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The X-Files Contest #1 | The K Files | The X Files Podcast | Case File 105.5
The K Files is on break this week investigating some strange occurences in Tunguska, Russia. If Tanguska sounds familiar to you, it’s because it’s the name of an episode featuring your favorite character, Alex Krycek. The actor who played him, Nick Lee, appeared as another character in an earlier episode of The X-Files called Gender Bender. There are some other actors who played multiple characters on the show. If you can correctly name one of those characters – and its counterpart, I will personally give you an X-Files comic from my own collection. Tweet the answer to @hollywoodredux
Open the case file below:
Debriefing:
“Tunguska” is the eighth episode of the fourth season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. It premièred on the Fox network on November 24, 1996. It was directed by Kim Manners, and written by Frank Spotnitz and series creator Chris Carter. “Tunguska” featured guest appearances by John Neville, Nicholas Lea and Fritz Weaver. The episode helped explore the series’ overarching mythology. “Tunguska” earned a Nielsen household rating of 12.2, being watched by 18.85 million people in its initial broadcast.
In the episode, FBI special agent Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) travels to Russia to investigate the source of a black oil contamination. His partner Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) and assistant director Walter Skinner (Mitch Pileggi) are summoned to attend a United States Senate hearing on Mulder’s whereabouts. “Tunguska” is a two-part episode, with the plot continuing in the next episode, “Terma”.
“Tunguska” was inspired by reports of evidence of extraterrestrial life possibly being found in the Allan Hills 84001 meteorite, while the gulag setting was inspired by the works of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The story offered the writers a chance to expand the scale of the series’ mythology globally, although production of the episode was described as troublesome and expensive.
Plot:
The episode opens in medias res to Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) as she is brought before a Senate select committee to be questioned about the whereabouts of Fox Mulder (David Duchovny). Scully refuses to answer the committee’s questions and attempts to read a statement denouncing the conspiracy within the government. Senator Sorenson threatens to hold Scully in contempt of Congress.
Ten days earlier, at Honolulu Airport, a courier returning from the Republic of Georgia (David Bloom) is searched by customs officers. One of the officers (Andy Thompson) removes a glass canister from the courier’s briefcase and accidentally shatters it, exposing both men to the black oil. Meanwhile, in New York City, Mulder and Scully take part in an FBI raid against a domestic terrorist group. Mulder’s tipster within the group is revealed to be Alex Krycek (Nicholas Lea), whom the terrorists released from the missile silo where he had been trapped. Krycek has turned against The Smoking Man (William B. Davis), and tells the distrustful agents that he can help expose him.
Krycek leads the agents to Dulles International Airport, where they try to apprehend a second courier carrying a diplomatic pouch from Russia. The courier leads the agents on a pursuit through the airport, but drops the pouch before escaping. The pouch is revealed to carry a seemingly unremarkable rock. Mulder has Krycek confined at the high rise apartment of Assistant Director Walter Skinner before having the rock analyzed at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Dr. Sacks, a NASA scientist, tells Mulder and Scully that the rock is a prehistoric meteorite fragment that might con...
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By Hollywood ReduxThe X-Files Contest #1 | The K Files | The X Files Podcast | Case File 105.5
The K Files is on break this week investigating some strange occurences in Tunguska, Russia. If Tanguska sounds familiar to you, it’s because it’s the name of an episode featuring your favorite character, Alex Krycek. The actor who played him, Nick Lee, appeared as another character in an earlier episode of The X-Files called Gender Bender. There are some other actors who played multiple characters on the show. If you can correctly name one of those characters – and its counterpart, I will personally give you an X-Files comic from my own collection. Tweet the answer to @hollywoodredux
Open the case file below:
Debriefing:
“Tunguska” is the eighth episode of the fourth season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. It premièred on the Fox network on November 24, 1996. It was directed by Kim Manners, and written by Frank Spotnitz and series creator Chris Carter. “Tunguska” featured guest appearances by John Neville, Nicholas Lea and Fritz Weaver. The episode helped explore the series’ overarching mythology. “Tunguska” earned a Nielsen household rating of 12.2, being watched by 18.85 million people in its initial broadcast.
In the episode, FBI special agent Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) travels to Russia to investigate the source of a black oil contamination. His partner Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) and assistant director Walter Skinner (Mitch Pileggi) are summoned to attend a United States Senate hearing on Mulder’s whereabouts. “Tunguska” is a two-part episode, with the plot continuing in the next episode, “Terma”.
“Tunguska” was inspired by reports of evidence of extraterrestrial life possibly being found in the Allan Hills 84001 meteorite, while the gulag setting was inspired by the works of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The story offered the writers a chance to expand the scale of the series’ mythology globally, although production of the episode was described as troublesome and expensive.
Plot:
The episode opens in medias res to Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) as she is brought before a Senate select committee to be questioned about the whereabouts of Fox Mulder (David Duchovny). Scully refuses to answer the committee’s questions and attempts to read a statement denouncing the conspiracy within the government. Senator Sorenson threatens to hold Scully in contempt of Congress.
Ten days earlier, at Honolulu Airport, a courier returning from the Republic of Georgia (David Bloom) is searched by customs officers. One of the officers (Andy Thompson) removes a glass canister from the courier’s briefcase and accidentally shatters it, exposing both men to the black oil. Meanwhile, in New York City, Mulder and Scully take part in an FBI raid against a domestic terrorist group. Mulder’s tipster within the group is revealed to be Alex Krycek (Nicholas Lea), whom the terrorists released from the missile silo where he had been trapped. Krycek has turned against The Smoking Man (William B. Davis), and tells the distrustful agents that he can help expose him.
Krycek leads the agents to Dulles International Airport, where they try to apprehend a second courier carrying a diplomatic pouch from Russia. The courier leads the agents on a pursuit through the airport, but drops the pouch before escaping. The pouch is revealed to carry a seemingly unremarkable rock. Mulder has Krycek confined at the high rise apartment of Assistant Director Walter Skinner before having the rock analyzed at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Dr. Sacks, a NASA scientist, tells Mulder and Scully that the rock is a prehistoric meteorite fragment that might con...