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The X Files: I Want to Believe (2008)

★ 5.9 · 1,631 ratings on TMDB

To find the truth, you must believe.

The X Files: I Want to Believe poster★ 5.9

Mulder and Scully are called back to duty by the FBI when a former priest claims to be receiving psychic visions pertaining to a kidnapped agent.

DirectorChris Carter
CastAdam Godley, Alex Diakun, Amanda Peet, Billy Connolly, Callum Keith Rennie, David Duchovny
GenresMystery, Science Fiction, Thriller
The emergence reading

The X Files: I Want to Believe keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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