The X-files
Shapes
Episode: 1X18
First aired:4/01/94
Written by: Marilyn Osborn
Directed by: David Nutter
Jim and Lyle
Parker (
father and son investigate the
sound of an
animal roaring in their
barn. Lyle, the son, checks on a horse in the barn and finds a dead
bull. Lyle is attacked and wounded by a large animal and is thrown outside the barn. Jim Parker kills the beast but finds a dead
Native American man in its place.
Mulder and Scully are brought in to investigate. The are told that the
ranchers'
cattle are being
mysteriously slaughtered and that the Parkers are in a boundary dispute with the local reservation. They talk with the Parkers and the local sheriff who can not explain the
incident.
Scully looks at the corpse of the attacker and finds wolflike fangs.
Mulder explains that this region has been the source of trouble much like this dating back to the
Lewis and Clark expeditions, which described men changing into
wolfs.
Jim Parker is later attacked
brutally on his porch. Mulder and Scully find Lyle
nude and
unconscious nearby. Scully takes him to the
hospital and Mulder visits the
tribal elder. The elder tells Mulder of the legend of
Manitou, and
evil spirt capable of changing a man into a
beast.
Scully meanwhile has taken Lyle back to his ranch. It has been noted that traces of his father's
blood were found in Lyle's
stomach. In the
bathroom, Lyle
transforms into a beast and runs around the house causing Scully to fall and hide.
Mulder reaches the ranch with the sheriff and the find Scully. The sheriff finds the animal and shoots it later seeing Lyle, now dead, where he shot the animal.
Important Quotes:
Scully -- "
The creeps?"
Lyle Parker -- "Yeah, the
creeps. Don't you ever get the creeps?"
Ish (elder) -- "
FBI! See you in about ...
eight years."
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