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Show: The X Files
Season: 1
Episode: 23
Title: Roland
Original Air Date: May 6, 1994

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Favorite Quotes:

* Roland: People die, they go away. They aren’t supposed to come back.

Synopsis: A janitor is trying to work a keypad, but fails. He’s mentally disabled. A scientist helps him but puts him down. The room has scientist’s working on a jet engine project. The three of them are fighting. One scientist goes into the turbine room to make some changes. The door closes behind him. The janitor starts working at the computer and turns the turbine on with the scientist in the chamber. Roland erases some math on the board. He writes a new problem. The turbine reaches speeds of over Mach 6 and inhales the scientist. Scully and Mulder are brought in. They speak with the two remaining scientists and the project leader. Then they go to speak with Roland. They don’t get any answers but Mulder takes a paper he was writing on. A handwriting expert can’t match Roland’s writing to what’s on the white board either. Roland is having another memory flash. At the lab, one of the scientists is working. Someone enters the code on the lab door. Roland cracks him over the head with his coffee cup. He puts him face first into liquid nitrogen. Scully explains what happened to Mulder. The two go back to see Roland. Mulder tries to help him pick out a shirt to calm him. Roland tells him Dr. Grable got him his job. He tells Mulder that he died and wasn’t supposed to come back. Scully requests a copy of Roland’s file. Mulder postulates that Dr. Grable is using Roland. Scully discovers that Dr. Grable and Roland share the same birthdate. Back at the house Roland lives at he’s talking to a girl and gets a scary vision. He scares her but he doesn’t want to hurt her so he locks himself in the bathroom. The duo talks to the project manager again, they suspect a cover up or a faked death. At the college, Dr. Grable’s body is in a cryogenic capsule. The temperature on his unit fluctuates randomly. Based on the file Mulder thinks that Roland and Dr. Grable are twins. Mulder has a computer artist do some comparison and confirms they are twins. He goes back to talk to Roland. Roland doesn’t want to tell him about his dreams because they are bad. He shows him a photo of Dr. Grable and he starts getting very upset and hitting himself in the head and screaming. He runs into the bathroom again. Mulder explains psychic connections to Scully. He tells her that Grable isn’t dead because of the cryogenics chamber he’s in. The project manager was spying on them through the cameras. He goes to Dr. Grable’s cryo-crypt and reprograms it to slowly warm up. Roland is somewhere working in a notebook and gets a flash of a temperature. Scully gets the records proving that they are indeed identical twins. Scully gets a call from the cryo facility. She learns the capsule has been messed with. Roland is back at the lab working on the turbine. It’s up to Mach 13. He gets flashes of the temperature being fixed. The project manager walks in on him. He realizes it’s Dr. Grable working through Roland. He pulls out a gun. Roland knocks him out with a keyboard. Mulder and Scully rush to the school. The project manager is put in the turbine room and Dr. Grable/Roland start it up. Mulder and Scully run to the turbine room. Mulder asks Arthur how to stop it. Then Scully asks Roland to help stop it. We see the cryo temp hit 150. Mulder and Scully try to explain to the house mother what happened. He shows her how Roland has completed the calculations. Roland is in his room packing. Tracy comes to see him. She asks where he is going. He tells her he has to leave. He gives her his jar of stars. She tells him she loves him and he tells her he does too.

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Show: The X Files
Season: 1
Episode: 22
Title: Born Again
Original Air Date: April 29, 1994

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Favorite Quotes:

* Officer: Agent Scully, he’s been dead for 9 years, which means that little girl saw a ghost.

* Scully: Because sometimes looking for extreme possibilities makes you blind to the probable explanation right in front of you.

* Scully: I told you it was a signature hit.
Mulder: Give me the grizzly details.

* Mother: What’s going on?
Scully: All we know is that your daughter has witnessed two deaths in the last two days.

* Scully: You think he’s back later Peter Proud to avenge his murder?

* Mulder: Short of her growing a mustache, how much more apparent does it have to become for you to accept it?

