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Season six

1. How can anyone go into the containment room of a nuclear plant, move around the cooling rods without protective suits? from: Lansbury

2. Did you notice that the writers just forgot how dangerous and lethal chemicals can be? I have always been willing to suspend disbelief with XF, but tonight's "touch & reach" by Mulder was too unbelievable. Every person I was watching with laughed at how flawed that concept was. from: Jay

3. Scully knew how important Gibson was. I can't believe she didn't set up security around him. from: Hummel Steve

4. Fowley claimed, I may be wrong on this, that she had detained Mulder to save herself. Did no one ask why they had both arrived in a car rented to her??? from: Samantha

5. I would have loved to hear Fowley's explanation on how she got to the Nuclear Power Plant and why she was in that area. Mulder had to get there somehow and there is only one car out front. from: Claudia S. Cauchon

6. I'd hate to see Sandy's utility bill if he actually keeps his house at 60 degrees in Phoenix even when he's not home. Does he like living in a meat locker? from: Autumn Tysko

7. Yes, I know that they have to fudge names and locations for plot purposes and because they can't use the real things, but still, it's oh so fun to pick it apart. Rolling Hills Power Plant, 60 miles east of Phoenix - there are no rolling hills in Phoenix, except at the golf courses. They don't call this the "Valley of the Sun" for nothing. As in, the flat valley between the mountains. Flat. No hills. But hey... we have streets called things like "Sea Breeze Lane" and "Piney Hill Ave" and we don't got none of those either, soooo... Anyway, there is a Palo Verde nuclear plant. However, it's west of Phoenix, not east. from: Jenna

1. In a really cool trick Mulder's rent car odometer actually runs backwards. He starts out around 2092 then drives and drives and drives and runs out of gas around 2043. from: Autumn Tysko

2. Scully starts prodding around in Mrs. Crump's ear, sans goggles. A veteran forensic pathologist doing an autopsy on someone whose cause of death is unknown would never, ever start poking around without eye protection. from: Tom Carissimi

3. Scully is poking about a dead body without wearing a mask and face shield? At least she strapped on a lab coat! Besides, where her face was when she was poking about she should have been shot in the face, not the chest. from: Gerald Hough II

4. Birds do not have the same kind of canals as we do! So the birds would not be affected. Second, it was a ground-travelling wave, which would not spike birds in the air. from: Gerald Hough II

1. At one point Gillian Anderson's 1939 character was identified as an OSS agent. The OSS did not exist in 1939. from: Smoke9705

2. "Drive" takes place on November 15th and 16th and yet Mulder informs us here that the date is November 16th. from: Autumn Tysko

3. Scully's cellphone in Triangle was an older one, not a schnazzy as the flip-up Nokia she had in "Drive". from: John Stewart

3. In the final "I love you" scene, there seems to be a moving shadow of the microphone visible on the wall behind Mulder. from: Ondrej

1. What the heck happened to Mulder's apartment? Better yet, what happened to the building across the street from his apartment? And if anyone tries to tell me they moved to LA yadda yadda yadda, I ain't buying it. Duplicating it couldn't be that impossible... from: Ophinea

2. Kersh is right about the frequent flyers comment, and they are also back to their magic traveling ways. Unless they chartered a jet to get back to DC it is downright impossible for them to be in nowhere Nevada at 11:30 at night and back in DC for that 9:42AM meeting the next day. Time zones are a bitch on travel going east. from: Autumn Tysko

3. I guess it is the old military in me, but I was really bothered by that General not wearing a hat when he was investigating the airplane crash site. from: Claudia S. Cauchon

4. In the mirror scene at the point where Mulder puffs out his chest and walks backwards, his mirror takes an extra step to get there. from: Gerald Hough II

5. In the opening scene you can see Mulder & Scully in a car with license plate: 972 I8F. In one of the last scenes in Dreamland II (after the reversal) Mulder & Scully step back into a car with license plate: 759 H4K. from: Diana de Bruin

6. When Scully and Fletcher are in Mulder's bedroom, the message Fletcher left on Mulder's answering machine is played back with Fletcher's voice, shouldn't that have been Mulder's voice (even though the message was obviously left by Fletcher). from: Diana de Bruin

