Mulder and Scully investigate the death of Teddy Holvey, a two-year-old child who was
run over by a miniature train as he chased a floating helium balloon through a park.
Photographs of the incident are analyzed by a laboratory. They reveal a strange amorphous
form-not visible to the naked eye-that appears to be pulling the balloon in the direction of the
train. This information leads Mulder to speculate that a poltergeist was somehow
responsible.
The agents travel to Arlington, Virginia and interview Steve and Maggie Holvey. There,
Mulder’s interest is piqued by a gammadion, a symbol that resembles a reverse swastika.
As the agents question the Holveys, an elderly Romanian woman, Golda, enters the room
with their son Charlie, an eight-year-old boy. Golda intones that Charlie is evil and was
responsible for Teddy’s demise. Scully believes Charlie and Teddy are the victims of
Munchausen by proxy, in which a caretaker brings harm to a child by inducing medical
symptoms.
Shortly thereafter, Steve is killed in a freak accident after his necktie is entangled in a
garage door opener. While investigating the scene, the agents discover a strange ash
around Steve’s corpse. The substance, called Vibuti, is a holy ash produced during the
presence of spiritual beings.
Several Rumanian men, known as Calusari, hold a mysterious religious ceremony
involving dead roosters in Golda’s room. It is interrupted when Charlie suffers a seizure.
Shortly thereafter, Golda is attacked and killed by live roosters. Mulder suspects that Golda
and the Calusari were trying to ward off evil from entering the house.
Charlie is transported to St. Matthew’s Hospital for observation. A social worker, Karen
Kosseff, questions the boy about Golda’s murder. Charlie claims Golda was killed by the
ghost of Michael, his stillborn twin. But Maggie insists Charlie was never told about his
brother.
Michael’s spectre appears in the hospital and attacks a nurse. Pretending to be Charlie,
Michael tricks Maggie into believing he has been released from the hospital.
The agents discover the truth about Michael’s spirit. As Mulder supervises a Calusari
exorcism over Charlie’s body, Scully races to the Holvey residence. Inside, she comes face
to face with Michael, a knife clutched in his hand. As the exorcism at the hospital reaches
its climax, Michael’s ghost suddenly disappears, leaving behind only a trace of ash.
The Calusari leader warns Mulder and Scully that the evil now knows who they are.
THE X-FILES “THE CALUSARI”
#2X21
Original Air Date: 04/14/95
CAST:
DAVID DUCHOVNY as Special Agent Fox Mulder
GILLIAN ANDERSON as Special Agent Dana Scully
GUEST CAST:
JOEL PALMER as Charlie/Michael Holvey
LILYAN CHAUVIN as Golda
HELENE CLARKSON as Maggie Holvey
RIC REID as Steve Holvey
OLIVER and JEREMY ISAAC WILDSMITH as Teddy Holvey
CHRISTINE WILLES as Agent Kosseff
BILL DOW as Doctor Charles Burk
KAY E. KUTER as the Head Calusari
JACQUELINE DANDENEAU as Nurse Castor
BILL CROFT as Calusari #2
CAMPBELL LANE as Calusari #3
GEORGE JOSEF as Calusari #1
WRITTEN BY:
SARA CHARNO
DIRECTED BY:
MIKE VEJAR
