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The agents question Chao, who claims that the local community maintains a code of silence and does not reveal anything, even to him.Ĭhao finds information that leads them to Hsin, who installed the carpet in Lo's apartment. Scully performs an autopsy and finds that he had been selling body parts, noticing his numerous surgical scars. One man wins the lottery but selects a bad tile, and his body is found later that day. To pay for her treatments, Hsin attends an underground lottery in which participants either win money or lose an organ, depending on tiles chosen from a pair of vases. Meanwhile, another immigrant, Hsin, tends to his leukemia-stricken daughter, Kim ( Lucy Liu). The agents locate Lo's apartment, where they find his collection of charms, as well as bloodstains underneath the recently installed carpet. When they find a Chinese character written inside the oven, Chao translates it as meaning 'ghost.' Mulder also finds a scrap of burned paper in the ashes, which Chao identifies as ' hell money', a symbolic offering to deceased spirits. The agents collaborate with Glen Chao ( BD Wong), a Chinese-American detective with the SFPD.

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A security guard later finds the three figures near a crematory oven, in which Lo is being burned alive.įox Mulder and Dana Scully investigate Lo's death, the latest in a series of fatal incinerations in Chinatown Mulder believes that ghost activity is behind the deaths, while Scully suspects a cult. There, he is confronted by someone telling him to 'pay the price', and is overtaken by three figures wearing shigong masks. In San Francisco's Chinatown, a Chinese immigrant, Johnny Lo, makes his way to his apartment. The episode contained several elaborate special effects shots, most notably the scene wherein a frog bursts out of a victim's chest, which was created by using molds to create a fake human torso that was then placed over an actor. The episode's writer, Vlaming, developed the latter two ideas and series creator Chris Carter merged all three ideas in the finalized script. The premise of the episode was based on three major ideas: a pyramid scheme involving body parts, a lottery in a small town, and the corporate beings assembling the destitute in Chinatown. In this episode, Mulder and Scully investigate a murder in San Francisco's Chinatown involving masked intruders, strange Chinese symbols, a lottery, and the clandestine selling of body parts. The show centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder ( David Duchovny) and Dana Scully ( Gillian Anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. The episode received mostly mixed to positive reviews from television critics. 'Hell Money' earned a Nielsen household rating of 9.9, being watched by 14.86 million people in its initial broadcast. The episode is a 'Monster-of-the-Week' story, unconnected to the series' wider mythology.

It was written by Jeffrey Vlaming and directed by Tucker Gates. It premiered on the Fox network in the United States on March 29, 1996. ' Hell Money' is the nineteenth episode of the third season of the science fiction television series The X-Files and 68th episode overall. The scene was created by using molds to create a fake human torso that was then placed over an actor.

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