'X-Files': The Mulder-Scully hookup

Seasons eight and nine: The romance

Where fore art thou, Mulder?: For its last two seasons, Mulder was absent more than not, first having to come back from an abduction and then “going underground” to protect Scully’s baby. To keep Scully from having to talk to herself, the show adds the much-less-interesting Agents Monica Reyes and John Doggett, played by Annabeth Gish and Robert Patrick, neither of whom is a suitable romantic interest for Scully.

On the subject of children: Scully reveals that Mulder is the father of her child, though the salaciousness of this is greatly reduced by the revelation that he donated his sperm for an in-vitro fertilization. Scully eventually gives the child up for adoption to protect it from the conspiracists, but that doesn’t bring back her lost love Mulder.