Although he's now playing a different authority figure in a different
decade investigating a wildly different subject (goodbye aliens! Hello
Charles Manson!), the quest is still the same.
"We're looking for truth. We’re looking to figure out how did we get
here and a lot of the answers are in the '60s," Duchovny tells The Hollywood Reporter.
"To me, Manson was like all of that just rolled into one symbolic human
being who just happened to commit the murders of that decade."
"Hodiak is a very compromised figure morally in many ways. He's a dirty
cop. He's a cop that does things illegally in order to achieve what he
thinks of as justice. He's a very 'the ends justify the means' sort of a
guy. He's in love with Grace, and he always has been. As the season
progresses, he's going to start to see her in a more clear light. When
he first reconnects with her in the first episode, he still idealizes
her. She's like his Daisy Buchanan."
Read more [containing spoilers]: Hollywood Reporter