So, did anyone else notice that Mulder has a wedding ring on when he's talking with Darren McGavin? What's the deal here?? I read somewhere that M had been married very briefly in the years before the series started, but can anyone help out here with more info?

I think it was Dear (hopefully soon to be dead) Diana.

The character played by Darren McGavin referred to the House Un American Activities Committee (HUAC). Mulder then watched tape featuring Joseph McCarthy. However, Joseph McCarthy was a Senator, not a Congressman, and did not serve on HUAC.

Richard Nixon, who later became President of the U.S., did serve on HUAC while a member of Congress. Notwithstanding the McGavin character's poo-pooing of HUAC, that committee exposed Alger Hiss as a Communist and probable spy for the Soviet Union. Hiss himself was convicted of perjury.

Tell me Mulder was never married. Tell me Mulder was never married. TELL ME MULDER
WAS NEVER MARRIED! please...
Maybe DD just forgot to take his off before shooting?

Nope. Mulder was definitely married. He also wore a wedding ring in "Unusual Suspects". So either the costuming people who dress the actors from their underwear up slipped up twice in one season, and both in episode which coincidentally were set in the past or... Mulder was married. I think we can all agree on which is more plausible.

Well, *my* world just got rocked. Nooo...nooo...<going into denial> it can't be
true...nooo...
I'm gonna go ask the good people at the official discussion board. I don't doubt that
he wore it, I just think it's DD's, not FM's.

I didn't see this ep. Would someone mind posting a synopsis? Did this involve time
travel, or just the past

It was a major flashback by Darrin McGavin's character.

Ah, but in "Unusual Suspects," when Langly breaks into the FBI database and looks at Mulder's record, I believe Frohike says that there is no record of Mulder being married. So unless Mulder had a secret marriage (and wearing a ring would kind of defeat the purpose of that), I don't think Mulder was ever married.

Travellers occurs one year after the Unusual Suspects.

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But somebody said that they saw the ring in both Travellers and Unusual Suspects, which means that it must have been a mistake the first time, which lends more credence to the idea that it was a mistake the second time.

Well, everyone at the official board seems to think it's mulder's, but there's no
official word yet. BTW, I don't like how Fox redesigned that board. It's icky

1. The ring is Mulder's. It's not neccesarily a wedding ring.

2. If he was married, it was not to Diana. If you remember, they were dating when he opened XF. That was after 91.

3. It's stated, by the AI in Kill Switch, that Mulder is unmarried. It could be that either he's divorced, or the marriage was annulled.

Karra

My "nit-picks" are as numerically proceeds:
1) During 1989, was the Internet publicly popular or even easily accessed?
2) How did Ringo Langly automatically know how to spell Mulder? Furthermore, would this name not acquire multiple results?
3) When did Special Agent Fox Mulder shed his pants and underwear? Prior to the commercial break they are still on; after the commercial break they are now off.
4) After they place one of the injured gunners, who previously fired at Special Agent Fox Mulder, into a body bag, it appears almost as if there is half a body in the bag as apparent by the bag's proportion and shape.
5) One thing came to mind from the very moment the credits rolled--why exactly did Suzanne Modeski approach John F. Byers and how was she so implicit that he would assist her?

I intended for my above message to appear in the folder for "Unusual Suspects," not this one. My apologies.

My "nit-picks" are as numerically proceeds:
1) I never knew Special Agent Fox Mulder smoked. You can clearly see smoke being exhaled from his mouth as he and former Special Agent Arthur Dales are reclining within Dales's apartment, and Dales soon reminisces of his experiences in past situations.
2) Former Special Agent Arthur Dales opens the curtain and then proceeds to sit down. Simultaneously, a sound of the curtain closing is heard despite the fact that Dales was sitting at the moment and his hand was not near the curtain.
3) If a telephone is disconnected, would an operator recording not indicate the disconnection?
4) Not truly a "nit-pick," but I entirely missed the segment during which the truth behind the Communist haunt of the fifties is divulged. Anyone mind helping me out on this one?
5) Either former Special Agent Arthur Dales is a long talker or there was an incontinuity of when Dales commenced narrating his story and when he reached the conclusion.

To clarify "nit-picks" number two and five, allow me to explain. Former Special Agent Arthur Dales was visiting with and consulting Special Agent William Mulder regarding the parasitic experiments. And as for the incontinuity of former Special Agent Arthur Dales's story it is because of the time of day (i.e., it is sunny when he commences and nearly ultimately dark when he concludes) and Special Agent Fox Mulder's removed trench coat.

DD wore the wedding ring because he had just gotten married to Tia and he didn't want to take it off. For an explanation for we, the nitpickers who don't deal in reality, maybe he was going through a faze and he wanted to look cool.
As for the smoking, maybe his dad found out and told Mulder that he reminded him too much of an old friend or something.

Maybe he tried on a friend's or one he found and then couldn't get it off? Happened to me once...

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