THE X-FILES Archive. Everything there is to know about the groundbreaking science fiction series
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X-files mythology
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One face of the X-Files are the so-called “investigative” episodes. They’re all about paranormal, unusual events, mind control, ghosts, vampires, werewolves, and so on and so forth. However, the axis of the whole series, what keeps the whole concept linear, the core and essence of The X-Files are the “mythological” episodes – there are several of them in each season, and little by little they discover this “truth” that lies “out there” and which Mulder is trying to X-ray at all costs. The mythology of the Archive is so complex and twisted, often full of contradictions and paradoxes, that it is easy to get lost in it. Even Chris Carter doesn’t claim to know all the answers. In short, the X-Files mythology is a theory about the existence of a powerful conspiracy, formed by people from the highest circles of power, associated in an international group of “shadow people”, also known as the “Syndicate” or “Consortium”. We know very little about them, and individual pieces of the puzzle appear in subsequent seasons, gradually building a more complete picture of this conspiracy – its causes, foundations, goals and threats.
Everything begins in the pilot of the first season, when with the silent approval of one of (as it later turns out) high-ranking “shadow people” – a certain C.G.B. Spender, also known as the Cigarette Smoking-Man or Cancer-Man, agent Dana Scully, a medical doctor, is assigned to the “X-Files” as Fox Mulder’s partner. Mulder is known for his extraordinary theories and his steadfast belief in UFOs. Scully, a scientist with a balanced and cool mind, is supposed to watch over his partner and make sure he doesn’t discover too much. In a word, she is to be a spy by his side. Time would show that it was not the right choice. The second episode of the first season, Deep Throat, introduces a new character – and he is part of a group of conspirators, but for reasons that are not entirely clear, he decides to play the role of Mulder’s secret informant. Hence his nickname – “Deep Throat”, as a reference to the pseudonym of the mysterious informant Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, journalists who fell on the trail of the Watergate scandal. In the next mythological episode, E.B.E., Lone Gunners appear for the first time – Byers, Langly and Frohike, who blindly believe in the conspiracy theory of history, computer geniuses, for whom breaking codes and bypassing blockades is child’s play. They will often be of great help to Mulder.
With Scully failing as a conspiracy spy, the X-Files are threatened with closure. A preview of this we have in Tooms, which is also the episode where the Smoker says his first line (“of course I believe”). In the last episode of the first season, The Erlenmeyer Flask, for the first time we meet human-alien hybrids whose blood is green and highly toxic. Mulder has the opportunity to find out the hard way. Scully, with the support of Deep Throat, steals an Alien embryo preserved in liquid nitrogen – this exhibit is to be ransom for Mulder’s life. At the end of this episode, Deep Throat is murdered. “Trust no one” – these are his last words. Skinner, on the other hand, is ordered by his superiors to shut down the X-Files. Viewers, on the other hand, know more or less what they knew at the beginning.
Things get even more complicated in season two. We see the effects, we still know nothing about the causes. Removed from the X-Files, the agents go about their routine – Scully takes up a career as a lecturer, Mulder gets bored doing other things. Until Senator Matheson, who sympathizes with Mulder, directs him to Arecibo. All this happens in the opening episode of the second season – Little Green Men. The announced “contact” actually takes place – but the evidence turns out to be faulty and again Mulder has nothing certain in his hand. However, he finds faith in the meaning of his work – and cooperation, of course with Scully. In this season’s second episode of The Host, there’s an announcement of a new informant coming onto the scene. Dark “X” is supposedly the successor of Deep Throat, but it is quite an ambiguous character. The Syndicate, in the person of Smoker, makes another attempt to spy on Mulder, thanks to his new partner, Alex Krycek (Sleepless episode). Fox rightly distrusts the zealous young man. Anyway, the future was to show that Krycek’s proper principal – the Burner – should not have trusted him either. Krycek, affectionately known on the Internet as Rat (Ratboy), is a double agent – he also spies for the Russians (however, we will only learn about this in the episodes Tunguska and Terma).
