4X09 Tunguska
Mulder receives an anonymous tip about a right wing militia group planning an Oklahoma style bombing. The informant turns out to be Alex Krycek,
rescued from the missile silo by the Militia group. Krycek manages to persuade Mulder that he wants revenge on the Cigarette Smoking Man and can help bring down the shadowy Syndicate he is part of. Despite his personal loathing of Krycek and his belief that Krycek killed his father, Mulder reluctantly accepts his co-operation. Krycek directs Mulder and Scully to intercept a Russian courier's parcel, which turns out to contain a 4 billion year old extraterrestrial rock. Scully takes the rock off to be tested on but when a government exobiologist drills in to the rock he is attacked by the black oil.
The Well Manicured Man is shocked to hear that Mulder has the rock and orders the Cigarette Smoking Man to recover it.
Mulder takes Krycek to Assistant Director Skinner's apartment for 'safe' keeping while he seeks out his UN contact Marita Covarrubias who informs him that the Russian courier's destination was Tunguska, which Mulder recognises as the scene of a massive explosion when a fireball crashed there in 1908.
The Russian courier breaks in to Skinner's apartment and is killed by Krycek, forcing Mulder to take Krycek, who speaks Russian with him to Tunguska. As Scully and Skinner face a congressional investigation over the death of the courier, Mulder and Krycek are captured and imprisoned in a Russian Gulag.
Noteworthy Quote
Mulder: "..which leads me to believe that what's in this rock we intercepted, are answers beyond the existence of extra terrestrial life, even beyond the, the conspiracy to cover up that existence."
Credits
| Writer: |
Frank Spotnitz |
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Chris Carter |
| Director: |
Rob Bowman |
Cast:
| David Duchovny |
Special Agent Fox Mulder |
| Gillian Anderson |
Special Agent Dana Scully |
Guest Cast:
| Mitch Pileggi |
Assistant Director Skinner |
| William B Davis |
Cigarette Smoking Man |
| Nicolas Lea |
Alex Krycek |
| Campbell Lane |
Committee Chairman |
| Fritz Weaver |
Senator Sorenson |
| John Hainsworth |
Gaunt Man |
| Olesky Shostak |
Bundled Man |
| Jan Rubes |
Vassily Peskow |
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| Laurie Holden |
Marita Covarrubias |
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| Stefan Arngrim |
The Prisoner |
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| Robin Mossley |
Dr Kingsley Looker |
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| Brendan Beiser |
Special Agent Pendrell |
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| John Neville |
Well Manicured Man |
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| Malcolm Stewart |
Dr Sacks |
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| Jessica Schreier |
Dr Bonita Sayre |
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| Brent Stait |
Terry Edward Mayhew |
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| Eileen Pedde |
Angie |
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| David Bloom |
Stress Man |
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| Lee Serpa |
Swarthy Man |
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