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Doctor Ben Bronschweig was a FEMA scientist involved in an incident regarding an outbreak of Purity which took place in Blackwood County, North Texas, in 1998.

Bronschweig led the containment team that arrived at the North Texas site. He demanded of the firefighter in charge, Miles Cooles, to keep people back. When he saw a boy taken away in a bubble litter, he knew it was the black oil and so called his superior and informed him of the "impossible scenario" he had just seen evidenced.

He and his team worked on the site, having built a makeshift lab in the underground cavern near the deposit of the alien virus. One of the firemen had been infected but only seemed comatose. They found that, this time, the virus used the infected organism as a host, digesting bone and tissue to feed a long-clawed, gestating alien being. Bronschweig kept one of the victims under observation in a refrigerated case, as the cold temperature slowed the process down. The "Cigarette Smoking Man" arrived soon and was surprised to see the fireman alive. Bronschweig was ordered to try their weak vaccine. However, when the scientist came to do so, he found the alien gone. Bronschweig saw it from a distance and, after it attacked him, stabbed him with the vaccine syringe. He tried to escape, but the other scientists buried him with the alien on the spot, to prevent further attacks. Bronschweig only had a few seconds to realize this as the alien attacked again. (The X-Files: Fight the Future)

Dr. Bronschweig was played by Jeffrey De Munn.
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