MUSIC: "INJECTION" by Hans Zimmer

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THE SCORE - This particular score is from the MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: 2 soundtrack, composed by Hans Zimmer. I resisted using this piece for a very long time, and spent approximately two weeks to look for something similar, since I felt this score is too repetitive, has a very long and relatively flat introduction, and has drum sequences that can be difficult to accompany video with. However, in the end, I could find nothing comparable to its hauntingly poignant vocals and strong rhythm. I resolved the flat introduction by cutting approximately 30 seconds from it, and, for the first time, using dialogue to compensate for the remaining 01:17 minutes of "introduction."

SIMPLY PUT...

...this video is about Scully's evolving beliefs concerning the existence of extraterrestrial life, as well as her struggle to come to terms with Mulder's unorthodox research and her own need for scientific proof. Her dialogue contrasts with her experiences to show how her beliefs are slowly being challenged by their quest. Events such as Mulder's illness and abduction fuel her independent search for truth. Their investment in the X-Files leads them to become the very proof they sought. Not only are they investigators of the conspiracy and alien races, but become key players in a global--and universal--plot for the eventual reinhabitation of the earth.

PATTERNS -

The video opens with Scully wandering in the distance, hoping to find the UFO that had abducted Mulder, and becoming illuminated by light (WITHIN). The audience, and Scully, is deceived for several moments, believing that a UFO is indeed illuminating her, but turns out to be a helicopter. This deception symbolizes Scully's prior belief that UFOs can be explained with rational terms, such as mistaking aircraft and weather balloons for flying saucers.

"I DIDN'T BELIEVE YOU"

In THE RED & THE BLACK, Scully is found on Ruskin Dam along with other abductees, some survivors, some burnt beyond recognition. She does not remember her experiences, but now reaches a critical turning point. She realizes she must evaluate her beliefs by attempting to remember her experiences, in order to decide whether she should continue to follow Mulder's path. Mulder, at the same time, is also experiencing a crisis of faith in which he questions the validity of his belief in extraterrestrial life.

from THE RED & THE BLACK transcript

SCULLY: Mulder, when I met you five years ago, you told me that your sister had been abducted ... by aliens. That that event had marked you so deeply, that nothing else mattered. I didn't believe you, but I followed you, on nothing more than your faith that the truth was out there, based not on facts, not on science, but on your memories that your sister had been taken from you. Your memories were all that you had.

MULDER: I don't trust those memories now.

SCULLY: Well, whether you trust them or not, they've led you here. And me. But I have no memories to either trust nor distrust, and if you ask me now to follow you again, to stand behind you in what you now believe, without knowing what happened to me out there, without those memories, I can't. I won't.

Her decision to undergo regression hypnosis to retrieve these memories, which revealed a horrific abduction scenario with a rebel alien race sabatoging the abduction by burning the congregating abductees, leads her to increasingly understand the involvement of aliens in a government conspiracy. Even though at the end of THE RED & THE BLACK, she reconsiders her experiences, I believe THE RED & THE BLACK is a major turning point in her acceptance of the existence of extraterresrial life.

Later experiences, such as her memories on Ruskin Dam and her investigations in Africa, further challenge her beliefs. In THE SIXTH EXTINCTION I, as she decodes the ancient Navajo writings etched into the surface of a submerged spacecraft in Africa, she manages to gather proof of the existence of aliens. To show her progression of belief during her investigation on the Ivory Coast, I included clips from the beginning, middle, and end of her investigation of the Navajo writings. At 00:27 the video shows her in contemplation of her work, as a locust flutters on the rubbing that affected Mulder so mysteriously, and which ultimately led her to the Ivory Coast. At 00:40, she hovers over photographs of the etchings, and slowly pieces together its meaning.

from THE SIXTH EXTINCTION I transcript

SCULLY: (voiceover) The work here is painstaking-- a slow and tedious piecing together. It appears to be a craft, its skin covered in the intricate symbols you and I both saw but which I now understand are part of a complex communication. Dr. Barnes has broken some of the symbols into letters using an ancient Navajo alphabet and, though it has helped to uncover some of what's here it has also made for greater confusion.

Finally, at 02:23, Scully reaches the crux of her discovery. She and Amina Ngebe share their efforts to translate the craft.

from THE SIXTH EXTINCTION I transcript

AMINA NGEBE: What this is. What the symbols spell out is a passage from the Koran. Qeyaamah. "The day of final judgment." (amazed) On a spacecraft? Teachings of the ancient prophet Mohammed?

