The disappearance of Mulder's sister has without question been an underlying theme, and at some point Chris Carter would have to explain what exactly happened. This occurs at the end of the episode. I have a feeling since they were planning on having Mulder abducted at the end of this season, it was a good idea to wrap up what happened with Samantha. What makes "Closure" so powerful is that it is a true X-Files episode in every sense.
There is absolutely no humor involved at all. The first 3 seasons went mostly without humor, then as the characters developed in later seasons we began to see a lighter side to them. The Moby song at the beginning and at the end with a slow action on the "ghosts" was very good.
In the end, Mulder has his closure and makes his peace with what happened to Samantha. I think that fans having watched the series from the very beginning will enjoy this pivotal ending point to a question that has been asked since Season 1. I found the episode and its ending moving and appropriate. I was an avid watcher of the early X Files seasons when they first aired but for some reason I can't recall I stopped watching at a certain point around season 5.
I am now catching up on the full series despite knowing the show declined in its latter years. Which brings me to this episode from S7, "Closure'.
Reading the other reviews it seems that the episode has its fans but I'm not one of them. The mistake with the 'abducted sister' storyline was that it went on too long, as the production notes seem to indicate.
When you have Chris Carter telling DD that he'll only have to play this truth-seeking brother one last time due to his frustration with the whole extended saga, it doesn't bode well. The other mistake is that they conflated the alien mythos series storyline with a typical paranormal one in 'Closure'. A more prosaic resolution would have been best, I feel. So now it turns out that the clones of his sister Mulder had been chasing were not the real thing.
Certainly she had been used as a guinea pig for the hybridisation experiments but the truth of Samantha was that she had escaped the Cigarette Smoking Man and his home on the air force base, but was then taken to join the starlight children. Yes, you are reading that correctly. Trying to stitch up the alien plot with a paranormal one just doesn't work. We're told that these 'walk-ins' take children who have or are suffering. In that case, you have to wonder where these spirits were when the 24 dead kiddies killed by Santa Claus and buried in his backyard were suffering their fate.
Playing with the reindeer, maybe? Of course, we also get the spectral tipoff from beyond about where the bodies are. Even Mrs Mulder manages to tipoff Fox despite committing suicide and not actually joining the Starlight Foundation herself. All very strange. Probably the worst aspect of this silly storyline is the rank sentimentality of how it's filmed. Mulder gets lead by ghostly children towards the clues and then there is a final scene of him watching these star kids all happily playing together in the forest.
Pretty amateur. As awful as it would have been for Mulder to deal with, it probably would have been best to simply have something horrific but entirely earthbound happen to his sister - she died during experimentation, she was hit by a car after escaping, etc. He could mourn her loss but accept that in his brutal line of work, redolent with human-on-human savagery, this was the fate that befell her. I think it was clear at this point that Duchovny was tiring of the role and with story lines like this one you can see why.
Basically, after Samantha had run away from Smoking Mans home post abduction on the base, she ended up in hospital. She was taken into the 'starlight' by spirits to spare her the fate of continued experimentation. The the episode also fleshed out some of Smoking Man and his son Agent Spenders early history.
Very emotive music from an awesome track by Moby "My Weakness" from his album 'Play' , it certainly helped bring the season-spanning story arc to an emotional close.
I know this is being written almost 10 years after the episode aired and when I first watched it, but I've just seen it again on TV and felt compelled to look for other peoples understanding of what happened, and it's probably why your reading this now. For me one of the few good episodes of the worst X-Files season. A beautiful wrap to the story of Mulder's search for his sister.
I'm free. Fans of the X-Files have been waiting for this episode from the very first season, worrying for Samantha alongside of Mulder, wondering what had happened to her after all. In season 7, we all finally get closure. A random viewer might not get why people are praising this episode so much. It's important to understand that this is not just a random little ghost story, but the climax of a long, long search for the truth. And the structure of this episode is excellently built upon this thought.
I feel like everything was perfect about it. The writing, the acting especially Duchovny's improvisation that made the whole ending scene so much better , the music In the end, everyone needs to decide for themselves whether the conclusion of the story is to be understood metaphorically or not.
