Episode Summary
The discovery of a cannibalised human body in New Jersey State Park sends Mulder and Scully to Atlantic City. Despite obvious police cover ups, Mulder continues his investigation of what may be a missing link in human evolution. Meanwhile, Scully attends her godson's birthday party, which leads to some reflection on her future social plans.
Episode Details
- Writer: Chris Carter
- Director: Joe Napolitano
- Original Broadcast: AU: 10.03.1994 US: 08.10.1993
Cast
- Scully Gillian Anderson
- Mulder David Duchovny
Guest Cast
- Rob Andrew Airlie
- Father Bill Dow
- Ellen Tamsin Kelsey
- Mother Jayme Knox
- Young Officer David Lewis
- Ranger Peter Brullet Michael MacRae
- Jack Hrothgar Mathews
- SWAT Team Officer D Neil Mark
- Boy in Car Lachlan Murdoch
- Second Officer Sean O'Byrne
- Dr Diamond Gregory Sierra
- Jersey Devil Claire Stansfield
- First Officer Scott Swanson
- Glenna Jill Teed
- Detective Thompson Wayne Tippit
Quotes
Scully: Working hard, Mulder?
Mulder: [indicating to centrefold] This woman claims to have been taken aboard a space ship and held in an anti gravity chamber without food and water for three days.
Scully: [looking at magazine] Anti gravity's right. Sorry to interrupt your serious investigation. But I just heard a story that'd just take your knees out.
Mulder: What's that?
Scully: They found a body in the New Jersey woods yesterday, missing its right arm and shoulder. They think they may have been eaten off... by a human
Mulder: Where in New Jersey?
Scully: Just outside Atlantic City.
Mulder: Not an uncommon place to loose a body part. Do they think it's the Mob?
Scully: Mulder, it's the same story I've heard since I was a kid. It's a folk tale, a myth.
Mulder: I heard the same story when I was a kid too. Funny thing is I believed it. Fact is we've got a cannibalised body in New Jersey. Someone or something out there is hungry.
Scully: You missed your opening, Mulder. You could have really humiliated him and told him who the perpetrator was. The Jersey Devil.
Mulder: Hey, what do you say we grab a hotel, take in a floor show, drop a few quarters in the slot, do a little digging on this case.
Scully: You're kidding right?
Mulder: Okay, we can skip the floor show.
Scully: Mulder I have to be back in DC.
Mulder: You got a date?
Scully: No. I have my godson's birthday party at 6:30.
[Mulder is in an alleyway being shown a sketch of the Jersey Devil and told that it has been seen in the area]
Mulder: Where are you sleeping tonight?
Jack: You're standing in my bedroom.
Mulder: Do you know the Galaxy Gateway? Room 756. Go ahead.
[hands over room keys]
Jack: Hey, they got HBO?
Mulder: [laughing] Yeah, they do.
[Mulder has been picked up by the local police for vagrancy]
Detective Thompson: What the hell do you think you're doing?
Mulder: Enjoying the night life here in beautiful Atlantic City.
Ellen: What about that guy you work with?
Scully: Mulder?
Ellen: I thought you said he was cute.
Scully: He's a jerk. He's not a jerk. He's, um... he's obsessed with his work.
Scully: [on phone] Where are you?
Mulder: Not far from where you left me.
Scully: You're still in Atlantic City?
Mulder: Scully, you got anything happening this morning?
Scully: What's that noise in the background?
Mulder: That's a guy getting sick.
Scully: Mulder, where are you?
[After hearing Mulder's response] The drunk tank?
Scully: Well, it's not hard to see why they mistook you for a vagrant.
Mulder: You going to rag on me or you going take me to get something to eat?
Scully: Am I buying, or did you manage to panhandle some spare change while you were at it?
Scully: Well I have to get back to Washington by 7:30, so, uh...
Mulder: Got another birthday party?
Scully: No. I have a date.
Mulder: Can you cancel?
Scully: Unlike you Mulder, I would like to have a life.
Mulder: I have a life!
Mulder: How much time will that dart give us?
Ranger Brullet: It'll put down a 500 pound bear for an hour, if I hit it.
Mulder: You should have seen her. She was beautiful.
Scully: Yeah? Well she just about ripped your lungs out.
Mulder: Who was that on the phone?
Scully: A guy.
Mulder: A guy. Same guy as the guy you had dinner with the other night?
Scully: Same guy.
Mulder: You going to have dinner with him again?
Scully: I don't think so.
Mulder: No interest?
Scully: Not at this time.
Mulder: [walking to the door] What are you doing?
Scully: Going with you to the Smithsonian.
Mulder: Don't you have a life Scully?
Scully: Keep it up Mulder and I'll hurt you like that beast woman.
Mulder: Eight million years out of Africa...
Scully: [holding door open for him] And look who's holding the door.