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3	'''Season 3, Episode 18:'''
4	!Teso Dos Bichos
5	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thexfilestesodosbichos.png]]
6	[[caption-width-right:350:[[BaitAndSwitch If you believe this beast is the main threat of this episode, think again.]]]]
7	->Written by John Shiban\
8	Directed by Kim Manners
9
10	->''"What is it that the Secona believe? That the jaguar spirit will devour anybody that desecrates the burial place of a holy woman."''
11	-->-- '''Fox Mulder'''
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13	Bodies start piling up after archaeologists remove an ancient burial urn from a site in the Ecuadorian highlands.
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15	!! Tropes:
16	* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: Mulder and Scully can walk comfortably in the sewer.
17	* AtopAMountainOfCorpses: A hoard of killer pussy cats were filling the sewer with dead bodies but the cats were not seen triumphantly sitting atop of them.
18	* AttackOfTheKillerWhatever: Attack of the killer kitties. They're quite deadly.
19	* CatsAreMean: Sewer killer pussy cats. Mewing and hissing very loudly, killing people and attacking Mulder and Scully.
20	* CatScare:
21	** There's a Dog Scare.
22	** Rat(s) Scare, which follows the CatScare formula.
23	** Cat jumping to scare the characters and the viewers. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]], in that for once the cats are violent, numerous, and actually worth being scared of.
24	* {{Curse}}: There is a curse put on those who disturbed the skeleton of a female shaman sacred to the tribe and on those who obstruct the urn to be returned.
25	* DeathByAThousandCuts: Death by a thousand cats. One killer kitty -- not so dangerous. Many killer kitties -- deadly.
26	* EvilDetectingDog: Sugar the dog, barking at the {{MacGuffin}} of an urn.
27	* ForeignLanguageTitle: "Teso Dos Bichos" translates from archaic Portuguese into English as "Burial Mound of Small Animals," although other translations have been proposed.
28	%% * GratuitousSpanish
29	* HellishPupils: A shaman that appears at the end of the episode has cat-like evil eyes.
30	* KillerRabbit: Sewer cats that kill people.
31	* PantheraAwesome: The X-File is connected to a mythological jaguar spirit.
32	* ShoutOut: One of the archaeologists is named [[Creator/ValLewton Dr. Lewton]].
33	* SwarmOfRats: Many, many rats appear in the museum swarming out of the toilets.
34	* ZergRush: The cats again. Very large number of cats. There is strength in numbers. And it's adorable.
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