37. Irresistible
gs: Nick Chinlund (Donald Pfaster) Bruce Weitz (Agent Moe Bocks)

A mortuary worker who gets his thrills from collecting hair and fingernails from the dead begins killing his soon-to-be collectibles himself and sets his seriously disturbed sights on Scully.

101. Detour
gs: Colleen Flynn (Michele Fazekas) Anthony Rapp (Jeff Glaser) Scott Burkholder (Agent Kinsley) J.C. Wendel (Agent Stonecypher)

While on their way to an FBI group communication seminar, Mulder and Scully manage to escape when they come across a situation in the Florida forest area where three men have recently disappeared.


b: 23-Nov-1997 pc: 5X04 w: Frank Spotnitz d: Brett Dowler

NOTE: Search and Rescue leader Michele Fazekas is named after writer/Executive Producer Frank Spotnitz's assistant, Michael Fazekas.
Scully sings the song "Joy to the World" to Mulder in this episode. She sings this same song to her son in season 9.

107. Chinga
gs: Susannah Hoffman (Melissa Turner) Larry Musser (Captain Jack Bonsaint) William MacDonald (Buddy Riggs) Jenny-Lynn Hutcheson (Polly Turner) Henry Beckman (Fisherman) Carolyn Tweedle (Jane Froelich)

Master of Horror Stephen King's first effort at an X-File sees Scully's well deserved vacation going terribly wrong and landing her in a small Maine town where one of the residents is believed to be a witch and her autistic daughter's doll has frighteningly evil powers.


b: 08-Feb-1998 pc: 5X10 w: Stephen King and Chris Carter d: Kim Manners

NOTE: The coastal Maine town as the setting for this episode is typical for a Stephen King story. Maine is his home state and is the principal setting for almost all of his novels.
'Chinga' is the name of Polly's evil doll, as well as the title. Unbekownst to writer Stephen King at the time, Chinga is also an offensive Spanish slang term (apparently the equivalent of the F-word). When Chris Carter realized this, the episode name was changed to "Bunghoney" when it aired outside of the US.
The name of the boat in this episode is "Working Girl", a reference to the movie of the same name in which David Duchovny had a small part.




b: 13-Jan-1995 pc: 2X13 w: Chris Carter d: David Nutter

NOTE: The name Soames can be seen on a tombstone at the beginning of the episode - Ray Soames is the name of the person Mulder and Scully had exhumed in the Pilot episode.
Mulder and Scully were supposed to attend a football game between Washington and Minnesota. At the time, both of these teams had a player named Carter. Later we see the game on television, just in time to catch a play made by 'Cris Carter'.
When Donnie is talking to the other suspect in jail, the suspect recalls Scully's name because it was like "that baseball announer". The baseball announcer in question is Vin Scully, the man Chris Carter named Dana Scully after.
Nick Chinlund later returns in Season 7's Orison.


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38. Die Hand die Verletzt
gs: Susan Blommaert (Phyllis Paddock) Dan Butler (Jim Ausbury) Heather McComb (Shannon Ausbury)

The ritualistic murder of a teenager in a small town gets Mulder and Scully caught up in a secret occult practice within the local school's PTA and a substitute teacher with strange powers.


b: 27-Jan-1995 pc: 2X14 w: Glen Morgan and James Wong d: Kim Manners

NOTE: Writers Glen Morgan and James Wong left the show to create the sci-fi epic Space: Above and Beyond. The message left behind by Mrs Paddock "It's been nice working with you." served also as their goodbye to the cast and crew.
The pair returned to co-write several season 4 episodes starting with 'Home'.
'Die Hand die Verletzt' is German for "The Hand that Wounds", which is part of the satanic prayer spoken in the teaser by the members of the PTA.
In homage to Super Bowl XXIX (to be played two days after the airing of this episode) writers Morgan and Wong changed their names in the opening credits to James "Chargers" Wong and Glen "Bolts, Baby" Morgan. The San Diego Chargers ended up losing to the San Francisco 49ers, but Glen Morgan declared he wasn't superstitious enough to believe that he had jinxed his team.
The high school, Crowley High, is named for Alistair Crowley; whose theories layed much of the groundwork for modern Wicca religion.

77. Unruhe
gs: Pruitt Taylor Vince (Gerry Schnauz)

Several kidnappings of young women linked by distorted photographs lead Mulder and Scully to a man who can imprint his darkest fantasies onto undeveloped film and is trying to save the women from the 'Howlers'.


b: 27-Oct-1996 pc: 4X02 w: Vince Gilligan d: Rob Bowman

NOTE: 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).
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.
The brand of film, ETAP, is the last name of assistant prop master Jim Pate spelled backwards.

eeeeeeeew... that *was* an interesting one <BG>

i liked the ep where fake mulder comes over to scully's place and they kissing and mulder breaks in and finds it HAHAHa