My Struggle III
- Episode aired Jan 3, 2018
- TV-14
- 42m
Mulder and Scully learn that they aren't the only ones desperately searching for their long-lost son, William. The very fate of the world may depend on the outcome.Mulder and Scully learn that they aren't the only ones desperately searching for their long-lost son, William. The very fate of the world may depend on the outcome.Mulder and Scully learn that they aren't the only ones desperately searching for their long-lost son, William. The very fate of the world may depend on the outcome.
- Female Paramedic
- (as Arggy Jenati)
- Nurse
- (as Naiah Cummins)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAugust 8, 2017, first day of shooting, was more than 25 years after Pilot (1993) was filmed.
- GoofsWhen Skinner is pointing to the monitor displaying the fMRI of Scully's brain, he is pointing to the pre-frontal cortex not the hypothalamus as the neurologist claims.
- Quotes
[first lines]
Cigarette Smoking Man: My name is Carl Gerhard Busch. But I've been known by many aliases during my long career with the U.S. government. It's been a humbling job, though I'm hardly known as a humble man. I've been a witness to history, much of it violent, much of it an abomination of the values Americans hold dear. I've had a privileged seat at the centers of power, held the reins of that power, making sacrifices few are capable of, of which even fewer are willing. If people knew the truth, they'd riot in the streets. Too much is made of the will to power, as if our will is free, our choices our own. Our destinies are forged in our bones, made real by a raging impulse to self-destruct. I'm not a bad man, more a practical man. I've taken certain gifts I was given and made good men great. It is my greatness. I'm a father to two men who have figured more in the future than they might ever know. Both would end up working for the FBI, both complex but dedicated men who sacrificed dearly, and in their dogged pursuits would end up paying a terrible price, searching for truths as I parceled them out, truths held only by the few who knew the levers of power and the invisible hand controlling them. Is there life out there? Good heavens. To doubt it is a failure of more than the imagination. It is a failure to recognize the limits of our own stupidity, the nascency of our science, the rudiment of our tools. We listen, we search. We hope for a sign, as if our eyes and ears are good enough, our brains large enough, our egos small enough. I'm an old man now. I will leave my own mark upon history, more than presidents or tyrants. I don't ask for loyalty and trust, the fleeting bonds of men. I ask only for the years to show my sons and their sons I was right. What their father did, had to be done.
- Crazy creditsThe tagline at the end of the opening credits changes from "I Want to Believe" to "I Want to Lie", by having a few letters disappear.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Millennium After the Millennium (2019)
- SoundtracksMain Title Theme
(uncredited)
Written by Castle, Bryant, Johnson
Gillian Anderson was the saving grace of the episode, making the most of the rubbish she was given to work with. Duchovny on the other hand seemed like he knew he was working with awful material and had no problems showing his feelings.
I'm bored with Smoking Man already, and I'm assuming it's the thread for the whole series!
Even the title was LAZY!!
Lame.
- Sleepin_Dragon
- Feb 12, 2018