The X-Files — S05E05 — The Post-Modern Prometheus
1997 · 47 MIN · IMDB 8.5 · 5,139 VOTES · DIR. Chris Carter
Overview
Filmed in glorious black and white with a comic book feel to it, this is a modern retelling of Frankenstein as Mulder and Scully get caught up in a town where the residents live on Jerry Springer episodes and fear a two-faced monster who has been impregnating the women.
Dialogue Timeline — 454 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:16 YOU'RE FLOODING IT, BOOGER.
00:01:57 SHE'S HERE WITH US TODAY WITH HER REAL-LIVE, BUT SLEEPING WOLF BABY.
00:04:57 "THEN THE ROOM GOT ALL SMOKY...
00:06:06 OF YOUR UNION WITH SOME KIND OF INTRUDER?
00:07:12 THAT'S A FAMILY HEIRLOOM TOO.
00:08:25 THESE ARE AGENTS MULDER AND SCULLY FROM THE F.B.I.
00:09:33 I THINK WHAT WE'RE SEEING HERE IS AN EXAMPLE...
00:10:47 WHAT'S THAT SOUND?
00:12:39 TURNING ACCEPTED NOTIONS OF OUR VERY EXISTENCE ON THEIR HEAD.
00:13:50 SINCE THE CAMBRIAN PERIOD SOME 580 MILLION SHORT YEARS AGO...
00:14:59 THAT WOULD GO AGAINST EVERY SCIENTIFIC CONVENTION.
00:16:22 WHEN ARE YOU COMING HOME AGAIN? WHAT?
00:19:18 IZZY BERKOWITZ, GET YOUR BUTT FRONT AND CENTER!
00:21:03 AND THEN I WANT TO SEE THE PROFESSOR.
00:22:17 WHEN SHE SAW HER INTRUDER, THERE WAS A GASEOUS WHITE CLOUD.
00:25:14 SCULLY.
00:26:35 AND SHE LOVES ME.
00:29:55 YEAH! YEAH!
00:33:38 WHAT'S YOUR BUSINESS HERE? THE OLD MAN WAS MURDERED.
00:36:31 WE'RE NOT GONNA HURT YOU.
00:38:48 YOUR EARS DECEIVE YOU.
00:40:13 MY FATHER SET OUT TO LEARN HIS SON'S SCIENCE...
00:41:51 WHAT WE DID WAS WRONG.
00:45:13 WHAT'S NOT TO LOVE?
Cast & Characters
David Duchovny
Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson
Dana Scully
John O'Hurley
Dr. Pollidori
Chris Owens
Mutato
C. Ernst Harth
Huge Man
Pattie Tierce
Shaineh Berkowitz
Stewart Gale
Izzy Berkowitz
Chris Giacoletti
Booger
Tracey Bell
Cher
Vitaly Kravchenko
J.J. (uncredited)
Miriam Smith
Elizabeth Pollidori
Jerry Springer
Jerry Springer
Lloyd Berry
Old Man Pollidori
Xantha Radley
Waitress
Jonathan Palis
Postal Worker (uncredited)
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed454
Dialogue density9.7 lines / min
First line00:00:16
Final line00:45:13
Production Record
DirectorChris Carter
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes5,139
Factoids
Episode
The X-Files, season 5, episode 5: The Post-Modern Prometheus.
https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/4087/season/5/episode/5
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