The search for the son Scully gave up for adoption sixteen years prior is the subject of this episode, but somehow I think the story took a massive leap of faith making the connection she was looking for. Apparently there were shared visions between them, but in a country with over three hundred million people, she and Mulder zero in on the very house where Jackson Van De Kamp (Miles Robbins) lived with his parents, both slain by agents hunting down William as well, as part of a story line set in motion with the first episode of Season Eleven. In retrospect too, the Peter Wong (François Chau) connection felt manufactured and forced. If William now knows who Scully is, his real birth mother, why carry on the hide and seek game? For the longest time I've made use of the Malcolm X saying 'If you don't stand for something you'll fall for anything', but never knew it was attributed to him until this episode. It might be a good watchword for the writers of the series, as they've been stringing us all along now for a quarter of a century.
Review of Ghouli
