Who's the better one-off character? (Loser's Bracket Round 2)
Detective Glen Chao (played by B.D. Wong in "Hell Money")
Ritchie Lupone (played by Shia LaBeouf in "The Goldberg Variation")
Detective Glen Chao: It's BD Wong!!! Shang Li! I'm still salty that they ended making him [episode spoilers] a dirty cop (and by proxy endorsing Mulder & Scully's initial distrust of him) because his point about the divide between ABCs (American born Chinese) and FOBs (Fresh off the boat) really hit hard as someone who is also of Chinese descent and from SF. Deserved better. At least better than getting killed off at the end of the episode.
Ritchie Lupone:
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To jog your memory, here are the episodes they're from:
Hell Money: A string of mysterious deaths of recent Chinese immigrants brings Agents Mulder and Scully to San Francisco's Chinatown. The Agents team up with a Chinese-American detective to better understand the language and customs of the Chinese culture, but one thing remains frighteningly clear—all of the bodies are missing various internal organs.
The Goldberg Variation: After being thrown off a building and surviving, Henry Weems, who appears to be the luckiest man in the world, attracts the attention of Mulder and Scully. But, if he is so lucky, why is he on the run from the mob, and why is everyone around him so unlucky?