SCULLY: I found more, too.

(SCULLY leads AMINA NGEBE over to the section of rubbings she has been piecing together.)

SCULLY: 24 panels... One for each human chromosome. A map of their makeup-- maybe a map of our entire genetic makeup... A complete human genome. I mean, it's like... it's the most beautiful... intricate work of art.

AMINA NGEBE: (agreeing) It is the Word of God.

DR. BARNES: (entering the tent with a burlap sack in his hand) You're wrong. There is no God. What's out there on the water... is only what we call "God"... What we call "creation"-- the spark that ignited the fire that cooked the old primordial soup... made animate from inanimate... made us.

AMINA NGEBE: I believe he is mad from the sun.

DR. BARNES: Mad? I'm perfectly sane... because today I understand everything, beginning and end, alpha and omega, everything in between. It's all been written. But the word is "extraterrestrial."

As a scientist, it is significant that Scully find the human genome on the surface of the spacecraft, because it is the most poignant evidence that could possibly be presented to her in order to convince her of the existence--and power--of alien life.

Since the spacecraft is covered with religious passages and advanced human genetics but written in an ancient Navajo text, it implies that not only is there intelligent life elsewhere, but religion also originated elsewhere. Therefore, it is suggested that religion was given to mankind by aliens, and that the idea of God is itself alien. It is also implied that since ancient Navajo is used to communicate these ideas, that that language could have originally been an alien language. This idea was originally suggested three seasons prior to in ANASAZI.

from ANASAZI transcript

ALBERT: There was a tribe of indians who lived here more than 600 years ago. Their name was Anasazi, it means ancient aliens. No evidence of their fate exists. Historians say they disappeared without a trace. They say that because they will not sacrifice themselves to the truth.

MULDER: And what is the truth.?

ALBERT: Nothing disappears without a trace.

MULDER: You think they were abducted.

ALBERT: By visitors who come here still.

Therefore, it is implied that the Anasazi Indians were given the ancient Navajo language, or that they, themselves, were alien.

As the dialogue from THE RED & THE BLACK completes with Scully saying,"if you ask me now to follow you again, to stand behind you in what you now believe, without knowing what happened to me out there, without those memories, I can't," the video cuts to a scene from THE SIXTH EXTINCTION I where she looks on at the mysteries in Africa, and is overwhelmed with the questions and experiences that challenge her rigorous faith in science and the extreme improbability of alien life.

FLYING ARTIFACTS, RESCUE FROM ANTARCTICA, THE BOILING SEA, ALIEN BOUNTY HUNTERS, LOCUSTS, and more

Scully's experiences in Africa start with Dr. Merkmallen's discovery of the two pieces of alien aircraft, which fly out of his hand as they fuse together midair, and crashes into his bookshelf, lodging in a copy of the Bible. Dr. Merkmallen carefully pries apart the Bible and extracts the fused artifact from its pages, at Genesis I:28 which says:

"And God blessed them, and God said unto them, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth."

Later, Dr. Barnes proves that the spacecraft is a source of healing power, and brings dead fish, and a man, back to life. It is also suggested that Scully's infertility may also have been cured by the spacecraft's healing powers, since the Biblical passage suggests "God said unto them, be fruitful, and multiply..." (for more, see THE BOY ON THE BEACH)

A barrage of Biblical predictions, such as the boiling sea and the attack of locusts, occur during Scully's experience in Africa, and after her visitation by a spirit, she is convinced that she should go home.

These, and her other experiences, such as being rescued from an alien spacecraft in Antarctica (FIGHT THE FUTURE), being attacked by an alien bounty hunter disguised as Assistant Director Skinner (WITHOUT), and seeing evidence of a mass viral infection (FIGHT THE FUTURE), build her gradual belief in alien life.

"I AM WILLING TO BELIEVE, BUT NOT IN A LIE, AND NOT IN THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT I CAN PROVE"

This section of dialogue appears in THE BEGINNING, as Scully demands Mulder to accept that she needs more than simple faith. This dialogue begins a segment of "proof," such as the development of Mulder's remote viewing and psychic abilities (BIOGENESIS/SIXTH EXTINCTION I & II), as well as her connection of The Sixth Extinction to the African spacecraft and Mulder's kidnapping.

from THE SIXTH EXTINCTION II: AMOR FATI transcript

(SCULLY opens the envelope. Inside is a large book. "Native American Beliefs and Practices." There is writing on the cover of the book that perfectly matches the writing on one of the panels of the ship that she has displayed on her laptop. She opens the book. Chapter Three IS TITLED: "The Anasazi - An Entire Native American Indian Culture Vanishes Without a Trace - History as Myth and end of the world symbolism. Apocalypse and The Sixth Extinction.")

