Summary: Scully deals with the death of her dad. Meanwhile a serial killer who claims psychic information is trying to stay his execution by providing information about an ongoing investigation.
Location: Raleigh, North Carolina
Guest Actors: Don Davis (Twin Peaks, Stargate: SG1), Brad Dourif (Dune, Blue Velvet, Babylon 5)
This episode is named after a song that’s been on The El Orbits’ set list since the early years.
Summary: Firestarter. British problem jumps the pond to reunite Mulder with an old flame.
Location: Bosham, England; Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Guest Actors: Mark Sheppard (Dollhouse, Warehouse 13, Battlestar Galactica, and apparently a musician who played with Robyn Hitchcock), Amanda Pays (Max Headroom, The Flash)
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: The episode starts with a UFO crash, and Mulder is tipped off by Deep Throat. The evacuation and Mulder sneaking through the woods reminded me of Close Encounters. UFO fanatic Max Fenig appears, and will do so again in future seasons. His part in the episode makes it most interesting.
Location: Townsend, Wisconsin
Summary: The Mars Face plays a central thematic point in this story of an astronaut haunted or possessed by a close encounter during a space walk.
Location: Pasadena, California; Houston, Texas (they did a good approximation of driving in rainy fog at night)
Guest Actors: Ed Lauter
Summary: Something has gone awry in a remote arctic research facility … (I think we’ve heard this one before, and since.) The b-roll stock footage is hilarious. The crater covered in ice is a plot point for an end-series movie (as I recall).
Location: Icy Cape, Alaska
Guest Actors: Felicity Huffman (Sports Night, Desperate Housewives)