Duane Barry, the protagonist of the episode of the same title, is a former FBI agent with a paranoid fear of “Aliens”. As it turns out, he has an implant with an unrecognizable structure implanted in his neck. Duane kidnaps Scully, intending to offer her to the “Aliens” as, perhaps, the best word for it, a bribe… Mulder locates Duane, but fails to find Scully (Ascension). Scully appears on her own, only in a state of deep coma (One Breath). While she experiences unusual visions (featuring the caring figure of an unidentified nurse), Mulder loses his mind, threatens the Smoker with a gun, and goes out of his way altogether. Since Scully has expressed such a will in her will, the doctors do not want to artificially support her life. Surprisingly, however, after disconnecting from the apparatus, Scully awakens from the coma. She remembers practically nothing. Colony seems to be a light in the darkness: Samantha, Mulder’s sister, once abducted before his eyes by what he believed to be aliens, appears. Did she actually survive? However, Samantha turns out to be a green-blooded hybrid, in addition – one of many identical-looking clones. A threat to them is a mysterious hunter with a deadly spike (because the only way to kill a hybrid is to stick the spike into its neck). Hunter, popularly known as “Pilot”, will appear many more times over the next seasons. The final episode of the second season is considered by many to be the best mythological episode ever. It is titled Anasazi.
A computer hacker nicknamed “Thinker” breaks into classified files of the Department of Defense, containing information about hiding evidence of extraterrestrial life, details of medical experiments on abductees and much more. The priceless tape ends up in the hands of Mulder, who is followed by a real manhunt, led by Smoker. Mulder discovers that the data is encrypted in the Navajo language. In Anasazi we also learn that the Burner worked in the Department of Defense with Bill Mulder – Fox’s father. Meanwhile, Fox is acting weirder and seems unbalanced. His father tries to tell him the truth about his government job, but he is murdered by Krycek beforehand. Mulder is weak and has a high fever, Scully discovers that the water in his apartment has been poisoned with drugs. Dana introduces her partner to Albert Hosteen. During World War II, he encrypted military communications using the Navajo language. He tells Mulder about the Anasazi tribe, which disappeared without a trace six hundred years ago, abducted by mysterious “guests”. Albert’s grandson leads Mulder to a cold storage car full of alien bodies. On the body of one of them there is a trace of smallpox vaccination. Helicopters land on the spot, and Smoker gets out of one of them. The wagon is set on fire, but there is no sign of Mulder anywhere. He is declared missing.
The plot continues in the third season. In The Blessing Way, the Smoker continues to try to recover files containing evidence of UFOs. Scully fails to protect them. She gets a reprimand from Skinner, she’s depressed, she thinks she’s failed. Meanwhile, Mulder is found half dead by the Indians, pinned down by rocks. Albert and the other elders offer healing prayers over him. Mulder turns back from the road and regains consciousness. Scully accidentally discovers the presence of an implant in her body. It is surgically removed. At Bill Mulder’s funeral, Scully gets a warning from a man known by fans as “Distinguished” or “Well-Manicured Man”. He tells her that someone he knows and trusts is after her life. He also mentions the existence of a consortium of “shadow people” who are “fabricating the truth”. In this episode, Scully’s sister Melissa is fatally shot – by mistake, as Krycek and his companion were lying in wait for Dana. In the next one, Paper Clip, Melissa dies in the hospital. Scully and Mulder drive to an abandoned mine in West Virginia. There are cabinets full of medical records. They have Scully’s name on them, and also Samantha Mulder’s name – although it seems Fox was originally going to be taken, not his sister. At one point, several small and small figures run past, Mulder sees the huge silhouette of a spaceship, and Scully – the outline of an alien in a flash of bright light.
From a Well-Manicured Man, agents learn about experiments conducted by Nazi scientists in 1947, immediately after the Roswell disaster. In exchange for an amnesty, they devoted themselves to research into the creation of a human-alien hybrid. Samantha’s kidnapping was intended as a warning to Mulder’s father, who wanted to reveal the truth. It was probably Bill who made the choice between son and daughter. In Nisei, however, we have Scully’s meeting with eleven women, each of whom in a hypnotic trance told about the kidnapping and the experiments performed on her body. They all had implants in their necks, like the one in Dana’s neck. And they all die of rapidly progressing cancer. In Piper, Maru Skinner pays almost the ultimate price for refusing to stop the investigation into Melissa’s death.
