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25 February 2001
(Season 8, Episode 14)
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Jeremiah Smith appears out of nowhere and formerly dead abductees are coming back to life, giving Scully and Skinner the idea that Mulder may have a shot at still being alive. | add synopsis
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One of the best mythology episodes ever
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Cast
(Episode Credited cast) | David Duchovny | ... | Fox Mulder |
 | Gillian Anderson | ... | Dana Scully |
 | Robert Patrick | ... | John Doggett |
 | Annabeth Gish | ... | Monica Reyes |
 | Mitch Pileggi | ... | Walter Skinner |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
 | Sarah Koskoff | ... | Theresa Nemman Hoese |
 | Randy Ross | ... | Nike Man |
| Judson Earney Scott | ... | Absalom (as Judson Scott) |
| Roy Thinnes | ... | Jeremiah Smith |
 | Eddie Kaye Thomas | ... | Gary Cole |
 | Judd Trichter | ... | Richie Szalay |
| Arlene Warren | ... | Skinner's Assistant (as Arlene Pileggi) |
 | Bernard White | ... | Dr. Desai |
 | Roz Witt | ... | Night Nurse |
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Argentina:60 min
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Monica Reyes:
You're hurting for her, I know. Agent Scully.
John Doggett: I don't know how she's doing it in there. With everything she's feeling. What she's afraid of.
Monica Reyes: You know all too well.
John Doggett: Let's leave the past in the past.
Monica Reyes: It was your fear, too. Those three days we looked for your son. The fear of finding what we did. I understand. That's why you're so determined to find Mulder alive.
John Doggett: It's why I can't stand here and listen to all this mumbo jumbo about spaceships.
Monica Reyes: I saw what I saw, John. I'm not going to lie to you. But whatever it was, it led to this. It's the man I saw in the field. He goes by the name Absalom. A religious zealot who escaped a shoot-out in Idaho. Where he was the nominal leader of a doomsday cult who believed aliens would take over the world at the millennium. Disgraced when they didn't, he fled and tried a more ecumenical scam - credit card fraud. I ran the plate on the pick-up truck. It's registered to a farm about an hour from here.
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John Doggett: I don't know how she's doing it in there. With everything she's feeling. What she's afraid of.
Monica Reyes: You know all too well.
John Doggett: Let's leave the past in the past.
Monica Reyes: It was your fear, too. Those three days we looked for your son. The fear of finding what we did. I understand. That's why you're so determined to find Mulder alive.
John Doggett: It's why I can't stand here and listen to all this mumbo jumbo about spaceships.
Monica Reyes: I saw what I saw, John. I'm not going to lie to you. But whatever it was, it led to this. It's the man I saw in the field. He goes by the name Absalom. A religious zealot who escaped a shoot-out in Idaho. Where he was the nominal leader of a doomsday cult who believed aliens would take over the world at the millennium. Disgraced when they didn't, he fled and tried a more ecumenical scam - credit card fraud. I ran the plate on the pick-up truck. It's registered to a farm about an hour from here.
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Gillian Anderson really stole the show in 'This is Not Happening' with Scully painfully accepting the possibility that Mulder could be dead, after lifeless alien abductees are discovered in the dessert. Mark Snow also left his mark in this episode, putting in tear-jerking music to some dramatic scenes, including one where Scully sees the ghost of her missing partner. 'This is Not Happening' introduces us to new characters, Monica Reyes (who we will see at the end of this season and in the next) and Absalom, a friend of Jeremiah Smith (he's also in the episode) who's predicted an alien apocalypse. The ending is bound to capture you, but sadly with an non superior follow-up leading on from it.
My favourite episode of the overlooked season eight, is just perfect for shippers (like me!) and deserves more applause than it gets at the moment.