Samantha Mulder

As all this is happening, old Smoking Man has turned up at Mulder's apartment, and here is a really interesting scene.

So there's the photo of Mulder and Samantha together, uh, when they were younger, of course.

And we see that he offers a tear running down his cheek as he looks at this photo.

Now, why has he got a tear running down his cheek? This is all of course immediately interrupted as, as he looks up to the ceiling.

Uh, in the long run, she was just narrating the scenes that we were watching.

Uh, and that to me was an over-explanation for what was required through the episode, and it really did make it less of an episode for me than it really should have been with everything that's been going on.

One of the main things here too, though, is, is this hoax real? Is this all a cover-up for a cover-up? [chuckles] Why is the Smoking Man upset at the possible death or, of, of Mulder? What was this tear about? Is it because he's upset that Mulder is dead? Or is he upset about the memory of Samantha? Or is it both these things, or is it none of these things? It's a really interesting scene, that scene in- when he goes into Mulder's apartment and sees the photo, and then there's that tear.

And of course, as I said, it just gets cut off then because he discovers the hole in the ceiling above, and then he works out what's been going on.

Stop trying to rewrite history.

Yeah, well, I think even Chris Carter in the X-Files didn't know what to do with Samantha Mulder.

So I think he rewrote that character about 18 times within the same series.

But also you mentioned one of the key parts of this film, and that was Alan Silvestri's amazing score, just all on synths and everything.

And the reason I didn't select it, even though I'm fond of it, is because, as I said earlier, it's one of those early mythology episodes.

And in this one, we've got Samantha Mulder being abducted.

We've got Fox's flashbacks.

The X-Files have been disbanded.

Did they really just do that on TV type stuff? It can also be the complete opposite.

So I wanted something totally dark here.

And I thought, hmm, okay, now that I know you've watched Little Green Man, and this has a take on Samantha Mulder's abduction in it, Maybe that's a callback.

Well, it is a callback you'll get.

So there's like almost a little bit of an implication that Mulder's paranoia is driven by his exposure to that drug.

But of course, Samantha was already abducted.

Like, I don't actually think we're meant to think that.

Right.