The X-Files’ Closure Is About More Than Samantha’s Ending

The mystery of what happened to Samantha Mulder is the most important plotline in X-Files-2016-movie-posters/”>The X-Files.

At the tender young age of eight she vanished from her family home in Martha’s Vineyard, ostensibly abducted by aliens.

The only witness was her brother, a young Fox Mulder, and experiencing such a traumatic event instigates his lifelong obsession with the paranormal, so he can discover the truth about her disappearance.

When we’re introduced to his adult version in the form of David Duchovny, he’s spent twenty years searching for proof of extraterrestrial life – a pursuit that had led the FBI profiling golden boy to take a job in the far less prestigious X-Files division, where he is eventually put under the watchful eye of Agent Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson).

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