The Host (The X-Files)

Infobox Television episode | Title = The Host


Caption = "The Flukeman"
Series = The X-Files
Season = 2
Episode = 2X02
Airdate = September 23 1994 (Fox)
Production = 26-202
Writer = Chris Carter
Director = Daniel Sackheim
Guests =Mitch Pileggi,
Darin Morgan,
Matthew Bennett,
Freddy Andreiuci,
Don MacKay
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Prev = Little Green Men
Next = Blood

"The Host" was the second episode of the second season of "The X-Files" science-fiction television series created by Chris Carter.

Plot

When a man's decomposed body is found in the sewers of Newark, Mulder is given the supposed "grunt" work. But after Scully's autopsy turns up a parasite living inside the dead body, and a sewer worker is attacked and bitten by something, it opens up a whole new can of worms.

Production details

Guests

Both Matthew Bennett and Gabrielle Rose would later have major parts in Battlestar Galactica.
*Mitch Pileggi as Walter Skinner
*Darin Morgan as Flukeman
*Matthew Bennett as Workman # 1
*Freddy Andreiuci as Inspector Norman
*Don MacKay as Charlie
*Marc Baur as Agent Brisentine
*Gabrielle Rose as Dr. Zenzola
*Ron Sauvé as Ray
*Dimitri S. Boudrine as Russian Engineer
*Raoul Ganeev as Dimitri
*William MacDonald as Federal Marshall

References and external links

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* [http://www.tv.com/the-x-files/the-host/episode/516/summary.html The Host] at TV.com