Summary: A religious cult abducting children or bovine growth hormone causing violence. Scully recognizes deep throat’s hit man cleaning up after the drug testing gets exposed.
Location: Delta Glen, Wisconsin
Guest Actors: Paul Sand (general all-around weirdo character actor)
Summary: Episode starts with suspect fleeing police bleeding green then Mulder getting a call from Deep Throat. Deep Throat tips Mulder to government-run alien-human hybrid research. Season ends with Deep Throat being shot and uttering “Trust No One”, Mulder calling Scully in the middle of the night: “They’re shutting us down”, Cigarette Smoking Man storing alien sample in large Pentagon storage room.
Location: Baltimore, Maryland. Gaithersburg, Maryland. Washington, DC.
Mentions of the Human Genome Project and gene therapy as cutting edge work.
Summary: Extraterrestrial Biological Entity. Lead by a secret informant, Mulder and Scully trace the smuggling of a downed spacecraft and its occupant across the country. This episode introduces The Lone Gunmen, some of my favorite recurring characters.
And for a light moment: “I think it’s remotely plausable that someone might think you’re hot,” Mulder to Scully.
Location: Iraq; Hakkari, Turkey; Reagan, Tennessee; Lexington, Tennessee
Summary: A criminal who Mulder previously sent to prison as his first case at the academy and who is now thought to be dead is apparently responsible for some robberies. Mulder flirts a bit with lab tech Henderson.
Location: Pennsylvania; Washington, D.C.
Guest Actors: Christine Estabrook (Mad Men, Desperate Housewives)
Summary: Spooky ass little girls. I thought that these characters were recurrent ones, but they aren’t. I guess I saw this one in reruns multiple times. Mulder gives us a nice cattle mutilation slide show to open the episode.
Location: Greenwich, Connecticut; Marin County, California
Guest Actors: Harriet Sansom Harris (Texas actress, has played lots of creepy roles)
Summary: A H.A.L. type computer is a research project automating a high rise, and it’s a bit homicidal. Some of the computer science and pop culture verbiage humored me.
Location: Alexandria, Virginia
Guest Actors: Rob LaBelle (a frequent sci-fi character actor)