The X-Files: Every Season 10 Episode Ranked Worst To Best

3. Founder's Mutation

If My Struggle saw the series and its cast finding their footing again, Founder's Mutation saw it all clicking back into place. After opening with a perfectly engaging setup, the episode settled into a nice groove that managed to shuffle Mulder and Scully back into the good ol' days. From Mulder unwittingly soliciting sex from a victim's lover to watching a man's orifices brutally bleeding out, and from the heartbreaking scene of children affected by the titular disease to an improvised C-section, the episode effortlessly moved back and forth from humor to horror without missing a beat, demonstrating the types of weird scenarios Mulder and Scully often faced and the even weirder situations they found themselves in as a result. The episode also managed to find time to focus on William and the toll giving their son up for adoption long ago had taken on Mulder and Scully, with both of them imagining their lives with him still in it, and how their own fears - Scully from a medical perspective, Mulder from an otherworldly perspective - play into their feelings of loss. Even between all the telekinesis and telepathy, the fact Founder's Mutation was able to allow the characters to reflect upon their son and the choice they made as a result is to be commended, and gave both Duchovny and Anderson some great dramatic material upon which to further evolve Mulder and Scully.