The X-Files

Season One DVD Six

Tooms

This is a continuation from the X-Files episode Squeeze. Although this episode is great all on its own, you may want to watch Squeeze first.

Tooms is about to be released from the sanitarium.

His doctor feels he is ready to rejoin the outside world. Other doctors who have interviewed him feel the same way and all make excuses for his attack on Scully (he was misunderstood). This is way too realistic.

Mulder goes to the meeting to try and convince them Tooms is too dangerous to be let loose.

Unfortunately, the truth as Mulder tells it, is far too weird for the court to believe. They decide to release Tooms.

Mulder knows Tooms will kill again.

Then, Tooms will disappear for thirty years again. Mulder is determined to stop him.

Mulder manages to stop Tooms from one or two attempts by following Tooms and interfering.

Tooms manages to frame Mulder for beating him. Tooms had entered Mulder’s apartment (using Tooms’ own method). He used Mulder’s shoe to place a footprint on his own face.

A.D. Skinner tells Mulder to stay away from Tooms.

Mulder and Scully manage to get proof that Tooms had committed a murder thirty years earlier. They are too late. Tooms has killed his own doctor.

Can they find Tooms before he disappears?

I’m not going to spoil this if you haven’t watched it.

I know I have never looked at an escalator the same since.

What kind of effect has the X-Files had on you? This episode is one of the class X-Files and a great science fiction DVD.