#2x09  -   Firewalker
written by Howard Gordon
directed by David Nutter
SUMMARY:
Mulder and Scully stumble upon a deadly life form while investigating the death of a scientist studying an active volcano.
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MISC:
--> RESOURCES:
  • The truth is out there: The official guide to The X-Files: p. 181 - 183
  • Unofficial X-Files companion: p. 150 - 154
  • Book of the Unexplained, Vol 2: p. 114 - 125, "More weird nature"

    • --> TITLE DERIVATION:
    the name of the volcano-descending robot
    --> LINKS:
  • Tiny Dancer's X-Files Script archive: firewalker
  • the official site summary 
  • X-review 
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    EPISODE INFO:
    Principle Location: Mt Avalon, Washington
    original airdate: 11/18/94
    German title: Der Vulkan
    BACKGROUND INFO:
  • First appearance of the "*good* flashlights", which contain xenon gas and cost about $4000 each. DD says that his right arm is stronger from carrying them.
  • Howard Gordon, writer of the ep, saw Trepkos's obsession and the toll it exacted upon him in terms of losing someone he loved as a means of exPrinciple Locationoring the darker side of Mulder's committment to his search: "The natural endpoint of this quest for the truth is madness."
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    CAST LIST:
    DAVID DUCHOVNY Special Agent Fox Mulder
    GILLIAN ANDERSON Special Agent Dana Scully
    BRADLEY WHITFORD Doctor Daniel Trepkos
    DAVID LEWIS Vosberg
    TUCK MILLIGAN Doctor Adam Pierce
    LELAND OIRSER Jason Ludwig
    TORBEN ROLFSEN the Technician
    SHAWNEE SMITH Jesse O'Neil
    HIRO KANAGAWA Peter Tanaka
    DAVID KAYE Reporter
     
    QUOTES:
    PIERCE: "I'm afraid to go through proper channels."
    MULDER: "We're not exactly proper channels."
    MULDER: "Scully, I don't think it's a good idea for you to go."
    SCULLY: "Mulder, I appreciate your concern, but I'm ready; I want to work.
    MULDER: "Well, maybe you should take some time off."
    SCULLY: "I've already lost too much time."
    TREPKOS: "If my intense desire to find the truth hasn't finally eclipsed the truth itself, our meddling intellect misshapes the beauteous forms of things."
    TREPKOS: "My mind is a tangled knot I can no longer untie. Daily I fight the urge to sever it completely to stop this dissent."
    SCULLY: "What if he's already dead?"
    MULDER: "He'll have a hard time answering my questions."
    GET THE WAV
    SCULLY: "Will you at least let me go with you?"
    MULDER: "No."
    SCULLY: "Look, I know what you're thinking, but you have to get past that, we both do. I'm back, and I'm not going anywhere."
    MULDER: "Hopefully, that'll give us a better idea of what we're dealing with, whatever it is."
    SCULLY: "Based on this preliminary data, I have come to the following hypothesis."
    TREPKOS: "I say the Earth holds some truths best left buried."
    MULDER: "I'm Special Agent Mulder. I'm with the FBI."
    TREPKOS: "You still believe you can petition heaven to get some penetrating answer. If you found that answer, what would you do with it?"
    TREPKOS: "In a single moment, everything that science held sacred suddenly turned on its head."
    MULDER: "Mine stands as the only record."
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