Original Air Date: 10/04/96 Written by Chris Carter Directed by R.W. Goodwin
SCULLY AND MULDER GO UP AGAINST AN INVINCIBLE ALIEN ASSASSIN TO PROTECT A TRAITOR TO THE CONSPIRACY WHO CAN LEAD THEM TO THE TRUTH… AND SAVE THE LIFE OF MULDER’S MOTHER.
Mulder and Scully desperately try to protect the life of Jeremiah Smith. Not only is this mysterious man a link to the colonization plan – his paranormal healing powers are Mulder’s only hope of saving his mother’s life. Close on their trail is the relentless alien bounty hunter: an assassin who is hard to escape. And harder to kill.
With the assassin close behind, Smith leads Mulder to an eerie, isolated farm community. There, Mulder is stunned to see clones of his sister Samantha, who had been abducted by aliens as a child. Smith tells Mulder that these children have been bred as worker drones. Before Smith can reveal more about the “Colonization” conspiracy, they are set upon by the alien assassin. Mulder is helpless to save Smith or Samantha.
Back in Washington, Scully’s investigations into Smith’s background lead her to a disquieting conclusion. All five of the identical men named Jeremiah Smith were secretly cataloguing the entire human population. But at whose orders? And why?
Meanwhile, the Cigarette−Smoking Man (CSM) and the Elder have identified X as a traitor. He is ambushed and gunned down. As he dies, he leaves behind one last ambiguous clue: the letters “SRSG” scrawled in blood.
With his mother still in a coma, a despondent Mulder follows the last of his meager clues to the end of the line: the United Nations office of Special Representative to the Secretary General. An enigmatic official denies the Colony ever existed… as she hands him a folder containing photographs of the farm and of Samantha.
And finally, because “the fiercest enemy is the man who has nothing left to lose,” CSM directs the Alien Bounty Hunter to heal Mulder’s mother.
Home
Production Code: #4X03 Original Air Date: 10/11/96
Written by Glen Morgan and James Wong Directed by Kim Manners
AN INVESTIGATION INTO INFANTICIDE IN AN IDYLLIC SMALL TOWN LEADS MULDER AND SCULLY TO AN EVEN MORE APPALLING DISCOVERY: A FAMILY DEFORMED BY INBREEDING INTO A FERAL, MURDEROUS CLAN.
Home, Pennsylvania. An idyllic small town is the last place anyone would expect to find a hideously malformed newborn buried in a shallow grave. This gruesome discovery is enough for the local sheriff, Andy Taylor, to call in the FBI. Although the child’s deformations indicate multiple genetic abnormalities, neither Mulder nor Scully believe this local tragedy is a matter for the X−Files: until they learn more about Home’s reclusive Peacock clan.
For over a century, this farm family has lived on the outskirts of town… and the outskirts of civilization. Generations of inbreeding have deformed their bodies and their souls into something less than human, and more than animal. Now that the family has dwindled down to three brothers, Mulder and Scully suspect that the Peacocks have devised a grotesque plan to propagate their species by forcing a kidnapped woman into involuntary pregnancy.
While someone (or something) watches unseen, Mulder and Scully explore the Peacock farm and find the bloody evidence of a recent birth. Before they can arrest the Peacocks, the family strikes back. Later that night, the Peacock boys massacre the sheriff and his wife. As Mulder says, “They went caveman.”
Fearing for the life of the Peacocks’ prisoner, Scully and Mulder courageously invade the farmhouse with only the local deputy as back−up. When they discover the hiding place of the clan matriarch, they finally comprehend the appalling truth. Mrs. Peacock, a multiple amputee, is the mother of the murdered infant. And also the proud mother of three sons who’ll do anything for mom.
With guile, luck, and firepower, Mulder and Scully manage to kill two of the rampaging Peacocks. In the confusion, the oldest boy and Mrs.
Peacock escape in their long white Cadillac. Mother and son drive off in search of a new place to call Home.
Teliko
Production Code: #4X04 Original Air Date: 10/18/96 Written by Howard Gordon Directed by James Charleston
MULDER AND SCULLY COMBINE FOLKLORE AND SCIENCE TO SOLVE THE MYSTERIOUS
DISAPPEARANCES OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN.
