All Things - Plot

Plot

FBI special agent Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) is getting dressed in front of a mirror. As she is leaving the bedroom, her partner Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) is laying in his bed, and half of his body is covered by bedsheets. A few days prior, a series of coincidences bring Scully into contact with a former professor, named Daniel Waterston (Nicolas Surovy), with whom she had an affair during medical school. Scully has an existential crisis when she questions whether she made the right decision to leave him and medicine to pursue her career in the FBI. Scully also meets his daughter, Maggie (Stacy Haiduk), who is extremely resentful of Scully. Mulder, who is in England investigating crop circles, contacts Scully and asks her to go to meet a contact of his to obtain information.

While driving there, Scully nearly gets into a car accident because she is talking to Mulder on her cell phone. As she is driving, a woman appears in the crosswalk forcing Scully to apply the brakes to keep from hitting the woman. As she does this, a diesel truck nearly runs Scully over. When Scully arrives to the house of the woman, Colleen Azar (Colleen Flynn), that Mulder had asked her to meet she recognizes her as a woman that she had seen earlier that day in the hospital when she was visiting with her ex-lover, Scully is dismissive of that woman, who seemingly knows that Scully is going through a personal crisis and is trying to offer her guidance.

A few coincidences later, however, Scully decides to return to visit the same woman to offer an apology for being so dismissive and to see what she has to say to her. Once there, the woman tells her about Eastern philosophies of Buddhism, the collective unconscious, and her own personal aura that might explain why she is experiencing these strange occurrences. As Scully leaves the woman's house, she walks through Chinatown and sees the same woman who had appeared in the crosswalk before, so she follows her. The woman goes into a small Buddhist temple and seemingly vanishes. Scully, who has followed the mysterious woman into the temple, has a vision while looking at the statue of the Buddha. Scully returns to the hospital visiting her ex-lover, who is accompanied by the woman who she spoke with earlier regarding the Buddhist philosophies.

The woman and another healer provide alternative treatment for Scully's ex-lover and the man fully recovers later. He proclaims that he still wants a relationship with Scully, but she has now realized that she is no longer the same person she was ten years ago, and she leaves the room. As she is sitting outside on a bench on the hospital grounds she sees the mysterious woman from the crosswalk and Buddhist temple again and chases her down. When she catches the woman and the woman turns around, she sees it is Mulder. Later, Mulder and Scully are sitting on the sofa together in his apartment talking about the events of the last few days. As Mulder begins to speak more existentially about what transpired with Scully and seemingly implying that fate has brought them together, he turns to her and sees that she has fallen asleep.