Trevor (The X-Files)

"Trevor"
The X-Files episode
Mulder examines the drastically burned face of Bo Merkle, one of Pinker's former acquaintances. Although many reviews derided the plot, Cinefantastique praised the show's fake corpses.
Episode no.	Season 6 Episode 17
Directed by	Rob Bowman
Written by	Jim Guttridge Ken Hawryliw
Production code	6ABX17
Original air date	April 11, 1999 (1999-04-11)
Running time	45 minutes
Guest appearances
John Diehl as Wilson 'Pinker' Rawls Catherine Dent as June Gurwitch Tuesday Knight as Jackie Gurwitch Frank Novak as Superintendent Raybert Fellowes David Bowe as Robert Werther Lamont Johnson as Whaley Keith Brunsmann as Bo Merkle Jerry Giles as Security Guard Jeffrey Schoeny as Trevor Cary Pfeffer as Anchorman Terri Merryman as Newscaster Jerry Giles as Security Guard Ed Corbin as Guard Christopher Dahlberg as State Trooper Robert Peters as Sergeant[1]
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"Trevor" is the seventeenth episode of the sixth season of the science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network on April 11, 1999, in the United States. The episode was written by Jim Guttridge and Ken Hawryliw, and directed by Rob Bowman. "Trevor" is a "Monster-of-the-Week" episode, unconnected to the series' wider mythology. "Trevor" earned a Nielsen household rating of 10.4, being watched by 17.6 million people in its initial broadcast. The episode received mixed reviews from critics.

The X-Files centers on a pair of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) who work on cases usually, but not exclusively, linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. Agent Mulder is a believer in the paranormal, while the skeptical Agent Scully has been assigned by the FBI to debunk his work. However, the two have developed a close friendship. In "Trevor", Agents Mulder and Scully search for an escaped convict in Mississippi who was suspected of killing his prison warden under mysterious circumstances. They then set out to find and apprehend him, but in doing so, Agents Mulder and Scully quickly discover that he has the uncanny ability to pass through solid, conductive materials.

"Trevor" was co-written by Ken Hawryliw and Jim Guttridge, who developed a partnership after working on the television series Millennium. The episode was originally supposed to be set in Oklahoma, but was changed to Mississippi for budgetary reasons. In addition, many of the special effects used in the episode were created by conventional methods in order to not exceed the budget of the show; this included the removal of a scene that would have shown Pinker moving through the walls in a motel.