The French ship “Piper Maru” picks up a strange object from the ocean. It turns out to be the source of an oily black substance known as “Black Cancer”. The provenance of this substance is obviously extraterrestrial. Moreover, she is endowed with intelligence. Through successive carriers, which he fully controls, “Black Cancer” gets out into the wild and sets off into the world. Until, finally, he comes across a truly intriguing victim – “Rat” Krycek, who is still in possession of the Majestic file cassette containing the data captured by the Thinker and then stored by Skinner. The Smoker retrieves this tape in “Apocrypha”. Infected with “Black Cancer”, Krycek is transported to North Dakota. The last episode – Talitha Cumi – reveals the real revelation – The Smoker had an affair with Mulder’s mother! Their meeting after many years is by no means a tender spinning of sentimental memories – shortly after, Mulder’s mother suffers a massive stroke. Surprisingly, it is the Smoker who saves her life by persuading Jeremiah Smith to help her. Apparently because “the most dangerous opponent is a man who has nothing to lose”, and Mulder would become such after the death of his mother.
Before that happens, in Herrenvolk, Jeremiah Smith – an extraterrestrial healer – leads Fox to a huge bee farm tended by Samantha’s clones of various ages. As usual, at the crucial moment, the Pilot appears and wreaks death and destruction. X is exposed as a double agent and eliminated. Before he dies, however, he directs Mulder to another informant – this time it is a woman working at the UN, Marita Covarrubias. Tunguskai Terma could almost function as standalone episodes, in fact, they were even released separately on video. Krycek and Mulder travel to Tunguska, where the meteorite crashed, and are captured and imprisoned. Mulder becomes infected with the oily black muck. It turns out, however, that the Russians have developed a vaccine against “Black Cancer” and Mulder’s life is saved. Again. Krycek escapes Mulder’s thirst for revenge, but falls into the hands of the guerrillas, who cut off his arm up to the elbow. Scully is worse off. In Memento Mori, her cancer is already very advanced. There seems to be no help for her. And if anyone knows how to save her, it’s the Smoker. Skinner conducts tiresome negotiations with him to save the agent’s life. He puts his entire career at risk, even obliterating evidence in the case of a mysterious death at Zero Sum. Help in finding a remedy is also offered by a certain Michael Kritschgau, an employee of the Department of Defense, who also wants to find a cure for his son, suffering from the Persian Gulf Syndrome. The same Kritschgau tells Mulder and Scully that all the knowledge they have gathered so far is one big pack of lies and that someone is skillfully manipulating them. The frozen alien corpse found in Gethsemane is also a big hoax, according to Kritschgau. At this point, it is completely unknown where to look for the truth.
The three-part opening for season five shows us Mulder on the verge of a nervous breakdown. He’s hallucinating, he’s out of control. He breaks into the Department of Defense, obtains a vial of Scully’s supposed cancer cure, but it turns out to be only water. It seems that all the evidence points to the UFO being nothing but a government hoax. Scully ends up in the hospital, she’s getting worse. And it is the Smoker who gives Mulder the cure – a microchip, the same as the implant she unwisely removed from the back of her neck. What’s more, the cure works as Scully’s condition unexpectedly improves. In Redux II, Kritschgau’s son dies. The smoker introduces Mulder to a woman who considers him her father and who would be the real Samantha, the prototype of all subsequent clones. Finally, the Smoker is shot – we don’t know if he survived. The subject of human-Alien hybrids is far from over. In Christmas, Carol Scully receives a call… On the other end of the line, she hears the voice of her dead sister, Melissa, who begs Dana to look after a little girl named Emily. And in fact such a girl is found in the apartment from which the call was made. Based on the physical resemblance, Scully thinks she is dealing with her sister’s daughter. However, it soon turns out that this is a mistake – she herself is the girl’s mother. How is this possible?
