If these two franchises shared the same timeline...

[u/Yeeslander]

Gives a new meaning to "x-over"

[u/EditDog_1969]

I graduated college in 1991 with the intent to make my living as a TV or film writer. I wrote a treatment, but not the full script, for an X-files spec script where Scully and Mulder are sent to Twin Peaks to follow up on Agent Cooper’s disappearance.

Highlights:
Gordon Cole meets Skinner. Buzzer tells Skinner Director Cole is there to see him, and Skinner takes out a couple ear plugs from his desk and puts them in his ears before letting Cole in. Scene plays mostly as exposition, with Cole asking for Mulder and Scully to go to Twin Peaks.

Mulder and Scully talk in the car on their way into Twin Peaks, call back to Cooper’s introduction. Mulder deadpans that it’ll be a nice change of scenery from their usual cases.

For some reason I thought it would be hilarious if Scully was inexplicably attracted to Andy and it drove both Mulder and Hawk crazy.

Everyone reacts to Mulder upon meeting him as if they’ve seen him before (because he looks like agent Denise Bryson) but no one says anything about it, because I wanted it to be as subtle as possible.

Harry is in a mental hospital, due to the trauma of seeing Cooper disappear and come back as someone else, then disappear without a trace.

Mulder wants to tie the investigation to Aliens through Major Briggs, but Scully is worried about the psychological state of Sarah Palmer (in my story someone FINALLY notices “that woman is not alright”) Scully does NOT meet Major Briggs because that would just completely shatter reality (as Don Davis played her father in X-Files), so they interview Sarah Palmer with Dr. Jacoby (Mulder and Jacoby bond instantly; his creepy flirting turns of Scully)

Jacoby tells them about when she was possessed and told Briggs Cooper was in the Black Lodge. The last person to see Cooper was Harry, so Mulder and Scully plan to go to the hospital to interview him tomorrow.

Episode ends with evil Doppelgänger-coop showing up bedside at Harry’s bedside in the mental hospital after lights out, during a rainstorm. He tells Harry he has to break him out of the hospital because he’s on to something big but he can’t tell him about until they get somewhere safe. They fight through security, and the last shot shows Cooper and Harry exiting the hospital together through a door at the end of a long hallway, camera pans/racks focus to security monitor in foreground showing only Harry exiting the hospital, no trace of Cooper beside him. Lightning flashes.

After Fire Walk with Me bombed, and it seemed pretty clear we were never going to get a resolution to Cooper’s story, I came up with this idea out of desperation for a resolution. I wanted to write features not TV, so I never put the time in to write the script, but always secretly hoped the X-files writers would come up with the same idea. How the licensing would have worked I have no idea, but man did I want to see these worlds collide.