9.16 "William" Trivia Quiz

Answer: Van De Kamp

The episode opened on a picturesque valley, but no location was written on screen. A flag was waving as the scene panned back onto a house, where a couple waited inside for someone to arrive. When I checked state flags, I found out that the state of Wyoming matched the flag shown. The woman was worried why someone would give up their child, and he told her not to worry, it was what they'd hoped and prayed would happen. The social worker drove up in a Jeep Grand Cherokee and handed William to his new parents. She explained that the single mother had made a lifestyle choice, and it was what was good for the baby. After the opening credits the episode backs up a week to explain why it all happened.

Adam Nelson and Shannon Hile played the Van De Kamps.

Answer: True

Though Fox Mulder was in hiding from terminator like super soldiers, David Duchovny came back to direct this episode. This was his third stint directing on the show, and he also directed episodes of "Bones" and "Californication".

William was played (and credited) by James and Travis Riker.

Answer: Daniel Miller

He got into the FBI with a card key that he said Mulder gave to him. Scully talked with Mr. Miller, and then examined his body. He looked as though he'd been burned over much of his body, including his face. He admitted that whatever caused his condition had been injected into him. He had felt like he was being burned inside and out.

He was actually Jeffrey Spender. Doggett thought it might be Mulder.
Mutant Enemy is the name of writer/director Joss Whedon's production company.

Answer: Turn him into an alien

He'd come into the FBI looking for information on Samantha Mulder and others. He also said that there were men in government who were already aliens. He wanted to expose their evil plans to do what was done to him to everyone else. Mulder had supposedly given him specific case names and file numbers, which had already been removed from the X Files. Scully had them in her apartment, and allowed Miller to go through them.

Answer: True

Scully still did not believe it. She told Reyes and Doggett that you knew a person in so many ways a test couldn't reveal.

Answer: Scully

She realized that it had all been a ruse to get to William. The initial DNA testing would match male siblings, as Fox and Jeffrey Spender shared the Cigarette Smoking Man as their biological father.

Answer: Metal

William was engineered by the men who ran the alien conspiracy. He was part alien, and birthed and cared for by Scully, all for the future of the alien race. Jeffrey said the metal was a type of magnetite, and was a gift. Magnetite is a type of iron, and the tests showed William's only abnormality to be higher than normal levels of iron.

Answer: Yes

Jeffrey said it was a gift. It was his last act of revenge against his father to take away William's ability to help further alien colonization. But, he also said they'd never accept what William had been, and what he now was. He asked Scully what would happen to William if she couldn't protect him.

Answer: Crib mobile

As Scully poured her heart out to Reyes, the last shot of her, was her crying in front of William's mobile. Then, as the song played over the scene, his new dad brought him in a new mobile, for his new nursery. His old one had stars, and his new one had buffalo/bison hanging from it. That animal is on the Wyoming state flag.

"Michael row the boat ashore, Hallelujah..." Very haunting and mostly a cappella, and try as I might, I couldn't locate the name of the artists singing it.

Answer: Sweet dreams baby boy

These were said to him by his new dad, as he and his wife looked into the crib. As they left the room, the last shot was of William smiling and pointing at his mobile. This time, he wasn't able to make it move...

"I'll never let go" is what Rose said to a deceased Jack at the end of "Titanic", and "always and forever" is the motto of the Mikaelson clan of the "Vampire Diaries" and "The Originals".