January 26th 1999: Confirmed Cast List:

Gillian Anderson as Agent Dana Scully
David Duchovny as Agent Fox Mulder
Kim Darby as Kathy Lee Tencate
Mark Rolston as Mr. LaPierre
Shareen Mitchell as Mrs. LaPierre
Spencer Garrett as Mr. Bring
Martin Grey as Agt. Flager
Rebecca Toolan as Mrs. Mulder

November 12 1999: Credits:

Written By:

Frank Spotnitz and Chris Carter

Directed By:

Michael Watkins

Air Date: February 6th 2000

February 1 2000: From TV Guide:

"A bizarre kidnapping sets up a two-part tale in which Mulder's quest for his long-missing sister Samantha comes into play. The victim is a 5-year-old girl who vanished from her bedroom while her parents were home. Prior to the child's disappearance, the father had troubling visions of her. And evidence suggests that a note- threatening harm, but demanding no ramsom-was written by her mother. Mulder insists on pursuing the case, and finds a clue that leads to a prison inmate. Meanwhile, Mulder receives a very cryptic phone message from his mother."

January 26 2000: From Mara:

"Mulder appears to have his own agenda as he disputes preliminary evidence---and other agents' opinions---in the kidnapping of a 5-year-old girl. Part 1 of two.

January 8 2000: From Official X-Files Site:

"The strange disappearance of a little girl leads Mulder to make connections with previous unexplained kidnappings. As he begins to personalize the investigation, Scully believes he is associating the case with the abduction of his sister."

January 3 2000: From Daniel Wood:

"Autumn was kind enough to inform the newsgroup of this, all credit to her. In the X-Files episode 'Sein Und Zeit', Mr. Lapierre tells Mulder that before he realized his daughter was gone, he was watching TV. He says he'd never seen the show before, but 'It was good.' He will be seen watching the show in the teaser(?) The show is, of course, Harsh Realm."

December 30 1999: From Elwood Blues:

"Some [information] on the SUZ plot: " Mulder & Scully are investigating the disappearence of Amber Lynn Lapierre, who disappeared out of her bedroom at night
Mr. & Mrs. Lapierre are the primary suspects of abducting Amber Lynn
Mulder beliefs that they won´t find Amber Lynn alive
Mulder is in Skinner's office when Scully tells him his Mom is dead (End of part 1, Scully: "Mulder, your Mom is dead." ...TO BE CONTINUED]
Teena Mulder either commited suicide or was murdered
She tried to tell Fox the truth about the entire Samantha-abduction...
The case is not an X-File, Mulder asks Skinner to involve him"

December 11 1999: From Starbuck:

"The shoot was taking place at a Denny's restaurant by the intersection of Sepulveda and Burbank -- two major streets. Across the street was a parking lot surrounded by a fence, apparently normally used for a limo service or rental cars or something similar. It was the base camp -- we saw a couple of Star Waggons (no typo ) and other trailers there. At this point we weren't sure if it was a first- or second-unit shoot, so Peggy told me some things to look for on the trailers to see if they were David's and Gillian's.

"The Denny's was situated in such a way that it was surrounded by two little motels -- a Best Western and another outfit that appeared to be local (not a chain). The Denny's faced the street, of course, and had parking on either side of it that was shared with the motels. Then, beyond the parking were the motels, typical cheap two-storys. However, they were quite attractive -- there were tons of palm trees around that gave the whole area a very nice look.

We walked up on the right side of the Denny's, which is where most of the activity seemed to be going on. It was obvious they were filming inside at that point, and had lights set up outside and a trailer parked behind the restaurant with equipment all around it.

"They began shooting the scene outside. Mulder is outside the restaurant in the parking lot, while Scully is inside. 'Action, Gillian!' On the first take, Scully walks out the front door and around the front of the restaurant towards Mulder, while Mulder is simultaneously wandering forward a few steps, gazing up at the sky. Scully approaches from behind him, and when she arrives Mulder turns over his left shoulder and appears to give her a kiss. I swear on my life that's what it looked like. Then Scully wraps her arms around Mulder from behind and hugs him for a few seconds, then breaks away and they cut.

