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Irresistible

2.13 Irresistible

US Airdate: January 13, 1995

writer: Chris Carter

director: David Nutter

STARRING:

David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder

Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:

Donald Eddie Pfaster ........... Nick Chinlund

Toews .......................... Robert Thurston

Agent Bocks .................... Bruce Weitz

Agent Karen Kossef ............. Christine Willes

Marilyn ........................ Denalda Williams

AN FBI AGENT ASKS MULDER AND SCULLY TO LOOK INTO A SERIES OF GRAVE DESECRATIONS HE BELIEVES COULD BE THE WORK OF ALIENS.

The desecration of a woman's grave in Minneapolis leads local agents to call in Mulder and Scully, believing aliens are behind the outrage. Mulder, however, knows immediately that they are not dealing with aliens, but with a human fetishist who gets off on collecting hair and fingernails from the dead. His worst fears are confirmed when the fetishist, a zombie-like funeral home employee named Donnie Pfaster, begins committing murder to get his trophies. Scully, already deeply troubled by this case, becomes his next target, and Mulder must race against time to save her.

Notes

At the beginning, we see a graveyard. Note one of the names: Soames. Ray Soames was the person exhumed in the Pilot episode of the series.

Listen to the announcer on the football game in the background, the one that Mulder and Scully were supposed to go to. The name Chris Carter is tossed around.

Scully looks at the clock at 11:21 (Chris Carter's wife's birth date)

Personal note: one of the creepiest bad guys ever! And the final scenes where he has Scully are truly nerve-tingling! Great stuff, a classic example of how scary this show can be without going to any graphic extremes. The terror is all in our heads.

Quotes

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Scully: "It took us 3 hours to get here, our plane doesn't leave until tomorrow night. If you suspected ..."

Mulder: "Vikings versus Redskins, Scully. 40 yard line in the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. You and me?"

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Agent Bocks: "Anything slightly freakazoid, that's the drill. Call Mo Bocks. As if I'm tight with all the nut cases in town."

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Bosch: "You're saying some human's been doing this?"

Mulder: "Yeah, if you want to call him that."

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Donnie Pfaster: "Do you treat your hair? I mean... do you use chemicals?"

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Sports announcer: "Oh, long pass, Cris Carter with the catch. And Carter is brought down by Lars Mayos at the Washington 5 yard line for a Viking 1st down!"

Bocks: "Sorry you had to miss your game but - we found more bodies dug up."

Scully: "Did you get your forensics report on the first murder?"

Announcer: "Carter's gotta be happy about that!"

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Bocks: "There was somebody down there in the grave, cut the hair with a pair of pinking shears. Gotta wonder about this guy..."

Mulder: "Well, at least he wasn't down there with his dippity-do and his blow-dryer."

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Prostitute: "You gonna catch this guy?"

Bocks: "We'll catch him."

Mulder: "It might be a good week to take that paid vacation the boss owes you."

Prostitute: "Yeah. Right."

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Mulder: "I don't want you to think you have to hide anything from me."

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Scully: "I trust him with my life."

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Scully: "I'm coming back. Do you need my help?"

Mulder: "Always."

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Mulder: "Well, some people collect salt and pepper shakers. Fetishists collect dead things - fingernails and hair. No one quite knows why. Though I've never really understood the salt and pepper shakers myself."

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Mulder: "...It's an unfathomable hatred of women. Probably going back to his mother."

Bocks: "I'd say she's pretty fried at him too."

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Mulder: "You know, people videotape police beatings on darkened streets. They manage to spot Elvis in three cities across America each day. But no one saw a pretty woman being forced off the road in her rental car."

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Mulder: "Where would he go?"

Bosch: "Anywhere but his mother's, right?"

Mulder: "Why do you say that?"

Bosch: "Being he's so pissed off at her, from what your profile says. Right?"

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(Pfaster searching the house for Scully)

Pfaster: "There's no way out, girlie-girl... I know this house, girlie-girl, there's nowhere to hide."

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Mulder's final monologue:

"The conquest of fear lies in the moment of its acceptance. In understanding what scares us most is that which is most familiar, most common place, that the boy-next-door, Donny Pfaster, the unremarkable younger brother of four older sisters, extraordinary only in his ordinariness, could grow up to be the devil in a button down shirt. It has been said that the fear of the unknown is an irrational response to the excesses of the imagination. But our fear of the everyday, of the lurking stranger and the sound of footfalls on the stairs, the fear of violent death and the primitive impulse to survive, are as frightening as any X-File, as real as the acceptance that it could happen to you."

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