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Series:	The X-Files
Original Airdate:	May 17, 1998
Production Number:	5X20
Date(s):	1998
Written by:	Chris Carter
Directed by:	R.W. Goodwin

Investigating the murder of a chess player, Mulder and Scully meet a boy who may be the embodiment of everything in the X-Files.

Contents 1 Summary 2 Background Information 3 Links and References 3.1 Guest Stars 3.2 References

[edit] Summary

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[edit] Background Information

• This episode features a pan (a constant, mobile camera shot) over a wall in the X-Files Office, in which pictures of many people previously seen in the series can be seen. The visual starts on Mulder's "I Want to Believe" UFO poster and includes newspaper articles about Duane Barry and Eugene Victor Tooms as well as pictures of those characters.

• This was the final episode of The X-Files to be shot in Vancouver, BC. The next time the series would return there would be for the second X-Files movie, almost a decade later.

• For the teaser of this episode the crew invited local people from Vancouver to be extras for the scene. The stadium holds roughly 17,500 people and was filled. The crew had to turn away another 5,000+ fans.

• This episode featured several Fox animated t.v. shows in the background, beign watched by Gibson Praise, including The Simpsons, King of the Hill, and The Silver Surfer.

• This is the first episode to feature the femme fatale Diana Fowley.

• This is the first episode to feature the character of Gibson Praise, who would later become an important character to the ever expanding Mythology of the series.

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[edit] Guest Stars

• Mitch Pileggi as Walter Skinner
• William B. Davis as the Cigarette Smoking Man
• Nicholas Lea as Alex Krycek
• John Neville as the Well-Manicured Man
• Mimi Rogers as Diana Fowley
• Jeff Gulka as Gibson Praise
• Tom Braidwood as Frohike
• Dean Haglund as Langly
• Bruce Harwood as Byers
• Chris Owens as Jeffrey Spender
• Don S. Williams as First Elder
• George Murdock as Second Elder
• John Moore as the Third Elder
• Martin Ferrero as the assassin
• Michael Shamus Wiles as the Black-Haired Man
• Patrick Phillips as clinician #1
• Paul Moniz de Sa as clinician #2
• John Trottier as clinician #3
• Orest Blajkevitch as the Russian chess player

[edit] References

Chess; King of the Hill; The Silver Surfer, The Simpsons; X-File

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