Spoilers

“Herrenvolk”

The conclusion of the season three finale brought some weird truths to light only to pull them away at the end. In all honesty, the X-Files seemed to only dole out a few nuggets at a time when dealing with the show’s mythology and also change many of the things that we knew before.

The episode was tense, but the use of Samantha Mulder as a ‘clone’ at these farms in Canada with the bees was really one more idea that tried to use the disappearance of the girl. It did not seem to make a lot of sense. Mulder’s sister always felt like a MacGuffin that the series just tossed out when it needed a boost.

The alien bounty hunter was all over this episode too as he tracked down Mulder and Jeremiah Smith as well as, for some reason, let Scully live, twice and healed Mulder’s mother.

It is a decent episode, but it did not feel as if it measured up to the season three finale. One wonders at this point in the series, did the writers and creators of the show know what their overall mythology was or did they just add and adjust as needed with little plan to ever give out the truth?

The death of X was dramatic and powerful, but it seemed as if he was replaced as an inside informant before the episode ended with the arrival of Marita Covarrubias at the SRSG.