One of the worst episodes in the entire series. Even season one's "Space" is better, IMO.
Demijan Omeragic
2022-08-11 23:11:11 +0000 UTC
Written and directed by Gillian Anderson.
Taken from Wikipedia: 'Anderson regrets a handful of the "necessary" script changes, most notably, the addition that Scully and Waterston's affair was intimate. In the original script, the two came "close to having an affair", but Scully ended the relationship when she discovered that Waterston was married. In the commentary for the episode, Anderson elaborated on Scully and Waterston's original backstory: after Scully and Waterston came close to having an affair, Scully left to study at Quantico to become an FBI agent. After she left, Waterston become depressed, and his family began to suspect the affair. The emotional turmoil was too much for Waterston's wife, who killed herself, which made Waterston's daughter, Maggie, resent Scully, as shown in the finished episode. Anderson believed that the removal of this backstory made it hard for the audience to understand Maggie's disgust with Scully.'
Anderson's original script didn't have Mulder and Scully sleeping together, (which the audience is supposed to infer from the narrative.) Frank Spotnitz added this as it had been planned by the writing team to suggest a shift in Mulder and Scully's relationship somewhere around this point of the season.
The music is, 'The Sky is Broken, ' by Moby.