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This reveal changes everything
[Warning: The following contains spoilers from The X-Files' Season 11 premiere. Read at your own risk!]
If you're one of the many fans who didn't like The X-Files' 10th season, you're in luck because it turns out none of it ever happened! As the Season 11 premiere revealed, the events of Season 10 - which included a fatal virus being unleashed upon the world in order to wipe out all but the chosen few - haven't actually occurred... at least not yet.
Rather than picking up with a dying Mulder (David Duchovny) and worried Scully (Gillian Anderson) on the grid-locked bridge with a UFO hovering overhead, the second installment of the revival kicks off with a completely healthy Mulder hovering over a catatonic Scully, who has just suffered a seizure in the X-Files office. As she lays unconscious in the hospital, scans of her brain flash a message in Morse code: "Find him," a clear instruction that she and Mulder need to find their son, William. But why?
The X-Files: Everything to Know About Season 11
Well, as it turns out, the events of Season 10 weren't complete fantasy. The events are very, very real, but they just haven't happened yet. As part of her seizure, Scully has visions of the entire Spartan Virus saga, which she tells Mulder are being sent from William and will come to fruition unless they stop the Cigarette Smoking Man (William B. Davis) before it's too late.
But this St. Elsewhere moment wasn't the only bomb The X-Files premiere dropped -- not by a long shot. The episode ended with mother of all twists when the Cigarette Smoking Man told Skinner (Mitch Pileggi) that he, not Mulder, is the father of Scully's child.