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Scully: There was something out there.

Skinner: What do you possibly
hope to find, Agent Mulder?

Mulder: The truth is out there.

Cigarette smoking man: Well, you're wrong.

I can't tell you how wrong
you've always been.

Scully?

"The X-Files" is really back
as a result of its fans.

We wouldn't be coming back without them.

Chris knows the material in his bones.

He has a real clear vision of this world.

Anderson: There's a
particular kind of enthusiasm

[cheers and applause] that people
have right now for this coming back.

Getting back working with Dave and Gill,
it's just the right life.

All three of us just fell back into it.

I cannot believe I'm here.
I can't believe they're here.

There is no such thing as an "X-Files"
episode that's not challenging.

I can imagine what that must be like,

as a fan, to see these familiar faces

and the familiar cross beams of light

coming out of the darkness,
and to hear that soundtrack.

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It was really putting
the band back together.

The people you're going to see
doing these episodes

are the people who actually helped
to create "the X-Files" series.

You knew the first and the
sixth were mythology episodes,

and then the ones in the
middle would be stand-alones.

That was really whatever Jim
and Darin and I came up with.

I knew that there was a big
interest from the fans

to see more monster stuff...

- Whoa!
- But also we have a big fandom

based around the mythology.

We want to satisfy the
mythology of it, and then there's

gonna be stand-alones.
And those stand-alones,

there's gonna be one that's
funnier than the others.

- Looks like you gave it a pretty good shot.
- I think I hit it right in its horn.

It had a horn? Like a unicorn?

Horns, like a lizard or something.

I like the idea that we're
not doing just one story.

We're not just doing
stand-alone separate episodes.

We're doing a combination, because
that's what the show always was.

Even in a stand-alone episode,
there's some story to advance.

It's not just about the case.

We always tried to have
kind of a human element.

It was always tied to how it
affected Mulder and Scully

as human beings, and the same here.

- You look exhausted, Mulder.
- It was a long day at the office.

But their point, really, is weird stories,

but the through line is
them confronting their age

and confronting their life choices.

You ran the X-Files.
You were the X-Files.

You all but wrote the book.

- I'm afraid that book is closed.
- As are the X-Files.

The X-Files are a unit at the FBI.
"X" stands for the unknown.

These are the cases that the FBI either
has put away or has left unsolved.

Agent Mulder picked up this investigation.

His quest came as a result of his belief

that his sister had been
abducted by aliens.

Mulder: I was 12 when it happened.
My sister was 8.

She just disappeared out
of her bed one night.

He kind of derails his
own stellar young career

at the bureau to start
chasing after aliens.

He starts getting close,
and the bureau itself

is alerted to this guy who's
rattling too many cages.

And they assign a younger
agent who's a medical doctor,

Dana Scully,
to debunk Mulder's research.

And that's how we begin.

Do you believe in the existence
of extra-terrestrials?

Logically, I would have to say no.

But she is ultimately
enlisted in Mulder's quest.

She becomes as involved
in the X-Files as he.

I came to believe in the existence
of extra-terrestrial life.

And in a conspiracy inside the
government to keep their existence secret.

Through the course of the show,

when it ran for over 200 episodes,
the characters grew.

I failed in every respect.

You only fail if you
give up, and I know you.

You can't give up.

Mulder and Scully, for nine years,
had a platonic relationship,

even though we suggested
they have a child together.

We never saw them as a couple
until the second movie,

where we saw them definitely together.

When we come back to
them in the new series,

we will have been honest
to their relationship previously,

but we now find them in another state.

Seven or eight years have elapsed.

Time has been difficult
for their relationship.

We will investigate what's
happened in that time.

It's good for you to get
out of that little house

- every once in a while.
- It certainly was good for you.

I think that where we
find Mulder and Scully

perfectly delivers us into a similar
dynamic that we've had before,

which is huge intimacy and appreciation,
and yet frustration.

But still love and care and potential.

- I'm always happy to see you.
- And I'm always happy to find a reason.

In the past week, we've had

some pretty quintessentially
Mulder/Scully scenes.

With the distance of time,
there's a new appreciation

for those and what they mean and bring

and the excitement one can
imagine the audience will have.

- Yeah.
- Mulder: I'm here.

Duchovny: You know, a
character doesn't change.

Mulder and Scully, they're not
going to change profoundly.

But they're gonna age,

and that is its own kind
of profound change.

I'm a middle-aged man, Scully.

Maybe it's time to put
away childish things.

That was always important, to not play
the same exact characters

doing the same things,
because 22 years have passed.

- I don't do stairs anymore.
- Mulder, back in the day,

I used to do stairs and in 3-inch heels.

Back in the day... is now.

I think it's about tapping
into her innocence.

I think it wasn't until I kind of got back

into that zone that I
started to remember her

a bit more on a physiological level.

