‘The X-Files’ Review: ‘Familiar’ Feels So Much Like a Classic Episode, It’s Spooky

[Editor’s note: Spoilers for “The X-Files” Season 11 Episode 8, “Familiar,” follow.]Previously, on “The X-Files”…Mulder and Scully investigate weird crimes for the FBI.

Sometimes, those crimes don’t have anything to do with government conspiracies — sometimes, they feature evils both supernatural and all-too-human.This Week’s DossierMulder and Scully arrive in a small Connecticut town to investigate the strange and violent death of a police officer’s son, who was found mutilated in the woods.

But Scully suspects that what might seem like an animal attack could actually be the work of an adult in the community, while Mulder’s got his theories about hybrid wolves and, eventually, witchcraft.Unfortunately, while they investigate, the police chief’s daughter is also killed in a similar fashion — supporting Mulder’s theory that a witch’s “familiar” is luring those children into the woods using their favorite TV show characters.

However, the grieving father of the first victim,

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