Absolutely nailed it. Check out the episode titled: Nothing Lasts Forever which aired March 2018. The premise was as follows:
Fox Mulder and Dana Scully are drawn to a murder and organ harvesting case they believe is only a single ritual murder.
A conversation with a priest leads them to a woman who tells them about a cult her sister has joined. Additional murders and organ extractions occur and we see the stolen organs are being taken to the home of reclusive TV star Barbara Beaumont and her partner Randolph Luvenis. They have formed a cult, called Randy Organ Harvesters (named after Randolph).
The members of the cult consume human organs to offset the aging process; And, despite being eighty-five years old, Barbara appears to be thirty.
The effects are only temporary, leading Randolph to surgically conjoin himself to others, parasitically feeding off them to reverse his age. Together, they have been feeding organs to their followers and plan to conjoin them to Barbara in the hopes of giving her eternal youth. However, tensions arise when the stolen organs are not enough to feed the cult. As Luvenis leaves to steal organs from a hospital, a cult member offers himself as a sacrifice to sustain the others. After he stabs himself, he is eaten alive.
The X-Files has always been about disclosure, packaged inside a 'fictional' episode.
Absolutely nailed it. Check out the episode titled: Nothing Lasts Forever which aired March 2018. The premise was as follows:
Fox Mulder and Dana Scully are drawn to a murder and organ harvesting case they believe is only a single ritual murder.
A conversation with a priest leads them to a woman who tells them about a cult her sister has joined. Additional murders and organ extractions occur and we see the stolen organs are being taken to the home of reclusive TV star Barbara Beaumont and her partner Randolph Luvenis. They have formed a cult, called Randy Organ Harvesters (named after Randolph).
The members of the cult consume human organs to offset the aging process; And, despite being eighty-five years old, Barbara appears to be thirty.
The effects are only temporary, leading Randolph to surgically conjoin himself to others, parasitically feeding off them to reverse his age. Together, they have been feeding organs to their followers and plan to conjoin them to Barbara in the hopes of giving her eternal youth. However, tensions arise when the stolen organs are not enough to feed the cult. As Luvenis leaves to steal organs from a hospital, a cult member offers himself as a sacrifice to sustain the others. After he stabs himself, he is eaten alive.
The X-Files has always been about disclosure, packaged inside a 'fictional' episode.