Season 3: Piper Maru (3X15)

Writers: Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz
Director: Rob Bowman

Scully is called to see Assistant Director Skinner, he tells her that the Washington Police have official closed the investigation in to her sister Melissa's murder due to lack of new leads. But he tells Scully that he will continue to pursue the case. In the X-files basement office Mulder informs Scully that a salvage ship called the Piper Maru, has returned with all but one of it's crew members suffering from radiation poisoning. He shows her evidence that the Piper Maru was anchored in the same position that the Talapus brought back salvaged UFO debris from.

Mulder and Scully examine the Piper Maru, they find a thin black oil covering the ship's diving unit and video footage of the dive shows a World War Two plane at the bottom of the sea. Scully also notices the name of a submarine Zeus Faber written on the ships chart and goes to interview it's Commander Johansen. Back in Washington, Skinner is warned not to continue the investigation into Scully's sisters death by members of the intelligence community.

Mulder goes in search of the remaining Piper Maru crew member and finds him suffering from radiation poisoning, he is covered in the same black oil as the diving unit and has no memory since the dive. His wife is also missing, Mulder traces her to a salvage firm and follows the trail to Hong Kong, where he finds Krycek selling secrets from the Dat tape he took off Skinner. As Mulder prepares to bring Krycek back to the US, Skinner is gunned down.

Notes:
This episode's title and the name of the ship featured are named after Gillian Anderson's daughter, Piper Maru Anderson, who was born during season 2.'Maru' was particularly fitting as it is the Japanese word for 'ship', but no, Gillian didn't name her daughter after a boat; it also means 'flower' in Polynesian.

For this episode, Gillian Anderson received her first Best Actress Emmy Award nomination.

The deep-sea diver Gauthier is named after the shows effects supervisor, Dave Gauthier.

Quotes:
(Mulder & Scully discussing the details of a new case that Mulder believes may have something to do with the remains of a UFO)
Mulder: I checked. It's thousands of miles away from any test sites. (Scully smiles, then laughs) What?
Scully: I'm just constantly amazed by you. You're working down here in the basement, sifting through files and transmissions that any other agent would just throw away in the garbage.
Mulder: Well that's why I'm in the basement Scully.
Scully: You're in the basement because they're afraid of you, of your relentlessness and because they know that they could drop you in the middle of the desert, and tell you the truth is out there, and you would ask them for a shovel.
Mulder: Is that what you think of me?
Scully: Well, maybe not a shovel. Maybe a backhoe.
Mulder: Well that's good because there's some garbage in San Diego I want you to help me dig through.

(Mulder, Scully and Morgan looking at something underwater through a videotape)
Morgan: What the hell is that?
Mulder: Looks like the fuselage of a plane.
Scully: It's a North American P-51 Mustang.
Morgan: Yeah it sure is.
Mulder: I just got very turned on.

Episode Number: 64
Season Num: 3
First Aired: Friday February 9, 1996
Prod Code: 3X15

Season 3: Grotesque (3X14)

Writer: Howard Gordon
Director: Kim Manners

When a serial killer who mutilates his victims is finally caught by Special Agent Bill Patterson, head of the FBI's Behavioural Science Unit, and Mulder's former mentor. But the murders continue, Mulder and Scully are assigned to help out in the case by Assistant Director Skinner. John Mostow confesses to the murders, but claims that he was possessed by an evil spirit that made him kill.

Agent Patterson resents Mulder's involvement in the case, he is derogatory of Mulder's work on the X-files, of what he has become in the bureau. Mulder explains to Scully that Patterson has had a grudge against him ever since his days as a student at the academy, because Mulder who not worship Patterson like the other students did. Mulder and Scully visit Mostow's apartment and find sketches of gargoyles hanging on all the walls, which Mulder believes was Mostow's attempt to protect himself.

