The X-files
Revelations
Episode: 3X11
First aired:12/15/95
Written by: Kim Newton
Directed by: David Nutter
A great episode! Very
Scully centric.
A
reverend talks to a
congregation in
Pennsylvania saying that
miracles do happen. His palms start to bleed spontaneously. Later, the reverend is attacked by a man with
supernatural strengths, pinning him against the wall as wisps of smoke rise from the reverends neck.
Mulder says, while examining the body, that the reverends bleeding was a fraud and he's the 11th alleged
stigmatic slain over 3 years. Meanwhile, at an elementary school, a young boy, Kevin Kryder, begins to bleed from his hands in class.
Mulder and
Scully are summoned by a
social services worker who explains that Kevin has bleed before and that his father has been
institutionalized for believing he had to protect Kevin from evil forces. Mulder and Scully visit Kevin's father who asks them flatly if he is bleeding again. He says that the boy has been chosen and that
dark forces will come to slay him in form of a powerful man. He tells Scully that she must go full circle to find the truth.
Kevin is
abducted from the
shelter where he is staying, byu a strange-looking man. Based on the other children's description, the man looks like
Homer Simpson's
evil twin. However, Kevin's mother recognizes the man as Owen Jarvis, who was hired to do
yard work.
Alone, Owen tells Kevin that he is his
gaurdian angel. Mulder and Scully find him in the attic, but not the boy. Owen says he's not the one who wants to hurt Kevin and that he was asked to protect kevin by
God. He suddenly leaps out the second-story window and runs away.
Kevin returns to his house. The man, who killed the reverend, comes looking for him. He finds the boy, hiding, and is about to take him when Owen intervenes and struggles with the man. Owen is killed in a similar fassion to the death of the reverend. Mulder and Scully find Owen's body, and Kevin, who asks Scully if she is the one sent to
protect him.
Owen's body is not
decomposing normally. Scully mentions how she was taught in
Catechism about
incorruptibles, whose bodies wouldn't
decay. This time, Mulder is the skeptic, telling her not to let her faith cloud her
judgement.
Scully finds a print on Owen's neck belonging to Simon
Gates, the
cheif executive of a large company, a rich an powerful man.
Kevin is with his mother when their car breaks down and Gates arrives, harming Kevin's mother and chasing the boy into the woods. However, Kevin, who has previously appeared in two places at once, is back in the car with his mother, who runs over Gates before crashing into a
ditch.
Kevin's mother is dead and Scully vows to protect him. Mulder says that a man fitting Gate's description rented a car under the name
Forau, one of the
devil's
disciples.
They take Kevin to their motel. Scully sees a cut on Kevin's side, evidence of
stigmata, as he bathes and wonders aloud if divintiy might be involved, but Mulder dismisses the notion. Scully asks how Mulder can believe every light in the sky but is unwilling to acept the posibility of a
miracle.
They hear a sound and break into the bathroom where Kevin is gone, and the bars on the windows have been melted.
Scully goes to see Kevin's father who is heavily medicated so can't concentrate. However, she sees a
recycling can with the arrows in a circle. She feels that coming full circle meant that Kevin was taken to the
recycling plant that Gates owns.
Mulder says that Scully thinks that she was sent to protect Kevin.
At the plant, Gates tells Kevin that he must die for the New age to come. Scully reaches the
scene and Gates flees with Kevin up a flight of stairs, trying to leap into a huge
shredding machine. Kevin, however, clings to the side as Gates is ground up by the bladesb elow. Kevin tells her that he knew she'd come.
Two days later, Kevin's hands have healed and he tells Scully that he will see her again. Scully goes to
confession for the first time in 6 years asking the priest if he believes in
miracles and expressing her own doubts, since only she and not Mulder witnessed them. The priest tells her that maybe the miracles were only meant for her to see and tells her that we must sometimes come full circle to find the truth, echoing exactly what Kevin's father told her.
Important Quotes:
Mulder -- "Yeah, looks like Kevin was abducted by
Homer Simpson's evil twin."
Owen -- "I was only asked to protect the boy."
Mulder -- "By who? Who asked you to protect him?"
Owen -- "God."
Mulder -- "God! That's quite a
long distance call, isn't it?"
Owen -- "You don't understand, unless someone protects Kevin ..."
Mulder -- "
It's the end of the world as we know it, right?"
Owen -- "He who has ears, let him hear."
Mulder -- "And he that has a
tongue, let him speak. Now tell me where he is!"
Mulder -- "Any revelations?"
Scully -- "Mulder, would you do me a favor? Would you
smell Mr. Jarvis?"
Scully -- "I ... believe in the idea that God's hand can be witnessed. I believe He can create miracles, yes."
Mulder -- "Even if science can't explain them?"
Scully -- "Maybe that's just what faith is."
Mulder -- "You never draw my
bath."
Mulder -- "You think it's you, don't you? You think you're the one who's been chosen to protect Kevin."
Scully -- "Afraid that God is speaking ... but that no one's listening."
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