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28 March 1999
(Season 6, Episode 16)
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Mulder and Scully investigate a series of murders that may be connected to a Chinese breed of dog. full summary | add synopsis
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(Episode Credited cast) | David Duchovny | ... | Fox Mulder |
 | Gillian Anderson | ... | Dana Scully |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
 | Yau-Gene Chan | ... | Woo |
 | James M. Connor | ... | Jake Conroy (as James Micheal Connor) |
| Melinda Culea | ... | Karin Berquist |
 | Thomas F. Duffy | ... | Jeffrey Cahn (as Thomas Duffy) |
 | Dana Lee | ... | Yee |
| Mandy Levin | ... | Angie |
 | Michael Mantell | ... | Dr. James Riley |
 | Lisa Picotte | ... | Stacey Muir |
 | Andrew Robinson | ... | Dr. Ian Detweiler |
 | David Starwalt | ... | Fish & Wildlife Officer Frank Fiedler |
| Treva Tegtmeier | ... | Peggy |
| Tuan Tran | ... | Fong |
| Adrienne Wilde | ... | Nurse |
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Argentina:60 min
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Melinda Culea, who plays the role of Karin Berquist, is the wife of the episode's director, Peter Markle.
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A rare canid escapes while being shipped from China to LA - and leaves two crew members dead in its place. When the semi-mythological creature begins attacking officers of the Fish and Wildlife service, Mulder and Scully look to a cryptozooligist and an animal behaviorist for answers - but more than one person is keeping secrets!
This isn't one of season 6's tooth-grinding 'humor' episodes, but even as an attempt to return to the darkness of the Vancouver seasons it falls a little flat. The actions of the 'canid' don't really make much sense in terms of the range of potential 'alpha's' in the LA area - the season 5 episode "Detour" did a better job with this idea. And why invent a "Wanshang Dhole" when there are REAL crypto-zoological beasties and tricksters? I love Andrew Robinson but he's just wasted in his role, while "Karin Berquist," while an interesting character, behaves totally inexplicably at the end. How exactly is she an alpha? Not one of the best.