It's like an unconscious, intuitive thing

to get back into that character
that you played for so long.

There's a bit of rustiness in the
beginning, the first couple days.

But after that, I felt pretty
Mulder-like, showing up on set.

- Just listen to me.
- No, you listen to me, Mulder!

Scully, you got to trust me on this.

[Laughs]

It's fun. It's fun to
be in the middle of it.

Carter: One of the reasons
that I was excited

about coming back is we're
dealing with a world that has

changed completely from the time
when the series ended in 2002,

which was not long after the
World Trade Center bombing.

The american public had put their faith

completely in the government.

They didn't want to know about
government conspiracies.

They wanted to know that their
government was protecting them.

It feels like a lot of the things that
Mulder was warning us of kind of came true.

All of us are tracked on our phones.
There's drones up ahead.

So much has changed in the
world, and "the X-Files"

now gets a chance to tell
stories from that perspective.

O'Malley: 9/11 was a false-flag operation.

It was a warm-up to World War III.

Duchovny: Joel McHale plays Tad O'Malley,

who's a conservative talk-show host.

Just knowing that I was gonna
be able to be on this series

that I am a massive fan of,
I couldn't believe my good fortune.

And then you meet David
Duchovny and Gillian Anderson.

They are so cool.
And I asked them way too many questions.

I think they detected that I was a fan.

Especially when I asked them
to sign my skin with a tattoo needle.

I cast Joel McHale after
seeing his appearance

at the White House correspondents'
dinner, which was hilarious.

And he had exactly the
quality I was looking for.

He is very conservative.

But his ideas about conspiracy theories
match up exactly with Mulder's.

It's all part of a conspiracy,

dating back to the UFO
crash at Roswell in 1947.

My character wants to get ahold of Mulder.
And that's how it starts.

- Join me for a little ride?
- Right here is fine.

Low-flying aircraft often
employ what they call

dirt boxes to record conversations.

- But I prefer private.
- Aircraft employed by whom?

He's really an amalgamation
of so many characters on the internet

who believe that there
is not just an alien conspiracy,

but a possible conspiracy of men.

- What I need is your expertise.
- Our expertise for what?

I'm rattling some pretty big cages
in the intelligence community.

I start a ball rolling
that turns into a boulder.

- Mulder: Where are they? The files.
- I don't know where they are.

You said no one had been down here ...

it hadn't been touched.

Not for 13 years, since you
and Scully left the bureau.

Originally, I think that Skinner
was brought in to be somewhat of

a roadblock to what Mulder
and Scully were doing,

and I think after a certain
point, he realized that what

these two agents were trying to
do was to bring the truth out.

So Skinner eventually became your champion.

He still is a company man,
but perhaps not looked on with favor,

because he's been an assistant director
for almost 25 years now.

Perhaps a lot of that has to do

with his relationship
with Mulder and Scully.

- I need access to the X-Files.
- Can you tell me what this is about?

We both kind of just fell right back into

Mulder and Skinner right away,

and it just seemed natural.
And it was fun.

- And you owe me some answers.
- Just calm the hell down, Mulder,

before we both get pissed off.

For episode 1, I came
up with a young woman

who was an alien abductee.

We cast a lovely actress
named Annet Mahendru.

- You probably don't recognize me.
- No, I think I'd remember.

The story's going somewhere
really, really fascinating,

and something that's very timely right now.

Chris is tapping into
something very important.

Annet asked me questions
about her character

which were unexpected,
and actually I rewrote the script

based on some of her questions.

She was thinking about
the character in a way that

- sometimes writers don't.
- We really get to see who she is.

Chris gave me a lot of
story to play with ...

where she came from, why she's here.

These are from over 20 years.

How many times have you
been abducted, Sveta?

I lost count.

And then there are the screen
memories they implant.

The memories implanted
over actual memories

- to make abductees forget.
- I'm familiar with the syndrome.

Scully has also been abducted,

and so she's very reluctant
to go back there again.

She's a very good actress,
and I enjoyed the depth

that she brought to that character.
It was nice to play off of her.

- You were a couple before.
- I'm sorry, what?

You and Mr. Mulder.
And you have a child together.

Mulder and Scully have a child.

We were always very vague
about how that happened,

since there was no apparent time or place

that child could have been conceived.

But it becomes a larger
question as we move forward.

As parents, we made a difficult
sacrifice to keep him safe.

It was for his own good to
put him up for adoption.

I can't help but think of him, Fox.

There's guilt, definitely,
for giving up a child,

even if it was for its own safety.

Wong: The most interesting
thing to me is imagining

what your life would be if
you had raised the child.

- He'd be 15 years old now.
- Yeah.

I've missed every single year of his life.

And sometimes I hate myself

that I didn't have the
courage to stand by him.

