Tooms the Limerick:
Tooms hunting liver again
Has suddenly found a new friend
Mulder close by
On him keeps an eye
And an escalator gives Tooms his end.
Tooms is the first sequel episode and it is the sequel to the first Monster of the Week episode. As such it deserves special recognition regardless of whether one necessarily likes it or not. It helped to set a trend of other Monster of the Week episodes including others which earned sequels such as Irresistible/Orison and Pusher/Kitsunegari. It is even more unique in that it is the only sequel to a Monster of the Week that is seen in the same season as the first one.
That all being said it is just as good as the original. Tooms is in prison still but we soon find out that annoying doctors are for some crazy reason not seeing that he is a very disturbed individual and simply because they can't look past the fact that he is over a hundred years old they instead decide to ignore the evidence against him and let him go. Mulder and Scully stake him out waiting for him to strike his last victim. Unfortunately events lead to a restraining order against Mulder as Scully tries to find evidence against Tooms from the murders that occurred 30 years ago. Soon the evidence is found but too late as Tooms has taken his final victim in the doctor who got him out in the first place. Mulder and Scully find him under the escalator where his apartment used to lie and Tooms is crushed to bile jelly in the end. I don't have much to say about the episode but I did like it. 9 out of 10.
Tooms hunting liver again
Has suddenly found a new friend
Mulder close by
On him keeps an eye
And an escalator gives Tooms his end.
Tooms is the first sequel episode and it is the sequel to the first Monster of the Week episode. As such it deserves special recognition regardless of whether one necessarily likes it or not. It helped to set a trend of other Monster of the Week episodes including others which earned sequels such as Irresistible/Orison and Pusher/Kitsunegari. It is even more unique in that it is the only sequel to a Monster of the Week that is seen in the same season as the first one.
That all being said it is just as good as the original. Tooms is in prison still but we soon find out that annoying doctors are for some crazy reason not seeing that he is a very disturbed individual and simply because they can't look past the fact that he is over a hundred years old they instead decide to ignore the evidence against him and let him go. Mulder and Scully stake him out waiting for him to strike his last victim. Unfortunately events lead to a restraining order against Mulder as Scully tries to find evidence against Tooms from the murders that occurred 30 years ago. Soon the evidence is found but too late as Tooms has taken his final victim in the doctor who got him out in the first place. Mulder and Scully find him under the escalator where his apartment used to lie and Tooms is crushed to bile jelly in the end. I don't have much to say about the episode but I did like it. 9 out of 10.