Four African−American men have vanished off the streets of Philadelphia. An FBI/Police task force has come up with no leads… until the body of the most recent victim is discovered. Surprisingly, violence isn’t the cause of death. The body’s bizarre lack of pigmentation hints at some unknown ailment. The Centers for Disease Control calls in Scully to unravel the medical mystery.
Mulder, however, believes that more than a simple pathogen is involved. His investigations lead to a cover−up of a similar death on a flight from West Africa, and the presence of a toxic plant native to that area. Meanwhile, Scully discovers that the victim’s pituitary gland – which produces melanin among other hormones – has somehow been destroyed.
While their investigation is under way, the killer strikes again. This time a young black student is stalked and kidnapped from a bus stop. The evidence leads Scully and Mulder to a recent West African immigrant, Samuel Aboah. They arrest him when he attempts to escape. Hospital tests reveal that, among other peculiar abnormalities, Aboah lacks a pituitary gland.
A tip from his UN informant sends Mulder to Minister Diabria, a diplomat from the West African country of Burkina Faso. Reluctantly, Diabria admits he had ordered the cover−up of the first murder – because he knew the identity of the killer. It was one of the mythical Teliko: evil spirits of the air, who emerge at night to suck the life and color out of their victims. Who would have believed that a terrifying West African folktale could come to life in 20th century America? No one… except Mulder.
Mulder explains his theory to a skeptical Scully: the Teliko are not ghostly entities, but members of a lost African clan, who have survived over generations by hunting down other humans to steal what they lack: hormones from the pituitary gland.
Aboah escapes the hospital. In the ensuing manhunt, Aboah captures Mulder. Scully comes to Mulder’s aid and shoots Aboah just in time to save Mulder’s life. And the truth about the Teliko is destined to die along with him.
Unruhe
Production Code: #4X02 Original Air Date: 10/27/96 Written by Vince Gilligan Directed by Rob Bowman
MULDER’S ONLY HOPE OF STOPPING A PSYCHOTIC KILLER ARE PSYCHIC PHOTOGRAPHS THAT REVEAL THE MADMAN’S DARKEST FANTASIES.
Northern Michigan. A young woman is kidnapped and her boyfriend murdered. Her passport photographs, taken only moments earlier, don’t show the expected smiling portraits. Instead, they display nightmarish images of the terrified girl.
The photographs fascinate Mulder. Scully tries to find a logical explanation: the pictures were planted, or the film is damaged. But to Mulder, they are an example of “psychic photography”: the paranormal ability to create images on film with the mind. Mulder theorizes that the suspect doesn’t even know he possesses this gift… and that the photographs reveal the killer’s darkest fantasies.
The kidnap victim is found: alive, but almost brain−dead. Her abductor had given her a primitive, botched lobotomy with an ice pick inserted through her eyes. Her mind almost gone, she endlessly repeats the word “unruhe”: the German word for “trouble” or “unrest.” Soon, the kidnapper abducts and kills again.
Scully realizes that the same construction company had job sites near each crime scene. While Mulder is in Washington to examine the photos at the FBI labs, Scully follows up on her lead. She knows foreman Gerry Schnauz is the kidnapper by his terrified reaction to the word “unruhe.” She arrests him.
Schnauz is a formerly institutionalized paranoid schizophrenic with a history of violence. When confronted by the photographs of his victims, he’s startled at the sight of his own paranoid delusions brought to life on film. Admitting the crime, he tells them where to find his other victim. She too has been lobotomized.
Schnauz kills a guard and escapes from jail. He returns to the scene of the first crime to steal the camera and film. Mulder’s blood runs cold when he sees exposed photographs of Schnauz’s next victim: Scully! Now, Mulder’s only hope of saving her is studying the photos to get deep inside Schnauz’s mind.
In captivity, Scully, too, must use everything she knows about Schnauz to keep herself alive. But she can’t talk him out of his delusions. It won’t be long before he wields the icepick to rid Scully of the “unruhe” he believes is tormenting her.
Mulder’s insight into the madman’s mind leads him to Schnauz’s dark den. With hardly a moment to spare, he shoots Scully’s kidnapper. And finds one
last series of psychic photographs: Schnauz – shot dead on the floor.