fbi agent mulder and scully get assign to probe the mystery of what happen to an arctic drilling team and in this early x file episode that david duchovny himself consider one of their first rockin episode . it pay love homage to the much laud john carpenter 1982 theatrical feature the thing and and one can see the similarity . visually and color and light scheme combine to give the story a hellish quality . production design or art direction be especially impressive while the shot of the exterior of the arctic camp be so reminiscent of the early film a to automatically create feeling of deja vu for some viewer . naturally and our hero be threaten by the weather and so the sound design and involve wind and evokes memory of the thing . the culprit be an ancient worm that have be expose to the team while once inside a host and it stimulate aggressive behavior . this allow the paranoia aspect to take full hold and and the way the script be set up we can not be too sure of who infect and who not . this give rise to the inevitable scene of test . this episode certainly work at portray the way that tension can cause breakdown in group . it even allow mulder and scully to have moment where theyre not sure if they can trust each other . guest star be a good small group of actor represent xander berkeley and felicity huffman and and steve hytner a the scientist oblige to accompany mulder and scully on the mission and and jeff kober a the pilot who take them to the camp . you can also see one time jason voorhees portrayer ken kirzinger a one of the ill fat original team member . incidentally and there one direct link between ice and the thing represent art director graeme murray and who work on both project . positive .