In a hidden room Mulder finds clay gargoyle statues, which contain more bodies. With Patterson and Scully trying to figure out if it is an accomplice of Mostows' who now continues his grisly quest, or the work of a copycat killer. Mulder instead concentrates on the possibility that it might be demonic possession. But as Mulder immerses himself in the case Scully begins to worry about his state of mind. And she is also concerned about Patterson's motives towards Mulder as she discovers that despite his attitude to the contrary Patterson requested Mulder's involvement in the investigation.

Notes:
To prepare himself for this episode, Kim Manners - the director - listened to the music of "Jacob's Ladder" over and over again.

Agent Nemhauser is named after X-Files Post Production Supervisor - Lori Jo Nemhauser.

Quotes:
Scully: You're not going to tell me when your love affair with Patterson ended?
Mulder: Patterson never liked me.
Scully: I thought you were considered his fair-haired boy when you joined the bureau.
Mulder: Not by Patterson.
Scully: Why not?
Mulder: Didn't want to get my knees dirty.

Episode Number: 63
Season Number: 3
First Aired: Friday February 2, 1996
Production Code: 3X14

Season 3: Syzygy (3X13)

Writer: Chris Carter
Director: Kim Manners

Mulder and Scully are called in to investigate a number of deaths at the town high school in Comity by local detective Angela White, who is convinced that evil is stalking the local high school students. Three high school boys have been murdered in as many months. Mulder and Scully arrive in Comity in time for the funeral of the latest victim and witness the coffin bursting into flames during the service. Adding more fuel to the rumours of the involvement of a Satanic cult.

And when two high school girls, Terri Roberts and Margi Klienjan who witnessed the death of the last boy both recant the same story of satanic abuse and voice their fear that the local cult wants to sacrifice blonde virgins. Mulder is convinced that the local townsfolk are right about a satanic cult being involved, despite Scully's reminder that an exhaustive FBI investigation in to satanic cults found no conclusive proof of any satanic rituals or sacrifices. In fact Mulder and Scully's relationship is very strained, especially after Scully catches Mulder and detective White in each others arms in Mulder's hotel room.

After the death of two more high school boys and a girl in their presence, Terri and Margi fall out and blame each other for the murders. As tension builds between Mulder and Scully, the town's population's anger spills out and they take to the streets. Only a local astrologer seems to have the answer, a once in every 84 years planetary alignment is about to turn the town in to a cosmic hot spot.

Notes:
Guest star Gabrielle Miller also appears in Season 2 episode "Our Town" as Chaco Chicken worker Paula, who lures the inspector, George Kearns, into the woods in the beginning so the town could cannibalize him.

The name of the episode, "Syzygy", is an astronomical term for an alignment of three bodies of the solar system along a straight or nearly straight line.

The original script called for Stanley Kubrick's ''A Clockwork Orange'' to be playing on every channel as Mulder and Scully played with the remote controls in their hotel rooms, but the footage proved to be so expensive that the producer settled for clips from the ''Keystone Cops''.

The name of the town, 'Comity', also means 'courtesy'. As we watch Mulder and Scully enter the town, on the other side of the intersection we see a road sign that says 'Leaving Comity' (how true, once they enter, no one is civil to each other). As they leave, the camera passes the road sign that states 'Entering Comity' (thankfully true again, since everything goes back to normal after they leave).

Grover Cleveland Alexander High School featured in this episode is a reference to a question David Duchovny missed on Celebrity Jeopardy. David said after that he thought he was still on the sports section. He confused the pitcher (Alexander) with the president (Grover Cleveland).

Quotes:
Scully: The map says to turn right at the intersection.
Mulder: The detective who contacted me told me to turn left.
Scully: At the intersection?
Mulder: At the stop light.
Scully: This isn't a stop light, it's a stop sign.
Mulder: Well, I'm sure she meant 'stop sign.'
Scully: Turn right.
(They turn right, then a moment later they drive back and go left)

Mulder: Ah, Scully, if I'm not mistaken, we're going to be taking a left up here. Uh, there's an intersection up here. You're going to want to -- (Scully shows no sign of slowing down) Scully! You're going to want to-- (Scully speeds through the stop sign) You just ran a stop sign back there, Scully.
Scully: Shut up, Mulder.
Mulder: .... Sure. Fine. Whatever.

