Season 4: Paper Hearts (4X08)

Writer: Vince Gilligan
Director: Rob Bowman

Mulder is haunted by a series of vivid dreams that leads him to the location of the buried body of a murdered girl with a heart shape cut out of her clothing. Mulder recognizes the M.O. of the crime as matching murders carried out by serial killer John Lee Roche, whom Mulder profiled in one of his first cases with the FBI. Between the years of 1979 to 1990 Roche, a vaccum cleaner salesman abducted thirteen young girls, strangled them and cut heart shaped material from their clothes which he kept as trophies.

When the body is identified as Addie Sparks, who went missing in 1975, it seems to indicate that Roche's killing spree started earlier that previously thought. Roche's heart shaped trophies were never recovered so the exact number of victims remained unknown. Mulder has another dream which leads him to Roche's paper heart tophies hidden in his old car, there are sixteen hearts indicating two more victims unaccounted for. Mulder and Scully question Roche about the remaining two victims. Roche hints that Mulder's sister Samantha was one of his victims.

Mulder goes to see his mother and finds evidence that Roche sold her a vaccum cleaner in 1973 just before Samantha disappeared. Mulder questions Roche once more and strikes him when he refuses to co-coperate further. Assistant Director Skinner orders Mulder off the case. But as Mulder begins to doubt his recollections of his sister's abduction he is driven to find the truth about what happened to his sister.

Notes:
When Scully says to Mulder: "A dream is an answer to a question we haven't yet learned how to ask," she is quoting Mulder back at himself. He originally said this line in the season 2 episode "Aubrey".

Mulder finds Roche's trophy cloth hearts inside a copy of Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland". Later we learn that Roche lived on Alice Street. The veiled reference here is to Carroll's alleged fascination with prepubescent girls.

Mulder comes to believe that his sister may have met a more mundane end, at the hands of a serial killer, rather than being abducted by aliens. However, he doesn't stop to think about the alien clones from "Colony/Endgame" and "Herrenvolk", which prove that his sister was, in fact, abducted and expiremented on by aliens.

"Paper Hearts" was the nickname given to the case by agents because of the cloth hearts that John Lee Roche removed from his victims clothing.

Quotes:
Mulder: Scully, do you belive that my sister Samantha was abducted by aliens? Have you ever believed that? No. So What do you think what happened to her?
Scully: What are you saying you believe now?
Mulder: I don't know. I don't know what happened. I don't know what to believe. I just know that I have to find out now.

Roche: It's your sister.
Mulder: If that's true, tell me where.
Roche: But you'll want to now everything, right? The big mystery revealed. The...
Scully: Drop the mind games.
Roche: I can't just tell you. You need me to show you.
Mulder: You just want to get out of here.
Roche: You're damn right I do. You know, just for a day or two. I'm being honest about that. And most of all, I can't wait to see your face.
Scully: Oh, God. You're going to see the inside of your cell and that's where you're going to rot. (Turns to Mulder defensively) Come on, Mulder. Let's get out of here!
(They quickly do. While waiting to get out of the guard area, we see Roche holding sadly his head with his hands like he's just blown it.)

Mulder: Sir? I need to know why I've been denied further access to John Lee Roche. I was told that order comes down from you.
Skinner: Could you tell me why you saw fit to strike a prisoner in federal custody? Now, Agent Scully didn't report that to me but she should have. The whole thing was videotaped as per prison policy. I saw it. You're lucky I don't have your ass in a sling!

Roche: Did you bring me back my hearts?
Mulder: Yesterday, you said something about me taking it personally. Why did you say that to me? Where were you in 1973?
Roche: When exactly? The whole year?
Mulder: November 1973. November 27th, 1973. Do you know what I'm getting at?
Roche: I was selling vacuum cleaners in 1973. I made a sales trip to Martha's Vineyard that time of year and...I uh, sold a vacuum cleaner to your dad. He bought it for your mom. I believe it was a Electrovac Duchess or the Princess model. Uh, your dad and I talked about it at great length. He, uh had a really hard time choosing.
Mulder: What do you know about my sister?
Roche: You bring me back my hearts, and maybe I'll tell you more.

