The show wants to tap into fears you have but you don�t know you have. It wants to be normal. We don�t, by and large, do stories that are set in exotic locations or about people that you don�t know.

It wants to be about the guy next door, the girl next door. To pick up on something that could be happening while you drive past that mini-mart, [that] this creature might be in there.

That was one of Chris Carter�s original insights into what is scary. He had a number of mottoes that he would drill into a writer's head. It�s only as scary as it seems real. It has to be at the bounds of believability, at the extremes of science.

Scully really helped make these things seem credible. Mulder makes these huge paranormal leaps, and she talks about what science knows. Between the two of them you�d get to a place where you could see how, taking science a notch or two further, you could end up with what this episode is about.

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