I still cry to this scene till this day!! For us fans that been with Mulder since the beginning and his exhausting search for Samantha, there’s been cases like the clones but they weren’t the actual Samantha, when this episode aired (this might sound cheesy) i can say that this scene wasn’t just weight off of Mulder’s shoulder, but all of us too....
+MythicTyrant That was a epic final. I finished with Akte x after this episode cuz the rest of last 2 seasons was stupid. With the melodie and that mulder found his sister was the most powerfull part of all seasons.
Well yeah but looking back both their acting is stiff and awkward. Like when he got back he should have shown more emotion. He’s been chasing this his whole life and was giving the man a soft shoulder massage 🤨 while the man is getting worked up
Saddest was when aliens capture mulder and they doing tests on him can you imagine so many needles on your body and they starting to pull them outside to stretch your skin just to torture i myself cant imagine the pain
The Moby song was perfect for this episode. You can faintly hear children laughing and playing in the background of the song. This episode always makes me cry. He finally knew what happened to his sister and got to see her one last time. And the idea of the walk ins coming in before the child dies is a comfort I wish was real. That no innocent child's spirit had to suffer the pain of their own death. Due to whatever or whomever caused it.
My friend Justin Johnson is among them Murdered by a Mexican pedophile while he was falsely accused of killing a little girl named Hailey Joyner. Watching this video helps me come to terms with the fact that Justin and Hailey are now at peace along with my grandparents and my cousin I lost to Drugs R.I.P. Sandra. F. Spurlock McCombs Leo E. McCombs Samantha Lynn Kilgore Justin Skater Johnson Hailey Nichole Joyner
this sound does not belong to moby this guy stole a traditional kanak song on the island of tiga in new caledonia a melanesian people of the south pacific...
As an affirmation of how deserving one can feel when finally finding the chance for such a spiritual closure, I will always find great comfort from this timeless X-Files ending.
My grandma just died last night, and when I went to sleep, Mulder's words were just ringing in my ears, that the souls reside in starlight. And somehow, when I looked at the stars, I knew that that is true.
This scene perfectly exemplifies how effective music is in creating atmosphere and tone. They could have not picked a better song to use throughout the episode. I absolutely love how the strings cut out when the scene cuts to Scully seeing Mulder. Fantastic
the reason that mulder was able to see all these children and essentially enter their world is because, at the end of the day, he's still the same lost little boy who is missing his sister
It was literally a scene that crept up on you, there was the mystery leading up to it and then they (the producers, writers) made it so nuanced, so relatable you knew what happened to the children. And we all will be touched by it at some point, because we'll have children, or even not having children we know that vulnerability of being a child and cry out of love and hope that they are safe somewhere.
+Ragen Davenport That is a very strong line there. Watching the show years you wondered what happened. And the scene and the line which ended it was brilliant. "They're dead". And that brought Mulder freedom. Now he knows.
This is one of the most saddest and emotional moments in the entire X-Files Series for me. Fox Mulder finally found closure it’s still brings me to tears that Samantha Mulder was dead but this scene shows me and every X-Files fan that Samantha hugging her brother to let him know that it’s okay Fox. When that happen Mudler knew the burden he was carrying was lifted and for him to move forward. This has to be one of the most Saddest moments in TV history!!!!! I still get emotional seeing this episode anytime!!!! But I’m happy to see that Fox Mudler is at peace with himself!!!!! 😭😭😭😭😢😢😢😢
Absolutely perfect acting by David when he went ad lib and stood there shocked as Samantha hugged him despite the script calling for him to hug back. God this scene is emotional!
@@ihadadogtwice27ordidi65 Good! I love David as Mulder, but the man can't fake cry to save his life. Would have really brought the scene down watching him make that silly face he always makes.
This episode hits hard for me. Oh, man, does it ever hit hard. I lost two younger sisters at different times, both to mysterious circumstances, while in my 20's (I'm currently 32). It's like they just vanished from my life. The most beautiful little sisters an older brother could have - gone. They were two of my best friends. Even with my partner I often feel lost and alone without my sisters. Not a day goes by when I don't think of them. By no means am I a religious man, yet I wait for the day I see my sisters again, just to know they're finally at peace. Will it happen? I'm unsure. Still, I want to believe. 🖤
I feel it, I lost a brother when I was eight. He was the most beautiful human being I'd ever seen when he was born. This episode has meaning for me that cannot translated into words. It can only be felt.
Luke was kidnapped to be molested, but the criminal friends with the molester didn't want to be exposed, so he killed Luke with a bullet to the back. Luke was not saved by the walkins, nor was he one of the kids murdered by the santa killer.
I think what makes this scene so perfect is the backstory of it all. The misdirection and all out lies about Samantha to a man who went above an beyond to find his sister hoping she was alive and well. Its a heartbreaking conclusion but it does bring peace.
I think it takes certain types of people to enjoy The X-Files. From a young age I saw the first episode and I still enjoy it at 34. This show isn't for mass consumption. Know what I mean? It's a great show!
Possibly one of the most emotional episodes of the whole series. One of the two main elements driving Mulder, is finally answered. . . . And brought him peace.
@@BladeEffect - The other element was finding proof and exposing that truth that there was extra-terrestrial life on earth, that the government knew about and was hiding. .
Who could possibly dislike this video? This scene was so beautiful and made me cry especially when they are holding each other and all the dead kids were watching happily.
Shallow fanboys who feel cheated by the fact that Samantha is dead are the ones who disliked this video. Or maybe not, actually, because if you've followed the X-Files up to this point (as a true fan would have) you should already have figured that out. The show has dropped a lot of hints over the preceeding 7 years.
The most beautiful moment of the whole series, the music, the children, the slightly increased slow motion, it is exactly the felling of being in a dream stage. This scene is both emotional and uncomfortable to watch. For me i think about my loved ones who I am afraid to lose.
This scene...this cinematography, this music, this direction, this acting....all of it. It's one of the most perfectly executed and most beautiful scenes ever put to an entertainment medium.