Episode Number: 83
Season Number: 4
First Aired: Sunday December 15, 1996
Production Code: 4X08

Season 4: Terma (4X10)

Writers: Frank Spotnitz and Chris Carter
Director: Rob Bowman

Mulder and Krycek are held in the Russia Gulag but Krycek talks in Russian with one of the guards and is released from the cell. The prisoner in the next cell speaks English and tells Mulder that Krycek addressed the guard as a superior. Mulder discovers that the prisoners are being used as Guinea-pigs by the Russian to create an antidote to the Black Oil, that they all eventually die. Mulder swears to the prisoner that he will live long enough to kill Krycek.

The prisoner is impressed by Mulder's spirit and gives him a hand made knife, which Mulder uses to escape taking Krycek prisoner at the same time. A former KGB assassin, Peskow is brought out of retirement and travels to the US to kill the Well Manicured Man's physician Dr. Charne-Sayre, who was in charge of the Conspiracy's own Black Oil antidote experiments being carried out in retirement homes in Florida.

Back in Washington Scully and Assistant Director Skinner testify to the Senate Subcommittee hearing, but the Cigarette Smoking Man is pulling the strings, and the hearing focuses on the whereabouts of Agent Mulder, not the origin of the extra terrestrial Black Oil. Unwilling to reveal Mulder's location, Scully is jailed for contempt of Congress. Mulder turns up at the next Senate hearing and Scully persuades the Senate to adjourn the hearing until further evidence can be presented. But Peskow is one step ahead of the two agents and they can do nothing as the evidence is systematically destroyed.

Notes:
'Terma' is Russian for prison or jail, and is also a Latin conjunction of 'death'. It has also been suggested that the title refers to the Tibetan Buddhist term "Tyurma", meaning hidden or buried truth. Of course, within in the episode it was the name of a town in North Dakota.

Krycek's Russian alias (or perhaps his real name), 'Comrade Arntzen' is named for Val Arntzen, a member of the Set Decorating Department.

This episode's tagline changes to 'E Pur Si Muove', Italian for "But It Does Move". Supposedly, this is the phrase Galileo said under his breath after the Church forced him to admit that his theory on the Earth rotating around the sun was incorrect - meaning that no matter what someone makes you say, it doesn't change what you know to be true.

Due to production time constraints some of the visual effects of the black-oil worms weren't ready until the very last minute so the networks in Canada and in the Midwest, who had to have the episode a couple hours earlier, saw a different version of that particular visual effect in the original broadcast.

Quotes:
Scully: It is not just Mulder I am protecting sir.
Skinner: Then what are you doing?
Scully: We were called before this committee to answer questions about a murder, about an intercepted diplomatic pouch. A pouch that was to be delivered to a prominent Doctor, A woman who is now dead, as is the man who was delivering said pouch. The Contents of which have infected an exo-biologist with a paralyzing toxin... Yet, what are we stuck on here, the whereabouts of Agent Mulder.

(CSM pulls up in front of a house where the Well Manicured Man is sitting. He's smoking a cigarette.)
CSM: That’s a nasty habit. It's bad for the health.
Well-Manicured Man: Health is the least of my concerns at the moment.
CSM: Yes.
(CSM takes a cigarette out and lights it up for himself.)
CSM: According to reports from your personal physician you suffered a serious riding accident here on your property.

Sorenson: Well... uh... what are we talking about...? Little green men?
Scully: No, sir. Not at all.
Mulder: Why is this so hard to believe? When the accepted discovery of life off this planet is on the front page of every newspaper around the world? When the most conservative scientists and science journals are calling for the exploration of Mars and Jupiter? With every reason to believe that life and the persistence of it is thriving outside our own terrestrial sphere? If you cannot get past this, then I suggest this whole committee be held in contempt, for ignoring evidence that cannot be refuted.

Mulder (Hugging Scully): It's good to put my arms around you. Both of them.

Episode Number: 82
Season Number: 4
First Aired: Sunday December 1, 1996
Production Code: 4X10

Season 4: Tunguska (4X09)

Writers: Frank Spotnitz and Chris Carter
Director: Rob Bowman

Mulder receives an anonymous tip about a right wing militia group planning an Oklahoma style bombing. The informant turns out to be Alex Krycek, rescued from the missile silo by the Militia group. Krycek manages to persuade Mulder that he wants revenge on the Cigarette Smoking Man and can help bring down the shadowy Syndicate he is part of. Despite his personal loathing of Krycek and his belief that Krycek killed his father, Mulder reluctantly accepts his co-operation.

