The Group asks Frank to investigate the brutal death of an old couple killed by a pack of vicious dogs in an odd small town in Montana. A hermit who represents the Group there explains to Fr... Read allThe Group asks Frank to investigate the brutal death of an old couple killed by a pack of vicious dogs in an odd small town in Montana. A hermit who represents the Group there explains to Frank how the pact between Heaven and Hell works.The Group asks Frank to investigate the brutal death of an old couple killed by a pack of vicious dogs in an odd small town in Montana. A hermit who represents the Group there explains to Frank how the pact between Heaven and Hell works.
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- Lady in Window
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- Mr. Thompson
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- Dr. Potter
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- Lucy Butler
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- Mrs. Coblenz
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Did you know
- TriviaThis episode guest stars Randy Stone as the victimized gay yuppie. Stone was better known as a casting director who was directly responsible for bringing David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson together for The X-Files (1993).
- GoofsWhen Frank slips into the warehouse after fending off the dogs with the wood pallet, a female crew member can be seen crouching in the top right.
- Quotes
The Old Man: Well, I can't respect him. My neighbor did nothing to help his, or our, situation but run away. And from crime, of all things. Crime is not evil. Any of us would steal if we were hungry. And any of us might even kill if we were without Hope. So we confront Evil. There isn't much time, and we can't waste time on one ignorant man.
- ConnectionsReferences The X-Files: Deep Throat (1993)
- Soundtracks(They Long to Be) Close to You
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Music by Burt Bacharach and Hal David
Performed by The Carpenters
And that had to do with "dogs that are not dogs..." as well.
In the third book of that series entitled "the power and the prophet", Pelmen the Player/Prophet/Wizard/Powershaper encounters demondogs that are part of an ages old conundrum, in this episode Frank Black encounters demondogs that are part of the spiritual balance of... the world. And the focus of an imbalance is in this town, right where "Michael Beebe" (played by casting Director Randy Stone) has built his "escape house". He built it there because he wanted to escape the Rodney King riots of Los Angeles, and other "evils", that are part of life. There is also a slight similarity to the Demogorgons of Stranger Things season 2. But because of Beebes' stubbornness in building on a prohibited lot, he puts not only himself but everybody else at risk.
The main purpose of this episode was for Frank to meet "The Old Man". RG Armstrong is the actual leader of the Millennium group, he is "the old man of the millennium group".
In the previous episode, we had seen Peter Watts meeting with a person who seemed to be an authority figure, this was the person who told Peter Watts to "help Frank" with his Doug Hutchinson problem. We were misdirected into believing that this unseen person (we only saw the back of his head) was the leader of the group.
Administratively, maybe that person is the de facto leader. But we see here that RG Armstrong, who is simply called "the old man", is the actual leader of the Millennium group. This is a seasoned and knowledgeable old man and the perfect person to deal with Frank in Frank's unfortunate state of mind after his incident in the first episode, RG is "frank with Frank", tells Frank how it is and deflects nothing.
This episode is a very strong introduction to this important character. Played by one of the most prolific character actors of Hollywood. And he apparently has some kind of spiritual authority because the demodogs do not come after him and move out of his way when he is near. So, Pelman the Powershaper...
Now let's get back to the DemoGorgons. The people who live in this town simply know to not go out when it's dark. They don't know why, and therefore when people come from out of town they can't really tell them why they should be concerned because "the suns going down".
So when Frank is inspecting the signs of the DemoGorgon's repast-feast at the Winnebago and the man in the truck drives by to inform him "suns going down", Frank must be thinking, "obviously"... but then the man in a fit of almost desperation repeats his phrase, "suns going down".
You would think that the denizens of this town would give people a bit more detail, like, "you better get inside before it gets dark otherwise demondogs will eat you". Or, maybe even open a door or two when Frank is desperately knocking...
It's like they are prohibited from even thinking about giving somebody this information, which could probably save lives. Or to make it simpler, "if you see a pack of dogs, run!"- nobody thinks of telling the elderly couple in the teaser any of this, nor Frank when he comes to inspect and measure the gobbets of meat and bodily goo and blood on the Winnebago...
Now... The elderly couple had a little dog that looks a lot like the dog that Skully had for a few episodes in the X-files, named "QueegQueeg". It is difficult to tell, it's the same breed of Corgi but we cannot tell if it is the exact same dog. Probably not, because Millennium was being filmed in Canada while the X-files had moved to Los Angeles, the very place where Beebe/Randy Stone was escaping from.
As I was saying, the introduction to the old man character was very strong but it was an opportunity wasted, you will see why in the episodes "owls" and "roosters"...
At this point we think of the Millennium group as one solidified Organization, this is incorrect. But the games have not even begun yet.
And there are other agencies interested in Frank as well as the Millennium group. Some of them even try to use Catherine as a point of access, which is a big mistake...
- XweAponX
- Apr 7, 2022