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"One Breath" back story
"Gillian Anderson, still a bit wobbly and exhausted just days after giving birth by cesarean section, spent most of the episode in a hospital gown with tubes sticking out of her for hours at a time, occasionally falling asleep while filming some of her scenes. The producers had considered making Scully's sister, Melissa, a romantic interest for Mulder but later nixed the idea."Brian Lowry, The Truth is Out There: The Official Guide to The X-Files (New York, NY: HarperPrism, 1995) pg. 180.
Circa 1998 was probably the height of my X-Files obsession. Before the first movie came out in the summer of '98, a friend from Girl Scouts (we'll call her Sadie) and I were really excited about going to the X-Files Expo the weekend it was in Los Angeles. That Friday morning, I was running late for school and the phone rings. My dad picks up and tells me it's for me. It's Sadie, telling me she won tickets to the Expo from KROQ. Which was wonderful, because it meant that we didn't have to buy the tickets like we'd planned, but I had to get to school.
That Sunday, we had an amazing day! The Expo itself was held in some airplane hanger, the security was dressed up like Men in Black and the Expo's patrons were provided with port-o-potties to relieve themselves. Sadie, who's favourite episode is "The Host," refused to use the portable toilets. I braved them and found them to be pretty disgusting, but at least they were fluke-man-free.
Fox's (then) new cable station FX, which was the first cable station to syndicate repeats of X-Files, had a film crew there. They got Sadie on camera saying how much she loved FX, and me saying I wished my cable provider actually had it. (This was also before my dad started working full-time for a T.V. satellite company.) They wanted to use the footage, but as we were both underage and without a parent or guardian present (we were 16 and had been dropped off), we couldn't sign the release.
We took a picture of the two of us in Mulder's office. The set was all green, but once the picture came out, there we were in the basement office of the FBI's most unwanted, complete with pencils in the ceiling. Sadie was looking at the camera, kinda smiling. I was wearing a black rain-coat style windbreaker thing, and I had my arms crossed, looking bad-ass (or as bad-ass as I can get), but slightly unfocused because I took my glasses off for the picture. I should dig that out and scan it one of these days.
And of course, we waited in line for autographs. The guy in front of us was really nice, and agreed to save our places in line while Sadie and I sat and listened to some of the show's actors talk. William B. Davis (a.k.a. Cigarette Smoking Man, a.k.a. Cancer Man a.k.a. CBG Spender, a.k.a. Mulder's biological father) informed us that the one character who got to use the "F" word in the movie was Scully, and the crowd went nuts. (It turned out not to be true, but it would have been cool.) Mitch Pileggi was asked by a fan if she could rub his bald spot (which cracked me up - mind you this was when I was 16 and thought he was old a gross) but he said his wife probably wouldn't be happy about it, leaving the fan disappointed, but the rest of the audience amused nevertheless.
When Sadie and I got back in line, we told the guy who had been saving our places about the FX film crew and not being able to sign the release forms. He said that if he had been there, he would have said we were his daughters, Dana (he pointed to Sadie) and Missy (he pointed to me). I don't think we ever did get that guys name.
42 of course is the answer to life, the universe and everything, Mulder's apartment number, and now the row number Ana Lucia sat in on Oceanic flight 815. In the context of "The X-Files," apartment 42 was where a really fantastic scene between Melissa Scully and Mulder took place in One Breath. The proposed Mulder/Missy pairing always intrigued me. They're both "believers," but in very different ways, and I really would have liked to see where a relationship between the two might have gone.
So, missy42 has been my screen name since I've been on the internet. In the event that those six characters in that order are taken, I'll add onto it with my birth date or my middle name. But if you see someone named missy42 around - on forums or other on-line sites - chances are it's me.
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