Krycek directs Mulder and Scully to intercept a Russian courier's parcel, which turns out to contain a 4 billion year old extraterrestrial rock. Scully takes the rock off to be tested on but when a government exobiologist drills in to the rock he is attacked by the black oil. The Well Manicured Man is shocked to hear that Mulder has the rock and orders the Cigarette Smoking Man to recover it. Mulder takes Krycek to Assistant Director Skinner's apartment for 'safe' keeping while he seeks out his UN contact Marita Covarrubias who informs him that the Russian courier's destination was Tunguska, which Mulder recognises as the scene of a massive explosion when a fireball crashed there in 1908.

The Russian courier breaks in to Skinner's apartment and is killed by Krycek, forcing Mulder to take Krycek, who speaks Russian with him to Tunguska. As Scully and Skinner face a congressional investigation over the death of the courier, Mulder and Krycek are captured and imprisoned in a Russian Gulag.

Notes:
In the closed captioning for this episode, viewers saw Mulder pull a cockroach out of a drinking cup and say: "Bambi?". This is a reference Dr. Bambi Berenbaum, an entomologist studying cockroaches who appeared in the season 3 episode 'War of the Coprophages'.

Krycek tells Mulder that "When you go underground you gotta learn to live with the rats", a possible reference to Nick Lea's nickname, 'Ratboy'.

Tunguska is the location in Siberia where an object (asteroid? UFO?) struck the earth on June 30, 1908. The blast levelled over a half million acres and was hundreds of times stronger than the blast of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

Quotes:
Scully: I, Dana Katherine Scully, swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me God. I would like to read from a prepared statement.
Senator Sorenson: You may do so.
Scully: I left behind a career in medicine to become an FBI agent four years ago because I believed in this country. Because I wanted to uphold its laws, to punish the guilty and to protect the innocent. I still believe in this country. But I believe that there are powerfulmen in the government who do not. . . men who have no respect for the law and who flout it with impunity.
Chairman Romine: Ms. Scully. . .
Scully: I have come to the conclusion that it is no longerpossible. . .
Chairman Romine: Agent Scully... this is not a soapbox, Miss Scully. Your statement will be entered into the record.
Scully: With all due respect, Mr. Chairman, I would like to finish.
Chairman Romine: This is not why we are here today.
Scully: Then why are we here, sir?
Senator Sorenson: Agent Scully, do you or do you not know the whereabouts of Agent Mulder? Are you or are you not aware of Agent Mulder's present location?
Scully: I respectfully decline to answer that question, sir.
Chairman Romine: Ms. Scully, you cannot refuse to answer thatquestion.
Scully: Because I believe answering that question could endangerAgent Mulder's life.
Chairman Romine: You don't seem to understand. Your response is not optional; you are an agent of the FBI.
Scully: Then if I could please finish my statement. . . that it is no longer possible to carry out my duties as an FBI agent.
Senator Sorenson: Are you tendering your resignation, Ms. Scully? Is that what you're trying to say?
Scully: No, sir. What I am saying is that there is a culture oflawlessness that has prevented me from doing my job. That the realtarget of this committee's investigation should be the men who arebeyond prosecution and punishment. The men whose policies are behind the crimes that you are investigating.
Senator Sorenson: Either you tell us what you know about Agent Mulder's whereabouts, or you will be held in Contempt of Congress.
(Scully and Sorenson stare at each other.)
Senator Sorenson: Agent Scully?

Mulder: The only thing that will destroy this man is the truth.
Krycek : The truth, the truth!. There's no truth. These men, they make it up as they go along. They're the engineers of the future. They're the real revolutionaries.

Mulder: I don't speak Russian.
Prisoner: Then no one told you.
Mulder: Told me what?
Prisoner: That you were brought here to die. To wish you were dead.
Mulder: I wasn't brought here, I came here looking for something.
Prisoner: The only thing you will find here is death.
Mulder: What is this Place?
Prisoner: This Place.. A Gulag, a place where the guilty rule the innocent.

