The X-Files

Teliko - S4-E3

Trivia: The initial footage of the episode was taken from the movie Airport 1975 (a Columbia Airlines jumbo jet). (00:00:01)

Memento Mori - S4-E14

Trivia: "Memento Mori" is Latin and means "remember that you are mortal"/"remember you shall die". It was said to military leaders who won great victories to keep their feet on the ground. In this episode both Scully and Mulder are made very aware of her mortality.

Paper Hearts - S4-E10

Trivia: When Mulder asks clerk's office for a transfer of John Lee Roche, he gives his badge number: JTTO 47101111. In the "Piper Maru" episode, the call sign of the sunken P-51 Mustang plane discovered by the French salvage team is JTTO 111470.

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Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man - S4-E7

Trivia: Towards The End of this episode, the Smoking Man states that the Buffalo Bills will never win a Super Bowl as long as he's alive. If we are to believe that the Smoking Man was killed by Mulder in what is as of now the final episode of the series, this statement ended up being true.

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Elegy - S4-E22

Trivia: In this episode, longtime character actor Sydney Lassick was cast to play Chuck Forsch, an over-sensitive and delusional patient in a psychiatric hospital. Eighteen years earlier, Sydney Lassick played a virtually identical delusional psychiatric patient, Charlie Cheswick, in the Oscar-winning film "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975).

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Mistakes

Paper Clip (3) - S3-E2

Visible crew/equipment: When Mulder and Scully enter the abandoned mine through a doorway, the viewer can see at right in the distance a number of people sitting on a wall, and one crouching in front of the wall with what looks like a dog. They are sitting still, but there is still movement there. (00:16:00)

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Quotes

Triangle - S6-E3

Skinner: Use your head Scully. It'll save your ass.
Scully: Save your own ass, sir. You'll save your head along with it.

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Questions

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Question: In a vast majority of the episodes, whenever Mulder and Scully investigate some mysterious or paranormal phenomenon, Mulder believes that some unknown force is responsible but Scully always has a rational explanation for what is happening. In other episodes, when Scully herself is caught up in something mysterious, she is the believer but Mulder is the skeptic. In those episodes, why would Mulder be skeptical about an unexplained phenomenon considering that he a was witness to his own sisters abduction and he saw many strange things that defied explanation while working for the F.B.I.?

Answer: As he stated many times throughout the series, Mulder needed Scully to be sober and skeptical. Whenever Scully's skepticism wavered and she started questioning her own rationality, Mulder would try to restore her sense of skepticism, because he needed her to be clear-thinking.

Charles Austin Miller

Answer: A variety of reasons. Just because Scully saw something unusual does not mean that it was. Mulder always needs concrete proof before he'll believe there's some otherworldly explanation for unexplained phenomena. He's too experienced to take a novice's explanation as fact. It is also a plot by device by the writers to switch the tables on the characters to make it more interesting and to let viewers see another side of their relationship.

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