LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) -

David Duchovny made it clear Sunday (June 3): he's done
with "The X-Files" and won't come back, even for a cameo.

"Yeah, I'm done with the TV show," Duchovny told Zap2it
during interviews for "Evolution," his new sci fi comedy movie
for DreamWorks. "I don't think it's fair to me or the fans [to
do] cameos."

As this season ended, his FBI agent character Fox Mulder
ended the show kissing his longtime partner Scully, played
by Gillian Anderson. She just had a baby, and there's some
insinuation, although not clear, that it's Mulder's child.

That will be the last time Duchovny will be seen on the show,
he says.

"It's hard to walk away, I miss Mulder, I miss the show,"
Duchovny says. "I miss having my own show."

Duchovny left the show during contract disputes with Chris
Carter over residuals, and only agreed to do half the season
last year. He says he hasn't had time to miss his character
yet since it's only been a few weeks since he worked on the
show. And although FOX executives have said they would
love for Duchovny to stay, the actor says he was not offered
anything in particular to stay on the show, nor did his co-star
Anderson try to talk him out of it.

"Gillian did not try to convince me. She's going through the
same thing, she totally understands," says Duchovny,
reflecting reports that Anderson has said this would probably
be her last season with the show.

"I think the consciousness of the show is this quest of
Mulder's and the core of the show is Mulder and Scully.
When I came back at the end of this year, by necessity, by
my choice of not being on the show full time, other stories
and other ideas had to come center stage," Duchovny said.
"And when I came back I felt somewhat peripheral. Mulder's
story was one of three or four stories that were going on and
it didn't feel like the same show to me."

His character had been emasculated -- in the show he was
fired from the FBI and taken off the X-Files, the secret
odd-supernatural cases investigated by the FBI. So, he says,
he won't consider coming back in cameos.

"To bring back Mulder peripherally is not fair to the character
that I feel a lot of affinity for," Duchovny insists. "I feel that
fans respect Mulder as the consciousness of the show and
for him to come back like Superman's Dad or whatever feels
cheap to me." He also characterized his feelings as "a
step-dad still having stuff in the house waiting to move out, it
was weird."

The cast and crew didn't make him feel uncomfortable,
however, and he said he loved working with Robert Patrick,
who was brought in as an FBI agent to replace Mulder as he
was abducted by aliens. Duchovny said he grew tired.

"There's no other show in the history of television that had the
schedule we did, two people an hour a week, no one had that
kind of workload," Duchovny says, explaining he encouraged
other characters to be beefed up in the show to take the
focus off Scully and Mulder. "That never seemed to catch
on."

And as far as money, Duchovny says he was sure he could
"write his own ticket."

"The money is crazy, it gets confusing," Duchovny says,
comparing himself to "ER's" Julianna Margulies, who decided
not to continue on the show despite a $25 million-plus
contract offer. "People are making fun of Julianna for making
that decision when we should be applauding her."

In the end, what Duchovny really wants is to focus on writing
and directing, as well as acting in different genres, like the
comedy "Evolution."

However, Fox Mulder may be back someday. Duchovny is
leaving the door open to play the character on the big screen
and he says he knew they wouldn't kill off his character in the
TV show because Fox wants to do another movie with their
characters.

But with him out of the picture next season, will the question
everyone is asking -- Is Mulder the father of Scully's baby --
ever be resolved?

"I don't know about the baby," he smiles, admitting he's not
sure it's his. "But that's it for me -- the kiss -- that's it."

"They'll have to resolve me while I'm gone, and I'll be
interested in that -- have a baby with me kiss me and now he
left."

One thing is for sure, Duchovny will be watching.