Eugene Tooms, a supernatural killer whom Mulder helped incarcerate, is released on parole.Eugene Tooms, a supernatural killer whom Mulder helped incarcerate, is released on parole.Eugene Tooms, a supernatural killer whom Mulder helped incarcerate, is released on parole.
- Dr. Aaron Monte
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- Dr. Richmond
- (as Catherine Lough)
- Arlan Green
- (as Andre Daniels)
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- TriviaWalter Skinner's debut appearance.
- GoofsA body encapsulated in cement would remain conserved in a relatively good condition. The remains found in the concrete floor however, consist merely of bones.
- Quotes
Fox Mulder: Do you have that sandwich I asked you to bring?
Dana Scully: It's liverwurst.
Dana Scully: Mulder, you know that proper surveillance requires two pairs of agents, one pair relieving the other after 12 hours.
Fox Mulder: Article 30, paragraph 8.7?
Dana Scully: This isn't about doing it by the book. This is about you not having slept for three days. Mulder, you're gonna get sloppy and you're gonna get hurt. It's inevitable at this point.
Fox Mulder: A request for other agents to stake out Tooms would be denied. 'Til then, we have no grounds.
Dana Scully: Well then, I'll stay here. You go home.
Fox Mulder: They're out to put an end to the X-Files, Scully. I don't know why, but any excuse will do. I don't really care about my record, but you'd be in trouble just sitting in this car. And I'd hate to see you carry an official reprimand in your career file because of me.
Dana Scully: Fox...
Fox Mulder: [Rueful laughing] I... I... even made my parents call me Mulder. So... Mulder.
Dana Scully: Mulder, I wouldn't put myself on the line for anybody but you.
Fox Mulder: If there's an iced tea in that bag, it could be love.
Dana Scully: Must be fate, Mulder. Root beer.
- ConnectionsEdited into The X-Files: The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat (2018)
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Written by Mark Snow
Performed by John Beal
Tooms, mostly thanks to Doug Hutchinson's inspired performance, is a fantastic villain, creepy and effective, and he is used well here with the mythology behind the character being developed further in this script by James Wong and Glen Morgan. In addition the script features some hilarious, inspired, and truly witty exchanges between Mulder and Scully, features CSM actually saying something, a rarity at this point in the series (not sure, but this might be the first time he speaks). The episode also introduces AD Skinner played by Mitch Pileggi, almost everyone's third favorite character after Mulder and Scully.
Creepy, witty, lots of fun, and featuring a great climax, "Tooms" is a worthy sequel to "Squeeze".
8.5/10
- ametaphysicalshark
- Oct 5, 2008
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