Episode Number: 81
Season Number: 4
First Aired: Sunday November 24, 1996
Production Code: 4X09

Season 4: Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man (4X07)

Writer: Glen Morgan
Director: James Wong

Agents Mulder and Scully meet with Frohike at the Lone Gunman offices, Frohike informs them about the secret past of the mysterious Cigarette Smoking Man, who has been one step ahead of them through out their time on the X-files. Frohike tells them what he has learnt, how the Cigarette Smoking Man was orphaned as a baby after the death of his communist father by electrocution and his mother from lung cancer. He joined the army where he became friends with a young Bill Mulder, until he was recruited by a shadowy conspiracy working within the government whilst an Army Captain.

How he was involved in the assassination of both John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, both icons of hope for their generation. The Cigarette Smoking Man quickly became a powerful player in the shadowy world he inhabits, always striving to remain hidden in the shadows. He worked along side Deep Throat, who would later become Mulder's first contact within the conspiracy. Together they were witness to or had a hand in many world events and were the first people in the US to carry out the murder of an extra terrestrial biological entity, the sole survivor of a UFO crash on US soil.

Working with a vengeance to conceal the truth at any cost the Cigarette Smoking Man found a purpose to his otherwise empty life. Shadowing Mulder and Scully in their work on the X-files, could it be that they too are ultimately a part of the Cigarette Smoking Man's sinister plans.

Notes:
According to a documentary concerning "The Lone Gunmen" TV Series, CSM was originally written to shoot Frohike dead. However, the writers liked the characters of TLG so much they hated the idea of killing one off. So they re-wrote the episode to having CSM have Frohike in his sights, but deciding not to kill him.

On one of the covers in the newsstand where the Cigarette-Smoking Man picks up a copy of 'Roman à Clef' bears the cover line "Where the hell is Darin Morgan?". This is a reference to the departure of Darin Morgan from the writing staff of ''The X-Files''.

David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson do not appear in this episode. Only their voices are heard and Gillian is seen only in footage from the pilot episode.

Chris Owens, who plays the young CSM here and again later this season in 'Demons', will return in season 5 to play Agent Jeffrey Spender, the son of CSM.

Lee Harvey Oswald calls young Cancerman "Mr. Hunt". In reality, E. Howard Hunt wrote a number of espionage thrillers under a pseudonym at the same time that he worked for the CIA and was supposedly in Dallas when JFK was assassinated. His name has been batted around by JFK conspiracy theorists for many years.

Cancerman's aliases when meeting with Lee Harvey Oswald and James Earl Ray are based on supposedly real people. According to some conspiracy theorists, Oswald kept a correspondance with a "Mr. Hunt" before the assassination, and numerous people have named a co-conspirator in the slaying of Martin Luther King Jr. as "Raoul", which Ray calls Cancerman in this episode.

Quotes:
William Mulder: My one year old just said his first word.
Cigarette Smoking Man: What was the word?
William Mulder: JFK.
Cigarette Smoking Man: Catch you later, Mulder.

Lyndon: I'm working on next month's Oscar nominations. Any preference?
CSM: I couldn't care less. What I don't want to see is the Bills winning the Super Bowl. As long as I'm alive, that doesn't happen.
Jones: That'll be tough, sir. Buffalo wants it bad.
CSM: So did the Soviets in '80.

DeepThroat: The craft matches the dimensions of the vehicle spotted over Hanoi when I was in Vietnam with the company that the marines couldn't shoot down.
CSM: Occupant?
DeepThroat: Critical.
CSM: Timing couldn't be worse. The Roswell story we concocted had them all looking in the wrong direction.

CSM: Life... is like a box of chocolates. A cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that nobody ever asks for. Unreturnable, because all you get back is another box of chocolates. You're stuck with this undefinable whipped-mint crap that you mindlessly wolf down when there's nothing else left to eat. Sure, once in a while, there's a peanut butter cup, or an English toffee. But they're gone too fast, the taste is fleeting. So you end up with nothing but broken bits, filled with hardened jelly and teeth-crunching nuts, and if you're desperate enough to eat those, all you've got left is a... is an empty box... filled with useless, brown paper wrappers.

