Instead the story takes it’s time to show how he has been missing the work with Scully, wasting his life for the last decade and unable to move on from the paranoid ideas that fuelled him in his younger days.

Trust No-One: Scruffy and dejected, Mulder doesn’t exactly race onto our screens as the obvious hero. Scully isn’t sure that she is ready to attempt to bring down the government again, but she also doesn’t think she has a choice. She’s done with UFOs these days, practicing autopsy related business at the FBI and having long moved on from the strangle hold of conspiracies that stopped her life from moving.

It’s time for her to take a more active role in the series again. I’ve never felt so alive…’ Aged but seemingly more beautiful than ever, how can we do anything but celebrate the return of Gillian Anderson to The X-Files? To me, the real acting chops of the show and with the ability to handle emotion and action with equal aplomb, it was appalling how she became a side character in the show that she helped become a phenomenon in the previous season of the show (this isn’t a dig at series nine, which has it’s shining moments, just Scully’s role within it) and reduced to simply caring for her child and pining after Mulder. Brains’n’Beauty: ‘As a scientist it’s probably some of the most intense and challenging work I’ve ever done.

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