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Emily doesn't quite hit the same emotional high for me as Christmas Carol does. It still is a very good episode. Mulder returns and helps Scully. I am always impressed with acting ability of David Duchovny. Just his facial and bodily expressions tell so much. I also love it when he goes to any length to help Scully, whether it be roughing people up or otherwise. This episode features a very cool teaser of Scully walking through a sandstorm and doing a voice-over. I like the final effect of her face turning to sand and blowing away. In past seasons Mulder has been fooled by shape-shifting aliens impersonating other people. I found it funny that he was fooled again after seeing Kresge shooting the alien and seeing the green blood ooze out. One puzzling thing to me is at the very end when Scully looks in Emily's coffin, and all there is is sand with Scully's cross on it. Did Emily turn to sand? Emily is still a good conclusion to the two episode storyline, where we get to see a little deeper into Scully's soul and her yearning for a child of her own.

This conclusion to the Christmas Carol series is an exciting one. After an extremely obscure and meaningless teaser, Mulder finally shows up to help out. Who is this child and how is it possible that she is Scully's daughter? We find out that Emily is not a normal child when she emits the same toxic green acid from the back of her neck as a nurse tries to inject her with some medicine. Mulder's theory is that she is a lab rat for the government, created from one of Scully's stolen ova and used her entire life to test the possibility of an alien human hybrid. I love the scene where Mulder kicks the trash out of that doctor in his office. Exciting episode with some great action and mystery but unfortunately as I've said before, this episode for whatever reason tends to be forgettable. Nevertheless, I enjoy it each time I watch it. 9 out of 10.

The story of Emily Sim moves firmly into the mythology arc with the revelations in this episode. With the murder of her parents in the prior episode, Mulder arrives on scene to help his partner sort out the mystery of how three year old Emily could possibly be Dana Scully's biological daughter.

The one drawback I find with this episode is a recurring fallback position the writers use when confronted with an almost impossible dynamic. I'm talking about the alien shape-shifters who were responsible for the murders of Emily's adoptive parents. They are now in active pursuit to either save Emily's life, or if that's not possible, to put an end to it. Emily herself is revealed to be an alien/human hybrid child without ever stating it specifically, but with the green cyst festering on the back of her neck causing a tumorous infection, what other conclusion can the viewer come to.

The story manages to close the loop on Emily's birth, the product of a genetic experiment using Scully's own ova which were removed during her abduction experience three years earlier. Adding to the bizarre nature of the story, it's revealed that elderly women in a nursing home already past child bearing age were used as the birth mothers for these experimental babies, of which Emily was only one of many.

The story's resolution brings to fruition a statement made by Mulder earlier on when he told Scully that "This child was not meant to be". It sounded cruel at the time, almost heartless that he would have couched his language in such terms, especially as Scully was doggedly pursuing a possible adoption of the young girl. That Emily would not survive her ordeal brings the chapter to a heart rending close, though the empty coffin Scully peers into (filled with sand?) is one of the more enigmatic conclusions of an X-Files episode. Retrieving the religious cross she gave Emily in the early part of the story, Scully is left to ponder where her faith would lead her next.

I found the first part of this arc "Christmas Carol" to be only a so-so episode. The plot of that episode developed slowly and featured Scully's brother who was as annoying as he was in a previous episode. I was gratified to see, however, that this episode was laying the background for "Emily." Emily is the story of an alien-human hybrid created with Scully's ova using a geriatric patient to "incubate" the girl for the purposes of experimentation. Mysteriously, Scully heard her sister, Melissa's, voice that led her to Emily. This episode deals with Scully's rescue of Emily and Emily's eventual death.

As always, Gillian Anderson gives an excellent performance, letting us understand why Scully made the decision not to let Emily continue to be treated. Meanwhile, Mulder does an excellent job of investigating exactly what happened, but not forcing his findings on Scully.

Another sequel in the mythology that is not my favorite and i don't like it. Just like Redux they are both to me on the same level not a good episodes. Didn't had any horror in it, it lacked on action. It was boring Scully was like mother of Emily and that girl just died on the end. I like some of the aliens who were shapeshifiting but that was all in the episode.

This time David Duchovny is in this episode as Fox Mulder which in Christmas Carol he was absent. The fight for this girl makes over dramatic and irrilevant to me.

Aliens making experiments on granys older women? That took me out of the story and episode. Not saying Emily episode sucks but this episode just isnt for me. David Duchovny's performence was excellent just the story in here did make no sense to me. Scienci fiction was terrible.

I don't like Christmas Carol or Emily those two episodes mythology just isn't for me. The X-Files fans will love this episode , but I express my personal honest opinion. In my opinion Emily is a step back from Christmas Carol and it is a terrible sequel in The X-Files mythology the weakest one episode.