I know she was trying to save her partner, but I think it would take more than that for me to crawl around through some dark and unforsaken duct-work knowing that a killer was around attempting to maintain his identity and keep it a secret. You have to give Scully credit, she made the save just in time after Mulder went catatonic following a poisonous dart to his neck, courtesy of Samuel Aboah (William Amakye), a West African 'spirit of the air' from which the episode derived it's name - 'Teliko'.
One has to marvel at the amount of research that must go into these X-Files episodes, because the story line is built here around a rare species of passionflower, the Teliko connection, and the absence of a pituitary gland in the protagonist, which makes him go off in search of victims to replenish his need for the melatonin required to maintain the pigmentation of a black African. Of course, Mulder, in his own unique way, manages to make the connections necessary to solve this case, even if he almost got the short end of the stick in the bargain.
The episode contains the unlikely appearance of Mulder's newest contact in the person of Marita Covarrubias at the U.N. Her role here was written in such a way that it made sense, leading Mulder to an official who could provide background on what might have been happening with the murder victims disappearing at the hand of Aboah. I guess it shouldn't come as a surprise at this point in the series that the writers dipped into prior history to come up with a character similar to one like Eugene Victor Tooms. That was an easy pick up for fans of the X-Files, even if it went all the way back to the first season.
One has to marvel at the amount of research that must go into these X-Files episodes, because the story line is built here around a rare species of passionflower, the Teliko connection, and the absence of a pituitary gland in the protagonist, which makes him go off in search of victims to replenish his need for the melatonin required to maintain the pigmentation of a black African. Of course, Mulder, in his own unique way, manages to make the connections necessary to solve this case, even if he almost got the short end of the stick in the bargain.
The episode contains the unlikely appearance of Mulder's newest contact in the person of Marita Covarrubias at the U.N. Her role here was written in such a way that it made sense, leading Mulder to an official who could provide background on what might have been happening with the murder victims disappearing at the hand of Aboah. I guess it shouldn't come as a surprise at this point in the series that the writers dipped into prior history to come up with a character similar to one like Eugene Victor Tooms. That was an easy pick up for fans of the X-Files, even if it went all the way back to the first season.