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* DowntimeDowngrade: Mulder and Scully separate between The X-Files: I Want to Believe and the present. The details are never divulged, but it appears that Mulder's depression, already present and having a negative impact on the relationship in the 2008 film, became too much for Scully to handle and she left. Mulder is living alone in their farmhouse (and back to sleeping on the couch) and Scully lives in an apartment elsewhere.
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* WhamEpisode: Mulder and Scully have broken up since ''Film/TheXFilesIWantToBelieve''. After coming out of near-seclusion, Mulder begins to form a new conspiracy that the alien colonization was a smokescreen for a takeover plan by human elites. The X-Files are re-opened after more than a decade, and the Cigarette-Smoking Man is shown to be alive.
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[[WMG:[[center:[-'''RECAP:'''\\
[[Recap/TheXFiles Index]] | '''1''' | [[Recap/TheXFilesMiniseriesE02FoundersMutation 2]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesMiniseriesE03MulderAndScullyMeetTheWereMonster 3]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesMiniseriesE04HomeAgain 4]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesMiniseriesE05Babylon 5]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesMiniseriesE06MyStruggleII 6]]]]-]]]
'''Season 10, Episode 1:'''
!My Struggle
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->Written and directed by Creator/ChrisCarter
->'''Mulder:''' I saw an ARV, running on free energy. I saw it disappear.\\
'''Old doctor:''' That's what they all seem to do.\\
'''Mulder:''' But the technology exists. It's existed since Roswell. And it's been in use, being used on humans in human testing, the taking of men, women and children that's misreported as alien abductions.
[[Recap/TheXFiles Index]] | '''1''' | [[Recap/TheXFilesMiniseriesE02FoundersMutation 2]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesMiniseriesE03MulderAndScullyMeetTheWereMonster 3]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesMiniseriesE04HomeAgain 4]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesMiniseriesE05Babylon 5]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesMiniseriesE06MyStruggleII 6]]]]-]]]
'''Season 10, Episode 1:'''
!My Struggle
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->Written and directed by Creator/ChrisCarter
->'''Mulder:''' I saw an ARV, running on free energy. I saw it disappear.\\
'''Old doctor:''' That's what they all seem to do.\\
'''Mulder:''' But the technology exists. It's existed since Roswell. And it's been in use, being used on humans in human testing, the taking of men, women and children that's misreported as alien abductions.
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* BackFromTheDead: The Cigarette-Smoking Man, Man is still okay, but he is now smoking through a tracheotomy.
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* WhamLine:WhamLine: The Cigarette Smoking Man finds out exactly what Mulder and Scully were called to Skinner for.
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* WhamShot: See above, followed by a smash cut to "Guest Starring William B. Davis".
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* WhamShot: See above, followed by The final scene of the episode has a smash cut man's head being shown from the back. The camera then moves around his face to reveal that he is none other than the Cigarette-Smoking Man, [[Recap/TheXFilesS09E20TheTruthII who didn't die from the air strike 14 years earlier]]. And to confirm that this man is not an impostor of any kind, there is a {{smash cut}} to "Guest Starring William B. Davis".
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->'''Mulder:''' Scully, are you ready for this?\\
'''Scully:''' I don't know there's a choice.
->'''Mulder:''' Scully, are you ready for this?\\
'''Scully:''' I don't know there's a choice.
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* {{Flashback}}: To an alien crash in the 1940s. It's not said whether it was [[RoswellThatEndsWell Roswell]] or the Aztec crash.
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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The new over-arching conspiracy is that the ''original'' conspiracy was actually a smokescreen for the subversion of civil liberties by humans using alien technology. The WarOnTerror, UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror, FEMA camps, and the NSA surveillance controversy are cited as examples.
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* ActorAllusion: Joel [=McHale=] is known for hosting [[Series/TheSoup another talk show]].
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* {{Expy}}: O'Malley, of conservative talk-show hosts Creator/BillOReilly and GlennBeck, and conspiracy-theorists like [[Radio/CoastToCoastAM Art Bell]] and Radio/AlexJones.
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* {{Expy}}: O'Malley, of conservative talk-show hosts BillOReilly Creator/BillOReilly and GlennBeck, and conspiracy-theorists like [[Radio/CoastToCoastAM Art Bell]] and Radio/AlexJones.
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: Played with when Scully asks if Mulder watches O'Malley's show. To find out what she's talking about, he tunes in, hears O'Malley ranting about [[AmericanGunPolitics the government's plan to disarm the citizens]], and promptly dismisses him as a "jackass".
