james david greenblatt played eugene tooms in the x files.
james david greenblatt played eugene tooms in the x files.
who played eugene tooms in the x files?
james david greenblatt
because scully believes that the killer will return to the scenes of his earlier crimes, she and mulder wait in the parking garage of the office building. there, they catch a man named eugene victor tooms (doug hutchison) climbing through the air vents. tooms is given a polygraph test, which includes questions written by mulder linking him to murders dating as far back as 1903. tooms passes most of the test, but crucially fails mulder's questions placing tooms at the historical murders. however, colton dismisses mulder's queries and lets tooms go. to prove his assertion to scully, mulder digitally elongates and narrows tooms' fingerprints, showing that they match the prints at the crime scene. mulder believes that tooms is able to stretch and squeeze his body through narrow spaces. that night, tooms demonstrates this by squeezing down a chimney to claim another victim.
squeeze (the x-files)
the character of eugene tooms has also attracted positive criticism. author neil gaiman listed the character of eugene tooms as one of his favourite monsters in a guest column for "entertainment weekly"s 1,000th issue; whilst ugo networks listed the character as one of their "best tv serial killers", describing hutchison's acting as "uber-creepy". writing for den of geek, john moore listed eugene tooms as his "top 10 x-files baddies", noting that the popularity of both "squeeze" and "tooms" proved to be "largely responsible for shifting the emphasis of the show" away from dwelling solely on alien conspiracy-based mythology episodes.
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