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Hospital Scene, The Sixth Extinction
(Mulder's hospital room. Mulder is staring straight ahead, unseeing. Through the babble of voices that we are hearing in his head, one voice comes through clearly, though as if from a distance. Mulder weakly turns his head in the direction of the voice.)
Scully: (voice) Please. I need to see him. I'm begging you, please. Thank you.
(We see her standing in the doorway to his room talking with
Dr. Harriman and two Security Guards. They let her pass
and close the door as she approaches Mulder's bed.)
Scully: (gently) Mulder, it's me. I know that you can hear me.
If you can just give me some sign. (No response.) I want you to
know where I've been... what I found. I think that, if you know,
that you could find a way to hold on. 
(whisper) I need you to hold on.
I found a key... the key... to every question that has ever been asked.
It's a puzzle... (her voice begins to break) ... but the pieces are there for us to put together and I know that they can save you if you can just hold on. (She is almost crying as she pleads with him, gripping his
hand tightly, staring into his blank face.) Mulder... please. Hold on.
Comments: Great scene, calls to mind many previous episodes- such as Demons and Paper Hearts, yet there's something new here as well. I know, I'm a shipper, but I can hear Scully's heart breaking. He can't leave her now, there's still too much to do. She can't do it with out him, just as he couldn't do it with out her (echoing FTF.) Anderson shines.
Hallway Scene, Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati
One Week After Mulder is Rescued
(Mulder's apartment building. Scully, in some fabulous heels, walks down the hall and knocks at Mulder's door. They seem to have a new secret knock. He opens it wearing a half-buttoned shirt with a tie under the collar. His head is still bandaged and he is wearing a New York Yankees ball cap over the gauze. He is very happy to see her.)
Mulder: Scully, what are you doing here? Actually, I was just getting dressed to come see you but I... I couldn't find a tie to go with my victory cap.
Scully: (She reaches up and takes the cap off of his head.)
Mulder, no work. You have to go back to bed. (She starts to pull the tie away, but he grabs it back playfully.)
Mulder: Oh, wait. Tie goes to the runner. (He chuckles at his joke, and Scully smiles.) 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. (Pause. She is now crying.) Diana Fowley was found murdered this morning. I never
trusted her... but she helped save your life just as much as I did.
She gave me that book. It was her key that led me to you.
I'm sorry... I'm so sorry. I know she was your friend.
(She puts her arms around his shoulders and they hold each other.)
Mulder: Scully, I was like you once-- I didn't know who to trust.
Then I... I chose another path... another life, another fate, where I found
my sister. The end of my world was unrecognizable and upside down.
There was one thing that remained the same. (He holds her face and gazes at her.) You... were my friend, and you told me the truth. Even when
the world was falling apart, you were my constant... my touchstone.
Scully: And you are mine.
(They move their faces close together ... and Scully kisses him on the
forehead. Not a peck. A very nice, sweet, long kiss. They pull slightly
apart, still touching. Scully puts his ball cap back on his head and cups
his face in her hands. They look at each other with every bit of trust,
friendship, respect, love, and whatever else these two have for each other.
Then she touches his lips gently with her fingers and leaves. Mulder
stands in the doorway and closes his eyes.)
Comments: :::THUD!::: Oh, you actually want me to say something? Rumor has it that this scene was rewritten by David because the original just didn't work. Too many things for a Scullyied shipper to love. Scully's uncertainty with what she saw (whoo hoo! she's not denying what she saw!!) her sadness about Fowley's death (she's not our saint for nothing!) and the overall tenderness she shows Mulder. Platonic friends do not touch each other the way Scully was caressing Mulder's face. Hoo BOY!
First Kiss, Millennium
(Hospital waiting room. Dick Clark's Rocking New Year's Eve is on the television. Scully and Mulder are watching after Frank Black's departure.)
