X-FILE
113 - Genderbender
A RELIGIOUS
SECT MEMBER CAPABLE OF CHANGING GENDER BECOMES THE PRIME SUSPECT IN A MURDER
SPREE.
A woman named Marty seduces a businessman
at a trendy nightclub. The couple go to a motel and have sex. Shortly thereafter
the businessman begins convulsing and dies. Before Marty leaves the motel,
her physique changes and she metamorphoses into a man.
Mulder and Scully are assigned to investigate
the case. Mulder links the death to a series of others in which victims
died in the throes of passion. Medical tests reveal large amounts of pheromones-or
human sex attractants-in the victim's blood. He also links two of the murders
to a remote town in Massachusetts inhabited by The Kindred-a sect of religious
isolationists famous for their abstinence and pure Christian beliefs.
The agents travel to the rural village,
where sect members allow them access to their community only after they
relinquish their guns. As Mulder and Scully dine with The Kindred, Brother
Aaron suddenly begins choking. Scully is forbidden by the other sect members
from aiding Brother Aaron, and he is led away.
The agents perform some clandestine investigating
during the night. They are intrigued by activity emanating from a cellar
beneath a barn. Mulder makes his way inside and watches a religious ceremony
centering around Brother Aaron's body. In his effort to keep his presence
a secret, Mulder becomes trapped inside a crypt where Aaron's body is entombed
in a strange, membranous substance. He watches as Brother Aaron's body
begins transforming into a woman.
Scully, meanwhile, has been pulled aside
by Brother Andrew, a handsome sect member who possesses a mysterious hypnotic
power. Andrew tells Scully he believes the murders were committed by Brother
Martin. But before he reveals how Martin killed, Andrew places Scully in
a trance and begins kissing her. Mulder breaks out of the crypt and rescues
Scully before Andrew has sex with her.
Mulder and Scully are permitted to leave
the town. They receive a break in the case when one of Martin's intended
victims escapes unharmed. He describes how his attacker changed gender
right before his eyes.
Police track Marty to a hotel after he/she
orders food using a victim's credit card. Mulder and Scully raid a hotel
room and encounter Marty and his latest victim, who is very dead. Marty
flees but agents give chase. Before they can apprehend Marty, however,
he/she is surrounded by fellow Kindred members and dragged into the darkness.
Scully, Mulder and other FBI agents raid
the village where the sect lives. But they find the village completely
deserted. Only one clue points to their whereabouts: distinct geometric
patterns and lines cut in a crop circle-the same markings associated with
U.F.O. landing sights.
Credits
THE X-FILES "GENDERBENDER" #1X13
Original Air Date: 01/21/94
CAST:
DAVID DUCHOVNY as Special Agent Fox Mulder
GILLIAN ANDERSON as Special Agent Dana Scully
GUEST CAST:
BRENT HINKLEY as Brother Andrew
DAVID THOMSON as Brother Oakley
KATE TWA as Marty (female)
PETER STEBBINGS as Marty (male)
MITCHELL KOSTERMAN as Detective Horton
MICHELE GOODGER as Sister Abigail
AUNDREA MACDONALD as Pretty Woman
JOHN R. TAYLOR as Husband
GRAI CARRINGTON as Tall Man
TONY MORELLI as the Cop
LESLEY EWEN as Agent #1
NICHOLAS LEA as Michael
PAUL BATTEN as Brother Wilton
DOUG ABRAHAMS as Agent #2
WRITTEN BY:
LARRY BARBER and PAUL BARBER
DIRECTED BY:
ROB BOWMAN
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