Tooms

Infobox Television episode | Title = Tooms


Caption = "Tooms"
Series = The X-Files
Season = 1
Episode = 1X20
Airdate = April 22 1994 (Fox)
Production = 21-121
Writer = Glen Morgan
James Wong
Director = David Nutter
Guests =Doug Hutchison,
Paul Ben-Victor,
Mitch Pileggi,
Henry Beckman,
Timothy Webber
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Prev = Darkness Falls
Next = Born Again

"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.

Plot

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 X-Files mythology, this episode is noteworthy for featuring the first spoken line for Cigarette Smoking Man: "Of course I do."

Mulder often seems to fall asleep watching B-movies or horror movies; tonight's feature presentation: "The Fly."

Production details

*A working title for this episode was "Squeezed".

* Origin of Idea: Glen Morgan was Christmas shopping in an L.A. mall and saw men working on the escalator which was open and exposed.

Guests

*Doug Hutchison as Eugene Victor Tooms
*Paul Ben-Victor as Dr. Aaron Monte
*Mitch Pileggi as Walter Skinner
*Henry Beckman as Detective Frank Briggs
*Timothy Webber as Detective Talbot
*André Daniels as Arlen Green
*Jerry Wasserman as Dr. Plith
*Frank C. Turner as Dr. Collins
*Gillian Carfra as Christine Ranford
*Pat Bermel as Frank Ranford
*Mikal Dughi as Dr. Pamela Karetzky
*Glynis Davies as Defense Counsel Nelson
*Steve Adams as Prosecution Counsel Myers
*Catherine Lough as Dr. Richmond
*William B. Davis as Cigarette Smoking Man
*Jan D'Arcy as Judge Kann
*Paul Ben-Victor as Dr. Aaron Monte

References and external links

*imdb title|0751246|Tooms
* [http://www.tv.com/the-x-files/tooms/episode/511/summary.html Tooms] at TV.com
* [http://x-files.wikia.com/wiki/Tooms Tooms] at [http://x-files.wikia.com The X-Files Wiki]