Darin Morgan Darin Morgan is an American screenwriter best known for several offbeat , darkly humorous episodes of the television series The X-Files and Millennium . His teleplay for the X-Files episode `` Clyde Bruckman 's Final Repose '' won a 1996 Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing for a Drama Series . He is the younger brother of writer and director Glen Morgan . Morgan was born in Syracuse , New York and attended the film program at Loyola Marymount University , where he co-wrote a six-minute short film that led to a three-picture deal with TriStar . Morgan subsequently wrote a number of unproduced screenplays and appeared in two small guest roles on The Commish and 21 Jump Street , where his brother Glen was a writer . In 1994 , Morgan was cast as the Flukeman , a mutated flukeworm the size of a human being , in a second-season episode of The X-Files . ( Glen Morgan had joined the show year before as a writer and producer during the show 's first season. ) The role required Morgan to wear a cumbersome rubber suit for twenty hours at a stretch , an experience that he has since described as `` terrible , just horrible. '' His appearance in `` The Host , `` which originally aired on September 23 , 1994 , was followed by an offer for Morgan to write an episode of the series . This episode , `` Blood , `` aired on September 30 , 1994 , and was Morgan 's first story credit , although the teleplay was credited to Glen Morgan and James Wong . Shortly thereafter , Morgan became a full-time staff writer for The X-Files , where he wrote his first solo episode , `` Humbug '' ( originally aired on March 31 , 1995 ) . A quirky , funny , sometimes gruesome story about a series of murders in a colony of circus freaks , `` Humbug '' is usually considered a landmark episode in the history of The X-Files for broadening the tone and style of the famously dark series into funnier , less predictable directions . It was nominated for a 1996 Edgar award . Morgan 's next episode , `` Clyde Bruckman 's Final Repose , `` originally aired on October 13 , 1995 . `` Clyde Bruckman '' remains a favorite of fans and critics alike , and was acclaimed for retaining the humorous spirit of `` Humbug '' while extending its story into darker , more poignant territory . Both Morgan and actor Peter Boyle , who played the depressed psychic Clyde Bruckman , won Emmy awards for this episode . Morgan wrote two additional episodes of The X-Files , the absurdist cockroach invasion story `` War of the Coprophages '' ( originally aired on January 5 , 1996 ) and the famously convoluted `` Jose Chung 's From Outer Space '' ( originally aired on April 12 , 1996 ) , as well as contributing an uncredited rewrite to `` Quagmire '' ( originally aired on May 3 , 1996 ) . He left the show after the third season , but joined the writing staff of Millennium , writing and directing two episodes with extremely layered plots and humorous dialogue : `` Jose Chung 's Doomsday Defense '' ( which revived the character of author Jose Chung , played by Charles Nelson Reilly , and was originally aired on November 21 , 1997 ) and `` Somehow Satan Got Behind Me '' ( originally aired on May 1 , 1998 ) . In addition to his work as a writer , Morgan contributed a substantial guest appearance to the X-Files episode `` Small Potatoes '' ( originally aired on April 20 , 1997 ) , where he played Eddie Van Blundht , a self-described `` loser '' with the ability to shape-shift . He also had a small cameo in The One . On August 11 , 2004 , it was announced that Morgan and Sam Hamm , the co-screenwriter of Batman and Batman Returns , were writing an untitled screenplay under development by DreamWorks SKG . According to the Hollywood Reporter , the story `` concerns a marriage counselor , whose daughter is about to get married , who discovers that his future son-in-law is suffering from the delusion that he 's a superhero . `` To the surprise of many , Darin Morgan 's name graced television screens ( his first `` behind the scenes '' credit since May of 1998 ) on the second episode of former `` X-Files '' producer Frank Spotnitz 's `` Night Stalker `` remake . Morgan was credited as consulting producer , though the show was canceled before any Morgan-written scripts were produced . The one script that Morgan wrote before the show was canceled was called `` The M Word '' . It concerned a serial killer and a were-lizard , who may or may not be one and the same . It is available as a pdf on the second disc of the DVD set . External link Darin Morgan at the Internet Movie Database Categories : X-Files actors 0604587 Darin Morgan 