Página PrincipalInternal dating: No clues given at all, although it is clearly post-Redux. Episode aired November 30th 1997, if that's any help. Interestingly, there are no locations either, just a newspaper that says "Bloomington". (By the way, a few people on the newsgroup have speculated that this episode might not exist at all, but merely be a dream - Mulder's dream.)
Izzy is working on his friend Booger's car, trying to get it started. Booger, Izzy and another friend are off the a comic book convention, much to the mock annoyance of Izzy's mother, Shaineh Berkowitz.
After Izzy and his pals leave, Shaineh goes to her living room and watches an episode of "The Jerry Springer Show" featuring a woman and her wolf like baby. As Shaineh watches, a tarp is thrown over the house. Shaineh is to engrossed in her program to notice.
A shadowy figure in the kitchen throws a large tablet onto a frying pan and starts to heat it. Cher's "The Sun isn't Gonna Shine Anymore" starts to play as the tablet burns, creating a fog. The figure moved toward Shaineh, who has finally noticed she is not alone.
The credits roll: The Truth is out There.
Mulder and Scully are driving down a long road. Scully reads a letter from Shaineh Berkowitz. Shaineh writes of a similar experience 18 years ago, Back then, she woke up after three missing days and was pregnan with Izzy. She had more missing time two months ago and now is pregnant again. Shaineh learned of Mulder from Jerry Springer's show, much to Scully's embarrassment. Mulder wonders if he should get a 900 number.
When Scully and Mulder met with Shaineh, she is surprised she's pregnant since she had a tubal ligation. While Scully wonders if Shaineh had a drinking problem, Shaineh shows that during the incident, someone damaged a frying pan and ate all her peanut butter. Shaineh wonders what Mulder thinks, was she abducted by aliens. Mulder tells her he's not sure he believes that stuff anymore.
Scully notices a comic book that Izzy created called The Great Mutato. Izzy comes in. When Scully and Mulder question him about The Great Mutato, Izzy tells them he is a real monster that lives in the wood.
Mulder and Scully set a peanut butter trap in the woods that night for The Great Mutato. Scully thinks that the locals want to get on TV while Mulder thinks this is a real crime. Scully also wonders if the monster in the woods is nothing more than fear of what Scully thinks Izzy may have done to his mother. Mulder thinks the legends, by not being verifiable, are true. Scully asks Mulder if there is anything he does not believe.
Izzy, who is nearby, is taping their conversation.
A groan comes from the forest as The Great Mutato grabs the peanut butter sandwich. Mulder and Scully give chase but instead run into a local farmer. The farmer shows them a different monster, his handsome son, a Dr. Pollidori.
Dr. Pollidori is a vain, self important man who thinks he is the next "Columbus of Science". He insults Mulder and Scully's intelligence but Scully fights back that she is a scientist. When Mulder has a question, Pollidori asks Scully to answer Mulder since she is a scientist. Flustered, and unsure of the answer, Scully warns Pollidari that his next scientific achievement is going to be on with Jerry Springer if he is not helpful.
Pollidri becomes more cooperative, showing a fly he created that has legs coming out of its mouth. When Mulder asked him why he did that, Pollidari answers "because I can". Mulder asks if Pollidari could do that to people and Pollidari said in theory yes, but not really.
Mulder and Scully discuss whether Pollidori is a Frankenstein-like doctor -- doing to humans what he did to the fly. Mulder thinks that mankind could not help himself but create life. Scully says mankind can create life, "Its called procreation". Scully tells Mulder she plans on checking out Shaineh Berkowitz's medical records the next day.
Pollidori goes home to pack for a conference. His wife wants to talk about having a baby but he does not want children, calling them "unruly little monsters". He wants a Noble prize and thought that was what she wanted too. Pollidori drives off, leaving his heartbroken wife behind.
The next morning, Mulder goes to breakfast at a diner. The locals look at him adoringly. The waitress brings him everything on the menu while the owner, JJ ("that's with two J's") says the meal is on the house. One local approaches Mulder and asks if Jerry Springer is coming to town.
Scully walks into the diner and shows Mulder an article the locals obviously haven't seen -- her conversation with Mulder from the night before about the locals wanting to be on TV is reprinted in the local paper word for word.
Mulder and Scully go to the Berkowitz's house and confront Izzy. Izzy plays the tape. When Mulder and Scully's conversation ends on the tape however, Cher starts singing and there are moans like Mulder and Scully heard in the woods. Izzy's tape machine recorded some of Shaineh's missing time.
At the same time, in Dr. Pollidori's home, Cher music is playing and a shadowy figure is singing as smoke fills the house.
Leaving the Berkowitz, Mulder wants to have the FBI lab analyze the tape. Scully still thinks this is a hoax. Mulder thinks Pollidori is involved in this. He thinks Pollidori is involved in gene manipulation and Shaineh is the subject. Scully wonders if Mulder isn't reducing Pollidori to a mad scientist.
