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Bill Patterson is the main antagonist of the X-Files episode "Grotesque".
He was portrayed by Kurtwood Smith, who also played Clarence Boddicker in RoboCop, Thomas Perry in Dead Poets Society, Stump Sisson in A Time To Kill, Walt Disney in Robot Chicken, Gene in Regular Show, and General Nathan in Rick & Morty.
Biography[]
Bill Patterson was an FBI agent who had been investigating Mostow and his grisly murders for three years, eventually capturing him but growing obsessed with the case as a result.
Despite Mostow's imprisonment a string of murders almost identical to those Mostow was infamous for began to manifest and Patterson decided to get Agent Mulder on the case, in the process Mulder started to show the same behaviors as Patterson did, only at a much quicker pace, growing obsessed with the case and in particular the Gargoyle - a demon Mostow claimed was possessing him and responsible for all the murders.
Eventually Mulder goes to Mostow's old hiding spot and finds Patterson's old partner, Agent Nemhauser, murdered and mutilated - Patterson arrives on the scene and Mulder confronts him, realizing he was the copycat killer : Patterson attacked Mulder and tried to flee the scene only to be shot by Mulder on the rooftop.
Patterson is arrested and locked up for his crimes, with Mulder believing that Patterson had "stared too long into the abyss" while investigating Mostow, however as he is put in his cell Patterson claims innocence and we see that he has drawn an image of a Gargoyle in his cell, just as Mostow did.