(In his office, SKINNER answers the phone. Another man is in the office with him walking around the room, but we cannot see his face.)

SKINNER: (on phone) Skinner.

SCULLY: (on phone, quietly) Sir, did you send me this book?

SKINNER (on phone) Excuse me?

SCULLY: (on phone) This book. It explains everything that I found in Africa... using the same symbols that I found on the ship.

SKINNER: (on phone) Agent Scully, I asked you not to involve me in this.

SCULLY: (on phone) It's all here, sir-- a foretelling of mass extinction; a myth about a man who can save us from it. That's why they took Mulder. They think that his illness is a gift-- protection against the coming plague.

From the book, Scully realizes Mulder's role in a global plot to create alien-human hybrids, to protect mankind from the coming alien apocalypse resulting from the release of the alien virus to destroy mankind. Mulder, as it turns out, is somehow naturally immune to the alien virus, and his psychic abilities are turned on by exposure to a rubbing of the alien artifact.

from THE SIXTH EXTINCTION I transcript

DIANA FOWLEY: I know what's happened to you. I know what you're suffering from...And I won't let you die... to prove what you are, to prove what's inside you. There's no need to prove it. It's been known for so long.

One interpretation is that Mulder already had latent psychic abilities, that his immunity to the virus, his anamolous brain activity is not anything new, but had already existed, but largely remained inactive. It can also be seen that his success as a profiler, his ability to "get inside the heads" of people, is a sort of psychic ability. His success as an investigator, particularly his wild leaps of logic, can also be seen as somewhat psychic.

However, Scully's connection of the alien craft and the Sixth Extinction to Mulder's condition and his hospital kidnapping does not save him, and so her entire experience can be seen as fulfilling her personal quest for the truth, gathering her own "proof" of the existence of extraterrestrial life.

She is eventually able to rescue Mulder after she is given a keycard to enter the military facility in which Mulder was operated on. The keycard belonged to Diana Fowley, who was later murdered for her role in Mulder's rescue.

"I KNOW WHAT I HAVE EXPERIENCED" : THE CONSPIRACY INSIDE THE HANGAR

Cassandra Spender is aptly named after a woman in a Greek myth who was given the gift to prophesize the future, but was condemned with the curse that no one should believe her.

Mulder does not believe her in PATIENT X, when he meets her during his crisis of faith, but later comes around to accept her experiences in TWO FATHERS/ONE SON.

from TWO FATHERS transcript

CASSANDRA SPENDER: I told you that the aliens were here to do good and that I was being used as an oracle to spread the word. Only now I know what the aliens are here for and it isn't good.

MULDER: What are they here for?

CASSANDRA SPENDER: To wipe us off the planet. They're taking over the universe. They're infecting all other life-forms with a black substance called Purity. It's their life force. It's what they're made of.

MULDER: It's the virus-- the black oil.

SCULLY: But, Cassandra, the doctors weren't infected. They were burned.

CASSANDRA SPENDER: By another race of aliens. A rebel force that are mutilating their faces so that they won't be infected. This is what I couldn't tell my son Jeffrey.

As it turns out, Jeffrey Spender's father is The Cigarette Smoking Man, also known as CGB Spender, who ordered the tests to be done on abductees in order to create a human-alien hybrid, while developing a vaccine for the virus at the same time. It all began in a hangar where each of the members of the Project turned over a loved one to the aliens as insurance. Mulder's father, William Mulder, was also forced to hand over a loved one, so he gave them Samantha. Her abduction thus fueled Mulder's quest to expose the government conspiracy.

The video contains the beginning and end of the conspiracy that occured inside the hangar, including CGB Spender welcoming the aliens (at 03:57) 50 years before the Project's return to the hangar to escape the viral apocalypse (at 02:02). Only their plans were foiled by a rebel alien race, as they surrounded the Project members and their families, and, effectively, destroyed the Project, and prevented them from handing over Cassandra.

