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Agua Mala
Written by David Amann
Directed by Rob Bowman
Directed by Rob Bowman
"If the sea is where life began - where our ancestors first walked ashore - then who's to say what new life may be developing in its uncharted depths."
— Fox Mulder
Mulder and Scully travel to Florida in the middle of a hurricane to investigate the deaths of a couple and their son. As the storm worsens, they end up trapped in an apartment with an injured police officer, an unstable man with an attachment to his gun, a pregnant woman and her boyfriend, a petty thief, and a Sea Monster hiding somewhere in the pipes.
Tropes:
- Big Storm Episode: A hurricane is wreaking havoc on the shore in Floride during this episode.
- The Bus Came Back: Arthur Dales, who formerly worked on the X-Files with Mulder's father, returns in this episode.
- Cat Scare: "How the hell did that cat get in the washing machine?"
- Closed Circle: Scully is able to convince Murder that the monster is just a scam and to leave, but unfortunately the storm has flooded the road.
- Doomed Hurt Guy: Greer. All that effort to save him and he dies because butterfingers Dougie, while stealing Greer's wedding ring, knocks a carton of Epsom salts into the tub with him.
- Foreign Language Title: Spanish for "bad water".
- Henpecked Husband: George. Although he and Angela aren't married, he otherwise fits the trope.
- Karma Houdini: Dougie. Despite being a looter and inadvertently causing Greer's death (while taking his wedding ring no less!), the creep manages to escape in Greer's police SUV.
- Improbable Aiming Skills: George manages to shoot a fire sprinkler while sitting down and holding his girlfriend turned around.
- Instant Drama, Just Add Tracheotomy: Scully performs a tracheotomy on Greer after he's attacked by the monster.
- Maternity Crisis: As if things weren't bad enough with the storm and the monster wreaking havoc, Angela's water breaks.
- Monster of the Week: It's a Sea Monster eating people alive.
- Only in Florida: A Running Gag in the episode is characters constantly lampshading the weirdness by asking "Don't all the nuts roll downhill to Florida?"
- Sea Monster: The Monster of the Week.
- Spicy Latina: Angela, George's pregnant girlfriend.
- Too Dumb to Live: Though it doesn't kill him yet, Greer getting too close to one of the encased victims when the monster is clearly moving inside of it.
Dales: Anyone for water?
Mulder and Scully: No!
Mulder and Scully: No!