Travelers

Series:	The X-Files
Original Airdate:	March 29, 1998
Production Number:	5x15
Date(s):	1990, 1952
Written by:	John Shiban and Frank Spotnitz
Directed by:	William Graham

A young Fox Mulder visits retired FBI Agent Arthur Dales, who tells him about one of the first X-Files, a case that his father was involved in.

Summary

FBI Agents Arthur Dales and Hayes Michel discover the body of Dr. Terrill Oberman in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Soon afterwards, Agent Dales is informed by State Department official Bill Mulder that the doctor killed himself. Like Edward Skur, Oberman was symbiotically infused with an alien creature. Both Oberman and another operative, Gissing, killed themselves rather than release the aliens to the populace. Also that night, Agent Michel is killed by Skur. Eventually, Dales catches Skur and handcuffs him. He leaves Skur for Bill Mulder and his men to apprehend him. Bill Mulder later frees Edward Skur, and Skur goes into hiding.

Background Information

• This episode reveals that, by 1952, there were already several "unsolved cases", only some of which were actually called "X-Files".

• This episode does not feature Scully, as actress Gillian Anderson was busy still filming her final parts of The X-Files Movie.

• Mulder wears a wedding band during the episode. This was done to lead to a possible storyline that never came to be.

• In this episode Mulder can briefly be seen smoking a cigarette (when he talks to agent Dales).

Links and References

Guest Stars

• Fredric Lane as young Arthur Dales (Agent)
• Garret Dillahunt as Edward Skur
• Brian Leckner as Hayes Michel
• David Moreland as Roy Cohn
• Eileen Pedde as Mrs Skur
• Dean Aylesworth as young Bill Mulder
• David Fredericks as FBI Director
• Mitchell Kosterman as Sheriff
• Roger Haskett as Coroner
• Jane Perry as Dorothy Bahnsen
• J. Douglas Stewart as Landlord)
• Cory Dagg as Bartender
• Eric W. Gilder as old Edward Skur
• Darren McGavin as Arthur Dales (Agent)

References

FBI; X-File; xenotransplantation

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