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He dived low to the ground to avoid certain death, but it looks like at least his legs got run over by the car. If he's dead, then he died giving his agents a fighting chance to live. If he survived, he might be seriously injured when he returns in the future, in whatever form The X-Files take.

Even if he survives, Skinner's not necessarily out of danger. In his final scene in that episode, one of Skinner's teeth comes loose and falls out, exactly like what happened to the MK-N test subjects throughout the episode. Detective Dan Stafford. Commissioner James Gordon voice. Show all 15 episodes. Attorney Mark Freestone - Guantanamo by the Bay Attorney Mark Freestone. Mitch Hathaway - Detective Spivak.

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Goofs When Mulder and Scully are examining the dead prostitute, you can see her eyes moving beneath her eyelids. Quotes [In the posh apartment of a Madam] Scully : Business must be booming. User reviews 10 Review. Top review. A very, very interesting watch. I thoroughly enjoyed this episode. It was great to see Skinner centre stage for a change. It's a very visual, imaginative and clever episode, once again I am absolutely blown away by the variety and imagination this show has, this felt like an out of the blue thriller, totally different to the last few.

I liked that that ending was a little ambiguous, we certainly were not given all of the answers, and that's good. The visuals and imagery here were fantastic. I thought Mitch Pileggi was great here as Skinner, he always is, but here we get to learn more about the man, what makes him tick, we see his personal life, and how good a cop he is, it's very well done, and doesn't venture into soapland territory.

The role of the German-speaking Nazi Skinner also allowed Mitch Pileggi to utilize his ability to speak the language; the actor, who had learned German during a two-year tenure at college in Munich during the s , was the only member of The X-Files ' regular cast in "Triangle" who was fluent with the language.

The End and the Beginning: The Official Guide to The X-Files, volume 5 At one point, Pileggi asked Chris Carter why he was saying a line of German dialogue that did not make any sense in the context of the scene and Carter — baffled by the line himself after hearing it translated by Pileggi — replied by advising him to make up something that did make sense and to say whatever he would say if he was actually in the situation, so Pileggi was able to write some of his own German dialogue for the Nazi Skinner character.

By writing the episode " S. Shiban's solution was to give Krycek continuing control of the nanotechnology in Skinner's bloodstream; the newly heightened danger in Skinner's relationship with Krycek gave Skinner an agenda that Mulder was unaware of, thereby returning some mystery to the Skinner character and some conflict to his relationship with Mulder. Skinner's role in "S. Although Mulder was originally planned to be the poison victim in John Shiban's original pitch for the episode , the victim was changed to Skinner after either Chris Carter or Frank Spotnitz commenting that the audience would know the writers would never kill Mulder suggested this alteration; the fact that secondary characters had been killed before in the series lent credence to the possibility that Skinner might also be killed off.

A potentially time-consuming and costly scene in which Skinner fought with Krycek was cut from "S. Another fight scene in the episode — involving Skinner battling a young, well-toned opponent in a boxing ring — was unusually easy to stage, as Mitch Pileggi had boxed competitively in college and was, before filming of the episode began, already a certified fitness fanatic in addition, the actor's father had fought professionally during his young adulthood.

Prior to appearing in the boxing ring as Skinner, Pileggi attended a refresher course at the well-known Goosen Gym in Los Angeles and, before taking the small dive which Skinner takes upon being knocked unconsciousness by his opponent, the actor did some actual boxing with the person playing Skinner's rival, which both performers enjoyed.

Pileggi found it difficult to endure the prosthetics that were involved in creating the illusion of Skinner's illness. The End and the Beginning: The Official Guide to The X-Files, volume 5 , The Complete X-Files: Behind the Series, the Myths and the Movies To appear as Skinner in this condition, Pileggi was required to awaken in the middle of the night, drive to the studio and sit motionless, long past sunrise, while wide-awake makeup artists glued black veins to his face, arms and torso.

