Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) has lost another family member.
They changed the [airing] order.
And now shes got a kid, but shes not a mother.
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Her mother is passing away.
Its the third in a trilogy of exploring Scully as mother.
The phone call and the necklace that Scully has the prop department did an exact replication of my moms.
I have that quarter, and I have no idea why she had it.
My dad says he does, but Im like, I dont want to know.
Because hes probably wrong anyway.
[Laughs] I just felt that its all: Is there alien life?
Is there life here?
Maggie gets one line, but its a big one.
Why did you have her direct, My son is named William, too, at Mulder?
I thought it was a little bit of a challenge to Mulder.
I think that Maggie was very squared away with Dana.
What was the thought process behind bringing Charlie into the action for the first time?
Did the writers already have the idea that he was estranged from the family?
I loved Gillian Andersons performance there.
Could you take me behind that moment?
I wish we had another 10 minutes of airtime.
I would have liked a few more minutes to kind of let that air out.
How did you decide to incorporate those?
And Scully calls Mulder Fox for the first time since Tooms.
Thats a very definite thing.
You save that calling him Fox for when she really means it.
I didnt know it had been that long.
I knowyou said at EW Festthat you never really stopped thinking ofX-Filesstories.
Why do you think the show stuck with you like that?
Any last thoughts on the episode?
I would go on and on about how extraordinary Gillian is.
… And David knew that this was really a showcase for Gillian.
The two of them are great.
