With Mulder firm in the belief that his five year investigation into UFO's and extraterrestrials has brought him nowhere, events swirling around him look like they may start influencing him back in the other direction again, at least at some point. For now, the regression hypnosis of his partner is met with skepticism, believing that the chip implanted in her neck was a government experiment to test biological immunity, or kill as necessary to prevent that truth from coming out.
However you can't distrust your own eyes when Cassandra Spender (Veronica Cartwright) is shown teleported into a spaceship, also witnessed by dozens of people at a gathering referred to by Scully's regression therapy hypnotist as the 'night place'. Though she has no memory of the event, it's interesting to note the juxtaposition in the beliefs of the partner agents who appear to have taken each other's former position on the existence of aliens and UFO's.
The biggest surprise offered by this episode occurs in the bookended scenes in which a young boy is handed a red envelope to be delivered to someone at the FBI. That someone is Agent Jeffrey Spender (Chris Owens), who has long been estranged from a father he barely knew. As difficult as it may be to believe in faceless aliens, shape shifting bounty hunters, and alien spaceships, you can only scratch your head when the red envelope is returned undelivered to a figure we used to know as the Cigarette Smoking Man (William B. Davis). Last we saw him, he was in a pretty tight spot, but it seems that with the X-Files, things are not as certain as death and taxes.
However you can't distrust your own eyes when Cassandra Spender (Veronica Cartwright) is shown teleported into a spaceship, also witnessed by dozens of people at a gathering referred to by Scully's regression therapy hypnotist as the 'night place'. Though she has no memory of the event, it's interesting to note the juxtaposition in the beliefs of the partner agents who appear to have taken each other's former position on the existence of aliens and UFO's.
The biggest surprise offered by this episode occurs in the bookended scenes in which a young boy is handed a red envelope to be delivered to someone at the FBI. That someone is Agent Jeffrey Spender (Chris Owens), who has long been estranged from a father he barely knew. As difficult as it may be to believe in faceless aliens, shape shifting bounty hunters, and alien spaceships, you can only scratch your head when the red envelope is returned undelivered to a figure we used to know as the Cigarette Smoking Man (William B. Davis). Last we saw him, he was in a pretty tight spot, but it seems that with the X-Files, things are not as certain as death and taxes.