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"The X Files" Chimera (2000)
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2 April 2000
(Season 7, Episode 16)
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Mulder and Scully are on a stakeout of a female serial-killer of prostitutes. Mulder gets called away...
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Predation and Passion in Peyton Place
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Cast
(Episode Credited cast) | David Duchovny | ... | Fox Mulder |
 | Gillian Anderson | ... | Dana Scully |
 | Gina Mastrogiacomo | ... | Jenny Uphouse |
 | Mitch Pileggi | ... | Walter Skinner |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
 | Ashley Edner | ... | Michelle Crittendon |
 | Charles Hoyes | ... | Howard Crittendon |
| Michelle Joyner | ... | Ellen Adderly |
 | John Mese | ... | Sheriff Phil Adderly |
 | F. William Parker | ... | Dr. Blankenship |
| Wendy Schaal | ... | Martha Crittendon |
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Argentina:60 min
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Michelle Joyner played Ellen Adderly. Ellen's baby, Katy Adderly, was played by Ms. Joyner's real-life twin boys.
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Continuity: Ellen Adderly's scar switches from being on the left shoulder, to the right, and back to the left.
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Mulder:
Mulder.
Scully: Mulder. I am free.
Mulder: You're free?
Scully: Mm-hmm. I'm going to go home, take a shower for, I don't know eight or nine hours, burn the clothes that I'm wearing and then... sleep until late spring.
Mulder: Oh, you solved the X-File.
Scully: Yes, except it's not an X-File, Mulder.
Mulder: What are you saying? You didn't catch our blonde mystery serial killer?
Scully: Oh, no, we caught her, but she isn't a serial killer, nor is she a blonde, and she isn't even a she.
Mulder: What are you talking about?
Scully: What I'm talking about is the six missing prostitutes aren't dead, Mulder. They are alive and well in a halfway house that was set up by this mystery blonde who happens to go by the name of Mark Scott Egbert and Mr Egbert wishes to acquaint lost souls with the teachings of Christ and that's his hook...
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Scully: Mulder. I am free.
Mulder: You're free?
Scully: Mm-hmm. I'm going to go home, take a shower for, I don't know eight or nine hours, burn the clothes that I'm wearing and then... sleep until late spring.
Mulder: Oh, you solved the X-File.
Scully: Yes, except it's not an X-File, Mulder.
Mulder: What are you saying? You didn't catch our blonde mystery serial killer?
Scully: Oh, no, we caught her, but she isn't a serial killer, nor is she a blonde, and she isn't even a she.
Mulder: What are you talking about?
Scully: What I'm talking about is the six missing prostitutes aren't dead, Mulder. They are alive and well in a halfway house that was set up by this mystery blonde who happens to go by the name of Mark Scott Egbert and Mr Egbert wishes to acquaint lost souls with the teachings of Christ and that's his hook...
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Squeaky-clean stay-at-home moms aren't the only ones in danger when feelings of repression and revenge prompt a ravening wraith to go on a rampage. While Scully tracks a shifter of a different shape in the seamy part of town, Mulder gets the real Rob Petrie treatment in suburbia. Mulder finds that the monster isn't the only one who can't look into a mirror as Scully supplies the key clue to the killer's identity.
This isn't a bad thriller though it's a tad predictable with a stereotypical theme. It's not really much more than a darker reworking of the season 6 episode "Arcadia" - which is a pity since the lighter tone of the previous episode suited the subject matter perfectly, IMHO! I wonder if that slotted closet door is the same one Scully was hiding behind in the earlier episode... Anyway, the red herrings in THIS episode are better distributed, making the plot crisper (IMHO). If only the theme had been more imaginative this would have been one of the greats! Hell hath no fury... yeah yeah yeah...