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Depending on when you bailed on the original X-Files run, you might have to keep reminding yourself that Scully Gillian Anderson and Mulder David Duchovny had a kid together. But how?! There are a few explanations, and this show being what it is, possibly all or none or parts of all three are true for now.
Here are the explanations that the show has dangled so far:. Scully continued to raise William solo, until her old pal using that term loosely Jeffrey Spender turned up with a warning and a syringe.
Okay, probably not. Scully rushes over to see that William's arm is broken. Scully asks if he is hurt anywhere else, he shakes his head. She tells him that he'll be taken to the hospital to be checked for a concussion. She hears William calling for her. She turns around and appears in their house. She walks into the bedroom and sees year old William facing the mirror.
He turns around; his face mutated. A scared William asks what is happening to him. Mulder had a similar vision of William. At six-years-old, William and Mulder watch a scene from A Space Odyssey in which early hominids come into contact with the film's Black Monolith, with William questioning the significance of the scene and Mulder explaining that different people can have different interpretations of movies.
Kennedy's speech on space exploration and William expressing a desire to go into space one day. Mulder's vision ends with year-old William being abducted from his bedroom in a similar manner to the way Mulder's sister Samantha was, leaving Mulder shocked and grief-stricken.
In January , on his sixth birthday, William - now living as Jackson Van De Kamp - became severely ill and his immune system collapsed. He was quarantined and underwent many tests by doctors who also took several stem cells from him.
At some unknown point after, Jackson was declared healthy again, but developed abilities owing to his heritage and the circumstances of his birth; such as telekinesis - ability unlocked again after Jeffrey Spender's magnetite injection suppressed such abilities. TXF: "William" In , now living away from rural Wyoming, Jackson developed remote-viewing abilities to people he was emotionally connected to, such as his mother Scully, who was conducting an autopsy at the time.
Towards the middle of his teenage years, in , Jackson developed the ability to connect with people in dreams; most of which were accompanied by "This Man". In , he began experiencing seizures accompanied with visions of a viral apocalypse, which led to him visiting a therapist and being prescribed medication to treat the seizures. TXF: "Ghouli". His connection to Scully allowed him to project his visions into her head, causing her to figure out that the Cigarette-Smoking Man was still alive.
With his power to create illusions, he lured Sarah Arthur and Brianna Stapleton into an old building to show them both Ghouli and scare them. But instead of fleeing, the girls attacked each other with knives and injured themselves considerably.
That did not just track down Mulder and Scully on him, but also some secret agents. When Mulder and Scully find his home, his parents have already been murdered, and he pretends to have been murdered as well. But eventually he can flee the morgue. In the hospital, he meets his persecutors, but can kill some of them using his illusions, including his parents' murderers. Finally he appears, disguised with an illusion in front of Scully, and says goodbye to her.
Mulder and Scully see him on the video of a camera before he driving off in a car. In "My Struggle IV" he has been fleeing his pursuers for several weeks or months. He goes to Brianna and asks her to accompany him because he really loves her and does not want to be alone anymore and is afraid of his pursuers every day. Brianna first agrees to accompany him, but when her parents arrive, he has to flee alone, and tells her in which motel she can find him.
However, shortly thereafter Mulder contacts her, and thus learns his address. Mulder finds Jackson at the motel and offers his help, but suddenly they are attacked by enemy agents.
Jackson can kill her with his telekinesis, but then has to flee again. He flees to the harbor, where he is found by Cigarette Smoking Man. Cigarette Smoking Man shoots the alleged Mulder, but is shot shortly afterward by the real Mulder. He and Scully walk to where Jackson fell, but can not find him.
They believe he was killed and give up the search. But Scully consoles Mulder with the idea that they will soon have a child together. Shortly afterward you see Jackson getting out of the water again. Because he is now considered dead, he no longer has to fear his persecutors. What he does after that, and whether he will perhaps re-establish the relationship with Brianna, is unknown. The teasers of " Essence " and " Trust No 1 " each feature a voice-over concerning William's future. The first features Mulder questioning himself about the baby's origin and is accompanied by footage of the unborn baby's development.
The voice-over states:. A fetus representing William in the opening credits of Season 8. X-Files Wiki Explore. The X-Files. Fight the Future I Want to Believe. The X-Files has always been problematic, but Scully's position as a badass woman of science as portrayed by Gillian Anderson has made it worth sticking with the series.
Not only because it revealed that the Cigarette Smoking Man used Scully to create a "superhuman child," but because it took away something precious from Scully: her choice. Scully was actively trying to become pregnant in Season 7. She went through IVF treatments, but they were unsuccessful. Then in "all things," an episode written by Anderson , Scully took a trip into her past and she revisited the road not traveled. She saw the life she didn't choose and made peace with the one that she did.
At the end of the hour, Scully cuddles on the couch with Mulder and it's subtly revealed that they've been engaging in a romantic relationship. In retrospect, it was heavily implied that this was the episode where William was conceived — out of love and very much by choice. In this new scenario, Scully had no choice. She had no autonomy. She was drugged, she was raped, and it was all done by a man in a position of power.
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