Opening teaser from ''Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man''

Episode Number: 80
Season Number: 4
First Aired: Sunday November 17, 1996
Production Code: 4X07

Season 4: Sanguinarium (4X06)

Writers: Vivian Mayhew and Valerie Mayhew
Director: Kim Manners

When Dr. Lloyd, a plastic surgeon at the Greenwood Memorial Hospital's Aesthetic Surgery Unit in Chicago goes crazy during a liposuction procedure and kills his patient he claims it is a case of demonic possession. Mulder and Scully are called in to investigate and interview Dr. Lloyd, Scully believes that Dr. Lloyd's sleeping pill addiction cause a psychotic episode. However when Mulder discovers evidence of a pentagram, an occult symbol of protection, on the floor of the operating room he realises that someone is trying to protect the patients. When a second surgeon kills a patient and the pentagram symbol is discovered once more, the investigation narrows in on Nurse Waite.

Dr. Franklin informs Mulder and Scully that Nurse Waite was working at the hospital ten years before when there was a spate of similar murders. Mulder and Scully go to interview Nurse Waite at her house, they discover that her house is full of symbols and objects from the occult, but Nurse Waite is not at home. Mulder and Scully are called to Dr. Franklin's house when it appears that Nurse Waite has attacked him with a knife, but before she can explain to them she begins to regurgitate thousands of needles and dies.

Leading to the conclusion that she is responsible for the deaths at the hospital. But Mulder believes that she was just trying to protect the patients. And his suspicions fall on Dr. Franklin who was also present at the hospital ten years earlier when the first series of deaths took place.

Notes:
'Sanguinarium' is Latin for "Place of Blood". 'Sanguinary' means carnage, bloodthirsty or consisting of blood. Finally, 'Sanguinaria' means "Bloodroot".

The producers of The X-Files got an enormous amount of angry letters and emails from supporters of Wicca and ritual magic in response to this episode.

The words written in blood on Dr. Franklin's mirror are "vanitas vanitatum" or "vanity of the vanities".

When Mulder and Scully are discussing the nurse's ingestion and subsequent vomiting of pins. Scully mentions pica which is a condition that makes people eat non-nutritious and non-edible things, such as rocks, glass, metal etc. Mulder then goes on to describe allotriophagy, which he suggests is a condition, possibly even a spell, that causes people to vomit things they never ingested in the first place. This is completely untrue. Allotriophagy is similar to pica in that it is defined as a depraved appetite or desire for improper food.

Quotes:
(In the operating room, Dr Lloyd is violently stabbing liposuction tool into unconscious patient, who at this point we see has lines drawn on his balding head. Fat being sucked through tube turns bright red.)
Nurse Waite: Doctor Lloyd!!
Dr. Lloyd: (pulling down his mask) I think this patient is finished.

Scully: So this man committed these murders in order to make himself beautiful?
Mulder: Everybody wants to be beautiful, Scully.

Scully: Well, he started taking the drug 5 years ago and he went through . . . ooh, he took a lot of it. 19 100-tablet refills.
Mulder: (checking out a passing nurse) Wow.
Scully: (thinking he's commenting at pill numbers) Yeah.

Episode Number: 79
Season Number: 4
First Aired: Sunday November 10, 1996
Production Code: 4X06

Season 4: The Field Where I Died (4x05)

Writers: Glen Morgan and James Wong
Director: Rob Bowman

The Temple of the Seven Stars, a religious cult in Apison Tennessee, who believe in reincarnation are brought to the attention of the FBI after an informant calls with accusations of child abuse and weapons stockpiling. Fearing another Waco, the FBI raid the cult's compound but do not find any weapons, they also can not find the religious cult's charismatic leader Vernon Ephesian. Mulder acting on impulse searches a nearby field and discovers Vernon and his six wives about to commit suicide in a hidden bunker. Mulder finds himself strangely drawn to one of the wives, Melissa.

