1. This is really major - in The Pilot, Mulder tells Scully that he and his sister were in bed when Sam was abducted. In LGM they were both wide awake and arguing in the living room. It would seem to me, that if the whole show is based on one man's obsession, they should keep the cause of that obsession consistent. - Kymberlee

2. That was not the Miami Int'l airport. 20 cent phones?? Give me a break! I am pretty sure that it was Vancouver, B.C. Airport.

Or perhaps, not an airport at all, but a sound stage in Vancouver, and the phone was an old prop. :-) After all, 20 cents in Vancouver is even less than 20 cents in the USA.

I think the better reason for commenting that it couldn't be Miami Int'l is that Scully was wearing her trench coat (which was, of course, because she was pregnant). from: Jeff

3. I am from Puerto Rico, and have visited the Radio Telescope at Arecibo many times. It is not closed-up as depicted in the episode, but a vibrant research facility with many research projects going on. They even have a Home Page in the WWW. from: Rachel Hull

4. If the fence surrounding the observatory was locked so that Mulder had to climb the fence to get in, how did Scully get her truck in to park it outside so it would be conveniently waiting for their getaway? Did she run down the fence, or what? I know she was anxious to get to Mulder, but geez. from: Kathleen Jenkins

5. Radio transmissions with a wide bandwidth does not mean that the source is close by. It means that the transmission is covering a lot of frequencies. Radio transmissions with a narrow bandwidth does not mean that the source is far away. It means that the transmission is covering a small range of frequencies.

Distance has nothing to do with this! Granted it would be easier to pick up a 100 watt signal than a 1 watt signal, but that also depends on the type of antenna used to pick up the signal(s) in question. from: Barney O'Borg

6. When Scully is trying to find out what happened to Mulder she types in his computer password as 'trustno1' This has 8 digits, but I'm sure I can make out 9 key presses AND a 'return'. from: Mark Ottow.

7. In the beginning, Mulder cuts open the chain that keeps the door locked to the interior of the lab. The Hispanic guy is in the bathroom already, with no windows in sight. So how did he get there? (an explanation has been offered that aliens placed him, there, however I would think that after time trapped in a locked building w/o food he would be weak, sick or dead.) from: Jon

8. Scenery slip up: There's a lot of pines and evergreens in Puerto Rico these days... :) from: the Weasel

9. According to the looks of Mulder's printer, he has an ink jet, but the sound effects are that of a laser writer. from: the Weasel

10. In the "Miami" airport, someone (I think it is Scully, but I am not sure) is sitting down reading a newspaper. On the front page, it has the name of a Miami newspaper. However, when the back page is shown, it is unmistakably the Toronto Globe and Mail. from: Geoffrey Funnell

11. Why did Mulder make his pathology-like observations ("no burns, no puncture wounds...") while the man was fully clothed? I know he said he's not an actual pathologist, but isn't couldn't it be possible for aliens to burn the skin, but not the clothes? from: Lisa

12. In Mulder's memory of Samantha's abduction, she calls him "buttmunch". As far as I know, Beavis & Butthead introduced and popularized this expression in the 90's -- does anyone recall hearing it before B&B? Like in 1973? from: Jill Beckman

13. Skinner is talking to Mulder in his office with CSM in the background smoking. Before CSM talks to Mulder he butts out his cigarette in the ashtray. The first shot of the ashtray it has around 5 butts. If you look closely you will see that some of the butts in the ashtray have white filters on them. CSM smokes Morley cigarettes and these have brown filters. The second scene of the ashtray when CSM has left the office and his butt is still smoking in the ashtray, it now has only brown butts and the number of butts had increased to 9 or more. So who else has been smoking in Skinners office when Skinner has made it a point to tell CSM that in his office there is NO smoking allowed? from: Vicky Lipscombe

1. Scully is quoting to Mulder from a book all about flukes (Trematodes). However, the stuff she is quoting is wrong! She states that flukes or flatworms have a scolex with hooks and suckers. I'm sorry, that is the distinguishing characteristic of cestodes (tapeworms to you uninitiated). Trematodes have no scolex and definitely no hooks. from: Jo Holloway

2. A&A Anderson Tank doesn't exist in Newark. But, it does exist with the same phone number in Vancouver. That's a long drive to pick up a load of crap. Also, the impellers in sewage-sucker-trucks chop their load into little itty bitty bite-sized (ewww) pieces, which should have signalled the end to FlukeMan. from: Gerald Hough II

3. The impellers in sewage-sucker-trucks chop their load into little itty bitty pieces, which should have chopped up Mr. FlukeMan. from: the Weasel

4. They try to depict Newark. My father is an Officer of their P.D. And he laughed at the lame attempt at the uniforms and cars. They could have sent for pictures. Also, Newark does not have that many trees anywhere.

