 While the writers kept "playing" with the idea of Mulder's loss of faith, executive producer Frank Spotnitz admits that fans never seemed to accept this turn of events and they refused to see the Cigarette Smoking Man victorious.Reflecting this main plot of the episode, the tagline for "Redux" is changed to "All Lies Lead to the Truth".Another important facet of the episode deals with Scully's cancer and remission.