The mystery is revealed in the next episode, Emily. The girl is a hybrid, perhaps it was the collection of cells that were used to combine with the alien genetic matter that caused Scully’s infertility. A wound appears on Emily’s neck, and a green substance oozes out of it. She cannot be saved and soon dies, which Scully is absolutely devastated. In Patient X, the topic of alien colonization plans for Earth and a government conspiracy to hide evidence returns again. Scully meets a woman who has been reportedly abducted multiple times. This is Cassandra Spender, the Smoker’s ex-wife, the first successful – that is, completely resistant to the black plague – human-Alien hybrid. People who admit to such experiences are eliminated – burned alive – by sinister faceless beings. They are rebels opposing colonization plans. Cassandra is abducted again. The smoker turns out to be alive, and what’s more, thanks to the disclosure of his family status – the existence of an ex-wife and son, arrogant FBI agent Jeffrey Spender – we finally learn what his last name is. The End features twelve-year-old prodigy Gibson Prais, a boy who can read minds. He’s probably part alien. A valuable asset to the Syndicate, although at first he seemed only an inconvenient witness. Also in The End, which concludes the fifth season, the Burner sets Mulder’s office on fire and the X-Files are shut down once again.
And immediately afterwards it was restarted, but with a new personnel cast. Jeffrey Spender and Diane Fowley are at the helm in The Beginning. A rookie couple (well, let’s say Diane already has her X-Files experience) travel to a nuclear power plant where an alien responsible for the Phoenix killings is said to be hiding. Smoker wants to use Gibson Prais’ abilities to find the Alien. Mulder and Scully also go to the place, contrary to the prohibition of the authorities from above. In the end, everything ends in a fiasco, and in addition, Gibson seems to melt in the fog. And so, in pain and hardship, getting lost in successive pieces of a gigantic puzzle, we finally come to a two-part whole: Two Fathers and One Son, which finally explain what this government conspiracy is all about. Aliens whose essence materializes into a substance known to us as “Black Cancer” claim our planet. A group of top government officials, a Syndicate, Consortium or if you prefer Shadow People, cooperates with an alien civilization, hoping that their lives will be spared in return. They agree to undertake a human-alien crossing experiment. To do this, they get a sample of extraterrestrial DNA – it’s the very embryo Scully stole at the Erlenmeyer Flask. In return, the Syndicate gave the aliens their family members. It is likely that extraterrestrials are conducting their own experiments on these people for the same purpose – to create hybrids. Some of the abductees returned, and sometimes were taken several times (like Cassandra or Max Fennig), others, like Mulder’s sister, never returned. It was Bill Mulder who proposed using alien DNA to create a vaccine against “Black Cancer”. The trial was partially successful – the vaccine works only if it is administered within the first four days. However, there is more than one alien race. In addition to the aggressors, there are also rebels who oppose the colonization plans. In One Son, a group of rebels steal the embryo and kill most of the Shadow People. Cassandra, who as the first successful hybrid is a key person for colonization purposes, is also probably dead.
So some questions have found their answers, but what next? In fact, where does this ownership that aliens claim our planet come from? Or is it because life on Earth was created by extraterrestrial interference? This seems to be indicated by items found in Africa in the episode Biogenesis, which ends the sixth season. This is the first part of a three-part mythological whole. At the end of the sixth season, Mulder shows symptoms of a strange disease that causes his brain to become hyperactive. In the seventh season, this theme is continued in Sixth Extinction, and then in Sixth Extinction – Amor Fati. Mulder makes a suicide attempt, he is tormented by strange visions, neither real nor imaginary. Scully investigates the remains of a space wreck found in Africa and the mysterious inscriptions on them. The running of the mythological thread in the seventh season disappointed the fans as a breakdown of the previous concept. Among the meanders of truth and falsehood, sometimes straying a bit from the path, we constantly circled around one topic: the alien colonization plans and the government conspiracy associated with them. Meanwhile, after the suspension of the topic in One Son – when Cassandra is officially dead and placed under the guardianship of the rebels, and the Consortium is almost wiped out – suddenly there is nothing more to add. The topic of Aliens still appears, but in a completely changed context. Moreover, Chris Carter challenges several motives that until now seemed obvious. For example, the fate of Mulder’s sister – Closure presents us with a completely different version than the one that was an important element of the whole conspiracy-colonization theory. The somewhat surreal atmosphere of Amor Fati introduces a pathetic tone: Mulder at the crossroads has to choose between comfortable overlooking and the hard fate of a seeker of truth. But this truth is beginning to have a name. Mulder as the savior of the world?
