The X Files miniseries continues with episode two, Founder's Mutation. This episode was an especially personal monster of the week that owes its lineage to previous episodes like Rush and even Post Modern Prometheus (in the Goldman characters story). The case involved some of Mulder and Scully's worst fears: abducted women, stolen children, bodies taken against their will and manipulated. All the usual demons. More unusual was the so-called monster of the episode - a child who the shadow hands had inadvertently and/or vertantly crafted into an evolved member of the species. This monster didn't want anything bad, but seemed to be obeying some other force. The real monster, as usual, was the "doctor" who played god with DNA in children - his own, in fact. This stirs up emotions for Mulder and Scully, who face their separate feelings of loss and fear over their lost son, William, over the course of the episode.