no offense but i think that the one-two-three-four punch of vince gilligan/rob bowman/gillian anderson/david duchovny should have been in charge of literally every decision ever made on the x-files, because no one has ever understood the mulder and scully dynamic better than the four of them did in the last ten minutes of pusher. the audience can SEE that scully clearly knows that her death is the worst-case scenario in the russian roulette game not because she would die, but because it would destroy mulder. her own death terrifies her not because it's death, but because it would mean leaving him alone with his guilt. which boils their relationship down to its absolute barest essentials in about thirty seconds of screentime. fucking bonkers artistic choices all around