It brought up some incredibly
interesting, profound subject

matters about family, abandonment,
life, unanswered questions.

It's always fun, as an actor,
to do material that is challenging.

I believe that you will find the answers

to the biggest mysteries, and
I will be there when you do.

But my mysteries...

I'll never have the answer.

Carter: I'm not going to reveal to you

exactly how we play with
mythology, but we do.

I like the twist that Chris
put on the mythology.

We've already announced that
the cigarette smoking man

will be back on the show,
and I think we're honest

to what happened to him
in the series finale,

and how he might have survived
what looked like certain death.

Cigarette smoking man:
I have a small problem.

Mulder is my enemy, but
he's also someone I want.

And of course I won't
tell you what happens.

We're playing with this
mythology in a whole new way.

And the government secreting of evidence

about extra-terrestrials
might come into play.

In 1973, the Syndicate was
convened to assist in a project

to colonize the world by
creating alien-human hybrids.

The project was ultimately unsuccessful.

I doubt they ever stopped trying.

Carter: Coming back together,
being on the set again,

was a powerful thing.
But there's so much hard

work to be done, because
we knew that coming back,

the series isn't going to be good
if it's only a victory lap.

It has to be original and fresh,
and as good as it's ever been.

So you've got to get down to business.

Mahendru: The first day was unbelievable.

And I was trying to play it cool.

Sveta, this is Dana Scully and Fox Mulder.

Hi.

The little kid inside of
me was just like, "aah!"

David and Gillian just sat
back into Scully and Mulder.

It was incredible.

And on the second day, we
were downtown Vancouver,

in the city during lunchtime.

So there was 1,000 people
watching us. They were very excited

that David Duchovny and Gillian
Anderson were on the street.

Joel McHale was like,
"is this what it's like

when you guys film outside all the time?"

I was like, "no, this
is a special occasion."

We try to find parts of Vancouver

that can play for parts
of Washington, D.C.,

and we create everything else digitally.

I wrote this sequence, this
crash which may or may not

be Roswell in the first episode,

and as is often the case when
working with Mark Freeborn

and his art department, they
came up with a UFO crash

that was so much bigger and better

than I ever imagined it would be.

Freeborn: Chris had specific notions
about what the craft should be.

It was a pretty good jumping-off point.

Grover: I think everybody wanted to see
the 1950s classic flying saucer,

the one that created all the
fear and all the wonder.

We probably made a bigger one
than has been made for TV.

The saucer was 50 feet in diameter.
Life-size. [Laughs]

It took a team of painters and
sculptors and visual effects.

It was really just all hands on deck.

Pre-built everything in the
city, break it down into its

component parts, ship it all
out there and reassemble it.

Stubbs: I remember coming over the rise,

and we were in this huge, vast land.

And it was this giant flying saucer.
I was like, "oh, my god,

this is like a huge $100 million movie."

I got a shiver, because I knew I'm
part of something really special.

The crash site is photographed practically.

The actual crash itself was
achieved through visual effects.

And that's a combination of C.G.
Animation for the UFO,

and then we have particle simulation.

We needed to have it blend seamlessly

with the practical UFO set.

Freeborn: Visual effects took
care of the actual flying,

but we supplied all of the
practical, tangible assets.

Three wrecked aircraft, a trench
that was about 300 yards long,

and practical explosives to
create the crash landing.

There will be an air cannon here.
We will be shooting up debris.

Chris could get his actors
right beside the craft,

feel the craft as a real entity.

You arrive on the set and you see
what you could only imagine.

I was blown away.

"X-Files" is generally a lot
of character-driven action.

This has been very
action-heavy for "X-Files."

And as the scripts come in,
you don't have a lot of time to react.

We had all sorts of stunt
people and stunt driving.

There was a lot of killing and
the ripping apart of people.

Scully takes down a guy.

Gillian did it all herself.
She looked great and slick.

I had five or six stunt people
fully engulfed on fire.

That takes a lot of timing and
fueling and it's dangerous.

You have to be methodical
about how you do that.

We have multiple elements.
We have shots with visual effects.

Mulder had to be thrown down a hallway.

Go!

Powloski: Mostly, that was
done with a stunt harness rig.

Visual effects was just
doing sort of wire removal.

With all the action that we do,
Chris always wants it to be,

"I believe that could happen."

Even though there's monsters and aliens,

it has to make sense and
it has to look realistic.

I find it fun to try to learn
things that I don't know.

We see a side of Mulder that
we haven't seen before.

He busts out some fight skills.

In "the X-Files," we want to be real.

How would Mulder fight?

And both Chris and David
had the same answer ...

whatever he learned at Quantico.

So, after the punch ...
boom comes in with his left,

and just scoop it here
and come on on the inside for a hook.

The other character in
the fight is the room.

