Talking to the Vancouver Sun about the new six-episode series of The X-Files that will be shooting in the city later this year, creator Chris Carter revealed various elements that will feature in the show, for which he has completed the first draft.

The cold open – the teaser before the credits – will be back. “We had to get a special dispensation to do the approach that we had taken originally with the show, which was a teaser — a little two- or three-minute segment in the beginning that sets up the show. They had done away with that approach on Fox, so they allowed us to go back to, I would call it, old-style,” Carter explained.

The show won’t be one simple story. “You really get what you have come to expect with The X-Files, which is a combination of the ongoing Mulder and Scully conspiracy saga, relationship and stand-alone episodes that will come interspersed,” the producer noted, although it “will all be of a piece, meaning that it won’t feel disconnected”.

Mulder and Scully were living together in the second X-Files movie, I Want to Believe, but the relationship “is not where we left it,” Carter teases, and suggests that their son William “might” be seen, “or certainly he’ll be referred to.” He’s not the only one who may be returning: William B. Davis will be back as the Cigarette Smoking Man, and there’s a “big chance” the Lone Gunmen will be involved. As he points out, “As we say in The X-Files, even though you’re dead you’re never really dead.”

For more from Carter, including his thoughts on returning to Vancouver where the show filmed its first five years, click here.

TV Line has also reported that Glen Morgan and James Wong will be returning to the show, to write and direct an episode apiece, with Morgan also acting as an executive producer. However, fellow X-Files alumnus Vince Gilligan isn’t expected to be involved.