Zack Handlen

“It’s not as though the show couldn’t end story lines when it needed to. The biggest emotional payoff of “Aprocrypha” comes in the resolution of the murder of Scully’s sister. The episode does a fine job of both “solving” the mystery and yet showing the complete lack of satisfaction that the solution provides our heroine. Melissa is still dead. A scene at the cemetery drives the point home, and it’s during that scene that we learn that Melissa’s killer died in his jail cell. There’s no vengeance or catharsis or relief, and the forces that ordered the hit remain unpunished and unidentified.”
― Zack Handlen, Monsters of the Week: The Complete Critical Companion to The X-Files

“Even when you no longer believe in ghosts, you can still believe in being haunted.”
― Zack Handlen, Monsters of the Week: The Complete Critical Companion to The X-Files