Scully had deal with news of her almost certain demise while Mulder tried to figure out a way to help her.
Skinner, the Cigarette-Smoking Man, and the Lone Gunmen all turned up, and the end of the episode set the stage for a plot point that wouldn’t come back until halfway through Season 8.
“Memento Mori” was a pivotal episode of the original run of The X-Files, finally confirmed that Scully had cancer due to the removal of the chip from her neck.
Gillian Anderson won an Emmy for her work in “Memento Mori,” and it was well-deserved.