The X-Files - The Official Collection, Issue 1

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by Natalie Clubb


  “William”

  audience thinking, “Well, where’s the

  “Never Again”

  A disfigured Jeffrey Spender makes

  baby and why isn’t she home with

  Feeling low, Scully gets herself a

  Scully realize that she must give up

  him?” And if she is with the baby the

  new tattoo, and seeks solace with

  baby William for his own safety.

  Ed Jerse – who has a rather bizarre

  fans are going, “We want her out in the

  tattoo of his own.

  field. We don’t want her home with the

  baby.” It was a very fine balance they

  had to play.

  David and Kim (Manners) and Chris

  Speaking of kids, how excited is your

  be directing something. I guess I didn’t

  (Carter). I think my body is going to keep

  daughter Piper about the likelihood of

  realize how much I was missing him

  expecting to do something familiar that

  having you home more often?

  and how integral he was [to the show],

  it’s not going to have an opportunity to

  Well, she’s not necessarily going to have

  and I didn’t realize that we needed his

  do. I’ll have the hiatus and then come July

  me back home. She’s going to be doing

  presence to make a necessary closure.

  it will kind of feel like, “Well, something’s

  a lot more traveling is what she’s going

  supposed to happen now, right? I’m

  to be doing.

  You and David started on this journey

  supposed to go on a sound stage.” So

  I don’t know what she’s feeling right

  together. How differently do you think it will be interesting to watch how it now. I mean, we’ve had a couple of

  you might feel if he didn’t come back

  transpires in my body and in my psyche.

  conversations about it and she’s just at

  to close things out?

  that age right now where she’s starting

  I don’t think I would have known that

  Would you even for a second consider

  to understand what it is that Mommy’s

  until the very end when I would have

  jumping into another TV series?

  been doing for her lifetime. And I think

  thought, “Well, wait a minute. This isn’t No, I’m just done. Please, it’s been nine she has, for the first time, a bit of a

  right. This isn’t right.” I’m very glad

  years. There are so many other things to

  romantic view of what that is, and I’m

  that the show is completely ending

  do, so many other things not even in the

  trying to break that down as quickly

  now because I have a feeling that, even

  business that I want to do… and in the

  as possible!

  though I would have mourned to a

  business, but in other ways. Eventually,

  certain degree in saying goodbye, it

  after I do some features, maybe if HBO

  How do you feel about David coming

  wouldn’t have been as clean. I feel like

  asks me to direct something, I might do

  back for the finale?

  we have an opportunity now to really tie that. But there are so many things I want I think it’s great. I didn’t realize how

  it up in a whole and constructive way.

  to do first.

  important it would be for that to

  happen. When I heard I was very

  What will you miss most about The

  How about the next X-Files feature?

  excited and he called me and we had

  X-Files?

  Well, there’s one that they’re hoping to

  a conversation about the fact that he

  There are many, many things that I’m

  do in the next couple of years. That I

  was coming back and possibly going to

  going to miss. I’m really going to miss

  would definitely do.

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  Gillian Anderson

  Any concerns about ending the show

  experiences in Hollywood make you

  room otherwise. And so I don’t have that

  now and then having to turn up on the

  think the same way?

  experience very much. I generally work

  set of an X-Files feature a year or so

  I don’t trust anybody. I don’t trust

  with and get into business with people

  down the road?

  anybody in Hollywood or Ohio. No,

  who are very on the line and honest and

  No. I’ve got a lot of stuff that I’m going

  that’s not true.

  straightforward.

  to be doing between now and then

  that will be feeding me creatively in

  But does working in this business, if

  You’re currently gearing up to do a play

  completely different ways. So when an

  nothing else, make you more cynical?

  and a movie. What can you tell us about

  X-Files film eventually presents itself, it

  Probably, I think. It’s interesting, because

  those two projects?

  will feel more like a reunion, I think, than

  what I’ve heard about that aspect of the

  I optioned something that I’m going to

  something to dread or be afraid of.

  business is much more devastating than

  adapt and direct eventually. Hopefully I

  my experience. Because I don’t tolerate

  can start writing over the summer. It’s a

  Chris was asked about the meaning of

  that, and I don’t behave in that way

  book called Speed of Light, by Elizabeth

  the tagline “Trust no one,” and he said,

  with people, I have a tendency to bring

  Rossner (see boxout). It’s a beautiful little

  to paraphrase, “I live in Hollywood,

  people into my experience who do not

  book. But I’m not sure when I’m going

  I work in Hollywood.” Do your

  behave that way, because there’s no

  to be able to get to that. I’m looking for

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  THE SPEED OF LIGHT

  Written by Elizabeth Rossner, this debut novel sees the adult children of a holocaust survivor learn about grief, forgiveness and the power of bearing witness from a Latina housekeeper who has also been victimized by government-sponsored genocide. Together, they overcome the tragedies of the past to reconnect with one another and the world around them.

  Late last year, Gillian Anderson put up her own money to option the novel which she will adapt to make her feature directorial debut now that The X-Files is over.

  Gillian Anderson

  “Directing was a transformative experience for me, one that I really enjoyed,” Anderson told Variety last year. “Then when I picked up this book and started reading the poetry of her words, I found myself trying to visualize where the camera should be, the colors of the characters, the texture of the shots. It felt so intimate and natural, like I wrote it myself. I took the steps to option it, something I’d never done before. It’s a beautiful piece that needs to see the light of day and hopefully I can do it justice.”

  different film projects for the summer and

  then I’m going to do a play in London in

  October and then maybe a feature after

  that. Or I might take a little time off. The

  play is a new Michael

  Weller
(show) and it’s called What the

  Night Is For.

