Episode Summary
Dudley, Arkansas is the site of the latest investigation for Mulder and Scully, who are sent to find a missing poultry inspector. The case takes a twist when another poultry worker is shot after she goes insane, giving Mulder a hunch that the townsfolk really are what they eat.
Episode Details
- Writer: Frank Spotnitz
- Director: Rob Bowman
- Original Broadcast: AU: 06.09.1995 US: 12.05.1995
Cast
- Scully Gillian Anderson
- Mulder David Duchovny
Guest Cast
- Maid Carrie Cain Sparks
- Sheriff Tom Arens Gary Grubbs
- Doris Kearns Caroline Kava
- George Kearns John MacLaren
- Creighton Jones Hrothgar Mathews
- Walter Chaco John Milford
- Paula Gray Gabrielle Miller
- Worker Robert Moloney
- Dr Vance Randolph Robin Mossley
- Jess Harold Timothy Webber
Quotes
Scully: Come on, Mulder. Don't you see what they're doing here? They're wasting our time. They're sending us on some kind of a wild goose chase.
Mulder: Chicken chase. George Kearns was a federal poultry inspector assigned to Dudley, Arkansas. Home of Chaco Chicken.
Scully: She claims she saw some kind of a foxfire spirit! I'm surprised she didn't call Oprah as soon as she got off the phone with the police.
Scully: These are only legends, Mulder.
Mulder: Well, most legends don't leave behind twelve foot burn marks.
Mulder: A documentary I saw when I was in college about an insane asylum. It gave me nightmares.
Scully: I didn't think anything gave you nightmares.
Mulder: I was young.
Mulder: So you don't believe it's foxfire?
Sheriff Arens: Sir, Foxfire is nothing more than a ghost story about swamp gas.
Chaco Motto: Chaco Chicken. Good People. Good Food.
Mulder: What's that?
Jess Harold: That. Feed Grinder. Chops up bone and tissue. You see, any part of the bird we can't package we process and use as feed.
Mulder: Chickens feed on chickens?
Scully: So, Mulder, are you ready to admit that they sent us on a fool's errand?
Mulder: If a fool would persist in his folly he would become wise, Scully.
Walter Chaco: Not many people I know are as useful as these chickens.
Mulder: Who knows, Scully? This could turn out to be even more interesting than foxfires.
Scully: I just came up with a sick theory, Mulder.
Mulder: Ooh, I'm listening!
Mulder: Well I'd like it dragged as soon as possible.
[The river]
Sheriff Arens: Why would you want to do that?
Mulder: To see what's in there.
Scully: All of them share one strange detail, Mulder.
Mulder: Well they seem to have lost their heads.
Mulder: Scully, I think that the good people of Dudley have been eating more than just chicken.
Scully: You think these people were eaten?
Mulder: Someone's been playing with matches.
Scully: Smells like a recent fire.
Mulder: I bet it's no coincidence it only hit the birth records.
Scully: You think someone was expecting us?