Episode Summary
A murder in a Jewish community leads to the deaths of the killers, forcing Mulder and Scully to determine whether vengeance or larger forces are at work.
Episode Details
- Writer: Howard Gordon
- Director: Kim Manners
- Original Broadcast: AU: 21.05.1997 US: 16.02.1997
Cast
- Scully Gillian Anderson
- Mulder David Duchovny
Guest Cast
- Isaac Luria Harrison Coe
- Rabbi David Freedman
- Detective George Gordon
- Jacob Weiss David Groh
- Tony Oliver Timur Karabilgin
- Clinton Maguire Jabin Litwiniec
- Ariel Luria Justine Miceli
- First Hasidic Man Murrey Rabinovitch
- Derek Banks Channon Roe
- Kenneth Ungar David Wohl
- Curt Brunjes Jonathan Whittaker
Quotes
Scully: Apparently he'd been watching this tape when he was strangled to death.
Mulder: Very Old Testament.
Scully: Yeah, but with a new twist. The Brooklyn Homicide detectives contacted the FBI Civil Rights branch with an interesting set of fingerprints that they'd pulled off the boy's body.
Mulder: Interesting how?
Scully: Interesting in that they belonged to Isaac Luria.
Mulder: Risen from the grave to avenge his own death?
Mulder: Yeah, spectral figures are not often known to leave fingerprints. Casper never did.
Scully: The right to free expression doesn't extend to murder.
Curt Brunjes: You work for them too, don't you?
Mulder: Who?
Curt Brunjes: You know who. You look like you might be one yourself.
[Mulder laughs]
Scully: You haven't heard the rumours?
Curt Brunjes: What rumours?
Mulder: That Luria is back from the dead. That he's risen from his grave.
Curt Brunjes: What kind of Jew trick is this?
Mulder: A Jew pulled it off two thousand years ago.
Mulder: [to Curt Brujnes] Bless you.
[before leaving]
Scully: Maybe they came to desecrate the corpse as retribution for Tony Oliver's death.
Mulder: This seems pretty redundant, doesn't it? Messing up somebody you've already killed? I think they were afraid.
Scully: Afraid?
Mulder: Afraid that the man they hated enough to kill wasn't really dead.
[Mulder removes a book from under the corpse's head]
Mulder: What's this? A little bedtime reading?
[The book bursts into flames]
Jacob Weiss: It was self defence.
Mulder: Hanging a man in self defence?
Scully: Where are you going?
Mulder: See a man about a burning book.
Mulder: What is the magic word?
Kenneth Ungar: See these three letters — olif, mim, toof — creates the word emet.
Mulder: I don't speak Hebrew. I don't know what that means.
Kenneth Ungar: Truth. Emet means truth.