This X-Files Episode Is Still One of the Scariest Office Horror Stories

Late in The X-Files‘ fifth season—just a few weeks before the first X-Files feature film hit theaters—viewers were plunged into the terrifying madness of “Folie à Deux.” A weary Agent Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) trudges to Chicago to check out the latest “monster of the week,” but his head snaps back into the game when he realizes the monster in question just might be targeting him next. Before it flips its approach to put Mulder in its crosshairs, “Folie à Deux”—directed by X-Files regular Kim Manners, and written by future Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul creator Vince Gilligan—introduces us to Gary Lambert (Caprica‘s Brian Markinson), a rather ordinary guy working a soul-sucking telemarking job for a vinyl siding company. The calls cycle constantly as Gary reads from a precise script and endures nagging instructions to “dial and smile,” all the better to hook new customers. It’s dull and stressful but not exactly toxic—until Gary senses an alarming presence lurking in the office: ... Read full article.