If the reveal that Monica Reyes has spent the past decade working for The Cigarette Smoking Man surprised The X-Files fans, they were not alone.
"I was shocked," Gish admits. "When I first read the script, I was
shocked, because it's such a different turn, and an unexpected turn for
Monica to make. But Chris [Carter] and I spoke, and I think Monica had very good reasons. Her real reason in the end was her loyalty to Scully."
"I think it's with a heavy heart she refers to herself [to Scully in
their initial call] as 'Someone who has always been there for you,'"
she acknowledges. "It's with mixed emotions. But she does do the right
thing in the end. She gives the virus cure, and I think she means well. I
also think there's a lot more to the story."
"My first question for Chris was, 'Has Monica gone to the other side?
Is she a foe?'" Gish continues. "And we agreed that no, she is not.
There's a much larger reasoning there for her actions."
Though Gish acknowledges that much of Reyes' time off-screen is still a
question mark for her, she feels Monica's move in the finale to contact
Scully and give her the key to the vaccine was an act of defiance to CSM versus something he put into motion.
"I definitely think she put her life at risk to do that, for sure," she
says. "Cigarette Smoking Man, I think he is an evil, evil person."
And though Reyes agreed to collaborate with CSM a decade ago, Gish hopes
she was able to keep some connections. "Doing this, she went off the
grid; she had her reasons and her motives," she says. "In my mind, I
always hope there's some relationship with Doggett that still exists."
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