The X-Files Season 11: 10 Things We Learned From Plus One
8. In A Time Of Crisis, The Most Skeptical Of Us Still Turn To Faith
Dana Scully, as X-Files fans well know, was raised as a Catholic. While she's turned to science in terms of her career, over the years, she has had several crises of faith. And each time she has always found some sign or meaning that perhaps a higher power was out there.
Still, Scully is a scientist. A medical doctor. She goes back to those roots in Plus One, but an interesting twist happens: Scully, upon seeing her own doppelganger — and really, her own mortality — is not above trying a little faith, blind faith really. During the episode, she resorts to taking placebo bread pills in the hopes of warding off her murderous doppelganger. What's even more interesting (and well-constructed by those in charge of this week's episode) is that they may have worked, though we're never really sure.
Scully rationalizes her glimpse of Other-Scully, essentially talking herself out of seeing her evil twin. Or was it the pills she took earlier? Either way, Scully's choice to take the pills (in fact, her choice to keep them in the first place after she nearly discarded them) is a nice twist. And a sign that modern-day Scully is more than just a skeptic.