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“Home Again”

The fourth episode of the short tenth season was very eventful, especially for Scully. Scully’s mother died and opened up a whole bunch of questions for Scully, many of which led to Scully wondering about her son, William, whom she had given away at the end of season 9 to protect him.

Gillian Anderson was powerful with er performance in this episode as he was dealing with the loss of her mother and the fresh memories of her loss of William.

The case that they were working on prior to Scully receiving the phone call about her mother was one that did not work as well for me. These scenes were just not as powerful as the ones that Scully was directly involved with. It was meant to give Scully some more questions about William and served that purpose, but did not have the kind of meat that the Scully scenes had.

I know that the series goes into the William storyline much more moving forward and episodes like these show how crushing it was for Scully. Mulder is always quiet and supportive, but you can tell from his facials that he is every bit as in pain as Scully is.