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| 3 | '''Season 4, Episode 03:''' |
| 4 | !Teliko |
| 5 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thexfilesteliko.png]] |
| 6 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"Only when the sun fell, when the rest of the world was sleeping, would they come out."'']] |
| 7 | ->Written by Howard Gordon\ |
| 8 | Directed by James Charleston |
| 9 | |
| 10 | ->'''Minister Diabira:''' I grew up hearing the old stories, believing them as only a child can believe.\ |
| 11 | '''Mulder:''' What kinds of stories?\ |
| 12 | '''Minister Diabira:''' The [[TitleDrop Teliko]]... spirits... of the air. |
| 13 | |
| 14 | Mulder and Scully investigate after several African men are found dead, with their skins bleached white. |
| 15 | ---- |
| 16 | !!Tropes: |
| 17 | * AlbinosAreFreaks: Samuel Aboah is a Burkinabè immigrant who lacks a pituitary gland and harvests them from other African or African-American men to restore his skin tone. He is compared unfavorably to a vampire-like creature from West African folklore (the eponymous Teliko) by a Burkinabè ambassador. He is depicted as a merciless killer with a seemingly inhuman ability to squeeze into small spaces. |
| 18 | * DarknessEqualsDeath: Minister Diabra's summation of when the Teliko come out to catch their prey. |
| 19 | -->''"Only when the sun fell, when the rest of the world was sleeping, would they come out."'' |
| 20 | * DistressBall: Mulder gets attacked, and is saved by Scully. |
| 21 | * PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Mulder's joke. |
| 22 | -->'''Mulder:''' There’s a Michael Jackson joke in here somewhere, but I can’t quite find it. |
| 23 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Averted. Aboah kills black people only for their melanin. He also kills white folk if they get in his way. |
| 24 | * TranquilizerDart: Aboah's way of incapacitating his victims. |
| 25 | ---- |
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