Whoa!, chalk one up for Scully here. Not only did she sniff out the affair going on between the married police lieutenant Brian Tillman (Terry O'Quinn) and one of his inspectors, B.J. Morrow (Deborah Strang), but she also correctly concluded that the woman was pregnant! You might get the idea she was hanging around Mulder too long!
Well pay attention to this one, because you've got murders being committed by a woman who's channeling the evil intensity of her seventy seven year old grandfather who's still alive and virtually falling apart in a nursing home. Aside from the altogether mind blowing premise of the story, the creepiest thing about this episode is the physical appearance of that old geezer Cokely, he looked like death warmed over with a face virtually covered with abrasions and sores that would make a healthy person hurl. Great makeup job, but the character actor Morgan Woodward, who portrayed Cokely, had a rough, pock marked face to begin with, which made him a staple of TV and movie Westerns as a villain all throughout the Fifties, Sixties and Seventies.
Aside from the basic story, the thing I really couldn't wrap my head around was the idea of letters or words left behind on the breastbones of slasher victims that were somewhat legible after death. Really? Bad enough that Inspector Morrow wound up with a horrifically scarred upper chest spelling out the word 'SISTER', but to think they'd still be visible on her skeleton some day when she died led me to think, 'OH BROTHER'.
Well pay attention to this one, because you've got murders being committed by a woman who's channeling the evil intensity of her seventy seven year old grandfather who's still alive and virtually falling apart in a nursing home. Aside from the altogether mind blowing premise of the story, the creepiest thing about this episode is the physical appearance of that old geezer Cokely, he looked like death warmed over with a face virtually covered with abrasions and sores that would make a healthy person hurl. Great makeup job, but the character actor Morgan Woodward, who portrayed Cokely, had a rough, pock marked face to begin with, which made him a staple of TV and movie Westerns as a villain all throughout the Fifties, Sixties and Seventies.
Aside from the basic story, the thing I really couldn't wrap my head around was the idea of letters or words left behind on the breastbones of slasher victims that were somewhat legible after death. Really? Bad enough that Inspector Morrow wound up with a horrifically scarred upper chest spelling out the word 'SISTER', but to think they'd still be visible on her skeleton some day when she died led me to think, 'OH BROTHER'.