  How full an experience has this show been

  for you? You started as a young unknown

  and you’re leaving as a mature woman

  and famous and respected actress.

  The fact of the matter is that I grew up

  during the course of this show. I started

  when I was 24 and ended at almost 34.

  That’s almost a third of my life. I was

  young and naïve and impressionable and

  didn’t have a clue about the business

  or anything at that time. Then, to grow

  up and to make mistakes along the way

  and to experience my life while trying to

  be somebody else (Scully) and try to be

  something other than myself for 18 hours

  a day was an interesting task. I also was

  doing that very publicly. So, as I’ve said,

  it’s been… surreal.

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  Dana Scully

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  Dana Scully

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  Dana Scully

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  Dana Scully

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  F.B.I. Checklist

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  F.B.I. Checklist

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  Who’s The Boss

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  Who’s The Boss

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  Walter Skinner

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  Walter Skinner

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  Walter Skinner

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  Walter Skinner

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  Walter Skinner

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  Walter Skinner

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  Robert Patrick

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  Robert Patrick

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  Robert Patrick

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  Robert Patrick

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  Robert Patrick

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  Robert Patrick

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  Robert Patrick

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  Annabeth Gish

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  Annabeth Gish

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  Annabeth Gish

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  Annabeth Gish

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  Annabeth Gish

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  Annabeth Gish

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  Mulder’s Apartment

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  James Pickens

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  James Pickens

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  James Pickens

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  James Pickens

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  Chris Owens

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  Chris Owens

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  Chris Owens

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  Chris Owens

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  Jolie Jenkins

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  Jolie Jenkins

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  How to be the next agent Mulder

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  How to be the next agent Mulder

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  Guide to solving an X-File

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  Guide to solving an X-File

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  and prevent subversive activities throughout

  the rest of World War II and the Cold War

  era. With the 1940 passage of the Smith

  Act, which criminalised advocating the

  violent overthrow of the U.S. government,

  the FBI was able to convict members of the

  Communist Party of America while riding a

  high tide of public approval.

  o regain some of its once-great

  stature, the FBI has made a number

  of important changes in protocol.

  The Director of the FBI has a limited term

  of office to avoid the kind of lifelong

  authority Hoover, who served as director

  for almost 50 years, held. Freedom of

  Information Act amendments have opened

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  FBI records to the public. The FBI hires and

  Cogswell attributes the success to current

  promotes more women and minorities. In the

  Director Freeh.

  wake of the lives lost in stand-offs at Ruby

  Ridge, Idaho, and Waco, Texas, Director

  “[Freeh] really refocused the use of agent

  Louis J. Freeh established the Critical Incident

  manpower, and he also developed the

  Response Group. Additionally, the bureau

  activity of core values and the integrity of

  maintains its role as the nation’s police force.

  “We are responsible now for well over

  200 federal violations, and that [includes]

  everything from kidnapping to bank robbery

  to cyber crime, which is certainly a new area

  for everybody to be involved in, and certainly

  it involves a national issue because of the ease

  with which people can access information

  or access other people’s records through a

  computer system,” explains Ed Cogswell, public

  affairs specialist for the FBI. “We have 56 field

  offices presently, and we have legal attaches

  assigned overseas in 23 countries now. And

  we’ve been doing training now with former

  Eastern Bloc countries of the Soviet Union. We

  have a training facility in Budapest where we

  actually are training law enforcement officers

  in investigative techniques and procedural

  matters and legal matters.

  “Certainly, we have a larger concentration

  the investigative process,” Cogswell says. “So

  in counter terrorism activities,” Cogswell

  I think that he’s really turned it around in

  continues. “We saw some bombings in this

  terms of enjoying a better public image of

  country – the Oklahoma City bombing,

  the FBI.”

  the World Trade Center in New York. We

  also are looking at the issue of encryption,

  Much has changed since the agency’s glory

  which could significantly impair the ability

  years. The FBI’s had its fair share of high

  of law enforcement to conduct electronic

  periods and low periods, and the balance

  surveillance. That’s really needed in

  between the need for security and the

  racketeering investigations, corruptions

  preservation of civil liberties is still a concern.

  investigations, and organized crime

  But after 90 years, the bureau has been

  investigations.”

  streamlined to respond to current areas of

  concern, like health care, domestic terrorism

  Although some of the FBI’s more controversial

  and fraud. Technological improvements,

  methods, like electronic surveillance, cause

  including advances in DNA research, are used

  people to throw a cautionary glance in the

  as crime-solving tools in the FBI Laboratory

  bureau’s direction, most agree with Cogswell

  to aid in violent criminal apprehension. With

  that the greater good will be served. In fact,

  more than 11,000 special agents and 16,000

  public opinion regarding the FBI’s work

  support personnel, the FBI is ready to tackle

  seems to be on the upswing these days.

  the challenges of the next millennium.

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  Robert ressler

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  robert resseler

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  FBI Screen Idols

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  FBI Screen Idols

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  WILLIAM B. DAVIS

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  octor Who had the Master,

  Superman had Lex Luthor,

  Sherlock Holmes had Moriarty,

  and The X-Files has the Cigarette-

  Smoking Man. Resident bad guys,

  evil arch-enemies; these are the

  men we love to hate. And none of them come

  more mysterious and malevolent than Mulder

  and Scully’s nicotine-addicted nemesis.

  Always dressed in black, lurking in the

  shadows behind a cloud of smoke, with a

  seemingly limitless supply of Morley cigarettes

  never far from his lips, the Cigarette-Smoking

  Man is the ultimate man in black. He is

  a deceptively ordinary-looking, nameless

 

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