Tooms

"Tooms," also called "Squeeze II" in some newspaper listings, was the twenty-first episode of the first season of The X-Files science-fiction television series created by Chris Carter. Eugene Victor Tooms (see "Squeeze") is released from the psychiatric sanatarium in which he was incarcerated for assaulting Scully - and he needs to kill once more to get the final liver which will allow him to hibernate for another thirty years. Mulder and Scully ... more

"Tooms," also called "Squeeze II" in some newspaper listings, was the twenty-first episode of the first season of The X-Files science-fiction television series created by Chris Carter. Eugene Victor Tooms (see "Squeeze") is released from the psychiatric sanatarium in which he was incarcerated for assaulting Scully - and he needs to kill once more to get the final liver which will allow him to hibernate for another thirty years. Mulder and Scully race against time to find evidence of his involvement in the past string of murders before Tooms disappears again. Assistant Director Walter Skinner, (named for a family friend of Morgan's) makes his first appearance on the show, criticizing Scully's reports about the X-Files investigations. She is asked to make sure that future investigations are conducted in more conventional ways than in the past, testing her loyalty to her partner. In the mythology of The X-Files, this episode is noteworthy for featuring the first spoken line by the... less