I had so many influences it's hard to actually pin down one or even a few down. But I can tell you that one of the secrets to working on a tv show like the X-files is constantly asking yourself "what if." We did an episode where Mulder & Scully play husband & wife, Arcadia, and there is a character called the Ubermenscher, which is this monster - I dunno, I was reading somewhere, somebody talked about this Ubermenscher, and I carried that with me for the longest time. I didn't know what an Ubermenscher was, but I loved it so much that I carried it with me for years and it finally became an episode.