has seemingly been "cursed" with good luck, but at the horrible expense of others around him.
- Donnie Pfaster, See season two.
- The Fear Monster, from the episode "X-COPS": A monster that thrives on fear in Willow Park, a fictional area of South Los AngelesSouth Los AngelesSouth Los Angeles, often abbreviated as South L.A. and formerly South Central Los Angeles, is the official name for a large geographic and cultural portion lying to the southwest and southeast of downtown Los Angeles, California. The area was formerly called South Central, and is still widely known...
populated by terrified residents, prostitutes, drug addicts, and an eccentric gay couple. The semi-famous Mulder and Scully are investigating the case in Willow Park when they run into local law enforcement and camera crews for the show COPSCOPS (TV series)Cops is an American documentary/reality television series that follows police officers, constables, and sheriff's deputies during patrols and other police activities...
. Mulder initially suspects a werewolfWerewolfA werewolf, also known as a lycanthrope , is a mythological or folkloric human with the ability to shapeshift into a wolf or an anthropomorphic wolf-like creature, either purposely or after being placed under a curse...
attack, until a police sketch artist discovers that one resident apparently saw Freddy KruegerFreddy KruegerFrederick Charles "Freddy" Krueger is a fictional, horrifying character from the Nightmare on Elm Street series of horror films. He first appears in Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street as a disfigured dream stalker who uses a glove armed with razors to kill his victims in their dreams,...
. Scully is conducting an autopsy when her assistant drops dead of the Hanta virus she so dreads, and later she is threatened by her own fear of the camera itself. This episode suggests that the "monster" is seen differently by each person and kills each differently, depending on their own mortal fears.
- Maitreya, played by Krista AllenKrista AllenKrista Allen is an American actress. She is best known for her work in the television series Days of Our Lives, Baywatch Hawaii, and What About Brian; and in the Hollywood films Liar Liar, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Anger Management, and The Final Destination...
in the episode "First Person Shooter": Maitreya is a digital character—a female warrior created by a technician of video game developer First Person Shooter. Somehow the character enters into the company's current virtual reality game project and begins killing players, deaths which somehow affect their corporeal bodies as well. Mulder and Scully are forced into the VR world to confront her.
- Ellen Adderly, played by Michelle Joyner in the episode "Chimera": Ellen Adderly, the wife of Sheriff Phil Adderly, had a unique dissociative identity disorder that manifested itself physically. After having discovered her husband's affairs with two different women, Ellen unknowingly transformed into a frightening creature, preceded by bizarre raven sightings, and murdered the women in their homes. When Mulder becomes suspicious of her involvement in the crimes, Ellen - in her monstrous form - attempts to drown him in a bathtub, but upon seeing her grotesque reflection in the water, transforms back and is subsequently committed to a mental hospital.
- Betty Templeton and Lulu Pfeiffer, both portrayed by Kathy GriffinKathy GriffinKathleen Mary "Kathy" Griffin is an American actress, stand-up comedienne, television personality, New York Times best-selling author and an LGBT rights advocate. Griffin first gained recognition for appearances on two episodes of Seinfeld, and then for her supporting role on the NBC sitcom...
in the episode "Fight Club." They were daughters of an enraged convict via sperm donation, and inherited his mood. When they were near a telepathic link between them created mayhem in the surrounding area, by enraging everyone near and destroying objects, and both loved a wrestler, who later was revealed to have a convict brother, and they had a telepathic link too. When the four were at a wrestling arena their link made everyone fight without control.
- Jenn, played by Paula Sorge in "Je Souhaite", is a JinnGenieJinn or genies are supernatural creatures in Arab folklore and Islamic teachings that occupy a parallel world to that of mankind. Together, jinn, humans and angels make up the three sentient creations of Allah. Religious sources say barely anything about them; however, the Qur'an mentions that...
who is awakened to fulfill the wishes of two down-on-their-luck brothers.
Season eight
- Bat Creature from the episode "Patience": An extremely bloodthirsty bat creature, said to have been killed a half century ago, reappears and begins a new spree of vicious killings in Idaho. Agents Scully and Doggett are sent to investigate the first crime scene at a rural home in Burley, where a mortuary worker and his wife were mauled to death by what is preseumed to be an animal by the local Police Department. Scully proposes a connection between the current killings and a charred corpse pulled from a nearby river two weeks ago, much to the annoyance of local Detective Yale Abbott, who considers her "spooky theories" preposterous. The murder of an elderly lady in her attic and then Detective Abbott eventually leads the agents to an old man, Ernie Stefaniuk, who has been living alone on an island for 44 years. He tells them that he was one of a group of hunters who tracked down and killed the "human bat" in 1956, or so they had thought. Ernie says that the burnt body is that of his wife Ariel, who had chosen to spend the rest of her life with him in solitude on the six acre island. He had promised her a Catholic burial and sent her body to shore via the river, but had to torch her body to stop the creature from finding it, as she harbored his scent. Doggett then realises that all of the recent victims had at some point made contact with the body; the Detective discovered it, the undertaker prepared it and the old women identified it as being her daughter. In their attempt to find and protect Ernie, the agents unintentionally lead the creature straight to him. It savages Ernie before being shot by both Scully and Doggett, turning on them and then flying off into the night. Its ultimate fate remains uncertain.