7. When Fletcher is watching Mulder & Scully from the car he sees himself as Mulder in the car-mirror (this is correct), but you also see a reflection of Mulder and he should have been shown as Fletcher. from: Diana de Bruin

1. In the scene where we see Scully and Morris (in Mulder's body) in the mirror on the water bed, we hear Mulder's voice. But every other time Morris (in Mulder's body) talks we hear his own voice. Maybe they messed it up because it was a reflection so David Duchovny was doing the scene. from: JessicaF

1. "I don't know why. I'm not a psychologist." Gee Mulder, I don't know why you aren't one either. I mean that was only established in the freaking Pilot. Not that it was an important episode or anything. Well, at least in the interest of equal idiocy, Amann had Scully just stand there and call for a paramedic while a multiple gunshot wound victim suffered and Mulder tried to help him. from: Autumn Tysko

The line was an ad lib by Duchovny, but that doesn't apologize that. from: Ondrej

2. In the scene where Scully and Mulder are in the hosptial discussing Wayne's past aliases, Laura, who is supposed to be in a coma, can be seen moving in the background. from: Xina Frizzell

3. I was not aware that the FBI was in the practice of letting women who are covered in blood and driving their suspects car go free while they chase the bad guy. In the very least I would think they would call an ambulance first. They just let her go. Not to mention when they found out she was the bad guy, she was driving a bright red convertable. How hard could it be to track her? from: Rana Lewis

2. Wayne's baby monitor is pretty receptive. It managed to even pick up Scully's voice when her voice was coming from a cellphone ten feet away!

1. Did anyone notice the disappearing then reappearing act Scully's lipstick did? It happened in the scene where Miss Misplaced Love laid a big wet one on Mulder. (Golly gosh Mulder looks hot in red lipstick!) Then, Scully - wearing lipstick - walks in on them kissing... She stand there for a minute, then tells Mulder that their plane is leaving soon. Then, Mulder asks Scully if she can read the weather equipment... Scully says no - she's not wearing any lipstick or at least she's wearing a much lighter shade. Next shot she's wearing lipstick again... from: NSaneGirl

1. Another fine example of bad liar Scully as she explains she has to wrap presents despite the fact her backseat is stacked with already wrapped gifts. from: Autumn Tysko

1. Agent Pup tells us in his "I've been to rock concerts, I know how to do this - check, check" speech to the microphone that the date is January 4th. Which doesn't make too much sense unless the FBI is forcing Mulder and Scully to do background checks on the Sunday after New Years. (the episode began the day before) from: Autumn Tysko

2. There is a continuity glitch at the point when Scully gets to witness Felig's gift... when the hooker steps into the path of the tractor, the close-up has the truck approaching from her right while the master shot had it coming from her left... why they didn't flip the image in post-prod is beyond me because they did flip the following shots of Scully so she'd be looking in the correct direction at Felig's car -- the change in her hair is what i actually noticed first -- Scully hair, sigh :) from: Wayne Chow

3. Consider: in the FBI archives, there is a 'Felon Wanted By The FBI' record for Louis Brady... it gives the years of the crime and arrest, both 1929, and his sentence 65 years... Mulder tells Ritter that he walked off a work farm a year into his sentence, presumably 1930 or 1931, even 1932... but the FBI wasn't called the FBI until 1935... so unless Brady had a really long trial or the FBI decided they wanted all their paperwork to have their name on it and created new records when they changed their name from the 'Bureau of Investigation' this is an anachronism... from: Wayne Chow

1. That Dr. Plant certainly doesn't seem to have any concern for medical hygiene. When he first visits Skinner he washes his hands with perhaps a teaspoon of water completely ignoring the anti-bacterial soap by the sink, and later he tags along with Scully in her usual operating room assault. from: Autumn Tysko

1. Cassandra started smoking in that hospital room where were a lot of equipment and I would suspect some oxygen devices. Don't you think its odd that Scully didn't say something. from: Daniel Tropea

