What did she say that? Why did she have to say that?- Scully Her last words were about our child, her grandchild, that we gave away. If he doesn’t return to confront his parents in the finale, I’ll drink a glass of bin juice. We may only have mytharc episodes bookending this six-part revival, but the monster-of-the-week cases in-between are clearly held together by the issue of young William. And they share parentage of child, whom they gave up for adoption, which is what this episode really wanted us to keep in mind. I also liked the almost unspoken support Mulder had for Scully, as the condensed season is doing a nice job reminding us that our heroes aren’t just old colleagues but old flames. It was genuinely touching to see Scully confront her mother’s impending death, and that she wasn’t the first person on her mum’s mind. The real drama and emotional heft of “Home Again” was found in Scully’s subplot, with Gillian Anderson putting in one of her strongest performances as the character. It brought back so many memories of similar moments from plenty of classic episodes, and in a good way. One sequence halfway through, where a woman was attacked by the Band-Aid Nose Man at her home, came close to self-parody with an incongruous ’60s song (Petula Clark’s “Downtown”) acting as the soundtrack to this terrifying late-night encounter in the pouring rain… but on some level this is exactly what you want from an X-Files revival. I just want one more chance to ask my mother a few little ones.- Scully I don’t care about the big questions right now, Mulder. The Golem of Jewish folklore also seemed to be some inspiration, together with the referenced Tulpa concept in mysticism, but given a modern street art twist. A part of me wondered if actor Michael Berryman ( The Hills Have Eyes) was any kind of influence on this week’s monster, as actor John DeSantis has a similar look with his own 6’9″ stature, bald head, and deep-set eyes. The way he’d appear in silhouette, like an urban boogieman, before making his getaway in the crusher of garbage trucks, was just the kind of finely judged weirdness The X-Files excels at. The Band-Aid Nose Man was a brilliantly terrifying, inscrutable creation: a barefooted giant, face dripping with disgusting bin juice, able to tear your arms and head off with his bare hands. Oddly, according to a duty nurse, it’s her estranged younger brother Charlie whom Margaret called out for before losing consciousness, which confuses the already worried Scully during a bedside vigil.īoth of these stories were perfectly good X-Files material, from one of the show’s original writers partly responsible for making the show a big success.
After receiving a phone call from her brother William, Scully was informed that her mother, Margaret (Sheila Larken), had suffered a heart attack and was in intensive care. Which is impossible, by the way.- MulderĪ little incongruous (or so it felt, initially) was the B-story that Scully was drawn into, leaving Mulder to investigate the Band-Aid Nose Man myth alone. It looks like this person was born without footprints.
It turns out the killer is an avenging angel, of sorts, known by the homeless community he protects as ‘Band-Aid Nose Man’-seemingly out to stick up for impoverished victims, by savagely killing those who do them harm. The man, Joseph Cutler (Alessandro Juliani), was torn limb from limb by a tall mystery assailant, who calmly climbed into the back of a garbage truck to make his escape. This week, Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully were sent to Philadelphia to investigate the gruesome murder of a city official tasked with removing vagrants from the streets.
“Home Again” almost felt like two separate instalments combined, with a bizarre monster-of-the-week tale interwoven with a down-to-earth human drama for Scully (Gillian Anderson). Instead, this was a decent hour that suddenly means The X-Files’ revival could end its maddeningly short run with a mostly-good batch of episodes, unless the final two soil the bed. When I first heard Glen Morgan would be writing an episode entitled “Home Again”, I envisioned an unexpected sequel to infamous season 4 episode “Home”, about a family of inbred murderers, but it wasn’t to be.
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