Hot on the heels of the two-part trailer that aired on Fox Monday night, the network has released a full-length trailer for The X-Files. While similar to the previous one, this one has extra footage, better editing, and one hundred percent more Joel McHale.
It begins with a monologue from McHale that, if you didn't know what you were watching, could be for any political thriller on television — until the mention of "alien technology." Before his speech is over, it becomes clear that the alien invasion Fox Mulder has spent most of his life trying to stop is most definitely still in play.
From the trailer, it can be inferred that a tip from McHale's character, Tad O'Malley, brings Mulder (David Duchovny) back to Washington D.C. and even into FBI headquarters and his old office. Skinner (Mitch Pileggi) is still there, ever the company man, but he encourages Mulder to do his thing and go save the world. And for that, he'll need the help of the one person in all the world that knows him best and that he trusts the most.
Scully (Gillian Anderson) being Scully, she's more worried about Mulder than the alien invasion. So she of course gets roped back into helping him, because it's him.
One question we can't help wondering about is whether or not Mulder and Scully find themselves back in the employ of the FBI. At the end of the original series, both of them had been ousted from their positions and were wanted fugitives. By the time of the 2008 movie, The X-Files: I Want to Believe, Scully was working as a hospital surgeon and Mulder was "forgiven" by the FBI but still unemployed and living off the grid.
The new trailer shows Scully in an "Intensive Care" unit when Mulder contacts her, suggesting nothing's changed for her vocationally. Mulder can also be seen exiting a secluded old house, which could be the same one he and Scully were living in, in 2008. Nice bit of continuity there, if so.
The X-Files returns to Fox on Sunday, January 24, 2016.
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