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I felt a dawning sense of horror and recognition while watching the final minutes of the “My Struggle III.” At its core, The X-Files has always been about structural violence, trauma, and violence against women. Throughout the episode, Scully’s not active in her own story, she’s acted upon. When she returns to the hospital, Mulder has to save her after she’s attacked. Upon discharging herself from the hospital, she collapses once in her office and then again while driving, causing her to crash her car. Scully spends the beginning of “My Struggle III” in a medical coma. “My Struggle III” closes with Cigarette Smoking Man, the show’s unkillable antagonist, revealing that he impregnated Scully “with alien science” so he could be the biological father of a child with an immunity that will save the world-or at least his “chosen few.” Scully was just an incubator to the Cigarette Smoking Man, and Mulder’s sentiment is as trite and meaningless as Mulder himself. In light of The X-Files’ Season 11 premiere, this exchange now evokes a horrible frisson of irony. “You’re never ‘just’ anything to me, Scully,” Mulder replies. “When I was pregnant, when I had my baby-was I just an incubator?” Special Agent Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) asks her partner, Fox Mulder (David Duchovny), in the penultimate episode of The X-Files’ 10th season.