8 Best The X-Files Monster Of The Week Episodes

With “Bad Blood,” The X-Files not only gave viewers a great monster of the week episode, but one of the funniest stories in the series. The episode opens with Mulder putting a stake through the heart of Ronnie Strickland (Patrick Renna of The Sandlot fame), who he believes to be a vampire. That scene ends with the darkly hilarious reveal, that Ronnie was in fact wearing fake, plastic vampire teeth.

Most of the rest of the episode reveals the events leading up to Ronnie’s death, from both Mulder’s and Scully’s perspectives. The intriguing points of view let us see the cartoonish ways the two agents see each other. Scully sees Mulder as inconsiderate and completely unappreciative of her efforts, while Mulder sees his partner as completely dismissive of his theories and apathetic toward their work.