Dick Clark: (on TV) 30 seconds now, 30. Get ready for the loudest cheering you'll ever hear in your life. Hug your friends and loved ones tight. What the heck, whoever that person is next to you. No time like the present. Are you ready? Here we go. Ten, nine... eight, seven, six...five, four, three, two, one... Happy New Year, 2000!
("Auld lang syne" is playing Couples are kissing on the TV screen. Mulder looks at the kissing couples, then at Scully who is watching the TV. He looks at her lips. Mulder leans down toward her. She turns to him. They kiss. For about 7 seconds. Very sweet. They pull apart and look at each other and smile. Perfect.)
Mulder: The world didn't end.
Scully: No, it didn't. (She gets a wistful, far-away expression.)
Mulder: Happy New Year, Scully.
Scully: Happy New Year, Mulder.
(Mulder puts his arm around Scully's shoulders and they walk out of the waiting room together.)
Comments: It's about freekin' time! I know that there are a lot of people who don't want to see the two agents become lovers, but the sexual tension between Mulder and Scully has been there since the beginning (no, I don't mean the season six episode). If the X-Files were part of the real universe these two would have tumbled into bed together a long time ago. A kiss on New Years Eve is a nice first step. When the music starts to play, you can almost see a lightbulb go on over Mulder's head. He takes the initiative and Scully gives him that half smile when they finish. Could it have been more passionate? Sure, but with Mulder's arm in a sling and the fact that they're in a hospital hallway, the tender uncertanty makes for a sweet first kiss.
Scully's Findings, Sein Und Zeit
(Mulder's apartment. He is in jeans and his gray t-shirt. He is rewinding and listening to the message on his answering machine over and over. It's not easy for him.)
Teena: (voice) Fox, it's your mother. I'd hoped you'd call upon your return but I haven't heard from you. I'm sure you're busy. There are... so many emotions in me I wouldn't know where to start. So much that I've left unsaid, for reasons I hope one day you'll understand. (He rewinds again and puts his head close to the machine as if trying to hear any noise in the background.) There are... so many emotions in me I wouldn't know where to start. So much that I've left unsaid for reasons I hope one day you'll understand.
(He leans his head on the machine. There is a knock at the door. Mulder opens it for Scully. She looks very sad and tired.)
Mulder: I'm glad you're here. My mother was trying to tell me something. I think I
figured it out. It's something about my sister that she was never able to tell me.
(He plays the tape for her.)
Teena: (voice) So much that I've left unsaid for reasons I hope one day you'll understand.
Mulder: She knew what I'd find with this case out in California.
Scully: How could she know that, Mulder?
Mulder: A child disappearing without a trace-- without evidence-- in defiance of all logical explanation? She knew because of what's driven me-- what I've always believed.
Scully: (walking toward him) Mulder...
Mulder: Scully, these parents who've lost... (swallows painfully) … who've lost
their children... They've had visions of their sons and daughters in scenarios that never
happened but which they describe in notes that came through them as automatic writing
and words that came through them psychically from old souls protecting the children.
My mother must have written a note like that herself. Describing the scenario of my
sister's disappearance of her, of her abduction by aliens. Don't you see, Scully? It never
happened. All these visions that I've had have just been... they've been to help me cope,
to help me deal with the loss but... I've been looking for my sister in the wrong place.
That's... what my mother was trying to tell me. That's what she was trying to warn me
about. That's why they killed her.
Scully: (She is sitting facing him.) Your mother killed herself, Mulder. I conducted the autopsy. She was
dying of an incurable disease. An untreatable and horribly disfiguring disease called
Paget's Carcinoma. She knew it. There were doctor's records. She didn't want to live.
(Mulder stares at her a moment, then puts his face in his hands. Suddenly he stands and shakes the desk violently. Scully touches his arm to calm him down. He pulls away in agony, starting to break down.)
Scully: Mulder...
Mulder: She was trying to tell me something. She was... (voice breaking as he cries) ...trying to tell me something.
