
(S01E06) According to The X-Files wiki, this episode was penned with the direction of FOX, which wanted an episode about poltergeists. Luckily, two of the writers for the show (Glen Morgan and James Wong) were fans of the paranormal and we got a very X-Files-style ghost story.
The agents start following Lauren Kyte, after the NSA or CIA call them in for help with two dead bodies that were still hot and twitching, six hours after death. Mulder lies to the feds and starts his own paranormal investigation. At first, it appears that Lauren Kyte may have some sort of special ability to emit electric rays from her body or something. She is connected to several people who have been killed. It turns out that she is being trailed by the ghost of her former boss, Howard Graves. She wakes up one night and finds blood in her bathtub, a message that her boss was murdered. His ghost is protecting her when she gets attacked at an ATM and then when her new boss sends thugs to her house to kill her.
Mulder finally gets Lauren to crack when he tells her he knows that Howard Graves' ghost is with her. Surprisingly, Scully is the one who gets Lauren to tell them about why her boss was murdered. The feds raid Lauren's old workplace to find evidence that the company did work with terrorists. Graves' ghost turns the boss' office into a whirlwind of papers and points Mulder and Lauren to the computer disk with proof that the company did work for terrorists.
There's a nod to Tom Braidwood early in the episode. His name is the one that was going to replace Howard Graves' name on the parking space. Who is Tom Braidwood, you ask? Well, early in the show he was a directorial assistant but later on he played Frohike, one of The Lone Gunmen.












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7-09-2006 @ 9:50PM
Director J. Burkhart said...
The Truth Is Out There.
And it was the nature of such programs as the X-Files which had served to create far more focus upon the potential oddities of human experience which normally had remained unquestioned and unopposed.
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