Who’s really dead?
And if so, who’s really dead?
And who’s not?
What’s the story with that pregnancy shock?
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Okay, first: Walter Skinner.
Just seeing his limp foot isn’t very conclusiveat least, in terms of TV rules.
So are we to assume he might not really be dead?
CHRIS CARTER: It certainly begs many questions.
Speaking of which: Cigarette Smoking Man.
Surely you’ll commit to him being dead at last … right?
[Chuckles] You know, he rejuvenated somehow to come back last season.
Scully’s visions of his showed him with some kind of special power of rejuvenation.
You wonder as he was pushed off into that water if he may not be dead.
One being William being somewhat Christ-like, his resurrection.
Mulder saving the world by killing his father.
And the Cigarette Smoking Mana savior in his own mind because he was going to start the planet anew.
C’mon, you have to at least give me Monica.
She’s obviously got a wound that looks fatal.
But once again, no one stopped to take her pulse.
You don’t like creative permanence, do you?
We see him all but say the Cigarette Smoking Man is William’s father.
Can you talk about making the decision to have Scully pregnant again, creatively speaking?
So are we to assume that the father of Scully’s new baby is definitely Mulder?
But we also have to remember that Scully has alien DNA so there are questions atop that certainty.
Gillian has said she’s done with the show.
You’ve said, “Not so fast.”
What would the show look like if Fox ordered another season without her?
I honestly don’t know right now.
Do you have any sense of the timing for figuring that out at this point?
You know, it’s funny.
The episode airs tonight and it’s the end of a year of my life devoted to this.
I’m happy not to think about it for a little bit.
The finale feels like apotential ending, certainly a relatively happy one for Mulder and Scully.
If there’s never anotherX-Filesepisode, would you be okay with that?
If this was the last episode, would I be happy?
I don’t know.
There are so many questions that this begs now.
I’m curious if that was just for fun or if there was a message behind it?
We were all interested in that Internet meme and we decided he was going with us this season.
He’s a perfectX-Filescharacter.
I think he made every episode this season.
How would you have worked in Doggett if Robert Patrick had returned?
I put him in the plot of My Struggle 3.
He, unfortunately, wasn’t available.
What was Monica’s endgame, ultimately?
It certainly affects the way we think of the show and television generally.
Mulder seems a bit pessimistic about modern-day America this season.
Do you feel the same way?
[Long pause].
I venture to fight my cynicism every day.
I think we now live in this mode of such sensationalism.
And it’s really hard for me to imagine ever going back.