And so the story comes full circle – we come to the end of the seventh season and we find ourselves again in Oregon, where it all began. In Requiem, Mulder disappears from the scene, voluntarily boarding a spaceship, witnessed by Skinner. Scully discovers that – against all laws of logic – she is pregnant. The smoker is murdered – or so it seems.
What have we learned in total over these seven seasons?
1. The aliens planned to colonize the Earth with a host of human-alien hybrids resistant to the “Black Cancer”. The project was code-named “Cleanliness Control”.
2. A group of people from the highest circles of power formed the Consortium, which began cooperation with the aliens to ensure their survival. It all started in Roswell in 1947/48, and the first scientists working on the project were Nazi scientists.
3. The aliens, through the Hunters, maintained control over the population of hybrids and their clones, reckoning with the possibility of rebellion.
4. The syndicate used a smoke screen to distract the public. One of its elements were unidentified flying objects appearing here and there.
5. However, the Syndicate also attempts to protect humanity from slavery, which would occur at the time of the invasion of the aggressor. This attempt is to create a vaccine that would make people immune to “Black Cancer”.
6. There are several alien races – we’ve met some of them, there are probably more of them. The first are humanoids, able to change their appearance, incredibly resistant and durable, they have green blood with poisonous properties – such as the Pilot. Similar to them, though not as hardy, are representatives of the race represented by Jeremiah Smith. Hybrids and clones of these also have green and poisonous blood, but do not have the ability to change their appearance. There are also classic Grays, more or less slender. The most aggressive variety of them are the hypothetical colonizers. The essence of their vitality is blood – a black substance endowed with intelligence that can take over the human body and control the mind of the host, leading him to extreme exhaustion. Under favorable conditions, infection may result in the transformation of a human into an Alien.
7. The creation of hybrids is done through continuous experimentation on abducted people. It’s hard to tell when a hybrid is successful and when it’s not. We also do not fully know what determines the selection and elimination of some of them. Perhaps a truly successful hybrid should be virtually indestructible, resistant to injuries and devoid of the so-called human feelings. Like the Super Soldiers we’ll meet in Seasons Eight and Nine. She should certainly be immune to the Black Cancer, but it wasn’t until Cassandra Spender did that.
8. Each kidnapped is implanted with an implant, the removal of which causes the rapid development of cancer. The role of the implant is not clear. Perhaps thanks to this, the unit can be tracked at any time.
9. The colonization of the Earth would have to involve the extermination of all representatives of the human race. For example, with the help of mutated bees – carriers of deadly diseases like smallpox. On the other hand, are aliens really immune to such smallpox? Probably the Syndicate was trying to find out.
For many The X-Files fans, the show ended with its seventh season. Mulder’s departure was a blow to the very idea of the Archive. Pregnant Scully is assigned a new partner – John Doggett, a former US Marine Corps soldier. Initially, he is only to deal with the search for Mulder, but his superiors, dissatisfied with his unconventional report, direct him to the X-Files as a punishment. Skeptical and cold, he is to be a counterbalance to Scully, who, for her part, takes over the current role of Mulder – she is the one who shows an open mind and comes up with unconventional solutions. The heart of the eighth season is the search for Mulder’s traces – Scully hopes to get him back. Mulder actually returns, like many others, being intercepted by what appears to be a cult group that is dedicated to healing survivors. Their leader, Jeremiah Smith, however, disappeared before he could help Mulder, who dies and is buried in a family grave in Raleigh.
However, Skinner, guided by the case of Billy Miles – who had the same experience as Mulder and began to show signs of life – orders the exhumation of the body, as it turns out – rightly so. Scully does everything possible and impossible to bring Mulder out of this half-death state before he undergoes a metamorphosis like the other “returned” and turns into an Alien. So, after Mulder’s messianic destiny was suggested to us in season seven, we have his resurrection on top of that in season eight. Returned to life, albeit ousted from the X-Files, Mulder throws himself into the search for evidence of a planned extraterrestrial invasion with renewed vigor.
