Tooms

"I liked how the show continued the Tooms story after Squeeze left you hanging."

-Julie C.-

The episode, "Tooms", originally aired on April 22, 1994. That episode of The X-Files was the 20th episode of the first season. No one listens when Mulder tells a psychiatric hearing that Eugene Victor Tooms is genetically programmed to kill again if he is released. Tooms is a mutant cannibal, a man who can stretch his body through impossible spaces to reach his victims, whose livers he devours. Mulder knows Tooms will kill once more before going into his 30-year hibernation cycle and swears to track Tooms day and night to keep this from happening. Scully is warned by Skinner that she and Mulder have to investigate their cases using orthodox methods of investigation, a warning that puts her at odds with Mulder. Choosing to support Mulder, she lies to save him when Tooms frames Mulder on brutality charges. Despite their vigilance, however, Tooms finally kills his final victim. Knowing their next chance to catch Tooms may lie well into the next century, Mulder and Scully must discover his nest before he goes dormant.

Name Rating Dena C.....................9 Julie C....................9 Michael B..................9

Average Rating 9

"Doug Hutchison, thespian/hungry contortionist, actualizes the bizarre mutant Tooms with creepy aplomb. So it's no wonder he was adored so by X-Files fans and popped up in this, his second X-Files meal time morphathon. You just can't keep a good shape shifting liver eating serial killer in the proverbial United States television gulag for long. Both of the episodes, featuring Hutchison, are well shaped all the way around and manuever effectively through the chimneys, airducts, and sewer pipes of T.V. production effectively. They dually feature the great writing, lighting, effects, we have come to expect from the X-Files. The video cassette with these two villian linked episodes is good slimy eating. Shift. Squirm. Find. Devour."
-Michael B.-

"This episode wasn't as scary as Squeeze, but just as good and much funnier. I love all of the humorous lines, such as the part about Mulder's fictional dog Heinrich, but my favorite part is the famous car conversation. Sculy calls Mulder "Fox"...oh if only there had been iced tea in that bag!! I liked how the show continued the Tooms story after Squeeze left you hanging. The two shows are a great all-around scary, funny, and shippy pair-the perfect X-File!"
-Julie C.-

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