Hallway Scene

In the X-Files fandom, the hallway scene refers to a scene where the two characters of Mulder and Scully almost share their first on-screen kiss in the first X-Files feature film "Fight the Future" that was released on June 19th 1998 in the US.
Before the agents can consummate their kiss, Scully gets stung by a bee that carries a genetically engineered virus which leads to the agent passing out in the arms of her partner. The ruse is used by Cigarette-Smoking Man, Mulder and Scully's nemesis, to abduct Scully to the Antarctica.
The bee and it's significance become some kind of inside joke in the Philedom, people starting to blaming the bee or calling series creator Carter a "bee" in terms of ruining something.
==Fan reactions==
After five years, MSR shippers waited eagerly to see the not strictly platonic relationship between the two characters to more. Fans report about people yelling at the bee or grasping in agony in the movie theatre back then.
The hallway scene is pivotal for the relationship of the character and marks the first time that series creator Chris Carter moves a way from his "strictly platonic" approach to the Mulder/Scully relationship.
The scene inspired hundreds of fanworks, such as fan fiction (especially missing scene and post-ep), Fan arts (especially drawing, manips and collages) and videos.
==Cast & Crew remarks about the scene==
Soon after the release of the movie, star Gillian Anderson and director Rob Bowman teased fans with the fact, that there were several takes where the characters did kiss which were cut from the final movie. According to Bowman that camera man goofed and the kiss version was captured in film. It turned out, that this wasn't true, since the 2008 Blu-ray release of the movie featured a gag reel that included an alternate take of the scene that included a kiss between Anderson and David Duchovny with a jeering crew in the back ground.
==Fanworks==
===Fanart===
*"You've made me a whole person" painting by altaircollin
*If you'd accept surrender by SoulDreamX
*Almost kiss by ombradellaluna
*FTF Hallway Kiss by WildwingSuz
*Nearly - XF by Foxkit
*Never Again by mitdemadlerimherzen (manip)
===Fanfcition===
*works tagged with the keyword hallway scene on Liminal
*August, 1998 by Tabula Rasa
*Preserving the Future by Laurie D. Hayne
*Without the Bee by Starbuck
*Honesty at Last by FoxesLady
*One Hundred Reasons by Para8Dice
===Fan vids===
*Duchovny & Gillian Anderson - Fight The Future deleted kiss commentaries (fanvideo) by Just Holding Hands
*Fight the Future by Maya
*The X-Files | Fight The Future by Ptite Coccie
==Links==
*hallyway scene tag on tumblr
*works tagged FTF on Archive Of Our Own 
*The Hallway Scene review xfmanic
*Times Mulder And Scully Should Have Made Out This Week: Fight The Future Edition by TVmouse
*The Definitive Top Shipper Moments in xfiles.livejournal.com, 2008-05-04
*Mulder and Scully shippy moments
==Further Reading==
*The X-Files: 10 Times Mulder and Scully Brought ‘UST’ to Another Level by Brittany Rae, December 22, 2015
*Blog: How We Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bee by Roileigh Ollson and Jessa Schlitt, XFN
==References==
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