Gillian Anderson gives a mini-masterclass in acting here, and you'll easily find yourself empathising with her as her face crumples at the news.Īs Mulder continues his investigation (not before removing a goo-covered, disgusting plaster from his shoe) and wonders whether the security cameras in Cutler's office can help (they can't), Scully rushes to her mother's (Sheila Larken) bedside.

With Mulder insisting that she go, Scully heads out. Her mother Katherine has had a heart attack and is in dire straits in a Washington, DC hospital. Now the actual main thrust of the episode butts in: Scully gets a call she momentarily things might be from William (the child she gave up to protect), but is actually from William Scully Jr., her older brother. The crime scene is covered in foot prints, which are unusual because they lack ridges and can't be traced. Mulder and Scully show up to investigate (and it's here you see signs of the episode's original placement as the second of these six), asked by a local detective because of their background with 'spooky' cases. This is one killer likely to join the X-Files' pantheon of creeps and creatures. It's a fantastically tactical use of gore and terror, and the low-key style really works. He gets his comeuppance, though, as a weird creature we'll come to know as the Band-Aid Nose Man (John DeSantis), who steps from a garbage lorry and, once he's finished tearing the terrifying Cutler limb from life, climbs back into the truck, which closes its crushing maw upon him and drives away. Gaeta), who is overseeing water jets hosing down the homeless on a street to encourage them to move on. Our setting this week was the Philadelphia, known as the City of Brotherly Love, where very little love was on display from an officious bureaucrat called (Alessandro Juliani, who you might know from Man Of Steel but more likely as Battlestar Galactica's Lt. And if you thought Mulder and particularly Scully were put through the emotional wringer in episode two, Home Again, written and directed by regular executive producer Glen Morgan, saw Dana Katherine Scully mourning, remembering and regretting.īut along with the heartbreak and headache came horror, as the main plot – though it was almost a sideshow to Scully's story – touched on street art, Tibetan belief, trash monsters and responsibility. Trust no one.Īfter last week's comedy diversion, it was a dive back into melancholy for the show. Be advised: this will go into detail about various plot elements of the episode, and there will be SPOILERS.

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