I watched a re-run of X-Files last night, the one where CSM takes Scully on a joyride promising to give her a cure to all of life's illnesses at the end. I watched it because the first time 'round it left me confused.

This time I noticed two things of interest:

One, Mulder has a fish tank. I've never noticed his fish tank before. Why is that important? Because in that funky zen-like episode directed by Gillian Anderson, at the end when I saw the fish tank, I just assumed that they were at Scully's place, but apparantly they were at Mulder's (I could be wrong here). Suddenly, the possibility that Mulder was asleep in his own bed and not Scully's, as I had previously believed, makes the opening of that episode much less suggestive, and steals away some of the credence from the "Scully's having Mulder's baby" theory.

Two, that scene where Scully's asleep in the car when she and CSM arrive at their destination. Instead of waking her up, he puts on a pair of gloves and leans over to brush her hair out of her face. Next scene, Scully wakes up the next day in a strange bed in a strange pair of pyjamas. She accuses CSM of drugging her, but he swears he didn't and that he merely tried to be helpful by making her comfortable. Suuure.

So I'm thinking that Cancer Man has something to do with her pregnancy. Whether he did it the old-fashioned way while she was asleep (can I just say, Eew?), or some more high-tech, indirect method, I'm betting he's got a lot more to do with putting the bun in Scully's oven than Mulder does.

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Update on the car: It was the starter, and my brother fixed it. Yay for big brothers!