Episode Summary
A letter from a single mother brings Mulder and Scully to a small mid-Western town where they pick up the trail of a modern-day Frankenstein.
Episode Details
- Writer: Chris Carter
- Director: Chris Carter
- Original Broadcast: AU: 11.03.1998 US: 30.11.1997
Cast
- Scully Gillian Anderson
- Mulder David Duchovny
Guest Cast
- Cher Impersonator Tracey Bell
- Old Man Pollidori Lloyd Berry
- Izzy Berkowitz Stewart Gale
- Booger Chris Giacoletti
- Reporter Dana Grahame
- Izzy's Friend Jean-Yves Hammel
- Huge Man C Ernst Harth
- JJ Vitaliy Kravchenko
- Dr Francis Pollidori John O'Hurley
- The Great Mutato Chris Owens
- Waitress Xantha Radley
- Elizabeth Pollidori Miriam Smith
- Jerry Springer Jerry Springer
- Shaineh Berkowitz Pattie Tierce
Quotes
Shaineh Berkowitz: You got to be kidding.
Izzy Berkowitz: What?
Shaineh Berkowitz: Don't what me, Izzy. Or you ain't going to no comic book convention.
Izzy Berkowitz: I'm 18... I can go anywhere I want.
Shaineh Berkowitz: Yeah, but where you going to live when you get back?
[Jerry Springer's guest is a woman whose son has hypertrichosis]
Jerry Springer: Dandruff a problem?
Dolores: No! I wash his hair twice a day... and brush a hundred strokes at night.
Scully: [reading] And could swear I heard Cher singing. The one who was married to Sonny.
Scully: [reading] I got your name off the TV. Some... lady on the Jerry Springer show who had a werewolf baby said you came to her house. Well I got her story beat by a mile, so maybe you'll want to come see me too. Sincerely, Shaineh Berkowitz.
Mulder: Scully, do you think it's too soon to get my own 1-900 number?
Scully: And now you're pregnant again?
Shaineh Berkowitz: Uh huh. But, as I told Agent Mulder on the phone, that's what takes the cake.
Mulder: Mrs Berkowitz had a tubal ligation two years ago.
Shaineh Berkowitz: You can't plant a seed in a barren field.
Shaineh Berkowitz: You know what this thing is, don't you Agent Mulder?
Mulder: Why do you say that?
Shaineh Berkowitz: Cause... You all quiet and stuff. And you know something you not saying... about alien abduction. They said on Jerry Springer you're like an expert.
Mulder: I don't think this has anything to do with alien abductions. I don't even know if I believe in that stuff any more.
[Izzy Berkowitz is using a peanut butter sandwich to lure The Great Mutato out of the woods]
Scully: Peanut butter sandwiches?
Mulder: You think baloney would be more effective?
Mulder: I'm alarmed that you would reduce these people to a cultural stereotype. Not everybody dreams to get on Jerry Springer.
Scully: Is there anything that you don't believe in, Mulder?
Scully: Sir, unless you want your scientific achievements to end up as a footnote on the Jerry Springer Show, I suggest that you make the time.
Dr Pollidori: Jerry Springer show?
Mulder: Good night, Doctor Frankenstein.
Dr Pollidori: Elizabeth, you know how I feel about children. They're mewling little monsters.
Elizabeth Pollidori: But I want children.
Dr Pollidori: What happened to our dream. Of getting out of this place, getting away from this hick town.
Elizabeth Pollidori: I think that's your dream.
Waitress: [to Mulder] Is it true Jerry Springer's coming to town?
Shaineh Berkowitz: Hey! Hey, that's it! That's the song that was playing when I got knocked up!
Scully: Mulder, this is just a dopey hoax.
Scully: Mulder, I'm alarmed that you would reduce this man to a literary stereotype. A mad scientist.
Dr Pollidori: Are you accusing me of knowing something that I'm not telling you?
Mulder: I'm accusing... that your wife may have been impregnated.
[Elizabeth Pollidori is overjoyed at the prospect of having a child]
Mulder: The other victims they had their frying pans... violated. Do you know what this is?
Dr Pollidori: No. I don't.
[Mulder rummages through the household garbage and discovers an empty jar of peanut butter]
Mulder: I think we found our smoking gun.
[Waitress pours coffee into Mulder's lap]
Mulder: That's not a place you want to burn a guy.
Scully: Mulder?
Mulder: You may have been right, Scully.
Scully: What, that these people could be reduced to a cultural stereotype?
[Flicking through family snapshots of Old Man Pollidori with The Great Mutato]
Mulder: It's alive!
Mulder: This is all wrong, Scully. This is not how the story's supposed to end.
Scully: What do you mean?
Mulder: Dr Frankenstein pays for his evil ambitions, yes. But the monster is supposed to escape, to go search for his bride.
Scully: There's not going to be any bride, Mulder. Not in this story.
Mulder: Where's the writer...? I want to speak to the writer.
[Shaineh Berkowitz and Elizabeth Pollidori are both are holding two-faced babies]
Jerry Springer: Tell me something. Is it hard to love these babies?
Shaineh Berkowitz: What's not to love?