1. Franklin Community College somehow had the tower at the University of British Columbia taken down and then reassembled at Franklin for the shooting scene! from: Gerald Hough II

1. We see Scully at the beginning, teaching a class around a corpse. We see her students taking down notes... now correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that when we get a shot of one of the student's notebooks, we see that the pages are totally blank. from: Rhea Merena

2. Scully says 'Oftanomic' not 'Autonomic'. She also says 'Sinus and aa-trioventricular nodes'. Should be 'Sino and ae-trioventricular nodes'. from: Gerald Hough II

3. Mulder and Krycek are stuck in traffic, and Krycek is not wearing a tie. But, a few seconds later, Krycek has somehow dressed himself properly.

1. Duane forgot 'resolution' when listing off FBI strategy. Maybe he didn't plan on resolving the situation? from: Gerald Hough II

2. Duane couldn't tell that one of the EMTs was Mulder from the phone? from: the Weasel

3. Duane Barry walks away from Mulder to doc, saying 'I'm tired of all the B.S.!!', but you can see his lips say the word 'bullshit!'. Must have been too harsh in the editing room, but you really can make out his real word!! from: Gerald Hough II

4. A scanner at the supermarket wouldn't read out an alien code. It would get to the end of the digits used in UPC codes then hit an error. Besides, something microns wide can't be read by those systems. Also there's the question of compatibility across systems that would make this scene improbable. It's like trying to read a diskette with a CD player... unless the supermarkets are run by aliens... from: Gerald Hough II

5. Duane lived in Pulaski, VA. After his alleged abduction, he was sent to a mental health hospital in Marion, VA. There he kidnaps a doctor and drives into downtown Richmond, VA, and holds several workers in travel agency hostage. It's a 5+ hour drive from Marion to Richmond. Wouldn't the VA State Police have been able to somehow set up roadblocks to stop him somewhere? Even though he's former FBI, I doubt he could be that good. from: Jeff Crigger

6. How come Duane Barry was talking with the police (or Mulder) on a SANYO cordless phone when there wasn't electricity?!? (I have the same phone, and believe me, it shouldn't be working.) from: Jonathan Amiran

7. How did Duane Barry know who Scully was and where she lived when they never met one another? from: Vicky Lipscombe

1. In the scene with Scully on the table and the infamous unexplained "stomach pump", it starts out just metal on flesh; when we cut away and return, there's all kinds of medical tape/gauze on her midsection where the pump is connected... from: Dan Amrich

2. Duane Berry takes Scully to the mountain, yes it is in Virginia or W. Virginia. The mountain is most likely a ski resort, it has to be since trams are very expensive (and are used only for very long high altitude rides) and I doubt there is one in operation east of the Rockies, so the place should get a reasonable amount of snow, so where is it? from: Dave

3. Unless I read my atlas wrong, Rt. 229 does not lead to the Blue Ridge Pkwy. It does lead to Rt. 211, which does go to the BRP. from: Lisa

4. Again, my map reading ability may be lacking, but Rt. 229 doesn't appear to be anywhere near the town where the cop was shot. from: Lisa

5. In the hallway scene with Mr. X the time is given as 11:45 am. Why is it so dark? Mood lighting? from: Lisa

6. In the very next scene, in Skinner's office, the time is given as 8:11 am. No date change was given, and everyone is dressed the same. Is it supposed to be 21 hrs later, or was that wrong?

1. If the sun is creeping towards John, then the sun's setting, not rising.

2. Have you ever noticed that the blue dumpsters in the alleys says BEL instead of BFI? BFI is of course a major waste removal contractor. BEL is a demon-god of the Old Testament. I'm sure they chose the letters because they were close enough to BFI to look real, but not a copyright violation. I'm also sure they chose them for what they spelled. The first time I noticed this was during the vampire episode. How appropriate! from: Paul Rydeen

1. Mulder signs the sheet for Scully while she is in a Coma and the signature is different to the one on his F.B.I. card in the credits.