How the room is in the set design

very much dictates how the fight goes.

What can we wreck?
What can we smash through?

What gets destroyed?

So we started there and
choreographed a fight

when we're gonna smash that window.

That desk goes.
Breakaway tear over here.

We broke it up into three
to five moves for David.

- Right, right, left.
- Oh, right. Yep.

So that he could learn that piece

and David could do most of it himself.

Action!
[Grunting]

There was two lines in the script.

And it ended up taking us
nine hours to shoot it.

Who sent you?!

If we're lucky, we'll get a hint
of what's coming down the pipe,

and they can start building
or designing towards that,

get a little bit of a head start.

Especially for makeup effects.

It's a fresh kill.

[Rustling]

I always wanted a more kind of
classic, a universal horror,

"Creature of the black lagoon"
type of thing.

But I also need expressions
and to do some kind of funny

stuff with the monster.
So he's got to be more moldable.

Terezakis: Rather than go
through a 10-hour process

of covering someone in
head-to-toe, we took the

approach of making it all as
large prosthetic appliances.

We're pre-painting everything in my shop.
When we went to set,

it was just a matter of
assembling the puzzle.

The special effects makeup
guy, you know monsters.

That's what they live for ...
they turn into a monster.

They become their own creation.
[chuckles]

[Both screams]

Did that just happen?!

A decade of my life in this
office in search of the truth.

And all the time, I was
being led by my nose

through a dark alley to a dead end,
exactly as they planned.

The poster has become so iconic,
it's really the heart of the show.

Because it doesn't say, "I believe."
It says, "I want to believe."

It's the struggle to find the truth.

You always wonder...
that they weren't lying to you, too.

The title of the first
episode is "My struggle."

I was reading a terrific series of books
by a guy named Knausgaard.

The first one, called "My struggle,"
about his life.

And so I thought, why not get into
the intimate detail of Mulder's life?

Scully, listen to me.
I've been misled. We've been misled.

But episode 6 will also be
called "My struggle,"

but it will be Scully's struggle,

and you'll see the details of
her struggle through her own eyes.

- You have something to tell me?
- Something you need to know.

There's a part of me always
that comes to the show as a fan

and in just a few scenes, I really
have a lot of rich material to play.

Carter: When I see the
pilot, I'm just reminded about

all the hard work that went into it,
all the mistakes, all the potential.

The nights in the forest
with David and Gillian.

The pouring rain, the freezing cold.

That pilot was a miracle.

So for me, I'm reminded when
you believe in something

and you have a passion for
something, it pays off.

I have seen this before,
believing that you're onto some truth,

- that you can save the world!
- This will finally be their undoing.

It will be your undoing, Mulder.

I like the intimate scenes
between Mulder and Scully

that bring us closer together,
adding to the history of the series.

Listen to me ... as your
friend and as a physician,

- you are on dangerous ground here.
- I know what I'm doing.

You could possibly make 12
different shows out of this show.

It's a very flexible frame
in terms of tonality,

in terms of action,
in terms of mythology,

in terms of subject matter.

It can go a lot of different ways.

And the fans, I think, like
all those ways that it goes.

- Did it look anything like this?
- The thing I saw only had two eyes,

- and it was wearing underwear.
- Boxers or briefs?

On the one hand, it feels
like no time has passed

and that we've just kind of
picked up where we've left off.

And on the other hand,
when we ran the other day...

[Laughs]

- Oh! Sorry.
- A bit of privacy, please!

If you're gonna do "X-Files,"
do it to the N-th degree.

I think I did that.
I've been nude.

I've been transformed.
I've been sexed.

[Laughs] I've done it all.

The fans are obviously very
excited it's returning.

The phenomenon is still there.
The truth is still out there.

Maybe ... Maybe it's a foot.

It was definitely an animal.

Animals don't shoot blood
out of their eyeballs.

Well, tell that to the horned lizard,

which shoots blood out
its eyeballs, Scully.

Mulder, the internet is not good for you.

Nanjiani: It's so wonderful
to be a small part

of this universe that I love so much.

It's really fun to walk into
this cultural phenomenon and be a part

of it and to see these actors
playing these iconic roles again.

- This is dangerous.
- When has that ever stopped us before?

I'm part of television history
right now. There are very few,

if any, shows that have the same
recognition as "the X-Files."

I'm just so glad that when I die,
people will say, "he was in 'the X-Files.'"

I want to prepare you for what
you're about to see, Mr. Mulder.

There aren't really any shows
quite like it on TV anymore.

All we can do, Scully, is pull the thread,
see what it unravels.

The story that it sets up
is really interesting.

- Mulder: We've never been in more danger.
- Then do something about it.

Reopening "the X-Files" is magical.

- Are you ready for this?
- I don't know there's a choice.

["The X-Files" theme plays]

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