colony files colony sixteenth episode second season american science fiction television series files premiered fox network february directed written series creator chris_carter based story developed carter lead actor david_duchovny colony featured guest appearances episode helped explore series overarching mythology colony earned nielsen household rating watched million households initial broadcast colony episode plot continuing episode end game centers fbi special agents fox_mulder duchovny dana_scully gillian_anderson work cases linked paranormal called files episode mulder scully investigate murders human clones working abortion hands assassin thompson mulder receives news younger sister samantha abducted child returned files episodes monstrous reproduction episode bodies male clones scully protector monstrous scene meets identical men white lab coats colony introduced recurring role alien bounty hunter actor auditioned later won role frank_spotnitz carter time cast character knew casting important intended recurring character thompson chosen according distinctive look notably face mouth plot episode opens fox_mulder field hospital arctic mulder lowered water dana_scully bursts tells doctors cold thing keeping alive suddenly mulder heart monitor weeks earlier crewmen ship spot light sky soon crashes sea body retrieved crash revealed alien bounty hunter days later bounty hunter arrives scranton pennsylvania abortion clinic kills doctor stabbing neck weapon sets building fire escapes mulder receives containing doctor obituary identical doctors interviewing anti abortion priest threatened doctors able use newspaper advertisement looking men track syracuse new_york mulder fellow fbi agent visit baker residence baker killed bounty hunter tells mulder scully home walter_skinner hears death closes case agents meet cia official tells doctors clones soviet program systematically killed russian governments mulder scully chapel head pick doctor named flees sight chapel disguised killed subsequent pursuit aided mulder scully scully doubts chapel credibility mulder believes story credentials experience scully performs autopsy finds blood red blood cell count excessively high scully finds address bag recovered residence heads discovering lab process destroyed chapel mulder summoned home father bill learns sister samantha seemingly returned home abducted decades samantha claims returned age memory recently recalled experience samantha tells mulder bounty hunter clones actually aliens bounty hunter begin chasing soon killed remaining clones scully heads hotel hide bounty hunter returning lab finds clones claim scully arranges transported safe place bounty hunter follows watches hotel room scully lets man mulder receive phone actual mulder soon production casting episodes x-files point casting process took days woman portrayed according frank_spotnitz phenomenal job returned x-files years portray samantha clones lot lines felt hard specific actor star night originally sought play role unable work schedule role ultimately played auditioned role bounty hunter casting session competing actor frank_spotnitz carter time cast character knew casting important intended recurring character thompson chosen according distinctive look notably face mouth casting told thompson agent thompson needed hair cut start alien bounty hunter supposed kind military pilot shot day came thompson came vancouver misunderstanding hadn told seen episode compromise sorts writing filming carter said colony series mythology came inadvertently following david_duchovny suggestion face alien bounty hunter sat actor decided add mulder disappeared sister alien weapon described cast crew ice pick air ran arm create unique sound weapon hunter sound effects considered producer voiced noise microphone carter initially wanted set season episode ice ambitious time colony provided opportunity create episode setting interior shots filmed decommissioned destroyer episode follow end game later second season episode reception colony premiered fox network february broadcast united_kingdom bbc december episode earned nielsen household rating share meaning roughly percent television equipped households percent households watching tuned episode total million households watched episode original airing retrospective second season entertainment_weekly episode rated review stated web shifting identities requires intense concentration hang worth writing zack_handlen rated episode noting files form praised character presented saying seasons come end samantha sic fill clown car reveal shocking effective unsettling felt episode cold open particularly handled book myth wrote colony presents moral dilemma characters noting surface mulder quest appears results quest suggest adding generally ideology focuses single life human alien importance successful mulder ideology finding truth costs duchovny portrayal fox_mulder episode cited example character reversal traditional gender roles vulnerability confronted believes sister casts pattern typically female
Colony (The X-Files)