YMMV / The X-Files S03 E19 "Hell Money"

• Complete Monster: The Hard-Faced Man is the sadistic doctor of an organ harvest operation in San Francisco's Chinatown. Praying on immigrants' hopes and desperation, he rigs a lottery that gives the immigrants chances to earn money, but in truth is only a one-way ticket to death, with those who can't pay up burned alive in the crematorium. The Hard-Faced Man operates on patients while they're still conscious, and when arrested for his crimes, he has Detective Chao kidnapped and burned alive in the crematorium before he can testify against him.
• One-Scene Wonder: James Hong shows up for only three scenes with a miniscule combined airtime and acts the Hell out of his role as an unsettling, mysterious, organ-harvesting gangster. It's almost like Hong is the Chinese version of the Cigarette Smoking Man, he evens gets his own similar moniker (the Hard-Faced Man).
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • B.D. Wong (of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit fame) makes an appearance in this episode as an American-born Chinese cop.
  • Lucy Liu appears as Hsin's daughter.