The two agents take the cult members in to custody, but with no evidence of weapons of child abuse, they only have one day to interrogate them. Melissa it turns out is the informant who called the FBI and appears to suffer from Multiple Personality Disorder. It is one of her personalities that telephoned the FBI. But Mulder believe there might be more to it than that, that it could be evidence of past lives. Melissa changes to another identity, that of an American Civil War nurse Sarah Kavanaugh, she claims that she watched her fiancee Sullivan Biddle die in the field where Mulder found Vernon and his wives, that it was Mulder in a previous life. Mulder undergoes regression hypnosis and seems to confirm Melissa's account, however Melissa does not believe Mulder and refuses to co-operate. She is released along with Vernon and his other wives, and is later found among the dead in the cult's mass suicide.

Notes:
Mulder and Melissa's Civil War personas Sullivan Biddle and Sarah Kavanaugh were taken from real life Civil War soldier Sullivan Ballou who wrote a now-famous (and very moving) letter to his wife, Sarah, in which he assured her that his love for her was 'deathless' and that even though he might be killed in the war, he would always be with her, he would wait for her, and that 'we shall meet again'. One week after writing the letter, Sullivan Ballou was killed in the First Battle of Bull Run. Although his references probably refer to being together in heaven, they can also be interpreted as meeting in another life, much like ''The X-Files'' episode.

Kirsten Cloke, playing Melissa Ephesian, is the wife of Glen Morgan, co-writer of this episode.

Mulder's speech in the teaser is part of a long poem by Robert Browning titled "Paracelsus".

Two personalities of Melissa were cut due to time constraints.

Quotes:
Mulder: I, too, have spent a life the sages' way and tread once more familiarpaths. Perchance I perished in an arrogant self-reliance an age ago...and in that act, a prayer for one more chance went up so earnest,so... instinct with better light let in by death that life was blottedout not so completely... but scattered wrecks enough of it to remaindim memories... as now... when seems once more... the goal in sightagain.

Melissa: I don't believe in it.
Mulder: Why?
Melissa: Those tapes are saying that we chose the lives we live before we're born, and who we live with. It's a nice idea. It's a beautiful idea. I want to believe. And if I knew it were true, I'd want to start over. I'd want to end this pointless life.
Mulder: Sarah... if it were true... no life would be pointless.

Mulder: Dana, if um, early in the four years we've been working together an event occurred that suggested or somebody told you that we'd been friends together... in other lifetimes... always... would it have changed some of the ways we've looked at one another?
Scully: Even if I knew for certain, I wouldn't change a day. Well, except maybe that Flukeman thing... I could have lived without that just fine.

Episode Number: 78
Season Number: 4
First Aired: Sunday November 3, 1996
Production Code: 4X05

Season 4: Unruhe (4X02)

Writer: Vince Gilligan
Director: Rob Bowman

When a young woman is kidnapped and her boyfriend murdered in North Michigan, passport photographs taken moments before reveal nightmarish images of the woman. Mulder is fascinated by the pictures, believing them to be evidence of psychic photograph, images created on film by the power of the mind.

After the victim is found alive but lobotomised, unable to do anything but repeat the word 'unruhe', German for unrest, and a second victim is taken, Scully makes the break though and arrests a suspect, Gerry Schnauz. A paranoid schizophrenic who spent time in an institution following an attack on his father brought on by his sister's suicide, which he blames on 'howlers', evil spirits that live in people's minds. He thinks he is saving the women he lobotomises from the howlers.

Mulder shows Gerry the photographs, he is shocked by the sight of his paranoid delusions captured on film and admits to the crimes, telling them where the second victim is, she too has been lobotomised. But the hunter becomes the hunted, as Gerry kills a prison guard and escapes taking Scully captive. Mulder's only hope of saving her is to study the photographs to get inside Gerry's mind. Meanwhile Scully uses her own knowledge of Gerry's psychosis and German to try to talk Gerry out of 'saving' her from the howlers. But Gerry seems more concerned with the camera he has, all the photographs he takes show him lying dead on the floor. Moments later Mulder arrives and shoots Gerry dead.

Notes:
Although the word Unruhe is indeed German for "unrest", Writer Vince Gilligan's inspiration came from an article on mass murderer Howard Unruh and found it eerily poetic that the killers last name also meant unrest.

