#92

Cigarette Smoking Man (X-Files)

TV or Movie: The X-Files

Actor: William B. Davis

Time of Death: ?? Season 11 finale, “My Struggle IV”

The question would be… which death are we talking about. I believe I can recall about three times CSM (real character name-Carl Gerhard Busch Spender) bit the big one. It sure seemed as if he was gone after the building he was hiding in was destroyed by black helicopters. BUT NO! Old Smokie came back for the revival. However, Fox Mulder shot him several times after CSM had shot and apparently killed Mulder’s son. The body fell into the water and was swept away so… was he dead?

There has been no character that I wanted Mulder to shoot in the head more than CSM. I do not know how many times I yelled at the TV screen for Mulder to shoot him in the head at a moment when Mulder had CSM at gunpoint and seemingly helpless. It just never happened.