Monsters from the Id by Sarah Stegallcopyright 1996 by Sarah Stegall Writer: Howard Gordon Director: Kim Manners “Is this the monster called Madness?” — Fox Mulder A good hunter tracks his prey from the inside: he wears camouflage to blend in with the background, seeks patterns in the way the prey operates, studies it closely to exploit its weaknesses. Like American Indian buffalo hunters before the advent of horses, a good hunter will put on the skin of the prey, looking through its eyes as he approaches the quarry, drawing ever closer to it both physically and spiritually. And when…
The X-Files: “Oubliette”
Oubliette by Sarah Stegall Copyright ©1995 by Sarah Stegall Written by Charles Grant Craig Directed by Kim Manners This review very nearly didn’t get written. It took me several tries to get all the way through “Oubliette”. As the mother of two small daughters, who received their school pictures in the mail this week, who lives in the county where Richard Wade Davis will shortly go on trial for kidnapping a young girl out of her bedroom two years ago and leaving her body in a shallow roadside grave, this episode was nearly impossible for me to watch. It struck…