2. How come the doctors didn't notice the large hole in her belly? Or notice the branched DNA?

3. Mulder's Laser Printer has the 'Hewlett Packard' portion of the name taped over. Only LaserJet 4 can be seen. from: Gerald Hough II

4. Mulder's apartment number appears as 4 instead of 42.

5. Skinner has 'no smoking' sign in his office. So why does he have ashtrays all around?

1. The scientists are exposed to a silicon-based, fungus like parasite that is completely undetectable until it bursts out of their neck to spread spores. There are several problems with the science in this. First, the fungi grow from nearly weightless spores to fungi that are about 9 inches in length and must weigh about a pound. They are silicon based, but there is nearly no silicon in the human body. The scientists would have had to be munching on beer bottles to get enough silicon in their bodies. from: Joe Gottman

2. The fungi were extremely efficient parasites, so they must have evolved as parasites. But, since the scientists were the first humans to visit the volcano, there must have been natural hosts that the parasites evolved to infect. There was no sign of any such hosts: the only silicon life form that was found was the parasite. from: Joe Gottman

3. To an organism that lives in the enormous heat of a volcano, the human body would seem rather cold at just 98.6 degrees. from: Joe Gottman

4. The parasites burst out the neck. The human neck is extremely crowded already, containing the spine, windpipe, esophagus, and major arteries and veins. I doubt there was enough room in the neck for the parasite to live without putting major pressure on one of these organs, enough to cause obvious physical symptoms from: Joe Gottman

5. When O'Neil dies, didn't you all see the puff of spores come flying out of the crack in the door? If it only takes one spore to infect someone, I think that at least one would have gotten into Scully. from: the Weasel

1. I don't know of a camcorder that can film through a peephole. I'd buy double-sided glass, but the back was brown paint! from: the Weasel

2. When Mulder and Scully are eating dinner at Clay's rib place (or wherever it was) Mulder goes outside to see what the kids are yelling at. He removes his napkin once, then again as he's walking along. from: Angela

3. When the sheriff takes M&S to see the Order of the Red Museum for the first time they enter the hall and Odin starts typing on his computer. When he gets to the third paragraph you see the 2nd line he types appears on the big screen behind him, then when we see M&S again there is still only one line of the third paragraph on the big screen... from: Diana de Bruin

4. When Mulder and Scully are eating dinner and Mulder leans to clear Scully, some sauce still remains on her. In the next shot, she is clean. I guess it would be too time-consuming to clean her properly :). from: Ondrej

1. The episode was titled "EXCELSIUS DEI" but on the show the name on the metal gate at the entrance said "Excelsis Dei". Which is the correct spelling?
Furthermore, the title in the menu of DVD says Exelsius Dei.

2. The doctor tells Scully and Mulder that he has been experimenting on the Alzheimer's patients with a drug called Deprenyl. So far, so good. There is such a drug, and it has been studied as a possible treatment for Alzheimer's due to it's memory, intelligence, and mood elevating effects. The doctor also tells Dana and Fox that the drug increases acetylcholine levels. Acetylcholine is a chemical which acts as a neurotransmitter (it carries messages between nerve cells). There is another chemical in the brain called dopamine which also acts as a neurotransmitter. Here is where the show is in error: Deprenyl primarily effects dopamine levels in the nervous system, not acetylcholine. Scully does some research and later in the show announces that the doctor is right, and that elevated acetylcholine levels can cause psychosis. That may be true (at very high levels), but Deprenyl doesn't influence acetylcholine metabolism, as the writers of the episode apparently believe. I suspect one of them read a book on smart drugs, got mixed up on some of the terminology, and didn't bother to refer back to the source to get the facts straight. from: Bill Cobb

3. When the bathroom was filling up with water, quite a few people thought that shooting a few holes in the door would have solved the problem but there is a far better solution. Break the bathroom window! When Mulder and Scully leave the bathroom after viewing Hal Arden's 'plumbing', the light from a large window can be seen on the wall. Wouldn't the window break under the pressure of water anyway? Those outside should have grabbed a fire axe, or something. Water had only just started to come through the bottom door sill when Scully ran off to turn off the water at the mains. A bathroom of that size, even allowing for some space above the top of the door, would hold tons of water. Wouldn't the bathroom floor have collapsed under the weight into the basement?. from: Scrooge

4. Gung refers to his "prefecture", which is the name for a district in China, but is eventually repatriated to Malaysia where there are no prefectures. from: Scrooge

5. Doesn't the fax type in the office print received faxes on the side, on the bottom? This one has the fax from the lab on top, where you feed the paper into it... Almost like a laser printer... from: Gerald Hough II

6. When the bathroom was filling up with water and Scully was pounding on the door, why didn't she shoot the lock off? I know that even if she shot it off after there was a certain volume of water in the room (even though the floor shouldn't have been able to hold that much weight) you couldn't push the door open because of the water pressure, but if she shot the lock off after she pounded and yelled a few times, she could have pushed the door open. from: Jacquie Hall

