The X Files 118 Miracle Man Trivia, Facts, Goofs & Description

 The agents investigate a ministry led by a man whose son possesses the power to heal, and to k*ll, with a touch of his hand.

Trivia

• Producer R.W. Goodwin felt that the greatest difficulty was finding enough Vancouver-area actors who could portray a convincing Southern US accent, so they hired a dialect coach to prevent the cast from sounding "like they were coming from fifteen different parts of the South".
• All the faith-healing scenes in the tent were shot in one day with the help of 300 extras.
• Scully's autopsy begins at 11:21 pm. 11:21 is a recurring time during this season, featured in both the pilot and season finale as well.
• Brought up Catholic, Dana Scully states that one of her favorite movies is The Exorcist (1973).
• This episode takes place in 1983 and 1994.
• The first script written by executive producer Howard Gordon without his longtime partner, Alex Gansa.
• The plot for "Miracle Man" was also adapted as a novel for young adults in 2000 by Terry Bisson.

Goofs

• (at around 15 mins) The screen caption says "Kenwood County Courthouse" but the building shown is the "Dekalb County Courthouse" in Auburn, Indiana. In the original broadcast, the sign on the courthouse had not been changed, resulting in a revealing mistake. Subsequently, the sign was changed digitally to replace "Dekalb" with "Kenwood" so there is no error when viewing the episode in broadcast syndication or on home media.
• (at around 25 mins) Scully palpates the radial pulse by holding the hand of the girl in the wheelchair, Margaret, and immediately pronounces her dead. A medical doctor, such as herself, would know that one can never pronounce a person dead just by the absence of pulse, that too, just by examining the radial pulse for hardly 3 seconds. Conditions such as ventricular fibrillation (heart attack) might present as pulselessness, but a person can still be revived by appropriate medical procedures. A doctor would ideally perform a full medical exam before declaring someone dead.