A Conversation with
Elizabeth
1999
Not on FX
From:
Elizabeth
To:
LMixson@PEC.com
Sent: Monday,
November 29, 1999 2:14 PM
Subject: Not on FX
I found the FX schedule on the internet. According to it they are
NOT showing the new season openers right now--although I could swear
they are advertising that. Anyway--I hope I don't spoil it for
you. Some of what I'll say I got from reading comments I found on
the internet, via newsgroups, etc. If you saw the movie, The Last
Temptation of Christ, the X-files show was more understandable.
However, I did not make the connection until I read that on the net.
Mulder gets sicker and sicker and is basically dying because his brain
has become telepathic and is running overtime. At some point, the
Cigarette Smoking Man comes and saves him and takes him out of the
hospital, along with that woman FBI agent, the one with the long hair,
who was once his "girlfriend" sometime back, and about whom Scully is
always sort of jealous. They leave and go to a pleasant
neighborhood where there is a house set aside for Mulder to rest up and
live, if he chooses. The woman FBI agent seduces him. He
goes about living a "normal life." CSM lives down the street, and
other people, some of whom Mulder thought were "dead" (the original mole
fellow) are also in this neighborhood. There are some happy reunions.
What evolves though is that this is sort of a dream. Mulder is
"really" still stretched out hallucinating and Scully keeps trying to
save him, but he comes even closer to dying. I'm can't remember
exactly how, but he eventually pulls out.
There is a very big emotional scene between Mulder and Scully, as they
express their importance to each other. That's basically it, and
I'm not sure I got it right. Scully got visited by the Navaho
healer in either part one or part two, but later it is revealed he had
died and couldn't have been there. The female FBI agent also dies
or gets killed, although she did something to help Scully save Mulder,
by sending her a Navaho book from the FBI library. I'm really not sure
how all the loose ends got tied up. At some point I just said to
myself, "I don't have a clue what is going on here." Some people
on the net commented it was one of the most confusing episodes they had
ever seen. One very interesting point is that part 2 was called
"AMOR FATI." I researched that. It means to "grasp your
fate" or accept it and was used by Nietzsche in his writings.
Apparently it was also an album title and the album looked really
interesting, with a poem included in the album, which to me seemed to
parallel the show. I haven't seen anybody pick up on that in the
comments. Apparently Duchovny co-wrote the episode.
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