1. (I suppose this could fit in a number of episodes, but it was brought to my attention in the context of this one - K.) Mulder and Scully are in a car going somewhere, trying to get there as fast as they can. Mulder is driving and Scully is riding shotgun. They pull over to the right side of the road, and the place that they are going is located on the right side of the road. As soon as Mulder stops, Scully is out of the car and headed for the house... But Mulder gets there first! I don't understand how he can put the car in park, kill the engine, unbuckle his seatbelt, get out of the car, go around the car, and still make it to the house before her. from: Karla Jameson

2. When B.J. is digging for the body down in the cellar, we see Mulder and Scully come down the stairs. Watch closely and you'll notice that Scully trips over down the stairs and Mulder grabs her to steady her. from: Angela

3. In the beginning, when Mulder and Scully are in the office talking, Scully is reading a file. Several times, she flips the page over, but when we see her from Mulder's point of view, the page is not overturned. from: Angela

4. If the body was that close to the surface, why hadn't it been discovered sooner? from: Lisa

5. Tillman tells Mulder and Scully about the recent murder and states that only two other people know about the 'sister' markings. A detective arrives (not knowing what they have been talking about) and says "Excuse me sir, there's been another one". Another what? Another 50 year old body? In context with what has been said is OK but otherwise it is somewhat contrived.

No it's not OK. We're supposed to think that this detective just arrived from, or from talking to someone at the pool where the body was found. Ergo, they know it's not a 50 year old body.

Unless that detective was the same one Tillman refers to when he says that the three people who know about the first body were him, the coroner and "one of his men", then that man's statement would indicate a leak in the department, or a slip-up by the writers. - Kymberlee

Why didn't Scully and Mulder call Mrs. Thibideaux and warn her not to be home when they "discovered" that B.J. had become Cokely? It would have been a lot faster than driving over there. from: Scrooge

6. Crewmembers and equipment's reflection are visible on Mulder and Scully's car's doors, when they arrive to Mrs. Thibedeaux's house after the attack. from: X__Alien

1. When Donnie is cruising down the street looking for a prostitute, we have a view of the street with some cars and a bus running down it. The problem is, the destination sign (for lack of a better term) on the bus says UBC, which is the University of British Columbia in Vancouver!

2. How did Mulder and Bocks know that it was Donny Pfaster who ran Scully off the road? I mean, Minneapolis is a big place. Anybody could have run her off the road from: Rhea Merana

3. OK, so they don't depresurize the cargo holds (as I suspected earlier) because pets frequently ride in there. If that's the case, then wouldn't they have to keep the hold relatively warm? Wouldn't that start decomposition? What did they do? Ship the prostitute in a cooler? - Kymberlee

4. Have you noticed Ray Soames' grave (from Pilot) in the grave yard at the beginning? from: Graham

5. At the beginning, Mulder, Scully and Bocks are looking over an unearthed grave in the rain. Wouldn't they have needed to have the grave covered to keep any evidence from washing away? from: Scrooge

6. We never see that Pfaster has a gun - his murder was committed with a knife. So why didn't Scully shoot Pfaster when he ran her off the road to avoid being kidnapped? Didn't the FBI teach her any self-preservation techniques? from: Scrooge

7. Scully pushed Pfaster backwards into the bath tub and he is soaked from the waist down - his left arm is soaked to the elbow. In the next shot he is dry! from: Scrooge

1. The Coriolis Effect is subject to many myths. One is that it causes water to flow down a drain clockwise. In all actuality it causes certain systems, for example, low pressure systems, to rotate counterclockwise. It does not, however, have a great effect on systems smaller than say, a hurricane. This is why 80% of tornadoes rotate counterclockwise, just like hurricanes, but 20% of tornadoes... rotate clockwise.

2. When Shannon dies after slitting her wrists from Ms. Paddock's demonic suggestion, Paddock says that she ran in when she heard the girl fall off the stool. From my experience working with attempted suicides, to actually die from slitting one's wrists takes a while, even after she would have passed out and fallen off the stool. Plus, unless she had practically cut her hands off, the wounds would have started to clot over before she actually died... which is why suicides who really want to go out this way submerse their wounds in water (i.e. a bath), to prevent clotting.

