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"Shapes"


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Episode 1X18

Title: Shapes

First screened in Australia: June 16, 1994
First screened in the USA: April 1, 1994

Credits: Director: David Nutter
Writer: Marilyn Osborn Starring: Guest Stars: Plot:
Deep in the Montana night, a rancher protecting his stock from a prowling predator shoots it when it attacks his son -- only to discover the naked body of a local Native American man. Tensions between ranchers and Native Americans flare, ripping open old animosities and ancient grudges as Mulder and Scully try to piece together the parts of this mystery.Mulder reveals to Scully that they are investigating the very first -- and still unsolved -- X-File, opened by J. Edgar Hoover himself. What -- or who -- is raiding local stock in so savage a fashion? Can it be the creature of local legend -- stories of a demonic spirit that lives in the woods, possessing the bodies of those who stray too deeply into the forest? Scully suspects the local mountain lion population is to blame, but after Mulder hears a Native American elder's eyewitness account, he is not so sure she is right. His suspicions confirmed by a victim's blood test, he races to save Scully, who is trapped in a dark house with a powerful killer.
My Rating:6/10
An OK episode but it doesn't rise much above the cliched werewolf tale.

Notable Quotable:
Mulder: "How can you dismiss the evidence?"


Old Indian Man: "You even have an Indian name, Fox. Should be Running Fox or Sleepy Fox..."
Mulder: "So long as it isn't Spooky Fox."
Where Have I Seen That Face Before?
Renae Morriseau was also in the episode "Anasazi". On TV she's starred in "North Of 60" and "Nothing Too Good For A Cowboy". Her movie roles include "Backroads" and "In Cold Blood".

Donnelly Rhodes (Jim Parker) later appeared in "Musings Of A Cigarette Smoking Man". He's appeared in the movies "Gunfight In Abilene" and "Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid" but is best known for starring roles in numerous TV shows such as "The Young And The Restless", "Soap", "Double Trouble", "Danger Bay", "Street Legal", "The Heights", "Da Vinci's Inquest" and "Eyes Of A Cowboy". He's also had guest roles on "Maverick", "Tarzan", "Ironside", "Mission Impossible", "Taxi", "Sliders" and "Millennium".

Ty Miller (Lyle) has starred in the TV series "Hotel" and "The Young Riders" and appeared in the movies "US Seals", "Trancers IV" and "Trancers V".

Dwight McFee (David Gates) has played different characters in the episodes "Little Green Men", "Irrisistible" and "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose". His movie roles include "The Journey Of Natty Gann", "Spot Marks The X", "Malone", "The Death Of The Incredible Hulk", "The Amy Fisher Story", This Boy's Life", "Pushing Tin" and "Snow Falling On Cedars".

Research and Trivia
The first ever X-File, initiated by J. Edgar Hoover in 1946, is mentioned which also involved a werewolf.
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