"One Son" is the twelfth episode from the sixth season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. It first aired on February 14, 1999, on the Fox network. The episode was written by series creator Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz, and directed by Rob Bowman. It explores the series' overarching mythology and concludes the Syndicate story arc.
A Syndicate surgeon is revealed to be a faceless rebel. In the commentary for this episode, Frank Spotnitz cited this visual effect as one with which he was not pleased.
The episode was co-written by series creator Chris Carter (right) and Frank Spotnitz (left).
The climactic scene featuring the Syndicate being incinerated by the alien rebels took place at the Marine Corps Air Station Tustin.
Veronica Cartwright's performance in the episode resulted in an Emmy nomination.
The sixth season of the science fiction television series The X-Files commenced airing on the Fox network in the United States on November 8, 1998, concluding on the same channel on May 16, 1999, and consisted of twenty-two episodes. The season continued from the 1998 feature film and focused heavily on FBI federal agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully's separation from the X-Files Division and the demise of the Syndicate—a "shadow government" group attempting to cover up the existence of extraterrestrials—in the two-part episode "Two Fathers" and "One Son".
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The sixth season of The X-Files was filmed in Los Angeles.
