| MULDER AND SCULLY TRACK A LEGENDARY CREATURE THAT HAS ROAMED THE NEW JERSEY COUNTRYSIDE FOR OVER FORTY YEARS. |
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Code Name: Jersey Devil Code Number: 1X04 Crime: Homicide Suspect: Deceased, Identity Unknown Status: Closed Location(s): Atlantic City, New Jersey Investigating Agent(s): Special Agent Fox Mulder, Special Agent Dana Scully 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. �Unfazed, 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 - de-evolving 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 theorises 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, wounding 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, unseen by a father telling his son about the legend of the Jersey Devil. |
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THE X-FILES "THE JERSEY DEVIL" #1X04 ORIGINAL US AIRDATE: 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 Ellen 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 NOTES: |
| Hrothgar Mathews, who played Jack, will later appear as the Mental Patient in the season two episode "Our Town" ( |
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"This woman claims to have been taken aboard a space ship and held in an anti-gravity
chamber without food or water for three days." "Anti-gravity is right." Special Agent Mulder & Special Agent Scully "Mulder, it's the same story I've heard since I was a kid - it's a folktale, a myth!" "I heard the same story when I was a kid too. �Funny thing is, I believed it." Special Agent Scully & Special Agent Mulder "Hey, what do you say we grab a hotel, take in a floor show, drop a few quarters in the slot - do a little digging on this case?" "You're kidding, right?" "Okay, we can skip the floor show." Special Agent Mulder & Special Agent Scully "Seriously - you're great with kids, what are you talking about?" "When am I supposed to find the time?" "Well first you have to get a life. �And�of course it helps if you can find a man." "Know of any?" "They're disappearing faster than the Brazilian rainforest! �What about that guy you work with?" "Mulder?" "Yeah, I thought you said he was cute." "He's a jerk. �He's not a jerk, he's, um�he's obsessed with his work." Ellen & Special Agent Scully "Where are you?" "Not far from where you left me." "You're still in Atlantic City?" "Uh, Scully, you got anything happening this morning?" "What's that noise in the background?" "That's a guy getting sick." "Mulder, where are you? �The drunk tank?!" Special Agent Scully & Special Agent Mulder "Well, it's not hard to see why they mistook you for a vagrant." "Are you gonna rag on me or are you gonna take me to get something to eat?" "Am I buying, or did you manage to panhandle some spare change while you were at it?" Special Agent Scully & Special Agent Mulder "Yeah, well I have to get back to Washington by seven thirty, so, uh..." "You got another birthday party?" "No. �I have a date." "Can you cancel?" "Unlike you, Mulder, I would like to have a life." "I have a life." Special Agent Scully & Special Agent Mulder "Mulder, will you do me a favour? �Will you just go out and have a beer? �Will you take the day off? �I'll cover for you - will you just take some time for yourself?" Special Agent Scully "What are you doing?" "Going with you to the Smithsonian." "Don't you have a life, Scully?" "Keep that up, Mulder, and I'll hurt you like that beast-woman." "Eight million years out of Africa�" "�And look who's holding the door." Special Agent Mulder & |
