Hold My X-Files

49 Days of The X-Files Week 7: Season 10 Week 

Episode 5

“We see each other every couple of years,” he says. “We’ll always be close because we spent so much time together. We went through something life-changing. She’s part of my history, part of my life, and always will be. So there’s a profound attachment.”

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He asked her 19 years ago who she’d be if she could be anyone for a day. She picked herself, and I loved her even more (so did he). But he pushed her, suggesting that even if she’d still be herself behind a different face, “ultimately, maybe it’s other people’s reactions to us that make us who we are.” For a show built on the idea that we’re not seeing things as they are, The X-Files also suggests that when lies front for the truth long enough, they become it—that maybe if the truth is always out there, just out of reach, the closest we’ll ever come to anything is in our reaction to it. But maybe it’s the emotional truths that matter more. The conspiracy only matters for how it affects the human experience. Mulder can’t do this alone because it’s Scully who gives the work weight. Anyway, give her a desk.