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Title: Jose Chung's 'Doomsday Defense' (21 Nov 1997)
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| Episode cast overview: | |||
| Lance Henriksen | ... | Frank Black | |
| Megan Gallagher | ... | Catherine Black | |
| Terry O'Quinn | ... | Peter Watts | |
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Stephen J. Lang | ... | Det. Bob Giebelhouse (as Stephen James Lang) |
| Charles Nelson Reilly | ... | Jose Chung | |
| Richard Steinmetz | ... | Mr. Smooth | |
| Patrick Fabian | ... | Ratfinkovich | |
| Dan Zukovic | ... | Robbinski | |
| Alec Willows | ... | Detective Twohey | |
| Sandra Steier | ... | The Feminist (as Sandy Steier) | |
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Scott Owen | ... | Nostradamus Nutball |
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Murrey Rabinovitch | ... | Juggernaut Onan Goopta |
In this funny satire with a grim twist, quirky novelist Jose Chung, first seen in The X-Files: Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space' (1996), authors a short story critical of a millennial self-help movement similar to Scientology and becomes the target of one of its followers.
The blonde Lance Henriksen was supposed to be Omar Goopta/L. Ron Hubbard's character, not Jose Chung's, as the other reviewer stated.
However, everything else he said is right. This is another Darin Morgan masterpiece, but I prefer his second Millennium episode, "Somehow Satan Got Behind Me", which is the perfect lead in to the finale of Season 2 (and what should have been the series finale). It's funny (with Charles Nelson Reilly once again shining for the last time in the role, which should have been spun off if you ask me), clever, disturbing in the right way...it's a really great departure and every bit as fully formed and intelligent as you'd expect from Darin Morgan, the only TV auteur who drifted from show to show, never creating one but always with his own unique voice.