 In this episode, Mulder and Scully encounter a man and his physically disabled brother who lead the agents to an indifferent genie whose willingness to grant wishes belies a deeper motive.Gilligan had written and helped produce earlier episodes of "The X-Files", but "Je Souhaite" was his directorial debut.Originally, the script was supposed to be a "stark and scary" story, but Gilligan changed it to a humorous tale about a genie.