My ask is not Gillovny related but I hope you answer. If The X-Files go forward beyond CC involvement who do you want to take over it and why? Do you want the new showrunner to be an X-Files alumni (Morgan&Wong, Gilligan, Shiban, Spotnitz etc) or you want someone new? What do you think it can benefit the show more? And do you believe G & D will agree to come back if CC is not involved?

Unfortunately, I don’t think David & Gillian would be easy to convince to do some more if Chris isn’t on bord. They’re both ridiculously faithful to him. There are many writers of the show that I’d love to see as a new show runner, I think Vince Gilligan is the most qualified to do the job, and some of the good writers need to stay because they’re all the soul of the show (Spotnitz, Bowman, The Morgans) but I think I’d like to see some newbies, I’d like to see a woman, I’d like to see a fanfiction writer (I’m not even kidding!), and I would love to see Shonda Rhimes resolving some UST (now I’m kidding)(maybe not).
Also, I wish they would let David write and direct an episode. I love the way he writes MSR, and I think he loves to do it. I’d love to see what Gillian would write too. I’m not convinced she would like to do it, but we all need to know what happened right after All Things, and I think she would be the best to tell us on a flashback episode or something.