Pusher (The X-Files)

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Pusher
The X-Files episode
Episode no. Season 3
Episode 17
Written by Vince Gilligan
Directed by Rob Bowman
Guest stars Robert Wisden as Robert Patrick Modell
Production no. 3x17
Original airdate February 23, 1996 (Fox)
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"Pusher" is the seventeenth episode of the third season of The X-Files. Agents Mulder and Scully's assistance is requested for a case involving a man seemingly capable of bending people to his will. The suspect uses his mysterious abilities to manipulate Agent Mulder into a dangerous end game. Text taken from the "Pusher" summary here.

[edit] Trivia

  • Cerulean Blue is referenced and hinted at again in various ways.
  • Dave Grohl, former drummer of Nirvana and current lead singer of the Foo Fighters, and former wife Jennifer Youngblood-Grohl, can be seen in the background as Modell enters the FBI building.
  • This episode contains a reference to the second season episode, "The Host". In the introduction to this episode, Pusher is seen taking a tabloid titled the Worldwide Enquirer from a rack in a supermarket. Its cover reads, "IT'S BACK! Flukeman found washed up in Martha's Vineyard!", above a sketch of the Flukeman.

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