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Date Posted: 19:46:28 01/01/02 Tue
Author: Islandgirl
Subject: "all things"

I'm not sure exactly what's considered the acceptable cutoff for posting on the "old episodes" board. This post contains a vague reference to an ep near the end of season eight; if you live in a country where all the season eight eps haven't yet aired, and don't want to be spoiled, don't read this. Since we're already well into season nine here in the U.S. and Canada, I felt like this board was the best place for this discussion.
If you've been following my "Merry Christmas" post on the GD board, you'll know that I received "all things: the official guide to the seventh season of The X-Files" for Christmas. The guide answers one important question that pertains to the episode of the same name and which was very hotly debated on these boards one the ep first aired: Scully did *not* have sex with Dr. Waterson, the mentor from her college days. It says there were originally a few lines in the final scene (where Mulder and Scully are sitting on the couch together) where she explains that although there was a mutual attraction, she left before they crossed the line into an actual affair, but that she felt guilty nonetheless for letting it go even as far as it did. These lines had to be edited out, because the finished episode ran a couple of minutes longer than the acceptable length for an hour-long TV episode. (My guess is that CC, who so loves ambiguity, lobbied for those particular lines to be cut so as to deliberately leave viewers wondering about the exact nature of that relationship.)
As to the *REALLY* hotly debated question that arose from that episode - whether or not Mulder and Scully had made love between the time she fell asleep on the couch and the time she left him sleeping, naked, in his bed the next morning - the episode guide doesn't really provide a firm answer. It does actually *say* that he was naked in the bed, so I guess that provides a clue of sorts. As many of us pointed out when the ep first aired, we'd seen ample evidence in other eps (like the season six ep "Monday") that Mulder usually sleeps in pajama bottoms, so there was really only one logical explanation for him to be sleeping naked when Scully spent the night at his apartment!
In any case, I think "Requiem" at the end of season seven and, especially, (here's the S8 spoiler) "Existence" at the end of season eight, made it clear that Mulder and Scully *did* consumate their relationship at some point during season seven! And I'm glad to know that Scully, even as a college student, had enough morality and self-control not to become sexually involved with a married man!

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