![]() ![]() Gastown, Vancouver stood in for many of the exterior shots that were supposed to be Brooklyn. Originally, the script called for the antagonist to be an African American " Louis Farrakhan-like" character, but Fox was concerned that the show's increasing popularity with black viewers would be damaged by this, and Gordon agreed to make the villains into, in his words, "cartoonish neo-Nazis". "Kaddish" was written by Gordon due to his fascination with the legend of the Golem from the Kabbalah. Despite other factors, Mulder becomes convinced that a golem is attempting to avenge Isaac's murder. One of the assailants, however, is soon strangled to death and the fingerprints on his neck are Isaac's. In the episode, Isaac Luria (Harrison Coe), a Jewish man, is killed by a group of teenagers working for a racist shop owner. The show centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder ( David Duchovny) and Dana Scully ( Gillian Anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. It received moderately positive reviews from critics. The episode received a Nielsen household rating of 10.3 and was viewed by 16.56 million viewers. The episode is a "Monster-of-the-Week" story, a stand-alone plot unconnected to the series' wider mythology, or overarching history. The episode originally aired on the Fox network on February 16, 1997. It was written by producer Howard Gordon and directed by Kim Manners. " Kaddish" is the fifteenth episode of the fourth season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. This later inspired him to write the episode. The ring was a real Jewish relic owned by a rabbi who survived the Holocaust, and was used to wed two of Howard Gordon's friends.
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