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* DamselInDistress: Scully finds herself seconds away from experiencing her liver being torn away from her. However, she [[BadassDamsel puts up a brave fight]], which buys her enough time to let Mulder intervene and [[BigDamnHeroes save the day]].
* FingertipDrugAnalysis: Mulder sticks his fingers into Tooms's nest without wearing a rubber glove and ends up with bile on his fingertips. As a result:
--> '''Mulder''': Is there any way I can get it off my fingers quickly without betraying my cool exterior?
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Mulder's reaching out to touch Scully's pendant during a conversation isn't just there to show that he has NoSenseOfPersonalSpace. It is a directorial '''NOTICE THIS!''' for later in the episode when the pendant becomes Tooms' next trophy.
* FingertipDrugAnalysis: Mulder sticks his fingers into Tooms's nest without wearing a rubber glove and ends up with bile on his fingertips. As a result:
--> '''Mulder''': Is there any way I can get it off my fingers quickly without betraying my cool exterior?
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Mulder's reaching out to touch Scully's pendant during a conversation isn't just there to show that he has NoSenseOfPersonalSpace. It is a directorial '''NOTICE THIS!''' for later in the episode when the pendant becomes Tooms' next trophy.
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* FingertipDrugAnalysis: Mulder sticks his fingers into Tooms's nest without wearing a rubber glove.
* OhCrap: When Mulder recognises Scully's pendant among Tooms' trophies.
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* TheStakeoutTheStakeout: Mulder and Scully set up one right outside Tooms' residence, only for their plan to be shredded by [[{{Jerkass}} Tom Colton]].
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An old Academy buddy of Scully's asks her and Mulder to consult on a case he is having trouble with - but when Mulder suggests that the seemingly impossible murders are being carried out by a hundred-year old cannibalistic mutant, who attacks on a regular 30-year cycle, their help is no longer welcome. With the help of the cop who investigated the killer in the 1960s, they are able to apprehend the killer.
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An old Academy buddy of Scully's asks her and Mulder to consult on a case he is having trouble with - but when Mulder suggests that the seemingly impossible murders are being carried out by a hundred-year old cannibalistic mutant, mutant who attacks on a regular 30-year cycle, their help is no longer welcome. With the help of the cop who investigated the killer in the 1960s, they are able to apprehend the killer.
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* ComfortFood: Mulder and Scully are seen carrying a snack bar and a pack of sunflower seeds after Colton's team released Tooms due to him "passing" the polygraph test.
* ForTheEvulz: Tooms needs to get human livers for hibernation, he also obviously kills for the fun and because he enjoys it. He deliberately chooses places that are a challenge to get as if it was some kind of sport. Moreover, he takes trophies from his victims, sometimes in advance.
* FingertipDrugAnalysis: Mulder sticks his fingers in Tooms's nest without wearing a rubber glove.
* ForTheEvulz: Tooms needs to get human livers for hibernation, he also obviously kills for the fun and because he enjoys it. He deliberately chooses places that are a challenge to get as if it was some kind of sport. Moreover, he takes trophies from his victims, sometimes in advance.
* FingertipDrugAnalysis: Mulder sticks his fingers in Tooms's nest without wearing a rubber glove.
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* ComfortFood: Mulder and Scully are seen carrying a snack bar and a pack of sunflower seeds after Colton's team released releases Tooms due to him "passing" the polygraph test.
* ForTheEvulz: Tooms needs to get human livers for hibernation, but he also obviously kills for the fun and because he enjoys it. He deliberately chooses places that are a challenge to get into as if itwas were some kind of sport. Moreover, he takes trophies from his victims, sometimes in advance.
* FingertipDrugAnalysis: Mulder sticks his fingersin into Tooms's nest without wearing a rubber glove.
* ForTheEvulz: Tooms needs to get human livers for hibernation, but he also obviously kills for the fun and because he enjoys it. He deliberately chooses places that are a challenge to get into as if it
* FingertipDrugAnalysis: Mulder sticks his fingers
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* SlowMotion: Tooms' second on-screen attack.
