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* KillItWithFire: Trepkos shoots Ludwig with a flare gun twice, setting the man alight and killing both him and the parasite residing in him.

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* KillItWithFire: Trepkos shoots Ludwig with a flare gun twice, setting the man alight and killing both him and the parasite residing in him.inside that man.
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[[WMG:[[center:[-'''RECAP:'''\\
[[Recap/TheXFiles Index]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E01LittleGreenMen 1]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E02TheHost 2]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E03Blood 3]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E04Sleepless 4]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E05DuaneBarry 5]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E06Ascension 6]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E07Three 7]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E08OneBreath 8]] | '''9''' | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E10RedMuseum 10]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E11ExcelsisDei 11]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E12Aubrey 12]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E13Irresistible 13]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E14DieHandDieVerletzt 14]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E15FreshBones 15]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E16Colony 16]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E17EndGame 17]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E18FearfulSymmetry 18]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E19DodKalm 19]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E20Humbug 20]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E21TheCalusari 21]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E22FEmasculata 22]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E23SoftLight 23]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E24OurTown 24]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E25Anasazi 25]]]]-]]]
'''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."'']]
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->'''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.




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* 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 in him.



* TeacherStudentRomance: Hinted at between Jessie and Trepkos, two scientists working at the station.

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* TeacherStudentRomance: Hinted at between Jessie and Trepkos, two scientists working at the station.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."''
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Unless he explicitly does so because he's familiar with a similar situation in fiction, it's not *genre* savvy, it's just being quick on the uptake.


* GenreSavvy: When the agents first enter the facility, Jason takes a swing at Mulder with an axe. Jason insists it's because he thought it was Trepkos, but Mulder knows he would've had enough time to see clearly.
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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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* ChestBurster: The alien fungus-like organisms grow in human chests.
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* ChestBurster: The alien fungus-like organisms grow in human chests.
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chests, though it ultimately bursts through a victim's throat.
* NotHimselfContinuityNod: Mulder is hesitant to bring Scully along due to the events surrounding her abduction, but she insists she's ready.
* GenreSavvy: When the agents first enter the facility, Jason takes a swing at Mulder with an axe. Jason insists it's because he thought it was Trepkos, but Mulder knows he would've had enough time to see clearly.
* 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.
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* TeacherStudentRomance: Hinted at between Jessie and Trevko, two scientists working at the station.

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* TeacherStudentRomance: Hinted at between Jessie and Trevko, Trepkos, two scientists working at the station.

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Why only rip off ''Literature/WhoGoesThere'' once when you can do it twice instead? At least they changed the setting a bit more convincingly this time...

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Why only rip off ''Literature/WhoGoesThere'' once when you can do it twice instead? At least they changed the setting a bit more convincingly this time...
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* ChestBurster
* NotHimself
* RecycledScript: From the season 1 episode "Ice"
* SiliconBasedLife
* TeacherStudentRomance: hinted at between Jessie and Trevko

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* ChestBurster
ChestBurster: The alien fungus-like organisms grow in human chests.
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* NotHimself
* RecycledScript: From the season 1 episode "Ice"
* SiliconBasedLife
SiliconBasedLife: The alien organism that Mulder and Scully went to check is not carbon-based, but silicon-based, meaning it's NotOfThisEarth.
* TeacherStudentRomance: hinted Hinted at between Jessie and TrevkoTrevko, two scientists working at the station.
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Why only rip off WhoGoesThere once when you can do it twice instead? At least they changed the setting a bit more convincingly this time...

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Why only rip off WhoGoesThere ''Literature/WhoGoesThere'' once when you can do it twice instead? At least they changed the setting a bit more convincingly this time...
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Why only rip off WhoGoesThere once when you can do it twice instead? At least they changed the setting a bit more convincingly this time...

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