That's true, and it's double-true as she cut her wrists in a 90 degrees angle to her under arm. That's the wrong way to do it any way you want to, as cutting your wrists in the length of the arms makes the wound a lot larger and so more probable lethal. If she would have done it that way, it might even be that she WOULD have died without water... from: Rutger van Bergen

3. How did the python managed to get Ausbury's hand out of the handcuffs when it swallowed him? As far as I know, pythons have no teeth to chew their prey - they just swallow it in one piece. Anyway - the handcuffs still looked o.k. afterwards, they were even still locked, and there was no blood on the floor or on the handcuffs (which would have been there, if the python had ripped off Ausbury's hand). from: Antje Reinecke

4. I am a biology major at S.U.U. and I remember laughing at a line of Scully's. She either said frog fall then the family Bufonidae, or toad fall and the family Ranidae. Toads are from the family Bufonidae, and frogs from the family Ranidae. I also believe that most documented cases of such falls are usually toads. from: Mary Israel

5. Pythons only grow to 12 feet at best, with a head the size of your hand (fingers extended). How could such an animal eat a full grown man, who is in one piece? Even though snakes can dislocate their jaws, a snake that size would have to have so much extra skin around its mouth that it would look like a basset hound. Also, we see the snake starting at his feet - snakes eat their prey head first. from: Scrooge

I suppose the last could be attributed to the fact that the "snake" was really Mrs. Paddock and maybe she didn't know this about snakes. -K. (Whose 8th grade science teacher was named Mrs. Paddock... very creepy :)

6. When Mulder & Scully are in the basement of the teacher's house, Mulder was holding the flashlight pointed at Scully, yet he jerked his head, like "come here"? If his flashlight was in her eyes, there was no way is she going to see him move his head. She'd be lucky to see his shadow, since it was supposed to be pitch black... no power..

7. Mulder & Scully broke the law when they looked to see who checked out the witchcraft book from the library. Patron records (who checked out what) are confidential and you need a warrant to look at them. (If this seems silly to you, picture a fundamentalist group who wants to remove a book on homosexuality from a high school library demanding to know which students have checked it out - or, from another era, the government demanding to know who checked out the Communist Manifesto from the public library. Information is powerful stuff, and yes, I am a librarian.) I suppose they could have gotten one, or the local police did, but I think it more likely that they never even considered or thought about this issue. from: Scrooge

8. After finding Shannon's step-father, why weren't our fearless agents concerned about the location of a missing ferocious man-eating python? from: Scrooge

9. Why would Mrs. Paddock feed an embalmed pig embryo to the snake? Snakes only eat live prey and would want nothing to do with one that smelled like formaldehyde. from: Scrooge

10. There is a "Four Past Midnight" by Stehen King in the library records. Should be Stephen. from: Ondrej

1. When Mulder talks to the voodoo guy in jail you don't see any condensation clouds, but you do see them when the voodoo guy talks. from: Diana de Bruin

2. When Mulder chases Chester on the pier, there is camera's shadow visible on him when it circles around him. from: Ondrej

1. OK, as was pointed out by several people, Scully couldn't call Mulder's cellular because it was destroyed when he was hit by the car. But, why didn't Mulder call Scully on her cellular when he reached her machine? - Kymberlee

Chris Carter was asked this same question at the Pasadena X-Files convention; the man couldn't find an answer. from: Rhea Merana

2. Scully gets on the bus for Germantown alone (she is the only one getting on at that stop). But when she sits down and finally calls Mulder to tell him what she is doing, the Alien is already on her bus. How did he know what bus she'd be on? - Kymberlee

3. Sorry, wrong number: Scully dials 1225, not 1236 to check the v-mail. Also, they take off after the 1st message, not bothering with the rest.

4. Mulder brings in the report for Skinner, but walks right out still holding the thing! from: the Weasel

5. Wrong messages: while Mulder's away, here are the different messages...

1) Hi, this is Fox Mulder. Please leave me a message and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.

2) Hello this is Fox Mulder, leave a message please. from: the Weasel

6. In the beginning, Mulder is wearing an oxygen mask when he's in the tub. Scully comes in and talks to the doctor and we can see Mulder in the background - no oxygen mask. When we see him again in the next shoot, the mask is back on.

7. "Samantha" and "Gregor" enter the apartment and take off their coats. Gregor hears a door slam and looks out the window to see our heroes getting out of the car and coming to their building. Exactly five seconds pass as Gregor looks up at Samantha and she hides -- and the doorbell rings! How did they and "Agent Chapel" get up to the second floor so fast -- transporter? from: Constantine Rye

1. The day after Samantha fell in the river, the people drag the body out of the lake. Soon Scully is called over to look at the body because it's deteriorating notice the fumes don't bother her. In "Colony" the police guy was killed from the fumes after shooting the clone guy, and it effected Mulder at the end. Wouldn't it also effect Scully?

