Die Hand Die Verletzt

"Die Hand die verletzt" (in Russian translation common name "the punishing hand" and "Punishing hand") is the fourteenth episode of the second season of the series "Secret materials". It belongs to the class of "monster of the week" and not the "mythology" of the series specified in the pilot episode.

The name of the episode is taken from the prayer, which say members of the teaching Committee at the beginning of the episode, and literally translates from German as "a hurting hand".

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In high school in the Milford haven, new Hampshire, a group of teachers meets to discuss the conduct of various social events. Present at the meeting, adults take a more conservative position, doubting whether students doing productions of the musicals "grease" or "Jesus Christ superstar". When the meeting ends, together they recite the satanic prayer.

Later that night, a group of students goes into the woods to practice black magic. The experiment leads to the fact that starting to happen inexplicable things, like escaping from the land of fire, the sounds of demonic voices or swarming the venue of the ritual of rats. The next day one of the teenagers, Jerry Thomas, find with a torn heart and eyes. Arrived at the crime scene, Mulder and Scully learn that according to local residents, the children with their rituals have unleashed demonic forces. This theory finds support in strange accidents, such as falling from the sky frogs and the water in school drinking fountains, under the sink twisting in the opposite direction.

Finding adolescents who were present during the ritual, using found in the location of the piece of book page with a stamp of the library, the agents find out that the Teens just wanted to impress girls and do not know what happened. You find that Jane DOE in town who arrived to replace the teacher, Mrs. Paddock stores in its table the eye and heart of the victim. A school teacher and a member of the cult Jim Osberi suspects one of his colleagues that he killed the boy, but others believe that it was some external force. Stepdaughter Osberi, Shannon, in the science class during a dissection of pig fetus happen hallucinations and hysterics begins. At the meeting with Mulder and Scully, the girl says that when mother left, her stepfather walked in their house occult rituals that included rape and insemination of her and her younger sisters, as well as the sacrifice of children born from these acts. She claims that her sister eventually became one of the sacrificed. Mother Shannon denies that Shannon was ever pregnant and said that the youngest daughter died at the age of 8 weeks.

When Shannon remained in school after class to retake the laboratory for material of pig embryo, Mrs. Paddock takes her bracelet and uses it as part of the spell, leading to the fact that Shannon cuts his wrists. When the agents arrive discreetly Paddock steals Scully's pen. Mulder goes to the house to Osberi where it enters the basement, decorated like a temple of Satan. Suddenly it turns out that Jim Osberi stands beside him. Osberi says that he learned from other members of a satanic cult, about their intentions to blame his step-daughter in the murder and desecration of the body of Jerry Thomas and decided to confess to Mulder in the activities of the cult. He confirmed memories Shannon about the rituals, but denies sexual harassment, saying that it cleaned up the memory filled the void of sensationalism from the TV. He also said that the sect members conducted some rituals and ignored others in a tacit approval. Meanwhile, Scully is staying in school, studying teachers and, in particular, Mrs. Paddock and finds that no one knows who she is and who hired her, and the teacher whom she replaced, ill very rare and unusual disease. Paddock simulates call Mulder on behalf of Scully asking for help. When the agent Osberi chained in the basement, goes in the room gets a giant snake that eats Osberi. Mrs. Paddock, a satisfied smile, opens his eyes, which look like a snake.

Mulder arrives at the school, where Scully claims that did not cause it. Paddock mimics the beating, accused of assault a group of three school staff – members of the cult. Those, in turn, are convinced that they need to bring someone to the victim and attack Mulder and Scully. Agents bit by being pulled away to the showers, they're going to commit ritual murder, but the Paddock forces the cultists to kill themselves. Mulder and Scully are released from their bonds and find Mrs. Paddock missing, leaving them with the message "Yet. It was a pleasure working with you" with chalk on the chalkboard.

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After the ceremony in the forest flame appears, the source of which is unknown.

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Paranormal abilities have Mrs. Paddock, which is probably the epitome designed by students of the demon Azazel.

Mrs. Paddock can control the actions of other people. She needed a small item belonging to the victim of its effects. She holds the hand gripped in the fist of the subject over a candle flame, endure unbearable pain and gets thus the control of someone else's mind.

In addition, Mrs. Paddock can control animals, at least boa. During such control, her eyes are like snake eyes. A boa constrictor can swallow a man whole, digest it for a few minutes and spit it out almost bare bones, while in the normal state, this process should occur within a few weeks.

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As poltergeist manifestations in episodes of spontaneous movement of objects (the basement door and deadbolt on it). In addition, the water in the drinking fountain installed in the school corridor, flows counterclockwise, which is contrary to generally accepted ideas about how this should happen in Northern poluchenii of the Earth.

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Scully and Mulder fall under the rain of frogs at the crime scene in the woods where it was made a demon summoning.

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