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By Chris Snellgrove | Published
The X files It is a show with many memorable villains, including strange creatures such as Eugene Tooms and The Flukeman. However, the largest villain of the program has been the man of smoking cigarettes, the mysterious figure of the government behind all the greatest setbacks of Mulder and Scully. It becomes a great more prominent bad along the show, and its typical appearance (suit and a packet of morley cigarettes) is so iconic that most fans have never noticed that they hide with the naked eye in the episode of Season 1 “Young at Heart”.
The CIA agent
This is the episode in which Mulder is dragged back to an old case when a supposedly dead convict that helped Bushe years ago has returned among the dead. It turns out that he is very alive, but now he suffers from Progeria, a disease that causes advanced aging. It is a fantastic premise that hides a fantastic cameo: near the end of “Young At Heart”, the CIA agent who interrogates Mulder’s old enemy is played by William B. Davis, the actor who plays the man of cigarettes.
That leads us to the obvious question: Does the CIA agent in “Young At Heart” intend to be the man who smoked cigarettes? To this day, that answer is not clear.
That nicotine -loving character made his first appearance in the pilot episodes of The X files and did not officially speak to “Tooms.” This was the episode of the late season 1 that brought Eugene Tooms, the gummy monster who previously debuted in the first episode of the monster of the series of the series. CSM spoke for the first time in “Tooms”, but if that was really he in “Young at Heart”, then he spoke on the screen long before what most fans believe in a season in which he was mostly completely silent.
The man with cigarettes that smoking
Part of the trick of the smoker of cigarettes in season 1 is that it looked mainly threatening while the deputy director Skinner spoke with Mulder and Scully. This created an air of uncertainty and threat. No one knew exactly what his treatment was, but he seemed to have power, a batch of power, on the head of the high -power FBI of our heroes. He finally spoke in “Tooms” when Skinner asked him if he believed that the wild report that Mulder and Scully had presented about Eugene Tooms, which caused the man of cigarettes to smoke without problems responding, “of course, I do it.”
However, in “Young At Heart”, William B. Davis appears as Agent of the CIA, and his first words are “Where are they?” And “Can you hear me?” The context of this is that he is questioning the dying villain of the episode, a man who had stolen research that could eventually help scientists reverse the aging process completely. The original investigation was sponsored by the Government, but the attempt of this mysterious agent to obtain the information before the villain dies ends in failure.
Later episodes of The X files Confirm that the man of smoking cigarettes has had many alias over the years, so it makes a lot of sense that he considers as a CIA agent in “young man in his heart.” The investigation that the agent sought could have changed the entire world, and could even have helped our operations of the favorite global government in their private resistance against aliens. For these reasons and more, some fans have speculated for a long time that this agent is secretly our favorite morley disguised.
Curiously, The X files He never really explains whether the CIA operation in “Young At Heart” is really the man who smoked cigarettes, and neither Chris Carter nor anyone else involved in production have confirmed or denied him. However, as for us, we believe in the popular theory of fans who connect these two characters. Or at least, as Fox Mulder’s poster declares so memorably, we want believe.