Synopsis: At a police station a female office is just getting off. She spots a child in the alley alone. She brings her back in for another office to talk with her. The child makes eye contact with the male officer and he suddenly flies out the window and lands on a car, dead. They call in Mulder and Scully. They try to get background on the officer. The little girl told the female office a man threw the officer out of the window. They use a computer artist rendering to try and figure out who the man is. The computer system has a strange glitch. Scully speaks with her mother. Her mother tells her she’s not like other kids her age. Mulder shows her the sketch of the man but she doesn’t recognize it. Scully heads back for an autopsy. Mulder suspects that the child has psychokinetic powers. He talks to her psychiatrist. She starts looking at him like he’s nuts and kicks him out. Scully begins the autopsy. When she uncovers him she finds what looks like burns. The female office arrives and she found a facial match. But the officer who it matches has been dead for 9 years. She brings the case file to Mulder at the station. He asks for the details of what happened to the officer. His injuries are the same thing that the little girl keeps doing to the dolls in therapy. The two begin investigating that murder. They speak with his former partner and don’t get much. The officer they spoke with, Tony, speaks with another person. He’s very freaked out. Turns out they were involved in Charlie’s murder. That night a bus picks up the man the Tony met with. When he gets off his scarf somehow gets stuck in the doors. The bus drivers sees it but when he tries to stop the bus he can’t. He winds up being hanged and dies. The little girl is on the bus. The mother comes down to the station. The female office tells Mulder that the man who just died used to be Barbola’s partner. The only connection is the drug bust in Chinatown. So the two dig into that case. Tony gets another visit. His wife tells them he never came home last night. They have an origami collection. Turns out they were made by her ex-husband, Charlie Morris. He’s the officer killed in the Chinatown hit. The little girl finally gets hypnotized. She’s reliving Charlie Morris’s death. Scully is not happy about the results. Mulder rewatches the taped video of it, he finds some weird static. At Tony’s house, there is a knock on the door. His wife thinks it might be him. She opens the door and finds a origami giraffe. Mulder has a tech check the video. He confirms that the image was actually recorded there. The female officer comes in with the pathologist’s records of Charlie’s autopsy. He was murdered by drowning. Tony finally arrives home. He wants her to run away with him. The little girl is at the window. The tech has managed to pull the image. It’s a diver from Charlie’s saltwater tank. Mulder believes he was killed in his own fish tank. Back at Tony’s the power goes out. He goes downstairs with a gun. A power cord wraps around his legs and he loses his gun. The little girl appears. Mulder and Scully arrive at Tony’s house. They hear a racket and the wife is screaming. Scully finds another door that they are able to get in. Tony starts talking to the little girl like he’s Charlie. They make it in the house and the wife is screaming she’s trapped. Scully lets her out. They both come down stairs. Tony then confesses that he knew what they did to Charlie and that he was a part of it. Suddenly, there’s a bright light and even the fish tank is going crazy. The wife asks him to stop. The fish tank explodes. A gun was in the tank along with the diver. Tony plead guilty to quite a few charges involving Charlie’s death. The little girl has now gone completely back to normal.

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Show: The X Files
Season: 1
Episode: 21
Title: Tooms
Original Air Date: April 22, 1994

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Favorite Quotes:

* Mulder: There’s no statute of limitations on murder.

* Scully: This isn’t about doing it by the book. You haven’t slept in three days.

* Scully: Mulder, I wouldn’t put myself on the line for anybody but you.

* Skinner: Mulder, are you suggesting Tooms is framing you?
Mulder: Of course.

* Mulder: You can get the next mutant.

Synopsis: In a sanatorium, we hear a child scream for his mother, people crying, etc. Tooms is here. He sticks his arm through the food slot and stretches it out of joint to reach the upper most door lock. A doctor comes to see him and finds him in his room. The doctor tells him that he’s ready to be released. Skinner has Scully in his office. Cigarette smoking man is there. The X Files unit is not being shut down because their solve rate is so high. Eugene Tooms is in court. Mulder is there but Scully is not. Each witness takes the stand. Mulder then takes the stand. Scully finally appears while Mulder testifies. It doesn’t go well. In the hall, Scully tells Mulder she was called into Skinner’s office. He’s released on three conditions. One of which is he live with a husband and wife. Mulder is going to follow him. Tooms continues working for animal control. He’s still hunting for his next victim. He zeroes in on one and Mulder stops him. Scully visits Det. Briggs. She asks him for anything that did not seem to fit. He tells her a 5th victim was discovered but never found. He thinks the body is in the cement of the chemical plant. Scully has the floor searched with ground penetrating radar. Briggs is there too. He finds a dirt spot and announces the body is there. Tooms finds another possible target. The spot Briggs picked out turns out to be correct. A skeletonized hand with a wedding ring is uncovered. Meanwhile, Tooms newest victim drives home and Tooms follows him. But Mulder is still following him and pulls up behind him. Mulder fell asleep in the car. When he wakes he checks the van and finds that Tooms is not in it. He’s slithered into the sewer. The wife of the victim sees green water in her toilet and snakes it. She tries to pull the snake back out and it fighters her. But before she exits the bathroom she puts on the lid lock. Tooms must find another way. He opens a window and goes through the bars. Mulder investigates outside. He sees evidence outside a window and knocks on the door. Mulder tells him there is an intruder in his house. The window where he was working is now open. Outside Tooms’s van is gone. Scully had the remains examined at the Smithsonian. The doctor ran a program to recreated a photo of the person from the skull. It matches the missing person from the 30’s. Scully now joins Mulder on his stake out. He’s worried that the X Files will be ended and he doesn’t want Scully reprimanded. She sends him home. Mulder leaves, but he’s got someone in his trunk and doesn’t know it. As Scully looks at the sandwich with the bite mark she gets an idea. At Mulder’s one of the heating grate screws is coming loose. He doesn’t’ hear the screw fall, but we see Tooms appear. He makes himself look as if he’s been beaten. He tells the doctor Mulder did it. A knock on Mulder’s door wakes him. The detective and an officer pay him a visit. He’s asked to go to the station. Skinner pulls Mulder and Scully. Cigarette smoking is there. Scully gives Mulder an alibi. Skinner advises him to take a break. He then tells him he’s forbidden to go near Tooms. Scully examines Tooms dental records. They recreate his teeth and it’s an exact match to the bite on the rib. At the home where Tooms is staying the doctor comes to visit and the older couple leave. He closes the door, starts growling and attacked the doctor. Mulder and Scully arrive on scene. They knock and no one answers. The door is open and they go in. They find the doctor dead without his liver. His old building has been torn down. A new one is there and they head over to try and find him. At the bottom of the elevator there is a hatch. Mulder goes down the hatch and tries to find Tooms. He finds the nest. Tooms tries to pull him in it but he escapes. Mulder manages to kick him and Scully pulls him out. Mulder flips over and turns on the escalator. Tooms is now very dead. Skinner reads the report in his office, and his skeptical. The Smoking Man believes it.

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