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Season 2  "The Host"  2x2

Aired 30 years ago - Sep 23, 1994

A.D. Skinner sends Mulder to investigate a body which washed into the New Jersey sewer from the ocean. Mulder believes that the basic blue-collar assignment is punishment, but by Skinner's own admission, what he discovers is a true X-File.

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Recap of The X-Files Season 2 Episode 2 (S02E02) - 2
You're relieved from your assignment. Agent Bozoff will take over.
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- Mulder, FBI. - My forensics team's just wrapping up.
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- Any ID? - No. Not much to go on, either.
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Certainly.
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It's a simple drugland body dump...
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- I've been thinking about leaving. - The Bureau?
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...due to submergence in and exposure to a highly bacterial environment.
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Condition of heart and lungs are good.
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- It's on the way! - Got it!
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It'll go away.
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- What kind of wound? - It could be some kind of bacterial infection.
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So, what? The murder weapon was a top sirloin?
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- How big can these things get? - Mulder, I...
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560,000 people a day call my office on the porcelain telephone.
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There it is.
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Although the wound on the sanitation worker suggests scolex attachment...
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It must've been the runt of the litter.
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He was a Russian. An engineer on a cargo freighter.
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The strangeness of the criminal and the crime are not lost on me.
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This is vehicle 49-40 requesting immediate backup and assistance.
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- So he could have been here and gone. - If he hasn't, he will be.
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This creature, or whatever it is, transmits its eggs or larvae through its bite.
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We need some help down here!
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Success in our work is imperative, Scully.
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