. "\"Pusher\" is the seventeenth episode of the third season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. It originally aired on the Fox network on February 23, 1996, and was written by Vince Gilligan and directed by Rob Bowman. The episode is a \"Monster-of-the-Week\" story, unconnected to the series' wider mythology, or overarching fictional history of The X-Files. \"Pusher\" earned a Nielsen household rating of 10.8, being watched by 16.2 million viewers in its initial broadcast."@en . . . . . . . "1996-02-23Z"^^ . . . "3"^^ . "Pusher"@en . . . "17"^^ . . .