That was FBI Special Agent Dana Scully’s revelation at the end of X-Files’ Season 7, in the “Requiem” episode after the aliens’ took her long-time partner Fox Mulder for a ride into space.(If you’ve already seen all of the X-Files, and particularly the 8th and 9th seasons, please bear with me. I’m working my way through the entire series on dvd and just saw this episode last night.)
Scully’s pregnancy brings up a few questions that I’m sure will (might) be answered in Season 8:
• Question 1: Whose baby is it? Fox Mulder’s? Someone else’s?
• Question 2: Wasn’t Scully unable to have babies after her “abduction” and alien encounter?
• Question 3: If the baby is Mulder’s, when did it happen? There have been a few “fade-out” moments when she and Mulder could have been sexually intimate, but I figured those were just teasers.
• Question 4: Will the baby survive?
• Question 5: Not a Scully question, but ... Will Fox Mulder return?
Sure, I’ll find out when I start watching Season 8. But it’s interesting and fun to speculate about it now, because when the episode “Requiem” was being shot, producer/writer Chris Carter wasn’t sure whether X-Files was going to return for another season. He needed to air an episode that could serve as a series finale. Carter talked about this in “The Truth about Season 7,” one of the bonus features in the dvd set.
In other words, he was going to leave his audience guessing – about Scully, and about what really happened to Mulder.
One just cannot trust series writers and producers, no?
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