The second leitmotif of x-files mythology in the eighth and ninth seasons is William – Scully’s son. There are hints in the series both of in-vitro fertilization (Mulder would then be the donor) and of an alleged romance between the pair of agents. Scully, however, was infertile after the kidnapping. The artificial insemination she underwent seemed to be a fiasco and is certainly not part of an experiment to create natural hybrids. Undoubtedly, however, this is an extraordinary child. Both the rebels and the members of the New Syndicate are very interested in him – an organization composed almost exclusively of a special type of hybrids, commonly known as Super Soldiers. The organization took over the role of the former Syndicate, after its dissolution in the seventh season, and is working towards the implementation of colonization plans. For a time, William showed clear paranormal abilities, including telekinetic. He was also kidnapped by a sect of UFO cultists who believed that he should be protected as the future leader of a group of Super Soldiers. In “William”, a man with a horribly disfigured face appears out of nowhere and gives the boy a mysterious injection supposedly to save him from fulfilling the prophecy. The man turns out to be Jeffrey Spender, and the coincidence of his DNA with Mulder’s DNA seems to finally confirm who Fox’s real father was. Scully, realizing that she is unable to keep her son safe, gives him up for adoption.
While the eighth season revolved mainly around the Mulder plot, the ninth one delves into the super-soldier issue. It does so in such a muddled and convoluted way that it is completely unclear what it is all about. The X-Files are taken over by John Doggett and his partner Monica Reyes. Mulder, who disappears at the beginning of the ninth season so as not to endanger Scully and the baby, learns about the date of the planned colonization. And so – again in pain and hardship – we come to the end of the whole in the two-part finale of The Truth, where we laboriously collect a complete set of knowledge, sometimes consistent with what we have been told so far, and sometimes not. In Bluemont, Virginia, Mulder sneaks into a government building and begins an inspection. At one point, however, he is surprised by Knowle Rohrer – as we already know, a Super Soldier and member of the New Syndicate, practically indestructible. Krycek’s ghost helps Mulder fight Rohrer. Dropped onto electrical cables, Rohrer appears to be dead, so Mulder is promptly arrested on murder charges. The trial that follows, and the testimonies of the defense witnesses, serve to recapitulate the entire history of the X-Files Great Mythology. Scully is the first to testify. From what he says, it appears that millions of years ago, via a meteor, a virus that transformed our ancestors into aliens got to Earth (why some infected actually transform, and others die of exhaustion – it is not known). After the ice age came, the virus was preserved. Since the virus is intelligent, it has contacted an extraterrestrial civilization. In 1947, a UFO crashed in Roswell. At that time, the American government learned of the alien colonization plans.
From the witness to Scully Spender, we learn that a Conspiracy has been formed, and that each of its members has given the aliens someone belonging to their family as collateral. Bill Mulder then sacrificed his daughter Samantha. After Spender is discredited by the prosecutor, Marita Covarrubias enters the witness box and talks about the Syndicate’s experiments to produce a vaccine for the black virus. He also talks about the Aliens – the rebels who destroyed the Syndicate and wiped out its members almost to the bone, and about the Syndicate’s successors – the Super Soldiers, that is, the aliens who look like humans who move the colonization plans forward.
Doggett testifies that the supposedly murdered Rohrer was just such a Super Soldier. Monica Reyes, on the other hand, recalls the circumstances of William’s birth and the fact that Scully was once kidnapped by the government for experimental breeding of human slaves. It follows that this is what hybrids were supposed to be – slaves in the service of aliens. Despite all these testimonies, Mulder is sentenced to death, but the cooperation of all his friends (even Kersh!) leads to his escape. He and Scully travel to New Mexico and there they find Smoker – almost completely eaten away by cancer. He hides in fear of those who are slowly coming to power – the Aliens. Zero hour will occur on December 22, 2012. And that’s the whole truth we’ve been looking for for so many years.
The eighth and ninth seasons, then, return to the slightly neglected government conspiracy and colonization plot – but they lack the spark. Some treatments are hard to understand. It is also difficult to keep up with the sense of the actions of the so-called. Supersoldiers and determine with absolute certainty what they really are – that is, what exactly is the difference between creating a hybrid and turning a human into an Alien. William’s plot is unclear. The prophecy supposedly points to him as the future leader of the Super Soldiers. However, it may turn out to be exactly the opposite – in the spirit of his father, Mulder, he will lead the rebels opposing the Invasion. What this would lead to is unknown. But somehow it has to be made clear that the New Syndicate is hunting William when they should rather be protecting him as their future leader. So we’re being told he’s hunting because Mulder couldn’t be killed. Rather far-fetched.
