Deep Throat directs Mulder to a crime scene where police are looking for a suspect who evaded capture and jumped into the river near an industrial area. Finding that evidence has been covered up, Mulder and Scully question a doctor whose car the suspect had driven on a high-speed chase with police. Later, the doctor is murdered by a man who was investigating the crime scene at the behest of an unknown agency.
Episode Info
Episode number: 1x24 Production Number: 1X23 Airdate: Friday May 13th, 1994
Scully: You don't know that this isn't just a game with him. He's toying with you. Rationing out the facts. Mulder: You think he does it because he gets off on it? Scully: No. I think he does it because you do.
Cultural References
11:21 Redux
When Mulder calls Scully at the end of the episode to tell her that the X-Files have been shut down, she notes time time, which is 11:21. As in "Pilot", it is a reference to November 21st, the birthday of Dori, Chris Carter's wife.