History Recap / TheXFilesS05E10Chinga

-->''"Melissa Turner. That whore’s a witch sure as I’m standing here. She’s descended from the Hawthornes in Salem and the Englishes, too. She comes from a cursed lineage and now she’s passing it on to the whelp. (...) Our great-great-grandfathers knew how to treat witches. They would have driven the demon out of that little girl and given that slattern of a mother just what she’s got coming!"''

* DropTheHammer: The doll drives Melissa to bury a hammer in her own skull. Thankfully a timely intervention from Scully stops the incident from turning fatal.

* AssholeVictim: Jane Froelich.

* HereWeGoAgain: The episode ends with a fisherman pulling the burnt remains of Chinga out of a lobster net. The doll's eyes then open...
* InMyLanguageThatSoundsLike: [[WordOfGod Neither Carter nor King]] knew what "chinga" meant SouthOfTheBorder.
* ISeeDeadPeople: Polly's mother saw the victims for brief moments just before their deaths.

* LampshadeHanging: Scully says she's looking for some kind of occult object, like a doll, for instance. Mulder asks if she means something like Chucky.

** Mulder's watching porn as TV habit.
** Mulder's sticking pencils into the ceiling appeared for the first time.

** From RealLife: Shout Out to the Salem Witch Trials Hysteria of 1692.

* TheDollEpisode

* {{Leitmotif}}: "Hokey Pokey" being played ad nauseam for Chinga makes it somewhat of her signature theme song. When the song plays, shit is about to go down...

** Chucky the murderous doll from ''Film/ChildsPlay''.

* PornStash: Mulder is shown watching something when Scully calls, and there is lots of moaning and groaning. When asked what he's watching, he claims it's "The World’s Deadliest Swarms" and mutes the TV. Subverted when the camera focuses on the screen and we see a guy being attacked by bugs, showing he was telling the truth.

!!![[AC:Recaps]]: [[Recap/TheXFiles Index]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E01Redux 1]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E02ReduxII 2]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E03UnusualSuspects 3]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E04Detour 4]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E05ThePostModernPrometheus 5]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E06ChristmasCarol 6]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E07Emily 7]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E08Kitsunegari 8]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E09Schizogeny 9]] | '''10''' | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E11KillSwitch 11]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E12BadBlood 12]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E13PatientX 13]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E14TheRedAndTheBlack 14]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E15Travelers 15]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E16MindsEye 16]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E17AllSouls 17]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E18ThePineBluffVariant 18]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E19FolieADeux 19]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E20TheEnd 20]]

Co-written by Creator/StephenKing.

-->''"Melissa Turner. That whore’s a witch sure as I’m standing here. She’s descended from the Hawthornes in Salem and the Englishes, too. She comes from a cursed lineage and now she’s passing it on to the whelp. (...) Our great-great-grandfathers knew how to treat witches. They would have driven the demon out of that little girl and given that slattern of a mother just what she’s got coming!"''

->''"I saw Dave dead. Before he was dead. I saw him in frozen foods all cut and bloody and it’s not the first time. My husband … I saw him in a window dead before it happened."''

-->'''Jane Froelich:''' Melissa Turner. That whore’s a witch sure as I’m standing here. She’s descended from the Hawthornes in Salem and the Englishes, too. She comes from a cursed lineage and now she’s passing it on to the whelp. (...) Our great-great-grandfathers knew how to treat witches. They would have driven the demon out of that little girl and given that slattern of a mother just what she’s got coming!

'''Scully: [[BlatantLies Me? No. No. I was, uh, I was on vacation. Just... getting out of my own head for a few days.]]

* YouCantFightFate: Subverted. Melissa's visions of death are only foregone conclusions so long as the doll is in the picture.

* AntagonistTitle: [[CaptainObvious Chinga is the]] CreepyDoll.

* PornStash: It's unclear whether it's played straight or subverted. Mulder watches something when Scully calls, and there is lots of moaning and groaning. When asked what he's watching, he says it's "The World’s Deadliest Swarms" and he stops the tape. Later, when Scully gets his full attention, he goes to the TV to switch it off, and there is a still of a guy being attacked by bees or bugs.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Oh joy, Mulder's sunflower seeds!

* CreatorsThumbprint: You wouldn't expect King to co-write a story that wasn't set in Maine, would you?

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Oh joy, Mulder's sunflower seeds!
* UncannyValley: [[EnforcedTrope Enforced]] with Chinga's design, who was cobbled from different doll parts to make sure it looked weird. Her head is a little too large for her body and her hair is made from different sources. It gets worse after she is burned in a microwave.

* UncannyValley: [[EnforcedTrope Enforced]] with Chinga's design, who was cobbled from different doll parts to make sure it looked weird. Her head is a little too large for her body and her hair is made form different sources. It gets worse after she is burned in a microwave.

* AntagonistTitle

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Oh joy, Mulder's sunflower seeds!

Scully [[BusmansHoliday goes on holiday and STILL ends up dealing with weirdness]]. That girl can't catch a break.

-->'''Jane Froelich''': Melissa Turner. That whore’s a witch sure as I’m standing here. She’s descended from the Hawthornes in Salem and the Englishes, too. She comes from a cursed lineage and now she’s passing it on to the whelp. (...) Our great-great-grandfathers knew how to treat witches. They would have driven the demon out of that little girl and given that slattern of a mother just what she’s got coming!

* DropTheHammer: The doll drives [[spoiler:Melissa]] to bury a hammer in [[spoiler:her]] own skull. Thankfully a timely intervention from Scully stops the incident from turning fatal.

--> '''Mulder''': Maybe you don't know what you're looking for.\\
'''Scully''': Like evidence of conjury or the black arts or shamanism, divination, Wicca or any kind of pagan or neo-pagan practice? Charms, cards, familiars, bloodstones, or hex signs or any of the ritual tableaux associated with the occult, Santeria, Voudoun, Macumba, or any high or low magic?\\
'''Mulder''': Scully?\\
'''Scully''': Yes?\\
'''Mulder''': Marry me.\\
'''Scully''': I was hoping for something a little more helpful.

* HereWeGoAgain: [[spoiler:The episode ends with a fisherman pulling the burnt remains of Chinga out of a lobster net. The doll's eyes then open...]]

* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler: After Melissa has a premonition of herself as one of Chinga's victims, she panics and tries to stop it from happening by burning down her house with herself and Polly inside.]]
** [[spoiler: Scully destroys Chinga by throwing it in a microwave.]]

* RunningGag: Mulder's watching porn as TV habit.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Oh joy, Mulder's sunflower seeds!
* YouLookFamiliar: Larry Musser's fourth appearance on the show. He was Sheriff John Oakes in "Die Hand die verletzt, Detective '''bleeping''' Manners in "Jose Chung's ''From Outer Space''" and ex-marine Denny Markham in "Unrequited". In this episode, he's chief Jack Bonsaint. Perhaps they are bleeping quadruplets separated at birth.

* CandlelitBath: Scully's