2. Scully uses the X sign in Mulder's window to get Mr. X to call because she wants to know where Mulder is. Mr. X turns up and won't speak to her, presumably because he was expecting Mulder. Yet the whole point is that he already knows where Mulder is, so why did he turn up in the first place? (Apart from to make an excellent scene with Skinner). from: keV

1. Sophie's signing was pretty bad. I don't expect a gorilla to be as clear as a person, but when Willa said that Sophie said, "Baby/go flying/light", it looked more like "Baby/finish/light" or something. I didn't see the sign for "flying" or anything like it from her. I don't think we're supposed to believe that Willa was making up what Sophie said - because only people who sign would know that. Also later in the show Mulder shows Willa what Sophie said before disappearing. I read his signing as "he/god/help/he/god". I couldn't read Sophie's signing through the "transporter" effect. I can see how "he/god" might look like man, but the sign in the middle was clearly "help" not "save". - Kymberlee

2. Wouldn't the animals have to be taken twice in order for the aliens to achieve what they wanted? Once to artificially inseminate them and then again to "harvest" the embryo. I admit to having a limited base of knowledge on animal reproduction, but I doubt there would be enough evidence of a pregnancy only a few hours after the insemination, for a doctor trained in human physiology to detect. If that is the case, then why didn't the aliens have problems returning them the first time? New transporter operator? :) -Kymberlee

3. Why is it that all of the kidnapped animals were returned "2 miles southwest" (or whatever) from the zoo - except - the tiger who just happened to be returned inside the zoo while that W.A.O. guy was prowling around. It then left the zoo grounds. How did it get outside of the zoo gates? -Kymberlee

I have a problem with the whole teleporting/cloaked animal concept; that and Mulder's "...astrological variation..." shudder. The idea of the animals returning at least west of the zoo has merit if we assume that the abductors are in a craft that is not moving in respect to the rotation of the Earth -- in which case, the craft would be traveling a relative speed (to a ground observer) of around 600 mph to the west. I calculated out that the aliens would a) transport the critter to the craft, b) remove the critter baby, c) and return the critter in 12 seconds -- but the animal should be returned to a point west, not southwest, of the zoo. There might be some slight variation due to the axial tilt of the Earth, but the animals should all return to a point west of the zoo.

Now, it would be easier if a) the aliens do a preliminary teleport to get the animals outside of their cages (say metal mucks up their teleporter), b) they suspend the animal in a teleport beam and extract the animal baby via the teleporter (similar to the biofilter in Star Trek), and then c) beam the animal back -- this process would take a shorter time than to physically remove the baby... unless the aliens can change the flow of time around their craft which would render the above observations moot!

However, an animal slightly out of sync with our time would appear to be invisible... from: Barney O'Borg

Yes, but if they are out of sync with our time and invisible, how could they hurt someone? If their physical mass isn't "with us" enough for light to bounce off of it, how can is bounce a person or a car across the street? -Kymberlee

4. If Willa hits the tiger with the dart gun, the cat won't be brought down for another few minutes at least. So walking in there by herself was a really stupid move, especially for a Zoo Keeper. from: Gerald Hough II

5. At one point, Mulder is explaining why the animals reappear some distance from the zoo, and says something about the aliens not having the astrological coordinates right. If Mulder doesn't know the difference between astrology and astronomy, how can anyone take his alien theories seriously? from: Scrooge

1. If my understanding of free-radicals is correct, eliminating them (or killing them or whatever) would stop the forward process of aging, but how did they reverse it at the end of the show? -Kymberlee

2. If Mulder's dehydration, due to his sea sickness, contributes to his aging to the point where even untainted water won't help him, why would drinking alcohol, something that can seriously dehydrate you, extend the life of the captain. It can't be that he didn't drink the water, since he was obviously exposed to the agent. from: Gary Villa

3. The Ship they were on was not an American warship, it was Canadian. HMCS MacKenzie as near as I can tell. I'm in the Canadian Navy and served on a vessel very similar. This really bothered me seeing a Canadian vessel being done up to look American. from: Dave Winter

4. They've just shown the Dod Kalm episode here in Norway. And well, the spoken Norwegian left a great deal to be desired. Why cast a Russian as a Norwegian? When Henry Trondheim interrogates Halvorsen supposedly in Norwegian, I couldn't even tell what they were saying until I read the Norwegian subtitles (which covered the English ones on-screen)! And in any case, the guy playing Trondheim was easier to understand than the Russian. from: Cristina

5. The ship is decrepit, the engine is unrecognizable, everything is covered with residue and people turn into salt. So tell me this: Where can I buy one of those amazing flashlights? They don't corrode, decay or run out of power. from: Greg Barnes

