She first recurred in season eight before being promoted to series regular in the ninth and final season. Scully leaps to the conclusion that the soldier was given a faulty anthrax vaccine, and that the vaccines we’ve been given can be controlled by an outside force to shut down our immune systems and create a global pandemic.
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Scully gets a call from former Agent Monica Reyes and Scully goes to meet with her. She has something to tell Scully and Monica tells Reyes about why she left the Federal Bureau of Investigation and disappeared for 10 years.
Now that that’s out of the way, let’s get started on the actual episode, because if we were to strip that sentiment from the episode, “Babylon” would’ve been one of the best episodes yet. Okay… The CSM had some major surgery after he was almost blown to pieces by that rocket in the final episode of Season Nine, but he’s ready to conquer the world with his big viral plan. This cliffhanger bodes well for some kind of return – since Scully is now definitively “immortal”, right?
Tonight’s “X-Files” season finale was a continuation of the “My Struggle” storyline from the season premiere, which is either a good thing or a bad thing depending on who you are.
Following the introduction, Scully heads into work where she finds an empty seat where Mulder is supposed to be.
Mulder came face to face with the Cigarette Smoking Man again while finding out that he wasn’t on the short list of people meant to live past today. Spender remains the true villain here. At one point the plot was delayed for ten minutes because they couldn’t find traces of Scully’s alien DNA. O’Malley is back on air with another scary claim – all of us have had our DNA tampered with and altered by the government. Miller could run the Truth Squad! Mulder and Scully have evolved from professional colleagues to close friends to romantic couple with a child – a child they had to give up for adoption in order to protect him from the terrifying reach of the conspiracy they still hope to unravel – to leading separate lives. It certainly seems that FOX isn’t just falling back on the name recognition of the show, but looking to advertise and broaden the reach of the project at every opportunity.
This year’s entire six-episode series had felt like a vestigial contribution to the franchise. A few years ago I met FBI Assistant Director Walter Skinner.
Moreover, the first and last episodes are the only ones that deal exclusively with the mythology – the second episode, “Founder’s Mutation”, partially incorporates similar themes – placing a very heavy burden on those two stories to do all the telling.
The X-Files Origins series has acquired two new books, which will follow Fox Mulder and Dana Scully as teenagers.
By swiftly merging the details of cases with the evolving Mulder-Scully dynamic and intense mytharc, the strength of the old, winning “X-Files” formula was diluted this time around.
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Speaking to Ellen DeGeneres on her U.S. chatshow, leading man David Duchovny has indicated that he is hopeful that Mulder and Scully can return – provided his and Gillian Anderson’s schedules can match up.
