The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati (3) - S7-E2
Trivia: "Amor Fati" is Latin for "Love of fate."
Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man - S4-E7
Trivia: Young Cancer Man is played by the same man who later plays Agent Spender - Cancer Man's son and Mulder's brother.
Trivia: Pusher tells Skinner, "Take a walk, Mel Cooley." Mel Cooley is a character played by Richard Deacon in The Dick Van Dyke Show, who is very similar in external appearance to Skinner. (00:23:05)
Trivia: "Agua Mala" is a quote from Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea" and means "Bad water" in Spanish.
Kill Switch - S5-E11
Trivia: "How sharper than a serpent's tooth to have a thankless child" - this is a quote from Shakespeare's tragedy "King Lear", Act 1 Scene 4. (00:02:15)
Trivia: Gethsemane is a garden in Jerusalem where Jesus prayed the night before his crucifixion.
Trivia: "Talitha cumi!" means "Little girl, I say to you, arise!" in Aramaic. These are the words of Jesus when he resurrected a dead Jairus' daughter (Gospel of Mark 5, 21 - 24 and 35 - 43).
Trivia: Throughout the course of its initial nine-year run, The X-Files had crossovers with 3 other television shows: the short-lived Millennium in the season 7 episode "Millennium," COPS in the season 7 episode "X-COPS" and Homicide: Life on the Street in the season 5 episode "Unusual Suspects." The crossover with Homicide: Life on the Street is especially noteworthy as that show was produced by a different network. The X-Files also had a non-canon crossover with The Simpsons in their season 8 episode "The Springfield Files."
Trivia: Tempus fugit is Latin for "time flies."
Trivia: Skinner's secretary Arlene that features in this episode is actor Mitch Pillegi's real-life spouse, also named Arlene.
Trivia: This episode was inspired by something that happened to one of the writers, David Arkin, when he moved into a new neighbourhood. He hired movers who showed up late, causing him to unload the truck late in the evening. This violated a community rule, and he had to pay a fine of one thousand dollars.
Trivia: Ganesha the elephant was played by an elephant named Bubbles. The producers thought it would be difficult to convince an elephant to hurry toward a truck for the opening scene. Bubbles actually enjoyed making the scene and wanted to keep running around the truck.
Mulder & Scully Meet the Were-Monster - S10-E3
Trivia: When Mulder's phone rings, the ringtone is the series theme tune.
Trivia: The dog that can be seen with the people in the background as Mulder and Scully enter the mine appears to be David Duchovny (Mulder)'s dog, Blue. Blue was beloved by Duchovny and was with him on set through most of the original run of the show. Blue was the daughter of the dog featured in season 1 episode "Ice". (00:16:09)
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.
Trivia: The Smoking Man says to Jeremiah Smith: "Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him." This is a quote from "The Grand Inquisitor" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. (00:30:52)
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