Orison (The X-Files) - Plot

Plot

At a prison, a man gets his fingers chopped off during a workshop and all the other inmates move very slowly to help him, while one man walks out at regular speed. The man is revealed to be Donnie Pfaster, who kidnapped Scully five years earlier. Pfaster, who happens to be a "death fetishist", is obsessed with cutting women's hair and eating their fingers. After hearing that Pfaster escaped from prison, Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) take the case and investigate. It turns out three men escaped from three prisons and all had contact with a prison chaplain named Reverend Orison. Eventually, the US Marshals corner Pfaster and Orison at a diner, but Orison uses his power of persuasion to distract the Marshals, allowing the two to escape. Pfaster takes Orison's car and runs Orison over. Meanwhile, Scully keeps hearing the same song, "Don't Look Any Further", everywhere she goes and soon begins to believe it is a sign. After finding him unconscious, Mulder and Scully question Orison and show him a photo of the remains of a prostitute Pfaster killed. They also find that Orison killed someone and spent 22 years in prison himself. Orison claims he is being spoken to by God and doing his work. After a medical exam, Mulder finds out that Orison has three times the bloodflow capacity of the brain and he drilled a hole in head, allowing him to perform mental tricks by hypnotizing people. He does this while repeating the phrase "Glory, Amen."

Later, Orison hypnotizes the security guard in his room and escapes. Pfaster hires a prostitute, but soon realizes she is wearing a wig and attempts to attack her, but she gets away. Orison finds Pfaster and takes him at gunpoint while he digs a grave for him, but Pfaster morphs into a demonic beast and kills Orison, burying him in his own shallow grave. Pfaster then calls the police, tells them where Orison is buried, and goes to Scully's house. He attacks Scully and Scully confesses to him that the only reason he was not given the death penalty was because she asked the judge for life. He overpowers her and locks her in her own closet. Mulder thinks something may be wrong when he hears the same song on his radio and calls Scully. After receiving no answer, he goes over to her house and stumbles upon Pfaster, promptly arresting him. Meanwhile, Scully escapes from the closet and shoots Pfaster, despite him being unarmed, killing him. Scully later confides in Mulder, telling him she's not sure if she committed murder or was doing God's work.