![]() She seemed to be here for the sake of giving us a blast from the past, but at the expense of destroying her character with cynical treachery. I was baffled by Monica's presence in general. Scully was appalled by Monica's cowardice. ![]() Such was the good news of great joy she had to share with Scully: She, too, would be spared, because of her alien DNA. ![]() Among the perks: an injection of alien DNA that would allow her to survive the coming pandemic. Among her duties: keeping him lit with cancer sticks. CSM had somehow survived his apparent incineration in the series finale, and during his gruesome recuperation, he had recruited Reyes to be his girl Friday. What's she been up to since then? Oh, just helping Cigarette Smoking Man - still the front man for the conspiracy after all these years - facilitate his psychotic plans. "You are witnessing what might be the advent of a global contagion!" I didn't find this episode particularly scary, but I bet Jenny McCarthy would have found it absolutely terrifying.Īmid these arguments, reversals of thinking, and epiphanies, Scully met with an old friend and associate, Monica Reyes (Annabeth Gish), who took up the X-Files crusade in seasons 8 and 9. Measles, mumps, rubella, flu - we're all going to be exposed," said Scully, getting kinda ranty. Scully - rapidly giving herself over to O'Malley's worldview - wondered if perhaps the soldier was now suffering from anthrax exposure due to his suddenly suppressed immune system. One man, a solider, had a necrotic lesion on his arm, at the spot where he had received the anthrax vaccine before shipping off to Iraq. When Scully and Einstein got to Our Lady of Sorrows, they learned the hospital was overrun with walk-ins suffering from flu-like symptoms. This isn't a new idea to The X-Files, but it did have a whiff on a rather new and noxious cultural idea: anti-vaxxer paranoia. Perhaps the conspiracy snuck some bonus material in those shots. How could this alleged conspiracy have meddled with everyone's DNA, anyway? Scully hypothetical: through smallpox vaccines. She was game, if only to help debunk this crazy expression of pseudoscience. With Mulder doppelgänger Agent Miller (Robbie Amell) handling the investigation into Mulder's disappearance, Scully recruited her own doppelgänger, Agent Einstein (Lauren Ambrose), to test O'Malley's suspicions. "My Struggle II" was like the "Spartan Virus" that factored prominently in the story - a Trojan horse hiding a small legion of sick ideas. Carter also used O'Malley to casually name-check more conspiracy theories that have captured his imagination in recent years, like chemtrails and microwave triggering. He was used in this episode to report on an outbreak of various contagions suddenly plaguing and destabilizing the country - a cheaper but not ineffective way of dramatizing social meltdown than actually showing it. While Joel McHale is a welcome presence on any TV show, I can't say I was terribly excited to see more of Tad O'Malley or see the show entertain his odious worldview. Yep, everyone's least favorite 9/11 "truther" and conspiracy theory wing nut was back at work peddling paranoia about "new world order" takeover after going underground for six weeks following the events of the premiere. It also appeared that he'd been watching Tad O'Malley on the Internet. Arriving at work one morning a little late, Scully discovered that Mulder wasn't in their basement suite at FBI HQ, though he had been.
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