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: 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: 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)
Summary: An unnamed Other Agency brings an odd case to Mulder and Scully. A poltergeist of a murdered boss. Scully shows she’s still not a believer.
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Guest Actors: Lorena Gale (as a wonderfully disinterested M.E. in one short scene)
Summary: Eugene Tooms, who will make a reappearance later in the season seems to like to hibernate for 30 years, awake, and then eat the livers of 5 people before hibernating again. And he can squeeze into super tiny spaces and likes to kill people who seem to be unreachable.
Location: Baltimore, Maryland
Guest Actors: Donal Logue (recently a guest actor on Royal Pains)