if this *is* the prequel to The Red and the Black, I luved the parts with Marita. As she
and Krycek started kissing each other, my dad observed, " Hey, they know each
other." I was like," Really? You think?"
And I thought it was so appropriate that she would then betray him... but I had to
feel a teeny bit sorry for Ratboy. Does everyone beat up on him? Does no one feel a
little glimmer of mercy somewhere in their soul for him? Apparently not... and on
second thought, nether do I. I like to watch him squirm. The only time I have actually
even empathized with him was in The End, as he's waching the CSM walk away with a
certain amount of longing. He says, " You know, I've got a nice clean straight shot
here..." :-)

i love the ratboy, and this episode rocks. The nexy one is even better, though

I loved the role reversal between Mulder and Scully.

Great Line (I don't remember the exact quote) -
Scully (after Mulder claims he no longer believes in aliens): "Well, my work here is done. Have a nice life"

Can someone give me the full quote?

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So what was the deal with the constellation Casseopoeia? Is that where the aliens come from?
For those of you not upon your astronomy, Casseopoeia is the "W" shaped constellation they kept showing (and writing on the walls, too!)

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My "nit-picks" are as numerically proceeds:
1) Alex Krycek contacted the Syndicate rather conveniently on cue. Enough said.
2) The cargo door pertaining to that confinement area containing the infected boy was not closed but was later closed when Alex Krycek returned.
3) Why would Marita Covarrubias state her full name and then inquire as to whether or not Special Agent Fox Mulder's phone line is secure? What if it was not secure? Oops.
On a further note, the maintainers of the official The X-Files website persistently misspell Marita Covarrubias's first name (i.e., they forget the tee). Also, quite a number of the recent episodes are not listed anywhere upon the website.

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12th Man: I loved the role reversal between Mulder and Scully.
It was definitely an interesting change of pace but I consider that role reversal as a contrived plot piece, at least in part. Mulder didn't believe Kritschgau the two times he talked to him, and Mulder has simply seen and experienced too many things before and since that meeting for Kritschgau to have that kind of effect. I'm not saying it's an unrealistic reaction, it's just unconvincingly out of character and added more annoyance to the story than actual drama.

It wasn't exactly clear as to why the Consortium would want that infected boy. Apparently they and the Russians were racing to develop the vaccine, to which it appears the Consortium were the victors, but it also appeared they both had access to Black Oil; how I don't know but it still doesn't answer why the boy was needed. Perhaps Krycek's guy last season destroyed the rest of the Consortium's stuff, but where are the Russian's getting all of theirs?

This is around the time where the show started to get a bit too strange for me, and I'm not exactly sure why that is. After the first movie, which I enjoyed, it seemed the writers started getting either lazy or overzealous, but the show still lasted three more seasons so maybe that's just a personal perception.

Me: It wasn't exactly clear as to why the Consortium would want that infected boy...
I corrected myself on the rest of this paragraph in my comments on the next ep, but I'm still not sure why Krycek tortured, infected, and offered the boy to the Consortium when what they really wanted was a vaccine that worked and information on the mass burnings that were going on.

I also don't quite get why the Consortium would hire Krycek back after all he's done against them; the same with CSM in The End. They seem to have the military and government agencies at their disposal, many of whom are already involved in at least a piece of the "Project", so why do they keep calling the same people back? However, this may explain why Krycek is playing chauffer to WMM in later eps, or at least one ep, since we discover they have the same goal, to resist colonization.