Mark Sheppard, who played the villain Cecil L’Ively, said this of Fire: ”It wasn’t computer fire. There were real flames everywhere. That was me in the hotel corridor — and I got a nice tan on the top of my head! If you watch the episode really closely, you can see me drop. As the stuntman playing Mulder dove out of the way, I was at the end of the hallway. The camera was on me, and they only had the one hallway, which they had to blow up at the end. We get there, they blow it up, and suddenly it gets amazingly hot. You see me drop to my knees as Mulder dove to the right because I was afraid that my hair was catching on fire. Entertainment Tonight was filming us, and all you could hear after the stunt finished was ‘Cut — did we get the take?’ I was going, ‘You bastards, you burned my head!’ It was a very real fire, and very frightening.”
And who by brave assent, who by accident,
who in solitude, who in this mirror,
who by his lady’s command, who by his own hand,
who in mortal chains, who in power,
and who shall I say is calling?
