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Starting Sunday, six new episodes will reunite Mulder, played
by David Duchovny, and Scully, portrayed by Gillian Anderson.
The pair spent nine seasons investigating cases involving
government cover-ups, unidentified flying objects and "monsters"
stemming from folklore.
From 1993 to 2002 the series followed Mulder, a dogged believer
in extraterrestrial existence and unexplained phenomena, and
Scully (Gillian Anderson), a skeptic with a medical degree, who
tried to debunk her partner's theories.
The series ended with the two on the run as an alien invasion
threatened human existence.
As the pair reunite, the years have taken a toll. Scully is a
surgeon, while a depressed Mulder has isolated himself from the
world. They are not in a relationship, and neither is in the FBI
any more.
The world, meanwhile, has only served up more unexplained
phenomena, said series creator Chris Carter.
"Conspiracy has gone mainstream," Carter told Reuters. "We've
got a government who admits to spying on us, so we are in a
brave new world of sorts."
In the new series, an Internet-based conspiracy theorist piques
Mulder and Scully's interest with a young woman who says she has
been abducted numerous times. The culprits might not be little
green aliens, but rather, a human conspiracy.
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"It actually tests Scully's faith in science being able to explain
everything as it always has," Carter said. "It lights a fire under
Mulder. I think that it not only reignites the series, but the quest
of the two characters."
Carter said "The X-Files" could continue as a limited series,
pending ratings and Duchovny and Anderson's respective schedules as
both have had success post "X-Files."
The "X-Files" finale in 2002 coincided with a shift in people's
perceptions of the U.S. government in a post-9/11 world, Carter
said.
"The idea that the government was conspiring against us was
contradictory to what people wanted to believe, which is that the
government could protect us," Carter said.
But in 2016, conspiracy theories still run rife on the Internet and
UFOs still perplex people.
"I believe that we are all interested in the supernatural, whether
it be faith, or science," Carter said.
(Reporting by Piya Sinha-Roy; Editing by David Gregorio)
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