<Li> "Talitha Cumi", the third - season finale of The X-Files, borrowed heavily from this parable for an interrogation between The Smoking Man and Jeremiah Smith (as the Inquisitor and Jesus, respectively). </Li> <Li> Noam Chomsky refers to The Grand Inquisitor in the first chapter of his book Necessary Illusions . </Li> <Li> Aldous Huxley refers to The Grand Inquisitor in the last chapter of his book Brave New World Revisited . </Li> <Li> The Ocean Collective refer to The Grand Inquisitor in their album Anthropocentric, running the parable across three songs . </Li>

Who does the grand inquisitor visit in jail