It’s been three decades since The X-Files premiered and changed the television landscape forever, blending serialized sci-fi with chilling case-of-the-week horror. While aliens and government conspiracies would come to define the series, it was Season 1, Episode 3 — “Squeeze” — that truly cemented the show’s potential. Airing in 1993, the episode introduced audiences to the show’s first true “monster of the week”: Eugene Victor Tooms (Doug Hutchison), a terrifying mutant capable of contorting his body to slip through air vents and chimneys to stalk his victims and steal their livers. It also marked the debut of writers Glen Morgan and James Wong, who would go on to shape the series’ signature tone. More than just a standout early episode, “Squeeze” proved that The X-Files could be about more than alien abductions. It introduced audiences to grounded, procedural horror and delivered one of television’s most unforgettable monsters.
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