Spoilers

“Two Fathers”

“One Son”

A big chunk of the mythology of the X-Files gets wrapped up in this two-part story, with pieces that have been major parts of the show for years.

It started off with the return of Cassandra Spender and ended with the deaths of the Syndicate, except of course for CSM. Mulder and Scully discovered much of the truth behind the Smoking Man, as Jeffrey Spender’s father.

Once again, Mulder had Smoking Man dead to rights with a gun to his head and did not kill that MFer. I want Smoking Man dead so badly. Again, the performance of William B. Davis as the Smoking Man is tremendous as he brings out the bloodthirsty nature of the audience.

Smoking Man also shoots and kills his own son in the offices of the X-Files at the end of “One Son.” Speaking of betrayal, CSM indicated that between Bill Mulder and him, only one of them had a son they could be proud of. What a dirt bag. This two-parter does a decent job of giving Spender a respectful, if not heroic, send off, as he spoke to Kersh about getting Mulder and Scully back to the X-Files, taking the responsibility for the deaths of the episode.

The alien story, which included alien invasions and colonization, hybrid human/aliens, rebel aliens, black oil, vaccines and sacrifices. It is fairly convoluted and I am still not sure exactly whose on the right side. However, it does set the show up to move in a different direction after this major piece of the mythology is brought to an end.

I hate Diana Fowler too, though I am not sure I am supposed to hate her. For now, I find her to be a rotten character who is in cahoots with the Smoking Man.

According to Wikipedia, this two-parter was written in part because Chris Cooper expected season six to be the final season of the show and was designed to give some answers to the series’s show-long mysteries.