The hour ended up being pivotal for Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully, whose relationship has grown increasingly murky. Morgan was also the one to suggest they have a visual callback to the mysterious coin Scully’s mother had on her when she died last season. “It was the architecture of Jim and Glen knowing this character for so long, and seeing the things that she should be coming from,” she says, calling the duo her “dream team” collaborators. The first few days, a young Scully asked for a puppy … which she got shortly after her brother recovered.
When Scully was younger, her brother was sick, and her mother asked the family to pray for him. Nielsen credits longtime X-Files writers James Wong (who directed the hour) and Glen Morgan with being the genesis of Scully’s (Gillian Anderson) religious origin story in the episode. That was a horrible and wonderful rabbit hole to go down : having an actress try to hold on to her youth and obtaining that.” That pressure is quadrupled as an actress. “Especially in Hollywood, you’re a write-off after 30. The writer, who doubles as the show’s script coordinator, also made sure the female characters were well-rounded and the episode also featured an inclusive cast. “The pressure that society puts on women to be perfect, to be beautiful is intense, because we’re such a consumerism society that we have to prey off of women’s insecurity to sell, sell, sell,” Nielsen says.
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The installment also could be the last “monster of the week” episode the iconic series does with its core team intact as star Gillian Anderson has said this will be her final year playing Scully. Wednesday’s episode revolved around a cult led by a former actress (Fiona Vroom) who was obsessed with maintaining their youth and the woman ( Carlena Britch) trying to save her sister from them. What Nielsen didn’t know at the time was that her episode would shift back one to become the penultimate episode of the season and potentially the series as a whole.
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