6. Near the start, Mulder is looking at a map and talking about the disappearances of several boats. He says that one of these boats left Leeds, and he points at the UK as he does this. Leeds (UK) is quite a way inland and as far as I know does not have any ports! from: Danny Nicholson

1. Scully pretends to eat a bug. She takes the bug with her right hand but when she shows Mulder the bug it is in her left hand. from: Melanie Oh

1. In the scene at the amusement park, Charlie's dad has two ice cream cones in his left hand. One has two scoops on it, the other has one. He begins to hand the one with two scoops to Charlie. The camera then cuts to a different angle, from Charlie's perspective, and (whoops!) Charlie takes the one-scoop cone from his Dad's hand! from: Gerald Hough II

2. When Charlie is questioned by Karen Kosseff the FBI social worker, they sit in a kind of playschool. We first see a big yellow toy fish "facing" the door. Then we see Mulder and Co. behind the two-way mirror. Then we are back in the room where the big yellow fish tail is facing the door. Then we are back behind the mirror, where we can see through the glass the yellow fish head facing the door. Later when Charlie has some sort of attack, Mulder and Scully rush into the room and we can see for the last time the yellow fish tail facing the door. from: Stephan Roy

1. Wrong Aseptic Technique Part I: Scully, smack dab in the middle of a possibly contagious and obviously deadly contagion only puts on a mask and gloves? She should know she should wear a surgical suit.

2. Wrong Aseptic Technique Part II: Scully reaches out with her tweezers to pick up the bug out of the pustule on the dead prisoner, without her mask on! Then, when she looks at the bug up close, she has her mask on... I don't know anyone that can put on a mask one-handed that fast. from: Gerald Hough II

3. The guy in the jungle at the beginning finds an animal which has the pustules. The animal has a gray elephant-like hide and tusks. What was it? There are no elephants in the rain forests of Costa Rica nor are there warthogs or wild boar. A feral pig would have hair.

4. In the beginning you can see huge beetle-like critters crawling around on the corpses of the animal and the scientist. These insects are called "Madagascar hissing cockroaches". if I'm not mistaken, the island of Madagascar is off the coast of Africa, nowhere near central America. Those little guys do not belong there!!!! from: Wanda Beers

5. Gas pump nozzle is in the stolen camper's gas inlet, but the handle lever is down. Ergo, no gas is being pumped into the tank! from: Gerald Hough II

1. I didn't know black holes were subjective in what they swallow. Whenever a person stepped into Chester's shadow, the person and their clothes were swallowed by the "dark matter". Why didn't the moving black hole swallow other matter it contacted like the floor? What would have happened if Chester put his arm into his own shadow? -Kymberlee

2. When Mulder and Scully are chasing Chester through the trains, we see the markings on the side of one of the trains, and it's for VIA rail. As far as I know, VIA only runs in Canada!

3. Dr. Banton unscrews two burning light bulbs with his bare hands. Ouch! Try it yourself and see what happens. from: Paul Rydeen

4. When the two cops confront Banton in the alley, his strong shadow is definitely shining one way only. A cop steps on it and vaporizes. Then the other cop on the other side dies the same way. But the lighting didn't change, so how can this be? from: Paul Rydeen

5. When Banton's former partner at Polarity Magnetics tells Scully about their experiments with quarks and gluons and mesons and such, she says that nobody knows for sure whether they exist. Nobody but every physics student in the world, Dana! from: Paul Rydeen

6. Mulder asks Detective Ryan for the name of the first victim (Margaret Wysnecki). They then go to her house and find that she worked at a cigarette company (along with half of Richmond) and that she was at the railway station. But why did she get killed? She seems to have no connection to Chester Ray Banton, except that he killed her. Why was he at her house? from: Kathryn

If I'm remembering right, she was killed just because she stepped in his shadow. I don't think he was "out to get her". What I'd like to know is how did they connect her disappearance with Banton? Maybe they said and I just need to watch the ep. again. - Kymberlee

7. After the meeting with Dr. Chris Davey, we cut to Mulder sitting in the train station trying to figure out what Dr. Benton was doing in the video. We see an overhead shot of the station, which shows a column in the far distance. Watch carefully: the shot never loses sight of the column, and you can see random passerby's walk towards the column, but no Scully. As the camera moves downwards to focus on Mulder in the foreground, Scully suddenly appears from behind the column, as if she had been walking towards it all this while! Obviously, she had been standing behind the column until her cue to come out, but we're not supposed to know that! Did she beam down to behind the column from somewhere? from: stephanie

8. In the beginning Banton walked backward and his shadow goes under the door and kills the guy. Shadows can't go under doors :-)

