I'm a senior citizen now, and the only Trevor I ever knew was an Englishman I met on a camping tour of Iceland! I probably would never have given that a second thought if I hadn't seen this episode. Seems kind of weird, doesn't it?
So let me stop and think about this a minute. Mulder's having a hard time coming up with a theory, and Scully's ready to go with spontaneous human combustion!!! What?!?! She even offers a scientific rationale for the prison warden to be burned up at his desk. Mulder's reaction was to be appropriately stunned, but he still thinks there's something else going on.
It was interesting to watch the reaction of Robert Werther (David Bowe), the fiancé of June Gurwich (Catherine Dent) when she began confessing her prior life to the FBI agents. He couldn't hit the road quick enough, could he? I guess I don't blame the guy, I don't think I would have stuck around either.
Implausible as Pinker Rawls' ability to go through solid objects was (as if any other monster of the week situation was plausible), what I had to wonder about was whether he could have stopped killing people long enough to calm down and meet his son Trevor like a rational human being. Seems to me that was as much in his own power as walking through walls. As it is, Mulder's reaction at the conclusion of the story was just too compassionate to my mind. Sure, the guy might have merited 'another chance', but just like Clyde Bruckman once opined about a killer in a classic X-Files episode - the guy was a homicidal maniac.
So let me stop and think about this a minute. Mulder's having a hard time coming up with a theory, and Scully's ready to go with spontaneous human combustion!!! What?!?! She even offers a scientific rationale for the prison warden to be burned up at his desk. Mulder's reaction was to be appropriately stunned, but he still thinks there's something else going on.
It was interesting to watch the reaction of Robert Werther (David Bowe), the fiancé of June Gurwich (Catherine Dent) when she began confessing her prior life to the FBI agents. He couldn't hit the road quick enough, could he? I guess I don't blame the guy, I don't think I would have stuck around either.
Implausible as Pinker Rawls' ability to go through solid objects was (as if any other monster of the week situation was plausible), what I had to wonder about was whether he could have stopped killing people long enough to calm down and meet his son Trevor like a rational human being. Seems to me that was as much in his own power as walking through walls. As it is, Mulder's reaction at the conclusion of the story was just too compassionate to my mind. Sure, the guy might have merited 'another chance', but just like Clyde Bruckman once opined about a killer in a classic X-Files episode - the guy was a homicidal maniac.