Trivia for
"The X Files" Requiem (2000)

• Chris Carter wrote this episode to serve as a series finale, as the Fox Network had yet to renew the show, and David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson were not signed for additional seasons. In the eleventh hour, Fox renewed the show, with only Anderson returning to the series full time. Carter then created a new series mythology based around Scully working with new characters to stop government super soldiers.
  
  

• SPOILER: Thinking this would be the series finale, Chris Carter had planned to end the mythology storyline with the death of the Cigarette-Smoking Man (who is left for dead by Alex Crycek at the end of the episode), with the intention of tying up the remaining loose ends (Mulder's abduction and Scully's pregnancy) in a follow-up movie. However, since the show was renewed for two more seasons, CSM was revealed to be alive in the final episode of the series.
  
  

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