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Written and Directed by Gillian Anderson
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From Haven
Teaser: Blackness: We hear the faint sound of water dripping on solitary drop at a time. The water echos quietly as we cut to:
Close: Scully's face: What little light there is seems to dance and sway from above. She looks straight at us with an ever so slight peacful smile. Slowly we adjust to reveal we're
Int. Bathroom night. Scully is looking at a reflection of herself in the mirror. [skipping description] Scully buttons her shirt, straightens her skirt, dressing.
Scully: dialouge to be written [my guess is the vo from the OS goes here] Interal another room, night. Moonlight, broken by a tangle of branches pressing against a window. Scully bends to pick up her jacket. She shurgs into it and we move closer. Her eyes are fixed on something os. We hold on her there for just a beat and then she leaves the frame. As she does the camera drifts accross the room to a BED. Finding a naked thigh in the mass of crumpled blankets, then a BARE ARM,, finally settling on a face, MULDER. Asleep. Hold this image as we hear the door close. water dripping... As we CUT TO BLACK. END OF TEASER
Amy note: as with any script info, there are multiple drafts of scripts and what airs may be nothing like this if this scene is even there. And BTW, my take on this is that Scully slept on the couch and Mulder slept in the bed, I'd bet about anything I own on it.
From the OS
SCULLY:
Time passes in moments. Moments which, rushing past us, define the path of a life even as they fix upon its end. How rarely do we stop to examine that path. To see the reasons why all things happen. To consider whether the path we have taken is of our own making, or simply one into which we've drifted with eyes closed. But what if we were to stop? To take stock of each precious moment before it passes? Might we see the endless forks in the roads that shape our lives? And… seeing the choices we've made… choose another path.
-From "all things"
Posted by tater
It showed her directing and it looked great! She really looked like she knew what she was doing, very into detail. (She was even directing the actors gestures, picky, picky lol!) She said that DD was very patient and sweet with her and she thinks they got some really great scenes together.[Hmm... Shipper Minds Wander...] Also said that she was nervous, at least that's the definiton of the word she used) and that she calmed down after lunch the first day. [Good!] She looked very happy. I'm sooo psyched about this ep! [me too!]
BTW, the scene I did notice was that they were filming a confrontation between Scully and the guy's [Daniel's] daughter. The guy was in the hospital room in a bed so I couldn't see his face. It was a really cute interview, Steve Kiemko was smiling widely when they were done showing the clip.
Set report from Jax
I managed to see Gillian directing and acting a few scenes out on 2/24, supposedly her 2nd day of filming. I was just across a single lane street from where she was shooting. It was a small house and at first they were set up on the front lawn getting shots of Scully driving up to the house.
There was also an extensive amount of shooting for a scene where Scully goes up to the door of the house and rings the doorbell. A woman opens the door and I could see Gillian holding something up to the woman (her badge?) and they exchange conversation. Then the woman disappears into the house and comes back to the door with a large envelope and a sheaf of papers which she flips through before placing all the papers into the envelope. She then talks to Scully and holds out the envelope to give it to Scully, but as Scully grabs it with both hands, the woman doesn't let go right away, so both she and Scully hold onto the envelope as the woman tells her something before finally letting go. When she lets go, she turns back into the house and it seemed that she slammed the door rather hard. They did that take for quite some time, it appeared that Gillian was being pretty meticulous about the details of the scene :) because she kept concentrating on how the woman held onto the envelope before letting Scully take it. There was one take that Gillian messed up because she started laughing, it was quite refreshing to hear it from where I was, especially since it was so quiet (it was around 10 pm and the neighborhood was deserted except for a few on-lookers). The next scene that Gillian was in was supposed to be right after the woman slammed the door on her. Scully turns away from the door, but as she turns all of the papers fall out of the envelope which she apparently had upside down. When they fall out (it appeared to me now that they were photos) Scully bends down to pick them up and I could see the camera linger on her face because apparently she sees a photo(s) that causes her to react. I couldn't see exactly what the expression on her face was. Gillian shot that one about four times and they were pretty quick takes. For the most part the former scene alone took about an hour and a half, just because they shot about three different lighting variations. The greatest thing was to see Gillian acting out her scenes and just as she finished her line or got off her mark, she would yell "cut!" or "cut!print!" ....and she was quite loud. And I could hear the asst. director over the crews' radios telling someone to "ask Gillian if she liked that one?" or "ask Gillian if she wants to keep that."
It was a very cold night so they had some heaters set up right in front of the directors chair-Gillian's chair! And she would go back and forth from the house to her chair watching the monitors while they did her make-up and hair.
Also, apparently Gillian's smoking habit has not been kicked because she had 3 cigarettes in the 5 hours that I was there, though to her credit she didn't exactly finish them. Her masseuse was near by and he did mention that she was tremendously busy, he was going to try and ask her if she would autograph some stuff but they wouldn't even let him ask her because she was so busy. When she wasn't checking out the scenes on the monitors or in the house directing she was outside on the phone. Terribly sorry this is so long, but "I'm just trying to be thorough."
Autumn T. on AOL-Q&A
Question: Autumn, can you give us a hint on whether you like what you see of it so far?
Answer: I do like what I've read so far very much. I think she's specified some very interesting things with visual and auditory subtext.
Question: Auditory subtext? She has notes for the soundtrack?
Answer: Actually yes. And things heard in passing.
Question: Ok, does this seem to be a turning point ep as it has been suggested or just character exploration?
Question: Does Mulder wear a green shirt in this episode?
Answer: I can't really answer that yet. Nor sadly can I tell Kipler the color of Mulder's shirts.
Scully reunites with a doctor who was once her professor . He had advised her not to join the FBI -- not only for professional reasons but for romantic [between them] reasons as well. She also meets up with his daughter who blames Scully for the breakup of her parents' marriage. [Amy note, from what I've seen there's no indication that Scully had a physical relationship with this person [Daniel] either in the past nor in the current episode--if anyone has information otherwise, we'd love to know]
From Autumn T. on AOL-passed on by Numue
This should be an interesting one for Scully fans. Introspection about the character, her choices, and a look at a relationship from her past. Mulder is in it, but it is Mulder light.
If I were to do one of those press release blurbs it might read: A hospital chart mixup puts Scully in contact with a man from her past who was part of the reason she left medicine for the FBI.
The title is "all things" not "All Things."
TV Guide on Gillian's Episode
Gillian Anderson has a year left on her X-Files contract but doesn't know whether she'll be back. "I wish I knew," she says. Still, she's making the best of this season, having written her first script, which she will direct February 23. Nervous? "I cannot think about it, " she says. "I'll get more nervous, but I refuse to think about that." Anderson is predictably cryptic about the story line: "It delves into Scully's struggles between her place in life as an FBI agent and as a medical doctor," she says.
New York Daily News
Anderson Does It All
Gillian Anderson will write and direct an upcoming episode of "The X-Files," according to a report in TV Guide. Anderson, who stars on the show with David Duchovny, said the experience has given her a new respect for show writers. She was encouraged to take on the assignment after hearing Duchovny talk about how he was able to bang out a script in a matter of days. Hers, she said, took much longer. As for her future, which has been a topic of much debate, Anderson would only say that it's "still cloudy." Duchovny has said this season is his last. Anderson still has a year to go on her contract, though Fox has yet to pick up the show for another season.
Frank Chat
"I think in the upcoming episode, written and directed by Gillian Anderson, you'll see Scully's belief system examined in a way unlike any we've done before."
TVGuide
"I think in the upcoming episode, written and directed by Gillian Anderson, you'll see Scully's belief system examined in a way unlike any we've done before."
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