This is probably a direct result of the alien technology that was used to create an alien/human hybrid that would survive the black oil (known as Purity) in the impending global viral holocaust. Marjorie had the same chip implanted " En Ami". The Cigarette Smoking Man took Scully to see the 118-year-old Marjorie Butters, who looked very healthy at such old age. It was also hinted that Scully may have obtained her immortality from the chip that was implanted in her neck. This would suggest that Scully or Mulder had been fated to not die. The day finally continues only after Scully and Mulder survive the episode. The reason that is suggested in the episode for this ultimate deja vu is that what is supposed to happen by fate is not what has been observed, to include Mulder and Scully's death. In another episode, " Monday", Scully and Mulder are repeatedly killed in an explosion but eventually survive because the day keeps replaying which allows them to change the events that take place leading up to their demise.
Fellig's age can be extrapolated by using his reference to the Yellow Fever epidemic in New York City (1791-1799) as a child. Fellig, at the time of his death, was approximately 200 years old, and his death was by his choice alone. Mulder suggested that Fellig took her place in death, which if true, suggests she is now immortal, as Fellig was. Scully recovered fully, but Fellig died instead. Scully was accidentally shot by her new temporary partner, but before she died, Fellig asked her to look away. Fellig told Scully he saw Death come for him once but missed it took someone else instead. Scully investigated Alfred Fellig, a crime scene photographer who claimed to have the ability to predict when people would die. The immortality thread was again mentioned in " Tithonus". The Ouroboros is an ancient symbol symbolizing immortality and the cyclic nature of the Universe.Īlfred Fellig transferring his life-giving power to Scully, taking her place for death. In the episode " Never Again", Scully got a tattoo of an Ouroboros. When Scully asks Bruckman how she is going to die, he smiles and replies, " You don't." Mulder and Scully investigate a man ( Clyde Bruckman) who can predict how people are going to die. The earliest known reference to this occurs in Season 3, during the episode " Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose".
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There are hints given throughout the series that Scully may actually be immortal. Immortality Ĭlyde Bruckman telling Scully that she will not die. ( T he X-Files: I Want to Believe) The occasional discrepancies in Scully's beliefs could be blamed on The X-Files episodes having many authors, each understanding the character in his own particular way. Her position in 2008 as a medical doctor at the Catholic Our Lady of Sorrows Hospital in suggests she has found a way to reconcile the two. Scully's faith and scientific rationalism often appear to run along two parallel courses, science being a matter of the head, faith a matter of the heart. It is unclear whether Scully fully believes in Catholicism or not and she repeatedly battled internally with this she has regularly expressed scientific ideas that come in contradiction with the Christian faith and vice versa. When phenomena relating to Christianity came up during Scully's investigations with Mulder, she was usually rather credulous while Mulder was typically the cynical one, often suspecting religious fraud. A copy of the Holy Bible was in Scully's bedroom - ( O rison). She later attended church services at his church - ( A ll Souls). When death seemed near, she broke down and asked the priest to minister to her faith - ( G ethsemane, R edux, R edux II). While fighting cancer, Scully refused spiritual guidance from Father McCue.
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Scully once spoke to a priest at a confessional, saying, " It has been six years since my last confession." The conversation indicates that Scully had to come full circle to find the truth, from faith to skepticism and back to faith. When Mulder discovered Scully's cross necklace in Duane Barry's car, he was surprised to see she wore it, considering her skeptical nature - ( A scension). It would seem that Scully embraced Christianity as a youth but, in her own words, lost her faith "in a way" and "drifted from the church" as she became a scientist, influenced by the scientific community's materialistic views. Scully working as a medical doctor at the Catholic Our Lady of Sorrows Hospital.ĭana Scully is a skeptic who favours scientific methods but she also was raised a Catholic and could often be seen wearing a small golden cross around her neck, a Christmas gift from her mother at a young age.
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