Scully reads Mulder Shaineh's medical records as Mulder drives to town. Shaineh had a tubal ligation two years ago but now is pregnant. Mulder suddenly throws the car in reverse. A house is covered in an exterminator's tent. Cher's "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves" is played in the house. Mulder and Scully enter the house, which is very smoky. Mulder checks the front, while Scully goes round back. As Scully enters the bedroom, she finds Mrs. Pollidori unconscious on her bed and Mulder nearly out cold on the floor. As Scully tries to get Mulder out of the room, the two collapse. The farmer, Mr. Pollidori, stands over them and says "I told you there is no monster".
Mulder and Scully are found by Dr. Pollidori a few hours later.
Still woozy from the smoke, Scully and Mulder question Mrs. Pollidori. She tells of a two mouthed monster. Dr. Pollidori is outraged and worried. Scully still thinks its a hoax, but Mulder finds another frying pan with a stain in it and an empty jar of peanut butter.
In a barn, The Great Mutato, watches "Mask" on TV. The farmer, Mr. Pollidori brings him a peanut butter sandwich and is very kind to The Great Mutato. Mutato is deformed -- its as if he has two faces, one somewhat normal, one melted. He has two mouths. His hands have fingers but they look like claws.
Mr. Pollidori goes to his house next to the barn and looks through an album of himself and the man in the barn. The pictures go back to when Mutato was a child. The pictures just show the two of them. Mr. Pollidori has brought up The Great Mutato as a son.
Dr. Pollidari arrives and asks his father why he did it, save The Great Mutato. His answer was "because I can". The two fight and Dr. Pollidori kills his father.
The next morning, Mulder goes to the diner and gets the evil eye from the locals. One throws oatmeal at him while the waitress spills hot coffee in his lap ("That's not a place where you want to burn a guy"). JJ spits in Mulder's food. They've read the article.
As he waits for Scully, the several town people storm the nearby police station. They heard the monster is there. In truth its Izzy with a turkey on his head. Scully finds Mulder. The residue on the frying pan is an animal tranquilizer that farmers use. Farmers have to sign for it, so Scully thinks they can track it down.
The Great Mutato walks into the house and finds Mr. Pollidori dead on the kitchen floor. He weeps for his dead "father". He carries the dead man out to the barn and buries him.
Mulder and Scully drive out to Mr. Pollidori's farm. Mulder finds tablets like those used in the attacks while Scully finds the newly turned earth. As Mulder and Scully look at the grave, they hear someone else in the barn. A woman reporter is with them. She tells them that she saw The Great Mutato bury the old man. She shows a sandwich with two identical bits out of the same side as proof. "Its alive.", Mulder marvels.
Meanwhile the crowd from the police station has come out to the barn, lead by Dr. Pollidori. He is enciting the crowd - some of who have torches, others flashlights and lanterns. Pollidori suggests that Mutato killed the senior Pollidori. As they are look for The Great Mutato, the locals accidentally set the Pollidori barn on fire.
Scully figures that the only way Pollodori could have seen the monster with the dead man is if he was out there earlier that day.
Scully notices The Great Mutato in the farm house. When they go into his room, it is a shrine to Cher. The Great Mutato is hiding the corner, afraid of Mulder and Scully. Scully promises that they won't hurt him. In fact, Mulder is worried for his safety.
As Mulder and Scully try to take him away, the locals notice them. Mulder and Scully return to the house but the mob follows them. Scully and Mulder try to protect The Great Mutato from the angry crowd.
Pollidori promises to burn him up while Shaineh wants to see him. When The Great Mutato shows his face, Pollidori calls him a monstrosity and blames his father for The Great Mutato's existence.
The Great Mutato however, explains himself. Despite his looks, he is a gentle man. He was born 25 years ago when Dr. Pollidori's science experiments went wrong. Mr. Pollidori rescued and loved The Great Mutato as a son. Mr. Pollidori wanted to create a mate for The Great Mutato so he would have someone to love him once the elder Pollidori died. Pollidori Sr. fathered Izzy and some other locals.
There were other experiments but none were successful. The Great Mutato asks Dr. Pollidori to make him a mate and he would gladly suffer the title murderer if he could have someone else to love him. He also talked about Shaineh and the other women in town. When he was in their houses with his father he knew what a mother's love was -- just like the love he saw in The Mask.
The locals warm to The Great Mutato while Scully and Mulder arrest Pollidori for murder.
Mulder is unhappy with the ending. While Dr. Frankenstein/Pollidori plays for his crimes, the monster/Mutato does not find his bride. Mulder demands to see the writer. Izzy walks in.
A caravan of autos drive to a Cher concert.
Shaineh Berkowitz and Mrs. Pollidori wind up on Jerry Springer with their two headed babies, which they adore.
At the concert, Mulder, Scully and The Great Mutato sit front and center. Scully and Mulder are rocking along but Mutato is having the time of his life. Cher walks into the crowd singing "Walking in Memphis" and brings The Great Mutato onto the stage. As Mulder helps him up, he remains standing. Looking at his shoes he invites Scully to dance. She is a little surprised but moves to stand. He sweeps her into his arms and the two dance. They fade into comic book drawings.
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