![]() And the way he gently approaches Scully after she’s saved from Pfaster’s creepy clutches, coupled with the way he holds her as she cries in relief, doesn’t do anything to make me change my mind. I clearly recall thinking, “He loves her,” while watching the episode back in the day. But for me, this is the moment I mark as the first evidence that Mulder feels something deeper for the redhead whose presence irked him just over a season before. Maybe it’s the look of anguish on his face. Maybe it’s the desperation in Duchovny’s voice. While Mulder and the local authorities desperately search for Scully, the frustrated G-man remarks that people see Elvis every day all over the country, but “no one saw a pretty woman being forced off the road in a rental?!” I still remember watching this episode when it first aired, mainly because of the way Duchovny delivers one of his lines. But she brushes off Mulder’s concern - with probably the most repetitions of her signature “I’m fine” that we’ll get until her cancer arc - and soldiers through… until the serial killer, a fetishist named Donnie Pfaster, rams her car and kidnaps her. Scully hasn’t been back at work all that long when the agents investigate what turns out to be a serial killer case in Minneapolis, so she’s understandably shaky throughout the hour. It’s like that old saying: You never know what you’ve got until Duane Barry steps in to eff things up.) (Her alien abduction, return and subsequent fight for life earlier in the season might’ve had something to do with that. Their initial wariness of each other has disappeared, and their friendship is a pretty solid, if new, thing. Scully and Mulder have a fully fledged partnership by the time this mid-Season 2 episode comes around. We’ll get this started by looking back over a handful of episodes that best prove my theory, starting with an early Monster-of-the-Week outing. ![]() Or, more simply: When did the FBI’s Most Unwanted start wanting each other? So think of this edition of Binge Club as a deep dive that’ll complement your already fervent devotion to the series. Years of my wishful thinking were transformed into canon when the show subtly but surely hooked up David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson‘s characters in Season 7, a romantic relationship that continued in fits and starts through the (first) series finale, one deeply flawed movie and two revival seasons.īut I wanna go deep on the love story of these two adorable weirdos, which many people believe got underway toward the tail end of the show’s initial run but which I’ll argue started much earlier. Spooky long before I even knew what that term meant. If you’ve read anything I’ve ever written about the show, you know two things about me: I’ve been a fan since Season 1, and I ‘shipped Mr. X-Files: Fox Has 'No Plans' for a Season 12 Following Gillian Anderson Exit Nick Cannon Replaces Jamie Foxx in Beat Shazam Premiere - How'd He Do? Which is great and all, but all I want to talk about right now is something of far greater importance: Exactly when did Mulder and Scully decide they were each other’s OSP (one spooky pairing)?
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