The End and the Beginning: The Official Guide to The X-Files, volume 5 After a couple of episodes of dealing with that, Pileggi politely asked the writers if they could resolve the story thread concerning the nanotechnology affecting Skinner, even though the actor was of the opinion that the prosthetics looked good.

The Complete X-Files: Behind the Series, the Myths and the Movies The only positive aspect that Pileggi took from the experience of being made-up to look like such an unwell Skinner was that the process was so exhausting for him that he found it easy to play the character in Skinner's dead and dying states; Pileggi was so exhausted that, for one shot in which the camera pulls back from Skinner's open eye, the actor had a hard time even keeping one eye open.

To create the outer effect of Skinner's malady, special effects makeup supervisor John Vulich built the ravaged features of the seriously ill character from a latex mask of Pileggi's face, shot through with hollow rubber veins, many of them hooked up to hand-operated air bulbs to make them pulse and quiver on command.

The actor was covered with much more rubber than was obvious, on-screen, and the only section of his face that was left exposed included his nose and upper lip. To show Skinner progressing from extreme ill health to near death, Vulich constructed two entirely different sets of makeup. The nanobots in Skinner's blood, as shown in close-up in the episode, were designed by visual effects producer Bill Millar ; several tries at designing this technology were required one of the attempts — according to Millar — seeming too much like the CBS eye , but examples of the final design were then inserted into actual microscopic footage of blood and plasma and were "cloned" with a computer animation program.

David Duchovny's writing of the episode " Hollywood A. Skinner's prominent role in " Brand X " came about because an episode was once again required to be plotted around the absence of the series' lead actors; David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson were both in active postproduction on their own respective episode of the seventh season — Duchovny had recently written and directed "Hollywood A. As such, Gilligan was especially proud of both the small hand-off in which Skinner's chair is empty when Mulder walks into Skinner's office when the camera is facing the back of the chair but is being occupied by Jenn , by the time that the camera does a full turn around the set to face the front of the chair, as well as the hand-off in which the office is empty when Mulder enters it before a later shot slightly cranes up to show Skinner and many FBI agents sitting around a table in the background.

The plot for " Requiem " — the last episode of the seventh season and potentially, even after the season had wrapped, the final episode of the series — was revealed to the series' fans as well as to many of The X-Files ' cast and crew members in a highly secretive manner.

In particular, the last two pages of the episode's script — which would ultimately involve Skinner learning of Scully's pregnancy — were missing during much of the episode's production period and were written by Chris Carter only on the day before the filming of the scene which Carter had deliberately scheduled as the last sequence, of both the episode and its season, to be shot. Mitch Pileggi later acknowledged that he was unsure of what he had been feeling while this final scene had not yet been revealed and that he had been "kind of numb" at the time.

Many rumors concerning "Requiem" circulated - among the series fans' and production personnel alike - due to the secrecy surrounding the episode and, since David Duchovny would most likely not return to The X-Files for an eighth season , there were hints that a recurring cast member might take Mulder's place; Skinner was quite often mentioned as a possible replacement.

Upon Mitch Pileggi hearing of this rumor, however, he laughed it off, dismissing it as "probably the most ridiculous rumor" of the many he had heard, up to that point. According to Frank Spotnitz, Seasons 8 and 9 were very liberating for the character of Skinner, as because Mulder was gone for the majority of both seasons it was generally much easier to give Skinner the kind of opportunities that the writers had always been eagerly looking to give him — specifically, to get Skinner out from behind his desk, out of his office and into the field, more involved with the action of the stories.

When you have a two-lead series, which The X-Files was, by necessity you're giving the lion's share of the interesting, dramatic conflicts to those two leads. And when Mulder left at the end of Season 7, we suddenly were able to play the ensemble in a way that we never really could before. And interestingly, David was always urging us to use the ensemble more when he was on the show full-time, but it wasn't easy to do.

