What Happens in ‘The X-Files’ Two-Parter, “Christmas Carol” and “Emily”?
While there, Scully gets a call from an unknown woman telling her that someone needs her help.
Not believing for a second that he killed himself, Scully makes moves to adopt Emily as her own.
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How is that possible?
But it isn’t long before things get out of hand.
Sometimes, the B sides contain the best jams.
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That’s part of why we love them, and what makes this time of year so magical.
But this isThe X-Files, which means that things need to get a bit weirder.
Just asEbenezer Scrooge’s future is uncertaininA Christmas Carol, so too is Scully’s dream here.
At the beginning of “Emily,” our heroine sees herself wandering through the desert.
Nevertheless, it does so in oddly conflicting ways.
Scully undergoes a very similar arc here, but is unable to alter the course of the future.
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It’s a beautiful moment, one that helps our heroine move past the sorrow in her heart.
Aliens, demons, and ghosts oh my!
In Season 8, we learn that Scully is pregnant with another alien-human hybrid.
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“All Souls” doubles as an Easter episode, which is a fitting follow-up to this Christmas two-parter.
Butthe only other Christmas-centric episode hit Fox the following season, titled"How The Ghosts Stole Christmas.
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Two F.B.I. Agents, Fox Mulder the believer and Dana Scully the skeptic, investigate the strange and unexplained, while hidden forces work to impede their efforts.
