It's getting to the point where I'm looking forward to the end of Season Nine. The new myth arc is getting somewhat tiresome and I hate to see Scully so uncharacteristically fragile in these episodes. I know, she's trying to protect her baby but sometimes she reacts like she has no resources or competence to deal with the situation.
This episode reintroduces the alien artifact from 'Biogenesis' back in Season Six, with a strange attraction to Scully's baby William. When it's 'released' from one of Scully's desk drawers, it makes a hasty beeline to William's crib, and appears in some way to be 'controlled' by him. The artifact was retrieved by Scully from the person of FBI Agent Robert Comer (Neal McDonough), shot by Scully attempting to snuff out William's life with a pillow. I'm not really understanding why the baby has to be killed relative to an expected and impending alien invasion of Earth, but that's the deal here, as this guy Comer was influenced by his investigation into a Canadian UFO cult to believe that either the missing and presumed dead Mulder or baby William are the key to saving humanity.
About what's left for me to enjoy with these X-Files episodes is the quality of Gillian Anderson's acting ability. As I say, I don't care for her personality in these later stories, but she puts across the emotion one might expect quite convincingly. Too bad the Lone Gunmen were put into a no-win situation with Scully's baby, losing him to a character that appears in the credits as Overcoat Woman (McNally Sagal). I'll have to take it on faith she was wearing an overcoat. I'm not going back to check.
This episode reintroduces the alien artifact from 'Biogenesis' back in Season Six, with a strange attraction to Scully's baby William. When it's 'released' from one of Scully's desk drawers, it makes a hasty beeline to William's crib, and appears in some way to be 'controlled' by him. The artifact was retrieved by Scully from the person of FBI Agent Robert Comer (Neal McDonough), shot by Scully attempting to snuff out William's life with a pillow. I'm not really understanding why the baby has to be killed relative to an expected and impending alien invasion of Earth, but that's the deal here, as this guy Comer was influenced by his investigation into a Canadian UFO cult to believe that either the missing and presumed dead Mulder or baby William are the key to saving humanity.
About what's left for me to enjoy with these X-Files episodes is the quality of Gillian Anderson's acting ability. As I say, I don't care for her personality in these later stories, but she puts across the emotion one might expect quite convincingly. Too bad the Lone Gunmen were put into a no-win situation with Scully's baby, losing him to a character that appears in the credits as Overcoat Woman (McNally Sagal). I'll have to take it on faith she was wearing an overcoat. I'm not going back to check.