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* SlowMotion: Tooms' Tooms's second on-screen attack.
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* ThatOneCase: Frank Briggs was the investigating officer of the murders in the 1930s and the case kept him haunting.
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* ThatOneCase: Frank Briggs was the investigating officer of the murders in the 1930s and the case kept him haunting.haunting him.
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* UncleanlinessIsNextToUngodliness: His apartment is a hell-hole of a place and his nest is made out of rags and newspapers with bile all over it.
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* UncleanlinessIsNextToUngodliness: His Tooms's apartment is a hell-hole of a place and his nest is made out of rags and newspapers with bile all over it.
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An old Academy buddy of Scully's asks her and Mulder to consult on a case he is having trouble with - but when Mulder suggests that the seemingly impossible murders are being carried out by a hundred-year old cannibalistic mutant, who attacks on a regular 30-year cycle, their help is no longer welcome. With the help of the cop who investigated the killer in the 1960s, they are able to apprehend the killer.
* HeyItsThatGuy: Donal Logue
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* SupernaturalGoldEyes: When Tooms attacks, his eyes glow bright yellowish-green. The color of bile. appropriately.
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* SupernaturalGoldEyes: When Tooms attacks, his eyes glow bright yellowish-green. The color of bile. bile, appropriately.
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* JurisdictionFriction: Interestingly, it's FBI versus FBI. More specifically, Violent Crimes Section versus The X-Files Division.
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* EyesOfGold: Tooms. Bright yellow-green, the color of bile.
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* SupernaturalGoldEyes: When Tooms attacks, his eyes glow bright yellowish-green. The color of bile. appropriately.
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* SlowMotion: Tooms' second on-screen attack.
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* SerialKiller: Tooms kills five victims in each cycle. His victims vary in age, race, gender, with no connections to each other. The pattern was the lack of point of entry and extracted human livers by bare hands.
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* LieDetector: FBI uses a polygraph to question Tooms. He fails Mulder's questions that he didn't anticipate but Colton releases him.
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* LieDetector: FBI uses a polygraph to question Tooms. He fails Mulder's questions about his presence at one old crime scene and being over 100 years old that he didn't anticipate but anticipate. However, Colton releases him.him anyway.
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* HungryMenace: People, beware, Tooms needs five human livers...
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* HungryMenace: People, beware, Tooms needs five human livers...livers.
* {{Mutants}}: Tooms is a genetic mutant capable of elongating his body.
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* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse
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* ThatOneCase:
ThatOneCase: Frank Briggs was the investigating officer of the murders in the 1930s and the case kept him haunting.
*TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElseTheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: Tooms is able to pass for a sanitation animal control worker.
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* UncleanlinessIsNextToUngodliness: His flat is a dumpster of a place and his nest is made out of rags and newspapers with bile all over it.
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* UncleanlinessIsNextToUngodliness: His flat apartment is a dumpster hell-hole of a place and his nest is made out of rags and newspapers with bile all over it.
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* ForTheEvulz: Tooms needs to get human livers for hibernation, he also obviously kills for the fun and because he enjoys it. He deliberately chooses places that are a challenge to get as if it was some kind of sport. Moreover, he takes trophies from his victims, sometimes in advance.
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* HorrorHunger: Tooms is a genetic mutant that needs to feed on human livers. Five of these provide him sustenance for 30 years. However, he can survive and function without them.
* HungryMenace
* HungryMenace
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* HorrorHunger: Tooms is a genetic mutant that needs to feed feeds on human livers. Five of these will provide him sustenance for 30 years. However, he can survive and function without them.
*HungryMenaceHungryMenace: People, beware, Tooms needs five human livers...
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* ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes: Tooms's eyes turn yellowish when he contemplates
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* ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes: Tooms's eyes turn yellowish when he contemplates contemplate his future prey.
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* HorrorHunger: Tooms is a genetic mutant that needs to feed on human livers. Five of these provide him sustenance for that period. However, he can probably survive and function without them.
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* HorrorHunger: Tooms is a genetic mutant that needs to feed on human livers. Five of these provide him sustenance for that period. 30 years. However, he can probably survive and function without them.