Also unclear is the question of turning people into hybrids by modifying their genetic combination, and what is the actual involvement of the government in creating Super Soldiers for military purposes (e.g. in the Persian Gulf). Generally, you can get lost, who wants to colonize us and how! The concept seems to be exhausted, there is little to come up with a new one. Too much pathos and big words in these final two seasons, and the characters are completely different from the ones we knew and liked. While the reflective episodes with Scully in the lead role were interesting as interludes, Scully constantly immersed in reflection, sluggish and devoid of energy, tearful and prone to hysteria is hardly digestible. Monica Reyes is no match for the old Scully and is a poor replacement. Dotting over and over Mulder and Scully’s emotional relationship didn’t do the show any good either. It was the climate of tension and understatement between them that was really intriguing and attractive. Like everything else, the mythology of the X-Files in the final two seasons turned into cliché and cliché. It’s a pity.
SUMMARY (WHERE POSSIBLE)
that is, an attempt to finally put the facts in order
1. On Earth, near Siberia, a meteorite crashes containing an organic life form, intelligent and able to take over the bodies of its carriers.
2. The alien life form known to us as the Black Cancer has been dormant since the Ice Age, waiting for the day of its liberation.
3. In the 1940s, as part of Operation Paperclip, Nazi scientists specializing in eugenics research are flown to the United States and engaged in a new project. This group also includes Victor Klemper, a pioneer in research into the connection of human and extraterrestrial DNA.
4. In 1945, a B-29 plane carrying an atomic bomb collides with a UFO. The American submarine Zeus Faber is looking for traces of a broken wreck. The crew suffers horrific burns, while the first mate is possessed by the Black Cancer and starts behaving strangely. Of the entire crew, only seven soldiers survived.
5. In 1947, a UFO crashes in the Roswell, New Mexico area. The government acquires samples of extraterrestrial DNA. In the same year, initial contact is made between the colonizers and the government. Also in 1947, the Majestic project is launched.
6. In the 1950s, Alvin Kurtzweil and Bill Mulder are involved in a secret government project. The first of them quickly resigned and devoted himself to making humanity aware of the threat of the coming Armageddon. The second remained faithful to the project for many years, despite numerous ethical doubts.
7. Information about the Soviet experiments on eugenics encourage American scientists who manage to clone two people: a man and a woman. The male clones are named Adam and the female clones are named Eve. Over time, it turned out that the clones are imperfect: they have outstanding intelligence, but also strong suicidal and murderous instincts.
8. In 1953, the Majestic cell begins flight tests of aircraft based on UFO technology, probably acquired in Roswell.
9. Around the same time, the Russian “Gregor” human cloning project ends successfully.
10. Takeo Ishimaru, one of the Japanese scientists involved in the Paperclip Project, under a changed name, continues research into the possible connection of human and alien DNA. People subjected to his experiments suffer extensive burns, which may be the result of exposure to UFO radiation.
11. 1973 – cooperation is established between the members of the Project and an alien civilization. The actual Consortium is formed, which gains knowledge of the plans to colonize Earth and agrees to conduct research into creating a human/Alien hybrid that would be immune to Black Cancer. This approval was an attempt to gain time so that an effective vaccine could be prepared. Bill Mulder suggests using alien-provided DNA to develop it. As collateral for cooperation, each member of the Consortium gives the Aliens a member of their family. All are to be returned when colonization begins, and each is to eventually become a hybrid. It is unknown why the aliens made such a deal. The created hybrids would prepare the ground for colonization and in the future become slaves working for the Aliens.
12. Samantha Mulder and Cassandra Spender are abducted. Both then go through a series of experiments, tests, and research to make them hybrids. After hybridization, Samantha is cloned.
13. A meteorite containing an extraterrestrial organism later named “Black Cancer” crashes in Tunguska. The Russians are conducting research on obtaining a possible vaccine, which was partially successful.
Research into the creation of a human-Alien hybrid leads to the creation of such, but still not entirely immune to the Black Cancer. The first hybrid to show complete resistance is Cassandra Spender, which the Consortium tries hard to hide from the colonizers.
