The X-Files Season 11: 10 Things We Learned From My Struggle, Part III
6. William Is Reaching Out To Scully Telepathically, But Only Spender Can Help
We said we'd come back to Scully's visions, which landed her in hospital. So here we are. Throughout much of My Struggle, Part III, Scully has visions of the future. The outbreak of the Spartan virus. The return of the Smoking Man. She also sees glimpses of William, her son.
In fact, Scully believes that these visions are coming from William himself. That he's sending them to her. The side effect of them is the seizures she's experiencing, but she knows that she must find him.
The only problem is, he was given up in a blind adoption. The only person who has any inkling of where William is happens to be Jeffrey Spender.
Spender looks far better this season than in the past, his burns apparently repaired by some extremely effective plastic surgery. He's tracked down early in the episode, however, by an unnamed assailant demanding to know the location of William. He refuses to give the boy up, then heads off to see Scully, warning her.
Despite a promise never to tell Scully where her son is, he gives up the name of her adoptive parents at her insistence. This will no doubt be key as the season unfolds.
Though Spender was never a popular part of the show's original run, we learn one other thing in My Struggle, Part III: for the first time in ages, he's a compelling part of the narrative.