The allegory the X-Files was going for here was a simple case ... Scully is still a little skeptical (maybe it was the candles?), because time rarely changes people. She does at least leave ...

No. Look, you’re not tuning into The X-Files every week for a cheerful ... is HIS WIFE in the Magic Circle, surrounded by candles and reciting a spell from one of the books from their library.

He adds that McGavin — who died at age 83 in 2006 — played an alien-hunting FBI predecessor to Mulder in two episodes of the original “X-Files” series. The look isn’t an exact mirror image.

“The X-Files” is back on Planet Earth (and Fox). Just don’t blink, believers: After tonight, the revitalized alien-hunting series has just four more episodes in its new run — but ...