SPOILER ALERT: Miller and Einstein! The X-Files hints at Mulder and Scully's replacements in penultimate episode

By Ross Mcdonagh For Dailymail.com

Published: 00:10 EST, 9 February 2016 | Updated: 03:05 EST, 9 February 2016

The X-Files special agents could be about to become the ex-X-Files special agents.

The teaser for the penultimate episode of the series hinted at Fox Mulder and Dana Scully's eventual replacements.

In the trailer for episode five of the current six part revival miniseries, viewers were introduced to agents Miller and Einstein, who both shared a couple of very familiar traits.

Enter Miller and Einstein: The X-Files hinted at Mulder and Scully's replacements in the penultimate episode on Monday night

Enter Miller and Einstein: The X-Files hinted at Mulder and Scully's replacements in the penultimate episode on Monday night

Einstein - played by Six Feet Under's Lauren Ambrose - is a medical doctor with a skeptical view on the supernatural, with a very recognisable shade of red hair.

Her tall and handsome dark-haired young partner meanwhile - played by The Flash's Robbie Amell - also rings a bell as an agent 'obsessed with the paranormal'.

As the two are introduced, David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson exchange more than one knowing glance as they watch their two young charges bounce off each other. 

In the episode Babylon, an art gallery exhibiting showing potentially offensive artwork is bombed.

De ja vu: In the trailer for episode five of the current six part revival miniseries, viewers were introduced to agents Miller and Einstein, who both shared a couple of very familiar traits

De ja vu: In the trailer for episode five of the current six part revival miniseries, viewers were introduced to agents Miller and Einstein, who both shared a couple of very familiar traits

Ring any bells? As the two are introduced, David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson exchange more than one knowing glance as they watch their two young charges bounce off each other

Ring any bells? As the two are introduced, David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson exchange more than one knowing glance as they watch their two young charges bounce off each other

'One of the bombers survived,' Special Agent Miller declares in the clip.

'He's dead, except for a heartbeat,' Special Agent Einstein matter of factly shuts him down.

When Mulder proposes he 'can communicate with the terrorist', Einstein is not convinced.

‘I pity that poor Agent Scully,’ she tells her partner.  'It's like my dream assignment! he replies indignant.

Scully 2: Einstein - played by Six Feet Under's Lauren Ambrose - is a medical doctor with a skeptical view on the supernatural, with a very recognisable shade of red hair
Scully 2: Einstein - played by Six Feet Under's Lauren Ambrose - is a medical doctor with a skeptical view on the supernatural, with a very recognisable shade of red hair

Scully 2: Einstein - played by Six Feet Under's Lauren Ambrose - is a medical doctor with a skeptical view on the supernatural, with a very recognisable shade of red hair

Mulder 2: Her tall and handsome dark-haired young partner meanwhile - played by The Flash's Robbie Amell - also rings a bell as an agent 'obsessed with the paranormal'
Mulder 2: Her tall and handsome dark-haired young partner meanwhile - played by The Flash's Robbie Amell - also rings a bell as an agent 'obsessed with the paranormal'

Mulder 2: Her tall and handsome dark-haired young partner meanwhile - played by The Flash's Robbie Amell - also rings a bell as an agent 'obsessed with the paranormal'

In the final frames, Mulder and Einstein are seen clashing over his plan.

'If you are suggesting I were to go through with this lunatic scheme...' she trails off, agitated.

'What is lunatic about it?' Mulder asks.

'Oh let me think... everything! she snaps sarcastically.

But Mulder ensures he has the last word, calling after her: 'So that's a maybe?' 

The second-last episode of The X-Files arrives on Fox next Monday.

Same old: In the final frames, Mulder and Einstein are seen clashing over his 'lunatic scheme'

Same old: In the final frames, Mulder and Einstein are seen clashing over his 'lunatic scheme'

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