Squeeze (The X-Files)
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"Squeeze" is a 1993 episode of The X-Files television series. It was the third episode aired in the show's first season, and only the second to be produced after the pilot. "Squeeze" was the first "monster-of-the-week" episode of the series, as the prior two episodes had dealt with alien abduction and UFOs.
"Squeeze" concerns a series of serial murders in the Baltimore area, and a human mutant with the ability to squeeze into small spaces. The episode features the first of two appearances by one of The X-Files' most popular "monsters" (and one of only three to appear twice), Eugene Victor Tooms, who reprises the role later in the season in "Tooms". "Squeeze" was also the first of dozens of episodes of the series to be written by Glen Morgan and James Wong.
Plot
Template:Spoiler Mulder and Scully investigate a series of murders where there appears to be no tangible method for the murderer's entrance and escape. Eugene Victor Tooms, a seemingly normal animal welfare official, is suspected by Mulder to be a mutant who kills his victims and extracts their livers in order to prolong his existence.
Production details
- Origin of Idea: "What if we were working here late at night and some guy came through that thing?!" - Glen Morgan to James Wong upon looking at a large ventilator shaft outside their office.
Guests
- Doug Hutchison as Eugene Victor Tooms
- Donal Logue as Agent Tom Colton
- Henry Beckman as Detective Frank Briggs
- Kevin McNulty as Agent Fuller
- Terence Kelly as George Usher
- Colleen Winton as Lie Detector Technician
- James Bell as Mr. Johnson
- Gary Hetherington as Mr. Kennedy
- Rob Morton as Mr. Kramer
- Paul Joyce as Mr. Werner
Trivial
- Doug Hutchison who played Eugene Tooms, is in real life, a vegetarian.
- Doug Hutchison, who looks "like he's 12 years old" won the part after the director was annoying him by asking him to "look like you're stalking your victims.. I want to see your potential for evil... Do you understand what I'm saying?" - Doug's reply, "Yeah, I got it, you want me to stalk you, you motherfucker?". Wong and Morgan immediately proclaimed, "That's the guy!" He has since appeared in every show that M&W have worked on.
- Agent Fuller (Kevin McNulty) returns as the same character in season 3's "Apocrypha", and look for McNulty in numerous other episodes playing someone else, notably, in "Soft Light", the guy who locks Dr. Banton in the particle accelerator...
