Well, I'll tell you what - the actor Nick Chinlund in the Donnie Pfaster role was one creepy looking dude wasn't he, even apart from the role he was playing here as an X-Files villain. He reminded me a lot of Eugene Victor Tooms from the first season and for a while there I thought it might have been the same guy, realizing of course that the series wouldn't have used the same actor for two such high profile roles.
The thing I had to wonder about in this story was why Scully was so squeamish about the disfigured bodies of Donnie's victims. In the very next episode, 'Die Hand Die Verletzt', she handled the same sort of situation with relative equanimity. The only difference being that in this episode, the bodies were desecrated after they were dead, which lent a bit more of a surreal aspect to the case.
The other thing I noticed about this episode was the frozen, nail polished finger of one of Donnie's victims mixed in with the brussel sprouts. Come on, everyone knows you don't mix meat and vegetables together because of cross contamination. What was he thinking?
Anyway, as difficult as it might be to raise the creep factor for the X-Files once the series got going, this one is almost in a stand by itself category as one of the creepiest. Donnie Pfaster really was a demon when you come right down to it, and as evidenced by Scully's vision of him when she came close to becoming a victim. Or, could she have been influenced by working with Mulder for so long, and thought she was dealing with an alien presence?
The thing I had to wonder about in this story was why Scully was so squeamish about the disfigured bodies of Donnie's victims. In the very next episode, 'Die Hand Die Verletzt', she handled the same sort of situation with relative equanimity. The only difference being that in this episode, the bodies were desecrated after they were dead, which lent a bit more of a surreal aspect to the case.
The other thing I noticed about this episode was the frozen, nail polished finger of one of Donnie's victims mixed in with the brussel sprouts. Come on, everyone knows you don't mix meat and vegetables together because of cross contamination. What was he thinking?
Anyway, as difficult as it might be to raise the creep factor for the X-Files once the series got going, this one is almost in a stand by itself category as one of the creepiest. Donnie Pfaster really was a demon when you come right down to it, and as evidenced by Scully's vision of him when she came close to becoming a victim. Or, could she have been influenced by working with Mulder for so long, and thought she was dealing with an alien presence?