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Could that infuriating 'X-Files' cliffhanger mean another season?

Hoai-Tran Bui
USATODAY
Seriously, what the heck 'X-Files'??

Spoiler alert! The following contains spoilers for Monday night's season finale of The X-Files.

Really, X-Files? You're going to end the new miniseries revival like that? Because that ending is less on the intriguing "nothing gets answered on The X-Files" side, and more on the infuriating "set fire to everything you love" side.

The ending to the season finale, My Struggle II, had Scully rushing to bring the antidote to a bioweapon back to the hospital until she suddenly gets stopped by a beam of light coming from an alien ship above her. The camera zooms in on her terrified eyes looking to the sky, and we cut to black.

For a series that has no guarantee of a next season, you can at least guarantee the Internet went insane over that ending.

"Pure evil" is right, random Internet citizen.

So what does that mean for another season?

Honestly, we have no clue. Creator Chris Carter told The Hollywood Reporter that Fox wants more episodes, it's just a matter of when.

"Right now I've got another project that I want to do first," Carter said. "So, for me, it's just a matter of trying to do (The X-Files) when it makes sense and not try to shoehorn something or hit a schedule."

Duchovny hinted at a next season on The Ellen Show, after talking at length about eyebrows. (Check out 2:27 to avoid the eyebrow talk).

"It's just a matter of getting everybody's schedules to jive," Duchovny said. "Gillian lives in London, I live — I don't know where I live. And Chris lives here. I would love to (do another season), I think we all would."

Duchovny tweeted some words of assurance to the distraught fans, though we're not sure how assuring they are.

At least you can live with the knowledge that Chris Carter is probably trolling you with that cliffhanger, and he does actually know where the story is going this time.

"The X-Files traditionally ended with a cliffhanger, and we didn't want to do anything different," Carter said to The Hollywood Reporter. "This just happens to be a very big cliffhanger. I have an idea of where the story goes."

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