The x files home episode
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I don’t care about the big questions right now, Mulder. The Golem of Jewish folklore also seemed to be some inspiration, together with the referenced Tulpa concept in mysticism, but given a modern street art twist. A part of me wondered if actor Michael Berryman ( The Hills Have Eyes) was any kind of influence on this week’s monster, as actor John DeSantis has a similar look with his own 6’9″ stature, bald head, and deep-set eyes. The way he’d appear in silhouette, like an urban boogieman, before making his getaway in the crusher of garbage trucks, was just the kind of finely judged weirdness The X-Files excels at. The Band-Aid Nose Man was a brilliantly terrifying, inscrutable creation: a barefooted giant, face dripping with disgusting bin juice, able to tear your arms and head off with his bare hands. Oddly, according to a duty nurse, it’s her estranged younger brother Charlie whom Margaret called out for before losing consciousness, which confuses the already worried Scully during a bedside vigil.īoth of these stories were perfectly good X-Files material, from one of the show’s original writers partly responsible for making the show a big success. After receiving a phone call from her brother William, Scully was informed that her mother, Margaret (Sheila Larken), had suffered a heart attack and was in intensive care. Which is impossible, by the way.- MulderĪ little incongruous (or so it felt, initially) was the B-story that Scully was drawn into, leaving Mulder to investigate the Band-Aid Nose Man myth alone. It looks like this person was born without footprints.
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It turns out the killer is an avenging angel, of sorts, known by the homeless community he protects as ‘Band-Aid Nose Man’-seemingly out to stick up for impoverished victims, by savagely killing those who do them harm. The man, Joseph Cutler (Alessandro Juliani), was torn limb from limb by a tall mystery assailant, who calmly climbed into the back of a garbage truck to make his escape. This week, Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully were sent to Philadelphia to investigate the gruesome murder of a city official tasked with removing vagrants from the streets. “Home Again” almost felt like two separate instalments combined, with a bizarre monster-of-the-week tale interwoven with a down-to-earth human drama for Scully (Gillian Anderson). Instead, this was a decent hour that suddenly means The X-Files’ revival could end its maddeningly short run with a mostly-good batch of episodes, unless the final two soil the bed. When I first heard Glen Morgan would be writing an episode entitled “Home Again”, I envisioned an unexpected sequel to infamous season 4 episode “Home”, about a family of inbred murderers, but it wasn’t to be.