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6 Agent Mulder
We must admit that we’re not entirely sure what all of this nonsense was about because, by the time the final episodes aired, The X-Files had become as brain-numbingly confusing and needlessly complicated as those damn self-serve tills in Tesco’s. But what seems to have happened is this: Agent Mulder was kidnapped by aliens (ie David Duchovny left the show); the aliens experimented on him; the aliens dumped his body and buggered off; Mulder was buried; and that was that.
Then some weird alien virus started to reanimate another guy who’d been kidnapped by said aliens and Agent Scully, realising that this could be happening to her passed-on partner, dug him up. Lo and behold, Mulder was alive (if a little mouldy-looking)!
As far as miraculous returns from the dead go, Mulder’s reanimation didn’t really contribute much to the series except make poor Robert Patrick’s Agent Doggett a bit superfluous. Still, at least Mulder was around for the finale – even if the viewers weren’t.
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