X-FILE
104 - The Jersey Devil
MULDER AND
SCULLY TRACK A LEGENDARY CREATURE THAT HAS ROAMED THE NEW JERSEY COUNTRYSIDE
FOR OVER FORTY YEARS.
Mulder and Scully investigate the gruesome murder
of Roger Crockett, a homeless man who was attacked and partially eaten
in a wooded area outside Atlantic City. Mulder believes the death is related
to a similar incident that occurred in New Jersey in 1947, in which a motorist
was attacked and eaten by a half-human creature as he attempted to fix
a flat tire.
The agents travel to the Atlantic City
morgue to gather more information. They clash with Detective Thompson,
the local police official in charge of the investigation. Unphased, Mulder
decides to perform an investigation on his own. He interviews Ranger Brullet,
who discovered the body, and a homeless man named Jack, who knew the victim.
Both believe Crockett was killed by The Jersey Devil, a legendary half-human
creature that roams the New Jersey countryside. Meanwhile, Scully attends
her godson's birthday party, where she meets Rob, a handsome divorcee.
Mulder stakes out a dark alley near the
woods where Jack claims the Devil has been prowling. That night, the creature
makes an appearance, but before Mulder gets a good look at it, the police
arrive and arrest him, mistaking him at first for a vagrant.
At the jail, Mulder again clashes with
Thompson, accusing him of keeping the creature a secret so as not to upset
tourism in Atlantic City. Scully bails Mulder out of jail and the duo travel
to the University of Maryland, where Dr. Roger Diamond affirms Mulder's
theory that a human being might at birth revert to its most primal instincts-devolving
into a carnivorous Neanderthal. Scully, meanwhile, goes on a date with
Rob.
Ranger Brullet finds another body in the
backwoods, but this time the corpse appears to be half-animal. Mulder theorizes
that two such creatures may have roamed the countryside. He and Scully
comb an abandoned building for the Devil as the police fan out to capture
them. Mulder manages to allude police long enough to locate the second
creature, which turns out to be female. She suddenly attacks and wounds
Mulder and escapes into the woods.
Police track the creature and kill it,
despite Mulder's plea to take it alive. An autopsy report confirms the
female creature recently gave birth, leading Mulder to conclude it came
to the city in search of food scraps for its young after its mate died.
Some time later, a feral child roams the
New Jersey countryside in search of food.
Credits
THE X-FILES "THE JERSEY DEVIL" #1X04
Original Air Date: 10/08/93
CAST:
DAVID DUCHOVNY as Special Agent Fox Mulder
GILLIAN ANDERSON as Special Agent Dana Scully
GUEST CAST:
MICHAEL MACRAE as Ranger Peter Brullet
GREGORY SIERRA as Dr. Diamond
WAYNE TIPPIT as Detective Thompson
CLAIRE STANSFIELD as The Jersey Devil
JILL TEED as Glenna
TAMSIN KELSEY as Ellen
ANDREW AIRLIE as Rob
BILL DOW as Dad
HROTHGAR MATHEWS as Jack
JAYME KNOX as Mom
SCOTT SWANSON as 1st Officer
SEAN O'BYRNE as 2nd Officer
DAVID LEWIS as Young Officer
D. NEIL MONK as SWAT Team Officer
WRITTEN BY:
CHRIS CARTER
DIRECTED BY:
JOE NAPOLITANO
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