The X-Files: How Does It End?

“The following story is inspired by real documented accounts”: This was enough to arouse the curiosity of millions of viewers around the world and turn The X-Files, on the edge of reality, into the television legend that it is today.

After all, who has never heard of Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson), two FBI agents who investigate The X-Files: strange unsolved cases involving potential paranormal phenomena? . A true pop culture icon, The Chris Carter Show is one of the longest-running science fiction series. Originally running from 1993 to 2002, The X-Files made a habit of returning to our screens, big or small, continuing in theaters and then airing in 2016 and 2018 for seasons 10 and 11.

On May 19, 2002 in the United States – January 22, 2003 for us – The X-Files first appeared on the small screen. In this ending, Mulder travels to a forbidden military compound and discovers the date of an upcoming alien invasion. However, he is spotted and, on the run, kills Noel Roer (Adam Baldwin), an enemy “super soldier” of sorts, by throwing him onto a high-voltage wire on a catwalk.

Arrested, his fate is decided in court, where he is represented by Skinner (Mitch Pileg). But the sentence is irreversible: he is sentenced to death. Only one solution: escape. Doggett (Robert Patrick), Skinner, Race (Annabeth Gish) and Scully help him escape.

Mulder and Scully then find themselves in New Mexico seeking answers about this alien invasion from the Smoking Man (William B. Davis), who is still alive in hiding to survive the alien colonization scheduled for December 22, 2012 – the announced ending. the world. In the final battle against Rohrer, who is finally not dead (but soon will be, just like the Cigarette Man), Mulder and Scully, Doggett, and Reyes escape.

Later, in a motel room in Roswell, Mulder tells Scully his belief that the dead can speak to the living and are something greater than any alien force. A couple lies in each other’s arms. The end of The X-Files… or so we thought.

The Smoking Man isn’t dead and Mulder and Scully (plagued by visions) have a son, William (Miles Robbins): these are two major events that happened after the series’ first conclusion. William is on the run from the government because of the Cigarette Man’s plans and wants to learn more about his mysterious powers…

Mulder and Scully thus begin a race against time to find their son, but also to prevent orchestrated contamination by an extraterrestrial pathogen. When Mulder finds William, he follows him to an abandoned factory. Scully soon arrives and Mulder suggests that she give up looking for their son because she doesn’t want to be found or protected. Scully refuses to give up. That’s when the real Mulder shows up: the Mulder Scully that Mulder Scully was talking to was William in disguise.

As they chase their son into the factory, Skinner realizes that they have been followed by Race and the Cigarette Man, who eventually hits Skinner. He retaliates by shooting up the car and killing Reese before being passed over. Cigarette Man and Mulder finally confront each other: the former shoots the latter, who falls into the water, mirroring Scully’s earlier vision. But it was really William: the real Mulder kills the Smoking Man, whose body drains Dan.

While Mulder and Scully comfort each other, the latter tells him that William was not their son, but an experiment put on him by the Cigarette Man. However, she is… really pregnant by Mulder! An obvious impossibility, but you never know in The X-Files! As the two embrace, William emerges from the water, somewhere else, conscious and alive…

And so the series ends on March 21, 2018 on American screens… for a while or forever: only the future – and Chris Carter – will tell.