This event caused Jeffrey Spender to recognize his father's nefarious role in his mother's abductions, as well as his own role in them. Because of his mother's death, he urged Assistant Director Kersch for Mulder and Scully's reinstatement into the X-Files.

THE BOY IN THE CAVE, GIBSON PRAISE, ALBERT HOSTEEN, AND...MULDER

...All examples of proof of alien life and global conspiracies.The sequence in which they appear in was edited so that they all raised their heads upwards to symbolize their connection to UFOs (starting at 02:18).

The boy was infected with the black oil, which in turn, infected three firefighters who went to rescue the boy. Scully saw evidence of a massive viral infection when she covertly autopsied one of their bodies (FIGHT THE FUTURE), and consequently led her to continue their quest, with the conviction of finding a vaccine for the virus.

Gibson Praise, child prodigy and psychic, has natural abilities stemming from the heightened activity in his temporal lobe, in a region called the "God Nodule." Scully's examination of his DNA revealed evidence to both Mulder and herself, that aliens were not only the original inhabitants of the earth, but that all humans, are in part, extraterrestrial.

from THE BEGINNING transcript

SCULLY: Mulder, these are test results. DNA from the claw nail we found matching exactly the DNA from the virus you believe is extraterrestrial.

MULDER: That's the connection.

SCULLY: Which matches exactly DNA that was found in Gibson Praise.

MULDER: Wait a minute. I don't understand. You're saying that Gibson Praise is infected with the virus?

SCULLY: No. It's a part of his DNA. In fact, it's a part of all of our DNA. It's called a genetic remnant. It's inactive junk DNA. Except in Gibson it's turned on.

MULDER: So if that were true, that would mean that Gibson is in some part extraterrestrial.

SCULLY: It would mean that all of us are.

Albert Hosteen was responsible for decoding not only the confidential CIA records detailing the existence of a government program to catalogue abductees (ANASAZI), but also for translating part of the alien artifacts found in Africa (BIOGENESIS). Later on, he appears to Scully as a vision, and he urges her to rescue Mulder.

from THE SIXTH EXTINCTION II: AMOR FATI transcript

ALBERT HOSTEEN: You must find him before something happens, not only for his sake-- for the sake of us all.

Mulder is included in this segment because he, like the boy in the cave, Gibson Praise, and Albert Hosteen, also represents physical, undeniable proof of alien existence, this time, in himself. His anamolous brain activity is what causes his abduction in REQUIEM.

But as Albert Hosteen suggests, Mulder is not only undeniable proof of alien lifeform, but he is also a key figure for the sake of mankind. This idea is made a bit more clear in season 9 episodes such as NOTHING IMPORTANT HAPPENED TODAY I, PROVENANCE/PROVIDENCE, and WILLIAM. (For more, see THE BOY ON THE BEACH).

Another significance of Albert Hosteen tugging on Scully's arm in this sequence is the connection of aliens and spiritualism. Albert Hosteen himself appears as a vision to Scully.

from THE SIXTH EXTINCTION II: AMOR FATI transcript

ALBERT HOSTEEN: You're running out of time.

SCULLY: Why do you come to me like this? Why? When I can't find him.

ALBERT HOSTEEN: You don't look in the right place.

SCULLY: Even if I did I wouldn't know how to save him. This science makes no sense to me.

ALBERT HOSTEEN: Have you looked for him here?

(He points to her chest, right above her heart.)

SCULLY: Are you asking me to pray?

(He gently pulls her down into a kneeling position beside him.)

ALBERT HOSTEEN: There are more worlds than the one you can hold in your hand.

By asking her to pray for Mulder after she had exhausted all her physical resources, he is appealing to her sense of faith and spiritual connection to Mulder. Her experiences in THE SIXTH EXTINCTION II: AMOR FATI forces her to reevalute and distrust her former beliefs.

from THE SIXTH EXTINCTION II: AMOR FATI transcript

MULDER: Scully, I, um... I was coming down... to work to tell you that Albert Hosteen is dead. He died last night in New Mexico. He'd been in a coma for two weeks. There was... no way he could have been in your apartment.

SCULLY: (insistent) He was there-- we... we prayed together. Mulder, I don't believe that. I... I don't believe it. It's impossible.

MULDER: Is it any more impossible than what you saw in Africa or what you saw in me?