9. The rookie detective (Scully's friend) gets turned to a small pile of ash but at the funeral there is a coffin.

10. When Mulder and Scully are interrogating Banton he says his shadow 'changes matter into energy'. Now, assuming the average person weighs at least 70 kg, this would produce about 6 million million million Joules of energy (according to Einstein's equation E=m*c²). I think this would produce a bit more than a faint blue glow on the ground. More likely it would blast a fairly large chunk out of the planet. from: Richard Burr

1. When Scully was doing the autopsy, the scene showed her looking at a slide of Paula's brain through a microscope. I know Scully didn't need a lot of Paula's brain to prepare a slide, but how did she obtain a piece of it without cutting her head open? I'm not too sure about this, but Scully also said that the disease wasn't communicable or degenerative, so how did the people in the town get it if they didn't eat the heads? (which were cut off and locked up in Mr. Chaco's cupboard) Was it in their blood or something? from: Andrew Chong

The only thing I could guess is that the disease could have been attacking the white and gray matter of the victims' brains which goes all the way down the spine. Perhaps that was what they ate that caused it to spread. But you are right, it wasn't explained. -Kymberlee

2. The people contracted Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) (that's the correct spelling) and it showed up in the brain tissue within a matter of weeks, whereas my mother, a pathologist, claims that it takes several years for it to show up.

3. Scully went to Mrs. Kerns' house, while Mulder went to Mr. Chaco's... since when do they have two cars? from: Lisa

4. Mulder saying something about a sighting or strange activity being reported in Dudley, AR on Interstate 10. I live in Louisiana and the I-10 is nowhere near Arkansas. It runs east west from Florida to Cali not north south. from: riven

1. In the scene where the Lone Gunmen visit Mulder, they hear a gunshot from outside and Mulder immediately rushes out to investigate. He runs to the old woman's apartment & finds that she has shot her husband. About 10 to 15 seconds after Mulder arrives at the old woman's apartment, the police arrive at the scene. How could they get there so quickly? It's almost as if they were standing just outside the building. from: Rod Oto

I counted. It was 10 seconds. Talk about service :) - Kymberlee

2. In the scene where Scully goes to see the woman at the Offices of the Navajo Nation to try to get the file translated, there is a visual boo-boo. As Scully stands up to leave, you can see the reflection of a boom mike moving in one of the picture frames on the wall directly in front of her. from: Rod Oto

3. Here's a continuity error. Watch the end of the scene where Mulder and Scully are looking at the coded files in their office. After Mulder has his tantrum he goes to see Skinner. At this time he does not have or reach for his suit coat, but when he gets up to see Skinner he has it on. -Kymberlee

4. About Mulder's tantrums: Mulder goes nuts and decks Skinner. For that he gets hauled up in front of the FBI's version of a court martial and is threatened to be suspended without a chance for re-instatement. Wouldn't an organization like the FBI do a physical and mental exam of someone who had suddenly gone off the edge like that before invoking such extreme punishment? Wouldn't such a physical include blood and urine tests? Wouldn't those tests have detected the LSD type substance being introduced to Mulder by his tap water? It probably would have nailed his butt to the wall for doing drugs, but that's another issue. -Kymberlee

5. What happens after Scully shoots Mulder? How does a petite woman like Scully handle an unconscious 6' man? She could not have gotten help from someone she could trusted, since the police were on their way. from: Martine

6. When Mulder wakes up, sometime after being shot by Scully, she states that he's been out for 36 hours. Well I thought he was pretty well shaven for a guy who's been out of commission for that long. I doubt very much that Scully or anyone else would have had the opportunity or inclination to shave him while he was unconscious. from: Martine

7. Mulder calls Scully from his father's house after he was killed. We see blood all over his hands. When he gets to Scully's place, his hands are clean. When did he have either the time or the presence of mind to wash his hands?

8. When the boy opens the door to the boxcar there is dirt everywhere, in all the cracks, but when the army stand on the top of the car all the dirt has been swept away, even from the door. Maybe the boy was vacuuming to pass the time. from: Kathryn

9. I think Scully says in her interview that she has worked with Mulder for a year and a half. However, the first X-File was in March '92 if I'm not mistaken. from: Ann Vanderlaan

10. Why was Mulder's water drugged?

11. We're now at the end of the second season and Scully's name still isn't on the door to the basement office. What's the deal? from: Leikin Sky

12. They wouldn't need to talk to Mulder in order to get his position. Every cellphone synchronizes with transmitters every 3 minutes. This can be easily used to get the position. from: Ondrej