I don't buy the "tie it up with a bow" dismissal. Readers were unsettled, we the readers *are* unsettled, but this arrangement of aborted possibilities should still point more clearly toward resolution.

Scully could have been kidnapped, she could have gone back to the FBI, she could have joined an ashram, if they still exist. But I don't see what any of it has to do with Richard.

I was happy enough to enjoy the uncertainty, but if we're going in for *close examination*...I wish there were more information.

Drat. I seem to have switched sides.