This was a tough episode to select a summary quote for. Personally, my favorite line was Mulder's "I'm telling you, that cow had my name on it", but the one I picked was more representative of the story taking place. I thought this was a nice, off beat change of pace for Scully and Mulder, managing to stay under Assistant Director Kersh's radar while getting involved in an X-Files type case. Not that it mattered to Mulder; he'd follow up a hunch wherever it brought him.
I had to laugh when The Rain King, Daryl Mootz (Claytonm Rohner) stated that he was one sixty fourth Cherokee, more than a full decade before we ever heard of Elizabeth Warren using that gambit to earn a college acceptance and get elected to the Senate. Another case of life imitating art I guess, but it goes both ways. What also got me was The Rain King's self description as being a spiritual man, in touch with the really real. You would expect a huckster like him to claim something like that.
If you follow the progress of the X-Files over the course of the later Season Five, and now the Season Six episodes, you can trace the growing personal relationship between Scully and Mulder. Scully's heart to heart with Sheila (Victoria Jackson) about personal relationships and building on a friendship that eventually turns to love was quite revealing for the direction the FBI agents were going. That they could put Sheila and Hardt (David Manis) together was a matchmaking triumph that provided a nice feel good resolution to this episode. The dissolve to a Wizard of Oz-like ending was perfect with it's 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' theme in the background. If I had to guess, Sheila and Holman probably named their baby Dorothy.
I had to laugh when The Rain King, Daryl Mootz (Claytonm Rohner) stated that he was one sixty fourth Cherokee, more than a full decade before we ever heard of Elizabeth Warren using that gambit to earn a college acceptance and get elected to the Senate. Another case of life imitating art I guess, but it goes both ways. What also got me was The Rain King's self description as being a spiritual man, in touch with the really real. You would expect a huckster like him to claim something like that.
If you follow the progress of the X-Files over the course of the later Season Five, and now the Season Six episodes, you can trace the growing personal relationship between Scully and Mulder. Scully's heart to heart with Sheila (Victoria Jackson) about personal relationships and building on a friendship that eventually turns to love was quite revealing for the direction the FBI agents were going. That they could put Sheila and Hardt (David Manis) together was a matchmaking triumph that provided a nice feel good resolution to this episode. The dissolve to a Wizard of Oz-like ending was perfect with it's 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' theme in the background. If I had to guess, Sheila and Holman probably named their baby Dorothy.