- Billy Underwood from the episode "Invocation": Billy was a 7-year-old boy who vanished without a trace in 1990, only to reappear 10 years later, apparently not aging at all. He helps the agents reinvestigate his abduction and helps them locate his brother, who was kidnapped by the same person who originally took Billy. At the end of the episode, he shows Doggett where his skeleton is buried, then vanishes without a trace.
- Martin Wells, played by Joe MortonJoe MortonJoseph Thomas "Joe" Morton, Jr. is an American stage, television, and film actor.-Early life:Morton was born in The Bronx, a borough of New York City, New York. He is the son of Evelyn, a secretary, and Joseph Thomas Morton, Sr., a U.S. army intelligence officer. Because of his father's...
in the episode "Redrum": Wells was a prosecutorProsecutorThe prosecutor is the chief legal representative of the prosecution in countries with either the common law adversarial system, or the civil law inquisitorial system...
in Baltimore, Maryland who was accused of fatally stabbing his wife. Wells gradually began to realize that he was living backwards in time, living through each of the previous days before he was to be assassinated by his father-in-law (Friday, then Thursday, then Wednesday, and so on). He initially tried to seek help from Agents Scully and Doggett, but they were reluctant to believe him. Wells also began receiving visionsHallucinationA hallucination, in the broadest sense of the word, is a perception in the absence of a stimulus. In a stricter sense, hallucinations are defined as perceptions in a conscious and awake state in the absence of external stimuli which have qualities of real perception, in that they are vivid,...
of the night of his wife's murder, which eventually revealed that the real killer was a prisoner who assaulted him in jail. When he arrived to the day after his wife's murder, both he and Doggett (an old friend of Wells') arrested the prisoner. During a confrontation during the future killer's interrogation, the killer accused Wells of prosecutorial misconductProsecutorial misconductIn jurisprudence, prosecutorial misconduct is a procedural defense; via which, a defendant may argue that they should not be held criminally liable for actions which may have broken the law, because the prosecution acted in an "inappropriate" or "unfair" manner. Such arguments may involve...
, suppressing evidenceEvidenceEvidence in its broadest sense includes everything that is used to determine or demonstrate the truth of an assertion. Giving or procuring evidence is the process of using those things that are either presumed to be true, or were themselves proven via evidence, to demonstrate an assertion's truth...
during the trial of the killer's brother, who committed suicideSuicideSuicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Suicide is often committed out of despair or attributed to some underlying mental disorder, such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, alcoholism, or drug abuse...
in prison, something Wells later admitted to Doggett. The night of the murder, Wells came to his Baltimore apartment, where he and his wife were attacked by the killer. They were saved when Doggett fatally shot the assailant. The end of the episode, however, showed Wells willingly going to prison for his own crime.
- Anthony Tipit, portrayed in "Via Negativa": Tipit was a cultCultThe word cult in current popular usage usually refers to a group whose beliefs or practices are considered abnormal or bizarre. The word originally denoted a system of ritual practices...
leader in Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaPittsburgh, PennsylvaniaPittsburgh is the second-largest city in the US Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Allegheny County. Regionally, it anchors the largest urban area of Appalachia and the Ohio River Valley, and nationally, it is the 22nd-largest urban area in the United States...
who preached a hybrid of Eastern mysticismEastern mysticismEastern mysticism or Eastern spirituality is a broad and largely Western concept summarizing and sometimes amalgamating mystic traditions of the Middle East, the Indian Subcontinent and the Far East, a separate realm from Western mysticism...
and evangelical Christianity, claiming that certain hallucinogens could guarantee access to a higher plane of reality. After ingesting what is later described as a "super-amphetamineAmphetamineAmphetamine or amfetamine is a psychostimulant drug of the phenethylamine class which produces increased wakefulness and focus in association with decreased fatigue and appetite.Brand names of medications that contain, or metabolize into, amphetamine include Adderall, Dexedrine, Dextrostat,...