God I’ll never forget it. It was early February 2000. Me and my parents we’re visiting my grandparents, my dad and grandma never got along but they did love America’s Most Wanted, at some point that night I slipped away to grandmas guest house to get my X-Files fix, I was 9 years old. There was a big stink on TV about Mulder and his character arc, for two hours I watched Sein und Zeit and Closure in grandmas guest house as dad and grandma fought.
This episode made me cry, especially when he finds out the truth about his sister. And at the very end when Scully asks him "are you sure you're OK?" and he replied with "I'm fine, I'm free", its just so sad.
I swear, when I saw this scene for the first time, it FUCKED ME UP! *BIG TIME* !! And I still can´t kind of get over it. Every year or two, I research the episode and the song again, because I can´t save it, I can´t keep it. Because it´s so fucked up.........
Best TV Moment ever, i can't describe what i means to me. After so many years i still get goosebumps /Tears. X Files was the best Show ever, im very thankful i lived during that time.
honestly I kinda wished they had ended the series at this ep it would have been such a great ending to the series Mulder finds his sister after 7 seasons it would have been so epic with what it represented.
@@michelleregis6181 This should have been the last episode though because the only reason why Mulder joined the FBI was to find closure to his Sister's disappearance.
I'll be honest with you and say that I kind of totally agree with you, as long as they could have swapped out some of the genius episodes which remain in season 7 (which I always though of as a kind of renaissance for the X Files, in it's overall superiority to season 6) with some of the duffers from season 5 and 6...then yes this would have been a good place to end it..especially if this had had been right at the end of season 7 and maybe slightly extended. Then that's where it should have STOPPED.. I cannot bear to even think about the travesty thay seasons 10 and 11 are, and I'm not much of a fan of 8 & 9 either.😢
Im watching the xfiles for the third time, I just saw this episode today and I cried sooo much! I am a huge xfiles fan since I was 13 and even though I know this is fiction, I got so involved with the characters that these scenes actually made me feel the closure Mulder was feeling 😭😭😭!
I 100% agree. I love writing/Tv shows and X-Files I definitely in my top 3. For 7 seasons we didn’t know if Samantha was alive and we saw the pain it caused Mulder. It was very emotional watching this scene, I also felt the closure Mulder felt. Carrying all that weight for 7 seasons and it all just came out at once seeing his sister. Amazing. 😁
Lovely Soul. Bless your empathy. Yes this show is written as fiction but I can tell you as someone who is very much like Mulder and does spiritual work, there is a lot of truth in this show. The truth is out there, but so are lies. Sometimes the truth is hidden in plain sight 😊love ya
@@scorpionkobra What would be closure of the Alien Conspiracy? In season 9 the whole world found out about Aliens when they attacked Earth. It was turned into apocalypse. I didn’t like the new seasons because the older Mulder and Scully act like nothing happened.
@@robertdeffenbaugh9004 I dont remember the scene when the whole world knew about aliens. They just began infiltrate into government with their human form in S9.
This ending of mulders search for Samantha is a heartbreaking genius piece of art. After 7 seasons he finally could let go and this scene, his acting, it’s just so well done. ❤️
I saw this scene when I was young, in the middle of the night, alone in my room. The music by Moby, the scenes ambiance, everything. It messed me up. Like a kind of scared to death... but calming feeling. I remember it stuck with me for years until the Internet/Google/TH-cam existed where I could finally look it up and see it again. This scene means something to me. And I don't know why. This may be the greatest piece of film for a TV series every made. Everything about it is perfect. Every. Single. Thing.
This hit me even harder because I didn’t expect it. I along with Mulder thought Samantha was still alive, going through 7 seasons with Mulder and thinking that it was a shock. It was very sad but at the same time great closure. 😥
This episode hits me just as hard now, as it did 20 years ago. Tears run down my face and I can’t stop them. The genius of Moby, the endless searching of the truth from Mulder at last finding closure. Thinking about the parents of Amber Lynn not knowing she was taken in starlight, and the hug from Samantha. Such a beautiful yet emotional episode.
I know this isn't what it says and I don't think I ever want to know, but to me the music sounds like "deep in my weaknesses the water washes over me."
I just watched this episode yesterday and I had to rewatch the ending again. So many thoughts and emotions. Knowing that the walk-ins saved Samantha from the smoking man and the syndicate by turning her into starlight energy and giving her a painless death is a bittersweet ending but still provides closure.
this has to be one of the most powerful scenes ive ever seen. the context and the music make you feel the pain that mulder has been living with and you really feel how he longs for his sister to be alive but knows that is not the case
I just watched this episode, and the whole scene with the music shook me more than anything else on the series so far. Just amazing and really meaningful, a closure few of us xfilers expected. Wow. Reading all these comments make me even value more the scene, amazing.
It is important to specify that the chorale in the background of music, comes from a traditional Kanak song (taperas). the kanak: indigenous people of Kanaky (New Caledonia) 🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨
I cry EVERYTIME I see this. It's just so beautiful, and yet all the components are so sad - Moby's score, Duchovny's closure, and Anderson's compassion - we need these kinds of heroes today, we need this compassion. It's the most memorable part of the series for me, and I truly embrace it.
I only decided to watch the X-files properly from the start because I remembered it being really scary as a kid and wanted to appreciate the series. I had NO idea about the main story arc or the journey of Fox Mulder and the quest to find his missing sister Samantha. Watching this scene, knowing everything he'd been through up to that point, years of uncertainty and doubt, lies and betrayal, to see him FINALLY reunited with his long lost sister .... I was completely overwhelmed with sadness at the realisation of her tragic fate, but at the same time happiness knowing she was truly at peace. The way she looks up to Fox and says, "I'm okay, you can let go" without actually saying it, brought me to tears 🥲 Rarely are we the audience treated to such emotional payoff
gets me every time how calm he looks after he goes back do scully and the psychic, he found peace an awesome and heartwarming end to a lifetime of suffering, and searching
It still annoys me to this day that she's been dead the whole time. There's so much misdirection through the whole series, so many times Mulder is told she is still alive. Carter has admitted this episode was a retcon on Samantha because they felt this idea was so powerful, and they didn't know of any other way to resolve Samantha. Mulder searching for Samantha represented the backbone of the X-Files for me. Despite all that, this scene is heartbreaking yet does also provide 'closure' for Mulder, with the music of Moby to accompany it, it's perfect.
