All Souls (The X-Files)

Infobox Television episode
Title = All Souls
Series = The X-Files


Caption =
Season = 5
Episode = 17
Airdate = April 26, 1998
Production = 5x17
Writer = Dan Angel, Billy Brown, John Shiban, & Frank Spotnitz
Director = Allen Coulter
Guests = Glenn Morshower
Episode list = List of The X-Files episodes
Prev = Mind's Eye
Next = The Pine Bluff Variant"All Souls" is the seventeenth episode of season 5 of the television series "The X-Files". The unexplained death of a young handicapped girl prompts Father McCue to ask Scully for her help, but her investigation leads her to a mystery she’s afraid to understand.

Guest stars

* Emily Perkins as Dara Kernoff / Paula Koklos / Roberta Dyer
* Glenn Morshower as Aaron Starkey

Trivia

* The song "That Episode of the X-Files Where Mulder and Scully Find the Little Girls with Their Eyes Burnt Out Because of Angels" by experimental rock band Technology vs. Horse is named for this episode, though its lyrics contain no references to the episode or even the X-Files in general.

* The seraphim are described as having four faces; those of a lion, ox, eagle, and man. This is incorrect, as cherubim have four faces; seraphim only have one, which is covered by a pair of wings.

* Mulder refers to a crucifix hanging in what is usually considered an inverted position as being a "protest, a sacrilege against the Church". In Roman Catholic symbology, an "inverted" cross is known as the Cross of Saint Peter. Later in the episode Scully gives the correct interpretation, referring to a legend that when Peter was martyred, he asked to be crucified head down because he was unworthy to die in the same manner as Christ. Catholics have about two dozen different crosses with differing significance. Most laypeople are not aware of their different meanings.

References and external links

*imdb title|0751070|All Souls
* [http://www.tv.com/the-x-files/all-souls/episode/604/summary.html All Souls] at TV.com
*X-FilesWiki|All Souls