Corrected entry: Tooms is sneaking into the room through a vent by unscrewing bolts. The problem is that the bolts should be attached directly to the wall and it would be impossible for Tooms to unscrew them. (00:02:00)
Corrected entry: At The End of the episode Scully handcuffs Tooms to the bathtub and Mulder says "he's not gonna get his quota this year" and Tooms seemingly accepts his capture. Given that he can stretch his whole body (and as specifically shown in the episode, his hands/fingers) couldn't Tooms have escaped from the handcuffs?
Correction: He probably could have, but it's not something he can do instantly, and he also has a gun drawn on him. He likely decided it would be better to bide his time and escape later, which he eventually does.
I doubt that's what the filmmakers intended you to think though. It's a slip in the writing.
And how do you know what the filmmakers were thinking? They obviously intended to use the character again since he appears later in the season. If you could slip out of handcuffs, but a federal agent was pointing their gun at you, would you risk death or try to escape at a later time?
Yeh, I'm not gonna pretend that this mistake was solid. Fair enough.
Corrected entry: When running, Lucas Henry grabs his left arm instead of the right one in which he was shot. (00:38:15)
Correction: This is not true. He never grabs his left arm and always grabs or favors his right arm.
Corrected entry: If Tooms can squeeze into a heat register, then why couldn't he slip out of handcuffs?
Corrected entry: Mulder takes out spray paint from the trunk. The problem is that the car isn't his but it was rented. It’s not plausible that all the cars in the rent-a-car company were equipped with spray paint. It is also doubtful that Mulder anticipated the paint use and bought it on purpose. (00:10:40)
Correction: He does expect it from other similar abduction cases. I believe he takes the spray paint from his own pack and not from a rental car supply kit.
Corrected entry: When they find Belt on the floor Mulder calls for a doctor. Scully, a medical doctor, is standing right next to him.
Corrected entry: When Mulder, Scully and the other police officers are digging Ray Soames's grave, one strap of the coffin breaks and the coffin falls and starts to roll. When it hits a tombstone and opens, you can see there's a normal size body in the coffin. When they look into the coffin, there's this small alien body. (00:13:35)
Correction: When the coffin opens, it is impossible to notice what sort of body is located in the coffin without using slow motion, which invalidates the mistake.
Corrected entry: When we first see Scully, going into the office at The Beginning of the episode, we see when she is on her way to the office and when she enters it she is wearing her badge, yet when the shot changes, it is no longer on her, then when she comes out she is wearing it again. (00:02:20 - 00:04:35)
Correction: That's because she is never "wearing" her ID badge. It is clipped to the strap of her purse, not her jacket. You can see this in several shots and you see the badge move with the strap as opposed to moving with the jacket. When she removes the purse the badge comes off too.
Corrected entry: The worm is supposed to increase production of a violent hormone, making The Host incredibly violent and unable to control it. Yet the infected member of the group manages to hide it perfectly between making their first kill and being discovered by the rest.
Correction: It's explained that The Host becomes violent because of the parasitic worm attacking the hypothalamus gland of the brain. When the infected person is finally discovered, the worm is shown to be making its way back towards their brain, indicating that the worm makes its way around The Host's body, and that The Host can behave normally if the worm is not near the brain.
Corrected entry: 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.
Correction: It is likely that the recording did not take up the entire tape.
Corrected entry: Lt. Col. Marcus Aurelius Belt is shown on a shuttle mission in 1977, but the space shuttle was first flown in 1981.
Correction: What is shown is a flashback of Belt on what looks like a Gemini mission from the 1960's.
Corrected entry: 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.
Correction: 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.
Corrected entry: 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?
Correction: 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.
Corrected entry: 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?
Correction: Per submission guidelines mistakes that require slow or stop motion are not considered valid mistakes.