Closure
- Episode aired Feb 13, 2000
- TV-14
- 45m
With help from a police psychic, Mulder continues to search for clues about Samantha's abduction and ultimately finds the long sought after answers concerning her fate.With help from a police psychic, Mulder continues to search for clues about Samantha's abduction and ultimately finds the long sought after answers concerning her fate.With help from a police psychic, Mulder continues to search for clues about Samantha's abduction and ultimately finds the long sought after answers concerning her fate.
- Appearing Boy
- (as Nicholas Stratton)
- Ed Truelove
- (scenes deleted)
- Dr. Zaius
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe original script had Mulder break down in tears after learning of Samantha's fate. David Duchovny didn't want to play it that way and asked director Kim Manners to trust his instincts. Instead Duchovny played the scene with such relief and acceptance that he brought tears to the eyes of the cast and crew.
- GoofsDuring the climax of the episode, the spirits cast shadows on the ground, yet they are translucent.
- Quotes
Mulder: [voiceover] They said the birds refused to sing and the thermometer fell suddenly as if God Himself had His breath stolen away. No one there dared speak aloud, as much in shame as in sorrow. They uncovered the bodies one by one. The eyes of the dead were closed as if waiting for permission to open them. Were they still dreaming of ice cream and monkey bars? Of birthday cake and no future but the afternoon? Or had their innocence been taken along with their lives buried in the cold earth so long ago? These fates seemed too cruel, even for God to allow. Or are the tragic young born again when the world's not looking? I want to believe so badly; in a truth beyond our own hidden and obscured from all but the most sensitive eyes...
- Crazy creditsThe tagline of the opening credits reads "Believe to Understand."
- ConnectionsFeatured in The X-Files: The Truth (2002)
It seems like Chris Carter painted himself into a corner back in season 5 (or with the movie?) and in season 6 the alien-invasion "mthology" was essentially flushed. In severing the loose strings it was revealed that Samantha's "alien abduction" was a cover-up in which Mulder's father allowed her to become part of the alien-human hybridization plot. In an effort to finally flush Samantha, this episode gives us a new twist on the issue, and as usual it doesn't really jive with previous info.
I thought the mysticism was murky and the sentimentality of the ending HOPELESSLY inappropriate. I guess we needed a whole episode to say our goodbyes to Samantha, who was once such an important plot device. However I can't help but see this episode as doing little more than burying a piece of the soul of the X-Files - perhaps one that died a season earlier.
- andyetris
- Oct 24, 2006
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- San Bernardino International Airport - 294 S. Leland Norton Way, San Bernardino, California, USA("April Air Force Base" scenes. Location formerly Norton AFB.)
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