Spoilers

“Avatar”

This is an episode featuring Assistant Director Walter Skinner. We get to learn some details about Skinner’s life, such as that he was married, a marriage that has been on the rocks for many months now.

Skinner is also being visited by a spirit of an old woman, who had helped protect him during his tour in Vietnam, and who was referred to by Agent Mulder as a succubus. Honestly, the paranormal aspect of this episode was a little slipshot.

The use of Skinner’s sleep troubles as a weakness for the secret government group to manipulate is better for the episode, to me. The way Agent Mulder found the culprit was quite clever (with the use of the airbag).

I am glad that they put Skinner front and center in this episode, but it did feel like the episode needed some more attention overall. Still, it was a decent X-Files contribution.