Scully: (She is almost crying herself.) Mulder, she was trying to tell you to stop. To stop looking for your sister. She was just trying to take away your pain.
(Mulder turns to her desperately and holds her tightly around her waist and cries. Scully holds him and puts her lips against his neck. She rocks him gently.)
Comments: I'm not a big fan of Duchovny but this emotional scene showcases his talent for the 'little boy lost' that he does so well. Mulder doesn't want to believe that his mother would kill herself, it's easier for him to think that the consortium would want her dead. A fairly typical response from an atypical individual. Scully has to be strong for him and tells him the truth- despite the pain it causes. An angstfest schmorgasbord.
The Diner, Closure
(Restaurant. Later at night. Mulder and Scully are sitting at a table. Mulder is reading to Scully from the diary, written in blue pen. It is hard for him to read. Every once in a while, he will pause, then continue. Scully never takes her eyes off of him.)
Mulder: (reading) "They did more tests today, but not the horrible kind. I was
awake and they made me lay still... while they shined lights in my eyes. They asked me
questions, but I always lie now and tell them what they want to hear, just to make them
stop. I hate them and I hate the way they treat me... like I'm an old suitcase they can just
drag around and open up whenever they want to. They know I hate them, but they don't
even care." (Scully looks sad.) This is 1979. She's 14 years old here. 14 years old. (Mulder turns the pages to later entries. Scully watches him.) Sometimes I think my memories were taken by the doctors but
not all of them. I remember faces. I think I had a brother... with brown hair, who used to
tease me. I hope someday he reads this and knows I wish I could see his face for real." (He turns a few more pages, skimming them.) And then, uh... she's, uh... talking about running away. She wants to run away so that they stop doing the tests. 
And then it just stops. (He looks at the book. Scully, almost crying, reaches over and gently holds his hand.)
Scully: Let's get out of here.
(Scully pays the bill then joins Mulder outside the restaurant where he is looking up at the stars.)
Mulder: You know, we never stop to think... that the light is billions of years old by the time we see it. From the beginning of time right past us into the future. Nothing is ancient in the universe. (glances at her) Maybe they are souls, Scully. Traveling through time as starlight looking for homes. I wonder what my mother saw. And I wonder what she was trying to tell me.
Scully: Go get some sleep.
(Mulder finds her words both funny and painful. He smiles, and bends over slightly, then straightens.)
Mulder: All right.
(Scully goes to her room.)
Comments: What a great scene! This is DD's moment and Mulder's pain oozes from every pour. I really had problems with this episode, the hokey premise, the unsatifactory resolution to the Samantha Arc- but this vignette stands out (much like the sunflower seed scene in Dreamlands II.) It all boils down to two friends sharing the loss that one of them has just come to terms with. <sigh>
all things Teaser, all things
Comments: Ahhhhhhhhhhhh! I go through waves with being spoiled. I like to know what's going to happen at the beginning of the season (I guess with no episodes for five months I can't help myself) but sometime after the first of the year I swear off the spoilers. I don't want to know what's going to happen. I was completely and utterly surprised by this openning scene. I started to scream. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Why? because Chris 'they're platonic' Carter swore up and down, left, right and sideways that Mulder and Scully would never becaome lovers. Period. And I have no doubt that Anderson was telling us that Mulder and Scully now know each other in the biblical sense. Most platonic friends don't get dressed in their friend's bathroom with the door wide open. ::CLANG CLANG:: I'm a happy shipper.
(Early morning. Rhythmic dripping sound. Mulder's apartment. Under the voiceover, Scully is getting dressed in the bathroom. A ceiling fan spins slowly above her. She pulls down her green t-shirt, then zips up her black skirt. The old faucet drips rhythmically as she looks at herself in the mirror, fixes her hair, then walks into the bedroom. She picks up her black jacket and puts it on. She looks thoughtfully at the figure in the bed for a moment, then walks quietly out of the room. As the monologue ends, the camera pans across the bed. We see a man's naked foot and leg lying tangled among the blue sheets and beige comforter. Moving up, we see his bare arms and chest and peacefully sleeping face. It is Mulder.)
