Why did Scully give up her baby?

Scully muses over Spender's words and decides that the only way to truly protect William is to give him up for adoption so that he may have a better life. The episode then jumps to the Van De Kamps, who tuck in their new son.
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Why did Scully give up her son?

At the end of the episode “William,” Scully gives her son up for adoption, hoping that getting him away from the X-Files would allow him to have a normal life. The series ended four episodes later, with William in another family's care.
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Who was the father of Scully's baby?

That Scully named baby William after Mulder's father seems odd as her own father and brother also had the first-name "William." So one can conclude that by stating William was named after Bill Mulder, Scully was acknowledging Mulder as the father of her baby.
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Did Scully give William up for adoption?

Due to his parents' jobs and the fact that he possessed supernatural abilities, William was in grave danger before he was even born — and a number of traumatic events preceded Scully's painful decision to give him up for adoption.
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Do Scully and Mulder have a kid?

In the seventh-season finale, "Requiem", Scully mysteriously became pregnant. The child, named William, after her own father, as well as Mulder's father, was born at the end of the eighth season.
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Why is Scully immortal?

She is informed by the 149-year-old immortal, Fellig, that he will live forever because, when he saw the grim reaper, he looked away. By the end of the episode, Scully turns her head from the bringer of death; if Fellig's theory and logic are accurate, doing this would make her immortal.
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Did the Smoking Man impregnate Scully?

But as viewers learned in the season 11 premiere, William was not biologically Mulder's son — he was CSM's, who drugged and medically impregnated an unwilling Scully. (CSM is also Mulder's biological father.)
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Does Scully adopt Emily?

Further tests revealed that the mysterious genetic matter that was released could actually be found throughout her body and was slowly but surely killing her with its expansion. Scully even attempted to adopt the girl, but was initially denied and ultimately unable to when Emily died.
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Is William Scully an alien?

Scully is told by the scarred man that William is part alien and that she is being used to raise the child. Monica Reyes (Annabeth Gish) and Doggett tell Scully that the man's DNA is a match to Mulder's, but Scully refuses to believe it.
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When did Mulder fall in love with Scully?

She falls in love with him around the end of season 1 after being swept up in his charm, brilliance and the adventure of his all consuming quest that only has room for two. She is so attached to him that in season 2 she makes all the effort to keep them together.
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Did Scully and Mulder marry?

“They were together but never married, so that was news to me,” said Carter, reminding fans where the series' second movie, 2008's The X-Files: I Want to Believe, left its two main characters.
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How did Scully get pregnant season 7?

He claims there are other women out there like Kath before he leaves. He calls Doctor Lev in the elevator to inform him about being called back into the FBI as they knew would occur. A flashback reveals that Mulder agreed to conceive a child with Scully through in vitro fertilization through Doctor Parenti.
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Are Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny friends?

Duchovny and Anderson aren't friendly, but they are respectful. So far, it seems like everything David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson have had to say about each other over the years has been negative. However, if you asked either actor at any point in time, you'd find that they have an underlying respect for each other.
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Why was Mulder abducted?

Fox Mulder's abduction was thus devised by Chris Carter towards the end of seventh season as a way of allowing the actor to leave the series.
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Are Mulder and William Brothers?

Your obvious spoiler warning is right now! "My Struggle III" featured the Smoking Man telling Skinner (Mitch Pileggi) that he impregnated Scully with William back in season seven's "En Ami" and he was the father. So, William is Mulder's half-brother, not son? Sort of.
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How did the Cigarette Smoking Man Survive?

For 14 years, the Cigarette-Smoking Man was thought to be dead, for good this time. Yet, apparently thanks to his vast connections, he was found and rehabilitated after "The Truth," ending up only with some severe scarring and facial prosthetics.
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What happened Gibson Praise?

After the trial, Gibson's whereabouts became unknown, though it is assumed that he was sent to safety by the government (TXF: The Truth).
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Is Skinner in love with Scully?

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Mitch Pileggi (the actor who portrays Skinner) admitted in a 2013 panel that Skinner was in love with Scully but knew he never had a chance with her, given her closeness with Agent Mulder.
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What happened Scully daughter?

In this episode, Scully fights to protect her daughter's life, while Mulder discovers her true origins. It is eventually discovered that Emily was created during Scully's abduction. Emily suffers from a tumorous infection and subsequently dies.
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Is the smoking man an alien?

A variation of the comic-book continuation was made canonical with The X-Files: Cold Cases, an Audible adaptation of the series set between the events of the ninth and tenth seasons of The X-Files, in which the Smoking Man presented in the series is revealed to be a shape-shifting alien imitating him.
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Does the smoking man love Mulder?

In early 1961, the Cigarette Smoking Man had an affair with Teena Mulder, and would father Fox — (The Truth). Although the CSM kept a close eye on Mulder over the years, Fox was raised to believe his father was William Mulder.
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Are Mulder and Scully together in season 11?

She smiles as Mulder holds her while they see their son, alive. Over the course of the season, they search for William. In the third episode of the "Plus One", Scully and Mulder are intimate again. In the season 11 finale, "My Struggle IV", she reveals to Mulder that she is pregnant with his child.
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How old was Scully in season 1?

Terry Gross asked how she got the job when she was 24, which is younger than most doctors. The actor replied: “Well, I lied. I lied about my age in the first audition, I said I was 27.”
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What happened to Scully's sister?

Scully lost her father in Season 1 to a heart attack, whereas her sister was killed as a side effect of the conspiracy.
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