The X Files / F Emasculata / Notes

 Mulder once again knows that three is a coverup and he can't tell the public. A contagion spread after a doctor for a pharmaceutical company encounters a bursting postule on a dead animal in a Costa Rican jungle and a mysterious package is sent with such a postule on a leg of that dead animal to a prison. Eventually prisoners are dead from the contagion not long after attracting it and Pinck Pharmaceuticals sends a quarantine unit posing as the CDC to take care of this "little problem". There is a scare for Scully who is in a room when a postule bursts on Charles Martin Smith's Dr. Osbourne. This episode is fucking disgusting. That special X files score that loves to get under the skin when used for icky scenes is utilized to maximum effect in this episode. Bursting sores of puss into faces, securing a death sentence for victims is quite up there at the top of this series in terms of grossout. Dean Norris before "Breaking Bad" is head of a team of marshals looking to find escaped convicts with the contagion as Mulder tags along to help. Scully stays behind at the prison to learn about the contagion. There is yet another test for Scully to make sure she isn't infected. Poor Charles Martin Smith...bagged up and set for the incinerator. The truth once again buried. The Cigarette-Smoking Man makes sure to sit back, take a drag, and tell Mulder his crusade to tell the public about a contagion won't succeed because the public "can't handle the truth and the longer he doesn't do his job, their health is further at risk". Skinner remains in his office understanding that Mulder's crusade is doomed to fail while CSM gloats in the dark in a corner. That Scully is there to tell Mulder his plans to spill to the public wouldn't get anywhere because all evidence is lost. The quarantine suit fake CDC with help from the government make sure of that.