In season 10 of The X-Files there were only two episodes worth keeping: Glen Morgan's excellent "Mulder and Scully Meet the Were Monster" and James Wong's "Founder's Mutation". The latter episode began to address (in Wong's typical unsettling fashion) the series' biggest dangling truth by asking what was the cause and effect of Scully's miracle pregnancy in Seasons 7-8. The promise of "Founder's Mutation" is followed up in in Wong's written and directed Season 11 installment wherein Scully is suffering from waking visions of an elusive shadowy figure she believes to be the grown son she gave up for blind adoption 16 years ago. Those visions call her and Mulder to the site of an apparent Monster of the Week attack involving two teenage girls, each convinced they are doing battle with a multi-limbed, mucus-covered, toothy creature named Ghouli. Soon however, it becomes apparent that nothing is what is seems as a young man who bears a striking resemblance to the shadowy figure in Scully's visions emerges as a central figure in an attempted cover-up by the Department of Defense and the Cigarette Smoking Man of a discontinued eugenics experiment called Crossroads. Anderson is her usual brilliant self as a guilt-ridden, bereft mother trying too late to reconnect to the child she gave up long ago. Duchovny's performance is restrained yet pivotal as he investigates the young man whose interests, attitudes, and behavior bear a striking resemblance to his own.
