 According to executive producer Frank Spotnitz, "Redux" posits a number of reasons for Scully's recovery, including standard medical treatment, divine intervention engendered by faith, or the chip that the Cigarette Smoking Man offers up.A clear-cut answer is never really provided, which John Shiban claims was intentional, as they wanted to leave it open to interpretation.According to Carter, this entire plot took "the idea of the show" and spun it "in the most interesting way".