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* WhamEpisode: People around the world start falling ill and dying from complete immune system failures, an event orchestrated by the Cigarette-Smoking Man. It turns out that Monica Reyes [[FaceHeelTurn cared for CSM after his presumed death]]. Mulder falls ill while confronting CSM and turns down an offer to be given the alien DNA that will make him immune - the same DNA Scully has, which is the only viable cure for the disease. Scully finally finds Mulder one the crowded 14th Street Bridge, but realizes that he's so near death that the DNA will not be enough to help him; the only cure has something to do with William. And just as this comes to light, [[FromBadToWorse the same UFO that blew up an alien abductee's car in "My Struggle" appears right above the bridge]], [[BolivianArmyEnding preparing to strike.]]
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* FreezeFrameBonus: During the moment the alien craft hovers further down to Mulder, Miller and Scully on the freeway, one can notice that all the cars on that road have their lights suddenly die out one after the other. [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E01 This is consistent with past episodes]] [[Recap/TheXFilesMiniseriesE01MyStruggle showing how these kind of spaceships screw with motor vehicles' functions.]]
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* NoEnding: The final episode of the tenth seasom season ends on a ''massive'' cliffhanger, which will be was resolved in [[Recap/TheXFilesMiniseriesE07MyStruggleIII by the season eleven premiere in 2018. next episode]]. But considering what happened in the past when ''The X-Files'' stopped without resolution (repeatedly), combined with the two-year gap between seasons 10 & 11, fans of the show were [[HereWeGoAgain worried]] this was going to be all she wrote. See the YMMV section for more details.
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[[Recap/TheXFiles Index]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesMiniseriesE01MyStruggle 1]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesMiniseriesE02FoundersMutation 2]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesMiniseriesE03MulderAndScullyMeetTheWereMonster 3]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesMiniseriesE04HomeAgain 4]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesMiniseriesE05Babylon 5]] | '''6''']]-]]]
'''Season 10, Episode 6:'''
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->''"You are witnessing what may be the advent of a global contagion."''
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'''Season 10, Episode 6:'''
!My Struggle II
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->''"You are witnessing what may be the advent of a global contagion."''
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* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: A vaccine is useless against a virus already in the system -- what they would need is actually an antiviral drug. Likewise, there is absolutely no way Agent Einstein received a smallpox vaccine, unless she's much older than she looks; the U.S. stopped vaccinating for smallpox in 1972. This is far from the first time the show has made this mistake.
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* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: A vaccine is mostly useless against a virus already in the system -- what they would need is actually an antiviral drug. drug.[[note]]A few vaccines, such as rabies and varicella, can be administered after exposure.[[/note]] Likewise, there is absolutely no way Agent Einstein received a smallpox vaccine, unless she's much older than she looks; the U.S. stopped vaccinating for smallpox in 1972. This is far from the first time the show has made this mistake.
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* NoEnding: The final episode of the tenth seasom ends on a ''massive'' cliffhanger, which will be resolved in the season eleven premiere in 2018. But considering what happened in the past, past when ''The X-Files'' stopped without resolution (repeatedly), fans of the show were worried [[HereWeGoAgain worried]] this was going to be all she wrote. See the YMMV section for more details.
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* BackForTheFinale: Cigarette-Smoking Man, Monica Reyes, and The Lone Gunmen (whom Mulder sees during a hallucination) all return.
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* LeftHanging: An alien craft appears overhead of Agents Miller, Mulder & Scully, just as Scully realizes that the dying Mulder will need a stemcell transplant from their estranged son William to survive, as he and the world's population are dying from an engineered pandemic. Cut to end credits.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: CSM presents the conspiracy as this, stating that the human race would have wiped out itself and the rest of the planet sooner or later, so it's better to wipe out most of them now and then start over. Mulder calls bullshit on this.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: CSM presents the conspiracy as this, stating that the human race would have wiped out itself and the rest of the planet sooner or later, so it's better to wipe out most of them now and then start over. Mulder calls bullshit on this.this.
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** This episode's plot indirectly references the third season's "Paper Clip", where Mulder and Scully find the Conspiracy hoarding records of Smallpox vaccinations and related medical experiments.
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* WeCanRuleTogether: The Cigarette Smoking Man offers a seat at the conspiracy to Mulder. Naturally, Mulder refuses.
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* ChairmanOfTheBrawl: Used by Mulder against the assailant in his apartment.
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* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: A vaccine is useless against a virus already in the system -- what they would need is actually an antiviral drug. Likewise, there is absolutely no way Agent Einstein received a smallpox vaccine, unless she's much older than she looks; the U.S. stopped vaccinating for smallpox in 1972. And this is far from the first time the show has made this mistake, causing the fans to suspect this really is how Chris Carter thinks they work.
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* BodyHorror: We see flashbacks to shortly after the last attempt on CSM's life, and how horribly burned he was by it. Later, we see that he never fully recovered, as he's now wearing a prosthetic nose over the hole where his used to be.
* DealWithTheDevil: Reyes sold out to CSM in exchange for protection for herself, Scully, and Mulder from the Spartan virus.
* InternalReveal: Miller and Einstein learn about the conspiracy, and the former learns about William.
* ThePlague: The Spartan virus, hidden inside vaccinations, shuts down the immune system of anyone not having had alien DNA inserted into theirs.
* ThePlague: The Spartan virus, hidden inside vaccinations, shuts down the immune system of anyone not having had alien DNA inserted into theirs.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: CSM presents the conspiracy as this, stating that the human race would have wiped out itself and the rest of the planet sooner or later, so it's better to wipe out most of them now and then start over. Mulder call bullshit on this.
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* BigDamnHeroes: Agent Miller rescues [[spoiler:a critically ill Mulder]] from CSM.
* {{Cliffhanger}}: A hell of one.
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Unfortunately, Tad O'Malley was very right.
* BigDamnHeroes: Agent Miller rescues [[spoiler:a critically ill Mulder]] from CSM.
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* TearsOfBlood: Not actual tears, but a nurse has what looks like a wicked case of subconjunctival hemorrhage.
* TheBusCameBack: Monica Reyes returns to help Scully out.
* SkepticNoLonger: It doesn't take Agent Einstein long to realize Scully's not just paranoid.
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* DepopulationBomb: The Spartan virus shuts down the immune system except for those with alien DNA, which makes every normally harmless virus lethal to most of the population.
* WeCanRuleTogether: The Cigarette Smoking Man offers this to Mulder. Naturally, Mulder refuses.
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* DepopulationBomb: The Spartan virus shuts down the immune system except for those with alien DNA, which makes every normally harmless virus lethal to most of the population.
* WeCanRuleTogether: The Cigarette Smoking Man offers this to Mulder. Naturally, Mulder refuses.