14. The experiments involve the abduction of people from whom genetic material is taken. The abduction takes place in cooperation with the Aliens and the Consortium.
15. There are few original hybrids, most of them are clones.
16. In relation to the alien colonization plans, a rebellion of other aliens is developing, who stand in the way of the experiments, preventing mass abductions.
17. When rogue aliens bring about the destruction of the Consortium, the hybrid development comes to a standstill, forcing the colonizers to come up with an alternative plan that is in no way dependent on human cooperation.
18. This alternative is the formation of the New Syndicate, formed by replicants otherwise known as Super Soldiers, virtually indestructible. The replicants infiltrate the government, military and security agencies to ensure the progress of colonization plans.
19. The transformation of a human into a replicant takes place in several stages: first, he is abducted and subjected to painful tests. Then – subjected to the Black Cancer. He is then returned in a half-life, half-death state, and after the appropriate amount of time has passed, he transforms into a Super Soldier.
20. An element of the Super Soldiers program is also the artificial insemination of selected women by taking eggs from their bodies, inserting extraterrestrial DNA into them and re-implanting them.
21. Scully became pregnant using an egg that had been harvested from her body and manipulated to become a Super Soldier if fertilized. Actually, by chance, it was this cell that was used during the insemination. Although at first it seemed that the attempt failed, after some time it turns out that it was successful (due to the presence of extraterrestrial DNA in the cell, the fertilization effect is delayed).
22. Thus, William is born a child prodigy whom the replicants see as their spiritual guru and future savior. There is one condition: he cannot be raised by Mulder, so Mulder must die. And if Mulder can’t be killed, William must die.
23. William is the first Super Soldier born without deliberate experimentation, naturally. His birth is surprising and accidental. In particular, because Scully was part of the research from the previous stage of colonization – the creation of hybrids – and other women who will become mothers of Super Soldiers are already part of a new special experimental program.
24. The injection of the only agent capable of defeating the Supersoldier’s genes, given to William by Spender, deprives him of his extraordinary properties. William is now a normal child.
25. The success of the experiment to create the Super Soldiers heralds the timely start of colonization: December 22, 2012. On this date, the Mayan calendar ends, and members of the Red Museum sect define it as the beginning of the New Age.
26. We still believe there is hope for humanity…
… 2012 has come and gone and somehow humanity is still functioning. Have colonization plans gone awry? The tenth season of The X-Files completely changes the approach to existing mythology and creates the outline of a new one. According to all the writers of the series, the theme of the Syndicate and colonization has been exploited in one hundred percent (maybe even in two hundred, eating its own tail and contradicting itself at the end). The time has come for changes and a fresh concept. Already in the first episode of the season, My Struggle, Mulder comes to the conclusion that the whole big colonization truth was a double-bottomed drink to divert everyone’s attention from the point of things. During a meeting with a woman named Sveta, the agents learn that they have been led by the nose for years. Yes, there is a conspiracy – but people from the highest circles of power are responsible for it. Using extraterrestrial technology and experimenting on living victims under the guise of alleged abductions, they plan an attack on the United States, which will be the first stage of taking over the world. The implantation of extraterrestrial DNA, for example under the guise of vaccinations or blood donations, is supposed to enable the conspirators (Mulder calls them fascists) to manipulate society as needed. They can be exterminated at any time by a deadly virus, but they can also be genetically modified in such a way as to be immune to it, and additionally show extraordinary abilities useful to the conspirators. It all depends on the genetic combination used. The smoker seems to have a lot of knowledge about this, which Monica Reyes tries to use, agreeing in return to the humiliating role of the caretaker of the indestructible Spender. The messianic theme also returns, with not only William, but also Scully at the center this time. What’s next? Could the season finale suggest that help will come from the least expected direction? Could the aliens, instead of colonizing the Earth, want to protect humanity, and if so, how will they do it?
The fact that the tenth season is so short did not do the show any good. Little time, many threads and an attempt to cram them into two episodes – it could not end well. The concept seems chaotic, not fully thought out and far-fetched. In terms of mythology, the return of The X-Files failed miserably. The eleventh season, according to the announcement, will focus on investigative episodes and will be a proper rebirth. Premiere – January 3, 2018.
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Karolina Chymkowska