Continuity mistake: When Mulder and Scully talk about the piece of skin while driving to the reservation, one can see that there are green trees from the Mulder's side of the road, but when the shot is taken from the outside of the car, there are only grey bushes and landscape devoid of nearby trees on both sides of the road. (00:07:00)
Continuity mistake: During the conversation with Mulder, in the front shot the Deep Throat tilts his head to the left while in the back shot his head is tilted to the right. (00:26:10)
Continuity mistake: At The End of Max's seizure Mulder holds him under his chin, but in the next shot he holds his hands. (00:26:30)
Continuity mistake: When Michelle is driving her car, the back shots show some label to the left of a driving wheel that is missing in the front shots. (00:15:10)
Continuity mistake: When Michelle's car lays upside down, one can see that it has headlights with two lamps on each side, but in the previous shots her car has only one lamp on each side. (00:15:45)
Continuity mistake: During Colonel Belt's funeral, there are saluting soldiers standing behind Michelle in some shots, while in others they are not there. (00:43:45)
Continuity mistake: When we watch Scully typing from behind, the text she types is ahead of the text we saw at a distance in the previous shot. (00:15:15)
Continuity mistake: Just as Mulder and Scully are entering the interrogation room to question Lauren for the second time, Mulder is holding a thin stack of paper, folded in half in his right hand. In one shot, these are folded horizontally. In the immediate next shot, they are now folded vertically. (00:34:20)
Continuity mistake: When Tooms walks out of the courtroom, the doctor and the old lady who were sitting in The Beginning of the corridor are missing. (00:11:45)
Continuity mistake: When the Smoking Man brings the alien fetus to the Pentagon storage facility, he places it on the second rack, then in the next shot he walks away from the rack situated in the middle of the corridor. (00:42:55)
Continuity mistake: When Scully changes the refill of her ball-pen, in the right shot she keeps it under the desk while in the next left shot she holds it over the desk. (00:12:20)
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Continuity mistake: The young Samuel stretches his palms upwards, while in the next shot the boy holds them straight. (00:01:00)
Continuity mistake: When Mulder walks around Scully, he passes her by, however in the next shot he is again behind her. (00:16:10)
Continuity mistake: A heavy rain can be noticed in the background, yet Mulder and Scully are dry as a bone. (00:20:00)
Continuity mistake: While speaking with Mulder, Scully keeps her head down when in the front shot, while she keeps her head up in the back shot. (00:06:15)
Continuity mistake: When Mulder grabs the twins, one of them immediately turns around toward him, however in the next shot she turns around once again. (00:41:10)
Continuity mistake: Just before the attack of the alien creature the soldiers change their positions from shot to shot. Moreover, additional soldiers suddenly appear nearby the commanding group. (00:22:10)
Continuity mistake: When Deputy Wright is electrocuted, depending on the shot he holds the flashlight either in his left or right hand. (00:02:40)
Continuity mistake: When the presentation of IDs begins, dr Da Silva stands in a different position relative to the others than in the next shot. (00:07:00)
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