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'X-Files' Season Finale Airs Tonight

Aired May 19, 2002 - 09:23   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: After nine seasons, the "X Files" final episode airs tonight, and like the premise of the sci-fi series, what's in store for viewers, top secret. But as CNN's Susan Campos tells us, the truth is out there somewhere.

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SUSAN CAMPOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): The "X Files" is the show that proclaimed the truth was out there, way out there.

GILLIAN ANDERSON, AGENT SCULLY: It came at a very timely moment when people were ready to open their minds to new things and take that leap with us.

CAMPOS: That leap of faith took viewers to a place where the government was keeping all sorts of secrets.

ERICH GODE, AUTHOR, PARANORMAL BELIEFS: The "X Files" specifically and explicitly articulated the view that it is the government which is hiding essential information from us and that the plot, the conspiracy hinges on the fact that the government has essential information, namely the existence of aliens that is being kept from the public.

CHRIS CARTER, THE "X-FILES" CREATOR: There have been scientific studies about people's belief in the paranormal and in aliens, but I always saw it as an opportunity to explore that stuff as both believer and skeptic. Like Mulder, we want to believe. We want to believe there is something greater out there.

CAMPOS (on camera): There is something greater out there, at least in a warehouse here in Torrance, California. This is from Season 8, a fetus from the "X Files" an alien fetus that is. And right here, a pig and a pig can't be a normal pig on the "X Files" and if you remember from Season 8, Fox Mulder was strapped into this cryogenics contraption.

CAMPOS (voice over): Viewers still have a two-hour finale to look forward to, but after nine years, maybe the show ran its course. Ratings are down and cast members wonder if the environment after 9/11 sealed its fate.

ANDERSON: Speaking about paranoia and the government is not something that people want to hear. People want to hear about a government that they can trust.

CAMPOS: Speaking of trust, the final episode is like a government secret, but David Duchovy will be back.

DAVID DUCHOVY, FOX MULDER: In some ways, psychically I didn't really leave. It was nice to be able to - I'm just really happy that I was able to come back and finish it.

CAMPOS: The show may be over but the "X Files" will have an afterlife. There is already talk of another "X Files" movie landing in theaters soon. Susan Campos, CNN, Entertainment News, Los Angeles.

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