William (episode)/Background Information

==Background Information==
*Near the start of this episode, Scully sings a song entitled "Joy to the World" that she also sang to Mulder while they were stuck in a forest in the episode "Detour".
*This episode marks the final appearance of William as a child.
*In an uncredited appearance, () appears very briefly, reflected in Scully's eye.
**This episode is consequently the one of only two in in which appears, the other being the original series finale, "The Truth" (archive footage of him appeared earlier in "Trust No 1" and "Jump the Shark").
*This episode features in the character's ninth and penultimate appearance. Because his identity is supposed to be a surprise, Chris Owens' "Special Guest Star" credit isn't listed until the end credits sequence.
*Footage of the experiments conducted on Jeffrey Spender would later be used in the series finale, "The Truth".
*This episode uses footage of the shooting Jeffrey Spender in the episode "One Son".
*Aliens and conspirators are after William again and Scully has to give him up for adoption to hide him from the alien super soldiers and the human conspirators. This contradicts the ending of the Season 8 finale "Existence" where the alien super soldiers leave William with Scully, believing him to be just a normal human being. There are many contradictions about William throughout the series. In Season 11 in "Ghouli", Skinner talks to Mulder about Dr. Masao Matsumoto and Project Crossroads which involved experiments where humans were given alien DNA as if this is a new revelation, but the original run of the series has already addressed various human experiments with alien DNA.
===Other Episode Notes===
*The flag in the opening sequence and the mobile seen in the final scene show a white buffalo, which had a symbolic meaning to Albert Hosteen and the Native Americans in Season Three. White buffalo were said to portend great changes.
* In the opening of this episode, outside the farmhouse where William is sent, there is a Wyoming state flag blowing in the wind.
*Spender chose the last name "Miller" as his alias while pretending to have been in contact with Mulder. Mulder is a Dutch name and also means miller.
*A crew member can be seen moving in the background behind Agent Reyes as she leans back on the couch, in the scene where the three agents discuss Miller/Spender whilst he sleeps. (This was corrected as being Agent Doggett's hand)
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