Squeeze (The X-Files)
“Squeeze” is the third episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network on September 24, 1993. The episode featured the first of two guest appearances by Doug Hutchison as the mutant serial killer Eugene Victor Tooms. It has received positive reviews from critics, mostly focusing on Hutchison’s performance.
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“Squeeze” is the third episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network on September 24, 1993. The episode featured the first of two guest appearances by Doug Hutchison as the mutant serial killer Eugene Victor Tooms. It has received positive reviews from critics, mostly focusing on Hutchison’s performance and the resonance of his character. Academics have examined it 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. In this episode, Mulder and Scully investigate a series of ritualistic killings by somebody seemingly capable of squeezing his body through impossibly narrow gaps. The agents deduce that their suspect may be a genetic mutant who has been killing in sprees for ninety years. They find several items taken from past victims, as well as a trophy from Tooms, who can hibernate for thirty years at a time after consuming five human livers. Mulder finds Scully’s necklace in Tooms’ apartment and tries to apprehend him, but he breaks into her apartment to kill her. Tooms is put in an institution for the first time in an attempt to kill Mulder, but Mulder rushes there and apprehends him first. He is later found dead in an apartment building, having squeezed his body down a chimney to claim another victim. In the final scene, Tooms climbs through the air vents of a building and kills a man.
He then climbs into the air vent of a different building to kill another man, who is found in a different part of the building and is also found dead. The final scene is set in a building where Tooms has taken a newspaper and bile in the crawl space, as he hibernates for 30 years after consuming a human liver. In it, the FBI agent Tom Colton is baffled by the lack of entry points and the apparent removal of the livers with bare hands. Colton concludes that because five murders occurred during the earlier sprees, the investigators should expect two more. Because 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. There, they catch a man named Eugene Victor tooms, whom Mulder believes to be the man responsible for the earlier murders. The two leave the building together, and the two leave the building as well, as Mulder is well-known as a believer in the paranormal and Scully is skeptical of his work. The show’s main characters are FBI special agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X- Files. They visit Frank Briggs, a former detective, who recounts his experiences of the investigation into the 1933 murders. Briggs brings out old photographs of Tooms—who has not aged in sixty years—and gives them the address of Toom’s former apartment building.
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