2. You can see the protective white mask on the burning guy outside the train!

1. Okay, so if aliens reproduce through use of Purity, where the hell do you get an alien fetus from???

1. Scully tells us as she videotapes that it is February 24th. Too bad the 2nd unit folks were not paying attention as the watch close up inserts read the date as "7" and "9". from: Autumn Tysko

1. When Mulder & Scully enter the house to look for the Marine Biologists they are both carrying really big flashlights, in the next scene Mulder has lost his big light and is now using a small one (Scully still has the big one) but one scene later Scully has also swapped the big light for a small one. I guess they needed the small lights for the joke (Mulder & Scully getting arrested with flashlights in their mouths). from: Diana de Bruin

1. For an episode that took place in a repeated fixed time there were some discrepancies. We see that it is 9:55 AM in the car, but minutes later in the bank the clock reads 11:50. from: Autumn Tysko

2. There is a very distinctive Los Angeles City Hall poking out in one of the establishing shots.

3. I want to right a wrong, set the story straight and give everyone the real lowdown on waterbeds. They don't spurt!! No, they are insidious leakers. While you sleep, water seeps into your warm dry cocoon. Slowly advancing, creeping inexorably forwards towards the lowest point in the bed. I have owned a waterbed since 1973 and I wouldn't give it up for anything. I've also owned cats, so I'm well aquatinted with what happens when that fragile vinyl is pierced by the claw of a seasick cat. It does not spurt! Not even when pressure is applied. The water seeps, oozes and finally insinuates itself into your unconscious in a most unpleasant and distinctly memorable way. I understand "artistic license", but to slander the waterbed industry in this manner is unacceptable. from: Val

4. When Bernard writes the "This is a robbery.." note on the first Monday, the text begins much further to the left side of the paper the second time the camera sees the paper. from: Ondrej

1. Time sure does fly. Night establishing shot, cut to Mulder saying, "It's not yet dark."

2. When the vet traps the dog you can see that the door has a round doorhandle and above it a lock. When the policeman opens the door and shoots the dog, you see the same door. But when Scully walks in (when she hears the vet screaming) the door has only a round doorhandle, the lock above the doorhandle is gone. When the door is half opened you can only see that there is only one locking mechanism in the edge of the door. from: Diana de Bruin

1. Since when have people boarded up buildings to ward off a tornado? If a tornado is going to hit a building, then you can kiss it goodbye regardless of whether or not there are some boards over the windows. As if you could really track what a tornado was going to hit anyway. Perhaps the writers are getting tornados confused with hurricanes? from: Laura Witte

1. When exactly did Mulder spit and rinse after he answered the door with a toothbrush and toothpaste in his mouth? All I saw was him letting in Scully, then we see him shut the door and going to his couch to talk to Scully with his mouth fully clean. I suppose he must have swallowed it. Yuck. from: Claudia S. Cauchon

1. When Frohike was playing the slot machine in the beginning of the ep, the first position on the reel showed a single bar. Then Byers spotted Suzanne and then the camera goes back to Frohike and the slot machine. The first position now does not show a single bar. It appeared as if Frohike only played the machine once, so therefore i find this to be an inconsistency. from: richara

2. When Scully is drugged on the AH, and she is with all those men, and the guy offers her a ciggarette, blah blah blah so on. And then she says "but who's got a match" and they all light up, you will notice up the back on the left of the screen (closest to Scully) that the person can't light up their cigarrette lighter, so he tries for a second time, and when this fails, he lowers his arm out of the shot. from: Philip Roden

1. The neon sign for the Cozy Cactus should have been reversed, as it was a reflection on the bus windows. from: Jen Carpenter

2. Why is Mulder surprised that Arthur Dales isn't in the same apartment he was in back in Travelers? We learned - as did Mulder - that Dales moved to Florida back in "Agua Mala".

1. Not only does the amazing, spinning, flying artifact imbed itself in the Bible highlighting an important passage, but it also manages to rearrange the whole bookshelf around it. Between the time it lands in the Bible and when Dr. Merkallen retrieves it, several of the books that were standing vertically to the right of it are now horizontal to the left. from: Autumn Tysko