Scully is rattled and jittery throughout the episode, at first refusing to believe that Lyda and Maurice are ghosts (of course), then fainting when she is shown the holes where each was shot Maurice in the head and Lyda in the abdomen.

The two agents step into the house, are quickly separated, and soon meet the two ghostly inhabitants Lyda and Maurice (delightfully played by Tomlin and Asner), who basically try to turn Scully and Mulder against one another. Legend has it that the dead couple return every year on Christmas Eve and that several other couples have died in the house in the same manner over the years since. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)Īnd why has Mulder dragged his reluctant partner out on Christmas Eve? It seems there is a large house said to be haunted by a couple who died in a lovers’ pact, in which the man shot his wife and himself.

NEW YORK, NY – OCTOBER 08: Gillian Anderson (L) and David Duchovny speak onstage at The X-Files panel during 2017 New York Comic Con -Day 4 on Octoin New York City.

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