It's cos someone wrote "DON'T GIVE UP" on her dirty rear window. Sorry, I mean to say "on the window of her Ford Explorer, call now for a test drive".

This is why I'm glad to have stayed spoiler-free. I had no idea they were going to be in it, and I had a WTF moment in a whole scene full of them.

Ah! You missed something, something absolutely vital, which changes the conspiracy after Two Fathers/One Son:

The issue is more against those who are upset with the show being anti-vax - it was doing vaccination stuff early on. My view is, they did it better cos it's just more *believable* to say it's being used as part of a mass population cataloging programme.

No it was definitely triangular

Carter has said "Nothing's been written yet". I'm gonna stand by my prediction that none of them the production team know what the ship is doing there, who's behind it etc. Carter has simply dropped it in so it can be the thing that kick-starts the next season.

BTW when I first glanced at that kid's arm I thought it looked like metal coming out of the wound. And even though I wasn't a fan of the alien-replicants-who-have-spines-made-of-metal story, I was excited that maybe they were actually going to tie in the old story to this new one (cos at that stage, we didn't know…

I'm sure I remember reading that he said he didn't want to go back to it.

They made a passing mention of it going global, thanks to microwave radiation. Yeah, I know.

I always loved that. Generally I hate it when we see stuff that turns out not to have happened, like how in that episode Mulder finally finds out why people experience missing time during UFO encounters - but it never happened for him, only for us.

Exactly. And he *loves* Mulder. He wouldn't want to see him die like that.

It wasn't a metaphor for the rich taking over the world, that's the problem. It was explicitly about the people who already run the world running it even more.

I decided not to be annoyed at the phone thing, cos it can be explained logically: yes he left it there for Scully to find, and the number it traces is a secret backup phone that only they know about. Sure, that means anyone who gets his laptop can find him, but it might just be their way of always being able to find…

Every time someone posts correcting something you write, respond by posting this. It's lovely and will hopefully make them realise that they were being a bit dickish: http://xkcd.com/1576/

That is really unfair. I am an original X-Files fan who kept the faith right til the end, and who always couched my criticisms in respect for all the good stuff they did.

But also, he lit his own cigarettes when Mulder was there.

But wasn't it lucky that an ex-soldier with anthrax just happened to bump into Scully in the hospital!

That's exactly why I'm so upset at what Carter has done to what is still my favourite show: at every stage, I hoped this might be an old-school X-Files double-bluff, and we were gonna see the right-wing conspiracy stuff as a foil for something much worse, and people's willingness to believe in the chemtrail nonsense…

And note, Scully appears to have texted him while she was developing the vaccine! He had a message from a doctor, saying "there's hope". Who else could it be?

I've said this elsewhere in these comments, but Carter has done this before. Requiem, the last episode of season 7, was written when they didn't know if it was gonna be the last ever episode.