+STARSTyranT This is why this should have been the last episode of the show and this scene should have come as last after Mulder and Scully resolve the whole alien conspiracy
Nope. Mulder was never told his sister was alive, they just showed him clones and nothing else. Also, Chris Carter didn't want to give Mulder a happy ending with Samantha's story and that was decided from the start. He just didn't know what was going to happen to her.
A couple of times they did tell she was alive though not definitely. The alien bounty hunter told Mulder she was alive and in the Blessing Way episode ghost of Mulder's father told her she was not here in dead-land implying she was alive. Not very credible sources but it seems the scenarists thought of her as alive.
Well technically this episode said the children didn't die but we're transported away to a safe place in starlight, the nurse who met samantha said she was in the room one moment then men came to get her and the next moment she was gone, so there's some consolation in that, somewhere his sister is still out there but for all purposes she's gone so it's good he had closure.
I mean, it's pretty obvious from the beginning that Samatha was never going to be found alive....the real Samantha anyway. Honestly the most annoying thing I found about this scene is that they used the wrong actor for Samantha at the end...this person here isn't Samantha, at least not the ones in the pictures Mulder has. I'm assuming they couldn't get the actor so they had to compromise, that's fine I guess but just a nitpick that annoyed me.
I won't lie, I cried like a baby when I first saw this scene...I felt like I had some closure myself. Great episode...if not the best moment of the series.
This episode really touches my heart...Aww! I watch this episode when I was 5 years old and I really cried, now Im 18 and it is still so powerful...Mulder is FREE
Loss is one of the most powerful and painful things to experience; letting go is the most powerful way to accepting it and being able to heal... I now know that feeling more than ever.
I find myself every now and again searching TH-cam for this scene…. It is hauntingly beautiful…etched in my memory, I remember the first time seeing this episode as a teenager and balling my eyes out, and now as I re-watch X-Files in my 40s, I still ball my eyes out at that scene. One of the best shows in my opinion…
Was so happy for Mulder when this happened. He was subject to so many tragedies and crushing occurrences in his life and career. He deserved this ending for him and Samantha.
This is without a doubt one of the hardest scenes I’ve ever had to watch on tv. Legit cried. The scene, the music, the final embrace. If that doesn’t get you, you have literally serial killer emotions
the is one of the most touching scenes in the series because he searched for years to find his sister and even though she is gone her spirit is happy and this is all Mulder needed to know for him to have Closure to let her go at the end of the episode he says Iam free
Many years later after its original airing and just casually watching a random episode here and there over the years, I’m finally watching through The X-Files episode by episode and have just now got up to this one. The POWER of this scene and everything about it, the acting, the cinematography, the music, oh the music… I haven’t been so happily and emotionally stunned and speechless like that by a TV show in a long time.
I've written loads of comments here which probably are not necessary and surplus.. BUT THE REAL TRUTH OF THE MATTER, is that this is possibly onw of the greatest scenes of Television ever committed to video tape. Every involved in making this deserves rhe highest praise.
This was the first time a tv show made me cry. As soon as he walking walking in I'm like "is he gonna find her?" ad I started sniffling. He did, and I bawled like a little baby
This was I have to say the most saddest and yet most beautiful scene in the entire X-Files series. Motorhead search for decades trying to find a sister but what he found out that she had died and was at peace with the walk-in spirits of the other children he was able to accept that she was actually gone and at peace and he's able to let go and move on with his life.
This for decades has gotten me. I’ve missed my mom so much. I’ve wanted that moment my whole adult life. You miss them but you have to move on and let them go.
I found a whole new level of feels. The kind where tears don't run but it hits your soul so hard your feelings become disrupted and all take a moment to enjoy the event and just feel it all at the same damn time. A beautiful and highly necessary scene and definitely my favorite part in the series, because of the double whammy Mulder had.
I felt that this Mulder's "sister abduction" story arc deserved a better ending and better explanation than what was eventually presented. Seven years of build up and then they give some obscure explanation and just tell that Samantha has become a "starchild" and was taken by the "walk-ins". This really didn't make any sense actually. Yes, it was beautiful and touching when Mulder hugged his sister's spirit, but it was a rather limp way to end this huge saga on which the entire X-Files mythology was built on. No aliens and no conspiracy, that's not how it was supposed to end. It didn't offer any real closure, not to me at least.
I'll have to disagree. I thought it was perfect and it touches on the central theme of the show, which is belief and truth and how they arent always the same thing. Mulder believed so hard that his sister was still alive that he became obsessed and it was ruining his life. Only until he finally found the truth, he could finally let go... which is something the man searching for his son in this episode refused to do because he still believed. This was a cathartic moment for Mulder and a huge capstone to his story arc, even if it didn't have a perfectly happy ending.
It doesn't erase her abduction at all, it all happened but it was most likely The Smoking Man in her case rather than aliens just like he did with Scully. He gave the order for the experiments like with Jeffrey and she managed to escape at last when she was 14. But for all her courage, she was already doomed to suffer, most of her memories were stolen/erased, subjected to horrible experiments for at least 5 years and she was going to be hunted down by him forever, the only option left for her in order to be happy was to die, and in this case turned to Starlight by these unknown forces. So in essence it doesn't take away his memories of her abduction but it is safe to say that unlike the rest of the Syndicate's families, Samantha was abducted by the Smoking Man.
