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3	'''Season 2, Episode 22:'''
4	!F. Emasculata
5	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thexfilesfemasculata.png]]
6	[[caption-width-right:350:''"The [[TitleDrop F. Emasculata]] is a parasitoid, a bug that carries a parasite. In this case, a deadly parasite that attacks the immune system."'']]
7	->Written by Creator/ChrisCarter & Howard Gordon\
8	Directed by Rob Bowman
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10	->'''Cigarette Smoking Man:''' What is the exact nature of the contagion?\
11	'''Mulder:''' It's deadly. It kills within thirty-six hours. One escaped convict was infected. He's dead now. The other man may be infected and he's on the loose.
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13	Mulder and Scully investigate after a virulent tropical disease is introduced into a prison by an infected parcel. The situation is complicated by the escape of two potentially infected inmates.
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15	!!Tropes:
16	* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: The opening scene features soldiers from Costa Rica responding to Osbourne's distress signal, even though Costa Rica doesn't have a standing military (though it's also possible they're mercenaries working for Pinck Pharmaceuticals).
17	* AssholeVictim: The two escaped prisoners who were exposed to the deadly virus by the company. It's difficult to feel sorry for either of them, after they brutally murder an innocent man in front of his wife and children just to steal their RV. One of them later assaults a gas station attendant and possibly infects him with the same virus.
18	* AwfulTruth: At one point, the Cigarette Smoking Man appears and confirms to Mulder that the government is complicit in covering up the outbreak, if not the initial experiment. He justifies it as [[IDidWhatIHadToDo necessary to avoid public panic]].
19	-->''"The truth would have caused panic. Panic would have cost lives. [[ApocalypticGagOrder We control the disease by controlling the information]]."''
20	* BodyHorror: Victims of the plague develop rashes and grotesque, exploding boils as the virus gestates within them.
21	* CardboardPrison: Two men escape from the prison by hiding in the laundry cart while the laundry is ''supposed'' to be getting incinerated due to the quarantine.
22	* CoveredInGunge: Well, not ''covered'', but Dr. Osbourne and the convict's wife do get a face full of pus.
23	* ItHasOnlyJustBegun: Said practically verbatim by Skinner in the episode's epilogue.
24	* MegaCorp: Pinck Pharmaceuticals.
25	* SignificantNameOverlap: The finale revealed that Pinck intentionally used a prisoner who has the same name as the dead biologist from the opening to create plausible deniability that it was a postal accident.
26	* ThePlague: An unknown virus from South America with a mortality rate near 100 percent.
27	* UnwittingTestSubject: It's implied that Pinck, or possibly the government, deliberately arranged the outbreak in an effort to practice quarantine procedures at the prison. The prisoners escaping throws a spanner in the works.
28	* TooDumbToLive: The biologist in the prologue who sees the infected boar corpse and decides to pop one of its pulsating growths right in his face, without any better protection that prescription eyeglasses. Naturally he gets infected and dies.
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