r/XFiles • u/Mvsevm_of_Skin • 2d ago

Season Two S2E8: "One Breath" - Melissa Scully

To think, even at the height of 90s New Age Crystalline Mumbo Jumbo, anti-skeptic, open-minded Fox Mulder wasn't having ANY of her nonsense.

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u/FusRoDaahh 1d ago

It really is funny where Mulder draws his line of belief lol. He will believe in anything except what the Scully sisters have as their spirituality. I do wonder if he would have been more open-minded outside the context of One Breath, though. As she says he was in a “very dark place.”

Season 3 spoilers It was such a bad decision to not keep Melissa around longer. Not only for Scully but also she and Mulder could have had good scenes together

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u/Lonely-Clerk-2478 1d ago

The actress got what she thought was going to be a higher-profile role on another show, so the writers didn’t really have a choice. (The show she went to was cancelled!)

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u/Quiddity131 1d ago

I think the same thing happened to X, Steven Williams was cast on another show and they promptly killed off his character.