Det. White: You know, I don't feel like going home. Do you mind if I slept here? (Kicks off her heels)
Mulder: Actually, I'm sure I could get you another room.
(Heads to phone and dials 0. Looks over his shoulder at Det. White as she begins to unbutton her blouse. Dials quicker)
Det. White: (Tackles Mulder onto the bed) Maybe we can solve the mystery of the horny beast.
Mulder: Maybe we should just watch some television. There's a movie on TV. Actually, it's the same movie on every channel.
Det. White: Weird. I like weird.
(Scully walks in)
Scully: Mul... (Sighs) There's been another death.

Mulder: Let me drive.
Scully: I'm driving.
Mulder: Scully, it's not what you think.
Scully: I didn't see anything anyway.
Mulder: Will you let me drive?!
Scully: Why do you always have to drive? Because you're the guy? Because you're the big macho man?
Mulder: No, I was just never sure your little feet could reach the pedals.
Mulder: (To Det. White) Will you go with her please? Thank you.
Mulder: (Muttering angrily to himself in separate car) "Big, macho man."

Mulder: This may not be the time to mention it, but someone is wearing my favorite perfume.
Scully: Can I have a word with you?
Scully: This has gone on far enough.
Mulder: What?
Scully: I am not going to be humiliated by you, in front of you, or by having to bring a teenage girl in, on her birthday of all days, to identify the bones of her dead dog, Mr. Tippy. I see no reason to pursue this case any further.
(Mulder only half-listens, instead he is sniffing the air around Scully)
Scully: Not only that, I find your conduct and comportment in this investigation not just alarming but highly objectionable. What are you doing?!
Mulder: Must be Detective White.
Scully: If that's the reason we're sticking around, that's your business.
(Scully storms off, Mulder follows, laughing)
Mulder: What?! What are you talking about?

(Both Mulder and Scully take out a latex glove. Scully gives a withering look to Mulder, who rolls his eyes and puts the glove back in his pocket.)
Mulder: Go ahead.
Scully: No, you go ahead.
Mulder: No, no, no. Be my guest. I know how much you like snapping on the latex.
(Scully snaps on her latex glove with special emphasis.)

Episode Number: 62
Season Num: 3
First Aired: Friday January 26, 1996
Prod Code: 3X13

Season 3: War of the Coprohaghes (3X12)

Writer: Darin Morgan
Director: Kim Manners

Mulder suffering from his own insect infestation with his apartment being fumigated, he travels to Millers Grove, Massachusetts to investigate reports of UFO sightings in the area. Sitting in his car he is spotted and questioned by the local Sheriff about his activity. Sheriff Frass becomes agitated when Mulder mentions seeing bugs on his windshield. It turns out that the town is suffering from a cockroach invasion, and that these cockroaches have been attacking people.

Mulder can not resist joining the Sheriff in his investigation. Mulder confers with Scully by phone, she is sceptical of killer cockroaches. They look in to alleged cockroach attacks on an exterminator, a teenage boy and a medical examiner. But in each case Scully has an explanation, the exterminator was allergic to cockroaches and died of anaphylactic shock, the teenage boy was using drugs and suffered from Ekbom Syndrome, a drug induced delusion of insects invading the body causing the sufferer to try to cut them out.

And the medical examiner died of an aneurysm while on the toilet. Mulder catches one of the cockroaches and discovers it has a metal body. He takes the cockroach to Dr. Ivanov at the Massachusetts Institute of Robotics. Dr Ivanov is amazed at the complexity of the robot and speculates that it could be a probe sent out by an alien race to explore the far reaches of space. Scully arrives in town, but as Mulder toys with a theory on alien robotic probes, she is left to bring calm to the panic stricken populous.

