9X03 Dæmonicus
In Weston, West Virginia, Evelyn and Darren Mountjoy sit playing scrabble in their home when the lights suddenly go out, Darren orders his wife to the basement as he loads his gun.
In the darkness he sees an intruder and fires, only to find it is his wife, her hands and mouth bound with duck tape. He begins to hear voices whispering and two men with demonic faces jump him.
Next morning Doggett and Reyes examine the crime scene, the couple's bodies are sat in their chair, the gun in Evelyn's hand and on the scrabble board the word 'DAEMONICUS' which means demon possession. While Doggett assumes it is some kind of satanic ritual, Reyes feels there is more to it, especially when three snakes squirm out of the bullet holes in Evelyn's chest.
Scully on assignment as an instructor at Quantico, is asked by Reyes to perform the autopsies. She determines that Darren was tricked in to shooting his wife and was then held in the chair and shot. The snakes were sown in to Evelyn's body post-mortem, seeming to prove the murders were man made as Doggett thought.
Reyes and Doggett are contacted about an escaped patient from the local mental institute, Richman a former doctor who killed his patients, although he had no knowledge of satanic rituals there is a possible accomplice, one of the hospital guards is also missing.
They question Josef Kobold, the patient in the next cell to Richman in hope of discovering more, however Kobold's cryptic answers lead them to believe that he knows more than he is letting on.
The question is, is Kobold a master manipulator using others to do his bidding or is there something far more sinister about him.
Noteworthy Quote
Scully: "Sorry to disappoint you, but this is a course in forensic pathology.
Hard science. An X-File is a case that has been deemed unsolvable by the Bureau,
because such a case cannot be solved it may beg other explanations... a vampire,
perhaps. Science, however, tells us that evil comes not from monsters, but from
men. It offers us the methodology to catch these men, and only after we have
exhausted these methods should we leave science behind to consider more....
extreme possibilities."
Credits
| Writer: |
Frank Spotnitz |
| Director: |
Frank Spotnitz |
Cast:
| Gillian Anderson |
Special Agent Dana Scully |
| Robert Patrick |
Special Agent John Doggett |
| Annabeth Gish |
Special Agent Monica Reyes |
Guest Cast:
| James Remar |
Josef Kobold |
| Andi Chapman |
Dr Monique Sackheim |
| Sarah Benoit |
Evelyn Mountjoy |
| Tim Halligan |
Darren Mountjoy |
| James Rekart |
Paul Gerlach |
| Troy Mittleider |
Dr Kenneth Richman |
| Lou Richards |
Officer Custer |
| Robert Beckwith |
FBI Cadet |
| Melissa Spotnitz |
FBI Cadet |
| Rueben Grundy |
Forensic Tech |
| Shane Nickerson |
Police Photographer |
| Elijha Mahar |
Guard |
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