Scully's (Gillian Anderson) turn to do a voiceover as Mulder (David Duchovny) did in the opening episode of this season relating to the conspiracy aspect of the show. Scully follows this up with narrating the beginnings of the X-Files, at least her part on it in joining and also the conspiracies and bad things they uncovered. Summing up the most important players in this, especially the Cigarette Smoking Man (William B Davis) and their sinister plans of world and global domination. Including everything she went through with her abduction and finally we see Scully's head morphed into an alien. We know she has alien DNA, but doesn't mean she's an alien or will become one, though that scene was funny.
Scully heads to the office apologizing for being late and finds Mulder isn't there and then gets a call from Tad O'Malley (Joel McHale) telling her to come to Mulder's apartment, which has been trashed. (Well not trashed like the Home Again ep trash!) Scully asks Miller and Einstein to help look for him and suddenly is concerned of the genome tests she carried out on herself and is especially concerned when a disorientated soldier arrives at the hospital with a lesion in his arm. There's increased reports of people getting sick and she worries that a global contagion has been released but she doesn't know why now. She takes blood from Einstein (Lauren Ambrose) to analyze and says she can probably tell her what's wrong without having to wait for the results. Explaining to her about her own genome test and having alien DNA. Of course Einstein is sceptical, thinking there's an explanation for this. However Scully finds the soldier is being infected with Anthrax, as soldiers sent to Iraq were given this as a vaccine and now it's affecting them. Miller (Robbie Amell) commenting they're killing their own soldiers.
Miller heads back to the office as we see Mulder driving on the road after being beaten up. He's driving to South Carolina and Miller uses the phone locator app on his computer to pinpoint his location. Mulder meets with the Cigarette Smoking Man who tells him he can be cured, if he just asks for it. He saved Scully and he can save him too. Scully is paid a visit by Agent Monica Reyes (Annabeth Gish) who disappeared, as she explains why. She spoke with Cigarette Smoking man years ago, after he was badly burned (by rockets in the season 9 finale) and he wanted her to go with him, threatening to kill everyone in the world. She tells her that he saved her and also Scully. As we get a flashback to the clip where he was being given a cigarette, which turned out to be Monica's hand. He wants to play God and recreate the world in his own image. The contagion has spread the world over as Scully already told us it would.
Miller finds Mulder as he's practically passed out on the floor and holds a tissue to his nose, as he's bleeding. He carries Mulder out of there and Mulder tells him he can be cured if he asks him for it. But he refuses. Cigarette Smoking Man telling them they won't get far. Flashback reveals as Monica told Scully, he sent a man to make a deal with Mulder. Which consisted of trying ti kill him. Beating Mulder up in their fight and Mulder manages to escape.
Scully finds that there's no alien DNA present in her sample and Einstein needs to help her make a cure to save everyone with her alien DNA. She realizes she didn't donate a bigger sample and the genome shows up. She gives Einstein a drip and she needs to administer the same to the other doctors so they can make more, as she runs out with a bag in her hand. She tells people not to fight and to go to the hospital where they will be helped. Finally meeting Miller on the bridge with Mulder, she finds he's too far gone and that the cure he needs will be with their son. Lo and behold, a bright lights appear in the sky. It's a UFO or is it that of the government's making from 10.1. Maybe it's William, I mean all these messages and talk of him.
Of course it had to end on a cliffhanger since everyone wants a season 11, but I for one could do without the alien eps for a bit. So much for Cigarette Smoking Man's appearance he didn't really get to do much or be much of a formidable foe. Guessing that's cos his plan of world domination had already been set in motion ever since the barbies were injected years ago and he saved a chosen few. Scully being part of this few. I didn't think Mulder would be found so soon, if at all, cos I said he's turned off his GPS, but alas no, he didn't. Maybe he wasn't thinking straight after getting his noggin beat up!
As for the tagline in the beginning "This Is The End" - this is most definitely not the end. Perhaps it was more a reference for the end of the world as we know it. Also I have no idea why Scully didn't recognize Monica's voice when she called her?!! This was someone she worked with and had close contact with, not to mention helped deliver William! Too much was made of the exposition between Einstein and Scully, with her thinking Scully's wrong and contradicting her too, instead of going along with her. After all, Scully's the more experienced one and has been through it all from the beginning. She knows what she's talking about.
So it ends, but more could've been made of this ep and I have to say the entire season 10. It had it's good points and bad moments, but I can't really say I enjoyed every single bit of every single episode, which is a shame, cos in its heyday it was such a brilliant show. Guess the 'revival' needs more work next time round in season 11.
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