"Emily" question (ending)
P Gauthier
I watch X-files without cable and sometimes the reception is bad
enough that I can't make certain details out. So, at the end of the
episode when Scully opens the casket and finds nothing but the cross, what
was in there? -- I thought I saw a brown piece of canvass or something,
but my girlfriend who watched it with cable thought it was sand. There
/was/ something brown in the casket. Can anyone tell me what it was?
Because it makes a pretty big difference between whether the body was
stolen, or whether it dissolved.
Respond via email please. Thanks!
David
I assume that Emily's body dissolved into sand.
Smitty Drum
David wrote:
> P Gauthier wrote:
> >
> > I watch X-files without cable and sometimes the reception is bad
> > enough that I can't make certain details out. So, at the end of the
> > episode when Scully opens the casket and finds nothing but the cross, what
> > was in there?I assume that Emily's body dissolved into sand.
It looked like pieces of burlap or some other loosely woven light-brown fabric
(like you use for sand bags) to me. In the "dream sequence" earlier in the
episode, Scully is walking across sand and picks up the cross lying in the
sand. When I saw the burlap I first thought that the bad guys/alien
shape-shifters had taken the body and replaced it with equivalent weighted sand
bags. For whatever reason it was there, I think it was burlap.
What was in the one vial with the green liquid Mulder took from the nursing
home? Was it more of Scully's ova? Why didn't he tell her? Is he still
"protecting" her?
Inquiring minds want to know.
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David wrote:
>
> P Gauthier wrote:
> >
> > I watch X-files without cable and sometimes the reception is bad
> > enough that I can't make certain details out.
You could have a five-foot state of the art TV with crystal clarity and
still not know what the hell the last 30 seconds were all about. There
are as many theories as observers. I wish they would just SAY stuff
every once in a while, just to be different, so we could all give our
mental X-Files Rosetta Stones a rest. Geez. "There is evidence,
Mulder..." Then, empty coffin...burlap? Sand? Cross? Expressions on
various faces? Clear enough to me....
BelleSoCal
Smitty Drum <dodg...@interpath.com> wrote:
>>> It looked like pieces of burlap or some other loosely woven light-brown
fabric (like you use for sand bags) to me. In the "dream sequence" earlier in
the episode, Scully is walking across sand and picks up the cross lying in the
sand. When I saw the burlap I first thought that the bad guys/alien
shape-shifters had taken the body and replaced it with equivalent weighted sand
bags. For whatever reason it was there, I think it was burlap. <<<
The casket contained burlap bags that had been filled with sand. The cross
itself was lying in the sand inside the casket.
>>> What was in the one vial with the green liquid Mulder took from the nursing
home? Was it more of Scully's ova? Why didn't he tell her? Is he still
"protecting" her? <<<
The vial *appeared* to contain more of whatever that stuff was that the Dr.
Calderon-clone (say *that* 3 times fast) injected into Emily in the hospital.
IMHO, Mulder didn't tell her because after Emily fell into the coma, she
specifically said that she wouldn't try to save her, even if she could. Scully
brought it up initially, and Mulder asked her the all-important "follow-up"
question: Are you sure? She said that she was quite certain.
Uh ... yeah, I think Mulder's gonna be tryin' to protect Scully until one or
both of 'em dies or their contracts run out, whichever comes first. Although
sometimes it does seem like Scully does most of the *emotional* protectin' ...
if ya get my drift.
Beverly
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jedimaster
On 15 Dec 1997 23:40:23 GMT, P Gauthier <pr...@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
wrote:
I thought about this one for a while and have come to the conclusion
that she was taken away by someone and replaced with the sand to
simulate the weight.
> I watch X-files without cable and sometimes the reception is bad
>enough that I can't make certain details out. So, at the end of the
>episode when Scully opens the casket and finds nothing but the cross, what
>was in there? -- I thought I saw a brown piece of canvass or something,
>but my girlfriend who watched it with cable thought it was sand. There
>/was/ something brown in the casket. Can anyone tell me what it was?
>Because it makes a pretty big difference between whether the body was
>stolen, or whether it dissolved.
>
> Respond via email please. Thanks!
>
>
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Linda Terrell
In <3495dd4...@news.concentric.net>, jedi...@concentric.net (jedimaster) writes:
>On 15 Dec 1997 23:40:23 GMT, P Gauthier <pr...@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
>wrote:
>
>I thought about this one for a while and have come to the conclusion
>that she was taken away by someone and replaced with the sand to
>simulate the weight.
But then that "someone" would have to be positive that it would be a
closed-casket ceremony and that NO ONE would try to open the thing.
If body is cremated, the ceremony is held usually with a casket but the
ashes are in a small urn or square metal box and that is what is buried.
Robert St. James
, it was definitely sand - we saw it sift through her fingers.
:
:maybe it was sand wrapped in burlap :) as to what it means - it's
:anybody's guess.
:
:-> eva
Sand is often bagged in burlap as flood protection or
as ballast for say, balloons. Whether their was some
ironic intent or not is hard to say. Probably not. Whoever
put the sand in the casket had to carry it there, so I guess
they used burlap bags. I wish it had been Emily's body so
Scully would have had to make a real decision, but as
always, the writers made that decision for her.
Robert St. James
(sand-bagged by "Emily")
Raymond DeCampo
Linda Terrell wrote:
>
> In <3495dd4...@news.concentric.net>, jedi...@concentric.net (jedimaster) writes:
> >On 15 Dec 1997 23:40:23 GMT, P Gauthier <pr...@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
> >wrote:
> >
> >I thought about this one for a while and have come to the conclusion
> >that she was taken away by someone and replaced with the sand to
> >simulate the weight.
>
> But then that "someone" would have to be positive that it would be a
> closed-casket ceremony and that NO ONE would try to open the thing.
>
Obviously the someone did not care if he/she was found out. All that
was important was that the evidence was destroyed. Of course eventually
somebody will discover that the evidence was destroyed. In fact it
seems that the someone expected to be found out and left the cross for
Scully to find. A strange act of compassion.
Alan M. Hurshman
Robert St. James (stj...@mail.rjames.com) wrote:
: as ballast for say, balloons. Whether their was some
: ironic intent or not is hard to say. Probably not. Whoever
: put the sand in the casket had to carry it there, so I guess
No, the sand could have got in there by mistake.
Maybe the coffin had been left outside with the
cover open. A low flying balloon could have happened
by and needing to gain altitude it might have cut
loose one of its bags of ballast sand. Schmoooop!
Into the casket it goes. Mystery solved.
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Alan Hurshman
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