Notes:
During Mulder's first meeting with Dr. Ivanov, an escaped cockroach can be seen crawling over the camera, making it appear that the viewer's TV has become infested.

Scully is reading ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'', a reference to David Duchovny's appearance on Celebrity Jeopardy. The Final Jeopardy question referred to this Truman Capote novel. Unfortunately, David guessed wrong and lost the game.

Bobbie Phillips, playing Dr. Bambi, starred alongside David Duchovny in the Showtime anthology series "Red Shoe Diaries".

Quotes:
Mulder: (speaking on cell phone) Scully, if an alien civilization were technologically advanced enough to build and send artificially intelligent robotic probes to the farthest reaches of space, might they not have also been able to perfect the extraction of methane fuel from manure, an abundant and replenishing energy source on a planet filled with dung-producing creatures?
(Dr. Bambi looks at Mulder; Scully is stunned)
Scully: Mulder, I think you've been in this town too long.

Scully: Bambi? Her name is Bambi?

Dr. Bambi Berenbaum: Does my scientific detachment disturb you?
Mulder: No. No, actually I find it...quite refreshing.

Mulder: It appears that cockroaches are mortally attacking people.
Scully: I'm not gonna ask if you just said what I think you said because I know it's what you just said.

Scully: The very idea of intelligent alien life is not only astronomically impossible, but at it's most basic level downright anti-Darwinian.
Mulder: Scully... what are you wearing?

Episode Number: 61
Season Number: 3
First Aired: Friday January 5, 1996
Production Code: 3X12

Season 3: Revelations (3X11)

Writer: Kim Newton
Director: David Nutter

Mulder and Scully travel to Pennsylvania when Reverend Finley, who claimed to bear the wounds of Christ, is murdered. Further investigation reveals that he was not a true stigmatic and Mulder links the case to a series of international murders of false stigmatics. Mulder and Scully travel to the small town of Loveland, Ohio when a local boy Kevin Kryder begins bleeding from his palms.

They meet with his father Michael, who is being held in a mental institute. He claims that Kevin is the son of God and that there are 'forces of darkness' who are out to eliminate him, that God will send someone to protect him. When Kevin is abducted from the social services home, witness descriptions match a local gardener, Owen Jarvis. When Mulder and Scully trace him to his home, they find Kevin missing and arrest Jarvis. When they question him he claims that God told him to protect Kevin, then with great strength he breaks the handcuffs and escapes.

He rushes to Kevin's home and finds a man, Simon Gates attacking Kevin, they fight and Jarvis is killed but Kevin is rescued by Mulder and Scully. Scully performs the autopsy on Jarvis and discovers fingerprints that identify Simon Gates. Records indicate that Gates recently visited Israel, leading Mulder to speculate that he may be suffering from Jerusalem Syndrome, religious delusions. Mulder does not believe the case involves religious phenomenon. Scully however believes that she has been chosen by God to protect Kevin.

Notes:
This would be David Nutter's 15th and last direction of an X-File episode. His first episode was "Ice".

The producers weren't satisfied with the priest's voice, so a new vocal track was added in postproduction using a different performer in LA.

The scene where Mulder and Scully are having a conversation with Mr. Kryder appears much shorter in the final version than in the original script. In the script Mr Kryder begins to speak in tongues. Only Scully can understand him, even when he quotes a line from "The Day the Earth Stood Still".

Scully mentions Kevin being in two places at once, "...just like St. Ignatius was able to do in the Bible..." There is no Ignatius in the Bible. The earliest Ignatius was the third Bishop of Antioch, and no person in the New Testament appears in two places at once. Scully would know better, and the script supervisor could easily have checked this out.

Quotes:
Scully: Isn't a saint or a holy person just another term for someone abnormal?

