Guest Starring Bruce Campbell as Wayne Weinsider, Lisa Jane Persky as Laura Weinsider, Michael Milhoan as Deputy Arky Stevens and Grace Phillips as Betsy Monroe

"Scully, this is a classic case of demon fetal harvest." -Mulder

Wayne and Laura are told by their doctor that the baby Laura is about to give birth to has some strange protrusions on it's head and spine. The doctor says that it's probably nothing to worry about. Wayne seems very concerned, but he assures Laura that everything will be okay. Later, Laura and Wayne go to bed. He tells her that he loves her no matter what happens to the baby. It's not long before she dreams that a demon is tearing the baby from her womb. She awakes screaming as Wayne comforts her. He says that it was just a bad dream, but the large amount of blood and missing baby says otherwise. Laura tells her brother, Deputy Arky Stevens, about the bizarre abduction. He goes to the FBI and tells Agent Spender the story of what happened to his sister's baby. He heard about the x-files, and thought they could investigate the case. Spender says that they will get right on it. After Deputy Stevens leaves, Spender throws the paper work into the shredder. Mulder heads to Virginia with the taped together paper work he swiped from Spender's shredder. Deputy Stevens can't get over how fast the FBI got on the case. He wants to call Spender and thank him, but Mulder says that he will be glad to pass his thanks along the next time he talks to him. Mulder questions Laura about her nightmare. She says that it might have been a nightmare, but most nightmares don't come true. She tells Mulder that the baby was taken by a devil who filled the room with fire. Mulder asks about the baby not being normal. Laura says that it was a monster with horns and a tail. After Mulder talks to Wayne about the ordeal, he becomes a little suspicious of him. He calls Scully who is doing a background check on someone. Once again, she has had to make excuses for the restless one. He tells a surprised Scully that he is in Virginia investigating a demon baby snatching. He is going to send her the sonogram of the baby for her to examine. Scully gives him a hard time for getting involved in an x-file. He says: "Scully, this is a classic case of demon fetal harvest." Mulder continues to talk to her about demons and the dark ages while Wayne listens to Mulder's side of the conversation on a baby monitor in the bedroom.

Later that night, Wayne decides he better get rid of the evidence. He digs up the baby and, with tears in his eyes, puts the body into a incinerator in the backyard. Laura asks what he's doing? He tells her that he is burning leaves. He wanted everything to look good when she got up in the morning, besides, she had a note in the job-jar to rake up the leaves.

Mulder doesn't want to rack up any expenses for Kersh to gripe about so he spends the night in the car. Scully calls to tell him that she found what he is looking for. She explains the bony protuberances on the skull and spine. Mulder draws horns on a picture of Wayne that he has in a file. He asks if the deformities could have been passed on by the father. She says, no. Then she says that the law requires that he arrest Laura, because a third trimester birth was induced by the drug mandrake. "It's also been known to be used as an hallucinogenic." Mulder finishes the call just as Wayne pulls out of the driveway and heads down the road. Mulder finishes drawing the horns on Wayne's picture. The evidence may point to Laura, but Mulder is still very suspicious of Wayne.

Meanwhile, Wayne knocks on the door of Betsy Monroe who asks where he's been. He says: "I told you I was going to be on the road until Tuesday... poopydoo." Betsy is also very pregnant -- due any minute. It seems as though Mr. Pennypacker has more than one wife.

Deputy Stevens and the police have arrived at the Weinsider's house. Stevens says that his sister didn't take any hallucinogenics. He is very angry with the whole situation. He says that he didn't call the FBI down there to arrest his sister. Mulder says that she isn't under arrest, but Arky says that she isn't talking without a lawyer. Wayne comes in and wants to know what's going on. Laura says that they are accusing her of killing the baby. Mulder says that he doesn't want to arrest Laura. "I'm sure you would hate like the devil for that to happen as well?" He asks Wayne to let them search the premises so they can clear things up. Wayne says: "Of course." Laura says to Wayne that she knows they won't find anything, so why dose she feel guilty? He says that he needs to tell her something. The night she lost the baby he took a walk because he couldn't sleep. When he returned, she had their little baby in her hands. She was in some kind of trance and was chanting something over and over! He says that he took the baby and put it in the incinerator. He did it to protect her. Just then, the police find body remains in the incinerator. Laura tells Arky that she knew there was something evil growing in her, but she never meant to kill it. "It was the herbal medication... that's all I can think." Arky arrests Laura and takes her to the police station. As Mulder leaves, he says to Wayne: "I know what you are."

Later, Wayne heads for Betsy's house. He tells her on the cell-phone that he is only three blocks away. He wants to be with her when she has her sonogram done. She says that she will wait a few more minutes. Mulder pulls up next to Wayne and says: "Hey, Wayne, where are you going?" He says that he has an appointment. He's an insurance medical technician. Mulder asks how far away their appointment is? Wayne takes Mulder on a wild goose chase to see a woman that he had an appointment with another day. She is surprised that he is there early, but lets him take blood. When the woman's kids rush by, Wayne says that he loves kids. It seems like he's been trying for years to have one of his own. Wayne bends over to get something from his case, and the woman notices some bony bumps on the back of his neck. Mulder honks Wayne's car horn and waves. It's time to go. Wayne asks to use the woman's phone. When he comes out to get into his car, he tells Mulder to leave him alone. Scully calls and tells Mulder that he's been busted. Wayne called the FBI and told Kersh that Mulder was harassing him. Scully asks what she should tell Kersh? He says to tell him that he is doing a background check on somebody.