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* LieDetector: FBI uses this to question Tooms.
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* LieDetector: FBI uses this a polygraph to question Tooms. He fails Mulder's questions that he didn't anticipate but Colton releases him.
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* UncleanlinessIsNextToUngodliness
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* UncleanlinessIsNextToUngodliness
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* ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes: Tooms's eyes turn yellowish when he contemplates
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* IamAHumanitarian: Tooms, a human genetic mutant, eats humans.
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* IamAHumanitarian: ImAHumanitarian: Tooms, a human genetic mutant, eats humans.
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse
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* UncleanlinessIsNextToUngodliness
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* AirVentPassageway: Justified
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* AirVentPassageway: JustifiedJustified.
* ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes:
* IamAHumanitarian: Tooms, a human genetic mutant, eats humans.
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* LieDetector: FBI uses this to question Tooms
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* LieDetector: FBI uses this to question ToomsTooms.
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* {{Sizeshifter}}: Tooms can prolongate
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* {{Sizeshifter}}: Tooms can prolongate is capable of contorting and elongating his body.
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* BodyHorrorBodyHorror: Tooms's transformation.
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* ComfortFoodCreepyMonotone: Tooms's voice.
* ComfortFood: Mulder and Scully are seen carrying a snack bar and a pack of sunflower seeds after Colton's team released Tooms due to him "passing" the polygraph test.
* ComfortFood: Mulder and Scully are seen carrying a snack bar and a pack of sunflower seeds after Colton's team released Tooms due to him "passing" the polygraph test.
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* FingertipDrugAnalysis: Mulder sticks his fingers in Tooms's nest without wearing a rubber glove.
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* HorrorHunger
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* HorrorHunger HorrorHunger: Tooms is a genetic mutant that needs to feed on human livers. Five of these provide him sustenance for that period. However, he can probably survive and function without them.
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* LieDetector
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* LieDetectorLieDetector: FBI uses this to question Tooms
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* RegularlyScheduledEvil: He comes out of hibernation every thirty years.
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* RegularlyScheduledEvil: He Tooms comes out of hibernation every thirty years.
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{{Sizeshifter}}: Tooms can prolongate
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TrademarkFavoriteFood: Mulder's sunflower seeds.
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* ComfortFood
* HungryMenace
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* TrademarkFavoriteFood
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* OlderThanTheyLook: Tooms looks like he's in his late twenties, but his firs murder dates to 1903.
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* OlderThanTheyLook: Tooms looks like he's in his late twenties, but his firs first murder dates back to 1903.
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* GunmanWithThreeNames: Eugene
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* GunmanWithThreeNames: EugeneEugene Victor Tooms.
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* MonsterOfTheWeek: Establishing the pattern very successfully.
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* LieDetector
* MonsterOfTheWeek:Establishing Established the pattern very successfully.
* MonsterOfTheWeek:
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* EyesOfGold Tooms. Bright yellow-green, the color of bile.
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* EyesOfGold EyesOfGold: Tooms. Bright yellow-green, the color of bile. bile.
* GunmanWithThreeNames: Eugene
* HorrorHunger
* GunmanWithThreeNames: Eugene
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* MonsterOfTheWeek: Establishing the pattern very successfully.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Tooms looks like he's in his late twenties, but his firs murder dates to 1903.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Tooms looks like he's in his late twenties, but his firs murder dates to 1903.
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* EyesOfGold Tooms. Bright yellow-green, the color of bile.
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* CreepyLongFingers: Tooms.
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* HorrorHunger
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* JerkAss: Agent Tom Colton.
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* JerkAss: Agent Tom Colton.Colton.
* PickyPeopleEater: Tooms only eats his victims' livers.
* HorrorHunger
* PickyPeopleEater: Tooms only eats his victims' livers.
* HorrorHunger
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* BodyHorrorBodyHorror
* JerkAss: Agent Tom Colton.
* JerkAss: Agent Tom Colton.
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* AirVentEscape: Justified
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* AirVentEscape: AirVentPassageway: Justified
