The Great X-Files Rewatch: ‘Squeeze’
“Do you think I’m spooky?”
Squeeze
Written by Glen Morgan and James Wong, directed by Harry Longstreet
Season 1, Episode 3
Recap
Yellow eyes peer out from a sewer drain, watching a business man walk unaware to his car. When the man arrives at his office … something follows.
The wires in the elevator twitch, as if being climbed. The screws on a tiny vent unscrew, something coming inside.
The man enters his office and closes the door behind him. Watching from the outside, we see him thrown against the closed curtains — a struggle so violent, it cracks the wood of the office door.
Blood drips onto the generic carpet, splatters every surface inside. The screws of the vent slowly spin themselves closed.
Dana Scully sits at lunch with an old friend from the academy, Agent Tom Colton. Together, they chat about how another agent has made it higher up the ladder than them, and Colton expresses his frustration at his own lack of upward mobility.
Asking about how Scully is doing, Colton teasingly asks if she’s experienced “any close encounters of the third kind,” making a pointed jan at her work with “Spooky Mulder”. She comes to Mulder’s…
