This is supposed to be an installment of the series' mythology but I think they could have left it out. I read it was done as a way to salvage an idea that was vetoed which could have been a crossover episode with Picket Fences; that was a series airing on CBS, produced by David Kelley. Instead what happens is it appears that kids are being injected with beef hormones, or perhaps its alien beef DNA, which is then linked to Purity Control from Season One's "Erlenmeyer Flask." That seems like a flimsy excuse for a familiar government assassin to show up, just to tie up a loose end from that particular episode. I'm not really sure what all of this is supposed to mean.
In between the drugged kids and the assassin's appearance, we are introduced to a vegan cult (where the episode gets its title of "Red Museum.") This particular cult wear white robes with red turbans and are led by Mark Ralston, who has went from blasting aliens in Aliens to being a cult leader; I guess a man's gotta pay the bills. During a ceremony by the Red Museum, one of their members speaks of the dawning of the Age of Aquarius and I was really hoping Mulder would have made a reference to that song by The Fifth Dimension. Just anything to save this episode somehow.
If you thought this episode couldn't get any more bizarre, there is also a peeping tom who peeks through a hole in the wall at a house. On the other side of the wall, the side from which he peeks, is full of video tapes that he's likely recorded from his peep sessions. Once he's apprehended, Mulder and Scully discover that the house was originally used as a daycare center, putting his peeping on a different plateau of creepiness.
Possibly to balance out the perversion, a kind old man offered Mulder and Scully a ride out to his grandfather's farm, which is how the growth hormone angle was revealed. Though I am sure that was the most uncomfortable car ride I've ever seen.
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