Firewalker

"Firewalker" is a 1994 episode of The X-Files television series. It was the ninth episode broadcast in the show's second season. Firewalker features Mulder and Scully investigating a mysterious lifeform that kills members of a team researching a volcano. Agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) are recruited by Dr. Adam Pierce to accompany him into Mount Avalon to investigate the death of a colleague of his, a seismol... more

"Firewalker" is a 1994 episode of The X-Files television series. It was the ninth episode broadcast in the show's second season. Firewalker features Mulder and Scully investigating a mysterious lifeform that kills members of a team researching a volcano. Agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) are recruited by Dr. Adam Pierce to accompany him into Mount Avalon to investigate the death of a colleague of his, a seismologist named Erickson. Pierce left the project a number of weeks ago after arguing with project leader Daniel Trepkos. Mulder is concerned about Scully considering her recent return from her abduction but she is insistent that she is ready to return to work. The three of them head to Mt. Avalon. While Pierce investigates the condition of the project's satellite equipment, the agents meet the other project members, engineer Jason Ludwig, systems analyst Peter Tanaka and graduate student Jessie O'Neil. The three of them tell the agents that... less