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'''Season 2, Episode 09:'''
!Firewalker
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Our meddling intellect misshapes the beauteous forms of things we murder to dissect."'']]
->Written by Howard Gordon\\
Directed by Creator/DavidNutter

->'''Mulder:''' He discovered the spore in the samples [[TitleDrop Firewalker]] brought up.\\
'''O'Neil:''' He would have told us.\\
'''Mulder:''' Not if what he discovered was too disturbing even for him to understand.

Mulder and Scully investigate mysterious events at a scientific project using a robotic probe, "Firewalker", to explore the interior of a volcano.
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!!Tropes:
* ChestBurster: The alien fungus-like organisms grow in human chests, though it ultimately bursts through a victim's throat.
* ContinuityNod: Mulder is hesitant to bring Scully along due to the events surrounding her abduction, but she insists she's ready.
* IChooseToStay: Trepkos decides not to go back with Mulder and Scully, staying behind to take Jessie's corpse down his hiding place.
* InTheBack: This is how Ludwig goes down, courtesy of Trepkos and a flare gun. However, Trepkos did have good reasons for this, since Ludwig was going to have an alien fungus burst out from his throat.
* KillItWithFire: Trepkos shoots Ludwig with a flare gun twice, setting the man alight and killing both him and the parasite residing inside that man.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Mourning her death, Trepkos recalls how he convinced Jessie to join the operation to "have an adventure."
* NotHimself: The guest characters insist this about Trepkos.
* SiliconBasedLife: The alien organism that Mulder and Scully went to check is not carbon-based, but silicon-based, meaning it's NotOfThisEarth.
* TeacherStudentRomance: Hinted at between Jessie and Trepkos, two scientists working at the station.
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->''"And of the events that occurred at Mount Avalon between the 11th and 13th of November, 1994, mine stands as the only record."''