Don't know if this is intentional, but the story idea of a polaroid camera taking pictures of something other than the intended subject was the basis for the novella "The Sun Dog" by Stephen King, included in the "Four Past Midnight" collection.

This episode marks the first episode in ''The X-Files'' new time slot. Up to this point ''The X-Files'' had always aired on Friday night. From now on until the end of the series the show would air on Sunday night.

We get an early indication of Scully's cancer here, when Schnauz says he can see Scully's unrest, and points to the bridge of her nose. (Scully develops a nasopharyngeal carcinoma).

Quotes:
Scully: It's over, Mulder?
Mulder: Then that photo wouldn't be his fantasy, it would be his nightmare.
Scully: What the hell does it matter?
Mulder: Because I want to know.
Scully: I don't.

Scully: Oh my god.
Mulder: What is it?
Scully: She's been given what's called a trans-orbital lobotomy. It used to be called an ice pick lobotomy. It involves inserting a leukotome through the eye sockets.
Mulder: So we're looking for a doctor? Someone with training?
Doctor: Not judging by this.
Scully: Whoever did this, Mulder, did it wrong.

Scully: Let me go.
Schnauz: Shhhh ... Es ist alles in Ordnung.
Scully: It's over, Gerry. Let me go right now.
Schnauz: Ich werde dir helfen. Du wirst deine Unruhe bald vergessen.
Scully: Aufhoeren! Ich habe keine Unruhe. Ich habe keine unruhe. Ich brauche nicht gerettet zu werden.
Schnauz: Yes you do. Everybody does, but especially you.
Scully: Why? Why me, Gerry? Do I remind you of your sister? Why did your sister kill herself, Gerry? What did your father do to her?
Schnauz: He didn't do anything. It was the howlers.
Scully: OK, then let's talk about the howlers.
Schnauz: They live inside your head. They make you do things and say things that you don't mean, and all your good thoughts can't wish them away. You need help. You've got them - right there. Don't you feel them?
Scully: I don't have them, Gerry.
Schnauz: See? They made you say that, just now, because they know I'm going to kill them.
Scully: What if you're wrong, Gerry?. What if there are no such things as howlers? What if you made them up inside your head to explain the things your sister said your father did?
Schnauz: Great. Now they got you talking like Sigmund Freud. I am on to you! I know your tricks! Besides, I've seen them, in that picture that your partner showed me. Pictures don't lie. You saw them too.
Scully: If there are such things as howlers, Gerry, they live only insideyour head.

Highlights from ''Unruhe''

Episode Number: 77
Season Number: 4
First Aired: Sunday October 27, 1996
Production Code: 4X02

Season 4: Teliko (4X04)

Writer: Howard Gordon
Director: James Charleston

When a joint FBI/Police task force investigating the deaths of four African-American men in Philadelphia turns up no leads Assistant Director Skinner contacts Agent Scully. He shows her photographs of the latest victim, Scully notes that the man has lost all the pigmentation in his skin. The Centre for Disease Control would like Scully with her medical background to investigate whether the men are the victims of a new pathogen. Scully performs an autopsy on the latest victim which reveals that his pituitary gland has been destroyed.

Mulder however believes there is more to the case than a disease, he contacts Marita Covarrubias in the United Nations who puts him in touch with Minister Diabira from Burkina Faso, West Africa. Diabira covered up a recent similar death on an international flight from Africa to the United States because he knows the identity of the killer. An African mythical figure called a Teliko, a evil spirit of the air, who emerge at night to suck the life and colour out of their victims. Scully's investigation finds no evidence of a pathogen affecting any of the victims.

When a young African American student disappears from a bus stop, they are able to arrest a suspect, Samuel Aboah a recent immigrant from Africa. Hospital tests reveal he does not have a pituitary gland. Mulder theorises that the Teliko are not spirits but members of a lost African Tribe who lack a pituitary gland and have survived over the years by taking what then need from others.

Notes:
Teliko is Greek for 'end'.

Teliko is also a mythological African 'spirit of the air', sometimes thought to be an albino.

Despite the episode's African theme, the soundtrack is more global. The women chanting -- particularly prominent in the bus stop scene -- is a sample from the Bulgarian State Radio & Television Female Choir.

