X Files: Tooms (s1 e21)

Summary: The return of Eugene Victor Tooms from episode 3.  Still creepy and slimy. The first appearance of FBI Assistant Director Walter Skinner, and with Cigarette Smoking Man blatantly overseeing the meeting with Scully, informing her that her work on the X Files isn’t up to expectations. Mulder presents crazy sounding evidence at Tooms’ parole hearing, … Read more

X Files: E. B. E. (s1 e17)

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 … Read more

X Files: Young at Heart (s1 e16)

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)