Loin Like a Hunting Flame

"Loin Like a Hunting Flame"
Millennium episode
Episode no.Season 1
Episode 12
Directed byDavid Nutter
Written byTed Man
Production code4C11
Original air dateJanuary 31, 1997 (1997-01-31)
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"'Loin Like a Hunting Flame" is the twelfth episode of the first season of the American crime-thriller television series Millennium. It premiered on the Fox network on January 31, 1997. The episode was written by Ted Mann, and directed by David Nutter. "Loin Like a Hunting Flame" featured guest appearances by William Lucking, Hrothgar Mathews and Harriet Sansom Harris.

Forensic profiler Frank Black (Lance Henriksen), a member of the private investigative organisation Millennium Group, joins a fellow Group member to track a killer driven by sexual neuroses and who uses mood-altering drugs to gain control of his victims.

"Loin Like a Hunting Flame" has received mostly negative reviews from critics, with its treatment of female characters being seen as particularly poor. The episode—Nutter's last contribution to the series—contains several literary references, alluding to both Dylan Thomas and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

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