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Author: hszmv1

Jun 19th 2017 at 8:55:54 AM

@Korvas, I don't think that occured during that sequence of episodes (Mulder for his part, never stopped believing in the conspiracy, just the supernatural nature of it).   The season one episode "Beyond The Sea" however did revolve around this.  Mulder had wrote the profile of the death row inmate who claimed he was psychic and could see the victims of a similar killer, and believes the guy has a partner he is directing.  Scully, on the heals of her father's death, hears the psychic claimant humming the titular song when she's left alone and starts to believe that he is talking to her father.   As a general rule, the premise was always flipped when the case involved religion, which Mulder explicitly does not believe in.
** X-Files has a long history of this and some of their most fondly remembered episodes have elements of this.  The Jose Chung 'From Outer Space'  includes a witness who described Scully and Mulder as MIB agents (and Scully was a man pretending to be a woman).   Bad Blood is a RashamoneStyle episode that shows gives equal time making both characters look terrible parodies in each other's eyes.  X-Cops asks what if the TV show COPS followed Mulder and Scully on one of their adventures.  The revival season even worked in a comedy episode about a Lizardman that was a were-human and described primal urges like "finding a job, eating fast-food, and selling cellphones."

* The season tradition of "Doctor-Lite" episodes in revival DoctorWho are all this, as they are made to give the actor playing the Doctor a break and/or film stunts for more important episodes in the pipeline.   While the Doctor does appear in them, his role is greatly reduced.