Eugene Victor Tooms - Season Two

Season Two

  • The Flukeman, played by Darin Morgan in the episode "The Host": The Flukeman, a being born in a "soup" of radioactive sewage from Chernobyl, is a tapeworm-like humanoid that lived in sewers. It bit humans and injected small flukes, which eventually kill their hosts. Mulder investigated its attacks, finding the creature in a sewage treatment plant. The creature escaped and returned to the sewers, where Mulder seemingly killed it by slicing it in half. The episode's conclusion, however, shows that the Flukeman continues to live. In a later episode, a newspaper shows a drawing of the Flukeman on the cover, the caption stating that it ended up in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.

  • Edward Funsch, played by William Sanderson in the episode "Blood": A member of the community of Franklin, Pennsylvania with a fear of blood. His fear, along with those of others in town, were exacerbated due to spraying of a pesticide containing LSDM, evoking enough of a fear response in them to drive them to kill. Edward sees messages on all kinds of electronic displays telling him to kill. He eventually buys a gun and decides to act on his paranoia, positioning himself at the top of a clock tower overlooking a blood drive and shooting randomly. He is eventually overpowered by Mulder and taken away on a stretcher, presumably to a hospital.

  • Augustus Cole, played by Tony Todd in the episode "Sleepless": A Vietnam veteran known as "Preacher" for his quotation of Bible verses, Cole was a member of an Army unit that was subjected to "sleep eradication" experiments during the war. The squad was tasked with hunting down Viet Cong fighters, yet ended up massacring whole villages due to violent tendencies connected with their condition. During a tortuous decades-long waking period, Cole developed the ability to project dream-like states into reality and set about killing the doctors behind the experimentation. Cole was eventually shot by Alex Krycek, then Mulder's partner.

  • Kristen Kilar, played by Perrey Reeves in the episode "3": Kilar is a member of "the trinity", a group of "vampires" in Los Angeles. She becomes sexually involved with Mulder, who is investigating his first and only case without Scully since the show's beginning (she was abducted in the previous episode). She sacrifices herself to kill the other vampires in an explosion.

  • The Firewalker Parasite, was a silicon-based parasitic fungus in the episode "Firewalker": It was discovered by a volcano research team using a robot named "Firewalker" during a project at Mount Avalon. It took control of a host, forcing them to find future hosts for it to infect before bursting from their throats and killing them in a cloud of spores. The spores were fortunately quick to die with exposure to the air, and one would have to be infected immediately.

  • The Spirits of Excelsis Dei, spirits of former residents of Excelsis Dei nursing home in the episode "Excelsis Dei": They are being channeled into existence by the living residents of the home because of an herbal drug made of mushrooms cultured in the basement and illicitly given to them by a Malaysian orderly to help cure their Alzheimer's disease, with the side effect that they can see—and channel into existence—the spirits of those who had died in the home. These spirits take revenge on those orderlies who had looked down on them, assaulting and murdering them. When a patient overdoses on the drug and starts having seizures, the spirits make one more attack on the nurse that they attacked at the beginning of the episode. After Scully and the home's head doctor finally stop the seizures the spirits disappear just in time to keep them from drowning both the nurse and Mulder.

  • Detective B.J. Morrow, played by Deborah Strang in the episode "Aubrey": Morrow is a detective and murderer discovered to be one of several children fathered by a serial rapist and murderer named Harry Cokely, each of whom have inherited his genetic memory, including his homicidal tendencies.

  • Donald "Donnie" Pfaster, played by Nick Chinlund in the episodes "Irresistible" and "Orison": First appearing in the second-season episode, "Irresistible", Pfaster was a "death fetishist" and serial killer who first desecrated corpses, then started murdering prostitutes. Pfaster became infatuated with Scully and kidnapped her, but was foiled by Mulder. Five years later, in "Orison", a prison chaplain helped Pfaster escape from prison, leading him to resume his pursuit of Scully. He tracked down Scully's address and attacks her in her apartment. Mulder arrived later by chance, moments before Scully fatally shot him. It is unknown if Pfaster was a "normal" serial killer, or something supernatural; but it is implied a number of times in both episodes that he was demonic in nature.

