emily files emily seventh episode fifth season american science fiction television series files written frank_spotnitz directed kim_manners episode explores series overarching mythology episode premiered united_states december fox network earning nielsen household rating watched million people initial broadcast received mixed reviews television critics centers fbi special agents fox mulder david_duchovny dana_scully gillian_anderson work cases linked paranormal called files mulder believer paranormal skeptical scully assigned debunk work episode scully fights protect daughter life mulder discovers true origins eventually discovered emily created scully abduction emily suffers infection subsequently dies emily second story began episode christmas carol young actress originally played emily terrified hospital setting episode sequel emily result producers recast role footage featuring including scene featured episode filming episode disrupted angry protested filming sites plot dream like sequence dana_scully gillian_anderson walks desert picks gold cross necklace ground continuing previous episode agent fox_mulder david_duchovny arrives hospital san_diego scully introduces emily mulder tells scully look emily case mother woman named slang fake true records emily came world mulder scully family attend meeting emily adoption mulder tells judge emily conceived scully taken abduction judge believe later scully receives cuts abruptly mulder head find emily safe coming fever find greenish emily neck later nurse needle green liquid comes causing ill emily appears unaffected mulder believes emily body chemistry seen alien human hybrids emily doctor works company called refuses transfer emily medical records prompting mulder rough later mulder follows leaves office scully imaging tests conducted emily goes kills stabbing neck alien men mulder follows leaves results emily tests suffering infection arrives hospital emily unknown green substance escapes scully believes continuing treatments murdered trying stop mulder follows clone building meets elderly woman nursing home doctor tells scully emily getting worse woman adoption agency arrives wants stop scully making decisions emily mulder connects names women nursing home recent finds treating emily badly placed oxygen chamber mulder finds medical records scully nursing home live chamber mulder finds entering soon arrives mulder confront attacks despite mulder warning shoots wounds cause green blood mulder quickly leaves building avoid affected blood mulder escapes mulder returns hospital emily gone coma days later emily died mulder visits scully funeral chapel telling recovering evidence nursing home gone evidence left emily body agents instead find sand bags coffin scully cross necklace previously given emily production young actress originally played emily terrified hospital setting episode result producers recast role footage featuring previous episode christmas carol director kim_manners recalls called said dead water pal little actress recast role started day replaced previously appeared episode millennium shooting schedule producers unable use gillian_anderson previous episode scenes resulting anderson double instead footage editing room building nursing home episode anti redevelopment protesters building converted complex result producers kept low profile removing files insignia clothing number arrived forcing police involved reception emily premiered fox network december episode earned nielsen rating share meaning roughly percent television equipped households percent households watching television tuned episode viewed million viewers episode received mixed reviews television critics critical episode christmas carol todd_vanderwerff gave episode wrote totally buy emily like large portions episode vanderwerff wrote positively scully scenes noting anderson found raw sense hope loss shots required critical episode plot arguing goes motions everybody getting worked little girl met concluded strongest grabs hold notion weakest turns episode x-files gave episode wrote overall episode strong previous installment largely shift depth character exploration earlier elements mythology emily good plot device terms conspiracy bit times like writers scully bit necessary unlike later mythology episodes manages avoid unnecessary new elements reviews decidedly mixed negative robert_shearman lars_pearson book wanting believe critical guide lone gunmen rated episode stars wrote mulder catches store immediately little formulaic praised episode teaser referring prose critical plot arguing episode feels soon sequences people standing watch dying hospital reference earlier arc involving scully cancer shearman pearson compliment performance anderson called finale scene wonderful paula_vitaris cinefantastique hand gave episode negative review awarded star heavily criticized episode characterization noting episode opening sequence revelations blue vitaris reasoned scully spent time mother remembered sister faith god development doesn track vitaris criticized mulder antics calling beating unarmed man kicking
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