Scully: I'm talking about events that defy explanation. Things that ... I believe helped me to save a young boy's life. But now I wonder if I saw them at all. If I didn't just imagine them.
Priest: Why do you doubt yourself?
Scully: Because my partner didn't see them. He didn't ... he didn't believe them. And usually he ... he believes without question.
Priest: Maybe they weren't meant for him to see. Maybe they were only meant for you.
Scully: Is that possible?
Priest: With the Lord, anything is possible. Perhaps you saw these things because you needed to.

Episode Number: 60
Season Number: 3
First Aired: Friday December 15, 1995
Production Code: 3X11

Season 3: 731 (3X10)

Writer: Frank Spotnitz
Director: Rob Bowman

With Mulder out of contact on a train heading to Canada, Scully investigates the metal implant she had removed from her neck after X claims it holds the key to everything she needs to know. Tests on the chip reveals that it is a microprocessor for collecting information, it replicates a person's mental processes. The chip is Japanese in origin, further investigation reveals a shipment of the chips was sent to a Japanese Doctor Zama working secretly at a Hansens disease research facility in West Virginia.

Scully travels there and discovers that Dr Zama had been carrying out experiments on the patients, until armed men came and begun killing off all of the patients. Scully recognises Dr Zama from a photo, as being present during her abduction. Scully is approached by an unknown man who explains that Dr Zama is really Dr Ishimaru, secretly brought over to the US after World War Two to continue his experiments. But he is unwilling to share his knowledge with the US government and is trying to get the information out of the country.

Meanwhile Mulder finds Dr Zama murdered on the train but manages to recover his notes about his experiments. As Mulder goes in search of the killer he finds the boxcar unlocked and is attacked as he enters. He fights off his attacker but during the scuffle the door to the boxcar closes arming a bomb. Mulder is overcome by the killer but is saved by X. Unfortunately however Dr Zama's notes fall in to the Cigarette Smoking Man's hands.

Notes:
The name of the doctor, Takeo Ishimaru, and his alias, Shiro Zama, is an amalgamation of the name of the real head of Unit 731, Dr. Shiro Ishi.

The title refers to Unit 731 which was a special unit of Japanese scientists who experimented on prisoners of war during WWII. Like their Nazi counterparts, these scientist may have been given refuge in the USA to continue their experiments.

Two cameras were destroyed while filming this episode.

This episode's tagline is changed to 'Apology is Policy', spoken by Scully shortly before the end: "... and what they can't cover, they apologize for. Apology has become policy."

Quotes:
Scully: Don't you see Mulder, you're doing their work for them. You're chasing aliens that aren't there, helping them to create the story that covers the shameful truth. And what they can't cover, they apologize for. Apology has become policy.
Mulder: Maybe. Maybe you're right Scully. But I don't need an apology for the lies. I don't care about the fictions they create to cover their crimes. I want them held accountable for what did happen. I want them to apologize for the truth.

Hitman: I work for the National Security Agency.
Mulder: The NSA? Since when did they start issuing you guys piano wire instead of guns?

Hitman: You have no idea what you're dealing with here.
Mulder: Yeah, well maybe you should have filled me in before you tried to kill me!

Scully: Well done, Agent Pendrell. Keep up the good work.
Agent Pendrell: Hey, thanks. Keep it up yourself!
(Scully looks at him strangely before leaving)
Agent Pendrell: Keep it up yourself... what a doof...

1st Elder: The ruler of the world is no longer the country with the bravest soldiers, but the greatest scientists.

Episode Number: 59
Season Number: 3
First Aired: Friday December 1, 1995
Production Code: 3X10

Season 3: Nisei (3X09)

Writers: Chris Carter, Howard Gordon and Frank Spotnitz
Director: Rob Bowman

Mulder purchases a mail order video tape that claims to be of an actual alien autopsy, in the final few frames armed men are seen storming the room. Mulder and Scully travel to Allentown, Pennsylvannia to the tape distributors home to question him. Only to discover that he has been murdered, Mulder takes a Japanese man in to custody at the scene. It turns out the man is a Diplomat immune from prosecution, Assistant Director Skinner takes over the sensitive case.