", Tipit's third eyeThird eyeThe third eye is a mystical and esoteric concept referring in part to the ajna chakra in certain spiritual traditions. It is also spoken of as the gate that leads within to inner realms and spaces of higher consciousness...
was opened.
- The Soul-Eater, played by Jordan Marder in the episode "The Gift": A creature of Native AmericanIndigenous peoples of the AmericasThe indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South America, their descendants and other ethnic groups who are identified with those peoples. Indigenous peoples are known in Canada as Aboriginal peoples, and in the United States as Native Americans...
lore that could consume the diseases of others, the soul-eater was discovered by Mulder shortly before his abduction. Mulder wished for the creature to relieve him of an incurable brain disease he had acquired following exposure to an alien artifact. Realizing that the creature was forced to experience the pain of all the people it cured, Mulder attempted to kill it in an act of mercy. The creature, however, survived, and was taken by a mob of townspeople in Squamash, Pennsylvania to cure a woman with kidney disease. Doggett, on the trail of the then-missing Mulder, encountered the creature in Squamash but was shot dead by a sheriff. In the final act of its power, the creature consumed Doggett's body and regurgitated it, reviving Doggett and bringing an end to its excruciating life.
- Herman Stites, portrayed in the episode "Alone". Stites was a biologist who experimented with reptiles. He discovered how to develop a new species of reptile, but somehow becomes it, and traps Doggett and Harrison underground. Stites, in his reptile form, uses venom to blind his victims and then waits for the digestive enzymes within the venom to kill them. Stites is taken underground by Mulder at the end of the episode, and is shot by Doggett.
Season nine
- Erwin Timothy Lukesh, portrayed by Dylan Haggerty in "4-D4-D (The X-Files)"4-D" was the fourth episode of the ninth season of The X-Files science-fiction television series created by Chris Carter.-Plot:At the beginning of the episode, FBI Agent Monica Reyes is monitoring Erwin Lukesh, who is suspected of being a psychotic killer who cuts out his victims' tongues. In...
": Lukesh was a serial killer who operated in a parallel universe of his own creation. According to Agent Monica Reyes, Lukesh created this universe accidentally through the suppression of his own rage, but after creating it, he committed a series of brutal murders against women in his pocket universe. As a side effect of existing in both that universe and the real universe, Lukesh possessed the ability to teleport from place to place at will, without leaving a trace. While the subject of an FBI stakeout led by Agents Dogget and Reyes, Lukesh slit agent Reyes throat fatally, and after teleporting behind him, shot Agent Dogget in the base of the spine with Agent Reyes service weapon. However, Dogget teleported back to the real universe with Lukesh for an unexplained reason, and after a complicated investigation of how Agent Dogget was shot with Agent Reyes service weapon, Lukesh killed his own mother to silence her, and out of rage, attempted to murder Agent Reyes, holding her responsible for his mothers death. However, as a result of a pre-existing FBI stakeout of Agent Reyes apartment, Lukesh was shot in the forehead and killed. His abilities were never explained.
- Oliver Martin, portrayed by Michael EmersonMichael EmersonMichael Emerson is an American actor who is perhaps best known for his roles as Benjamin Linus on Lost and fictional serial killer William Hinks in The Practice.-Early life:...
in "Sunshine Days": Oliver, whose real name is Anthony Fogelman, is a Van Nuys, California man who exhibited powerful psychokinetic abilityPsychokinesisThe term psychokinesis , also referred to as telekinesis with respect to strictly describing movement of matter, sometimes abbreviated PK and TK respectively, is a term...
at an early age. Raised by a single mother, Anthony was a lonely child whose life was lightened by the presence of a parapsychologist named Dr. John Rietz. Eventually, Rietz left, leaving Anthony without the only father figure he had. As he grew older, Anthony developed an obsession with The Brady BunchThe Brady BunchThe Brady Bunch is an American sitcom created by Sherwood Schwartz and starring Robert Reed, Florence Henderson, and Ann B. Davis. The series revolved around a large blended family...
, the TV series he watched with Dr. Rietz as a child; his abilities allowed him to literally recreate the Brady household (complete with the entire Brady family and Alice) inside his own home. Anthony eventually adopted the name Oliver Martin in a reference to Cousin Oliver, regarded by the Brady kids as a jinxJinxA jinx, in popular superstition and folklore, is:* A type of curse placed on a person that makes them prey to many minor misfortunes and other forms of bad luck;...
. His abilities lead to the deaths of two people, and the resulting investigation by Scully, Doggett, and Reyes lead to a hopeful reunion with Dr. Rietz and Anthony choosing to abandon his powers as they are beginning to adversely affect his health.