Gary Kane, a sixteen-year-old high school student, leaves his home suddenly after
receiving a mysterious phone call. When Gary fails to return home, his mother Beth notifies
police. Two officers on patrol recognize Gary, clad only in his underwear, wandering
aimlessly in a wooded area. A phrase is written on his back in marker: “He is one.”
Mulder and Scully review the facts in the case. Gary was not sexually assaulted, nor was
he the victim of a prank. Surprisingly, there are reports of other teenagers having
experienced similar ordeals. Mulder’s curiosity is piqued when a Wisconsin sheriff, Bill
Mazeroski, speculates that the victims have been possessed. He explains that a religious
cult called the Church of the Red Museum settled into the area and purchased a cattle ranch.
Being vegetarians, the church members turned beef cattle into pets-much to the
consternation of local ranchers. The sheriff takes the agents to the church. They watch as
Richard Odin, the sect’s leader, addresses his parishioners via a computer. Mulder explains
to Scully that the church members are “walk ins”-believers in soul transference who have
taken possession of other people’s bodies.
Local teenagers harass a young Red Museum member. Mulder comes to the boy’s aid,
and in the process learns that one of the harassers is the sheriff’s son, Rick. A girl who
participated in the verbal attack on the Red Museum member is later found with the message
“She is one” scrawled on her back. Lab tests reveal large quantities of a hallucinogen in the girl’s blood. That night, a small plane carrying Dr. Gerry Larson
crash lands in a field. Mulder, Scully and Sheriff Mazeroski discover a briefcase bearing
Larson’s initials filled with hundred dollar bills. They also discover a vial containing a
mysterious fluid, and a computer printout list containing the names and credit card numbers
of the victims’ families. Larson delivered and treated each of the victims through childhood.
While interviewing Beth Kane, Mulder notices a light shining through a hole in her
bathroom mirror. He smashes the glass, revealing a video camera surveillance set-up. The
man behind the surveillance, Gerd Thomas, abducts Rick, the sheriff’s son, just as he
abducted all the previous victims. Yet instead of turning up dazed, Rick is found dead.
Mulder discovers that Gerd Thomas owns the building where the Kane family lives. He is
placed under arrest. Numerous video tapes are recovered. Thomas apologizes for his
sickness but insists he did not murder Rick. He explains that Dr. Larson was paying him to
inject cattle with a mysterious liquid — the same liquid Larson used to “inoculate” his young
patients.
Scully sees the mysterious Crew-Cut Man (who executed Deep Throat in 1X23) driving on the
street. Mulder realizes that the mysterious fluid is alien DNA, the same substance found in
the erlenmeyer flask months earlier. The Crew-cut Man, Scully speculates, killed Rick to
cover up evidence. Aware that other lives are in danger, Mulder asks the sheriff to round up
everyone on Larson’s computer list and transport them to the Red Museum. Realizing that
the Crew-cut Man’s base of operation is the local slaughterhouse, Mulder rushes to the
scene. He finds the facility soaked with gasoline. The Crew-cut Man suddenly springs from
the darkness and a fight ensues. Scully and Mazeroski arrive and shoot the Crew-cut Man,
killing him. An investigation reveals no clues as to who the man was or the chemical
makeup of the substance injected into the townspeople.
THE X-FILES “RED MUSEUM”
#2X10
Original Air Date: 12/09/94
CAST:
DAVID DUCHOVNY as Special Agent Fox Mulder
GILLIAN ANDERSON as Special Agent Dana Scully
GUEST CAST:
GILLIAN BARBER as Beth Kane
STEVE EASTIN as Sheriff Mazeroski
LINDSEY GINTER as the Crew-Cut Man
MARK ROLSTON as Richard Odin
PAUL SAND as Gerd Thomas
BOB FRAZER as Gary Kane
ROBERT CLOTHIER as the Old Man
ELISABETH ROSEN as Katie
CRYSTAL VERGE as the Woman Reading Words
CAMERON LABINE as Rick
TONY SAMPSON as Brad
GERRY NAIM as the 1st Man
BRIAN MCGUGAN as the 1st Officer
WRITTEN BY:
CHRIS CARTER
DIRECTED BY:
WIN PHELPS
