Red Museum

It was written by Chris Carter, directed by Win Phelps, and featured guest appearances by Steve Eastin, Mark Rolston, Paul Sand, Bob Frazer, and Robert Clothier.

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.

A facet of the episode, that the adherents of the Red Museum believe that the year 2012 will bring about the dawning of The New Age, is later referenced in the series' finale "The Truth", seven seasons later.

Fox Mulder and Dana Scully are called in to investigate a number of kidnappings in Delta Glen, Wisconsin, where local teenagers have been found half-naked and drugged with either the phrase "He is one" or "She is one" written on their backs.

Interviewing a kidnap victim, the agents initially suspect a nearby cult, the Church of the Red Museum, founded by vegetarian named Richard Odin.

The agents bring Odin in for questioning but are interrupted by a confrontation outside, in which a large group of Red Museum members has blocked access to the local BBQ restaurant.

After being abducted from his car, Rick is found dead in a similar fashion as the other kidnapped teens, except with a bullet wound; the Crew Cut Man is seen leaving the area.

A toxicology report reveals the presence of a mysterious substance known as "Purity Control", leading Mulder to theorize that Larson had been injecting the children with alien DNA.

[1][2] The original draft of "Red Museum" functioned as a crossover episode with the CBS show Picket Fences—an idiosyncratic drama that ran from 1992 until 1996 and was set in the fictional Wisconsin town of Rome.

[4] Kelley and Carter started to plan out ideas, agreeing that unlike traditional crossovers, the two shows would each air their own episode, featuring characters from the other series.

[4] Producer and writer Glen Morgan was disappointed with how the Crew Cut Man was killed off in the episode, saying, "My feeling is that to bring this guy back, his presence should have been better developed, and he's shot off screen.

"[6] Ladner, British Columbia served as a location for Delta Glen, while the beef processing plant was shot in a facility in Cloverdale; local employees at the latter were even used as extras in the butchering and cleaning up scenes.

Club criticized the way "Red Museum" was written, writing that the episode, "tries the neat trick of combining what appears to be a [Monster-of-the-Week] ep with mythos; the results are intriguing, but not entirely successful.