7x22 Requiem
Synopsis
Mulder and Scully return to the town of their first X-Files investigation where a UFO has crashed in the forest. CSM arranges for Krycek to be released from prison in order for him to make contact with the aliens and begin rebuilding the 'Project', while Scully's health appears to be taking a turn.
Writer: Chris Carter
Director: Kim Manners
Originally aired: May 21, 2000
Quotes
Special Agent Short: Lariat car rentals. Totals. (He whistles) Would you like to see the figure?
Mulder: Is that a lot?
Special Agent Short: A lot? Gas, expenses... the motel rooms alone. By FBI standards these numbers are out of control.
Mulder: We could start sharing rooms.
Covarrubias: Your release has been arranged.
Krycek: Marita Covarrubias. The last time I saw you, I left you for dead.
Covarrubias: Alex, if it was strictly up to me, I'd leave you here to rot, too.
Mulder: More alien abductions, Scully.
Scully: I don't know how we could possibly justify the expense.
Mulder: We'd probably turn up nothing.
Scully: Let's go waste some money.
Mulder: It's not worth it, Scully.
Scully: What?
Mulder: I want you to go home.
Scully: Oh, Mulder, I'm going to be fine.
Mulder: No, I've been thinking about it. Looking at you tonight, holding that baby ... knowing everything that's been taken away from you. A chance for motherhood and your health and that baby. I think that ... I don't know, maybe they're right.
Scully: Who's right?
Mulder: The FBI. Maybe what they say is true, though for all the wrong reasons. It's the personal costs that are too high. There so much more you need to do with your life. There's so much more than this. There has to be an end, Scully.
Scully: Mulder, if any of this is true...
Mulder: If it is, or if it isn't, I want you to forget about it, Scully.
Scully: Forget about it?
Mulder: You're not going back out there. I'm not going to let you go back out there.
Scully: What are you talking about?
Mulder: It has to end some time. That time is now.
Scully: Mulder...
Mulder: Scully, you have to understand that they're taking abductees. You're an abductee. I'm not going to risk... losing you.
Scully: I won't let you go alone.
Scully: Sir, um... there's something else I need to tell you. Something that I need for you to keep to yourself. I'm having a hard time explaining it. Or believing it. But, um... I'm pregnant.
Links
Episodes online and here and here
Episode transcript
Screencaps
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Mods thoughts and discussion attempts
Requiem is the very definition of "bittersweet" to me. I love this episode so much and yet I hate it (mostly what it brings) at the same time.
Requiem is a perfect bookend, bringing back Theresa as well as Billy Miles, and even that big orange X from the Pilot. Perfect right? Oh Billy, Billy if only you knew what you were in for next season. That goes for everyone I suppose. Also Theresa with a new baby and her husband coming back all weird is nearly a preview of bad things to come for Special Agent Dana Scully.
I've read so many times that people wanted the series to end here. And as much as I hated certain aspects about seasons 8 and 9, I don't think I could ever EVER have accepted the X-Files ending with Mulder gone and abducted.
Other little things: Mulder sticks his hand somewhere and this time gets disastrous results. Oh Mulder...whywhywhywhy. Then Krycek pushes CSM down the stairs to kill him. COME ON ALEX. As if that'll kill him for good. And finally, Skinner: "I lost him!" Dammit Skinner, don't you know you need all eyes and ears on a man like Mulder? Plus a leash.
Unsurprisingly I adore the Mulder and Scully moments in this. We get one last look at how they are with each other and to me, it seems like they and their relationship were in a great place. Mulder taking care of Scully when she was "sick", him watching her - slightly melancholy and wistful - with Theresa's baby, their hallway moment. *sniffles* It's all so wonderful.
The first time I saw this, I actually thought the fainting spells and whatever was happening to Scully was a pregnancy (I was unspoiled totally at this time). I was baking chocolate chip cookies and watching this on the tv in the kitchen and was all "PREGNANT". And then my mom caught me talking to myself and carted me off to get mentally evaluated. Just kidding on that last part (or am I?) Anyway, the end? I practically said the words before Scully did herself. Then of course, I shook my head...disbelieving and was all, "Wait. Seriously?". There are many, many, many more discussions to come about the baby himself and I both look forward to that and dread it (as much as I do with other elements of the remaining seasons). I'll say right now that I didn't mind the idea in theory....I welcomed the whole baby thing if it could have been done properly. Alas it wasn't - and I'll save those rageful thoughts on THAT for another time.
Oh Season 7. It was such a simple time. Don't go! Don't leave us yet! I'm not ready! *clings*
The ScreenGrab Archive
Surprise. And it's Mulder's. There we go, we've saved a season's worth of ridiculous angst.
Things We Learned 101
Extra
In Chris Carter's original script, there was no revelation about Scully's pregnancy. Instead it has Mulder lying on a table aboard the alien ship and his father coming to him and comforting him.
A 'requiem' is a mass for a deceased person, or a musical composition for such a mass. It is a hymn, composition, or service for commemorating the dead.
Zachary Ansley reprises his role as Billy Miles, as does Sarah Koskoff who comes back as Theresa (Nemmen) Hoese, both characters from the Pilot episode.