2.15 Fresh Bones
US Airdate: February 3, 1995
writer: Howard Gordon
director: Rob Bowman
STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully
Guest Cast:
Colonel Wharton ................ Daniel Benzali
Private Jack McAlpin ........... Kevin Conway
Private Kittel ................. Roger Cross
Robin McAlpin .................. Katya Gardner
Private Harry Dunham ........... Matt Hill
Lieutenant Foyle ............... Peter Kelamis
Skinny Man ..................... Adrien Malebranche
Groundskeeper .................. Callum Keith Rennie
Chester Bonaparte .............. Jamil Walker Smith
Mr. X .......................... Steven Williams
Pierre Bauvais ................. Bruce Young
HAITIAN REFUGEES IN AN INTERNMENT CAMP SEEM TO KNOW MORE THAN THEY ARE TELLING ABOUT A SERIES OF INEXPLICABLE MURDERS IN NORTH CAROLINA.
A marine private dies mysteriously after contact with a group of Haitian refugees interned in a camp in North Carolina. Voodoo is suspected when ritual signs are found scrawled in the vicinity. Although local law enforcement dismisses them as graffiti, Mulder and Scully investigate to find a sinister plot hatching in the crowded camp. Their inquiries are complicated by the possibility of
hypnotic suggestions, voodoo curses and outright poisoning. A surprising reversal reveals that not everyone at the camp is who -- or what --he seems to be.
Notes
The final scene inside the coffin mirrors the final scene from the Wes Craven movie 'The Serpent and the Rainbow', which was based on a Wade Davis book about his experiences in Haiti.
The design painted on the tree into which McAlpin crashes his car is a "vever", a sign belonging to the 'loa' or spirits honored in the voudoun. Bauvais explains the vever as a loco-miroir, or mirror of the soul.
Quotes
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Mulder: "Private John McAlpin, one of the few... proud... the dead."
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Scully: "Let's go, Mulder."
Mulder: "Wait, you should always carry protection."
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Scully: "...I'll admit the power of suggestion is considerable, this [Chester's charm] is no more magic than a pair of fuzzy dice..."
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Scully: "He's non-verbal, non-responsive to voice, touch or pain. The neurologists suspect he suffered a severe concussion in the crash resulting in in amnesia."
Mulder: "That's a plausible diagnosis though I'm more interested in how he came back to life."
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Scully: "Except this is strange. The lab detected trace levels of tetrodotoxin in his blood. That's a poison found in the liver and reproductive organs of Puffer fish, a Japanese delicacy."
Mulder: "Only I get the feeling that Private McAlpin didn't frequent too many sushi bars."
Scully: "You have a theory on how it got into his blood?"
Mulder: "What do you know about zombies?"
Scully: "Well I hope you don't intend to tell Robbie McAlpin that she married one..."
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(Mulder and Scully watching the frogs Chester has caught in the graveyard hopping out of the bag)
Scully: "Maybe I should kiss a few and find out if one is Guitterez."
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Chester: "He (Bauvais) even made my fries disappear!"
Mulder: "Well Chester, I got magic, too. And I bet I can make your fries reappear."
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Scully: "You think he's telling the truth?"
Mulder: "Until I can figure out why he lied, yeah."
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(Mulder and Scully come into the Colonel's office as he's having breakfast)
Colonel: "I'm sorry, I'm having my breakfast."
Mulder: "That's alright, we already ate."
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(Mulder talking to Mr. X, after he's received a 10 of diamonds playing card)
Mulder: "I was surprised to get your card."
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Mulder: "You O.K.?"
Scully: "I feel better than you look..."
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Mr. X. : "In case you hadn't heard Agent Mulder, the Statue of Liberty is on vacation."
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