The Post-Modern Prometheus
“The Post-Modern Prometheus” is the fifth episode of the fifth season of The X-Files. It originally aired on the Fox network on November 30, 1997. It is a stand-alone plot which is unconnected to the overarching mythology of the show. Talk-show host Jerry Springer appeared as himself, and Chris Owens played The Great Mutato.
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“The Post-Modern Prometheus” is the fifth episode of the fifth season of The X-Files. It originally aired on the Fox network on November 30, 1997. The episode was written and directed by series creator Chris Carter. It is a stand-alone plot which is unconnected to the overarching mythology of the show. Talk-show host Jerry Springer appeared as himself, and Chris Owens played The Great Mutato. It earned a Nielsen household rating of 11. 5, being watched by 18. 68 million viewers upon its initial broadcast. It was nominated for seven awards at the 1998 Emmys and won one. The entry generally received positive reviews; some reviewers called it a classic, with others calling it the most strikingStand-alone episode of show’s fifth season. In this episode, Mulder and Scully investigate reports of a mysterious creature that has impregnated a middle-aged woman. They find that the creature is the genetic creation of a Frankenstein-like doctor. The story draws heavily on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and particularly on James Whale’s 1931 film version of the story. The script had been written specifically with singer Cher and actress Roseanne Barr in mind, but both were unavailable at the time of shooting. Mulder tells Scully that he believes that Dr. Francis Pollidori, acting as a modern-day Victor Frankenstein, has created The GreatMutato. The agents find Mutato hiding in a barn as the crowd gathers upstairs, demanding that the alleged murderer be turned over to them.
Later, Mutato speaks to the crowd and explains that he is the result of a genetic experiment and that he was created 25 years before by Dr. Pollidora. The FBI special agent Fox Mulder receives a letter from Shaineh Berkowitz who claims to have been mysteriously impregnate, while unconscious, by an unknown presence 18 years ago, resulting in the birth of her son, Izzy. Now, following a similarly unexplained attack, she is pregnant again. She has heard about Mulder’s expertise in the paranormal from The Jerry Springer Show and wants him to investigate. They travel to rural Albion, Indiana and learn that the description of the creature that attacked her, with a lumpy head and two mouths, is very similar to a comic book character invented by Izzy. They meet an old man who angrily tells them that there are no monsters and sends them to see his son, a geneticist named FrancisPollidori. He shows them his experiments studying the Hox gene using the fruit fly Drosophila. He tells the agents that the same kind of experiment could, in theory, be performed on humans. Afterward, Dr. pollidori’s wife Elizabeth is knocked unconscious and is attacked in the same manner as Shainah Berkowitz. At the crime scene, the agents find a chemical residue from an agricultural agent used to anesthetize animals, which leads them to suspect Dr.polli’s father, who is a farmer.
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