[2] The episode premiered in the United States on December 14, 1997, on the Fox network, earning a Nielsen household rating of 12.4 and being watched by 20.94 million people in its initial broadcast.
The show centers on FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files.
In a dream-like sequence, Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) walks through a desert and picks up a gold cross necklace on the ground.
Continuing from the previous episode, agent Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) arrives at San Diego County Children's Center, where Scully introduces him to Emily.
Calderon goes to a large house to see the two Dark Suited Men, one of whom kills him by stabbing him in the back of the neck with an alien stiletto.
The results of Emily's tests show her to be suffering from a rapidly-growing neoplastic mass in her central nervous system.
The second Calderon look-alike injects Emily with an unknown dark green substance, then escapes by changing his appearance again.
Mulder connects the names of the women in the nursing home to recent births and finds that Dr. Calderon was treating them.
Mulder finds medical records with Scully's name on them at the nursing home, along with a live fetus in a refrigerated chamber.
Mulder visits Scully at the funeral chapel, telling her that Kresge is recovering and all evidence at the nursing home and Prangen is gone.
"[4] The show's casting crew eventually replaced her with Lauren Diewold, who had previously appeared on an episode of Millennium.
Although the crew hoped that the activists would disperse on their own, a few were still protesting when production on this episode began, resulting in the police getting involved.
[8] VanDerWerff wrote positively of "most of the Scully scenes", noting that Anderson "found some of the raw sense of hope and loss" that the shots required.
Robert Shearman and Lars Pearson, in their book Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen, rated the episode three stars out of five.
[10] Vitaris reasoned that, because Scully had spent time with her mother, remembered fondly her sister, and reconnected her faith in God in "Redux II", "this development just doesn't track."