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A serial killer claims that he committed his crimes under a demonic influence. More murders are committed while he is in custody -- has the gargoyle spirit found a new instrument, or is it the work of a more mundane copycat?
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A serial killer (Levani Outchaneichvili) claims that he committed his crimes under a demonic influence. More murders are committed while he is in custody -- has custody, and [[TeethClenchedTeamwork with the help of]] Mulder's old Violent Crimes mentor Bill Patterson (Creator/KurtwoodSmith) Mulder and Scully investigate. Has the gargoyle spirit found a new instrument, or is it the work of a more mundane copycat?
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* CatScare: Poor Scully is on the receiving end of it yet again.
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* CatScare: Poor Scully is on the receiving end of it yet again. The black cat proves helpful to the plot as well, leading Mulder and Scully to a secret room in the serial killer's apartment with more victims encased in gargoyles.
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* AndIMustScreamAndIMustScream: Mostow claims to be completely at the mercy of the presence while it goes out and kills. In the end, Patterson claims the same thing, and as detailed below, it is left deliberately ambiguous whether it was entirely mundane in nature or really did involve some diabolical actor.
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** Heavily implied by Mostow to be how the presence finds its hosts: the more you know about it, the more it knows you.
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: John Mostow may have just been a severely mentally ill man with a homicidal "alter" personality that he was aware of and personified as a demon, or he may have genuinely been tormented by a demonic entity that would possess him and murder people. The second killer is eventually revealed to be a profiler who looked too long into the abyss of a particular serial killer and turned into him. Whether this is a psychological effect or transferred demonic possession is left up to the viewer.
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: John Mostow may have just been a severely mentally ill man with a homicidal "alter" personality that he was aware of and personified as a demon, or he may have genuinely been tormented by a demonic entity that would possess him and murder people. The second killer is eventually revealed to be a profiler who looked too long into the abyss of a particular serial killer and turned into him. Whether this is a psychological effect him, or transferred demonic possession maybe that entity knew he was worn down and vulnerable enough to possess and saw a golden opportunity to acquire a new vessel once Mostow was no longer a viable option, and picked up right where it left off. It is left entirely up to the viewer.viewer to decide which explanation is the correct one.
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* DemonicPossession: What Mostow claims to suffer from. As evidenced by MaybeMagicMaybeMundane below, it is deliberately left ambiguous whether he had a murderous "alter" personality that he was aware of and personified as a demon, or if he really did have some kind of diabolical tormentor that liked to bodyjack him to go out and kill people, and would eventually infect other targets with its evil once it became aware of them.
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: John Mostow may have just been a severely mentally ill man with a homicidal "alter" personality that he was aware of and personified as a demon, or he may have genuinely been tormented by a demonic entity that would possess him and murder people. The second killer is eventually revealed to be a profiler who looked too long into the abyss of a particular serial killer and turned into him. Whether this is a psychological effect or transferred demonic possession is left up to the viewer.
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A serial killer claims that he committed his crimes under a demonic influence. More murders are committed while he is in custody -- has the gargoyle spirit found a new instrument, or is it the work of a more mundane copycat?
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** Agent Patterson pays a terrible price for tracking the evil.
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* RoomFullOfCrazy: There are sketches of gargoyles all over the walls in Mulder's apartment.
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** Mulder sinks deep into ugliness and madness of the case. At one point, there are sketches of gargoyles all over the walls in Mulder'sapartment.apartment.
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* HomoeroticSubtext: The opening scene has with the killer (who exclusively targets men for reasons that are never fully clear) gazing intently at a nude male model.
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* {{Tuckerization}}: Agent Nemhauser is named after the executive producer Lori Jo Nemhauser.
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* SerialKiller: A very disturbung one. He killed several young men aged from 17 to 25. Their death was caused by massive blood loss due to facial mutilation. His signature was puncturing both their eyes and gashing their faces from the corners of the mouth to the ears which resulted in a very grotesque look, not dissimilar to gargoyles. He claimed that that's how the evil 'it' looked like; that 'it' wanted to see itself. That's why he kept drawing the sketches and why he had to kill.
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* SerialKiller: A very disturbung one. He killed several disturbing one who kills young men aged from 17 to 25. Their death was caused by massive via blood loss due to facial mutilation. His signature was puncturing both their eyes and gashing their faces from mutilation, in an attempt to re-create the corners of the mouth to the ears which resulted in a very grotesque look, not dissimilar to gargoyles. He claimed that that's how the gargoyle-like evil 'it' looked like; that 'it' wanted face he claims to see itself. That's why he kept drawing the sketches and why he had to kill.see.
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* SerialKiller: A very disturbung one. He killed several young men (aged 17 to 25). Their death was caused by massive blood loss due to facial mutilation. His signature was puncturing both their eyes and gashing their faces from the corners of the mouth to the ears whic resulted to a very grotesque look, not dissimilar to gargoyles.
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* SerialKiller: A very disturbung one. He killed several young men (aged aged from 17 to 25).25. Their death was caused by massive blood loss due to facial mutilation. His signature was puncturing both their eyes and gashing their faces from the corners of the mouth to the ears whic which resulted to in a very grotesque look, not dissimilar to gargoyles.gargoyles. He claimed that that's how the evil 'it' looked like; that 'it' wanted to see itself. That's why he kept drawing the sketches and why he had to kill.
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* ManBitesMan: Agent Nemhauser was bitten by Mostow when the FBI were arresting him.
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* InsaneEqualsViolent: Scully thinks Mostow suffers from a dissociative disorder and Mulder informs us that he spent the better part of his twenties in an insane asylum.
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* SurpassedTheTeacher: Agent Patterson has a strange but understandable attitude towards Mulder. He feels that he threw away his amazing talent and instead of profiling criminals he chose to chase aliens and the paranormal. Mulder thinks that Patterson never thought highly of him. However, Patterson is probably a bit envious of Mulder's abilities and according to his team, he starts telling "Mulder stories" about him being "some kind of crack genius" when he's drunk.
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* SurpassedTheTeacher: Agent Patterson has a strange but understandable attitude towards Mulder. He feels that he threw away his amazing talent and instead of profiling criminals he chose to chase aliens and the paranormal. Mulder thinks that Patterson never thought highly of him. However, Patterson is probably a bit envious of Mulder's abilities and according to his team, he starts telling "Mulder stories" about him being "some kind of crack genius" when he's drunk.
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