When Mulder offered Scully the opinion quoted in my summary line above, it was a throwback to the time the agents were investigating Robert Patrick Modell during the Third Season of the X-Files, and he contemplated that the 'Pusher' might have been placing a 'whammy' on his victims. At least that's what struck me when he talked about a religious wacko.
But you know, I got a kick out of the theater marquee where Mulder was hanging out prior to taking that first phone call with Scully. With "A Decade of Dirty Delinquents" as the feature attraction, do you think Mulder was taking in a documentary? When anything like this pops up in a film or TV show I have to check it out, but in this case, one of the few hits I got on IMDb when I typed in that title was "A Decade of Difference: A Concert Celebrating 10 Years of the William J. Clinton Foundation". So now I'm laughing even more because after all, who's more qualified to expound on the subject of dirty delinquents than Bill Clinton? Life imitates art you know.
Now on the face of it, the story here really stretches the credibility factor when it talks about quadruplets being born, all with the same congenital spinal deformities along with the extra fingers. That they all wound up pretty much in the same general area as adoptees was another stretch you have to go with, not to mention the relative ease in which they were all tracked down by Scully and Mulder. Granted, it's a forty five minute program so they have to move things along, but this was a pretty rapid pace in which to solve the case.
The episode offers some great misdirection with the character of Father Gregory (Jody Racicot), the religious wacko referred to earlier by Mulder, who actually turns out to be the one trying to track down the handicapped women to save their souls from the devil. The story is cloaked in the mystical tale of the Seraphim, an angel with four faces, and it's offspring, the Nephilim, or the Fallen Ones that the Devil seeks to claim for his domain. The episode attempts to offer some solace to Scully's grief over the death of her child Emily from earlier in Season Five, an emotional investment I haven't been able to make as a viewer so much because of the circumstances surrounding Emily's origin.
But you know, I got a kick out of the theater marquee where Mulder was hanging out prior to taking that first phone call with Scully. With "A Decade of Dirty Delinquents" as the feature attraction, do you think Mulder was taking in a documentary? When anything like this pops up in a film or TV show I have to check it out, but in this case, one of the few hits I got on IMDb when I typed in that title was "A Decade of Difference: A Concert Celebrating 10 Years of the William J. Clinton Foundation". So now I'm laughing even more because after all, who's more qualified to expound on the subject of dirty delinquents than Bill Clinton? Life imitates art you know.
Now on the face of it, the story here really stretches the credibility factor when it talks about quadruplets being born, all with the same congenital spinal deformities along with the extra fingers. That they all wound up pretty much in the same general area as adoptees was another stretch you have to go with, not to mention the relative ease in which they were all tracked down by Scully and Mulder. Granted, it's a forty five minute program so they have to move things along, but this was a pretty rapid pace in which to solve the case.
The episode offers some great misdirection with the character of Father Gregory (Jody Racicot), the religious wacko referred to earlier by Mulder, who actually turns out to be the one trying to track down the handicapped women to save their souls from the devil. The story is cloaked in the mystical tale of the Seraphim, an angel with four faces, and it's offspring, the Nephilim, or the Fallen Ones that the Devil seeks to claim for his domain. The episode attempts to offer some solace to Scully's grief over the death of her child Emily from earlier in Season Five, an emotional investment I haven't been able to make as a viewer so much because of the circumstances surrounding Emily's origin.