9x17 William
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Now on to today’s episode…
Synopsis
Scully questions whether a disfigured man is really Mulder, but things become even more complicated when the mysterious stranger poses a threat to her son.
Original Story: Chris Carter & David Duchovny & Frank Spotnitz
Writer/s: Chris Carter
Director: David Duchovny
Originally aired: 28th April 2002 (in the US) - 27th December 2002 (in Australia)
Quotes
Doggett: You won't talk to me. You going to talk to her, Mr Miller?
Spender: If she'll help me and protect me.
Doggett: You better hope she's feeling more charitable than I am, partner. Agent Scully. He's under arrest for assaulting a federal officer. I've explained to him the penalties, but he still refuses a lawyer.
Scully: How did he get in the building?
Doggett: We found a card key on him. Says it was given to him by Fox Mulder.
Doggett: I think that how he got in here and the reason he knows what he knows is because that man in there is Mulder.
Scully: That's ridiculous. It's absurd.
Doggett: Is it? What is true and what we want to be true, aren't always the same.
Scully: I'm telling you, that's not Mulder.
Doggett: I hope you prove me wrong.
Scully: He didn't have a choice to come into this life. I don't have a choice about what he is or was... but I do have a choice about the life my son will have... And shouldn't I choose that he never have to be afraid of anyone or anything? And can I ever really even promise him that?
Reyes: But who can?
Links
Episodes: Fanpop and SideReel.
Transcripts: Episode transcript.
Screen captures at: Chrisnu.com
Episode related fanfic: Page 1
Season 9 Gag Reels: Part 1 and Part 2
Mods thoughts and discussion attempts
When I sat down to write my thoughts on this episode, I came up blank. So I thought I could best express what I thought of Scully with this little equation.
I make no secret that I’m a Scully fan, which is why is saddens me to say that I kind of hate her in this episode. I understand her reasoning (I think) behind wanting to give the super!baby up. So many people have been after him and he’s only, what? Like a month old? :oP But just … how long has she pined for said super!baby? Ever since creepy little Emily. How stupid to just give it all away. She has a gun! She could just shoot anyone who comes near him. Oh and NOW she decides to show some emotion towards him, way to go Scully!
The constant back and forthness of everyone with is it Mulder? No yes! Its him! I know him! That NOT Mulder! drove me so nuts. For crying out loud. If that was Mulder then I am clearly the queen of England.
I like that DD directed this ep, simply because of the little character quirks (I assume) he gave everyone. Doggett doing push ups, Scully singing joy to the world, things like that. Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong on that one, but they feel like things DD would do, you know, make everyone more human.
Also? Mulder and Spenders DNA matches? But they’re half brothers? Oh ok then. *headdesk*
The best thing about this episode is the blooper where GA picks up the baby, screws up her lines, chastises her self a little too loudly thus making the baby scream in fear. LOL! I love it.
Extra
The time stamp on the first scene in the X-Files office, with Doggett doing push-ups, is 11:21 pm. Chris Carter's wife's birthday is the 21st November.
Although David Duchovny is uncredited in this episode, he is seen for a split second, by Scully when she is examining the disfigured man, soon to be named Jeffery Spender (Mulder's half-brother), when she looks in his eyes.
Near the beginning, as Scully is in her car with William, she is singing "Joy to the World" to William, the same song she sang to Mulder while they were stuck in the forest in the Season 5 episode, 'Detour'.
The two doctors in this episode, Drs. Edwards and Newman, were named for Dr. Whitney Carr Edwards, who served as medical consultant for the last five seasons of the series, as well as the other 1013 productions Millennium, Harsh Realm and The Lone Gunmen, and Dr. Charlie Newman who was one of two forensic pathologists who consulted on the program. The other forensic pathologist was Dr. Carl J. Schmidt.
Now on to today’s episode…
Synopsis
Scully questions whether a disfigured man is really Mulder, but things become even more complicated when the mysterious stranger poses a threat to her son.
Original Story: Chris Carter & David Duchovny & Frank Spotnitz
Writer/s: Chris Carter
Director: David Duchovny
Originally aired: 28th April 2002 (in the US) - 27th December 2002 (in Australia)
Quotes
Doggett: You won't talk to me. You going to talk to her, Mr Miller?
Spender: If she'll help me and protect me.
Doggett: You better hope she's feeling more charitable than I am, partner. Agent Scully. He's under arrest for assaulting a federal officer. I've explained to him the penalties, but he still refuses a lawyer.
Scully: How did he get in the building?
Doggett: We found a card key on him. Says it was given to him by Fox Mulder.
Doggett: I think that how he got in here and the reason he knows what he knows is because that man in there is Mulder.
Scully: That's ridiculous. It's absurd.
Doggett: Is it? What is true and what we want to be true, aren't always the same.
Scully: I'm telling you, that's not Mulder.
Doggett: I hope you prove me wrong.
Scully: He didn't have a choice to come into this life. I don't have a choice about what he is or was... but I do have a choice about the life my son will have... And shouldn't I choose that he never have to be afraid of anyone or anything? And can I ever really even promise him that?
Reyes: But who can?
Links
Episodes: Fanpop and SideReel.
Transcripts: Episode transcript.
Screen captures at: Chrisnu.com
Episode related fanfic: Page 1
Season 9 Gag Reels: Part 1 and Part 2
Mods thoughts and discussion attempts
When I sat down to write my thoughts on this episode, I came up blank. So I thought I could best express what I thought of Scully with this little equation.
I make no secret that I’m a Scully fan, which is why is saddens me to say that I kind of hate her in this episode. I understand her reasoning (I think) behind wanting to give the super!baby up. So many people have been after him and he’s only, what? Like a month old? :oP But just … how long has she pined for said super!baby? Ever since creepy little Emily. How stupid to just give it all away. She has a gun! She could just shoot anyone who comes near him. Oh and NOW she decides to show some emotion towards him, way to go Scully!
The constant back and forthness of everyone with is it Mulder? No yes! Its him! I know him! That NOT Mulder! drove me so nuts. For crying out loud. If that was Mulder then I am clearly the queen of England.
I like that DD directed this ep, simply because of the little character quirks (I assume) he gave everyone. Doggett doing push ups, Scully singing joy to the world, things like that. Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong on that one, but they feel like things DD would do, you know, make everyone more human.
Also? Mulder and Spenders DNA matches? But they’re half brothers? Oh ok then. *headdesk*
The best thing about this episode is the blooper where GA picks up the baby, screws up her lines, chastises her self a little too loudly thus making the baby scream in fear. LOL! I love it.
Extra
The time stamp on the first scene in the X-Files office, with Doggett doing push-ups, is 11:21 pm. Chris Carter's wife's birthday is the 21st November.
Although David Duchovny is uncredited in this episode, he is seen for a split second, by Scully when she is examining the disfigured man, soon to be named Jeffery Spender (Mulder's half-brother), when she looks in his eyes.
Near the beginning, as Scully is in her car with William, she is singing "Joy to the World" to William, the same song she sang to Mulder while they were stuck in the forest in the Season 5 episode, 'Detour'.
The two doctors in this episode, Drs. Edwards and Newman, were named for Dr. Whitney Carr Edwards, who served as medical consultant for the last five seasons of the series, as well as the other 1013 productions Millennium, Harsh Realm and The Lone Gunmen, and Dr. Charlie Newman who was one of two forensic pathologists who consulted on the program. The other forensic pathologist was Dr. Carl J. Schmidt.