If you are a fan of the X-Files then you already know David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson are reprising their iconic roles as Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. The first show premiered on January 24th, returning to its very familiar Sunday night spot. Hearing Mulder’s deep voice once again and seeing all the old case photos brought on a serious case of the goose bumps. When Mark Snow’s classic X-Files score came on, it was like going home again. I was transported back in time to being a young twenty-something, “watching X-Files with no lights on, we’re dans la maison, I hope the Smoking Man’s in this one.” I can’t believe that it has been 14 years since I cried my eyes out and said goodbye to the X-Files.

What you may not know is that despite nine seasons and 202 episodes: The truth is still out there! After two X-Files movies there is still plenty of mysteries to be solved and stories to be told. Chris Carter has once again managed to weave an amazing, yet somewhat believable tale that brings our dynamic duo back together again.

If you haven’t seen the episode yet please look away!

Current day we see Scully is busy doing her doctor thing, and Mulder is hold up in some shack with his walls covered in conspiracy theories. Not much has changed, thank god. Scully is looking good but seems somewhat hollow, Mulder looks scruffy as hell but he is still very much Mulder The two are once again drawn back together by a TV Show host who is claiming he has definitive proof, something that has always eluded them. This proof turns out to be a woman named Sveta who knows the agents from an old abduction case when she was a child. Since then she claims to have been abducted numerous times, and her memories of these abductions are coming back. She also claims to now have alien DNA, which Mulder is all too happy volunteering Scully to substantiate. Once again its good old fashion team work as Dana runs the boring DNA results, and Mulder gets to snoop around a top secret facility that that holds an ARV (Alien Replica Vehicle). Mulder always gets the coolest jobs.

Slowly we begin to see a complete design change in this so called alien conspiracy to colonize and take over the planet. Evidence is uncovered that it’s not at all the aliens that want to take over the world, but a secret society of men in black that have been hoarding alien technology for over 70 years. Ever since the famous Roswell crash of 1947. “Roswell was all a smoke screen,” says the mystery man to Fox, to which Mulder replies “so I’ve been told.” It is the typical X-Files style cloak and dagger mischief and mystery meetings at midnight, that once made this show a pop culture phenom. Mulder’s whole world is collapsing, in the span of one episode. Nine long years of investigations into the paranormal and a life time of obsession begin to come into question. Fox is once again borderline obsessed with his latest version of a government cover up, much to the dismay of pretty much everyone. The difference this time is the villains are just regular human beings using aliens as a diversion to try and take over the world. It is a little over the top even for Fox Mulder. He does give a very compelling speech as to the who, the why and how of it all. Leaving us all almost convinced yet again, I said almost! Now that Mulder finally has put all his alien non sense to rest, in walks Scully with those pesky DNA results. She drops a huge bomb on everyone that not only was Sveta correct about having alien DNA, she isn’t the only one. Dana too has had her DNA altered at some point.

Sveta has disappeared and with her the evidence. The secret organization is tying up loose ends, and they almost seem to have expected this, like its been done before. It’s actually Scully that makes the declaration; these people must be stopped once and for all. At this pivotal moment they get the mysterious call from FBI Assistant Director Walter Skinner, played by the amazing Mitch Pileggi. Fox Mulder and Dana Scully have been officially put back on duty. They are going to finish what they started all those years ago. Skinner isn’t the only surprise return from their past. As the show is getting ready to wrap up, we see the infamous “smoking” man. He’s somehow still alive and some what kicking; obviously involved in this conspiracy up to his breathing stoma. He has just gotten the news that trouble is brewing, and the X-Files have once again been re-opened. Cue the goose bumps once again!

For better or for worse the X-Files are back for these 6 episodes. They might be a little cliche and sentimental, but maybe that is just what we need right now. To go back to a time when we believed in the impossible, when anything was possible and the truth was still out there.