The X-Files Mini-series Episode 6 Recap

The sixth and final episode, as the title suggests, is a bookend to the first episode. Where the first episode focuses on Mulder, this one focuses on Scully.
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The X-files mini-series wasn't bad. There were some solid episodes, three and four, and weaker episodes, one and five. I'm guessing six is going to be a weak episode. It's going to be mythology and I'm betting it will leave the series open for another season, movie, etc. Or it may leave the season open for Agents Miller and Einstein. I'm glad Chris Carter didn't try to make six episodes of serial myth-arc.
My main complaint is that this season wasn't creepy and unnerving like the original run. This season relied more on humor (or even gimmicks) like the episodes after season five when the original series moved to Los Angeles. Granted there are some very good episodes in that run, but this season's episodes all felt like mimicry. The editing was always a bit too quick, never giving scenes time to become creepy.
I enjoyed this season and I want to watch it again, but I don't know if that's mostly nostalgia. I don't consider any episodes to rank among my favorites. Episode three - Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-monster had a great concept, but it didn't have much of a story, and it didn't pull everything together at the end. Episode 4 - Home Again felt more like a classic monster of the week episode, but it still felt weak. Episode 5 - Babylon was my least favorite. It felt like bad fan fiction and it reduced Mulder and Scully to caricatures.
Will we get another season of The X-files? I think we will, though the big question is which pair of agents will return?

Recap: Episode 6 My Struggle II
The sixth episode begins with Scully recapping her tenure at the FBI and her alien abduction in a scene that parallels the opening of episode one. She references her alien DNA again, the fact realized in episode one of this season. The CGI shot of Scully transforming to an alien was a neat trick, but a bit much. Just because the show can, doesn't mean it should.

O'Malley, it's me.

Mulder is gone, but Tad O'Malley is back and telling everyone about dormant alien DNA.

For some reason Einstein is with Scully and Skinner wondering what happened to Mulder. Scully needs to test Einstein's DNA because if she doesn't the plot will come to a halt. Scully needs a sample without alien DNA, but at the hospital they encounter a dazed man with lesions on his shoulder. The way he is introduced you know there will be more people with his symptoms.

 

Scully, Scully Jr., and young Mulder... I mean Miller.

Why are Miller an Einstein in this episode? Scully states it's already happening as she goes on a crazy rant. I have no idea what she is talking about. It's insane as she leaps to conclusions. It's pure nonsense and it may just be the craziest rant Scully has had in this show. She sums it up stating that "Anthrax is the canary in the coal mine." She's digging deep, but not coming up with anything worthwhile. For whatever reason the population's immune systems will fail.

Miller conveniently clicks on a computer icon that locates Mulder's exact location.

Contrivances come in pairs, so Scully gets a mystery call from someone who can explain everything. It's Monica Reyes because this season needs someone to represent seasons eight and nine.

After Mulder and Scully blew up the Cigarette Smoking Man (CSM), the show ret-conned him back into existence and he summoned Reyes. He's going to de-populate the world. I don't remember him being a megalomaniac before. I guess rising from the dead changes you.

A great action scene. Mulder can handle himself.

The CSM sends a messenger for Mulder. In one of the best fight scenes of The X-files history, Mulder and the messenger square off, ending in Mulder's success, asking the man, "Who are you?"

Mulder meets CSM who claims to have changed the time table and offers Mulder a spot at the big table, assuring him Scully will be there too. CSM removes his mask and reveals he looks like Red Skull. I don't know why that was necessary. The show uses CGI now, that's great. Miller finds Mulder while Einstein and Scully tro to science out a cure.

Can a cure really be developed that quickly? How are they going to distribute it?

Hospitals are over run as anthrax cases give away to flu and bacterial infections. It's the Spartan virus. The world is dying and only Scully's DNA can save it.

Tad is an unnecessary addition that updates us on information we already know. The virus is breaking out everywhere and everybody needs a little bit of Scully. I tired of the frequent cuts to his 'show'.

 

Scully needs her kid but doesn't know where she is. The episode and season end with a space ship appearing over the bridge. Miller and Scully look up at the pale blue lights of the ship.

 

A parting shot of Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny.

This episode was full of nonsense. As the minutes ticked down I wondered if we'd get a to be continued. We didn't, but we also didn't get any answers. It it aliens or government? The show seemed to distinctly setup a quest for find Scully's son. So long X-files, see you next year.