Scully: (voiceover) Time passes in moments ... moments which, rushing past define the path of a life just as surely as they lead towards its end.
How rarely do we stop to examine that path, to see the reasons why all things
happen, to consider whether the path we take in life is our own making or
simply one into which we drift with eyes closed. But what if we could stop,
pause to take stock of each precious moment before it passes? Might we then
see the endless forks in the road that have shaped a life? And, seeing those
choices, choose another path?
Final Scene, all things
(Mulder's apartment. Mulder and Scully are sitting close together on the sofa. Two half-drunk mugs of tea are on the coffee table. Scully, drowsy, has her shoeless, stockinged feet propped up on the table. They have been talking a while.)
Mulder: I just find it hard to believe.
Scully: What part?
Mulder: The part where I go away for two days and your whole life changes.
Scully: Mmm, I didn't say my whole life changed.
Mulder: You speaking to God in a Buddhist temple. God speaking back.
Scully: Mmm, and I didn't say that God spoke back. I said that I had some
kind of a vision.
Mulder: Well, for you, that's like saying you're having David Crosby's
baby. (Scully smiles and looks thoughtful.) What is it?
Scully: I once considered spending my whole life with this man. What I
would have missed.
Mulder: I don't think you can know. I mean, how many different lives
would we be leading if we made different choices. We... We don't know.
Scully: What if there was only one choice and all the other ones were
wrong? And there were signs along the way to pay attention to.
Mulder: Mmm. And all the... choices would then lead to this very moment.
One wrong turn, and... we wouldn't be sitting here together. Well, that says a lot. That says a lot, a lot, a lot. That's probably more than we should be getting into at this late hour.
(Mulder looks down at Scully. She has fallen asleep against his shoulder. Music begins again. In slow motion, he tenderly brushes a strand of hair out of her face, then gazes at her a moment. He pulls his Indian blanket over her and carefully tucks it around her. Camera pans around to the fish tank with it's bouncing UFO decoration as Mulder gets up off the couch. The rhythmic song "The Sky is Broken" continues playing. The camera pans down under the fish tank to a small figurine of Buddha on the shelf below.)
Comments: I must say, what a wonderful ending to a very thoughtful X-File. I didn't think 1013 could make this lead in to the surprise of the trailer believable. It was rumored that Gillian did have help writing this scene and I'm glad it all turned out so well. Scully is sharing a part of her life that's she's kept hidden from her partner. She's clearing the air emotionally, much like Mulder did at the end of Closure. Once that particular weight has been lifted, Scully is comfortable enough with Mulder that she falls a sleep on him (and later finds her way to his bed). His love for her is never more apparent, as he brushes her hair back and tucks the blanket around her. <sigh>
Spooning, Requiem
Bellefluer, Oregon 8:07 PM
(Mulder's motel room. The room is very similar to that which he stayed in in the Pilot episode. He is lying on his bed looking at the files that Teresa Hoese gave them. Pictures of the Deputy, close-ups of the bruises on his wrists and elsewhere that he received during his multiple abductions. He looks up at a knock on his door.)
Mulder: Who is it?
Scully: (outside) It's me. (Mulder opens the door. Scully, still dressed in a white blouse and slacks, stands in the doorway, looking waiflike. Mulder is concerned.)
Mulder: What's wrong, Scully? You look sick.
Scully: I don't know what's wrong.
Mulder: Come in. (Mulder draws Scully into the room and she sits huddled, shivering, on the bed. He closes the door and goes to her.)
Scully: I, um... I was starting to get ready for bed and I started to feel really dizzy--
vertigo or something-- and then I just... I started to get chills. (Mulder turns down the sheets and blankets on his bed.)
