The X-files
Ghost in the Machine
Episode: 1X06
First aired: 10/29/93
Written by: Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon]
Directed by: Jerrold Freeman
Mulder and
Scully investigate the
electrocution of the
chief executive at a high-tech firm
who was in charge of the COS project, or
Central Operating System.
Jerry Lamana, Mulder's former partner, brings him the case. Lamana takes Mulder's profile
of the
killer and pretends it is his own. Mulder is annoyed but doesn't do anything.
Mulder and Scully go to see Brad Wilczek who created the COS system but had left the firm over
a dispute with the late chief executive.
When Wilczek is proven to be the last person to speak to the electrocuted man, Lamana goes
to
arrest him but
plummets to his death in a falling
elevator as Wilczek watches helplessly.
Mulder speaks to
Deep Throat who tells him that the
Defense Department is interested in
Wilczek because he created
artificial intelligence that is now killing in self-preservation.
Mulder and Scully enter to building and the lights go out so that they can't get through
the
electronic doors.
Scully is boosted into an airvent and is sucked towards the blades of a huge
fan.
A man finds Mulder and opens the door and they find Wilczek. The man turns out to be a
Defense Department spy. Scully frees herself and Mulder is now able to introduce the virus.
We see the COS in parts being analyzed. Small lights start to flicker on.
Important quotes:
Scully (about Lamana) -- "How come you two went your separate ways?"
Mulder -- "I’m a pain in the ass to work with."
Scully -- "Seriously."
Mulder -- "I’m not a pain in the ass?"
This is the first episode in which Scully fires her gun (at the fan).
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