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The climactic oil-well explosion was achieved through physical effects, with crew member Dave Gauthier building a replica wellhead in a disused rock quarry, through which liquid was piped at pressures of 250 pounds per square inch (1,700,000 Pa) to create a plume 300 feet (91 m) high. Shots of the oil refinery seen in the episode were filmed at a thermal energy station situated in Port Moody, British Columbia. The episode's gulag scenes were inspired by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's works The Gulag Archipelago (1973) and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1963). The phrase is Italian for 'and yet, it moves', and is attributed to the astronomer Galileo Galilei, when forced by the Roman Inquisition to denounce his belief in heliocentrism. The opening credits of the episode saw the series' usual tagline of 'The truth is out there' replaced with ' E pur si muove'.

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Series creator Chris Carter felt these represented the secrets kept by the Syndicate. The episode's title refers to terma, a set of Buddhist teachings hidden from the world. The episode's gulag scenes were inspired by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (left), while its tagline is a reference to Galileo Galilei (right) He returns to Russia, where it is revealed that he had been hired for this task by Krycek. However, the assassin is able to outwit the agents, and destroys the last of the oil-containing rocks seen in the previous episode in an oil-well explosion after Mulder fails to remove the bomb. The agents attempt to track down Peskow, following a trail of murders in Boca Raton, Florida, as well as locating a stolen truck. Scully and assistant director Walter Skinner ( Mitch Pileggi) had been detained by a United States Senate committee seeking to uncover Mulder's whereabouts when they cannot reveal his current location, but the committee was adjourned upon Mulder's arrival. Mulder is found by a group of Russian peasants (one of whom owns the truck that Mulder stole), who help him return to America, and rejoins his partner Dana Scully ( Gillian Anderson). He then tracks down Charne-Sayre's test subjects and tests the Russian vaccine on them before killing them to cover his tracks. Meanwhile, Vasily Peskow ( Jan Rubeš), a former KGB agent, has come out of retirement and traveled to America where he assassinates Bonita Charne-Sayre, a doctor who is developing a black oil vaccine for the Syndicate. Mulder quickly makes his way out of the truck and hides under the dry leaves, while Krycek is found by a group of men whose left arms have all been amputated and has his arm forcibly severed to prevent his involvements in black oil vaccination tests. Mulder, having been unable to stop the truck due to its faulty brakes, runs the truck off the road and it crashes. As Mulder drives the truck, Krycek awakes and jumps off the truck. Mulder then steals a truck and flees with an unconscious Krycek in the back of it a pursuit by his captors ensues. When all the prisoners are taken out and are arranged in a line, Mulder sees Krycek talking to one of the captors and runs toward them, tackling them. In his dungeon, Mulder is given a sharp object by another prisoner, who had made it to commit suicide. While imprisoned in a gulag in Krasnoyarsk, Fox Mulder ( David Duchovny) learns that Alex Krycek ( Nicholas Lea) is a double agent working for the Russian taskmasters and that all prisoners have been subjected to a black oil vaccine. 'Terma' features a climactic explosion at an oil refinery wellhead which required the physical effects staff to ignite a 300 feet (91 m) plume of flammable liquids. Several scenes in 'Terma' were inspired by the novels of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, while its tagline-changed to ' E pur si muove' from the usual 'The truth is out there'-is a reference to Galileo Galilei's investigation by the Roman Inquisition. 'Terma' is the second part of a two-part episode, continuing the plot from the previous episode, ' Tunguska'. 'Terma' earned a Nielsen household rating of 10.3, being watched by 17.34 million viewers during its original airing.įBI special agent Dana Scully ( Gillian Anderson) and assistant director Walter Skinner ( Mitch Pileggi) attend a United States Senate hearing, while Fox Mulder ( David Duchovny) attempts to escape from a Russian gulag. The episode helped explore the series' overarching mythology.

'Terma' featured guest appearances by John Neville, Nicholas Lea and Fritz Weaver. It was directed by Rob Bowman, and written by Frank Spotnitz and series creator Chris Carter. It premiered on the Fox network on December 1, 1996.

' Terma' is the ninth episode of the fourth season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files.

Campbell Lane as the Committee Chairman.

9th episode of the fourth season of The X-Files ' Terma'

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