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: Played with when Scully asks if Mulder watches O'Malley's show. To find out what she's talking about, he tunes in, hears O'Malley ranting about [[AmericanGunPolitics [[UsefulNotes/AmericanGunPolitics the government's plan to disarm the citizens]], and promptly dismisses him as a "jackass".
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-->'''Cigarette-Smoking Man:''' We have a small problem. They've re-opened the X-Files.
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-->'''Cigarette-Smoking Man:''' We have a small problem. They've re-opened the X-Files.X-Files.
* WhamShot: See above, followed by a smash cut to "Guest Starring William B. Davis".
* WhamShot: See above, followed by a smash cut to "Guest Starring William B. Davis".
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** The episode's title is an English translation of Adolf Hitler's autobiography "Mein Kampf."Kampf," although in the short term Carter probably took the title from Karl Ove Knausgård's autobiographical novel.
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* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: The first episode of the miniseries rolls out a woman who's been spliced with alien DNA and a fully-functional reproduction of an alien ship that runs on zero-point energy. It's pretty much a given that something was going to get rid of two massive pieces of evidence like that.
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* RememberTheNewGuy: An unusual example in that Sveta met Mulder and Scully when they interviewed her after her first abduction (presumably some time in the original run of the show), but we never saw this.
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* ActorAllusion: Joel [=McHale=] is known for hosting [[TheSoup another talk show]].
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* SpoiledByTheFormat: Averted, as [[spoiler:William B. Davis' credit doesn't appear until the end.]]
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* {{Expy}}: O'Malley, of conservative talk-show hosts BillOReilly and GlennBeck, and conspiracy-theorists like [[Radio/CoastToCoastAM Art Bell]].
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* ShoutOut: The episode's title is an English translation of Adolf Hitler's autobiography "Mein Kampf."
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** The episode's title is an English translation of Adolf Hitler's autobiography "Mein Kampf.
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* CallBack: Sveta tells Scully that she can't imagine what it feels like to be abducted. [[TheXFilesS02E05DuaneBarry Well, actually...]]
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* AmicableExes: Mulder and Scully.
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Nearly fourteen years after the X-Files were shut down, a ConspiracyTheorist talk show host reunites Mulder and Scully to help him investigate apparent alien abductions.
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* ActorAllusion: Joel [=McHale=] is known for hosting [[TheSoup another talk show]].
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Cigarette-Smoking Man, now smoking through a tracheotomy.]]
* CallBack: Sveta tells Scully that she can't imagine what it feels like to be abducted. [[TheXFilesS02E05DuaneBarry Well, actually...]]
* ConspiracyTheorist: O'Malley.
* {{Expy}}: O'Malley, of conservative talk-show hosts BillOReilly and GlennBeck, and conspiracy-theorists like [[Radio/CoastToCoastAM Art Bell]].
* FalseFlagOperation: O'Malley and Mulder believe that both 9/11 and the conspiracy Mulder investigated were this.
* {{Flashback}}: To an alien crash in the 1940s. It's not said whether it was [[RoswellThatEndsWell Roswell]] or the Aztec crash.
* PromotedToOpeningCredits: Mitch Pileggi as Walter Skinner.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The new over-arching conspiracy is that the ''original'' conspiracy theory was a smokescreen for the subversion of civil liberties by humans using alien technology. The WarOnTerror, FEMA camps, and the NSA surveillance controversy are cited as examples.
* WhamLine:
-->[[spoiler:'''Cigarette-Smoking Man:''']] We have a small problem. They've re-opened the X-Files.
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* ActorAllusion: Joel [=McHale=] is known for hosting [[TheSoup another talk show]].
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Cigarette-Smoking Man, now smoking through a tracheotomy.]]
* CallBack: Sveta tells Scully that she can't imagine what it feels like to be abducted. [[TheXFilesS02E05DuaneBarry Well, actually...]]
* ConspiracyTheorist: O'Malley.
* {{Expy}}: O'Malley, of conservative talk-show hosts BillOReilly and GlennBeck, and conspiracy-theorists like [[Radio/CoastToCoastAM Art Bell]].
* FalseFlagOperation: O'Malley and Mulder believe that both 9/11 and the conspiracy Mulder investigated were this.
* {{Flashback}}: To an alien crash in the 1940s. It's not said whether it was [[RoswellThatEndsWell Roswell]] or the Aztec crash.
* PromotedToOpeningCredits: Mitch Pileggi as Walter Skinner.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The new over-arching conspiracy is that the ''original'' conspiracy theory was a smokescreen for the subversion of civil liberties by humans using alien technology. The WarOnTerror, FEMA camps, and the NSA surveillance controversy are cited as examples.
* WhamLine:
-->[[spoiler:'''Cigarette-Smoking Man:''']] We have a small problem. They've re-opened the X-Files.
