Skinner: Use your head Scully. It'll save your ass.
Scully: Save your own ass, sir. You'll save your head along with it.
The Norwegian bar has a Norwegian flag on the wall. In the '90s no Norwegian bar would have the country's flag on its wall unless it was a racist/Nazi bar. See more...
Scully's father and the man Mulder thought was his father were both named William. Mulder's actual father, Cancer Man, was played by William B Davis. Scully and Mulder's son was also named William. See more...
starring Annabeth Gish, David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Robert Patrick (add more)
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The X Files office is in the basement of the F.B.I. headquarters. There are no offices in the basement of the J. Edgar Hoover F.B.I. building in actuality. [This is an in-joke. The X Files are files that cannot be explained, and technically, people believe that the phenomena contained therin 'doesn't exist' - So it would make sense for the X Files office to be in a place that doesn't exist also. ]
In "Roland," Scully tells Mulder she has two brothers. But in later episodes, such as "Emily," the only brother ever mentioned is Bill. Then, in the episode where Mulder and Fletcher switch bodies, Mulder tries to convince Scully that he's not Fletcher and says "Your mother's name is Margret, your brother's name is Bill, and he hates me." What happened to her other brother? [Scully has two brothers but Mulder has only met Bill. Her other brother is seen at times though, for example in "One Breath" from season three. His name is Charles.]
When we see Tooms working after getting his old job back, he sets his sights on a young blonde woman and begins to walk towards her, just before being interrupted by Mulder. What would he have done? Mulder says himself that Tooms didn't get away with his crimes for 100 years by not being careful, so exactly how would accosting a women in broad daylight with plenty of witnesses made sense? [His schedule was thrown off by Mulder's and Scully's intervention; he was simply getting desperate.]
When Mulder and Scully pull away to follow the truck, if you watch in slow motion, you can see the reflection of a piece of equipment on the car. [Per submission guidelines mistakes that require slow or stop motion are not considered valid mistakes.]
After Mulder says he is going to try and catch Phoebe to warn her about their suspect, Scully is talking on the phone, she looks at her watch which has a digital display and pointers. The digital says it's 4:22 but the pointers say it's 4:05. [My dad has a watch like that. The two modes are never the same time, and are usually off by 15-30 minutes. Maybe Scully's watch is broken, and she can't use the winder to fix the hand display.]
Why did Mulder call for a Doctor with Scully present in this episode? [I think he meant it has get an ambulance, since the people that arrive are paramedics.]
Lt. Col. Marcus Aurelius Belt is shown on a shuttle mission in 1977, but the space shuttle was first flown in 1981. [What is shown is a flashback of Belt on what looks like a Gemini mission from the 1960's.]
When they find Belt on the floor Mulder calls for a doctor. Scully, a medical doctor, is standing right next to him. [Mulder and Scully are FBI partners in the middle of an investigation. He can't wait around while his partner tends to Belt so he obviously needs a doctor OTHER than Scully.]
When Mulder and Scully are in the graveyard, the headstone says "Howard Patrick Graves", but the newspaper said his middle name was Thomas. [Papers are known to get details wrong especially names, it all depends on what the reporter notes down at the time.]
Towards the end of the episode Scully is listening to the tapes from Mulder's hypnosis sessions. She has listened to one side of the tape and turns it over to start on the other side. However when there's a closeup of the tape recorder the tape is halfway through the B-side. [It is likely that the recording did not take up the entire tape.]
Scully says that Mulder's dehydration contributed to his aging, so why would drinking alcohol, something that can seriously dehydrate you, extend the life of the captain? [Scully merely said that the captain drank alcohol instead of the contaminated water.]
Mulder states that the animals are being returned miles from their cages by an "astrological" variation. The correct word should be "astronomical." [Mulder is offereing the woman some pretty wild theories, so an "astrological" as opposed to an astronomical variation isn't unreasonable, given the context.]
Scully pushes Donnie into the bathtub and he gets soaked from the waist down, but in the next shot he is dry. [Every shot is either too dark or ends a bit below his chest, making this impossible to say.]
In the episode entitled "One Breath," CSM lights a cigarette in Skinner's office, despite a No Smoking sign, and then he puts it out in an ashtray that sits on a coffee table across from Skinner's desk. If Skinner doesn't allow smoking in his office, why does he have an ashtray in his office? [So people who enter with cigarettes have a place to put them out.]
In the investigation scene following the mechanic's murder, Mulder is wearing rubber gloves but when he scans his finger down the clipboard, his hand is bare. [He has gloves on throughout the entire scene. They are tight and look like he has none, but if you look closely you can see the latex.]
When Modell "talks" Burst to death, the cops in the room stop Mulder and Scully from disconnecting the call. You would think that two FBI Agents would hold rank over local PD Officers on any case. [They are his men, it only makes sense that they would listen to him instead of 2 Feds.]
This episode contradicts the season 2 episode "Apocrypha" where young CSM was seen in the 1950's with Bill Mulder as already a shadowy agent and smoking. This episode has CSM still a young man and not part of the Syndicate in 1963, and does not smoke yet. Also this episode fails to mention anything about the conspiracy with an alien species which is one of the key features about the CSM. [This whole episode is based solely on Frohike's guesses about CSM, so obviously, he was wrong on some details.]
When the repair man looks down from the pole at the clones, they all have shadows but the pole doesn't have a shadow. [The pole does have a shadow, but it's just out of camera range.]
When Mulder stabs the alien bounty hunter and the body rolls down the hill, we see the metal spike in the back of his neck, surrounded by his green acid blood. Yet when Mulder climbs down after it, it is suddenly lying on the ground away from the body. [The metal spike he picks up belongs to the alien bounty hunter. You see him holding it before Mulder stabs him.]
After Mulder retrieves the metal spike right after stabbing the alien bounty hunter, he chases Jeremiah, who has boarded a boat. The shot cuts back soon after to the bounty hunter's body and the spike can still be seen in his neck. [The metal spike Mulder picks up belongs to the alien bounty hunter. You see him holding it before Mulder stabs him.]
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