History Recap / TheXFilesS01E19Shapes

* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Actually quite like the standard issue. The most plot-relevant difference is that full moon has nothing to do with them.

* TheRez: The episode takes place on the reservation of the Trego tribe and the adjacent ranch of the Parker family.

A Native American boy, Joe Goodensnake, is shot in what looks like a land dispute with local rancher Jim Parker (Donnelly Rhodes) and his son Lyle (Ty Miller). Mulder and Scully are called in to the Trego Indian reservation in Montana to investigate, leading to clashes with the locals who distrust the federal government, including a sheriff (Michael Horse) who was at the Wounded Knee siege in 1973. Between the rancher's story that he mistook the boy for a wild animal, some [[HumanToWerewolfFootprints strange tracks]] and shed skin found at the crime scene, and local legends about a beast that haunts the wilderness and mauls people, Mulder recognizes links to the ''original'' X-file. Could an old Indian legend have taken life again -- a Manitou that transforms its host into a raging beast? And what person, human and ignorant by day, hides the Manitou now?

%%* BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins
* TheEndOrIsIt: The Manitou is apparently dead, but as Mulder is leaving Ish says, "See you in another eight years." This isn't followed up however, so maybe they really did kill it.
%%* HumanToWerewolfFootprints
%%* InjunCountry

* NoOntologicalInertia: Joe and Lyle turn back into humans after being killed.

%%* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent
%%* TheRez

->Written by Creator/MarilynOsborn\\

->''"Watkins had been attacked by an animal when he was alone in the woods. His scars healed. He was forgotten, then the murders began. The Tregoes, we realized that Watkins had been attacked by what the Algonquins called the manitou ... an evil spirit capable of changing a man into a beast. To be attacked by a manitou causes the victim to become one."''

->Written by Marilyn Osborn\\
Directed by David Nutter

A Native American boy, Joe Goodensnake, is shot in what looks like a land dispute with local rancher Jim Parker and his son Lyle. Mulder and Scully are called in to the Trego Indian reservation in Montana to investigate, leading to clashes with the locals who distrust the federal government, including a sheriff who was at the Wounded Knee siege in 1973. Between the rancher's story that he mistook the boy for a wild animal, some [[HumanToWerewolfFootprints strange tracks]] and shed skin found at the crime scene, and local legends about a beast that haunts the wilderness and mauls people, Mulder recognizes links to the ''original'' X-file. Could an old Indian legend have taken life again -- a Manitou that transforms its host into a raging beast? And what person, human and ignorant by day, hides the Manitou now?

[[Recap/TheXFiles Index]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E01 1]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E02DeepThroat 2]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E02DeepThroat 2]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E03Squeeze 3]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E04Conduit 4]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E05TheJerseyDevil 5]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E06Shadows 6]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E07GhostInTheMachine 7]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E08Ice 8]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E09Space 9]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E10FallenAngel 10]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E11Eve 11]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E12Fire 12]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E13BeyondTheSea 13]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E14GenderBender 14]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E15Lazarus 15]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E16YoungAtHeart 16]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E17EBE 17]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E18MiracleMan 18]] | '''19''' | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E20DarknessFalls 20]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E21Tooms 21]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E22BornAgain 22]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E23Roland 23]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E24TheErlenmeyerFlask 24]]]]-]]]

!!![[AC:Recaps]]: [[Recap/TheXFiles Index]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E01 1]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E02DeepThroat 2]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E03Squeeze 3]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E04Conduit 4]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E05TheJerseyDevil 5]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E06Shadows 6]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E07GhostInTheMachine 7]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E08Ice 8]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E09Space 9]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E10FallenAngel 10]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E11Eve 11]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E12Fire 12]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E13BeyondTheSea 13]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E14GenderBender 14]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E15Lazarus 15]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E16YoungAtHeart 16]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E17EBE 17]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E18MiracleMan 18]] | '''19''' | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E20DarknessFalls 20]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E21Tooms 21]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E22BornAgain 22]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E23Roland 23]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E24TheErlenmeyerFlask 24]]

->'''Ish:''' FBI! See you in about ... eight years.\\

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%%* MagicalNativeAmerican: Subverted. The closest the episode gets to is Ish, but the rest of the reservation mostly just wants Mulder and Scully to leave them in peace.

%%* MagicalNativeAmerican

* [[AloneWithThePsycho Alone With the Manitou]]: During the climax, Scully is trapped in the ranch with a wolfed-out Lyle.

* BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins
* HumanToWerewolfFootprints
* InjunCountry
* MagicalNativeAmerican
* [[ZombieInfectee Manitou Infectee]]: Lyle got mauled by Jim, and soon starts turning into a manitou himself.

* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent

* TheRez

* HeyItsThatGuy: Of course the Native American Sheriff is [[Series/TwinPeaks Hawk]].

When a Native American boy is shot in what looks like a land dispute with a local rancher, Mulder recognizes links to the ''original'' X-file. Could an old indian legend have taken life again - a Manitou that transforms its host into a raging beast? And what person, human and ignorant by day, hides the Manitou now?

* HeyItsThatGuy: Of course the Native American Sheriff is [[TwinPeaks Hawk]]

* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent

* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent

* BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins

* BraidsBeadsandBuckskins

* MagicalNativeAmericans