2.10 Red Museum
US Airdate: December 9, 1994
writer: Chris Carter
director: Win Phelps
STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully
Guest Cast:
Beth Kane ...................... Gillian Barber
Sheriff Mazeroski .............. Steve Eastin
Crew Cut Man ................... Lindsey Ginter
Richard Odin ................... Mark Rolston
Gird Thomas .................... Paul Sand
THE TERRIFIED TEENAGERS WHO SURVIVE A SERIES OF ABDUCTIONS ARE THE FOCUS OF AN INVESTIGATION THAT REVEALS THAT A QUIET CATTLE TOWN IS NOT WHAT IT SEEMS -- AND NEITHER ARE ITS CHILDREN.
The disappearances of several teenagers in Wisconsin convince a local sheriff to call in Mulder and Scully to investigate possible UFO abductions. But once on the scene, it appears that a mysterious cult, a bioengineered hormone and even alien DNA may be involved in an ongoing experiment involving the children of the town. A series of murders warns Mulder that someone wants both the experiment and the investigation shut down. Scully is shocked to recognize the face of Deep Throat's killer, and a quiet landlord confesses to an evil secret. Mulder and Scully must discover the link between the abductions and the death of the local doctor, in order to save the lives of the town's children.
Notes
Title refers to the Church of the Red Museum, the vegetarian cult in this ep.
The peeping tom, Gird Thomas, who writes "he/she is one" on the kids' backs, is a reference to the real name of the original, famous Peeping Tom of Coventry.
Quotes
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Sheriff: "Well, Oden and the rest of them are a bunch of vegetarians. They drove the ranch right into the ground. Turned 500 head of beef cattle into pets. Calls it a monument to barbarism."
Mulder: "Probably went over big with the local ranchers."
Sheriff: (laughs) "Well you gotta admit it takes some big ones to set down in the middle of cow country and start a church like his."
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Mulder: "They're Walk-Ins."
Scully: "What are Walk-Ins?"
Mulder: "Believers in soul transference, enlightened spirits that have taken possession of other peoples' bodies."
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(Mulder and Scully at a restaurant)
Scully: "You know, Mulder, with ribs like these I'd say the Church Of the Red Museum has its work cut out for it."
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Mulder: "...you become open and vulnerable."
Scully: "To inhabitation by a new spirit."
Mulder: "A new Enlightened spirit. According to the literature, Abe Lincoln was a Walk-In. And Mikail Gorbachev and Charles Colson, Nixon's advisor."
Scully: "But not Nixon?"
Mulder: "No. Not even they want to claim Nixon."
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Mulder: "Looks like the sperm posse just arrived..."
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Scully: "Well, it's kinda hard to tell the villains without a score-card."
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(in interrogation room with Oden)
Mulder: "You know, for a holy man you've got quite a knack for pissing people off."
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Mulder: "I don't know. In the absence of any plausible explanation, it's a novel theory."
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