Mulder however still has the diplomat's satchel and finds a list of local Mutual UFO Network members and satellite photographs inside. Mulder takes the photographs to show the Lone Gunman who identify the salvage ship Talapus that had been searching for a Japanese submarine sunk during World War Two. Mulder travels to Virginia to investigate, meanwhile Scully meets with some of the local MUFON members and is surprised when they claim to know her. That they saw her when she was abducted and tested on like them.

They are all multiple abductees and have the same implants that Scully had removed from her neck. Meanwhile in Virginia Mulder finds evidence that the Talapus brought back salvaged UFO debris. Mulder is contacted by Senator Matheson who warns him to return the satellite photographs. Even X is concerned, he contacts Scully to warn Mulder that his life is in danger. But it is to late as Mulder, following up on a lead, boards a train that he believes is carrying a live alien.

Notes:
'Nisei' is the Japanese word for a person born in America or Canada to Japanese parents (who were born in Japan). Translated literally, it means 'second generation'.

Several locations in this episode are featured prominently in the X-Files video game for the PC and Playstation, The train yard and the shipping docks to name a few. Also, the same train car Mulder becomes trapped in, as well as the exact same boat Mulder investigates early on in the episode are places you can explore in the game.

Scully's joke about the hokey Alien Autopsy special on FOX turned out to be ironic since Fox repeated the special the following night. They even even aired some promotional spots for the special during the original telecast.

The storyline of this episode was originally conceived as a stand-alone episode.

This episode introduces the love-struck Agent Pendrell (Brenden Beiser), whose hard work in the FBI Sci-Crime lab proves invaluable through the 3rd and 4th seasons. He is more than willing to put in the long hours and get the job done for his favourite agent, Dana Scully.

The number on the boxcar in which the alien autopsy takes place is 82594. This recalls the date, August 25th 1994, when Chris Carter made his directing debut, for the episode 'Duane Barry'.

When Senator Richard Matheson tells Mulder about the four Japanese Nationals had been murdered, he says that the murders had occurred several WEEKS ago, but when Mulder brings Scully up to speed a scene or two later, he tells her that someone must have been able to identify the four doctors who were performing the autopsy because they were murdered YESTERDAY.

Quotes:
Scully: Where did you get this?
Mulder: From Someone like you, who wants proof.. Who's also willing to believe.

Langly: The name of the boat is the Talapus. Just gotta love them German optics.
Mulder: So you're saying that's from a German satellite?
Byers: No, the optics are German. The technology is probably ours, but the satellite is most likely Japanese.
Frohike: Launched from South America.
Mulder: Gotta love that global economy, huh?

Episode Number: 58
Season Number: 3
First Aired: Friday November 24, 1995
Production Code: 3X09

Season 3: Oubliette (3X08)

Writer: Charles Grant Craig
Director: Kim Manners

When a teenage girl Amy Jacobs is kidnapped from the bedroom she shares with her younger sister, at the exact same time across town a waitress Lucy Householder, collapses in a crowded fast food restaurant muttering the same words as the kidnapper. Mulder and Scully are called in to assist the other investigators on the case. Mulder however is more interested in Lucy Householder's connection to the case, especially when a background check reveals that she was herself kidnapped at the age of eight and held captive in a basement for five years until she managed to escape, her kidnapper was never caught.

But when test results on blood found on Lucy's uniform turn out to match Amy Jacobs, the other investigators including Scully suspect that Lucy has more to do with the kidnapping than previously thought. Mulder however believes that Lucy has some sort of psychic link with Amy, brought on by her own kidnap experience. He asks for Lucy's help to save Amy from a similar fate but Lucy fearful of reliving her own nightmare, is reluctant. When Lucy suffers an attack of temporary blindness, the result of Amy being held in a pitch black basement, Mulder again approaches her for help. Mulder tells her that he knows she is experiencing everything that Amy does. When a missing school photograph of Amy leads the investigators to a suspect Carl Wade, Lucy recognises him as the man who kidnapped her and realises the only way to escape her past is to save Amy.

