How did Asst.Dir. Walter Skinner immediately recognize how to spell Roush? Other forms of spelling could include Rowsh, Rowsch, and Rousch, to name a few. The same thing occurred in the episode explaining how Special Agent Fox Mulder and the Lone Gunmen encountered one another in that Ringo Langly immediately recognized how to spell Mulder.
K.N.D.: Hey, whaddya think would have happened if the phone hadn't fortuitously rung just then?
I think this post is better served here rather than in Gethsemane.
A great follow-up to the previous ep but it's unfortunate the Guide ended with season 4. I would very much like to hear/read more opinions on this ep and the next, with no offense to D. Stuart; however the above post is more applicable to the next ep I believe.
As luck would have it the DOD guy Mulder killed, in self-defense it seems, had full access to the Pentagon's R&D area and the huge storage room we've seen multiple times. Gaining entry to the Pentagon in general with a simple swap of credentials isn't a big surprise, but getting into the "level 4" area should be without an ID certification; otherwise what's the point of it being guarded if not to do this very thing?
I believe this is the first ep where the character, whom I think is 'officially' known as the First Elder (Phil refers to him as Brandoguy), stops wearing dentures on his lower jaw for some reason. Also, it appears that CSM has a minor upgrade on his home phone to a slimmer-version of the old-style, if that is in fact his apartment and not an office.
I'm not exactly sure how comparing the chimaric-hybrid cells found in the core samples to Scully's DNA will prove the involvement of a government conspiracy for her cancer. I think it would be closer to a shocking coincidence than certifiable proof. Speaking of those "unidentifiable" cells, why doesn't the other scientist perform the same tests done in Erlenmeyer Flask that showed purity as extraterrestrial? He may not be able to identify it but how about its origin, or at least what it isn't?
NANJO: When Mulder is searching for Scully's file, that a number on an index card he retreived indicated from the same storage area, the section directly behind him is labeled E1701 on a big yellow sticker.
When Mulder told Kritschgau that he's "witnessed these things" in reference to aliens, Kritschgau's response was "you saw what they wanted you to see." Adding to my rant from the previous ep, while some of what Mulder and Scully have seen may be 'what they wanted them to see' not all of it can be accounted for by that statement. Of course Kritschgau wasn't present for any of those events (probably) and wouldn't know excatly what has been experienced and in what context.