Quagmire (The X-Files)
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| “Quagmire” | |
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| The X-Files episode | |
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| Episode no. | Season 3 Episode 22 |
| Guest stars | Chris Ellis as Sheriff Lance Heads |
| Written by | Kim Newton & Darin Morgan (uncredited) |
| Directed by | Kim Manners |
| Production no. | 3x22 |
| Original airdate | May 3, 1996 (Fox) |
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"Quagmire" is the twenty-second episode of the third season of The X-Files. When a series of mysterious deaths and disappearances are reported near a lake in a small town, Agents Mulder and Scully are called in to investigate. With local folklore of a killer sea serpent running rampant amongst the locals, the agents must take their search for the truth to the water. Text taken from the Quagmire summary here.
[edit] Trivia
- The title itself, Quagmire refers to the type of area in which most of the episode is set.
- Queequeg, as is revealed, is the harpoonist from Moby-Dick, which is the inspiration for what Agent Scully names her dog. Dana inherited the dog itself from a previous episode.
- Furthermore, Moby-Dick seems to be the inspiration for the nicknames Dana and her father used for each other in the first season, which were Ahab and Starbuck, respectively.
- The episode bears many similarities to the 1999 film Lake Placid, in which a community is threatened by a giant alligator.
[edit] References and external links
| The X-Files Season 3 | ||
| Episode List | Official Website | ||
| The Blessing Way | Paper Clip | D.P.O. | Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose | The List | 2Shy | The Walk | Oubliette | Nisei | 731 | Revelations | War of the Coprophages | Syzygy | Grotesque | Piper Maru | Apocrypha | Pusher | Teso Dos Bichos | Hell Money | Jose Chung's "From Outer Space" | Avatar | Quagmire | Wetwired | Talitha Cumi | ||
