2X24 Our Town

Writer: Frank Spotnitz
Director: Rob Bowman
Original Broadcast: AU: 06.09.1995 US: 12.05.1994
Episode Availability: DVD: AU CA UK US

Cast:
Special Agent Dana Scully · Gillian Anderson
Special Agent Fox Mulder · David Duchovny

Guest Cast:
Sheriff Tom Arens · Gary Grubbs
Doris Kearns · Caroline Kava
George Kearns · John MacLaren
Creighton Jones · Hrothgar Mathews
Walter Chaco · John Milford
Paula Gray · Gabrielle Miller
Worker · Robert Moloney
Dr Vance Randolph · Robin Mossley
Maid · Carrie Cain Sparks
Jess Harold · Timothy Webber

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Dudley, Arkansas is the site of the latest investigation for Mulder and Scully, who are sent to find a missing poultry inspector. The case takes a twist when another poultry worker is shot after she goes insane, giving Mulder a hunch that the townsfolk really are what they eat.

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Scully: "Come on, Mulder. Don't you see what they're doing here? They're wasting our time. They're sending us on some kind of a wild goose chase."
Mulder: "Chicken chase. George Kearns was a federal poultry inspector assigned to Dudley, Arkansas. Home of Chaco Chicken."

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Scully: "She claims she saw some kind of a foxfire spirit! I'm surprised she didn't call Oprah as soon as she got off the phone with the police."

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Scully: "These are only legends, Mulder."
Mulder: "Well, most legends don't leave behind twelve foot burn marks."

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Mulder: "A documentary I saw when I was in college about an insane asylum. It gave me nightmares."
Scully: "I didn't think anything gave you nightmares."
Mulder: "I was young."

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Mulder: "So you don't believe it's foxfire?"
Sheriff Arens: "Sir, Foxfire is nothing more than a ghost story about swamp gas."

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Chaco Motto: "Chaco Chicken. Good People. Good Food."

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Mulder: "What's that?"
Jess Harold: "That. Feed Grinder. Chops up bone and tissue. You see, any part of the bird we can't package we process and use as feed."
Mulder: "Chickens feed on chickens?"

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Scully: "So, Mulder, are you ready to admit that they sent us on a fool's errand?"
Mulder: "If a fool would persist in his folly he would become wise, Scully."

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Walter Chaco: "Not many people I know are as useful as these chickens."

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Mulder: "Who knows, Scully? This could turn out to be even more interesting than foxfires."

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Scully: "I just came up with a sick theory, Mulder."
Mulder: "Ooh, I'm listening!"

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Mulder: "Well I'd like it dragged as soon as possible." [The river]
Sheriff Arens: "Why would you want to do that?"
Mulder: "To see what's in there."

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Scully: "All of them share one strange detail, Mulder."
Mulder: "Well they seem to have lost their heads."

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Mulder: "Scully, I think that the good people of Dudley have been eating more than just chicken."
Scully: "You think these people were eaten?"

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Mulder: "Someone's been playing with matches."
Scully: "Smells like a recent fire."
Mulder: "I bet it's no coincidence it only hit the birth records."
Scully: "You think someone was expecting us?"