 It was viewed by 24.84 million people.Part of the reason "Redux I" was so widely viewed was because the show's previous episode, "Gethsemane", had created speculation about whether or not Mulder was actually dead.An article in "The Wall Street Journal" discussed fan theories behind Mulder's madness, while a cartoon ran in "The New Yorker" a few weeks later surrounding Mulder's "death".