It's got something to do with David Duchovny wanting to leave the show. His departure; I think sort of forced the writers hands. I'm not saying it's his fault it went this way, but it wasn't planned for him to leave at this point. I think they probably had something else in mind. Shows these days might just put a different actor in there to play the same character for the sake of the story, I think that would have been equally disappointing, if not more so. The show definitely has a decline with David Duchovny's exit.
How is it possible that out of all days, you posted this on this day... My girlfriend queued up this episode on Netflix tonight, I had no recollection of the episode (nor its significance), though I had watched some of the series when I was a lot younger. The song played early on, and I recognized it, but couldn't place where I knew it from. I could feel that it was powerfully important, I even vocalized, "I know this song.... wheres it from??". I had searched for it before, but since I couldn't make out the lyrics nor recall where I'd heard it, I had no place to begin... The episode continued on, while I was none the wiser, until this scene began... It all came back to me on a freight train of feels. This was the exact place that I knew the song from, I recalled everything about the scene as it unfolded; the peaking of the music as Mulder sees her, the song quieting as he returns to Scully and the Psychic, Mulder telling him about his son and his denial, I remembered it all, a long lost memory, after like 15+ years... I finally remembered where I'd heard the song and why it was so powerful. And now I know the Name
It makes me cry, believing that his sister was protected by spirits that wanted to protect her from all the pain and suffering. There is good in this world and this scene makes me have hope about the serenity of afterlife.
I think she was filmed for this episode but her shots were ultimately not used. Notice how the kids seem happy here, but Jennette describes them wanting her to look sad or scared. The shot of the girl at 1:07 looks like the close-up shot Jennette describes in her book, but in this one the girl is happy. I think the director shot close-ups of different actors looking sad, happy, etc. and decided which one to use in the editing room. I guess they decided not to use Jennette's shots because they wanted the final scene to be a "happy" one.
Also, it is eerie that, in this episode of _The X-files_ , this scene is showing kids who were turned into celestial beings in order to spare them lives of misery and suffering on Earth. A lot of Jennette's early acting roles were so ironic, considering what was going on in her home at the time.
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Notice how Harold's son is the only child not happy or smiling because his father won't accept he's dead and as a result his son doesn't have closure.
you nailed it
Blew my mind
One of television's most touching scenes.
totally agree
Yes!
And an utterly absurd, dreadful ending to what was essentially the centre of the show.
Matthew Singh-Dosanjh you say potato I say patato
I still cry to this scene till this day!! For us fans that been with Mulder since the beginning and his exhausting search for Samantha, there’s been cases like the clones but they weren’t the actual Samantha, when this episode aired (this might sound cheesy) i can say that this scene wasn’t just weight off of Mulder’s shoulder, but all of us too....
this is the one episode i'll never forget for the rest of my life.
When Mulder says "End of the road.", it feels all the more unforgettable for him finally finding some closure.
I agree
Am I the only one, or did anyone else have tears streaming by the end of this scene?
Not at all
This scene is so sad yet it brings closure
I've just finished watching it because I can't sleep and this scene left me the same way.
Yes! I was crying so much the first time I saw it.
+MythicTyrant That was a epic final. I finished with Akte x after this episode cuz the rest of last 2 seasons was stupid. With the melodie and that mulder found his sister was the most powerfull part of all seasons.
this scene should have won an Emmy on its own. I CRIED AF
Well yeah but looking back both their acting is stiff and awkward. Like when he got back he should have shown more emotion. He’s been chasing this his whole life and was giving the man a soft shoulder massage 🤨 while the man is getting worked up
@@ricebunnymoon4624 Mulder was exhausted beyond reason, he was too overwhelmed to process anything other than just go with it and letting go.
Saddest was when aliens capture mulder and they doing tests on him can you imagine so many needles on your body and they starting to pull them outside to stretch your skin just to torture i myself cant imagine the pain
In my opinion it's the best moment of X-Files, yeah it's sad but..also beautiful
AGREED !!!!!!
agree
This is one of the best moments in television history as far as I'm concerned.
One of the most powerful scenes in television history!! PERIOD!!
This scene is really epic. The Best on all seasons.
The Moby song was perfect for this episode. You can faintly hear children laughing and playing in the background of the song. This episode always makes me cry. He finally knew what happened to his sister and got to see her one last time. And the idea of the walk ins coming in before the child dies is a comfort I wish was real. That no innocent child's spirit had to suffer the pain of their own death. Due to whatever or whomever caused it.
teresag383 Moby is fucking awesome
This song is what I hope dying sounds like.
My friend Justin Johnson is among them Murdered by a Mexican pedophile while he was falsely accused of killing a little girl named Hailey Joyner. Watching this video helps me come to terms with the fact that Justin and Hailey are now at peace along with my grandparents and my cousin I lost to Drugs
R.I.P. Sandra. F. Spurlock McCombs
Leo E. McCombs Samantha Lynn Kilgore
Justin Skater Johnson
Hailey Nichole Joyner
So well put. I honestly cannot watch this scene without tearing up.
this sound does not belong to moby this guy stole a traditional kanak song on the island of tiga in new caledonia a melanesian people of the south pacific...
For all the kids who went missing and whose relatives never found out what happened to them 😢
Plot Twist such a touching matter. we shall be victorious my beautiful people's. may I myself be beautiful.
They are all at peace...
I do not believe they were all lost children but a representation of the most innocent part of their lives.
Oh my God, that was such a valentine for them, and for us who always wonder and feel for them too.
They’re with god now, forever in peace and safe from harm.
this is the saddest moment in the entire show. i was crying so much towards the end. "i'm free"
sleepwalker the way his voice cracks gets me every time
same
Moby is a genius. This scene... GOD. Duchovny’s stunned reaction; Samantha’s thinnest of knowing smiles; the hug; The Closure. Magnificent.
As an affirmation of how deserving one can feel when finally finding the chance for such a spiritual closure, I will always find great comfort from this timeless X-Files ending.
