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“Squeeze”

A great episode which started off with the first “monster-of-the-week” episode that would become one of the trope of the X-Files. Some of my personal favorite episodes were the the one-shot, one-off monsters of the week episodes.

This one is entitled “Squeeze” and featured Eugene Victor Tooms. Tooms would be back in later episodes, but this one really set up him as a monstrous villain who murdered people for their livers so he could survive while he hibernated. Weird.

We saw more of the disrespect “Spooky” Mulder gets from other FBI agents, including one that was a former classmate of Scully. That guy was a huge jerk. And this was the first point when Scully stood up and picked a side. When she had a chance to leave Mulder, she refused and went to Mulder’s side.

Doug Hutchinson played Tooms and he created one of the most iconic X-Files villains of the entire series. Tooms is creepy as hell and his confrontation with Scully in her apartment was really great.