Edgar Hoover and became the FBI's first X-File case. Mulder tells Scully of a similar incident in the area forty years previously, which was investigated by J. They discover that he had elongated canines, similar to those of an animal, and bears long-healed scars similar to Lyle's.
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The local sheriff, Charles Tskany, permits Scully to make a cursory examination of Goodensnake's body but forbids a full autopsy. Goodensnake's sister Gwen is also bitter that her neighbors are too frightened of native legends to confront his death. The investigation is complicated by the hostility Mulder and Scully face from the Native American population, stemming from their experience with the FBI during the 1973 Wounded Knee incident. She believes that the Parkers knowingly killed Goodensnake, but knows that they could not have skinned him since no signs of such injury were found on the body.
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Scully dismisses this, but finds a large section of shed human skin nearby. However, Mulder finds tracks leading to the area that appear to change from human to something more animal in nature. Parker's son, Lyle, bears scars that lend credence to the story.Īt the scene of the shooting, Scully reasons that at the short range from which Goodensnake was shot, it would have been impossible to mistake him for an animal. The killing appears to be motivated by a dispute over the ownership of a tract of land, although Parker claims that he fired on a monstrous animal rather than a human. Much of the episode was filmed in Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows, British Columbia.įBI agents Dana Scully and Fox Mulder travel to Browning, Montana to investigate the killing of a Native American man, Joseph Goodensnake, by local rancher Jim Parker.
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"Shapes" was written after executives at Fox had suggested that the series should feature a "more conventional" type of monster, and producers James Wong and Glen Morgan began looking into Native American legends of the Manitou to form the basis of the episode's concept. Investigating the case, the agents find that the dead man, and those that he attacked, may be capable of shapeshifting into ferocious beasts-a phenomenon which was documented in the very first X-File. In this episode, Mulder and Scully are called to Montana after a shooting on a farm near a Native American reservation. The show centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder ( David Duchovny) and Dana Scully ( Gillian Anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files.
"Shapes" earned a Nielsen household rating of 7.6, being watched by 7.2 million households in its initial broadcast and received mixed reviews, with varied reaction to the episode's handling of the werewolf genre and of its Native American themes. The episode is a "Monster-of-the-Week" story, a stand-alone plot which is unconnected to the series' wider mythology. It featured guest appearances by Michael Horse, Ty Miller and Donnelly Rhodes. "Shapes" was written by Marilyn Osborn, and directed by David Nutter. It premiered on the Fox network on April 1, 1994. " Shapes" is the nineteenth episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. Michael Horse as Sheriff Charles Tskany.
19th episode of the first season of The X-Files " Shapes"
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