This sound of Mobys is a traditional Kanak song, which belongs to the indigenous people of New Caledonia, the Kanaks. Mobys is a song thief...🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨
@@yannuregei2514 😂😂
Kudos to this comment...it made me laugh again after feeling sad👍
My grandma just died last night, and when I went to sleep, Mulder's words were just ringing in my ears, that the souls reside in starlight. And somehow, when I looked at the stars, I knew that that is true.
They're gone but they go on in our hearts. Starlight.
Beatiful......but very sad.....
Hope after 4 years you’ve held onto that and still stare into the stars ❤️
My condolences,i know what it's like to lose such person,she may be gone but will never be forgotten.🙏🙂
Free now
This scene perfectly exemplifies how effective music is in creating atmosphere and tone. They could have not picked a better song to use throughout the episode. I absolutely love how the strings cut out when the scene cuts to Scully seeing Mulder. Fantastic
this is where Mulder let's go of his his sister, he knows she's dead and it lifts the burden he was carrying
the reason that mulder was able to see all these children and essentially enter their world is because, at the end of the day, he's still the same lost little boy who is missing his sister
:(
That's right never got the closure he needed
That's some very Powerful words
Scully: Mulder, What happened??, are you sure your'e allright?
Mulder: I'm fine... I'm Free......
Me: (Crying)...so Powerful.
I cried during this scene when I first saw it. Its so heart touching. The soundtrack goes perfectly for this.
Same
Yes, Moby is a musical genius. And so is the editor of this episode.
Marquel James I cry every time lol
It was literally a scene that crept up on you, there was the mystery leading up to it and then they (the producers, writers) made it so nuanced, so relatable you knew what happened to the children. And we all will be touched by it at some point, because we'll have children, or even not having children we know that vulnerability of being a child and cry out of love and hope that they are safe somewhere.
One of the best episodes of the X-Files. Absolutely well done. Brought tears to my eyes. I would like to think that this is what happens after we die.
This is the saddest most hauntingly beautiful thing I've ever witnessed on a show.
"Are you sure you're alright?"
"I'm fine........ In free....."
+Ragen Davenport That is a very strong line there. Watching the show years you wondered what happened. And the scene and the line which ended it was brilliant. "They're dead". And that brought Mulder freedom. Now he knows.
Boy, you effed that line up.
I feel He was speaking for his Sister as well as for himself.💜💗
This is one of the most saddest and emotional moments in the entire X-Files Series for me. Fox Mulder finally found closure it’s still brings me to tears that Samantha Mulder was dead but this scene shows me and every X-Files fan that Samantha hugging her brother to let him know that it’s okay Fox. When that happen Mudler knew the burden he was carrying was lifted and for him to move forward. This has to be one of the most Saddest moments in TV history!!!!! I still get emotional seeing this episode anytime!!!! But I’m happy to see that Fox Mudler is at peace with himself!!!!! 😭😭😭😭😢😢😢😢
Man. What a feeling this gives you. Wow
Moby! Never would have thought....
powerfull images, huh?
Absolutely perfect acting by David when he went ad lib and stood there shocked as Samantha hugged him despite the script calling for him to hug back. God this scene is emotional!
They also wanted him to cry he said no
@@ihadadogtwice27ordidi65 Good! I love David as Mulder, but the man can't fake cry to save his life. Would have really brought the scene down watching him make that silly face he always makes.
@@Bulletproof222 I think it varies tbh, sometimes he does convincingly cry, a few other times it feels a bit forced
This episode hits hard for me. Oh, man, does it ever hit hard. I lost two younger sisters at different times, both to mysterious circumstances, while in my 20's (I'm currently 32). It's like they just vanished from my life. The most beautiful little sisters an older brother could have - gone. They were two of my best friends. Even with my partner I often feel lost and alone without my sisters. Not a day goes by when I don't think of them. By no means am I a religious man, yet I wait for the day I see my sisters again, just to know they're finally at peace. Will it happen? I'm unsure. Still, I want to believe. 🖤
I feel it, I lost a brother when I was eight. He was the most beautiful human being I'd ever seen when he was born. This episode has meaning for me that cannot translated into words. It can only be felt.
@@vladimirchernikov4249 Truth. It's amazing how siblings can have such an impact on one's life.
They will be there when it's time for you to go....❤⭐
I believe life works in mysterious circumstances. I believe they will be there when you need them the most
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I'm 52. I cried when I saw this when it was released, and here in 2020 (20 years later), it still makes me cry.
The spirit of Luke Doggett, Agent John Doggett's son, is probably there also.
Good One!
Luke was kidnapped to be molested, but the criminal friends with the molester didn't want to be exposed, so he killed Luke with a bullet to the back. Luke was not saved by the walkins, nor was he one of the kids murdered by the santa killer.
I kind of hope so..
I had thought the same. It was a pity that they never worked this angle on 8th or 9th seasons.
He isn't because his son was murdered and his body recovered.
I think what makes this scene so perfect is the backstory of it all. The misdirection and all out lies about Samantha to a man who went above an beyond to find his sister hoping she was alive and well. Its a heartbreaking conclusion but it does bring peace.
I think it takes certain types of people to enjoy The X-Files. From a young age I saw the first episode and I still enjoy it at 34. This show isn't for mass consumption. Know what I mean? It's a great show!
Possibly one of the most emotional episodes of the whole series. One of the two main elements driving Mulder, is finally answered. . . . And brought him peace.
Sorry, I know this is an old comment, but what was the other element driving Mulder besides Samantha?
@@BladeEffect - The other element was finding proof and exposing that truth that there was extra-terrestrial life on earth, that the government knew about and was hiding. .
@@oldschoolrr6077 Damn oldschool same account after all this time
I came for X-Files, not X-Feels... 😭
We all came for X-Files but got X-Feels instead.
The feels are out there...
I want to feel
Underrated comment!
Man no matter how many years pass by, every time I come back to watch this video, I always finish it with tears streaming down my face.
Who could possibly dislike this video? This scene was so beautiful and made me cry especially when they are holding each other and all the dead kids were watching happily.
