The X-Files at 30 S1E3 Squeeze

We're talking about episode 3
Mulder and Scully investigate a bizarre series of sealed room murders where the victims liver is extracted by hand. A 30 year old X-file suggests this has happened before.
0:00 Intro
2:15 Colton
4:43 Tooms
6:16 Squeeze
8:17 The Nest
11:21 Close Call
12:52 Impressions
Music
Chris Zabriskie (chriszabriskie.bandcamp.com/)
CGI Snake - FMA - CC BY 4.0

[@jeff196330]

Fantastic. Keep up the good work

[@chacochicken]

Thank you, I'm going to keep at it and try to do at least a little better each time.

[@ArnoldTohtFan]

“Squeeze” is an iconic episode, but is quite dated in some respects. Due to being a very early episode, the dialogue is expositional and isn't delivered convincingly. Briggs was definitely miscast, but Hutchison is a perfect fit, no pun intended. “Tooms” concludes the story in a satisfactory manner, but still feels like a downgrade from the initial episode. I can appreciate the subtle irony of Tooms evading detection for a century only to be crushed to death by the ever-expanding forces of consumerist modernity. I just wish more time had been spent exploring his origins in the late 19th century. Maybe we could have a graphic novel set in Victorian times, exploring his backstory. I can just imagine him bursting through one of those old brass vents, yellowed with bile and arms outstretched, or snaking his way down the chimney of some decrepit tenement.

[@chacochicken]

Certainly, Squeeze is the advent of the MOTW in its proto-stage. The nature of pre-streaming network tv just never gave writers enough time or space to really develop some concepts with a few rare exceptions. I could envision a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen run where a murderous Tooms as the real Ripper has climbed through a coal chute, powdery black as midnight looking for liver #5.

[@covariance5446]

I gotta wonder if the lore would be acceptable were it the case that the guy could have done without human livers if he just eats, say, chicken liver and/or cod liver and he just didn't know because he never tried them lol.

[@chacochicken]

I think Eugene was born in what 1870? By default he'd regularly eat both chicken and cod liver. I can see an alternate ending where Mulder makes this joke with his characteristic smirk.