X File 213 - Irresistible

X-FILE 213 - Irresistable

SCULLY AND MULDER HUNT DOWN A FETISHIST WHO COLLECTS PIECES OF THE DEAD.
     Donnie Pfaster lost his job at a funeral home after his boss discovered him cutting hair from the corpse of a pretty girl. Not long after Donnie's dismissal, Special FBI Agent Moe Bocks receives a call regarding the mutilation of buried corpses at a graveyard in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Suspecting the incident might be related to UFOs, Bocks notifies Mulder and Scully, hoping their expertise might help shed some light on the bizarre incident. But Mulder recognizes signs of an escalating fetishist-a man who collects dead things-at work. Despite her years of work performing autopsies, Scully is nonetheless repulsed by the manner in which the bodies are mutilated. Hair has been snipped away in clumps, and fingernails have been torn out with pliers. Scully is plagued by nightmares featuring a demon. In the dreams, she becomes one of the killer's victims.
     When even more mutilated bodies turn up, Mulder fears the fetishist's compulsion might lead to murder. His suspicions prove correct: Donnie employs the services of a prostitute, then murders and mutilates her. After examining how the body was defiled, Mulder suspects the killer has a deep hatred toward women.
     Donnie make a conscious effort to blend into the community. He takes a job as a delivery man, and while working his route he wins the confidence of Ellen Brumfield and her family. He enrolls in a mythology class at a junior college, but his attention is drawn to a pretty coed who sits at the front of the class. One night in the school's parking lot Donnie pins the girl to her car. But she strikes back by kneeing him in the groin. Donnie is arrested. That same night, however, a different suspect with a history of assault is also arrested. Mulder and Scully interview the man at the jail but determine he is not a suspect. But Donnie, who is in a cell nearby, takes note of Scully's name.
     Bothered by her reaction to the case, Scully flies back to Washington and seeks the services of Karen Kosseff, a member of the FBI's Employee Assistance Program. Scully admits she has lost faith and feels vulnerable. Meanwhile, forensics lifts a fingerprint off the prostitute's corpse. Mulder and Bocks trace the print to Donnie, leading them to his apartment. They search the dwelling and discover a human finger inside a freezer.
     Donnie begins stalking Scully after she flies back to Minneapolis. He forces her rental car off the road and kidnaps her. Police locate the car. Mulder and Bocks search for clues but come up empty-handed. Mulder realizes that Donnie's psychological profile sketches the mind of a deviant who, like notorious murders before him, is the embodiment of evil.
     Scully breaks free from her bonds and attempts to elude her captor. But Donnie gives chase, gun in hand. The two grapple for the weapon, and as Scully looks at Donnie's face, she sees the visage of a demon, the same horrible creature from her dream. Mulder and Bocks storm Donnie's hideout. Donnie drops his weapon and is taken into custody.
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THE X-FILES "IRRESISTIBLE" #2X13 Original Air Date: 01/13/95
CAST: DAVID DUCHOVNY as Special Agent Fox Mulder GILLIAN ANDERSON as Special Agent Dana Scully
GUEST CAST: NICK CHINLUND as Donnie Pfaster ROBERT THURSTON as Jackson Toews BRUCE WEITZ as Agent Moe Bocks DENALDA WILLIAMS as Marilyn CHRISTINE WILLES as Karen Kossoff DENNA MILLIGAN as Satin GLYNIS DAVIES as Ellen TIM PROGOSH as Mr. Fiebling DWIGHT MCFEE as the Suspect MAGGIE O'HARA as the Young Woman KATHLEEN DUBORG as the Prostitute MARK SAUNDERS as Agent Busch CIARA HUNTER as the Coed
WRITTEN BY: CHRIS CARTER
DIRECTED BY: DAVID NUTTER

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