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* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Mulder visits retired FBI Agent Arthur Dales, who recounts a case from the 1950s.
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* SmugSnake: Roy Cohn.
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* WholePlotReference: The episode resembles an episode of ''Series/KolchakTheNightStalker'', the series that inspired ''The X-Files'', featuring the elements of a typical ''Kolchak'' episode and Creator/DarrenMcGavin, who played Kolchak, plays the older Arthur Dales.
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A dying man's final word -- "Mulder" -- leads Fox Mulder to Arthur Dales ([[Series/KolchakTheNightStalker Darren McGavin]]), (Creator/DarrenMcGavin), the father of the X-Files, who tells him about a case he worked with Mulder's father in the 1950s. Dales investigates Edward Skur (Creator/GarretDillahunt), a State Department employee accused of Communism during the RedScare, and discovers that Skur is in fact the victim of illegal medical experiments, involving an alien being that compels Skur to kill - and that officials in the US government conspire to cover them up.
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A dying man's final word -- "Mulder" -- leads Fox Mulder to Arthur Dales ([[Series/KolchakTheNightStalker Darren McGavin]]), the father of the X-Files, who tells him about a case he worked with Mulder's father in the 1950s. Dales investigates Edward Skur, Skur (Creator/GarretDillahunt), a State Department employee accused of Communism during the RedScare, and discovers that Skur is in fact the victim of illegal medical experiments, involving an alien being that compels Skur to kill - and that officials in the US government conspire to cover them up.
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'''Season 5, Episode 15:'''
!Travelers
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->Written by John Shiban & Frank Spotnitz\\
Directed by William Graham
->''"It is those Americans sympathetic to the communist cause-- the so-called "fellow [[TitleDrop travelers]]"--who pose the greatest threat to our national security."''
-->-- '''[=TV=] announcer'''
'''Season 5, Episode 15:'''
!Travelers
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->Written by John Shiban & Frank Spotnitz\\
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->''"It is those Americans sympathetic to the communist cause-- the so-called "fellow [[TitleDrop travelers]]"--who pose the greatest threat to our national security."''
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->''"In the hope that by letting him live, the truth of the crimes that were committed against him and the others might someday... be exposed."''
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1950s. Dales investigated Edward Skur, a State Department employee accused of Communism during the UsefulNotes/RedScare, and discovered that Skur was in fact the victim of illegal medical experiments, involving an alien being that compels Skur to kill - and that officials in the US government conspire to cover them up.
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* ShoutOut: Arthur Dales was the pseudonym of [[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0227481/ Howard Dimsdale]], a screenwriter targeted for his political beliefs during UsefulNotes/TheHollywoodBlacklist, and under whom episode writers Frank Spotnitz and John Shiban studied screenwriting in college.
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* OrificeEvacuation: The spider-like ''thing'' that TheConspiracy implanted in Skur's esophagus.
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* Prequel: {{Prequel}}: This episode did not involve Scully because it was set (at least the present timeframe) before she met Mulder. David Duchovny even wanted to play with the idea by having Mulder wear his wedding ring as an Easter egg that hints that he was previously married in the past.
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-->'''Dales''': What are you talking about? I'm no Communist.\\
'''Cohn''': You are if I say you are.
'''Cohn''': You are if I say you are.
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* WholeEpisodeFlashback: Most of the episode is a flashback to Arthur Dales' experience in the 1950s. Even the frame story is a flashback, featuring a younger Mulder before he met Scully.
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* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Mulder visits retired FBI Agent Arthur Dales, who recounts a case from the 1950s.
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* WrittenInAbsence: Scully; they were filming scenes from TheMovie at this time.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Mulder wears a wedding ring in this episode, which is set just a year before the start of the main plot. Of course no reference to him ever being married occurs anywhere else. And when there is his profile on screen, his marital status reads "single" or "unmarried".
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* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: It's pretty clear that Cohn enjoys abusing power for its own sake through the threat of the blacklist.
-->'''Dales''': What are you talking about? I'm no Communist.\\
'''Cohn''': You are if I say you are.
-->'''Dales''': What are you talking about? I'm no Communist.\\
'''Cohn''': You are if I say you are.
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* BeforeMyTime: In "Travelers", Mulder goes to interview a retired FBI agent who investigated X-Files in TheFifties. The agent asks Mulder whether he's heard of the House Un-American Activities Committee, but immediately assumes that he hasn't. Even if he knew nothing about Mulder personally, the topic is covered in high school history classes.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Roy Cohn is the episode's major antagonist, and J. Edgar Hoover (in his second appearance on the series) gives a monologue outlining the Communist threat to Dales.
* RedScare: The episode's backdrop: Edward Skur is arrested for alleged Communist ties, and Roy Cohn and J. Edgar Hoover even appear as characters.
* ThoseWackyNazis: In a CallBack to "Paper Clip," Skur's first victim is an ex-Nazi scientist who's been performing genetic experiments for the US government.
* TitleDrop: Unsolved cases were filed under "U", until space in the filing cabinets ran out, so they were then put under "X" which had extra room. Thus, the unsolved cases are "X" files.
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* BeforeMyTime: In "Travelers", Mulder goes to interview a retired FBI agent who investigated X-Files in TheFifties. The agent asks Mulder whether he's heard of the House Un-American Activities Committee, but immediately assumes that he hasn't. Even if he knew nothing about Mulder personally, the topic is covered in high school history classes.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Roy Cohn is the episode's major antagonist, and J. Edgar Hoover (in his second appearance on the series) gives a monologue outlining the Communist threat to Dales.
* RedScare: The episode's backdrop: Edward Skur is arrested for alleged Communist ties, and Roy Cohn and J. Edgar Hoover even appear as characters.
* ThoseWackyNazis: In a CallBack to "Paper Clip," Skur's first victim is an ex-Nazi scientist who's been performing genetic experiments for the US government.
* TitleDrop: Unsolved cases were filed under "U", until space in the filing cabinets ran out, so they were then put under "X" which had extra room. Thus, the unsolved cases are "X" files.
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