All we need in the trailer are images of Fox Mulder and Dana Scully and an X to rev our hearts into action in red alert to the return of a sorely missed old friend.It's been ten years since the first film, The X-Files: Fight the Future, and six years since we last heard the haunting strains of the theme song for the definitive science fiction show of the 1990s.

The premise of the show was deceptively simple: an FBI agent, Fox Mulder (David Duchovny), was consigned to the Siberia of the intelligence community, investigating marginalized, unsolved cases deemed X-Files. Fellow agent Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) was tasked with applying her scientific background to keep her partner in check, as he was prone to make leaps of faith by assessing paranormal involvement to many of their cases.

Their dynamic was part of their appeal. Mulder had an unwavering faith in not only the paranormal in general, but in the existence of extraterrestrials in particular. Scully was the skeptic, always looking for scientific, rational explanations for the phenomena they dealt with. Ironically, when it came to matters of spirituality, their roles were reversed.

And, as the main thrust of the X-Files is about faith: we want to believe.

We want to believe that there is more to this world than we see or that's been presented to us. We want to believe in magic and mystery, even though some of us can't handle either. We want to be scared, as paranormal reality intrudes on our cozy little lives to remind us that shadows terrify us for a reason. We want to believe, to have the faith to believe that things aren't all meaningless... and we can't wait to have our faith tested July 25th.