Scully Smiling Over Mulder's Joke, Four Years Later

Caught a little moment of Scully replaying Mulder's joke.

Max:

Alone:

“Scully, I don't think it's a coincidence that a cow gets hurled at me just as we're down here investigating the weather.” // “Mulder, did they check you for head trauma?” // “I'm telling you, that cow had my name on it.”

Special Agent Fox "I do not gaze at Scully" Mulder ⤷ [7/13] ✧ Season Seven

“Neither one is known to be the initiator!”

You don’t say.

David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson

always thinking about this photoshoot

He's incorrigible, but Agent Scully is already in love.

So the thing is that I half remember reading this idea in a fic at some point so I was going to check and see if I could find it and that didn't work lol. But the further thought I was referring to while responding to @limnsaber's post re: Mulder's mother's death, musing about his asking Scully to do an autopsy on her (even though l, if you go with the hints that his mother's family was Jewish, that would be against the culture she was born with even if she left it behind). I think it wasn't so much that he was looking to find out if there was foul play in her death, I think deep down he knew there wasn't (and I think he probably feared in his adolescence that she would do something like that when things were at their worst, he treats her like he's afraid she'll shatter if pushed unless he's very angry and motivated otherwise). My thought was that on some subconscious level he was looking for evidence of his sister. A sign in his mother's body that she'd existed at all and that their childhood had happened. It has been so long and his memory and beliefs had shifted so many times, and Teena had mostly shifted into pretending none of it had ever happened. And, on a more literal sci-fi level, with all the clones and fertility and eugenics plots and the doubles of Samantha that CSM made and kept, the abnormalities in his DNA, his ability to recover from the hybrid blood infection when others can't, I think he could have had some nagging concerns about if either of them were ever 'real' people, lack of green poison blood or not. If she ever birthed them or wanted them or if they just happened to her, the way bad things happened to women close to men tied with the project.

Literal and metaphorical questions about his mother and his origins that he couldn't articulate to Scully, and with no answers that either his mother's body or Scully could give him.

a dump of mulder gifs i made

ep

1x16

20+ years later and we find out who was hiding inside the swamp thing costume

We lost nine minutes!  We lost what?

Gillian is directing, but it looks like Scully is spying on her own life in the weirdest X-Files surveillance ever.

If I've learned one thing from history it's that other people people don't learn from history.

David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson

The X-Files (1993-2002)