Shallow fanboys who feel cheated by the fact that Samantha is dead are the ones who disliked this video. Or maybe not, actually, because if you've followed the X-Files up to this point (as a true fan would have) you should already have figured that out. The show has dropped a lot of hints over the preceeding 7 years.
The most beautiful moment of the whole series, the music, the children, the slightly increased slow motion, it is exactly the felling of being in a dream stage. This scene is both emotional and uncomfortable to watch. For me i think about my loved ones who I am afraid to lose.
This scene...this cinematography, this music, this direction, this acting....all of it. It's one of the most perfectly executed and most beautiful scenes ever put to an entertainment medium.
I like how Mulder's face drops when he sees his sister. A little change like that adds a lot of weight to the scene
God I’ll never forget it. It was early February 2000.
Me and my parents we’re visiting my grandparents, my dad and grandma never got along but they did love America’s Most Wanted, at some point that night I slipped away to grandmas guest house to get my X-Files fix, I was 9 years old.
There was a big stink on TV about Mulder and his character arc, for two hours I watched Sein und Zeit and Closure in grandmas guest house as dad and grandma fought.
"I'm fine. I'm free."
This episode made me cry, especially when he finds out the truth about his sister. And at the very end when Scully asks him "are you sure you're OK?" and he replied with "I'm fine, I'm free", its just so sad.
I swear, when I saw this scene for the first time, it FUCKED ME UP! *BIG TIME* !! And I still can´t kind of get over it. Every year or two, I research the episode and the song again, because I can´t save it, I can´t keep it. Because it´s so fucked up.........
Best TV Moment ever, i can't describe what i means to me. After so many years i still get goosebumps /Tears. X Files was the best Show ever, im very thankful i lived during that time.
honestly I kinda wished they had ended the series at this ep it would have been such a great ending to the series Mulder finds his sister after 7 seasons it would have been so epic with what it represented.
but then there wound have been season 8...." this is not happening "
@@michelleregis6181 This should have been the last episode though because the only reason why Mulder joined the FBI was to find closure to his Sister's disappearance.
Agree.
I'll be honest with you and say that I kind of totally agree with you, as long as they could have swapped out some of the genius episodes which remain in season 7 (which I always though of as a kind of renaissance for the X Files, in it's overall superiority to season 6) with some of the duffers from season 5 and 6...then yes this would have been a good place to end it..especially if this had had been right at the end of season 7 and maybe slightly extended.
Then that's where it should have STOPPED..
I cannot bear to even think about the travesty thay seasons 10 and 11 are, and I'm not much of a fan of 8 & 9 either.😢
Now watch this clip with the audio on mute... makes a giant difference having appropriate music to a scene.
Moby is a genius.
Im watching the xfiles for the third time, I just saw this episode today and I cried sooo much! I am a huge xfiles fan since I was 13 and even though I know this is fiction, I got so involved with the characters that these scenes actually made me feel the closure Mulder was feeling 😭😭😭!
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I 100% agree. I love writing/Tv shows and X-Files I definitely in my top 3. For 7 seasons we didn’t know if Samantha was alive and we saw the pain it caused Mulder. It was very emotional watching this scene, I also felt the closure Mulder felt. Carrying all that weight for 7 seasons and it all just came out at once seeing his sister. Amazing. 😁
I‘m top….i Love The X Files soooo much….today i start look from the beginning
On this Scene i cried so mich toi 😭😭😭
Lovely Soul. Bless your empathy. Yes this show is written as fiction but I can tell you as someone who is very much like Mulder and does spiritual work, there is a lot of truth in this show. The truth is out there, but so are lies. Sometimes the truth is hidden in plain sight 😊love ya
To me this should have been the last episode of the X-Files because it gave Mulder Closure of what happened to his Sister.
It gave closure about Samantha but not the show's main storyline which is about alien conspiracy
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What would be closure of the Alien Conspiracy?
In season 9 the whole world found out about Aliens when they attacked Earth.
It was turned into apocalypse.
I didn’t like the new seasons because the older Mulder and Scully act like nothing happened.
@@robertdeffenbaugh9004 I dont remember the scene when the whole world knew about aliens. They just began infiltrate into government with their human form in S9.
This ending of mulders search for Samantha is a heartbreaking genius piece of art. After 7 seasons he finally could let go and this scene, his acting, it’s just so well done. ❤️
I saw this scene when I was young, in the middle of the night, alone in my room. The music by Moby, the scenes ambiance, everything. It messed me up. Like a kind of scared to death... but calming feeling. I remember it stuck with me for years until the Internet/Google/TH-cam existed where I could finally look it up and see it again. This scene means something to me. And I don't know why. This may be the greatest piece of film for a TV series every made. Everything about it is perfect. Every. Single. Thing.
This hit me even harder because I didn’t expect it. I along with Mulder thought Samantha was still alive, going through 7 seasons with Mulder and thinking that it was a shock. It was very sad but at the same time great closure. 😥
This episode hits me just as hard now, as it did 20 years ago.
Tears run down my face and I can’t stop them.
The genius of Moby, the endless searching of the truth from Mulder at last finding closure.
Thinking about the parents of Amber Lynn not knowing she was taken in starlight, and the hug from Samantha.
Such a beautiful yet emotional episode.
I know this isn't what it says and I don't think I ever want to know, but to me the music sounds like "deep in my weaknesses the water washes over me."
I just watched this episode yesterday and I had to rewatch the ending again. So many thoughts and emotions.
Knowing that the walk-ins saved Samantha from the smoking man and the syndicate by turning her into starlight energy and giving her a painless death is a bittersweet ending but still provides closure.
I miss you Dad (rip July 29th, 2015)
My dad passed in 2014. We watched every single x-files episode together. I can remember saying, "this is the best episode ever."
Jonathan Welch
My sincere condolences Brother.
Leopoldo Astudillo im sure when you meet your father again it'll be similar to how mulder met his sister again
Leopoldo Astudillo feel for you. lost my older brother a while back.
