The Cigarette Smoking Man oversaw Scully's initial briefing on her assignment to the X-Files to debunk the work of FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder, as well as her debriefing. The Cigarette Smoking Man also stole the evidence obtained by Mulder and Scully during the show's Pilot episode, and moved it to a secret, underground storage room at the Pentagon. Although uttering only four audible words in the entire 1st season of the show, CSM eventually developed into the series' primary antagonist. The character is most commonly referred to by this description because he is almost always seen chain-smoking Morley cigarettes, and also because like other villains on the show, he has no known real name. CSM's silent presence in Skinner's office early on was always a warning that the shadowy government attempting to discredit Mulder is again keeping an eye on the nonconformist agent.

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Thanks

*big smile for you*

He'll always be Cancer Man to me. God, I loved this show.... (well until about season 6...)

this is actually one show that i never, ever got into ... not sure why ...

It was great until the movie. They should have ended it then.

CSM is the only reason I started re-watching X-Files religiously, I have seen it before but was baffled by the odd mix of some serious semi-realistic episodes and other downright silly episodes. So I left it be for a long time...

But after hitting on the X-Files Mythology storyline, I got totally hooked, and watched season after season religiously until I started crying into the pillow as I watched this amazing show jump the shark and feebly continue going on and on, raping any decency the characters had left..

oh, fresh pain.... it's all coming back to me now. And to think they could have a movie franchise right now if they had only ended the show 3 seasons earlier....

Let's not salt old wounds then...

Heh, I got into the series late. I never saw this episode.

how the hell is this not in the geek channel?

*geek

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