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[[caption-width-right:350:''"There are things you don't know... things I'm not proud of."'']]
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->''"Time passes in moments ... moments which, rushing past define the path of a life just as surely as they lead towards its end. How rarely do we stop to examine that path, to see the reasons why [[TitleDrop all things happen]], to consider whether the path we take in life is our own making or simply one into which we drift with eyes closed."''

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->''"Time passes in moments ... moments which, rushing past define the path of a life just as surely as they lead towards its end. How rarely do we stop to examine that path, to see the reasons why [[TitleDrop all things happen]], things]] happen, to consider whether the path we take in life is our own making or simply one into which we drift with eyes closed."''

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[[Recap/TheXFiles Index]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E01TheSixthExtinction 1]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E02TheSixthExtinctionIIAmorFati 2]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E03Hungry 3]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E04Millennium 4]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E05Rush 5]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E06TheGoldbergVariation 6]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E07Orison 7]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E08TheAmazingMaleeni 8]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E09SignsAndWonders 9]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E10SeinUndZeit 10]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E11Closure 11]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E12XCops 12]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E13FirstPersonShooter 13]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E14Theef 14]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E15EnAmi 15]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E16Chimera 16]] | '''17''' | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E18BrandX 18]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E19HollywoodAD 19]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E20FightClub 20]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E21JeSouhaite 21]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E22Requiem 22]]]]-]]]
'''Season 7, Episode 17:'''
!all things
->Written and directed by Creator/GillianAnderson

->''"Time passes in moments ... moments which, rushing past define the path of a life just as surely as they lead towards its end. How rarely do we stop to examine that path, to see the reasons why [[TitleDrop all things happen]], to consider whether the path we take in life is our own making or simply one into which we drift with eyes closed."''
-->-- '''Dana Scully'''



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->''"One wrong turn, and... we wouldn't be sitting here together."''
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* SleepCute: Scully at the end, after falling asleep next to Mulder in the couch.

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Scully faces a personal crisis following a chance reunion with an old flame.



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* CallBack: There's a reference to the scene from [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E21Tooms "Tooms"]] where Mulder jokes to Scully "if there's iced tea in that bag, could be love," but that scene ends with her revealing she got him a root beer. This episode, Scully has a subtle [[spoiler:LoveEpiphany]] here, and makes Mulder tea.

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* CallBack: There's a reference to the scene from [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E21Tooms "Tooms"]] where Mulder jokes to Scully "if there's iced tea in that bag, could be love," but that scene ends with her revealing she got him a root beer. This episode, Scully has a subtle [[spoiler:LoveEpiphany]] LoveEpiphany here, and makes Mulder tea.



* [[spoiler:LoveEpiphany: For Scully, though not exactly explicit (as usual for the show). She also makes him tea this time, which is a CallBack to Mulder's joke from "Tooms", when she brings him root beer instead of iced tea.]]

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* [[spoiler:LoveEpiphany: HugeGuyTinyGirl: The show came up with the ScullyBox because David Duchovny is almost a foot taller than Gillian Anderson. In the few scenes that were shot without the box (or Scully in very high heels), Anderson barely reaches Duchovny's shoulder. "all things" included a funny nod to their height difference as they both sit with their feet propped up on a coffee table. Hers barely reach the middle and his are almost hanging off the end.
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For Scully, though not exactly explicit (as usual for the show). She also makes him tea this time, which is a CallBack to Mulder's joke from "Tooms", when she brings him root beer instead of iced tea.]]show).



* OldFlameFizzle: Scully and Daniel Waterston, though it wasn't mutual. He remained very much in love with her through the end of the episode, while she realized that over a decade had passed since she was a medical student seduced by her (very married) professor, and that she likes her life and who she is now. This realization also [[spoiler:led to the start of Mulder and Scully's romantic/sexual relationship]].

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* OldFlameFizzle: Scully and Daniel Waterston, though it wasn't mutual. He remained very much in love with her through the end of the episode, while she realized that over a decade had passed since she was a medical student seduced by her (very married) professor, and that she likes her life and who she is now. This realization also [[spoiler:led led to the start of Mulder and Scully's romantic/sexual relationship]].relationship.
* RelationshipUpgrade: The show was never explicit about when it happened, but the leading candidate is this episode, which features Scully evaluating her past choices about life and relationships, leading up to a scene where she's getting dressed in Mulder's bathroom while he's asleep in bed, apparently naked.

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* CallBack: There's a reference to the scene from [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E21Tooms "Tooms"]] where Mulder jokes to Scully "if there's iced tea in that bag, could be love," but that scene ends with her revealing she got him a root beer. This episode, Scully has a subtle [[spoiler:LoveEpiphany]] here, and makes Mulder tea.



* [[spoiler:LoveEpiphany: For Scully, though not exactly explicit (as usual for the show).]]

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* FemaleGaze / MaleGaze: An interesting example, as the opening shot of the episode starts with the MaleGaze (camera just below armpit level, directed past Scully's bosom) and turns into FemaleGaze (Mulder asleep in bed).
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* AffectionateGestureToTheHead: Mulder brushes Scully's hair behind her ear after she falls asleep on his couch.


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* BeautifulDreamer: Mulder gazes at Scully after she falls asleep on his couch.
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* CatapultNightmare: Scully, after her dream.

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* HotForTeacher: Scully's previous relationship with Dr. Waterston.


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* [[spoiler:LoveEpiphany: For Scully, though not exactly explicit (as usual for the show).]]
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* OldFlameFizzle: Scully and Daniel Waterston, though it wasn't mutual. He remained very much in love with her through the end of the episode, while she realized that over a decade had passed since she was a medical student seduced by her (very married) professor, and that she likes her life and who she is now. This realization also [[spoiler:led to the start of Mulder and Scully's romantic/sexual relationship]].
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* NotListeningToMeAreYou: Mulder to Scully who is preoccupied with her salad.
-->'''Mulder''': And I'm not wearing any pants right now.
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* ComfortingComforter: Scully falls asleep on the couch while talking to Mulder. He pauses to brush a lock of hair from her face and gaze at her before covering her with a blanket to be warm. A romantic example of the trope, since it's heavily implied they slept together for the first time later that night.
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* TheMistress: What Scully was revealed to be, in her past with Dr. Waterston. Though it is not clear how far their affair went, it went far enough that Dr. Waterston considered leaving his family for her.

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* DidTheyOrDidntThey: this episode seems to imply that Mulder and Scully did, with Scully dressing in Mulder's bathroom and then leaving, while Mulder nakedly slumbers in a rumpled bed.

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* TheMistress: What Scully was revealed to be, in her past with Dr. Waterston. Though it is not clear how far their affair went, it went far enough that Dr. Waterston considered leaving his family for her.
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* CropCircle: Agent Mulder plans a trip to England to investigate a case of highly complex formations of Crop Circles that keep appearing in a pattern. Agent Scully is of course not interested in tracking down some sneaky farmers who happened to ace geometry in high school.

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* AllLowercaseLetters: it was gillian anderson's stylistic choice when she named the episode "all things".

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* CropCircle: Agent Mulder plans a trip to England to investigate a case of highly complex formations of Crop Circles that keep appearing in a pattern. Agent Scully is of course not interested in tracking down some sneaky farmers who happened to ace geometry in high school.
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