Social Loner I hope so....I know so 👍
this has to be one of the most powerful scenes ive ever seen. the context and the music make you feel the pain that mulder has been living with and you really feel how he longs for his sister to be alive but knows that is not the case
one of the best scenes in all x files series... moby gave this scene WOW effect on my emotions
I just watched this episode, and the whole scene with the music shook me more than anything else on the series so far. Just amazing and really meaningful, a closure few of us xfilers expected. Wow. Reading all these comments make me even value more the scene, amazing.
It is important to specify that the chorale in the background of music, comes from a traditional Kanak song (taperas). the kanak: indigenous people of Kanaky (New Caledonia) 🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨
It was one of the most beautiful moments of the whole series.
So sad. Best episode.
I cry EVERYTIME I see this. It's just so beautiful, and yet all the components are so sad - Moby's score, Duchovny's closure, and Anderson's compassion - we need these kinds of heroes today, we need this compassion. It's the most memorable part of the series for me, and I truly embrace it.
I only decided to watch the X-files properly from the start because I remembered it being really scary as a kid and wanted to appreciate the series. I had NO idea about the main story arc or the journey of Fox Mulder and the quest to find his missing sister Samantha. Watching this scene, knowing everything he'd been through up to that point, years of uncertainty and doubt, lies and betrayal, to see him FINALLY reunited with his long lost sister .... I was completely overwhelmed with sadness at the realisation of her tragic fate, but at the same time happiness knowing she was truly at peace. The way she looks up to Fox and says, "I'm okay, you can let go" without actually saying it, brought me to tears 🥲
Rarely are we the audience treated to such emotional payoff
This scene made me really emotional. Beautiful writing, beautiful imagery, beautiful song. It was all done so well.
I think this is my favourite TV scene of any TV shows. I'm bawling my eyes out.
gets me every time how calm he looks after he goes back do scully and the psychic, he found peace
an awesome and heartwarming end to a lifetime of suffering, and searching
It still annoys me to this day that she's been dead the whole time. There's so much misdirection through the whole series, so many times Mulder is told she is still alive. Carter has admitted this episode was a retcon on Samantha because they felt this idea was so powerful, and they didn't know of any other way to resolve Samantha. Mulder searching for Samantha represented the backbone of the X-Files for me.
Despite all that, this scene is heartbreaking yet does also provide 'closure' for Mulder, with the music of Moby to accompany it, it's perfect.
+STARSTyranT This is why this should have been the last episode of the show and this scene should have come as last after Mulder and Scully resolve the whole alien conspiracy
Nope. Mulder was never told his sister was alive, they just showed him clones and nothing else. Also, Chris Carter didn't want to give Mulder a happy ending with Samantha's story and that was decided from the start. He just didn't know what was going to happen to her.
A couple of times they did tell she was alive though not definitely. The alien bounty hunter told Mulder she was alive and in the Blessing Way episode ghost of Mulder's father told her she was not here in dead-land implying she was alive. Not very credible sources but it seems the scenarists thought of her as alive.
Well technically this episode said the children didn't die but we're transported away to a safe place in starlight, the nurse who met samantha said she was in the room one moment then men came to get her and the next moment she was gone, so there's some consolation in that, somewhere his sister is still out there but for all purposes she's gone so it's good he had closure.
I mean, it's pretty obvious from the beginning that Samatha was never going to be found alive....the real Samantha anyway. Honestly the most annoying thing I found about this scene is that they used the wrong actor for Samantha at the end...this person here isn't Samantha, at least not the ones in the pictures Mulder has. I'm assuming they couldn't get the actor so they had to compromise, that's fine I guess but just a nitpick that annoyed me.
I won't lie, I cried like a baby when I first saw this scene...I felt like I had some closure myself. Great episode...if not the best moment of the series.
This episode really touches my heart...Aww! I watch this episode when I was 5 years old and I really cried, now Im 18 and it is still so powerful...Mulder is FREE
Cried like a baby when I saw this. So touching.
Loss is one of the most powerful and painful things to experience; letting go is the most powerful way to accepting it and being able to heal... I now know that feeling more than ever.
Producer and Creator: How sad do you want this to be?
David: Yes
I find myself every now and again searching TH-cam for this scene…. It is hauntingly beautiful…etched in my memory, I remember the first time seeing this episode as a teenager and balling my eyes out, and now as I re-watch X-Files in my 40s, I still ball my eyes out at that scene. One of the best shows in my opinion…
Was so happy for Mulder when this happened. He was subject to so many tragedies and crushing occurrences in his life and career. He deserved this ending for him and Samantha.
This is without a doubt one of the hardest scenes I’ve ever had to watch on tv. Legit cried. The scene, the music, the final embrace. If that doesn’t get you, you have literally serial killer emotions
The little girl he sees first, the who looks up at him..... there's something that punches you in the gut.
What an incredible piece of television
the is one of the most touching scenes in the series because he searched for years to find his sister and even though she is gone her spirit is happy and this is all Mulder needed to know for him to have Closure to let her go at the end of the episode he says Iam free
Truly emotional and beautiful
An absolutely beautiful, ableit haunting scene. Tear up every time
Such an unbelievably beautiful scene
OMG i was tearing up at the end of this scene.
Many years later after its original airing and just casually watching a random episode here and there over the years, I’m finally watching through The X-Files episode by episode and have just now got up to this one. The POWER of this scene and everything about it, the acting, the cinematography, the music, oh the music… I haven’t been so happily and emotionally stunned and speechless like that by a TV show in a long time.
I've written loads of comments here which probably are not necessary and surplus..
BUT THE REAL TRUTH OF THE MATTER, is that this is possibly onw of the greatest scenes of Television ever committed to video tape.
Every involved in making this deserves rhe highest praise.
I cried and cried and cried. Such a beautiful scene
This was the first time a tv show made me cry. As soon as he walking walking in I'm like "is he gonna find her?" ad I started sniffling. He did, and I bawled like a little baby
I cried, of course I cried. But the next episode was X-Cops.
