Scully Is Immortal

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Fan Theory: Scully Is Immortal
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Scully is immortal is a fan theory in the X-Files fandom that the character, Dana Scully is immortal.

It was later confirmed by Chris Carter to be canonical.

Canon

The theory began with the season three episode, "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose", the guest character Clyde Bruckman has the ability to see exactly how people are going to die. Scully asks him how she will die and receives the answer that she won't.

According to Darin Morgan, that episode's writer, it was never his intention that people take his joke seriously:

In "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose," Clyde tells Scully she doesn't die -- which some fans have taken to be a very literal predication. What do you think of the debate that Scully might be immortal, which still rages on 20 years later?

I didn't expect it, because I didn't intend it to be taken as serious. I just think it's ridiculous [to be serious]. (Laughs.) But then you go, it's the nature of the show -- people are looking more into it than you intended because it is a supernatural show … I didn't mean for it to be taken so literal. What can you do? People are going to take it however they take it.

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It's not so much the interpretations are wrong. It's more that I find them interesting. As opposed to the immortal line, which I just think is silly. [1]

The theory was hinted at in at least two more episodes:

In the season six episode Tithonus, Scully investigates the case of a crime scene photographer Albert Fellig who not only is always the first person after to happen to be present after someone died, he also tricked death when he looked away when he came to claim his soul during the outbreak of the Spanish flu in 1914. After both Fellig and Scully are shot, Fellig asks Scully to look away when she see death approaching. She does, and not only survives her abdominal gunshot wound, but recovers remarkable fast according to her doctors.

In a season 10 episode, Scully approaches the episode's UNSUB on her own without backup. After Mulder admonishes her, she reminds her, that she is immortal (so she wouldn't have to fear anything bad happen to her).

In 2014, the show's creator, Chris Carter, appeared to confirm the theory in a reddit AMA. When a fan asked: "Oh I just have to ask as I feel this is kind of overlooked by a lot of people. IS SCULLY IMMORTAL???" -- Carter responded, "Yes, it said so right in the show." Carter, however, provides no further comment. [2]

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  1. ^ |source=Inside One of 'The X-Files' Most Important Episodes Ever on its 20th Anniversary by Marisa Roffman, October 13, 2015
  2. ^ I am Chris Carter, creator of The X-Files, Millennium, The Lone Gunmen, Harsh Realm, and The After. AMA!; archive link
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