ORISON
7x07

Original airdate: January 9, 2000



Marshall Daddo: Donald Addie Pfaster. You two put this man away.

Mulder: Yeah. Someone forgot to throw away the key.



Mulder: Donnie Pfaster is a death fetishist -- a collector of bone and dead flesh, of toenails and hair. It's what floats his boat, gets him off.

Daddo: He's a sick man.

Mulder: Sick would describe him. We found women's fingers in his freezer. He liked to eat them with his peas and carrots.



Scully: A man escaped from prison.

Mulder: Not a man. Donnie Pfaster. And he didn't just escape, he walked out. He walked out of a maximum security facility and no one seems to know how he did it.

Scully: Isn't that why we're here?

Mulder: That's why I'm here. I don't know about you. Why are you here? Go home, Scully.

Scully: Mulder, this case doesn't bother me.

Mulder: The man abducted you. Donnie Pfaster did a number on your head like I've never seen and it's okay . . . to walk away.

Scully: Mulder, that man does things to people that no one should ever have to think about. It's not a question of if I should stay. I don't have a choice. So let's get to work.



Brigham: I'm a Christian man.

Mulder: Then I know you'll tell me the truth.



Mulder: How do you explain that?

Brigham: God works in mysterious ways, Brother.

(Mulder raises and lowers his outstretched palm.)

Brigham: Glory. Amen.

(As Mulder raises and lowers his hand, Brigham raises and lowers his foot and says the words, a rapturous smile on his face.)

Brigham: Glory. Amen. Glory. Amen.



Mulder: Post-hypnotic suggestion. Did you see him?

Scully: You mean, did I see him raise his foot? Yes, I saw that.

Mulder: A programmed behavior prompted and manifested by suggestion in this case, a rhythmic motion of the hands producing a unconscious act in a conscious state. (Mulder raises and lowers his hand in front of Scully.) Doesn't work on you.



Scully: I know what hypnosis is, Mulder.

Mulder: Group hypnosis.

Scully: If you're suggesting that Donnie Pfaster escaped from prison using a technique from a Vegas lounge act I'd think again.



Scully: I haven't heard that song since high school. That's the second time I've heard it in the last hour.

Mulder: Well, I think if it was a make out song I think it'd be ruined forever now, huh?



Mulder: God is a spectator, Scully. He just reads the box scores.



Mulder: Well, all right. Come with me, Scout. I'll show you how the Reverend talks to God.



Scully: Well, nobody can stop the world, Mulder. I don't care how many holes they have in their head.



(An apartment - hasn't been redecorated since the 70's. Pfaster is wearing only a pair of tighty-whitey men's shorts. Can you say EWW!!!)



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