Mulder: You want me to call a doctor?
Scully: No, I just... I just want to get warm.
(Scully climbs onto the bed, pausing as Mulder takes off her shoes and drops them to the floor. She gets under the covers and Mulder tucks her in, then lies behind her and embraces her in a classic warm spooning cuddle. There is no shyness or hesitation. Both are very comfortable.)
Scully: Thank you. (Pause. Mulder holds Scully.)
Mulder: It's not worth it, Scully. (Long pause.)
Scully: What?
Mulder: I want you to go home.
Scully: Oh, Mulder, I'm going to be fine.
Mulder: No, I've been thinking about it. Looking at you tonight, holding that baby... knowing everything that's been taken away from you. A chance for motherhood and your health and that baby. I think that... I don't know, maybe they're right.
Scully: Who's right?
Mulder: The FBI. Maybe what they say is true, though for all the wrong reasons. It's the personal costs that are too high. (Scully begins to cry silently. Mulder whispers gently into her ear.) There so much more you need to do with your life. There's so much more than this. (He gently strokes her face as she cries.) There has to be an end, Scully. (He softly kisses her cheek and leans his head on her shoulder. Scully clasps his hand and holds it near her mouth.)
Comments: You know what I love best about this scene? No, it's not the spooning (although it is nice) no it's not the kisses (mmmmmm- kisses) it's not even the overwhelming tenderness Mulder shows towards Scully <dreamy sigh> It's the fact that Scully showed up on Mulder's 'doorstep' when there was something wrong and she tells him about it. THAT more than any of the other overt displays of affection confirm in my mind that Mulder and Scully have entered a new phase of their relationship.
Hospital Bed, Requiem
(Skinner enters a hospital and makes his way to Scully's room. She is lying on a bed with a pensive look on her face. She is wearing a blue hospital gown. She is not wearing her cross, having given it to Mulder off camera.)
Skinner: Agent Scully.
Scully: Hi.
Skinner: Hi. How you feeling?
Scully: I'm feeling fine. They're just running some tests on me.
Skinner:Well... um... (Skinner's face twists in pain. He can't say it. Scully also looks about ready to cry.)
Scully: I already heard.
Skinner:(voice breaking) I lost him. I don't know what else I can say. I lost him.
I'll be asked... what I saw. And what I saw, I can't deny. I won't.
Scully: (crying) We will find him. I have to. (Skinner nods in understanding and starts out of the room. However, Scully isn't finished.) Sir, um... there's something else I need to tell you. Something that I need for you to keep to yourself. (He looks at her questioningly. She looks ready to either laugh or cry, but can't decide which.) I'm having a hard time explaining it. Or believing it. But, um... (Pause. A small inward smile of joy mixed with plenty of pain.) I'm pregnant.
(Skinner stares at her, speechless. She tries to smile. But through her tears, it comes out as a mixture of a laugh and a weak sob.)
Comments: Ok, I didn't see this coming. I really thought that Scully's chip was acting up because of the presence of the Foo Fighter. I didn't even go there since it's been cannon for a while (season four) that Scully was barren.
So, she's pregnant. Who's the father? I'm thinkin' it has to be Mulder. Scully is smiling through her tears when she tells Skinner the news.
She's been through allot and if she suspected some type of medical rape she wouldn't tell anyone. Even though she's Catholic, I'd hazard a guess that she'd probably have an abortion. Therfore, the only possible way she could get pregnant is if she were intimate with someone. It is possible that there is someone OTHER than Mulder, but frankly that would be a cheat. To allow Scully to have an offscreen boyfriend smacks too much of a deus ex machina contrivance, where the only reason one would want to do this is to continue to present the Mulder and Scully are strictly platonic arguement. It's clear that the actors haven't believed that for a long time (if they ever did.) Ergo, the only logical conclusion is that Mulder's about to become a daddy.
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