SCULLY: (about to cry) I don't know what to believe anymore. Mulder, I was so determined to find a cure to save you that I could deny what it was that I saw and now I don't even know... I don't know... I don't know what the truth is ... I don't know who to listen to. I don't know who to trust.

Therefore, the images of the boy in the cave, Gibson Praise, and Albert Hosteen set up the clips for the remainder of the sequence, where Scully is shown running desperately toward Jeremiah Smith's compound (THIS IS NOT HAPPENING), only to find him abducted, her only hope for Mulder to be resuscitated. Mulder's anamolous brain activity from BIOGENESIS is what caused him to be abducted (REQUIEM), and her desperate search for him ended in her finding his corpse. Her faith in Jeremiah Smith, a benevolent shape-shifting alien who heals abductees, is another indication of her growing distrust in medical science to offer all answers. In this case, medical science would not allow her the hope of reviving Mulder.

The image of Scully throwing back her head in anguish again symbolizes the connection between spiritualism and alien life. This image parallels the following scene of Mulder rising out of his catatonic state in grand mal seizure (THE SIXTH EXTINCTION I), a consequence of his alien DNA, as well as his injection of phenytoin in an attempt to secure him a few moments of lucidity.

from THE SIXTH EXTINCTION I transcript

MICHAEL KRITSCHGAU: (preparing a syringe) I'm going to hit him pretty hard. Maybe we can get him on his feet. (SKINNER grabs the bottle of Phenytoin from KRITSCHGAU'S hand) What are you doing?

SKINNER: I know what you're doing.

MICHAEL KRITSCHGAU: (defensively) I'm trying to help him.

SKINNER: No, this isn't about him -- it's about you, it's about revenge against the government for trying to destroy your life.

MICHAEL KRITSCHGAU: I was destroyed to protect what Mulder knew all along. Now he's the proof-- he's the X-File.

SKINNER: We can't just keep shooting him full of drugs. It's gone too far!

MICHAEL KRITSCHGAU: How far should it go?! How far would Mulder go?

It can be seen that at this point, even Kritschgau, a staunch believer in the government, rather than extraterrestrial, workings of the UFO phenomenon, is now moved by evidence of Mulder's extraterrestrial illness. Mulder's illness therefore becomes the primary proof by turning both Kritschgau and Scully into believers.

from THE SIXTH EXTINCTION I transcript

SKINNER: He can't even communicate, Agent Scully. They won't treat him because they don't know what's wrong with him! They said he was dying. I had to do something.

SCULLY: He's not dying.

SKINNER: I'm afraid it's true.

SCULLY: (calm and deliberate) He's not dying. He is more alive than he has ever been. He's more alive than his body can withstand and what's causing it may be extraterrestrial in origin.

Scully's assessment of Mulder's condition parallels Mulder's assessment of Gibson Praise in THE END.

from THE END transcript

GUNMAN: The kid is a missing link.

MULDER: He’s genetic proof, isn’t he?

(GUNMAN nods slightly.)

SPENDER: Genetic proof of what? (pause) Genetic proof of what?

MULDER: The kid’s not superhuman. He’s just more human than human.

The idea of "more human than human" stems from Scully's DNA findings discussed in THE BEGINNING, that there are genetic remnants in all human beings that are inactive, but extraterrestrial, DNA. In Gibson Praise, and presumably, in Mulder, this DNA is activated. It is also my interpretation that Mulder is additionally unique because he somehow represents the next step in human evolution. His biological father, The Smoking Man, makes this observation about Mulder's role in the evolution of man.

from THE SIXTH EXTINCTION II: AMOR FATI transcript

DIANA FOWLEY: You're removing genetic material that may kill your son.

CIGARETTE SMOKING MAN: We're forcing the next step in evolution to save man. We're doing God's work, Diana. Without this immunity, everyone would die. This knowledge is God's blessing. I'll carry on for Mulder from here.

The Cigarette Smoking Man hoped to benefit from Mulder's anamolous DNA because they are genetically similar, since Mulder is his biological son. However, the simple removal of genetic material from Mulder would not do anything for evolution unless that genetic material is passed on in progeny. Therefore it is implied that in "forcing the next step in evolution," the Cigarette Smoking Man will use the genetic immunity gained from the transplant in order to create a generation of immune children--that is, alien-human hybrids.

