Oh, and Mulder almost receiving oral sex.
(Morgan is writing and directing his own episode for the revival, reportedly entitled Home Again.
It has nothing to do with Home.
Credit: Ed Araquel/Fox
Like the premiere, it suffered from trying to accomplish too much.
(At one point, I thought Morgans Home Again ep was supposed to air second.
Did it get moved?)
But Sanjay wasnt hungover.
Was he being dicked around by someVALIS-like extant intelligence?
Was he a schizophrenic suffering auditory hallucinations?
Was this a metaphor for emotionallytriggeringcultural noise?
The storytelling cultivated all possibilities.
What Sanjay knew for sure was that he didnt like it all that much.
His head filled piercing static.
It commanded him to leave the room and hack a company computer the way the signal was hacking him.
Whatever he was trying to do, he couldnt finish; the noise targeting him was too much.
And then there was quiet.
Scully could tell Mulder had a hidden agenda or rather, was keeping something from her.
Stop hiding your feelings and lay down the tough guy detachment, Mulder!
A nation of shippers demands your vulnerability!
What was Dr. Goldman doing at Nugencis?
What, if anything, did his work have to do with William?
The investigation led to a number of troubled folk and trying personalities.
Gupta was humiliated when Mulder waved him off.
You guys are all the same, you know?
Pointing at Mulders heart, Gupta added: The truth is inhere.
The advice did apply to Mulder, if ironically.
Come out of the emotional closet, Mulder.
Let loose the feels.
But who was her?
In return, Our Lady fed him patients/test subjects for his work specifically, children born with genetic abnormalities.
Among the themes that might have worried her: human experimentation, duplicitous doctors, dead moms.
Agnes herself would later wind up dead, killed in a hit-and-run car accident.
Surgically removed from her womb, apparently.
Exactly when and how that happened after getting run over?
the episode did not say.
Mulder surmised that Dr. Goldman was trying to goose mankinds evolution from human to super-human.
All that the God-playing bioengineer needed was one perfectly realized next-gen specimen to catalyze this transition a founders mutation.
There was a kid whose skin was barnacled with crusty gray-green tumors.
One boy with the loaded name Adam had Crouzon syndrome.
How long had he been in Dr. Goldmans care?
Forever, he said.
Dr. Goldman claimed he was trying to cure them.
Mulder and Scully didnt know it yet, but they had just found their her.
In truth, Dr. Goldman was an emotionally cut-off patriarch driven by obsession Mulder to the mad-scientist max.
Mulder and Scully visited her at St. Elizabeths to hear her side of the story.
She could breathe in water like a fish.
Except he already had.
Goldman had introduced some exotic genetic material into the gestating lad while in utero.
She became hip to this sick truth after flipping her car during her getaway.
After crawling to the shoulder of the highway, a voice spoke into her head: LET ME OUT!
She complied, performing an emergency C-section by dragging a knife across her swollen belly.
The baby did the rest.
He squeezed through the jagged slit and … then what?
Add them to the dots that the storytelling wasnt interested in connecting.
Did he ease on down the road and slither into the local adoption agency?
Did he crawl into the wilderness and live with the wolves?
The Forest Foraging of the Freaky Feral Fetus!
I would watch that show.
NEXT: A rush to the finish; a powerful ending.
The agents went to his home on the outskirts of town.
Things were happening in a rush: there wasnt much time left in the episode.
Lots of stuff got dumped on us.
Lots of questions went ignored.
Lots of holes went unplugged.
But here we go.
We learned Kyle was on a quest Mulder knew well: he was searching for his sister, Molly.
Sorry for hemorrhages, guys!
Did Dr. Goldman know Kyle was his son as he coldly drew the boys blood?
When Kyle asked to see Molly, Dr. Goldman was like How do you know Molly?
and brought him to a girl who wasnt Molly.
Kyle saw through the ruse and found the real Molly; they linked psychic minds and went fullCarrie.
In footage not seen, his eyeballs popped out, and Goldman went toes up.
The mutant siblings ran away following their rebellious patricide.
To become X-Men, I presume.
Teach them well, Professor Xavier.
His fear became Scullys fear after he finally shared it with her.
She imagined taking him to school.
She imagined an accident.
She imagined him morphing into something monstrously alien.
She ended it there, chilled and sad all over again.
In his imagination, William lived gloriously and geekily, and Mulder enjoyed a vibrant father-son relationship with them.
(Whats a mon-o-myth?
asked William, mispronouncing monolith.)
He pictured them building and launching model rockets in the backyard while reciting President Kennedys call to space-faring adventure.
(All great and honorable actions are undertaken with great difficulty.
Here, Wongs attaempt to service story, character and a wealth of themes was well realized.
