Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man

"Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man" is a 1996 episode of The X-Files television series. It was the seventh episode broadcast in the show's fourth season. "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man" features Frohike finding a magazine story that he believes reveals the history of the Cigarette Smoking Man. The Cigarette Smoking Man, with a sniper rifle and surveillance equipment, spies on a meeting between Mulder, Scully, and the Lone Gunmen. Frohike cl... more

"Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man" is a 1996 episode of The X-Files television series. It was the seventh episode broadcast in the show's fourth season. "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man" features Frohike finding a magazine story that he believes reveals the history of the Cigarette Smoking Man. The Cigarette Smoking Man, with a sniper rifle and surveillance equipment, spies on a meeting between Mulder, Scully, and the Lone Gunmen. Frohike claims to have found out everything about the Cigarette Smoking Man's past, saying that he was born in 1940, that his father was an executed communist spy, and that his mother died of lung cancer, causing him to be raised in various Midwest orphanages. The narrative changes to 1962. The Cigarette Smoking Man is an army captain stationed at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. He talks to his colleague, Bill Mulder, who shows him a photo of his baby, Fox. The Cigarette Smoking Man goes to see a general, accompanied by several strange men in suits. They... less