"The X Files" Teliko (1996)

User Rating:

6.5/10   

Director:

Jim Charleston

Writers:

Chris Carter (creator)
Howard Gordon (written by)

TV Series:

"The X Files" (1993)

Original Air Date:

18 October 1996 (Season 4, Episode 3)

Genre:

Drama | Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Plot:

Several African American men in Philadelphia, PA have gone missing, and one of them turned up dead under mysterious circumstances...

Plot Keywords:

Title Spoken By Character | FBI | FBI Agent | Alien | X Files

Cast

David Duchovny	...	Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson	...	Dana Scully
Mitch Pileggi	...	Walter Skinner
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Willie Amakye	...	Samuel Aboah
Brendan Beiser	...	Agent Pendrell
Maxine Guess	...	The Flight Attendant
Laurie Holden	...	Marita Covarrubias
Carl Lumbly	...	Marcus Duff
Bill Mackenzie	...	Bus Driver
Zakes Mokae	...	Diabria
Bob Morrisey	...	Dr. Simon Bruin
Michael O'Shea	...	Lt. Madsen
Don Stewart	...	The Businessman
Danny Wattley	...	First Officer

Runtime:

Argentina:60 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Certification:

Argentina:13

Company:

20th Century Fox Television

Goofs:

Continuity: As Mulder and Scully are driving toward the abandoned building, the lock on Mulder's door is, between shots, open, then closed, and finally open again.

Quotes:

Mulder: [seeing the dead body] There's a Michael Jackson joke in here somewhere.

Deceive, Inveigle And Obfuscate

Teliko is a solid season four episode that deals with African-American males who are having their pigmentation drained from them. This isn't a spectacular episode by an means, but it's engaging enough to be entertaining. Mulder's "Michael Jackson" quote is the funniest line from the episode. Even though this episode has nothing to do with the conspiracy, the writers threw Marita Covarrubias into the episode. She seems to be out of place in Teliko. Mulder's informants don't have to be in just myth/arc episodes. But this was not the episode for her to appear in. She is inconsequential. Samuel Aboah has a similar ability to Eugene Tooms, in that he can squeeze into really tight places. Also, he needs the pituitary gland hormone to survive, just like Tooms needed livers. So, it was almost like a remake of Squeeze. There are enough differences, however, to still make it entertaining. Off camera, Pendrell must be quite obvious about his affection for Scully, since Mulder jokes about Pendrell's crush on Scully with Pendrell. Cute moment. Plus, in Teliko, you get to see Scully crawling through ventilation ducts again. Gotta love that.