The show returns after being absent for so many years in a limited renewal and attempts to pick up where it sort of left off in 2002 and began in 1993 as well. The Roswell UFO crash and subsequent cover-up by the government with Mulder (David Duchovny) relating numerous sightings over the country through the years. With governments and presidents signing off on the sightings and encounters as being real. Even a flash back, or several to the initial Roswell crash as the surviving alien is shot and killed. Well if this is how you treat 'alien' species...Scully (Gillian Anderson) is now working at Our Lady of Sorrows Hospital, hmm, apt name in many ways and is operating on children who were born without ears. As she later tells TV presenter, Tad (Joel McHale) what God chose to omit from their biology.
She gets a call from Dep Director Skinner (Mitch Pileggi) apparently looking for Mulder who's off the grid. She calls Mulder and tells him to watch the show as Tad plans on exposing the truth. That the government lied over the years (so what's new) and the fact they took over the alien technology since Roswell and have being using it for themselves and for nefarious purposes. In an ever changing world. There's a later exposition from Tad about how the elite plan to take over the economy and everything else, including the world. Whilst Mulder explains the huddled masses will be able to do nothing and be systematically destroyed.
Scully and Mulder no longer together and it seems she couldn't keep up with him in their relationship. Tad drives them to meet Sveta (Annet Mahendru) whom Mulder met when she was little but he doesn't recall her. She relates the stories of being continually abducted by aliens and then her foetuses being removed and taken from her. Scully does a blood work up on her searching for alien DNA and Mulder says he knew about aliens and he investigated but he couldn't prove it.
Skinner called as he was looking out for him and wasn't a day that went by when he didn't pick up the phone and wanted Mulder to still be here in the basement and work on the 'X-Files.' Mulder leaving him his number this time. Scully does a re-test on the blood after finding Sveta doesn't have alien DNA. As well as testing her own blood and doing a complete genome analysis. She finds she does have alien DNA and mentioning they also had a child together.
Tad wants to expose the conspiracy as the 'government' goes about destroying evidence, the alien craft and killing everyone involved, as well as Sveta herself who lies on TV saying Tad made her say all those things. Finally we get to see the Cigarette Smoking Man (William B Davis) who receives word on the X-Files being reopened. Mulder's been suffering from depression then and Scully saying she's worried about him. Yet, yet she was out on the town so to speak, with Tad enjoying her champers when she's interrupted in the moment by Mulder! She didn't look too pleased. Though we did get more of their arguing and disagreements like the good old days.
So it appears all those episodes and everything was a lie and a big hoax and we watched it all. As we do so again now. Or as said in the ep, "what if everything we were led to believe is a lie?" Which sounds like a line Scully would get, the earlier Scully. They began the first ep of the return as kind of a teaser challenging everything that went before and at the same time, cleverly disguising it as a bit of a summing up of the premise of the show, just for anyone who hasn't heard of it, or even watched it before! Nice touch! As were the opening credits remaining the same as the past. A fitting homage too and reminding us all how young we were!
I for one am looking forward to the episodes that don't concern aliens!
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