X FILES; SEASON 5 CHRISTMAS CAROL, EMILY (1997)

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Plot

In "Christmas Carol" it's the FBI yuletide; Scully goes home for the holidays and, whilst there, she receives a mysterious phone call from a caller with the voice of her deceased sister Melissa. Tracing the phone call leads her into the investigation of the death of a woman with a young daughter named Emily, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Scully's sister Melissa when she was the same age. This leads Scully to find out who Emily's natural mother is. Duchovny passes on the Christmas pudding, only turning up in episode 2, "Emily"; with both of her adoptive parents dead Scully looks to adopt Emily, Mulder and Scully investigate where Emily came from and how she came to be. When they discover that Emily is not quite human, their investigations lead to a large experimentation involving old women being artificially inseminated with alien/human embryos. Needless to say, cover-ups and sinister experiments abound.