Eugene Victor Tooms - Season Six

Season Six

• Patrick Crump, played by Bryan Cranston in the episode "Drive": A Nevada man subject to a strange, potentially infectious illness in the sixth season episode "Drive", he steals a car in his futile efforts to save himself and his family, and eventually holds Mulder hostage at gunpoint and forces him to drive west. Crump, who harbors an anti-government and anti-Semitic paranoia, has in fact been affected by a secret military program whose testing hardware lies under his residence. Signals emitted by the devices resonated in the inner ears of Crump and his wife, forcing them into constant movement at the risk of an explosion inside their heads.

• Wayne Weinsider, played by Bruce Campbell in the episode "Terms of Endearment": Weinsider was a bigamist demon who lived near Roanoke, Virginia, who came to Earth to father a human child. Each of his attempts ended poorly, as every woman that he has impregnated ended up with a demonic fetus; Weinsider ended up aborting each of these offspring. Weinsider's most recent wife, unbeknownst to him, is also a demon, is looking to have a demon child and at the end of the episode runs off with their demon baby.

• Holman Hardt, played by Davis Manis in the episode "The Rain King": Holman is a lovelorn meteorologist who Mulder suspects of being able to subconsciously control the weather. His pining for a local woman causes all manner of weather problems for the town of Kroner, Kansas until Mulder finally manages to resolve things by giving Holman dating advice.

• Alfred Fellig, played by Geoffery Lewis in the episode "Tithonus": Fellig is a New York City crime scene photographer who was discovered to have been present just after his subjects' deaths occurred. When Mulder and Scully investigated Fellig, it was revealed that he had multiple identities going back several decades, revealing that he was over one-hundred-fifty years old. Fellig possessed the ability to see when people were near death, and was attempting to take a photograph of Death personified so he could finally die. When Fellig and Scully were shot by another agent, he instructed her to not look into Death's face. He did so himself, finally passing on.

• Water Parasite, portrayed in the episode "Agua Mala": A creature that lives in the form of salt water but can take the form of a translucent tentacled creature when it attacks. It corners Mulder and Scully along with several other people in an apartment building on Florida's Gulf Coast during a hurricane.

• Bernard, played by Darren Burrows, and Pam, played by Carrie Hamilton in the episode "Monday": Bernard, a robber who initially failed to hold up a bank, somehow keeps the same day running over and over again until he can pull off a successful heist. Throughout the episode, he is constantly foiled in his attempts by Mulder (or with Scully when she appears in the loops) when he also comes to the bank to claim his paycheck. However Bernard keeps activating bombs hidden underneath his clothes in the end, killing himself, Mulder, Scully, and the people in the bank through the time loops. Only Bernard's girlfriend Pam, who is somehow "out of the loops" experiences the same day repeatedly but knows of previous events, tries to keep her boyfriend from robbing the bank, e.g.: persuading him, drugging his breakfast, warning others, etc. The characters start to gain a sense of déjà vu through the course of the loops. Mulder is approached by Pam who warns him but is again killed in that loop, but manages to remember her warning in the next loop, finally apprehending Bernard and prevent him from activating his bomb, therefore ending the loop. However Pam is shot accidentally by Bernard and after remarking that "this time it's different", she dies.

• Gene Gogolak, played by Peter White, and the Übermenscher, portrayed in the episode "Arcadia": Gogolak was the founder of a planned community near San Diego, California, called. The so-called übermenscher was a tulpa, a mystical creature said to be conjured and brought to life by Gogolak's willpower. When Gogolak, the proprietor of an import furniture business, discovered how to summon a tulpa in the Far East, he applied his newfound ability to his planned community, summoning his übermenscher to violently kill any resident that violated the community's rulebook. The übermenscher was made up completely of garbage from an old landfill on which the community was built. Gogolak was brutally killed by the übermenscher, turning itself into a pile of garbage.

• Dr. Ian Detweiler, played by Andrew J. Robinson in the episode "Alpha": Detweiler is an animal specialist who was hunting an Asian dog known as the Wanshang Dhole that was believed to be extinct. After a series of dog attacks, Mulder theorizes that Detweiler was actually attacked by the Dhole and has become a sort of shape-shifting were-dog. Detweiler is killed when he accidentally drives himself and a victim out of an upper story window.

• Wilson "Pinker" Rawls, played by John Diehl in the episode "Trevor." He is originally a convict in the prison camp, but gains the ability to pass through solid material at will when he is locked in a shed during a tornado. Passing through the objects also makes them fragile due to his ability affecting the objects electromagnetic forces and he uses this to kill people by passing himself through said people making their structures damaged. In the course of the episode, he sought out and killed his former partners-in-crime who betrayed him. He is unable to be killed or subdued by conventional means, e.g., bullets, melee weapons, handcuffs, and prison rooms. However, his only weakness is to materials that have a strong insulation to electric currents due to the fact that his intangibility is caused by him manipulating the electrical charge of the objects through which he passes, e.g., glass, mirrors and rubber. He eventually comes to reclaim his son Trevor from his wife, but is willingly killed by her when his body, unable to pass through the windscreen of her car while trying to pass through it, cuts him in half.

• Phillip Padgett, and Ken Naciamento played by John Hawkes, and Nestor Serrano respectively, in the episode "Milagro": Padgett is a reclusive writer who is obsessed with Dana Scully. Padgett moved next door to Fox Mulder in order to be closer to Scully (no apartments were available in her building). During the episode, Padgett is writing a novel that gives the details of several murders before they occur, in which the heart is removed. It turns out that one of the characters from Padgett's book, Ken Naciamento, is the killer. Naciamento is a deceased Brazilian heart surgeon who is recreated by Padgett in his writing, but Padgett's version of Naciamento has the ability to psychically remove the hearts of the victims Padgett adds to his book, and can only be seen by Padgett as well as his victims. Padgett ultimately burns his novel to save Scully from Naciamento.

• Josh "Ex" Exley, played by Jesse L. Martin in the episode "The Unnatural": Exley is an exceptional baseball player in the Negro Leagues circa 1949, who turns out to be an extraterrestrial who arrived in the Roswell UFO incident. The episode, the first written and directed by David Duchovny, is mostly set in the past and follows Exley as he is torn between his passion for baseball and his desire not to be exposed, leading him to take the form of an African American player in the racially segregated era, due to his lower profile. However, when Exley begins to attract wider attention for his abilities, he comes into conflict with other members of his "race" (including regular mythology characters such as the Alien Bounty Hunter) and is killed. Having somehow achieved human form, he bleeds red blood. The story is retold to Mulder in the present by the brother of X-Files founder Agent Arthur Dales. The brother, who also happens to be named "Arthur Dales", witnessed the events as a young white agent assigned to protect Exley.

• The Fungus, from the episode "Field Trip": A giant fungal life-form that resides in caves underneath the fields of North Carolina. Mulder and Scully first investigates the disappearance and discovery of a young couple's skeletal remains. During their search for answers, the duo are simultaneously affected by the fungus which releases its LSD-like spores in the form of mushrooms growing in the fields. The drug keeps its victims sedated and under hallucinations while it slowly digests them in the caves below. Mulder and Scully managed to meet up in their hallucinations as they try to distinguish reality from fantasy throughout the episode. Mulder manages to break both of them from their trance when he successfully breaks the creature's grasp on them. At the same time, they are rescued by Assistant Director Skinner and the authorities. In the end, the fungus is most likely incinerated to prevent further contamination.