Chinga
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| Series: | The X-Files |
| Original Airdate: | February 8, 1998 |
| Production Number: | 5x10 |
| Date(s): | 1998 |
| Written by: | Chris Carter & Stephen King |
| Directed by: | Kim Manners |
Scully tries to take a weekend vacation to Maine but ends up investigating a strange case in which a seemingly murderous doll has apparently caused several victims to inflict wounds upon themselves.
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[edit] Summary
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[edit] Background Information
- This episode was co-written by renowned American author Stephen King, who is best known for his extremely popular horror novels.
- Co-writers Chris Carter and Stephen King did not meet during the writing of this episode.
- Stephen King submitted several drafts of this episode's script, although the interaction between Mulder and Scully was considered to be slightly out of character in each revision. Consequently, The X-Files creator Chris Carter delivered the final draft of the script, as he was more familiar with the characters of Mulder and Scully than Stephen King was.
- Aside from being the title of this episode, "Chinga" is also the name of the evil doll featured in the episode and an offensive Spanish slang term. It is used in the latter context in The X-Files novel Whirlwind. Stephen King was unaware of the word's usage in the Spanish language at the time he wrote this episode, although Chris Carter later realised the word's significance and the episode's title was consequently changed to "Bunghoney" when it aired outside America.
- The coastal town of Ammas, Maine, where this episode is set, is a typical setting for a story by Stephen King, who was born there and uses the state as the principal setting for almost all of his novels.
- This episode features the first instance of Mulder tossing pencils in to the ceiling tiles out of boredom, something that would become a recurring joke in the series.
- This episode reveals where Mulder found the I Want To Believe poster. At "...some head shop on M street." according to Mulder.
- The book on Scully's night-stand in her motel room is titled, "Affirmation For Women Who Do Too Much" by Arianna Carrillo. The cover of this book appears to depict a witch in a forest beneath a full moon.
[edit] Memorable Quotes
A telephone conversation
Mulder: It sounds to me like that's witchcraft or some sorcery that you're looking for there.
Scully: I don't think it's witchcraft or sorcery. I've had a look around and I don't see any evidence of anything that warrants that kind of suspicion.
Mulder: Well, maybe you don't know what you're looking for.
Scully: Like evidence of conjuring or the black arts or shamanism, divination, wicca or any kind of pagan or neo-pagan practice. Charms, cards, familiars, bloodstones or hex signs or any of the ritual tableau associated with the occult. Santeria, Voudun, Macumba or any high or low magic.
Mulder: Scully.
Scully: Yes.
Mulder: Marry me.
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[edit] Guest Stars
- Susannah Hoffman as Melissa Turner
- Larry Musser as Captain Jack Bonsaint
- Dean Wray as Rich Turner
- Gordon Tipple as Assistant Manager
- Harrison Coe as Dave the Butcher
- Ian Robison as Ranger
- Elizabeth McCarthy as Shopper
- Tracey Lively as Clerk
- Sean Benbow as Customer
- Jenny-Lynn Hutcheson as Polly Turner
- Henry Beckman as Fisherman
- Carolyn Tweedle as Jane Frölich
[edit] References
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