We felt, as writers, you wanted Mulder and Scully to be doing those actions. And so I think in Seasons 8 and 9, Skinner really got to step out behind the desk a lot more and have a lot more active things to do in The X-Files mythology.

The scene of " Within " wherein Skinner tells Doggett — while being interviewed by him — that he himself witnessed Mulder being taken away aboard a UFO was filmed in the second part of Doggett actor Robert Patrick's first night of attending production on the series; this scene also represented the first time that Patrick got to work with Mitch Pileggi, although they would later have a lot of fun through the course of Season 8 in sequences where Skinner is alone with Doggett.

The fact that performers Mitch Pileggi and Krycek actor Nicholas Lea were extremely familiar with each other by the point of the Season 8 episode " DeadAlive " meant that, during the writing and production of the episode, the writers as well as the two performers themselves thoroughly enjoyed making Skinner's relationship with Krycek be combative. The scenes of " Alone " that feature Skinner were written into the episode by Frank Spotnitz who worked on the episode not only as its writer but also as a first-time director , due to the fact that he was eager for the opportunity to finally work with Mitch Pileggi and did not want to miss the chance to do so.

Spotnitz was ultimately sorry that he had not been able to give Mitch Pileggi more to do in the episode and was aware that Skinner's scenes in "Alone" were probably not very demanding for Pileggi as an actor.

The scene of " Existence " in which Skinner, standing inside an elevator with Krycek, is struck by Billy Miles' arm, piercing through the elevator door, required a difficult stunt in which a solid steel arm missed Mitch Pileggi's head by only a few inches. Director Kim Manners speculates, " If Mitch would have leaned to his left two inches, he could have been killed.

The scene that immediately follows this shows an unconscious Skinner in bed, recovering from the injury that Billy Miles caused while wearing a bandage over the wound. Mitch Pileggi was extremely ridiculed, by the production personnel, due to this bandage that according to Kim Manners was essentially a "feminine napkin. Skinner's extreme desire to kill Krycek influenced Mitch Pileggi to react with elation, when the writers came to the actor with news that his character would be the one who would kill Krycek, in "Existence".

During Mitch Pileggi's last day of the series, he filmed a scene of " The Truth " in which Skinner appears, together with Scully. As writers Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz aimed to avoid complicating the storyline of The X-Files: I Want to Believe with superfluous appearances of characters from the television series, Skinner is actually the only example of those old characters who does appear in the movie and was included in the film's plot only when a fitting opportunity to involve him arose; Spotnitz, who like Carter was keen to bring back many characters from the television series but wanted to make that particular movie as simple as possible and unfettered with character reintroductions, was very happy to write Skinner into the story.

The scenes of The X-Files: I Want to Believe that include Skinner were filmed very late in the movie's filming schedule and the particular scene that acts as the character's introduction in the movie was filmed, for reasons of time, in two different locations.

In the first issue, Skinner responds to the fact the FBI computer network has recently been hacked by an unknown individual who begins hunting anyone connected to the X-Files. This hacking activity leads Skinner to rural Virginia to warn Mulder and Scully, who are living under different names. Skinner's warning is dismissed by Mulder.

Lacking leads in the investigation, Skinner returns to his hotel. He is attacked there, that night, dressed in his underwear. Before he is caught, though, a dazed Skinner is able to contact Mulder. When Mulder arrives in Skinner's hotel room, Skinner is sluggishly hanging from the ceiling. He is saved by Mulder but, regaining consciousness, claims his attackers were in his head. Having no memory of his attackers' identities, Skinner begins to dress as Mulder instructs him to call for back-up from FBI Headquarters.

After Scully is kidnapped in the first issue of the Season 10 series, Skinner studies the crime scene with Mulder in the second issue. There, Skinner reveals to Mulder the name of the family which adopted William Scully's child , who could have been targeted based on evidence.

After this, Mulder consults the presumed-dead Lone Gunmen, leaving Skinner at the crime scene without informing him the Lone Gunmen are alive. X-Files Wiki Explore.

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