Episode: Kaddish
Jewish tradition has some wonderful monsters, such a the the dybbuk in A Serious Man, for instance. This episode features the more well known Golem. The plot is basic: a gang of anti-Semitic teenage boys kill Issac Luria, a young Orthodox Jewish man about to be married. Suddenly, these same young men are turning up dead with Luria's fingerprints at the scene--AFTER he's been buried. While Scully, with her super logical mind, thinks that Luria's father-in-law Jacob Weiss is somehow responsible, but "Spooky Mulder" thinks the answer lies with an actual Golem.
It's definitely one the darkest episodes of the entire series. The "creep factor" is quite high and it has a slow menacing pace. I know that Duchovny, whose father was a Russian Jew, had some input as to how the episode, with a real Jewish monster, should be presented in light of some these monsters having been used int the past for anti-Semitic purposes. And, if memory serves, I believe the episode was dedicated to his father, Arman, who was the publicist for the American Jewish Committee--I could be mis-remembering this though. We'll see.
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