The X-files
F. Emasculata
Episode: 2X22
First aired:04/28/95
Written by: Chris Carter and Howard Gordon
Directed by: Rob Bowman
A
freaky episode.
Dr. Torrence, while collecting
insects, finds the
carcass of a
wild boar with
horrible boils on it. One of the
sores bursts splattering him with a
puslike substance. The
doctor radios for help but he is now covered in the sores. Rangers find him as
vultures pick at his body.
A
prisoner, also named Torrence, receives a
package with a
bloody pig’s leg in it. 18 hours later he is
quarantined with boils covering his body.
Suspicious of the strange happenings, two convicts, Steve and Paul, escape.
Mulder and
Scully are brought in to assist in their manhunt but they wonder about the
quarantine conditions.
Scully talks to Dr. Orborne from the
Center for Disease Control who tells her that 14 men have been infected with a
flu-like illness and 10 of them had died. Scully discovers that the dead mens' bodies were being
incinerated. One of the sores on a dead body breaks open and gets on Dr. Osborne recoils in
horror.
Scully finds a
dead insect in one of the sores and finds that the package was sent by
drug manufacturer Pinck
Pharmaceuticals.
Meanwhile, Mulder follows the convicts who have been hiding in the house of Paul’s
girlfriend,. Both are already ill and Steve infects her. Mulder and agents find Steve dead and Paul gone.
Osborne admits that he works for Pinck, not the CDC and was financing
exploration of new
rain forest species and received samples of the parastoid
F. Emasculata - a bug carrying the disease-causing
parasite, which attacks the
immune system.
Mulder talks to
Skinner and tells him they have to warn the public. The
Cigarette Smoking Man says that they must control the disease by controlling information and preventing
panic.
Scully tests her own blood to make sure she’s not infected. She comes back to see Dr. Osborne among the
dead bodies. One of the medical workers tells her that no one will believe her story.
Mulder talks to Paul’s girlfriend who admits that he boarded a
bus leaving for
Toronto. Scully warns Mulder that this convict may be the only
evidence of the disease.
Mulder finds the bus but Paul notices him and takes a boy
hostage. Suddenly Paul is shot and killed by a
sniper and Mulder and the boy are whisked away by a quarantine group.
Mulder wants to go public but Skinner says to leave it alone and that it is just the beginning.
Important Quotes:
Scully -- "According to the
briefing, prisoners escaped by hiding in a
laundry cart."
Mulder -- "I don't think the
guards are watching enough
prison movies."
Mulder -- "I thought this was about
escaped prisoners..."
Scully -- "It is."
Mulder -- "Then who are the men in the
funny suits?"
Scully -- "Where are you going?"
Mulder -- "To see if I can get in the way."
CSM -- "The truth would have caused panic. Panic would have cost lives. We control the
disease by controlling the information."
Mulder -- "You can't protect the public by lying."
CSM -- "It's done every day..."
Scully -- "There'll be a time for
the truth, Mulder, but this isn't it."
Skinner -- "
Agent Mulder. I'm saying this as a friend. Watch your back. This is just the beginning."
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