However, Cigarette Smoking Man reveals to Scully later in the same season that he is dying from complications from the operation (EN AMI), suggesting that his intentions to pass on genetic material may have been a failure. Even so, there is speculation that the Cigarette Smoking Man may have somehow aided in Scully's miraculous conception of William, possibly leading to the truth of his statement, "we're forcing the next step in evolution."

It is also speculated that Mulder himself, despite being operated on, still possesses his immunity and thus can force the next step in evolution by fathering children. If it is assumed that William is Mulder's biological child, then William represents the outcome of this next step of human evolution. In addition, William would have inherited the biological aftereffects of Scully's immunity after her exposure to the virus (FIGHT THE FUTURE) and her recovery from cancer (REDUX II). If Mulder is the father, William would have a unique combination of genetic material from his parents' combined medical histories, and very possibly be a force to be reckoned with. As shown in episodes such as ESSENCE/EXISTENCE, NOTHING IMPORTANT HAPPENED TODAY, PROVENANCE/PROVIDENCE, TRUST NO1, and WILLIAM, there are those who fear or idolize what William represents.

LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST: BIBLICAL REFERENCES

THE SIXTH EXTINCTION II: AMOR FATI is sometimes referred to The Last Temptation of Mulder, because it explores a simpler life in which Mulder gives up his quest and enjoys the simpler pleasures of domestic bliss.

from THE SIXTH EXTINCTION II: AMOR FATI transcript

DIANA FOWLEY: Do you think he dreams?

CIGARETTE SMOKING MAN: I'm sure he dreams.

DIANA FOWLEY: About what, I wonder.

CIGARETTE SMOKING MAN: The dreams all men who are owned by the world have-- a simpler life... full of small pleasures. Extraordinary men are always most tempted by the most ordinary things. Dreams are all he has now.

Biblical references are abound in not only BIOGENESIS/THE SIXTH EXTINCTION I & II, but also in subsequent episodes. Blatant references include the "bad omens" in SIXTH EXTINCTION (for more, see the above's "I DIDN'T BELIEVE YOU" and "FLYING ARTIFACTS, RESCUE FROM ANTARCTICA, THE BOILING SEA, ALIEN BOUNTY HUNTERS, LOCUSTS, and more"). Other Biblical references include Scully's seemingly immaculate conception, Mulder's apparent crown of thorns in THE SIXTH EXTINCTION II: AMOR FATI, as well as a crucifix-like operating table.

"YOU'RE THE ONE THAT CAN DO SOMETHING"

When Cassandra Spender says this, she urges Mulder to turn away from self-doubt and resolve his crisis of faith, but she might as well been speaking to both Mulder and Scully. In the video, Cassandra Spender makes this plea after Mulder's vision of the end of the world (THE SIXTH EXTINCTION II: AMOR FATI), directly implying that without Mulder's quest, his vision of an apocalyptic end would be inevitable. Directly following the clip of Cassandra's dialogue is a quick succession of several scenes of Mulder taking her advice, or rather, his initiative to do what is right. These scenes include Mulder's attempt to gain perspective into the alien kidnapping (THE RED & THE BLACK), his passionate willingness to expose Agent Spender's connection to the Project (THE END), and his rescue of Scully from the bowels of the Antarctica spaceship (FIGHT THE FUTURE), arranged in a chronological fashion.

"WE ALL HAVE OUR FAITH" : NEVER GIVE UP ON A MIRACLE

Despite Mulder's irreligiousness, he tells Scully, after their failed IVF attempt to not give up hope, using the term "miracle" that appeals to Scully's sense of faith (PER MANUM).

from PER MANUM transcript

MULDER: It didn't take, did it?

SCULLY: I guess it was too much to hope for.

(He opens his arms for her. She walks into them and lets him hold her. She sobs.)

SCULLY: It was my last chance.

(He holds her tightly, then kisses her on the forehead. He presses his forehead against hers.)

MULDER: Never give up on a miracle.

Her resulting pregnancy is, arguably, a miracle. Her miraculous pregnancy can be attributed to a variety of possibilities, including human intervention by Dr. Parenti and Zeus Genetics (PER MANUM) or The Cigarette Smoking Man (EN AMI), or a miraculous cure for her infertility, including speculation that the spaceship (THE SIXTH EXTINCTION I) could have restored her fertility with its healing powers. Other possibilities include divine miracle by God, the restoration of fertility after the replacement of the chip in her neck (REDUX II), miraculous conception by stepping into an alien energy field (REQUIEM), a successful IVF treatment, misdiagnosis of infertility, or the extreme improbability of naturally fertilizing a remaining egg.