Either way, it is incredibly moving and easily one of the most dramatic and emotional pieces of TV history. There's so much brutal realism, so much tragedy and hope. Right after watching this episode I felt like my heart was getting ripped out, and the next evening, when I was laying in bed and thought of it again, the tears started rolling uncontrollably, and I'm an adult guy that doesn't easily get teary at all. That's because the X-Files are more than just a silly evening entertainment.
The lovable characters and the great story stimulate us to start thinking about our own lives, our own surroundings. And everyone capable of appreciating that is going to appreciate this episode too. I found this episode a beautiful conclusion to the Samantha story. Ok, it may of been less alien conspiracy orientated then I maybe was expecting, but it all makes sense how Samantha was abducted when she was little, returned at a later date to live with CGBS and to have been experimented on to the point where she is so fed up and tired that she wants to run away.
They both looked towards the window, where strange, strobing red, orange and blue lights began to flash and fill the room. While Samantha's brother was distracted by the sight of a seemingly alien figure that appeared through a doorway that opened, she was apparently lifted off her feet and enveloped by a tube of yellow light that continued to levitate her still body in mid-air, turned face upwards, as it slowly carried her through the window without breaking the glass and up into the sky where she entered into an alien spacecraft, never to be seen again.
Her brother tried to obtain a gun from a hidden case in the room, while she was floating through the air, but, despite his best efforts, he could not save his sister and, having earlier told her to "get out of [his] life" during their heated argument, he was left calling after her, moments before a white light engulfed the area.
Following this incident, Samantha was clone d several times. No notes, phone calls or evidence of anything was found, at this time. There were no facts to confirm and nothing to offer any hope. The fact that she could not be found ultimately tore the Mulder family apart and no-one would talk about her disappearance — P ilot.
Additionally, Samantha's mother subsequently had many sleepless nights. After her abduction, a huge investigation was organized in an attempt to find Samantha, using William Mulder's contacts in Washington. The investigation even went as far as to involve the Treasury Department. The search was called off by the Cigarette Smoking Man.
When he was still a boy, Fox Mulder had a ritual of closing his eyes before he walked into his room because he thought that, maybe one day when he opened them, his little sister would be there, simply lying in bed, like nothing had ever happened.
An X-File about Samantha's disappearance, initiated by her brother. Mulder personally initiated an X-File about his sister's disappearance, labeled X , and the file included the photograph of Samantha at a public swimming pool.
He came to believe that the unidentified force which had abducted his sister was extraterrestrial beings, but he could neither explain nor prove the experience and had only vague memories of it. Mulder built a fragile faith on these memories and, in , he claimed the belief had "sustained" him, fueling a lifelong quest for truths and answers that were as elusive as the memory itself.
In his research, Mulder worked very closely with Doctor Heitz Werber , who took him through deep regression hypnosis — P ilot. In , sessions were conducted on June 14 and 16, as well as on July 21, with the audio of each session being recorded — C onduit Mulder was apparently able to go into his own repressed memories to the night Samantha had disappeared.
He could seemingly recall a strange bright light outside his house, and an odd presence in the room before him appeared and stood only a few feet away.
And in that moment he had been suddenly paralyzed, unable to respond to his sister's calls for help — P ilot. On June 16, Mulder apparently recalled that his eyes were open but it was as if he was frozen in time. Despite his little sister's screams and cries, he was unable to assist her, as he was not able to physically move or leave the spot he was stuck in.
He recalls hearing a voice in his head of some unknown being telepathically saying that Samantha was not to be seriously harmed, and would even one day be returned. This is something he wanted to believe as it gave him hope. He forever clung on to this hope of finding his missing little sister or discovering her ultimate fate. Werber, to recall the night she had suddenly vanished. Amongst other details, he told Scully that his sister had simply disappeared out of her bed, one night, never to be seen again.
