Spoilers

“Kaddish”

The X-Files have used plenty of mythological creatures from different religions and cultures over the years in their monster-of-the-week episodes. This episode featured the Jewish creature known as a golem.

I knew of the idea of a golem from Marvel Comics so I remember being intrigued by this episode when it was first released.

Mulder and Scully were investigating a murder of a man who was suspected to be involved in the death of a Jewish man. They expected this to be a revenge killing.

Of course, the murdered man had two other friends who were doomed as well. They were all Nazis, so I did not find much compassion for these victims.

However, the golem would go off on its own and become more of a danger to others as well.

This was a decent episode, but a bit of a step down over the last few episodes. There was no mention of Scully’s cancer at all, which felt out of place considering how important of a twist that storyline was.