The X-Files finale seemed to end on a cliffhanger - of sorts considering it was apparent William (Miles Robbins) would come out of the water and wasn't really dead. Question is why Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) didn't believe he was still alive. Of course he wanted his freedom, to stop being chased by people who only wanted to use him for their own purposes. However Scully with her psychic connection to him should have known he was still alive. Did she just choose to let him go and concentrate on the new baby instead.
Salvator Mundi was the tag line at the end of the opening credits which means "Saviour of the World" in Latin and is also the title of a Leonardo Di Vinci painting.
William narrates his life and being born. Being adopted and known as Jackson Van Kamp. Not knowing his real parents or his birth mother, but always being on the run. Finding out he was different at school, dealt with bullies and became a criminal. Having to change schools when people found out he was different. He heads back to where we came in before in Ghouli and to Sarah (Madeleine Arthur) and Brianna (Sarah Jeffrey).
We get flashbacks to what is happening or is about to happen, including Mulder being shot and his confrontation with CSM (William B Davis). Beginning with Kersh (James Pickins Jnr) having another go at Skinner (Mitch Pileggi) for Mulder going rogue and how he was supposed to take their badges. With a news story running on Tad O'Malley's (Joel McHale) channel about the Global pandemic and Mulder is filmed walking around bloodied. Skinner adding what if it's not really "fake news". Kersh adding it wouldn't make any difference. This story's been leaked to he press and Kersh thinks Mulder's behind it. Aptly as Skinner exits his office there's a photo of Drumf and that in reference to fake news was one final dig at the ludicrousness of all this "fake news" et al crap!!
Scully approaches Skinner asking for help for Mulder and admits she was the one behind the story not Mulder and also he tells her he was meant to be taking their badges. He's always got their back. As Scully flashes to going to Mulder's place and asking him for help with William as she's received a call from Reyes (Annabeth Gish) telling them William is on a plane and the message of "whoever controls William, controls the future." Leading Mulder on a chase to Tennessee and meeting up with Mr Y (AC Peterson) again at an airport and being threatened by his men. He makes a break for it and heads to his office and manages to shoot him. Well Y was easily taken care of.
Scully tries to locate William again and finds he's heading to Norfolk. He won lotto and shared his winnings and Mulder finds him on the CCTV footage. At the gas station a tracker is planted on Mulder's car. That pesky tracker responsible for everything. As CSM also begins his search for William again. The man trailing Mulder passes him on the road and he picks up a hitch hiking William after he scares the truck driver into stopping his truck. Mulder realizes where William is heading and asks Brianna for help. But he's not there. Before turning up at Sarah's where William had been before wanting her to leave with him. She tells him to head to a motel where he'll meet up with him. Instead Mulder gets the info and tells William he's his father and he will protect him. That Scully gets the same visions too. William would rather be dead than alive like this and wants to end it all. However Erika Price (Barbara Hershey) finds the DB of the man who gave William the lift and there's blood everywhere but the tracker is still working, leading her to William. Who proceeds to blow them all apart with his mind. Cue Mulder caught on the news footage as he leaves.
However CSM gets the tracker and follows William to the sugarfactory by the docks. Here Scully also turns up and finds Mulder. However it was apparent it wasn't Mulder but William who tells her he loved her and she asks how William would know this. The real Mulder shows up and they chase after William. Skinner spots the car in the ally and heads for it. Mulder shoots Reyes as the CSM accelerates towards him running Skinner over between the two cars.
CSM gets to William before they do and he still has Mulder's face. Asking how he could kill his first born. CSM replying he also killed his second born. Mulder was CSM's son and Jeffrey Spender was his second born. He shoots him and Mulder shoots CSM both ending up in the water. Scully arrives, late as usual and he tells her William's gone. She tells him she wasn't really his mother, she carried him and bore him but he was just an experiment in the lab. Mulder stating he is no longer a father, but she tells him he still is one, pointing to her stomach and placing his hand over it.
SO this was how Scully leaves the show. As for William when he returns in the water he still has the bullethole in his head, signifying the Stigmata. As well as some sort of an allusion perhaps to an 'immaculate conception' for Scully since Mulder says it's not possible for her to have a baby. This ep seemed a little rushed, consisting of chases and running around. Not even giving Mulder and Scully their final swansong to investigate together. Instead it took the easy way out and ended up shooting or exploding to bits anyone and everyone connected with William and who were after him, including Reyes and Skinner. His demise just didn't seem that credible being chased by a car and well there wasn't much done or said that was satisfying, just in my opinion of course. My Struggle IV - a struggle to know why the season went this way without much of a clearer and better conclusion.
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