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I just finished watching all of The X-Files including Season 11. Warning, there are spoilers ahead. It may be customary to leave unanswered questions in this series but I’ve got ones that are bothering me.
I’m having a hard time accepting that Monica Reyes would turn on the human race, to the Smoking Man to save her own skin. Not the woman who faced down Mulder’s accusers at his mock trial. I feel like there’s more to her story. I’m guessing that it concerns John Doggett. Maybe Doggett was being held prisoner or hostage to insure Reyes’s cooperation? Maybe Doggett has a place in virtual space where he’s living the perfect life his wife and son, blissfully unaware that this continues only as long Reyes lights the Smoking Man’s cigarettes. Maybe John Doggett died because of a situation involving stupid, ignorant masses of people (hey, he’s done it before) and this changed Monica Reyes. She may have lost her faith in humanity, become more amenable to the Smoking Man’s plans.
This got me thinking about two of the other confidants the Smoking Man had entrusted with some of his secrets; Alex Krycek and Diana Fowley. All three of these confidants; Reyes, Krycek, and Fowley met the same fate. Two of them met it at the hands of the same man which made me wonder if the third wasn’t his victim as well. There is something apt about Alex Krycek getting shot in the head after shooting Diana Fowley in the head, but we don’t know who shot her, just that she was shot. It could have been the Smoking Man himself, but we don’t know. Viewers are open to speculate on who killed her. It doesn’t seem possible that Krycek and Reyes’s killer was also Fowley’s, but I’m still a bit shocked at how things went down with Reyes. Perhaps it’s possible.
Diana Fowley, Alex Krycek, and Monica Reyes were all F.B.I. agents whom became the Smoking Man’s spies and confidants. For a while I wonder if Monica Reyes wasn’t going to become for Dana Scully what Alex Krycek was once to Fox Mulder. What if all three of these confidants had extenuating circumstances? Monica Reyes seemed like a decent person once, an agent committed to the X-Files. What if Fowley and Krycek were as well? What if all three started with honorable intentions in the beginning? I speculated that Monica Reyes may have underwent a change because of John Doggett, perhaps even out of a desire to protect him. What if Fowley and Krycek underwent similar changes?
When I saw the movie The X-Files: I Want to Believe an idea came to me that one of the villains in the story was Alex Krycek’s little brother. What if Alex Krycek had a little brother? A little brother he wanted to protect by keeping as far from his life as possible, yet one of the reasons Krycek was open to the Smoking Man’s advances was a desire to protect him? Gradually Alex Krycek was corrupted, getting a taste for power and his mentor’s games, but there might have been honorable intentions in the beginning.
It’s easy to see honorable intentions in Diana Fowley’s past partnership with Fox Mulder and perhaps even in her choice to ally herself with the Smoking Man and turn collaborator. It’s possible Fowley did these things to protect Mulder himself, even if it meant betraying the X-Files. This would explain her statements to Mulder in The X-Files Season 6: One Son, that he couldn’t be more wrong in thinking she was his enemy. Perhaps she never was intentionally. Perhaps Mulder himself was the motivation for many of her shady actions.
Perhaps once upon a time Alex Krycek and Diana Fowley were as pure of intention as Monica Reyes once was. Walter Skinner worked with Reyes. They were among the group of agents who rescued Mulder from execution and the super soldiers. I can’t imagine Skinner not having conflicted feelings about what happened in The X-Files Season 11: My Struggle IV. I could see Skinner going back over Reyes’s old files, perhaps learning about her true motivations, what happened to Doggett. In the course of learning this, Skinner might unearth information about Alex Krycek and Diana Fowley as well.
It’s interesting to speculate about what drew the Smoking Man to these people in particular. Why did he choose them? Why did he choose to confide in them?
It’s one of the many things in The X-Files I wonder about.
I’m having a hard time accepting that Monica Reyes would turn on the human race, to the Smoking Man to save her own skin. Not the woman who faced down Mulder’s accusers at his mock trial. I feel like there’s more to her story. I’m guessing that it concerns John Doggett. Maybe Doggett was being held prisoner or hostage to insure Reyes’s cooperation? Maybe Doggett has a place in virtual space where he’s living the perfect life his wife and son, blissfully unaware that this continues only as long Reyes lights the Smoking Man’s cigarettes. Maybe John Doggett died because of a situation involving stupid, ignorant masses of people (hey, he’s done it before) and this changed Monica Reyes. She may have lost her faith in humanity, become more amenable to the Smoking Man’s plans.
This got me thinking about two of the other confidants the Smoking Man had entrusted with some of his secrets; Alex Krycek and Diana Fowley. All three of these confidants; Reyes, Krycek, and Fowley met the same fate. Two of them met it at the hands of the same man which made me wonder if the third wasn’t his victim as well. There is something apt about Alex Krycek getting shot in the head after shooting Diana Fowley in the head, but we don’t know who shot her, just that she was shot. It could have been the Smoking Man himself, but we don’t know. Viewers are open to speculate on who killed her. It doesn’t seem possible that Krycek and Reyes’s killer was also Fowley’s, but I’m still a bit shocked at how things went down with Reyes. Perhaps it’s possible.
Diana Fowley, Alex Krycek, and Monica Reyes were all F.B.I. agents whom became the Smoking Man’s spies and confidants. For a while I wonder if Monica Reyes wasn’t going to become for Dana Scully what Alex Krycek was once to Fox Mulder. What if all three of these confidants had extenuating circumstances? Monica Reyes seemed like a decent person once, an agent committed to the X-Files. What if Fowley and Krycek were as well? What if all three started with honorable intentions in the beginning? I speculated that Monica Reyes may have underwent a change because of John Doggett, perhaps even out of a desire to protect him. What if Fowley and Krycek underwent similar changes?
When I saw the movie The X-Files: I Want to Believe an idea came to me that one of the villains in the story was Alex Krycek’s little brother. What if Alex Krycek had a little brother? A little brother he wanted to protect by keeping as far from his life as possible, yet one of the reasons Krycek was open to the Smoking Man’s advances was a desire to protect him? Gradually Alex Krycek was corrupted, getting a taste for power and his mentor’s games, but there might have been honorable intentions in the beginning.
It’s easy to see honorable intentions in Diana Fowley’s past partnership with Fox Mulder and perhaps even in her choice to ally herself with the Smoking Man and turn collaborator. It’s possible Fowley did these things to protect Mulder himself, even if it meant betraying the X-Files. This would explain her statements to Mulder in The X-Files Season 6: One Son, that he couldn’t be more wrong in thinking she was his enemy. Perhaps she never was intentionally. Perhaps Mulder himself was the motivation for many of her shady actions.
Perhaps once upon a time Alex Krycek and Diana Fowley were as pure of intention as Monica Reyes once was. Walter Skinner worked with Reyes. They were among the group of agents who rescued Mulder from execution and the super soldiers. I can’t imagine Skinner not having conflicted feelings about what happened in The X-Files Season 11: My Struggle IV. I could see Skinner going back over Reyes’s old files, perhaps learning about her true motivations, what happened to Doggett. In the course of learning this, Skinner might unearth information about Alex Krycek and Diana Fowley as well.
It’s interesting to speculate about what drew the Smoking Man to these people in particular. Why did he choose them? Why did he choose to confide in them?
It’s one of the many things in The X-Files I wonder about.