X-Cops was f---ing hilarious!
Stoopid Night Ninjas... came into my room and started cutting onions while I was watching this...
In the very unlikely event of my sister ever reading this, I regret never being the brother that fox was to Samantha xxx
Jonty Rose, I miss you
This was I have to say the most saddest and yet most beautiful scene in the entire X-Files series. Motorhead search for decades trying to find a sister but what he found out that she had died and was at peace with the walk-in spirits of the other children he was able to accept that she was actually gone and at peace and he's able to let go and move on with his life.
You can see the moment he goes from unbearable grief, realizing she's never coming back, and then to acceptance and peace. Best X Files episode IMO.
This made me cry all night, every time I come back and watch this scene I cry again :(
This scene has always given me goosebumps. Incredible screen writing and acting, music and filming.
This Video was absolutely beautiful it nearly made me cry.
+Jacob Minutillo-Liwszyc i did too i did ...((( goosbumps i have all over me...men cry too
One of my favourite episodes in The X-files 🤩 Mulder finally got the closure he had been looking for.
This for decades has gotten me. I’ve missed my mom so much. I’ve wanted that moment my whole adult life. You miss them but you have to move on and let them go.
Such a haunting thought prevoking scene. Gets me in the feels everytime.
Same here
Original broadcast 13/2/2000.
I found a whole new level of feels. The kind where tears don't run but it hits your soul so hard your feelings become disrupted and all take a moment to enjoy the event and just feel it all at the same damn time. A beautiful and highly necessary scene and definitely my favorite part in the series, because of the double whammy Mulder had.
I'm really looking forward to the new episodes, ultimately, it should have ended here. My eyes get wet every time.
One of the Best episodes of X-files. Just awesome.❤️
Best ever x files scene. For anyone who lost someone they truly love. This is the healing.
Anytime this song comes through on shuffle I gotta stop whatever I’m doing and take a minute 😭 Moby didn’t have to do us like that lol
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I felt that this Mulder's "sister abduction" story arc deserved a better ending and better explanation than what was eventually presented. Seven years of build up and then they give some obscure explanation and just tell that Samantha has become a "starchild" and was taken by the "walk-ins". This really didn't make any sense actually. Yes, it was beautiful and touching when Mulder hugged his sister's spirit, but it was a rather limp way to end this huge saga on which the entire X-Files mythology was built on. No aliens and no conspiracy, that's not how it was supposed to end. It didn't offer any real closure, not to me at least.
It did come out of nowhere.
I'll have to disagree. I thought it was perfect and it touches on the central theme of the show, which is belief and truth and how they arent always the same thing. Mulder believed so hard that his sister was still alive that he became obsessed and it was ruining his life. Only until he finally found the truth, he could finally let go... which is something the man searching for his son in this episode refused to do because he still believed. This was a cathartic moment for Mulder and a huge capstone to his story arc, even if it didn't have a perfectly happy ending.
It doesn't erase her abduction at all, it all happened but it was most likely The Smoking Man in her case rather than aliens just like he did with Scully. He gave the order for the experiments like with Jeffrey and she managed to escape at last when she was 14. But for all her courage, she was already doomed to suffer, most of her memories were stolen/erased, subjected to horrible experiments for at least 5 years and she was going to be hunted down by him forever, the only option left for her in order to be happy was to die, and in this case turned to Starlight by these unknown forces. So in essence it doesn't take away his memories of her abduction but it is safe to say that unlike the rest of the Syndicate's families, Samantha was abducted by the Smoking Man.
It's got something to do with David Duchovny wanting to leave the show. His departure; I think sort of forced the writers hands. I'm not saying it's his fault it went this way, but it wasn't planned for him to leave at this point. I think they probably had something else in mind. Shows these days might just put a different actor in there to play the same character for the sake of the story, I think that would have been equally disappointing, if not more so. The show definitely has a decline with David Duchovny's exit.
@@jturner2577it should have ending with Samantha alive and as a little girl and she and Fox playing Stratego after they're reunited. Full circle
How is it possible that out of all days, you posted this on this day...
My girlfriend queued up this episode on Netflix tonight, I had no recollection of the episode (nor its significance), though I had watched some of the series when I was a lot younger.
The song played early on, and I recognized it, but couldn't place where I knew it from. I could feel that it was powerfully important, I even vocalized, "I know this song.... wheres it from??". I had searched for it before, but since I couldn't make out the lyrics nor recall where I'd heard it, I had no place to begin...
The episode continued on, while I was none the wiser, until this scene began... It all came back to me on a freight train of feels. This was the exact place that I knew the song from, I recalled everything about the scene as it unfolded; the peaking of the music as Mulder sees her, the song quieting as he returns to Scully and the Psychic, Mulder telling him about his son and his denial, I remembered it all, a long lost memory, after like 15+ years...
I finally remembered where I'd heard the song and why it was so powerful. And now I know the Name
actually it's Moby - My Weakness. Carter used it over Snow's music cause he saw it fits perfectly and it does.
It's his sisster
Congrats, you have closure. XD
It makes me cry, believing that his sister was protected by spirits that wanted to protect her from all the pain and suffering. There is good in this world and this scene makes me have hope about the serenity of afterlife.
POV: ur trying to see if Jeannette McCurdy was in this episode of the x files
I think she was filmed for this episode but her shots were ultimately not used. Notice how the kids seem happy here, but Jennette describes them wanting her to look sad or scared. The shot of the girl at 1:07 looks like the close-up shot Jennette describes in her book, but in this one the girl is happy. I think the director shot close-ups of different actors looking sad, happy, etc. and decided which one to use in the editing room. I guess they decided not to use Jennette's shots because they wanted the final scene to be a "happy" one.
Also, it is eerie that, in this episode of _The X-files_ , this scene is showing kids who were turned into celestial beings in order to spare them lives of misery and suffering on Earth. A lot of Jennette's early acting roles were so ironic, considering what was going on in her home at the time.
It's imposibble to not cry every single time watching this