In the end, the circumstances surrounding Scully's miraculous conception of William is up for debate. It is likely that even the conspirators, The Cigarette Smoking Man, scientists, aliens, and supersoldiers are unsure about the truth of her conception, making William even more special (for more, see THE BOY IN THE CAVE, GIBSON PRAISE, ALBERT HOSTEEN AND...MULDER)

In this video, I suggest that the only truth to be gleaned from her pregnancy as well as the entirety of their experiences in the X-Files, is the universal truth of love.

THE BOY ON THE BEACH

During Mulder's dreams in THE SIXTH EXTINCTION II: AMOR FATI, he revisits a beach, on which he encounters a boy. He first sees the boy as a toddler with two parents leading him up some rocks. Later on, the boy, as a child of approximately 8 years old, gives the viewers clues as to his role in Mulder's dreams.

from THE SIXTH EXTINCTION: AMOR FATI transcript

(The Dream Beach. MULDER in jeans and a T-shirt walks over to the BOY who has finished a HUGE sand UFO, just like the one SCULLY found in Africa.)

MULDER: Wow. What did you make?

BOY: An unidentified flying object.

(The BOY jumps down from the top of the ship and begins kicking it apart.)

MULDER: Hey! What are... what are you doing? Why are you destroying your spaceship?

BOY: (accusing) It's your spaceship. You're destroying it. (throws a handful of sand at MULDER) You were supposed to help me.

(MULDER is speechless, watching the BOY destroy the ship.)

It is speculated that the boy may be the representation of Mulder's inner child, symbolizing his youthful idealisms, the building of a spaceship from sand suggesting the building of dreams and goals, while the progression of larger and larger UFO sand sculptures can represent the growing realization of these goals.

However, in this video, I suggest that the boy on the beach is actually Mulder's vision of William, son of Scully, and possibly Mulder's biological child. This idea is first alluded to at the beginning of the video (00:50), and then later, explicitly suggested towards the end (03:34).

The implication suggested by the boy when he criticizes Mulder for not helping him build the spaceship, is that Mulder and William are destined to work together in a key role in the future. This key role is suggested by Krycek, as he holds Mulder at gunpoint.

from EXISTENCE transcript

KRYCEK: Doesn't seem fair now. Doesn't seem right. Coming down to this.

MULDER: What do you know about fair or right, Krycek? You're a coward.

(MULDER slowly walks around the car to face KRYCEK.)

KRYCEK: I could've killed you so many times, Mulder. You've got to know that. I'm the one that kept you alive. (his voice cracks a little) Praying you'd win somehow.

MULDER: Then there really is no God.

KRYCEK: You think I'm bad. That I'm a killer. We wanted the same thing, brother. That's what you don't understand.

MULDER: I wanted to stop them. All you wanted was to save your own ass.

KRYCEK: No. I tried to stop them. Tried to kill … Scully's baby to stop them. It's too late. The tragedy's that you-- you wouldn't let it go. That's why I have to do this. 'Cause you know how deep it goes. Right into the FBI.

MULDER: You want to kill me, Alex, kill me. Like you killed my father. Just don't insult me trying to make me understand.

(KRYCEK's finger slowly and reluctantly tightens on the trigger. His face is contorted with indecision. MULDER is calm. He and MULDER stare at each other. A gun is fired. KRYCEK gasps in pain and falls, dropping his gun.)

KRYCEK: It's going to take more bullets than you can... ever fire to win this game. But one bullet... and I can give you a thousand lives. (He looks up at MULDER.) Shoot Mulder.

The implication is that the agenda that Krycek supports requires stopping the collaboration of Mulder and William, and so he attempts to kill either one of them. This further implies that a collaboration is necessary to achieve their destined goal, something which Mulder or William by themselves cannot accomplish. However, the goal of a future collaboration is unclear, whether Mulder and William should assist recolonization or attempt to stop it.

In the video, as Scully leaves Mulder standing at his doorway after their heartfelt confessions, Mulder revisits the boy on the beach, which is what actually happens in the episode. In the episode, Mulder and the boy work together on building a very large spaceship that covers the entire beach, which could symbolize their future collaboration in realizing a globally, perhaps universally, affecting goal. In the video, Mulder revisits the boy, and upon closing his eyes, an unearthed spaceship dims and suddenly restarts itself (PROVIDENCE). The renewed energy of the spacecraft is due to William's presence, which indicates William's alien abilities.

