YMMV / The X-Files S06 E02 "Drive"

• Retroactive Recognition: Your eyes do not deceive you: that is indeed Bryan Cranston in an episode written by Vince Gilligan. By Cranston's account, his casting pure luck: he was visiting Los Angeles while trying to raise money for an independent feature, and during a conversation with his agent he learned that The X-Files was casting for this episode. In fact, Gilligan was so impressed by Cranston's ability to switch from sympathetic to unsympathetic and back again in his role as Crump that ten years later, Cranston was his first choice to play the lead role in a certain show he created...