Mulder: ....Now, the picture frame was turned down, you wanted to talk. What have you found? Scully: I wanted to talk but I haven't found anything. Mulder: It's dangerous for us just to have a little chat, Scully. We must assume we're being watched. Scully: Mulder, I haven't seen any indication... Mulder: No, no, of course not. These people are the best. |
Yet Mulder seems insistent on being his worst. Without Scully to rein him in his Punk side really gets out of hand. Mulder's behavior gets out of control when he's taken away from the X-Files.
Messy! Messy! Surely among the items he could have brought with him he could have found a cup or some other receptacle into which he could put his sunflower seed husks. Clearly the floor isn't the place for them.
Being rude to Scully: There was no need to completely ignore Scully the way he did. It's not going to hurt to say hello. Sheesh!
Okay, the Blue Beret crash retrieval team are approaching and Mulder knows that they'll use deadly force. Presumably, he's going to need to make a fast getaway. So why does he hitch a ride to the observation center instead of procuring a vehicle?
As much as Mulder's atrocious Spanish made me cringe, I didn't want to mention it because that would be unnecessarily picky but Mulder's "Nojo on the rojo?" Give me a break! On a more serious note constantly speaking to someone in English who does not understand is not going to make them understand within a few hours.
Back to the Blue Berets and their deadly force: Why the hell is he sifting through papers instead of grabbing a bunch of them and taking them with him?
Mulder has some nerve! Scully drives over and basically saves his ass since the Punkish one didn't bother to rent a vehicle so when they leave Mulder hops into the driver's seat. Nerve!
Going AWOL. While AWOL is probably not the correct term to use when an FBI agent just runs off without calling in or giving any kind of explanation as to why he or she will not be in to work, that is exactly what Mulder did. It is not what one would call a good idea. There are better, less job jeopardizing ways of pissing off one's boss.
Arguing with Skinner while being chewed out. That is not a smart thing to do. Then to top it off when Skinner tells him to go back to his assignment Mulder almost does it again arguing tat a minute ago Skinner had said that he was a four bagger. Is Mulder trying to get himself fired?
Trespassing: And he couldn't say he didn't know what with the huge no trespassing sign in English right there on the gate. Of course that brings me to the other crime committed in this episode.
Breaking and Entering: Once again Mulder crosses the line between what he does for a living and criminal activity. When one needs bolt cutters instead of a key to open a padlocked door and there's no warrant you know it's not a legal entry.