X-FILE
123 - The Erlenmeyer Flask
DEEP THROAT
TIPS MULDER TO A CRITICALLY IMPORTANT CASE INVOLVING A MISSING FUGITIVE
AND THE CLONING OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL VIRUSES.
Mulder receives a cryptic tip from Deep
Throat regarding an incident in which a fugitive eluded police after a
high speed chase. During the escape, the suspect was shot and wounded by
police before he fell into a lake. Despite many hours of dredging, the
fugitive's body is not recovered. After some investigating, Mulder realizes
that someone deliberately switched the car the suspect was driving with
another vehicle.
The agents trace the original car to a
Dr. Berube, a scientist who is not eager to cooperate with the FBI investigation.
With the puzzling case at a dead end, Mulder prepares to give up. But Deep
Throat makes contact and convinces him that case is of extreme importance.
Meanwhile, Dr. Berube's dead body is discovered inside the lab.
The police end their search for the fugitive
without recovering a body. When they leave the lake, the mysterious fugitive
resurfaces from beneath the water. Tiny gills in his neck allowed him to
remain submerged for a long period. The fugitive makes his way to the city,
and after attempting to contact Berube collapses on the street. As paramedics
rush the fugitive to a hospital, they insert a needle into his skin. Suddenly,
a rush of toxic gas is emitted from the fugitive's body. The paramedics
are overcome by the fumes and the fugitive escapes into the night.
With the help of Dr. Carpenter, Scully analyzes a flask taken from Dr.
Berube's lab. The bacteria inside is suspected of being extraterrestrial
in origin.
Mulder discovers a storage room containing
human bodies suspended in a clear liquid. But when he returns to the room
with Scully, he finds that it has been emptied. Deep Throat explains that
Dr. Berube had been experimenting with extraterrestrial viruses. He used
humans afflicted with terminal illnesses as his guinea pigs. The experiment
was funded by the US government, but officials were interested only in
technology-not the patients' well being. One of those patients was Dr.
Secare, a friend of Dr. Berube's. When it became clear that the government
wanted Secare eliminated, Berube warned his friend and gave him his car
to escape. When Secare was hunted down by police, he used his mutation
to his advantage and hid beneath the lake.
Scully is stunned to learn that Dr. Carpenter
was killed in a car accident. Shortly thereafter, Mulder locates Dr. Secare
hiding in the attic of his house. The pair are surprised by a government
official who shoots and kills Secare.
When Mulder disappears, Scully makes contact
with Deep Throat. Deep Throat arranges for Scully to gain access to a top
secret containment facility in Maryland. Scully steals an alien fetus,
and with Deep Throat's help arranges for an exchange-the fetus for Mulder.
After Deep Throat makes the exchange, he is shot and killed by the government
agents.
Later, Scully learns from Mulder that the
government is shutting down the X-File project.
Credits
THE X-FILES "THE ERLENMEYER FLASK" #1X23
Original Air Date: 05/13/94
CAST:
DAVID DUCHOVNY as Special Agent Fox Mulder
GILLIAN ANDERSON as Special Agent Dana Scully
GUEST CAST:
SIMON WEBB as Dr. Secare
JERRY HARDIN as Deep Throat
KEN KRAMER as Dr. Berube
LINDSEY GINTER as the Crew-Cut Man
ANNE DESALVO as Dr. Carpenter
WILLIAM B. DAVIS as the The Cigarette-Smoking Man
JAYLENE HAMILTON as the Reporter
JIM LEARD as Captain Roy Lacerio
PHILLIP MACKENZIE as the Medic
MIKE MITCHELL as the Cop
JOHN PAYNE as the Guard
WRITTEN BY:
CHRIS CARTER
DIRECTED BY:
R.W. GOODWIN
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