High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Ghost in the Machine" is the seventh episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network on October 29, 1993. "Ghost in the Machine" was written by Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon and directed by Jerrold Freedman. The episode featured guest appearances by Wayne Duvall and Rob LaBelle, and saw Jerry Hardin reprise his role as Deep Throat for the first time since the character`s introduction. The episode is a "Monster-of-the-Week" story, unconnected to the series` wider mythology. "Ghost in the Machine" earned a Nielsen household rating of 5.9, being watched by 5.6 million people in its initial broadcast, and received mixed reviews from critics.