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The X-Files/Recap/S02/E04 Sleepless
When Mulder's mysterious source gives him a tip on a case, Mulder is nonplussed to discover that it is already being investigated by another Agent, one Alex Krycek. The case involves a noted sleep scientist who shows every sign of having burned to death - except without any fire. Mulder and his new partner must work together to uncover a government atrocity 24 years in the making - but is Krycek all that he appears?
Tropes:
- Anti-Villain: Preacher
- Do with Him as You Will
- Mysterious Informant: We meet X in the flesh for the first time this epsiode
- The Reveal: Krycek is a mole for the Cigarette Smoking Man.
- Scary Black Man: Tony Todd, no less.
- Shoot Him! He Has a Wallet!: Done intentionally by the victim with a bible.
- The Vietnam War
- Your Mind Makes It Real
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