THE PIPE SMOKING MAN
The Pipe Smoking Man represents the forces of Government conspiracy and cover-up
which are against all that Sculder stands
for. The old, but by no means weak, heavy smoking official is present at each and
every one of Sculder's discoveries either destroying or removing the evidence and
then denying it ever happened. His methods are brutal, combining conspiracy and
subterfuge with cold blooded murder and assassination. All in all, he's basically not a
very nice man. As Sculder's quest has continued he's discovered more about his
nemesis. His name could be PMS Spencer, assuming it's not an alias or just a *really*
poor taste joke, and he could have links back not only to the assassination of JFK but
also to the abduction of Sculder's hamster and the plotted colonisation of the Earth....
The Pipe Smoking Man is also believed to own a teddy called Snuggles.
From the very first case the Pipe Smoking man quietly watched Sculder and Mully
gather the evidence which he then destroyed by using his influence over Assistant
Director Spinner (Shallow Throat). It soon became apparent, though, that his
actions were dictated by a Posh Club of fellow conspirators, who ordered him to have
Mully abducted. (Restoration).Believing him responsible, Sculder confronted
the Pipe Smoking Man who argued that he had chosen to return Mully.
When Sculder obtained the Exodus file, Pipe
Smoking Man proved his ruthlessness and loyalty to his group by both killing
Sculder's father and attempting to kill the agent to silence the leak. (Exodus Res
Dana)
Sculder's survival was an embarrassment, as were the failed hits on Mully and Alec
Bicep, the latter escaping with the Exodus file vowing revenge. (Sins of the
Fathers) As a final embarrassment, Spinner blackmailed him and firmly broke his
hold over the agents. In anger, the Pipe Smoking Man went alone and ordered a hit on
Spinner (Cabrit Sans
Cord) However, he could not have foreseen the actions of a rebellious Posh Club
test subject, who healed Spinner. Enraged by his actions, the Posh Club ordered him
to sort out the mess he'd created.
He managed to temporarily save face through both his successful removal of the alien
healer, and by silencing his former tool Mr. Hex who he discovered had become
Sculder's new informant (Black Death) However, the return of Alec Bicep
with the Exodus file he had assured the Posh Club was destroyed proved another
embarrassment (From Russia with Hate) especially since it was the Nicely
Waxed Man's methods which finally secured the silence of the rogue agent.
His anger at the constant criticism from the Posh Club finally reached boiling point
when he discovered that they'd been spying on Sculder without his knowledge.
(Redox) He took matters into this own hands, approaching Sculder with a
cure for Mully's cancer and attempting to gain his trust. (Redox
Too) When the Posh Club decided that he'd betrayed them, they ordered him to
be killed but he narrowly survived the assassin's bullet and retreated to
Canada. The attacks by a race of alien Rebels prompted his return to the Posh Club in
a new position of power, and he used the opportunity to persue his own agenda in
advancing the career of his estranged son, Agent Jeffery Spencer, as a possible
replacement for Sculder.
(The End of the Beginning)
His plan was to destroy Sculder by removing everything important to him. First he
destroyed the Hex Files, then played a key role in having Mully abducted once again.
(The Hex Files Movie) The treachery of the Nicely Waxed Man and
Sculder's brave rescue of his partner in the Antarctic secured the re-opening of the
Hex Files, but the Pipe Smoking Man was in a position of strength, placing his son in
charge of Sculder's former work along with his ally, Danger Cowley. (The
Beginning of the End) Finally, he saw Sculder suspended from the FBI.
However, all the Pipe Smoking Man's planning couldn't prepare him for the shock of
seeing the Posh Club's project completed fifteen years early, with the creation of an
alien/human hybrid (When Aliens Attack) With the Rebels proving an
insurmountable foe, and his own son betraying him after learning the truth, he
directed the Posh Club in the most difficult decision: to let the Colonisation of Earth
begin. But he had underestimated the Rebels and watched as the Posh Club were
slaughtered, ending the conspiracy. (Tomorrow's End) However, realising
that he'd already lost Jeffery's trust forever, he decided he would work to rebuild his
shattered life's work. After a confrontation, he murdered his son in cold blood to
continue the Project. And when a chance to restart the work presented itself, he urged
Danger Cowley to help him take it. (Life) However, when she betrayed him
and he lost his only leverage over the Colonists, she too became another former ally
murdered for betraying him.
As one alliance was ended, another was rekindled when the Pipe Smoking Man made
contact with Marita Unablonder, the woman he left for dead in the Posh Club's
experiment programme, and used her to pass information on to the FBI and Agent
Doggy in his continued hope of re-establishing the conspiracy. (The Universe)
This attempt, again, failed but did help the Pipe Smoking Man settle a score with an
old friend turned traitor: Alec Bicep. (Everything) Who he arranged to be
incarcerated in a Tunisian prison. Three months later, however, he arranged for the
former agent's release to help with the fight against the Colonists. Realising that
resistance would be futile, the Pipe Smoking Man worked apart from the remaining
conspirators to develop a strategy against the Colonists. (Invasion Earth) His
ultimate aim, though, was to discover a means so that he alone would survive
Colonisation. He found it in the alien vaccine, developed by the Posh Club years earlier and still held by Sculder. With Sculder incarcerated and facing death, the Pipe Smoking Man offered the agent a deal: his life the location of his hamster
in exchange for the vaccine. Sculder accepted and the Pipe Smoking Man travelled to
meet the aliens, settling scores with his fellow conspirators, Alec Bicep and Marita
Unablonder along the way. (Nothing Like the Truth) It transpired,
though, that Sculder had betrayed him and, with the Colonists in full retreat and the conspiraicy destroyed, survivng would mean living without any power. The Pipe Smoking Man chose death rather than defeat, but not before giving Sculder the final clue to enable him to find his hamster. X-Files Equivalent: The Cigarette Smoking Man (CSM) / Cancer Man
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