'The X-Files' Season 11 Spoilers, News: Episode 1 to 5 Titles, Summaries Leaked; Cast Promises Show's Return to Form
Fans can count on "The X-Files" to return to its "quintessential" form that they loved when it hits the small screen with season 11.
In a brand-new featurette, Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny, who play the roles of Scully and Mulder respectively, teased that the issues in the first attempt to revive the series have been sorted out. As the latter promises:
We're better set up to get back to the partnership and the banter that comes with that.
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Last month, creator Chris Carter acknowledged the mixed reception of the show's return last year. He says that the previous season simply allowed them to get back to the old way of things.
We [relaunched] from a standing start after not having been on the air for 12 years — there was some reacquainting that had to be achieved. It was like old friends getting back together. We had to shake some of the stiffness out. I think that we're all in fighting shape now.
Much of the familiarity will of course be owed to the return of more original players including the Cigarette Smoking Man played by William B. Davis and FBI Assistant Director Walter Skinner portrayed by Mitch Pileggi.
On "The X-Files" season 11 featurette, the latter gushed about Duchovny and Anderson's "ridiculous" chemistry and the "absolutely amazing stories" that Carter and his team of writers come up with.
As the wait for the new season shortens, the titles and descriptions for the first five episodes were leaked. Unsurprisingly, "The X-Files" season 11 premiere is titled "My Struggle III," which will address the cliffhanger in the season 10 finale. The summary reads:
Picking up after the last event series' cliffhanger, Mulder and Scully learn that they aren't the only ones desperately searching for their long-lost son, William. The very fate of the world may depend on it.
"The X-Files" season 11, episode 2 is titled "This" and focuses on an "old friend" who reaches out to Mulder and Scully "in a seemingly impossible way" and reveals a "chilling secret."
Episode 3, which is titled "Plus One," will see Mulder and Scully investigate "a spate of deaths, in which the victims were plagued by their own doppelgangers" and a pair of twins "playing a dangerous game" could be causing it all.
"The X-Files" season 11, episode 4 is titled "The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat," and is the installment written and directed by veteran Darin Morgan.
This highly anticipated episode will give Mulder and Scully the chance to uncover "how the X-Files themselves may really have originated" as they explore the idea of The Mandela Effect, "in which large groups of people remember an alternate history."
"The X-Files" season 11, episode 5 will be "Ghouli," which brings the focus back to William:
When a pair of teenage girls attack one another, each believing the other to be a monster, Mulder and Scully find that their investigation could possibly lead back to their long-lost son, William.
"The X-Files" season 11 premieres Wednesday, Jan. 3, at 8 p.m. ET on FOX.
