- These new HR rules suck.
I mean, Grant complains one time and now
there's a dress code and we have to wear these
stupid name tags.
- Have you read the news this morning?
- Fox announces six new episodes of The X-Files.
I mean, I don't see anything special here.
It's just another TV reboot.
- This is what we've been searching for.
A TV revival that isn't just another dumb money grab.
Signs of an intelligent reboot.
- Pat, are you seriously suggesting that this
new X-Files is gonna be good?
- Is it really so hard to believe?
In all the millions of hours of television out
there in the universe, isn't it possible, nay,
inevitable that one of them would be a not
terrible reboot of an older show?
- I'm skeptical, Pat.
Time and time again these reboots have turned
out to be lesser versions of the original series.
That new Melrose Place?
The Night Rider thing?
Not to mention everything from the UK.
- No, no, no.
Those were remakes, Siobahn.
Lazy dramas exploiting a familiar name.
This?
This is for real.
A continuation of the original storyline.
- How do you know that?
- I had help.
- After Pat came to us with the news, we started
researching, what we found was like, whoa man.
- Creator Chris Carter is attached.
Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny signed on.
- How did you find all of this?
- First we sent a hydra into the DOG network to bypass
the firewall.
- And then we just realized it was all on Google.
- How could this show attract this much talent if
the script wasn't great?
- Mass delusion?
Society convincing itself that something is good
on a huge scale?
I mean, look at the last X-Files film,
that movie was terrible.
- Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
Just because one X-Files sequel lacked quality doesn't
eliminate the possibility that the next one won't be great.
- I don't know, Pat.
- Why is it so hard for you to believe, Siobahn?
Even you must have once stayed up late, staring with
wonder at the cosmos.
- I did and I will admit that it was a good
sequel to the original cosmos, but look,
I'm a scientist and I need proof.
- The proof is everywhere.
People are just too blind to see it.
2004, thousands of Americans report eyewitness
accounts of a totally decent Dawn of the Dead remake.
2011, Planet of the Apes.
And this is to say nothing of the countless
quality sequels.
The Godfather Part II.
Empire Strikes Back.
The Lego Movie.
- Pat, I just wish there was something that
we could do.
- There is something.
Or should I say, some thing that is a person.
- So like, someone?
- Yes.
- Pat, I don't like this.
We should keep searching on our own.
- [Zac] Good luck with that.
This goes deeper than you can possibly imagine.
- [Pat] Why are we here?
- Doesn't matter who I am.
- But that's not what I asked.
- Zac, are you vaping?
- I have proof that the new X-Files
will be good.
I operate at the show's highest level.
The craft service table.
- That doesn't sound very high up.
- Raise your hand if you straight up made
David Duchovny an omelette.
- Okay, fine.
Just show us the proof.
- It's not that simple.
You think FOX wants to kinda over-hype that
proof like this would bring?
Show would never live up to it.
This information is dangerous.
- Hey!
You can't smoke in here.
We're inside.
C'mon man, you gotta go.
- Do I Grant?
Do I really?
(The X-Files theme music)
- Yeah, we're gonna, we're gonna go.
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