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."
Like an expensive sports car, fine-tuned and well-built, Portia was sleek, shapely, and gorgeous, her red jumpsuit moulding her body, which was as warm as seatcovers in July, her hair as dark as new tires, her eyes flashing like bright hubcaps, and her lips as dewy as the beads of fresh rain on the hood; she was a woman driven -- fueled by a single accelerant -- and she needed a man, a man who wouldn't shift from his views, a man to steer her along the right road: a man like Alf Romeo.
Rachel Sheeley, winner
The hair ball blocking the drain of the shower reminded Laura she would never nsee her little dog Pritzi again.
-- Claudia Fields, runner-up
It could have been an organically based disturbance of the brain -- perhaps a tumor or a