And the guy who played the Flukeman? Darin Morgan, of course. The agents first come across Guy Mann (Rhys Darby) in a Porta Potty, which I like to think is a reference to a scene in the classic season-two episode “The Host” in which the sewage-dwelling Flukeman hides in a similar cartable toilet. Bruckman responds, with a gentle grin, “You don’t.” Hence Scully’s “You forget … I’m immortal” quip to Mulder in this episode. Speaking of “Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose,” that was also the episode in which the Boyle character predicted Scully’s demise: “How do I die?” she asks.
“That’s how I’d like to go out,” says Mulder, clearly forgetting that in the Darin Morgan–penned season-three episode “Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose,” the title character played by Peter Boyle (a semi-psychic who can predict how people are going to die) said the agent’s life would end as a result of “autoerotic asphyxiation.” Typical Mulder - always forgetting the important stuff. In their initial survey of the murder scene, Mulder remarks about how one of the victims might have taken a midnight stroll in the nude and been attacked by a wolf, a lion, and a bear all at the same time.
“Mulder,” says Scully, “what are you doing to my poster?” Glad she had a replacement after Mulder kicked and ripped another one in the season-ten premiere. 2s like darts at the ever-present “I Want to Believe” one-sheet. Usually he throws them into the ceiling (the first episode where that happened was the killer-doll episode “Chinga,” from season five, co-written by Stephen King). It’s nice to see that, much like Mulder and Scully, time hasn’t changed the two of them that much. “Do you ever think life is so amazing,” one of them asks, “that maybe we shouldn’t waste it by getting high all the time?” And more paint-huffing ensues.
The two paint-huffing stoners (Tyler Labine and Nicole Parker Smith) in the teaser sequence previously appeared in a pair of season-three X-Files episodes: “War of the Coprophages” (also written by Morgan) and “Quagmire” (which Morgan did an uncredited rewrite on). We’ve attempted to gather as many of these as possible fellow Philes, call out any we missed in the comments. More than most, the latest episode of The X-Files (“Mulder & Scully Meet the Were-Monster,” written and directed by Darin Morgan) is filled to the brim with Easter eggs, callback characters, and other assorted references.
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