William's exact abilities are not clear. As an infant, he exhibits telekinetic abilities to manipulate objects, such as his crib toy and a piece of alien artifact. However, Jeremiah Smith alludes to his and Scully's ability to protect him from aliens as she desperately attempts to find Mulder.

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JEREMIAH SMITH: You're going to expose me. You're putting people in danger-- Abductees all over the country. I save them. I'm the only one.

SCULLY: Where's Mulder?

JEREMIAH SMITH: You came crashing in here. I was trying to help him, too.

SCULLY: Where is Mulder?

(She gasps again as the door opens.)

SKINNER: You'd better come with us.

(SKINNER is sad. Breathing heavily, SCULLY looks back at JEREMIAH SMITH. He is now ABSALOM and looking very frightened.)

ABSALOM: You must protect me.

The benevolent, shape-shifting alien healer, Jeremiah Smith, in begging Scully to protect him, suggests that somehow she is capable of stopping him from being abducted by aliens. Therefore, it is possible that her pregnancy with William somehow protects her from aliens, or that aliens are unwilling to harm her. This is first suggested in REQUIEM when Scully was thrown out of the alien energy field, if assuming she was already pregnant with William.

Earlier in the same episode, Jeremiah Smith and his colleague collect Mulder's body from the field, leaving the body of Gary Cory, who was found by Agent Reyes. Later, when Scully and other federal agents storm the compound, Jeremiah warns Absalom.

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JEREMIAH SMITH: Get everyone inside.

ABSALOM: What? What is it?

JEREMIAH SMITH: They're coming.

ABSALOM: Who? Who's coming?

JEREMIAH SMITH: You can't let them find him.

It is later understood that "him" is Mulder's body, which AD Skinner, Scully, and other federal agents find outside in a field. It is assumed that Absalom dumped Mulder's body in that field so that federal agents would not find him, indicating that Jeremiah Smith chose to wait on resuscitating Mulder, if that was ever his intention. By protecting Mulder's body, and leaving Gary's behind, it is suggested that Mulder is a special case and takes precedent over Gary's, and should be protected from federal agents who may want to retrieve his body and bury it, or artificially resuscitate him. However, in not immediately resuscitating Mulder suggests another reason. Jeremiah insists to Scully that "I was trying to help him too." His agenda ultimately remains unknown, however, because he is abducted at the end of the episode.

Continuing this idea of alien protection, William was not harmed during PROVIDENCE. All the other members of the cult were charred, but William was left unharmed.

THE BEGINNING OF THE CONSPIRACY : A FULL CIRCLE

A series of flashbacks starts with the scene of a younger Cigarette Smoking Man laying down the American flag for their alien visitors, thus beginning the conspiracy to develop an alien-human hybrid, and the ultimate beginning of the X-Files and Mulder & Scully's quest. The following two scenes after that are significant scenes in Mulder and Scully's personal acceptance of the truth of alien life. Scully sees a hovering alien craft in THE RED & THE BLACK, while Mulder renews his belief in the existence of extraterrestrial life after seeing a UFO in FIGHT THE FUTURE.

CLOSURE

The last three scenes in the video are closing scenes from three significant episodes. The first is the closing scene from the FIGHT THE FUTURE movie, where Scully reminds Mulder of the significance of their work. The scene that follows is the closing scene from THE SIXTH EXTINCTION II: AMOR FATI, after Scully confesses to Mulder how she was affected by their experiences, that she no longer knows what is the truth, and who to trust. Mulder reassures her that the only thing he is sure of is his faith in her. The final scene in the video is the final scene of the show, after Mulder tells Scully, "maybe there's hope," suggesting that there is more work to be done, and that mankind is not necessarily doomed to the alien invasion on December 12th, 2012.

A FINAL NOTE...

Footage: All footage used in this video has something to do with aliens...except one scene from RUSH. However, I believe that the mysterious energy field that gives these teenagers superhuman speed is an alien energy field, much like the one in REQUIEM.

Nested chronology: There are many "paired" clips in the video, such as clips taken from the same scene or the same event, but cut in two's or three's, and are arranged separated, but still representing a chronological order. In many cases, these clips are arranged in a "beginning/end" or "beginning/middle/end" fashion in the video to represent cause and effect, and full circle.

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