In , twenty-one years after Samantha had disappeared, Section Chief Scott Blevins questioned Scully about whether Samantha's disappearance might be involved in Mulder's reasoning for recently petitioning the FBI to permit himself and Scully to investigate the disappearance of Ruby Morris , a recent incident that had been reported in the media as an abduction.
Blevins presented Scully with the X-file that Mulder had opened about his sister's disappearance. When the Section Chief then asked Scully if Mulder had shared with her any details about the incident, Scully recalled that Mulder had claimed to have been in the room when it had occurred.
She also revealed to Blevins that Mulder had told her about his memories of the bright light outside the living rooms' window as well as some mysterious presence in that stood in the doorway. After Scully became convinced that their role in the search for Ruby Morris had come to an end while working on the case with Mulder, he refused to abandon the investigation, as he walked down a street, but Scully, following close behind him, urged him to stop running after his sister, advising him that his determination concerning their current investigation would not bring his sister back.
Although he momentarily stopped in his steps, Mulder continued working on the case with Scully, not only ignoring her advice but also convincing her to remain with the investigation, and later told her about his childhood ritual of closing his eyes before entering his room.
Shortly thereafter, Ruby Morris was returned. Following the agents' departure from the case, Scully reviewed the audio recordings of Mulder's regression hypnosis therapy as well as the X-file he had opened. He, meanwhile, sat on a pew in St. Mary's Cathedral, gazing at the photograph of himself with his long-lost sister, together at a swimming pool, and began to cry. While the agents were investigating the possibility that healer Samuel Hartley had murdered several people who had come to him to be healed in , Samuel was apparently able to recognize, when the agents questioned him in the aftermath of a bar brawl he had started, that Mulder had an old pain regarding a brother or sister, a pain that had never been healed.
Despite Scully doubting Samuel's demonstration of his supposed powers, he continued to announce his findings that Mulder's sibling had been a sister whom he had lost, when he was quite young, because someone had taken her away. Additionally, Samuel claimed he could see strangers and a bright light. He suggested that Mulder should have come to him earlier, claiming there was a chance he could have healed the FBI agent's pain.
Mulder was extremely interested in these claims but, as Sheriff Maurice Daniels prepared to take the healer into custody, Samuel told Mulder that he could no longer help the FBI agent because his gift was gone. After Samuel advised Mulder to be open to signs from God as the healer was being led away and, on the next day, Samuel was tried in a courthouse that was suddenly swarmed by grasshoppers, Scully asked Mulder whether Samuel's claims about his sister were connected to the reason he now believed that the swarm had somehow been caused by the healer.
Mulder did not directly answer Scully's question but instead tried to persuade her of his theory that Samuel was a genuine psychic healer. The tragic history of Samantha continues as "Closure" also reveals Mulder unearthing his sister's long lost diary, through Piller's help, which states that Samantha was eventually returned to Earth a few years after her abduction where she was further experimented on by the Cigarette Smoking Man at April Air Force Base.
Amidst the torture she endured , Samantha ran away from the base in and was brought in to Dominic Savio Memorial Hospital for self-inflicted wounds until one day she had vanished. The long mysterious road of Samantha's disappearance comes to a close when Mulder learns that upon witnessing Samantha's suffering, the fabled Walk-Ins transformed her into stardust -- leaving behind no evidence of a body and ultimately releasing the young girl of the pain she had been bearing.
After seven seasons and the enduring riddle of his missing sister finally behind him, Mulder at last finds his peace. The heartfelt episode provides a bittersweet sendoff to Samantha's case as Mulder encounters the spirit of his sister in the woods, along with other starlight children, as the two part ways indefinitely. As the driving force behind his desire to explore the world of the paranormal, the mystery of Samantha's abduction played an integral part in The X-Files , so by giving Mulder his freedom, both he and the audience ultimately receive their closure.
Here is the explanation to what exactly happened to Samantha Mulder. Mulder distinctly remembers witnessing her alien abduction when they were children. With the help of the paranormal phenomena detailed in the X Files , he believes he may be able to find her.
There are numerous twists and turns that lead to the discovery that Samantha Mulder is indeed deceased, years before Mulder joined the FBI.
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