History Recap / TheXFilesS01E05TheJerseyDevil

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The Pine Barrens in ReaLife are actually significantly to the north and west of Atlantic City, which is largely bordered by swampland and inland bays. They certainly aren't close enough that a bunch of large animals, cryptids or not, could regularly slip in and out of the city at night undetected.

%%* ImAHumanitarian: The Jersey Devils.

Directed by Creator/JoeNapolitano

Directed by Joe Napolitano

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->''"Eight million years out of Africa."''

->'''Mulder:''' Ever hear of something called [[TitleDrop "The Jersey Devil"]]?\\

* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: Add to that ''Series/TheXFiles''' take on TheJerseyDevil.

* ImAHumanitarian: The Jersey Devils.
* InNameOnly: While not as bad as most cases, the Jersey Devil is barely anything like the cryptid that's actually reported. It's basically twisted into a poor-man's Bigfoot and doesn't show any of the actual urban myth's notable aspects other than the name, and living in the Pine Barrens in New Jersey.
* TheJerseyDevil: Unintentionally averted. The Jersey Devil legend is about a horribly mutated creature that stalks the Pine Barrens for food and looks like a mix between a horse and dog with bat wings. However, limitations in their first season budget probably account for their complete reworking of the legend.
** Also EarlyInstallmentWeirdness -- in the first season Mulder seldom found clear evidence of supernatural or ET phenomena.

* PornStash: This is the first time Mulder is shown looking at inappropriate material. Perhaps unintentionally, the rest of the case involves him poring over several images of the female Jersey Devil ''[[note]]See the caption on the third image on [[http://joeandjennie.blogspot.co.nz/2011/08/x-files-jersey-devil.html this page]][[/note]]'', and he ends up storing away two photographs of her [[spoiler: dead body]]. [[{{Squick}} Let's just hope that they aren't additions to his collection]].

Mulder and Scully head out to Atlantic City to investigate some murders that look (at least to Mulder) suspiciously like reports in the X Files of the Jersey Devil in the 1940s. Also: Scully goes on a date with a divorced dad who seems unable to go two sentences without bringing up his kids.

* UnkemptBeauty: Mulder thinks the female Jersey Devil, who doesn't understand the human concept of bathing, is beautiful.

* DistressedDude: Mulder is tackled down by the female Jersey Devil and might have perished on the spot but for Scully's timely intervention.

** Leads to a FridgeTearJerker ending; both of that... child's (I refuse to use the word "creature") parents are dead. That means it's either going to starve to death or a pack of passing coyotes will decide "ooh, easy lunch" and eat the poor thing alive.
** Not necessarily! (S)he looked around 12-14; that's beyond old enough to be able to hunt and pick berries.
** Just because we only ''saw'' one doesn't mean that child couldn't have a sibling or a surviving aunt or uncle still out there in the woods.

* NubileSavage: Mulder's first remark after being rescued from being eaten by the female Jersey Devil is: "She was ''beautiful''!"

** Not necessarily! (S)he looked around 12-14; that's beyond old enough to be able to hunt and pick berries.

* MarsNeedsWoman: Possibly; there's a definite sexual element in the way the female Jersey Devil is crouching over Mulder, who points out afterward that she could have killed him, but didn't.

** Leads to a FridgeTearJerker ending; both of that... child's (I refuse to use the word "creature)parents are dead. That means it's either going to starve to death or a pack of passing coyotes will decide "ooh, easy lunch" and eat the poor thing alive.

* TheEndOrIsIt: The female Jersey Devil has already given birth to the next generation.

* PingPongNaivete: Mulder has shown himself to be smart in previous episodes, but complains when the Atlantic City police [[spoiler: kill]] the Jersey Devil, saying "Why did you [[spoiler: shoot]] her?" This is despite the fact that she was a CANNIBAL.

* TheEndOrIsIt

* PornStash: This is the first time Mulder is shown looking at inappropriate material. Perhaps unintentionally, the rest of the case involves him poring over several images of the female Jersey Devil ''[[note]]See the caption on the third image on [[http://joeandjennie.blogspot.co.nz/2011/08/x-files-jersey-devil.html this page]][[/note]]'', and he ends up storing away two photographs of her [[spoiler: dead body]]. [[{{Squick}} Let's just hope that they aren't additions to his collection]].

* PornStash: This is the first time Mulder is shown looking at inappropriate material. Perhaps unintentionally, the rest of the case involves him poring over several images of the female Jersey Devil ''[[note]]See the caption on the third image on this page[[/note]]'', and he ends up storing away two photographs of her [[spoiler: dead body]]. [[{{Squick}} Let's just hope that they aren't additions to his collection]].

* PingPongNaivete: Mulder has shown himself to be smart in previous episodes, but complains when the Atlantic City police [[spoiler: kill]] the Jersey Devil, saying "Why did you [[spoiler: shoot]] her?" This is despite the fact that she was a CANNIBAL.

* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti
* GodivaHair
* IdiotBall: Mulder complains when the Atlantic City police [[spoiler: kill the Jersey Devil]], saying "Why did you [[spoiler: shoot]] her?" This is despite the fact that she was a CANNIBAL.
* ImAHumanitarian: The Jersey Devils

* NubileSavage

* TheJerseyDevil