Kingdom Come (Millennium)

Forensic profiler Frank Black (Lance Henriksen), a member of the private investigative organisation Millennium Group, chases a serial killer who targets clerics and holy men due to his frustration with his own faith.

The original broadcast date set for "Kingdom Come" was pushed back several weeks, as it was felt by the network that it would be in poor taste following the death of Chicago archbishop Joseph Bernardin.

When a Catholic priest is burnt at the stake in Tacoma, the Millennium Group dispatches investigators Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) and Ardis Cohen (Lindsay Crouse), who had previously worked together on a case involving the murders of three clerics several years earlier.

[1] The episode also marks the first of four directorial credits for Winrich Kolbe, who would also take the reins on "Force Majeure", "Lamentation" and "Broken World", all in the first season.

Fox Broadcasting Company announced that the reason for this was that it would be "in poor taste" to run an episode involving the murder of clergymen soon after the death of Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, the Archbishop of Chicago.

[10] "Kingdom Come" was first broadcast on the Fox Network on November 29, 1996;[11] and earned a Nielsen rating of 7.2, meaning that roughly 7.2 percent of all television-equipped households were tuned in to the episode.

Robert Shearman and Lars Pearson, in their book Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen, rated the episode two stars out of five, calling it "a particularly superficial addition to the series".

Shearman and Pearson felt that the episode's lack of complexity was refreshing, but ultimately the "awkward" performances and "cheesy" approach to its subject matter detracted from it.