X-Files Revival Part 3: What Should Have Happened?

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The X-Files Revival
Part 3: What Should Have Happened?

By Miss T., Televisionologist

The new series could have easily been helped by combining the first few minutes of episode 1 with the last 20 minutes of episode 2, making a single episode in which we see Mulder and Scully naturally get pulled back into the X-Files. Here is how I think the series should have started:



The episode would start with a young pregnant woman fleeing from Our Lady of Sorrows Hospital. After the credits, we would see police blocking off an underpass, where Mulder exits his car eating sunflower seeds. An officer meets him and thanks him for coming so quickly, and Mulder says he wasn't sure why he's been called to a hit-and-run. As they pass by, a forensic scientist complains that Mulder's sunflower seeds are contaminating the crime scene, and the officer says that Mulder is the FBI profiler they had been waiting for.

Meanwhile, Mulder walks over to see a woman (the same one we saw fleeing from the hospital in the first scene) dead in the street, and that her stomach has been cut open. Mulder asks the officer how many women they suspected had been eviscerated by this killer, and the officer says 4, but that they hadn't been eviscerated -- they had been pregnant.

The next day, Mulder attends a briefing on the case, where he is ready to make his report on the killer. During the briefing, he learns that the pregnant woman had an implant in her neck (similar to the one Scully had in the original series), and that the woman had been going to see her obstetrician at Our Lady of Sorrows Hospital. Mulder hurriedly leaves the meeting and makes a phone call before getting in the elevator and going down to the basement.

Mulder gets out of the elevator, and as he approaches the old X-Files office he sees the door is ajar. He pulls his gun and rushes the office to find two young FBI agents sitting behind his desk. When asked who they are they tell him they are new agents assigned to the office. He pushes past them to the filing cabinet to find the old files are gone, then goes up to Assistant Director Skinner's office to find out why there are people in his office and where his files are. Skinner informs him that the X-Files have been reopened in an effort to once again debunk them.

Mulder enters Our Lady of Sorrows Hospital, where the pregnant woman was last seen, and runs into Scully in the hallway, as this is where Scully is working as a pathologist. When she asks what he wants, he tells Scully he's on a case and he's trying to get information about a patient. Scully brings him up to the maternity ward where they meet Agnes, the pregnant woman who wants to leave but seems unable or afraid to do so. Mulder writes his number on the back of one Scully's business cards and tells Agnes to call either of them if she needs help.

The next day, Mulder is called to another crime scene, where he meets Scully who has been called too. The dead woman is Agnes, who has the business card with their numbers on it in her pocket, which is why they were both called. Mulder asks Scully to do the autopsy, during which she find "founders mutation" written on the palm of the woman's hand.

Scully asks Sister Mary of Our Lady of Sorrows Hospital to introduce them to Goldman, who is known as "the Founder" and has been tied to eugenics. Sister Mary offers to pass a message on to Goldman -- Mulder tells her to ask about the "Founder's Mutation" -- and Sister Mary leaves to make the call. During this time, Mulder and Scully hypothesize that Goldman is experimenting on pregnant women for his project, and they reminisce about their lost son William.

At this point, Mulder and Scully receive approval to meet Goldman, and the rest of the episode plays out more or less as the remainder of episode 2 does. They meet Goldman, who shows them his labs. They find out he was married and they question his wife Jackie who is in an asylum for murdering their unborn son. Mulder and Scully learn that the Goldman's daughter had supernatural powers as a child, and Mulder surmises that the unborn boy did as well, and that he isn't dead.

They return to Goldman's lab, where they find Kyle Goldman trying to break in -- he says he is looking for his sister who is being held inside by their father. Mulder & Scully bring Kyle into the facility, where Goldman introduces him to a girl claiming to be Kyle's sister. Kyle isn't fooled, runs through the lab until he finds his sister, and they use their powers to break her out of the lab, hold Mulder & Scully at bay, and kill Goldman with their powers before they disappear. When the authorities arrive and ask Mulder & Scully where the siblings went, Mulder says they were unconscious and didn't see anything. When the officer leaves Mulder and Scully exchange a look suggesting that they let the siblings go.