The X-Files - 1.17 E.B.E.

writers: Glen Morgan & James Wong

director: William Graham

STARRING:

David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder

Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:

JERRY HARDIN as Deep Throat

ALLAN LYSELL as Chief Rivers

PETER LACROIX as Ranheim/Druse

BRUCE HARWOOD as Byers

DEAN HAGLUND as Langly

TOM BRAIDWOOD as Frohike

MULDER AND SCULLY CHASE A MYSTERIOUS TRUCK ACROSS THE COUNTRY IN SEARCH OF AN ALIEN BODY -- AND DISCOVER TREACHERY WHERE THEY LEAST EXPECTED IT.

Betrayal lurks on every hand as Mulder and Scully pursue a truck with a strange cargo from Virginia to Washington state, in a chase marked by UFO sightings. Does the truck carry the injured pilot of a UFO shot down over Iraq only days before? Or is it an elaborate hoax, a ruse to mislead and confuse the X-Files team? Scully discovers that she and Mulder are under electronic surveillance, and Mulder learns a painful lesson when his most trusted ally deliberately lies to him. We meet a new set of unconventional allies, however -- the editorial collective of The Lone Gunman conspiracy magazine. Byers, Langly and the sleazy Frohike aid the X-Files team in infiltrating a secret holding facility -- where Mulder discovers a dirty international secret more threatening than a downed UFO.

Two of the names Mulder and Scully use to get into the army base, Tom Braidwood and Val Stefoff, both first assistant directors (and Tom Braidwood is also Frohike).

Scully: "Those lights the driver saw may have been swamp gas."

Mulder: "Swamp gas?"

Scully: "It's a natural phenomenon in which phosphane and methane rising from decaying organic matter ignite, creating globes of blue flame."

Mulder: "Happens to me when I eat Dodger Dogs."

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Mulder: "Some of their ideas are down-right 'spooky'."

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Langley: "Check it out, Mulder. I just had lunch with the guy that shot JFK. He's an old dude now, but...says he was dressed as a cop on the grassy knoll."

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Byers: "Vladamir Zhirinovsky, the leader of the Russian Social Democrats, is being put into power by the most heinous and evil force in the 20th century."

Mulder: "Barney?"

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Langley: "Is this your sceptical partner?"

Frohike: "She's hot."

Byers: (to Scully) "You don't believe that the CIA, threatened by a loss of power and funding, because of the collapse of the cold war, wouldn't dream of having the old enemy back?"

Frohike: "She IS hot."

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Byers: "That's why we like you, Mulder. Your ideas are weirder than ours."

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Scully: "These were the most paranoid people I have ever met. I don't know how you could think that what they say is even remotely plausible."

Mulder: "I think it's remotely plausible that someone might think you're hot."

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Mulder: "I tied up an air phone for three hours. I don't speak Japanese, but I think some businessman told me to stick a piece of sushi where the sun don't shine."

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