Alien Stiletto

An Alien Stiletto (or Gimlet) is a device designed to kill and s by stabbing them in a vulnerable area at the base of the skull. The device is also effective as a stabbing weapon against humans. 
The Alien Stiletto is of unknown origin and construction, and made of a never-unidentified material that appears to be metal. It was initially introduced and used only by Alien Bounty Hunters ( "Colony", "End Game", "Talitha Cumi", "Herrenvolk", "The Unnatural").
==Description==
The weapon is made of an unidentified material with the appearance of polished stainless steel. It operates similarly to a switchblade, and appears to be a small, thin, six-inch cylindrical device with a long rectangular switch or button that, when pressed, extends a long icepick-like protrusion that is used for stabbing. When engaged, the device emits a sound similar to a sudden jet of air being exhaled.
==Vulnerable Point==
In 1995, was informed by a hybrid from the Samantha Series that the only way to kill an Alien Bounty Hunter is to stab him at his vulnerable point, at the base of the skull, on the back of the neck. These Aliens' ability to heal their body remarkably fast makes this the only effective way to stop them, as other wounds will not affect them. The stabbing needs to be done on this specific area, and if missed, the Alien will not die. The alien stiletto was thus invented to reach this area successfully, but precision is required, and an inexperienced user may fail to kill the Alien even if the stiletto is inserted there, as Mulder did with a Bounty Hunter pursuing Jeremiah Smith in 1996. Alien-human hybrids can be killed in this fashion as well. A closer look at this vulnerable point was made possible with the ill hybrid child Emily Sim in 1997. The small greenish protuberance was initially thought to be a cyst, and when a nurse inserted a needle into it to perform a biopsy, an abundant flow of caustic green blood was released, making the nurse ill, but leaving Emily unaffected.
==Effect==
When properly inserted at the vulnerable point, the stiletto immediately kills the alien or hybrid, who disintegrates into a puddle of green blood.
==Uses==
In 1995, an Alien Bounty Hunter used a stiletto when exterminating Gregor Series hybrids and a series of Samantha Series hybrids who worked in abortion clinics and attempted to lead colonization their own way. ( "Colony," "End Game")
In 1996, when one of the Jeremiah Smith hybrids began to act against instructions, a Bounty Hunter came forth to kill him with a stiletto. Agent Fox Mulder obtained such a weapon, hidden inside a lamp in his family's Quonochontaug residence. Mulder tried but failed to kill the Bounty Hunter. ( "Talitha Cumi," "Herrenvolk")
In 1997, agents Mulder and Scully met a series of Kurt Crawford hybrids who had resolved to subvert the colonization project and gave the agents information about procedures performed on abducted women who had later contracted brain cancer. One such hybrid was destroyed with a stiletto by the Syndicate's Grey-Haired Man. ( "Memento Mori") In the same year, hybrid doctor Ernest Calderon, who was treating Emily Sim, was also killed with a stiletto by the Syndicate's hybrid police for failing at his duty. ( "Emily")
In 1999, a faceless alien killed and assumed the identity of the Second Elder. However, the realized this and provided with a gimlet weapon to kill him. Spender failed to do so, but , who had followed him, succeeded. ("Two Fathers")
Also in 1999, Arthur Dales told Mulder about a colonist who, in the 1940s, had decided to push the colonization project aside and live his life as a human, passing off as a talented black baseball player named Josh Exley. The renegade Alien was hunted down by a Bounty Hunter and killed with a gimlet weapon. ("The Unnatural")
==Appendices==
===Appearances===
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**"Colony" ()
**"End Game"
**"Talitha Cumi" ()
**"Herrenvolk" ()
**"Memento Mori" ()
**"Emily" ()
**"The Red and the Black"
**"Two Fathers" ()
**"The Unnatural"
===Background Check===
On the season 2 DVD special feature titled "Bounty Hunter," interviews with actor Brian Thompson (Alien Bounty Hunter) and Co-Producer Paul Rabwin detail the creation of the Gimlet effect. Several hydraulic and pneumatic sounds were recorded, until it was finally simplified as a literal air exhalation recorded from the mouth of Paul Rabwin himself. The visual of the Gimlet's quick and smooth protrusion was achieved with an air pressure hose threaded through the actor's shirt sleeve. The device was referred to on-set as an "Ice Pick."
===Apocrypha===
The Gimlet Weapon acts like a weapon/item in The X-Files: Resist or Serve. It is acquired at the Red Falls Post Office, showing this X-File isn't involved in Witchcraft, but Alien Colonists. The item/weapon is used in the first boss fight in the game: a -controlled Sheriff Bud Smith. Mulder has to weaken and stun him by shooting him with either his AK-47 or Pistol until his health bar is empty. When this occurs, Mulder must run up to him, look into his Inventory, select the Gimlet Weapon and then leave the Inventory. This will kill both Sheriff Bud Smith and the Purity controlling him. After it kills him, the Gimlet Weapon can't be used again in the game.
Category:Alien technology
Category:Weapons