That night, Tooms demonstrates this by squeezing down a chimney to claim another victim. Mulder believes that Tooms is able to stretch and squeeze his body through narrow spaces. To prove his assertion to Scully, Mulder digitally elongates and narrows Tooms' fingerprints, showing that they match the prints at the crime scene.
However, Colton dismisses Mulder's queries and lets Tooms go. Tooms passes most of the test, but crucially fails Mulder's questions placing Tooms at the historical murders. Tooms is given a polygraph test, which includes questions written by Mulder linking him to murders dating as far back as 1903. There, they catch a man named Eugene Victor Tooms ( Doug Hutchison) climbing through the air vents. He concludes that because five murders occurred during the earlier sprees, the investigators should expect two more.īecause Scully believes that the killer will return to the scenes of his earlier crimes, she and Mulder wait in the parking garage of the office building. At the scene, he notices an elongated fingerprint on the air vent, which he finds to be similar to some documented in the X-Files. Fox Mulder ( David Duchovny) notes their similarity to earlier murder sprees from 19. Colton is baffled by the lack of entry points at the crime scenes and by the apparent removal of the livers with bare hands. Usher's murder, the latest of three, is assigned to careerist FBI agent Tom Colton ( Donal Logue), who turns to Dana Scully ( Gillian Anderson) for help. He is watched from a storm drain by someone who then sneaks into the building by climbing through the elevator shaft into the ventilation system, kills Usher, and removes his liver. In Baltimore, businessman George Usher arrives at his office building. Academics have examined "Squeeze" for its portrayal of the politics of law enforcement, highlighting the tension-evident throughout the series-between the agents' desire to find the truth and their duty to secure criminal convictions. The episode has subsequently been described by The Star as "the episode that really sold The X-Files idea to the masses". However, "Squeeze" has received positive reviews from critics, mostly focusing on Hutchison's performance and the resonance of his character. Because of this turbulence, the completion of the episode relied on post-production techniques. Production of "Squeeze" was problematic creative differences between Longstreet and the crew led to him being replaced as director, while some missing scenes needed to be shot after the initial filming. The agents deduce that their suspect may be a genetic mutant who has been killing in sprees for ninety years.
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In this episode, Mulder and Scully investigate a series of ritualistic killings by somebody seemingly capable of squeezing his body through impossibly narrow gaps. Mulder is a believer in the paranormal, while the skeptical Scully has been assigned to debunk his work. The show's main characters are FBI special agents Fox Mulder ( David Duchovny) and Dana Scully ( Gillian Anderson), who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. "Squeeze" is the first "monster-of-the-week" episode of The X-Files, unconnected to the series' overarching mythology.
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The episode featured the first of two guest appearances by Doug Hutchison as the mutant serial killer Eugene Victor Tooms, a role he would reprise in " Tooms".
"Squeeze" was written by Glen Morgan and James Wong and directed by Harry Longstreet, with Michael Katleman directing additional footage. It premiered on the Fox network on September 24, 1993. " Squeeze" is the third episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. Henry Beckman as Detective Frank Briggs.Many of the scenes featuring Tooms' abilities were created via computer graphics. Tooms squeezing himself through a chimney.
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