Mama Kathy

Once, When She Was a Girl... 

A Very Little Girl... 

Dana was in The Woods.

She had always been a tomboy, unlike Her Sister Melissa.

For her birthday, 

Dana’s Brothers had given her a B.B. gun 

and were showing her How to Use It.

Their Father had told them only to shoot cans...

But in a patch of grass, 

Bill Jr. found a garter snake.

And they began shooting. 

Wanting to fit in with Her Brothers, 

Dana also shot at The Snake.

It squirmed wildly, 

desperatly Fighting for Life, 

but as the boys continued to shoot, 

The Snake began to bleed. 

When she realised what she had done, 

Dana began to cry with irrevocable guilt. 

Through her tears, she was saying that... 

Something was missing from The Snake. 

She had taken something that was not hers’ to take. 

And although deathly afraid of Snakes, 

Dana held The Animal, 

as if sheer Human Will could keep it alive. 

The Snake, its’ blood on Her Hands, died. 

There was nothing she could do to bring it back.

That Day in The Woods, 

I felt for My Daughter. 

But at This Moment, 

I Know HOW My Daughter felt.

The door opens and Mrs. Scully stands up. A Man walks in carrying something. 

She walks over and he lifts the cover off. 

Mulder walks over, looks at it, and turns away. 

It is a tombstone, and it reads:

DANA KATHERINE SCULLY

1964 —

LOVING DAUGHTER & FRIEND

"The Spirit is the Truth." 

JOHN 5:07

I don't know if you are who I think you might be. 

But if you are William... 

this is what I'd say. 

I'm sorry. 

I'm so sorry... that I didn't get a chance to know you. 

Or you get a chance 

to know me, or your father. 

I gave you up for adoption not because I didn't want you... or because you were any less loved. 

I was trying to keep you safe. 

I hope you know that. 

And maybe... Maybe I should have had the courage to stand by you. 

But I thought I was being strong, because it was the hardest thing I have ever done. 

I mean... To let go... and to know that I was gonna miss your whole life. 

But it turns out that this is the hardest thing. To see the outcome. And how I failed you. I need you to know that I never forgot you. 

And I thought... I felt... 

even recently that we were gonna somehow be reunited. 

I wish I could have been there to ease your pain. 

Oh, my God, this is so inadequate. 

I'm just so sorry. 

I'm so sorry

"There really are 

Four Quarters of a Whole. 

And I think that maybe threw some people at the beginning of last season, 

and even at the end of last season. 

But I think that you see, 

as you have seen, that they were puzzle pieces, 

Four Puzzle Pieces to A Circle.

I wanted to tell 

Mulder’s Story — Mulder's Struggle.

I wanted to tell 

Scully's Struggle.

I wanted to tell 

The Cigarette Smoking Man's Struggle,

and I wanted to tell 

William's Struggle.

For me, 

The Four Characters 

who are central to The Mythology.”

— Chris Carter.