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2X02 The Host

Writer: Chris Carter
Director: Daniel Sackheim
Original Broadcast: AU: 22.02.1995 US: 23.09.1994
Episode Availability: DVD: AU CA UK US

Cast:
Special Agent Dana Scully · Gillian Anderson
Special Agent Fox Mulder · David Duchovny

Guest Cast:
Detective Norman · Freddy Andreiuci
Agent Brisentine · Marc Bauer
First Workman · Matthew Bennett
Russian Engineer · Dmitri Boudrine
Dmitri · Raoul Ganeev
Federal Marshall · William MacDonald
Charlie · Don MacKay
Man On Phone · Hrothgar Mathews
Flukeman · Darin Morgan
Assistant Director Walter Skinner · Mitch Pileggi
Dr Zenzola · Gabrielle Rose
Foreman · Ron Sauve
A man's decomposed body is found in the sewers of Newark, New Jersey and Mulder is given this supposedly routine murder case. But after Scully's autopsy turns up a parasite living inside the body and a sewer worker is attacked and bitten by something, it opens up a whole new can of worms.
Engineer: "The blockage must be removed before the tanks can be purged."
Dmitri: "Why is this always my job?"
Engineer: "Because you are young. And because it is terrible and smelly work."
Agent Brisentine: "Agent Mulder?"
Mulder: "Yeah."
Agent Brisentine: "You're being relieved from your current assignment. Agent Bosoff will take over. You've got a flight to catch in 45 minutes."
Mulder: "Where am I going?"
Agent Brisentine: "Murder case. Newark, New Jersey."
Mulder: "Treat yourself." [Giving seeds to Agent Bosoff]
Agent Brisentine: "You're flying out of National. Your contact in Newark is Detective Norman."
Mulder: "How'd I draw the assignment?"
Agent Brisentine: "Assistant Director Skinner made the request."
Mulder: "Skinner requested me?"
Mulder: "Ugh!" [Stepping down into sewer]
Detective Norman: "Watch yourself."
Mulder: "Yeah, wouldn't want to step into anything."
Detective Norman: "They say it cuts the smell if you don't breathe through your mouth."
Mulder: "They lied."
Detective Norman: "Would you like us to turn his body over for you?"
Mulder: "No, I'll take your word on that."
Detective Norman: "Hey, Agent Mulder! What would you like us to do with the body?"
Mulder: "Wrap it up and send it to the FBI care of Assistant Director Skinner."
Skinner: "Is there a problem, Agent Mulder?"
Mulder: "Yeah, there is."
Skinner: "Then make an appointment."
Mulder: "It's kind of hard to make an appointment when you're up to your ass in raw sewage being jerked from one meaningless assignment to another."
Skinner: "Excuse me?"
Mulder: "What's my next punishment? Scrubbing the bathroom floors with a toothbrush?"
Skinner: You're way out of line, Agent Mulder."
Mulder: "So I gathered."
Scully: "Is this seat taken?"
Mulder: "No, but I should warn you, I'm experiencing violent impulses."
Scully: "Well, I'm armed, so I'll take my chances. I hear you really endeared yourself to Assistant Director Skinner today."
Mulder: "You know sometimes it just gets hard to smile through it when they ask you to bend down and grab your ankles, you know?"
Mulder: "There's nothing to it." [The case]
Scully: "There's a dead body, isn't there?"
Mulder: [answering mobile phone] "Scully, this is a bad time for me to talk."
Mr X: "Mr Mulder?"
Mulder: "Yeah."
Mr X: "I think you should know. You have a friend at the FBI."
Mulder: "Who is this?" [Mr X hangs up]
Scully: "It's called Tubalaria, or it's commonly known as a fluke or flat worm."
Mulder: "This was living inside the body?"
Scully: "Apparently it had attached itself to the bile duct and was feeding off the liver."
Mulder: "Lovely."
Scully: "Believe it or not something like 40 million people are infected worldwide."
Mulder: "This isn't where you tell me some terrible story about sushi, is it?"
Scully: "Well maybe you'd rather hear what you could catch from a nice rare steak?"
Mulder: "So, what? The murder weapon was a top sirloin?"
Scully: "I'm sorry. Felt like old times there for a second."
Scully: "They are not creatures that go around attacking people."
Mulder: "Well, that's good. I didn't want to have to tell Skinner that his murder suspect was a giant bloodsucking worm..."
Scully: "No..."
Mulder: "Look Scully, I don't know who you shared our conversation with the other night, but I'd prefer it if you didn't try and launch a campaign on my behalf."
Scully: "Excuse me."
Mulder: "I don't know who you talked to."
Scully: "I didn't talk to anybody."
Mulder: "Well somebody called me told me I had a friend at the FBI."
Scully: "Look Mulder, I don't know what to say, but I wouldn't betray a confidence."
Foreman: "City runs on several different systems. Some new, some built around the turn of the century. Almost as old as Charlie here. Isn't that right, Charlie?"
Charlie: "Ah, yes sir."
Mulder: "And all the sewage comes through this plant?"
Foreman: "560,000 people a day call my office on the porcelain telephone."
Mulder: "Have you ever seen one of these?"
Foreman: "Looks like a big old worm."
Mulder: "It's called a fluke. It came from the body they pulled out of the sewer."
Foreman: "Wouldn't surprise me. No telling what's been breeding down there in the last 100 years."
Scully: "Platyhelminths are often hermaphroditic. Mulder, this is amazing. Its vestigial features appear to be parasitic, but it has primate physiology. Where the hell did it come from?"
Mulder: "I don't know. But it looks like I'm gonna have to tell Skinner that his suspect is a giant bloodsucking worm after all."
Scully: "Somebody shoved this under my door. I guess you really do have a friend in the FBI. And Mulder, when you see Skinner to hand in field report, I hope that you know that I'd consider it more than a professional loss if you decided to leave."
Mulder: "There's no way you'll prosecute this."
Skinner: "The Justice Department has asked the suspect be transferred to an institution for a full psychiatric evaluation."
Mulder: "This is not a man, it's a monster. You can't put it in an institution."
Skinner: "And what do you do with it, Agent Mulder? Put it in a zoo?"
Mulder: "You know, you had a pair of agents that could have handled a case like this. Agent Scully and I might have been able to save that man's life, but you shut us down."
Skinner: "I know. This should have been an X-File. We all take our orders from someone, Agent Mulder. That'll be all."
Mulder: "What have you got?"
Detective Norman: "Well we got a dead Marshall and an escaped prisoner. Other than that we got bubkes."
Mulder: [answering mobile phone] "Mulder."
Mr X: "Mr Mulder, I'll make this brief. Success in your current assignment is imperative."
Mulder: "Who am I speaking to?"
Mr X: "Are you hearing me Mr Mulder?"
Mulder: "Yes. Why is it imperative?"
Mr X: "Reinstatement of the X-Files must be undeniable."
Scully: "Mulder if it finds a new host —"
Mulder: "I know Scully, it could multiply."
Scully: "Is this seat taken?"
Mulder: "No, but I should warn you I may reek a bit of the sewer."
Scully: "I'll take my chances."
Scully: "Mulder, nature didn't make this thing. We did."
Mulder: "You know they say three species disappear off the planet every day. You wonder how many new ones are being created?"