  • Mrs. Paddock, played by Susan Blommaert in the episode "Die Hand Die Verletzt": Phyllis Paddock is a substitute teacher at Milford, New Hampshire's Crowley High School. Thinking the school has been possessed by satanic forces summoned by students' "devil music" and occult gatherings in the woods, the town calls out Mulder and Scully, but the school's reactionary parent-teacher association is actually overrun with Satanist believers. However, they are ultimately powerless against the occult magic of the mysteriously arrived Paddock, who appears responsible for most of the events in the episode. The end is ambiguous but suggests Paddock is actually the demon Azazel in disguise.

  • Colonel Wharton, played by Daniel Benzali in the episode "Fresh Bones": Head of an INS compound processing Haitian refugees in Folkstone, North Carolina. He starts abusing the refugees as revenge against Pierre Bauvais, an imprisoned refugee, and Haiti for the suicides of some of his soldiers on a previous trip there. He denies these allegations, but later has Bauvais beaten to death. It turns out that Wharton had performed a voodoo zombification ritual over private Jack McAlpin to hold him under Wharton's influence and kill a soldier who was going to testify against him. Wharton then performs a voodoo ritual over Bauvais's coffin in the cemetery, bringing Bauvais to life, but Bauvais stops Wharton from harming Mulder. Wharton is last seen being unwittingly buried alive by the graveyard watchman.

  • Alien Conservationists, in the episode "Fearful Symmetry": They are, as suspected by Mulder, trying to impregnate and abduct endangered animals for their own cosmic version of Noah's Ark. It seemed as if they knew what was happening and what was going to happen to the Earth, and therefore possibly preparing to take animal babies to another liveable planet. The parent animals were abducted and then returned elsewhere, usually ending up dead.

  • Lanny and Leonard, played by Vincent Schiavelli in the episode "Humbug": Lanny and Leonard are a pair of conjoined twins who are connected at the stomach. However, due to a genetic mutation, Leonard is malformed and is solely dependent on Lanny for nutrition and safekeeping. Leonard is convinced that the alcoholic Lanny is an unsuitable brother for him, and repeatedly disconnects from Lanny in attempts to find a new host; each time he does so the person he attempts to join himself to dies. After agents Mulder and Scully arrive to investigate, Leonard makes a desperate, last-ditch attempt to find a new host, and refuses to return to Lanny. Leonard is eaten by a local circus geek and Lanny dies soon afterwards.

  • Michael Holvey, played by Joel Palmer in the episode "The Calusari": Michael was the stillborn twin of Charlie Holvey, and inhabited his brother's soul, occasionally possessing Charlie, and at other times manifesting himself as a spirit. He caused the death of his younger brother, his father, and his grandmother. While attempting to kill both his mother and Scully, Michael was exorcized by the Calusari, a Romanian group of elders specialized in rituals.

  • Paul, played by John Pyper-Ferguson, and Steve, played by John Tench in the episode "F. Emasculata": Two inmates at a prison in Dinwiddie county, Virginia who escape in a laundry cart after being sent to clean the cell of a recently deceased inmate, Robert Torrance. Unfortunately, they have been infected with a parasite carried by the insect Faciphaga emasculata, that attacks the immune system. The fugitives spread the disease as they run from their captors. They arrive at the home of Paul's girlfriend, Elizabeth, where Steve dies, infecting Elizabeth. Paul is gone by this time, heading to the bus station to leave the state. Mulder and the U.S. Marshals surround the bus that Paul is in, and Mulder tries to get information out of Paul about the package that was found in Torrance's cell, but before Paul talks, he is killed by a sniper's bullet.

  • Chester Banton, played by Tony Shalhoub in the episode "Soft Light": Banton is a physicist from Richmond, Virginia, whose shadow was transformed into dark matter after he was accidentally enclosed in his particle accelerator. Banton tries to avoid public places with harsh, bright light where this might prove dangerous to others, but nevertheless kills several people unintentionally. His shadow reduces people to burn spots on the ground, leading Mulder to compare it with spontaneous human combustion. When Mulder attempts to gain information from X about Banton's condition, X captures Banton and oversees government experimentation on him.

  • Dudley, Arkansas, in the episode "Our Town": The town of Dudley was known for its prosperous fast food business, Chaco Chicken. Its founder, a pilot in World War II, was shot down by the Japanese over Papua New Guinea and was nursed back to health by a local tribe of cannibals. Chaco learned from the tribe that the practice led to prolonged human life, and after establishing his business in Dudley, led his family and the town's residents into cannibalism. This led to many people in Dudley looking years younger than their actual old age. However, when Mulder and Scully began investigating the town, some of Dudley's residents began dying off from a rare brain disease that afflicted one of their eaten victims.

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