Notes:
''Fox'' standards were a bit concerned about this episode as the abduction of the girl had some parrallels to the Polly Klaas case. The ordeal of the abduction had to be played down.

Severe weather played havoc with production. Due to heavy rains the climatic sequence had to be shot a week later than planned at another location than originally envisioned.

An Oubliette is a medieval dungeon having a trap door in the ceiling as its only means of entry or exit. It is derived from the French word 'oublier' meaning "to forget".

Quotes:
Scully: That's spooky.
Mulder: That's my name, isn't it?

Scully: Mulder, you can't...
Mulder: That's how I account for what Lucy's going through. That's how I account for the identical words that corresponded to Amy... and the spontaneous wounds and blood as well.
Scully: Then why did she run? If she's innocent, what was she running from?
Mulder: Because she's afraid.
Scully: You don't see what you're doing, do you Mulder? You are so close to this that you just don't see it.
Mulder: (Mulder is angry) What don't I see?
Scully: The extreme rationalization that is going on around here. Your personal identification with the victim - or in this case, the suspect. You're becoming some kind of an empath yourself, Mulder. You are so sympathetic to Lucy as a victim - like your sister - that you can't see her as a person who's capable of committing this crime!
Mulder: You don't think I've thought of that? I have. And not everything I do and say and think or feel goes back to my sister. You, of all people, should realize th-that sometimes motivations for behavior can be more complex and mysterious than tracing them back to one single childhood experience.

Episode Number: 57
Season Number: 3
First Aired: Friday November 17, 1995
Production Code: 3X08

Season 3: The Walk (3X07)

Writer: John Shiban
Director: Rob Bowman

Mulder and Scully investigate claims of torment by an invisible presence at a veterans hospital, which attacks loved ones and plagues the patients by thwarting their suicide attempts, prolonging their agony. The patients, all veterans of the Gulf War, are afraid of something which can find them no matter where they hide. They interview Lieutenant Colonel Stans, badly burned when he tried to commit suicide in a tub of boiling water. He tells them he has been tormented by a phantom soldier who will not let him die.

The agents are approached by Captain Janet Draper who asks them to halt their investigation as any criminal investigation of military personnel must be conducted through military channels. Mulder and Scully are taken to see the commanding office General Callahan, who begrudges the FBI involvement. However later that evening he is visited by the phantom soldier. And when Captain Draper is found dead in the hospital swimming pool, Mulder and Scully are asked to investigate.

Mulder tells General Callahan that if the attack follows the same pattern his family will be targeted next. A point proven when the general's son sees a strange man in the house. Finger prints identify the intruder as hospital orderly Quentin Freely, who is arrested. But he claims he is just the mailman for one of the patients quadruple amputee Leonard Trimble. Mulder entertains the notion that Trimble may be using remote telekinesis to harm those he holds responsible for his misfortune.

Notes:
Willie Garson, who plays Roach in this episode, returns as the luckiest man in the world Henry Weems in Season 7's ''The Goldberg Variation''.

General Callahan tells Mulder that the man he saw in his office said his name, but all he said was "Your time has come, Killer".

Quotes:
Mulder: You're a soldier. You knew what you were getting into when you enlisted. Now you want to blame everybody else. Why do you want to blame your COs?
Rappo: I blame him for what happened to all of us. You don't know what it was like... You sat home and watched the war on cable TV like it was a damn video game. You have no idea about the guys that died. About the blood... the sand. What it feels like when a hit comes. Thing is, you just don't care, do you? You got your crude oil. Just change that station, right? Killer got his prime time. LC got his fancy little medals. Now, take a good look at me, WHAT DID I GET?! Nobody knows how I feel. They took my life away.

Episode Number: 56
Season Number: 3
First Aired: Friday November 10, 1995
Production Code: 3X07