Later that night, Wayne goes to the county jail to see Laura. She says that she's scared. She doesn't understand how the police could have found the baby wrapped up in her nightgown. He says that that is not possible, then she says that there is something she didn't tell him about when the demon took the baby. She looks at his neck and sees bite marks. She had bitten the demon during the attack. Wayne says that he wished she hadn't seen the bite marks. He holds her hands and sucks most of her life-force out of her. Later, a paramedic team works on Laura as Wayne, Arky and Mulder watch. Wayne says that it was just like she died in his arms. Mulder gives him a real nasty look. Suddenly, a medic says that they have a heartbeat. Surprised, Wayne says: "What?" Laura is alive, but comatose.

Wayne drives to Betsy's house and hides the car in the garage. Then he runs around to the front of the house and enters through the front door. Betsy is waiting for him. She is angry that he never showed up for the sonogram session. He asks how it went? She tells him that the baby has a bony growth, but it may just be a stage in it's development. Wayne is very disappointed. He offers to get her a warm glass of milk before bed.

Scully is at the hospital, but can't find Mulder. When he shows up, he says that he was doing background work. She says that it's her, he doesn't need to tell her his cover story. He says that he was doing background work on Wayne Weinsider. Scully says that she can't find anything that could have caused Laura's condition. Mulder says: "Perfect." Scully doesn't understand why he thinks everything is perfect. He says that Wayne is really Ivan Vales who was born in Czechoslovakia in 1956. Scully and Mulder read the file. Vales was married twice, had no children and was prosecuted for the death of both wives, but was acquitted for lack of evidence. He immigrated to the US in 1994. He used a couple of aliases, one was Gordy Boytano. Now for the good stuff... in Slavic societies the name Vales was synonymous with the devil. "A horned demon that sucks the souls of the innocent. Mulder, you're not suggesting that he is himself a devil, are you?" Mulder says that the facts speak for themselves. Scully says that she accepts that a man can be demonic, but why would a demon, if there were such a thing, be playing the nine-to-five make room for daddy routine just so he can off his wife and unborn child? Mulder says that he doesn't know, but this is the best explanation for *how* that he's heard.

Back at Betsy's house, Wayne prepares his special warm milk for Betsy. He carries it up the stairs and into the bedroom. It has a lovely green glow. Betsy drinks it down and says: "Sometimes, I remember why I married you." Meanwhile, back at Wayne's other house, the police are digging up the grounds with the aid of a sonic mapping system. Kind of like a sonogram for Mother Earth. (I couldn't help myself.) They find the body of another baby with the same weird deformities. Mulder tells Deputy Stevens to put out an All Points Bulletin on Wayne. "He isn't coming back here on his own." He tells Scully that he's been doing the same thing he did in Czechoslovakia. His probably had many wives and many babies. Scully asks why he would be killing them. Mulder says: "Because they're demons. He wants a normal child." She gives him one of her looks of disbelief.

Back at Betsy's, Wayne pulls his fire and demon act. Betsy sits up screaming at demon Wayne as he tries to remove the unborn child. She grabs him by the neck and yells: "Maybe you didn't hear me! What are you doing, Wayne?" Mulder learns about Wayne's second home. Scully and he burn rubber to get to it. Mulder is afraid that he has spread his seed and hopes he hasn't harvested another baby. A red car comes toward them and stops. Betsy gets out, covered with blood. She tells them that Wayne took her baby. Mulder and Scully call the troops. They descend upon Betsy's house where they find Wayne digging up bodies in the yard. He says that all he wanted was a normal family. He keeps saying: "How could she do it?" He tells Mulder that Betsy took the baby. He says that she's not like the others. He is interrupted when Deputy Arky Stevens arrives and shoots him in a fit of rage. Wayne is taken to the hospital and, after surgery, he is put next to Laura in the I.C.U. This is quite handy, because his only escape is to take over Laura's body. Laura/demon comes out of her coma and Wayne dies. The next morning, Mulder learns from Scully that there were four babies buried in Betsy's yard, but they were all normal. There was no sign of Betsy's abnormal baby. Mulder says that Wayne found someone who was even more evil. Betsy was more driven than Wayne. Scully asks: "Driven to what?" Mulder says: "To have what only Wayne could give her."

Elsewhere, a red-eyed, smiling Betsy is driving out of the county with her brand new baby demon. "Pour your misery down on me..."


Critique *** (of five) When a demon decides he wants a child that isn't like him, he plants his seed in many human women from Czechoslovakia to Virginia. But, alas, he can only spawn demon babies. He takes the unborn demons and buries them. I guess they go back to the abyss. Mulder suspects Wayne of some sort of mischief, but we are never really sure that even he believes the guy is a demon. I still think it would have been hilarious if Scully would have said at some point: "Mulder, why don't you just call Buffy so you can get back to doing background work." I know it's on the editing room floor. David Amann would never have passed up the opportunity to use that gag. What he did do was give us a nifty plot twist by having a female demon turn the tables on Wayne. She gets what she wanted, but poor Wayne is shot and left in intensive-care with Laura. This is rather handy, because he takes over her body where he can be safe. After all, her/his brother will never let anything happen to them. I am getting confused. The story is pretty straight forward and Bruce Campbell does a good job with what he has to work with. Much of the story drags and, although it has creepy moments, it isn't a nail biter. Amann doesn't seem to be able to get a grip on the voicing of Scully and Mulder. Sometimes, I think that's a good thing. Listening to them ramble on with their theories can be a bit much, but we could have used a little more in this story. The nifty, surprise demon-lady makes up for a lot of the story's shortcomings. Dr. Laura Schlessinger will not like that the demon-lady ran off to raise her demon baby as a single parent. It will grow up to be no good.

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