"Emily", the follow-up to last week's episode "Christmas Carol", ended the mystery surrounding young Emily Sim. A child who DNA-wise is one the daughters of Agent Scully. This episode, like the previous one, has tremendous acting by Gillian Anderson. Anderson touched viewer's hearts with her believable show of emotion and her love for a dying child. Personally, I loved the scene where Scully lays down beside Emily right before she dies. This wonderful acting was enhanced by the fantastic selections of music by Mark Snow.
Below, are a few quotes from the episode and the ratings submitted by XFEOS members. They are followed with the comments and opinions on "Emily".
Mulder: "I found Emily's surrogate mother...Her mother-of-record is one Anna Fugazzi."
Scully: "Fugazzi?"
Mulder: "Yeah. As in slang term for fake."
Scully: "I don't understand. Why create a false record?"
Mulder: "Because there are no true records. Emily didn't come into this world through any system that keeps them."
Scully: "Well, she was born to someone. She had to belong to someone."
Mulder: "Some who's proven that they'll do anything to protect her or their interest in her."
Mulder: "No matter how much you love this little girl, she is a miracle that was never meant to be, Scully."
Judge: "Help me out here. Does F.B.I. stand for Federal Bureau of Imagination? Am I to understand that you partner, along with a dozen women from Allentown, Pennsylvania were abducted by employees of our federal government?...And you found evidence that during this time she was subjected to a series of experiments were, you say, they extracted her ova?"
Mulder: "But the fact remains that Ms. Scully is the mother of this child."
Judge: "Not in any legal definition."
Mulder: "If you could show me a legal precedent for this case, I'd like to see it. Dana has known for quite some time that she can't bear children. She hasn't known why. Now however that happened, the fact that she can adopt this child--her own flesh and blood--is something I don't feel I have the right to question and I don't believe anybody has the right to stand in the way of."
Scully: "Why didn't you tell me, Mulder."
Mulder: "I never expected this. I thought I was protecting you."
Scully: "Why would they do this to me?"
Mulder: "I only that genetic experiments were being done, that children were being created."
Mulder to Dr. Calderon: "Abducting women, stealing their unborn children! Medical rapists, that's all you are!"
Ms. Chambliss: "Miss Scully, I'm going to say something to you and I don't want you to take this the wron way, but I don't think that you are capable right now of responding with any clinical ability."
Scully: "Do you think I don't want what's best for this child? Do you think that I'm not trying to save her life?"
Chambliss: "I'm not the ultimate authority here, but you don't have the authority either over this child or her future."
Scully: "You can get a court order and you can try to enforce it, but I suggest that if your job is to do what's best for this child, you do everything in your capabilities to tell the authorities that if they take Emily out of this hospital, they are going to hasten her illness. And I'm going to make it know that all of you are responsible."
Mulder: "Dou you know anything about pharmaceuticals?"
Frohike: "Medicinal or recreational?"
Scully: "[Emily's] gone into a coma. I'm okay, Mulder. It's what's meant to be."
Scully: "Who are the men who would create a life whose only hope is to die?"
Mulder: "I don't know. But that you found her and you had a chance to love her, then maybe she was meant for that, too."
Scully: "She found me ."
Mulder: "So you could save her."
Scully nods her head 'yes'.
Average Rating 8.8
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