![]() These were dated 9th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 19th and 23rd November 1993. This episode's script went through six drafts.58) Carter himself recalled, " I was writing that episode while the hills of Malibu were on fire." ( The Complete X-Files: Behind the Series, the Myths and the Movies, p. I think that fueled him a bit." ( X-Files Confidential, p. Co-Executive Producer Glen Morgan recollected, " The weird thing about that script is that Chris had that concept and started writing it, and then LA started burning. Chris Carter was scripting this episode when the Southern California Wildfires of 1993 began.( The Truth Is Out There: The Official Guide to The X-Files, p. "Black silk boxer shorts" that Mulder wears in one scene were originally to have been "Jockey underwear".The original script of this episode includes a conversation near the end in which Scully comments, " Well, never let it be said that you wouldn't walk through fire for a woman, Mulder." He answers, " And never let it be said that I wouldn't do it for you again, Scully." ( The Truth Is Out There: The Official Guide to The X-Files, p." In the original script there were a lot more references to the psychological make-up of a pyromaniac Chris introduced me to this possibility and although we worked a lot on that it didn't end up staying in." ( TV Zone Special #21, p. " Chris Carter had done a lot of research into pyromaniacs as well as with other things 'X-Filean', if you know what I mean," Sheppard mused. 14) Other instances of the removals from this episode involved thematic material about L'Ively associating the setting of fires with a wedding and the fire itself with a bride. It kept getting pared down before we shot it." ( The X-Files Magazine Yearbook 2002, p. " There was a quarter mile of white picket fences catching fire," reported Mark Sheppard, " and other stuff got taken out. The script also incorporated a sequence which provided an additional demonstration of Cecil L'Ively's pyrokinetic powers, though this was never produced." There's a lot more to their relationship in the script than there was on the screen." ( X-Files Confidential, p. " There was so much more in the script in terms of emotions that were supposed to have," stated Co-Executive Producer. However, the episode's teleplay involved more between Mulder and Phoebe Green than ended up in the episode's final version." I've always wanted to do a Scotland Yard detective who was a woman." ( Cinefantastique, Vol. " I thought it was interesting to show a little bit of Mulder's history by bringing an old girlfriend back," Carter said. Introducing an English former romantic relationship of Mulder's was simply something Chris Carter wanted to do.( The Complete X-Files: Behind the Series, the Myths and the Movies, p. ![]() ![]() " So I have this fear of fire, and I thought I'd give Mulder a fear of fire, as well," Carter related. Chris Carter based Mulder's boyhood experience of having to spend a night guarding, from looters, a friend's house which had recently burned down on a childhood incident that actually happened to Carter himself.
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