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* FantasticLegalWeirdness: After the Flukeman is first captured, Skinner and the Justice Department plan on putting it through the standard legal process for a murder suspect -- despite the fact that it's very obviously not human, and it's not even clear how intelligent it is, making it highly questionable whether it can be considered competent to stand trial.
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* LawfulStupid: While certainly humanoid, the Flukeman is obviously not human and is wildly unpredictable, so Skinner trying to process it for murder -- psych evaluation, trial and all -- with minimum security as though it were a regular human seems dangerously naive. Naturally, its unnatural physiology allows it to slip through its bindings and it escapes into the wild.
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* NuclearNasty: Theorized by Scully to be the Flukeman's origin.
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->'''Scully:''' Flatworms are what are known as obligate endoparasites. They live inside [[TagLine the host]], entering the body through the ingestion of larvae or eggs. They are not creatures that go around attacking people.\\
'''Mulder:''' Well, that's good. I didn't want to have to tell Skinner that his murder suspect was a giant, blood-sucking worm.
'''Mulder:''' Well, that's good. I didn't want to have to tell Skinner that his murder suspect was a giant, blood-sucking worm.
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'''Season 2, Episode 02:'''
!The Host
->Written by Creator/ChrisCarter\\
Directed by Daniel Sackheim
[[Recap/TheXFiles Index]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E01LittleGreenMen 1]] | '''2''' | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E03Blood 3]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E04Sleepless 4]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E05DuaneBarry 5]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E06Ascension 6]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E07Three 3]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E08OneBreath 8]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E09Firewalker 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 02:'''
!The Host
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* TooDumbToLive: The U.S. Marshal wisely stops his vehicle and calls for immediate backup when he notices that the human-sized parasitic monster he's transporting has slipped its restraints. He then, not so wisely, decides to throw open the back of the vehicle in an attempt to find out where exactly the Flukeman is hiding, with predictable results.
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* WeaponizedOffspring: Flukeman would bite people and inject its parasitic larvae into them.
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* BodyHorror: Specifically, the scene of the bitten worker Craig throwing up a flukeworm in the shower.
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* TaxonomicTermConfusion: Constantly conflates the Turbellaria (free-living flatworms) with the Trematoda (parasitic flukes) and Cestoda (tapeworms, the only group with a scolex).
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* TheEndOrIsIt: The final shot is that of the bisected Flukeman revealing itself to be alive.
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