Alien Bounty Hunter

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The X-Files character
Alien Bounty Hunter
Affiliated with	Colonists
First appearance	Colony
Last appearance	Without (regular) The Truth (archive footage)
Portrayed by	Brian Thompson/various

The Alien Bounty Hunter (nicknamed The Mighty Morphin Bounty Hunter by fans; abbreviated as ABH) is a character in the science fiction FOX TV series, The X-Files. He was initially listed as The Pilot in the credits.

The Alien Bounty Hunter, is, as his name describes, an alien bounty hunter. There is in fact more than one ABH, and their individual names, if they had any, are never given. The ABHs were tasked by the Colonists with tracking down and eliminating any threats to their plans to invade Earth, analogous to the capacity that the MIB served in for The Syndicate. In fact, the Syndicate would regularly employ the bounty hunters when traditional means proved ineffective. The Syndicate would refer to them as "our friends". This was the last resort of the Syndicate however, because utilizing the bounty hunters meant increasing their vulnerability and therefore increasing the possibility that the Colonist would discover that they were working on a vaccine to the black oil.

The bounty hunters were able to shape-shift to any desired appearance, making them very difficult to identify. Most often they took the form of an unknown Russian fighter pilot, played by Brian Thompson. However, neither of the two Bounty Hunters seen in the Christmas Carol/Emily two-parter took this form. Their true appearance was akin to the traditional "grey aliens" of UFO lore.

The bounty hunters had green blood which contained a retrovirus that was lethal to humans. The alien blood could burn through most surfaces like an acid, and would kill a normal human if exposed for too long to its noxious fumes. The alien blood would cause a normal human's blood to coagulate until becoming like jelly, but its effects could be neutralized by extreme cold. They could also only be killed by piercing a small area at the base of the neck. The bounty hunters carried a kind of alien stiletto-like weapon to accomplish this task. Once dead, they would rapidly dissolve into a pool of their severely acidic blood, which would eventually evaporate.

The ABH is noted to have saved the life of Mulders' mother in the season 4 episode: Herrenvolk.

It would be incorrect to consider the bounty hunters a separate alien species. They bounty hunters were the aliens themselves and therefore share the same characteristics. It is best to think of the bounty hunters as aliens with a special skill-set to be used as a tool of the colonists and the Syndicate.

[edit] Appearances

The Alien Bounty Hunter Appears in the Following Episodes:

Season 2

• Colony
• End Game

Season 3

• Talitha Cumi

Season 4

• Herrenvolk

Season 5

• Emily
• Patient X
• The Red and the Black

Season 6

• The Unnatural

Season 7

• Requiem

Season 8

• Without

Season 9

• The Truth(Flashbacks)

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