Emily
Nitcentral's Bulletin Brash Reflections: XFiles: Season Five: Emily
Scully asks Mulder to witness for her at the hearing for Emily Sim’s custody. The judge has trouble believing Mulder’s tale of Scully being abducted for her ova. Suddenly, Emily is taken ill, with a high fever and a green cyst in her neck. At the ER, one of the attending doctors is overtaken by fumes when Emily’s skin is punctured. Emily is a hybrid who was conceived to be a subject in a medical experiment. Dr. Calderon refuses to release Emily’s medical records to help treat Emily. Mulder follows Dr. Calderon to where he meets two other men in the conspiracy. He is killed with an stilletto, and the two other men morph into reasonable likenesses of Dr. Calderon.

Emily is diagnosed with a fast-growing infection. One of the fake “Dr. Calderon” sneaks into the hospital where Emily is, and gives her an injection. At first, the injection seems to be helping Emily. Scully suspects that “someone” wants Emily to remain alive so the tests can be continued. Meanwhile, at a nursing home, Mulder finds elderly women being subjected to experiments and a hybrid fetus.

Scully stays at Emily's side as the little girl gets sicker, and falls into a coma. Finally, Emily dies. All of the evidence of Dr. Calderon’s work is covered up. At the funeral service, when Scully opens her daughter's casket, all she finds is grains of sand and her cross necklace.

(synopsis written by Jo-Hanna Goettsche)
By Chris Booton on Monday, December 21, 1998 - 2:36 pm:

Why is it that the doc's who take samples on Emily's blood before have no problem with it, and only after Mulder expresses concern over her blood being toxic that the doctor about to do the test gets nearly killed by it?

By Omer on Tuesday, December 22, 1998 - 12:11 pm:

How do the bad guys destroy the evidence at the end? Mulder's right there and watching. Where did al the old people disappear?

I nominate the opening monologe as the single worse scene in the X-Files that wasn't in Musings of A Cigarette Smoking Man

By Anonymous on Tuesday, December 22, 1998 - 10:31 pm:

Musings is one of the best character-driven piece of the series. It's a brilliant exploration of a man, showing the underscore of how one part of our life can affect another. And the cynical paraphrasing of the "box of chocolates" line from Forrest Gump is a truly great moment.

By K.n.d. on Monday, December 28, 1998 - 5:35 pm:

I liked the monologue.

By annelies mariano on Tuesday, May 25, 1999 - 8:28 am:

Just a thought: it occurred to me, while watching this episode for the nth time. Mulder finds another fetus in the lab where the senior citizens are getting "beauty treatment." The fetus is labelled as Scully's. Does this mean that Scully's second child (or even a third and fourth) might make an appearance in the seventh season?

By AWhite (Inblackestnight) on Friday, August 01, 2014 - 9:36 am:

Chris: Why is it that the doc's who take samples on Emily's blood before have no problem with it, and only after Mulder expresses concern over her blood being toxic that the doctor about to do the test gets nearly killed by it?
Not only that, but if you're about to cut on someone, even a simple biopsy, and a person who is speaking with the primary physician starts banging on the door would you really ignore him and proceed anyway?

Also, those little filter masks that loop around the ears wouldn't be enough protection from the toxic green blood.

The ending to this ep was far too 'neat' for my taste. The shape-shifting guys are able to clear out all the old people and equipment without a trace, despite Mulder being on the phone with the police when the detective gets killed and likely wouldn't have left until somebody else showed up.

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