Quotes:
Scully: Mulder, not everything is a labyrinth of dark conspiracy, and not everybody is plotting to deceive, inveigle and obfuscate.

Pendrell: Shouldn't we wait for Agent Scully? Just so I won't have to repeat myself.
Mulder: She's not coming.
Pendrell: Why not?
Mulder: She had a date. (Pendrell's face falls) Breathe, Agent Pendrell. It's with a dead man. She's doing an autopsy.

Episode Number: 76
Season Number: 4
First Aired: Friday October 18, 1996
Production Code: 4X04

Season 4: Home (4X03)

Writers: Glen Morgan and James Wong
Director: Kim Manners

When the body of a malformed newborn baby is found in a shallow grave in the small town of Home in Pennsylvania. Local Sheriff Andy Taylor unused to such things requests the help of the FBI and Mulder and Scully are assigned to investigate, neither of them believe the case is an X-file, until they examine the baby and discover it is has multiple genetic deformities. They come across the Peacock clan, a local family which years of inbreeding has deformed their bodies and souls in to something sub human.

Down to just three brothers, Mulder and Scully suspect the brothers have kidnapped a woman and are forcing her to bear their children. They visit the Peacock residence and find evidence that confirms that the baby was born in the house although they can find no sign of a woman being held captive. That night the Peacock brothers leave their home and go to the Sheriff's house, where they murder Andy Taylor and his wife in a vicious attack. The deputy Sheriff discovers the bodies the next morning and joins Mulder and Scully as they storm the Peacock house.

But the Peacocks are ready to defend their home and the deputy Sheriff is killed by a bobby trap. Mulder and Scully distract the Peacock brothers by releasing their pigs from the pen, while they are rounding the pigs up Mulder and Scully enter the house. They discover that the mother of the deformed baby is not a woman being held captive but the Mrs Peacock, a multiple amputee and mother of the three Peacock brothers.

Notes:
Having spent a year away from ''The X-Files'' to create their own show ''Space: Above and Beyond'', writers Morgan and Wong return here for the first time since season 2's ''Die Hand die Verletzt''. The title of their first episode back may also have a double meaning; aside from being the name of the town featured, it could be their way of saying that they are back "home".

Because of the sensitive and still largely taboo subject matter, this episode was banned from Fox TV after it first aired.

The science advisor to the series, Anne Simon Ph.D., points out in her book ''The Real Science Behind The X-Files'' that the genetic deformities Scully observes in the dead infant (Neu-Laxova syndrome, Meckel-Gruber syndrome and extrophy of the cloaca) are quite rare, and that she would have had to have been well-versed in genetic abnormalities to have recognized all of these conditions without consulting outside experts. Dr. Simon mentions a standard reference book, Smith's Recognizable Patterns of Human Malformation, as something Scully may have had the opportunity to consult before this case, thus familiarizing herself with the information.

A scene was cut in which Mulder and Scully jostle each other suggestively in the tight confines of Sherriff Taylor's supply closet/morgue.

Quotes:
Scully: Oh my god. Mulder, it looks like this child has been afflicted by every rare birth defect known to science.

Mulder: I guess we can rule out murder as the cause of death, huh?
Scully: I don't know about that. There is evidence of occlusion due to dirt in the nose and mouth, indicating the dirt has been inhaled.
Mulder: There's something rotten in Mayberry.

Mulder: ...is there a history of genetic abnormalities in your family?
Scully: No.
Mulder: Well, just find yourself a man with a spotless genetic makeup and a really high tolerance for being second guessed and start popping out the little uber-Scullies.
Scully: What about your family?
Mulder: Well, aside from the need for corrective lenses and the tendency to be abducted by extraterrestrials involved in an international conspiracy, the Mulder family passes genetic muster.

Mulder: (trying to push the pigs) There some secret farmer trick to get these things moving?
Scully: I don't know. Naa-ram-ewe! NAA-RAAM-EEEWE!!!!
Mulder: Yeah, that'll work.
Scully: I baby-sat my nephew this weekend. He watches Babe 15 times a day!
Mulder: And people call ME spooky.

Highlights from ''Home''

Episode Number: 75
Season Number: 4
First Aired: Friday October 11, 1996
Production Code: 4X03