"We were about to die. We were completely having fits. Just freaking out. Of course, we didn't know if that was actually scripted ("It CAN'T be," we decided), or if someone had screwed something up and they just improvised for fun (and to screw with our minds ). When they got in their places to shoot it again, NO ONE was breathing. Just waiting to see if they'd repeat the same thing. Scully walks out the front door and around to Mulder, coming up on his right side and slightly behind him, standing close as always. They're both staring up at the sky and stay that way for quite some time, apparently conversing. Then Mulder bends over and puts his hands on his knees, as he does when he's in pain (emotional or physical -- think the teaser of 'Redux II'. Not that much, but the same sort of movement). He straightens up, Scully puts her hand on his back and then walks off. Cut.

"They film this scene six or seven times at least. It was beautiful -- their faces in silhouette against the backlights, looking up at the night sky. Once Gillian apparently steps on a grate that shifts under her, making a very audible noise and causing David to turn around, thus ruining the take. But all the other times it was just the same -- and we're all dying wondering what's going on. It looks absolutely beautiful with lots of potential 'shippiness. I cannot *wait* to see this episode.

"They begin to rearrange everything, putting up barriers here and lighting there, making it harder for us to see what's going on. While they were doing the final preparations we determined that the man David had been talking to (and whom he resumed his conversation with) was indeed Mitch -- Arlene was standing right next to him, and the three of them stood in a circle talking. We finally decided that Arlene was working that night, and Mitch had come over to watch and be with her and talk to his friends. Incredibly sweet. David and Mitch and Arlene talked for quite awhile, before they shook hands and Mitch and Arlene walked off to leave. Peggy and I shouted 'Hi, Mitch!' across the street at him, but I don't know that he heard us.

"They began filming what turned out to be the final scene that night. After the first take it became apparent that it was the same scene we saw before, less the walking, with different lighting and camera angles. David and Gillian were lit from underneath, gazing up at the sky. It was incredibly striking -- just fabulously beautiful. I could have watched that forever. They filmed that perhaps five or six times, then wrapped for the night. Gillian walked back across the street one final time, and Becky said, 'We don't know what you were just filming, but it looked beautiful.' She had a lollipop in her mouth and gave us this big smile and said 'Thank you!' Common wisdom is that she's sucking lollipops all the time because she's trying to quit smoking. Good girl."

December 7 1999: From Sft_Feedback:

"Scully does the autopsy and discovers that Mrs. Mulder had cancer (a very disfiguring sort, called Padgets) and thus, Scully thinks this is why she did it. But, Mulder knows his mother was trying to tell him something related to the kidnapping, she left a message on his answering machine. It appears like it may come out that she was murdered."

December 3 1999: From Kate:

"This episode involves the unexplained disappearances of a number of children and the subsequent investigations of their parents. However , Samantha's disappearance is linked here as well. This probably turns into more of a mythology episode for the 2nd part.

"There looks to be a good Scully/Mulder scene. After Mulder finds out about his mother's death he breaks down in Scully's arms and she spends the night at his apartment! But, nothing happens."

November 24 1999: From Autumn:

"OK. First of all, 'Sein Und Zeit' is part 1 of 2. The story is continued in 7X11, untitled as of yet. I previously told you that [this episode] had to do with parents suspected of abducting their own children. Some of you speculated we might be covering some Samantha territory as well because of the content. You are right. There's even a Santa Claus killer named Ed Truelove involved that has done a number of murders in this two-parter that Mulder even hopes a la Paper Hearts might lead to some clues about Samantha. Well, there's a twist. A big one. Now please remember that this comes from the original draft of part 1 and God knows after 'Two Fathers/One Son' and 'Biogenesis' those things can change dramatically. However, in the original script of episode ten, Mulder's Mom dies. And it appears to be suicide."

November 14 1999: From Daniel Wood:

"'Sein und Zeit' means 'Being and Time,' and it's a great philosophy book by Heidegger. It's less complicated than Nietzche, but that doesn't help too much.

"I got the notes below from a Web site, hope it might help you:

"'Sein und Zeit, in effect, offers a sequence of increasingly fundamental analyses of our existence:
(1) our everyday being-in-the-world;
(2) the fundamental structures of our being-in-the-world (understanding and mood);
(3) the fundamental structure of our Being as care(and Angst )
(4) the themes of death, guilt and possible authenticity;
(5) finally, the disclosure of the sense of our Being as temporality (and the related theme of the historicality of our existence).'"

November 12 1999: From Annonymous:

The term "Sein Und Zeit" is German for "Being and Time." It is the same title as that of a book about philosophy by Martin Heidegger. Thanks to Adam Silva for this information.

November 7 1999: From Autumn :

"This episode has to do with parents suspected of abducting their own children."





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