Writer:	Chris Carter, David Duchovny, Chris Carter
Director:	R.W. Goodwin
Star:	Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully),  David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder)
Recurring Role:	Mitch Pileggi (Assistant Director Walter Skinner),  William B. Davis (Cigarette Smoking Man),  Bruce Harwood (Byers),  Dean Haglund (Langly),  Tom Braidwood (Frohike),  Nicholas Lea (Alex Krycek),  Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman (Albert Hosteen),  Peter Donat (William Mulder),  Ken Camroux (2nd Senior Agent),  Michael David Simms (Senior FBI Agent)
Guest Star:	Paul McLean (Agent Kautz),  Aurelio Dinunzio (Antonio (uncredited)),  Bernie Coulson (Kenneth Soona (The Thinker)),  Chris Carter (3rd Senior Agent (uncredited)),  Byron Chief-Moon (Father (uncredited)),  Renae Morriseau (Josephine Doane),  Dakota House (Eric Hosteen),  Mitchell Davies (Stealth Man)

Renae Morriseau previously appeared in Season 1 'Shapes' as Gwen. (edit) In order to recreate the distinct New Mexico landscape, a rock quarry was painted with over 1,600 gallons of red paint. (edit) A scene in which The Thinker is kidnapped by Men In Black was cut from the final version of the episode. (edit) In the shots of the encrypted MJ Documents on Mulder's computer, you can clearly make out the line "do-ray-me-fa-so-la-todo". (edit) Director and Executive Producer R.W. Goodwin also had a cameo in this episode, as a gardener. Unfortunately his scene ended up on the cutting-room floor. (edit)

Scully: They called me in today.
Mulder: What did you tell them?
Scully: That nothing was wrong.
Mulder: Well, you told them the truth then.
Scully: Mulder, you opened the door for them, they're just looking for a good reason now.
Mulder: Okay, I'll say I'm sorry.
Scully: Mulder, these files. Who knows you have them?
Mulder: Why?
Scully: Because I had to lie today. And I put my job in jeopardy in order to do so. If they find out about those files -
Mulder: How would they find out?
Scully: Maybe they already know. The question is, is it worth it? Is this cassette worth risking everything?
Mulder: I'll tell you when I find out what's on it. Now just tell me who I can talk to about breaking that code!
Scully: I'm meeting with someone in an hour. I might know something later tonight... I just need some kind of assurance that they're not going to let us hang ourselves with this! That I'm doing the right thing.
Mulder: I'll try to find out. (He tapes an 'X' to the window)
Scully: I need to know one more thing Mulder. Why did you attack Skinner?
Mulder: I've thought about that Scully. I honestly can't say. (edit) Cigarette Smoking Man: (about Mulder not being in the boxcar) Nothing vanishes without a trace. Burn it. (edit) Mulder: I'm in a boxcar buried inside a quarry. There are bodies everywhere.
Scully: Bodies?
Mulder: Stacked floor to ceiling.
Scully: What happened to them?
Mulder: I don't know.
Scully: Mulder, in these files I found references to experiments that were conducted here in the US by Axis Power scientists who were given amnesty after the war.
Mulder: What kind of experiments?
Scully: Some kind of tests, on humans. What they referred to as merchandise.
Mulder: But these aren't human, Scully. From the look of it I'd say they were alien. (edit) Bill Mulder: You're going to learn of things, Fox. You're going to hear the words and they'll come to make sense to you. (edit) Scully: Where did you get this?
Mulder: Your friendly neighborhood anarchist. (edit)

Albert Hosteen's statements about the "Anasazi" are inaccurate. The name "Anasazi" is Navajo for "ancient enemies" -- it could loosely be interpreted as "aliens", in the sense of "not-like-us", but not in the X-Files sense. As to his assertion that "No evidence of their fate exists", the Hopis, who are Pueblo Indians, have a different name for the Anasazi. They call them "ancestral Puebloans". (edit) As Scully stands up to leave at the Offices of the Navajo Nation, the reflection of a boom mike moving in one of the picture frames on the wall can be seen. (edit) After Mulder wakes up in New Mexico, Scully says that they have just driven for two days and he has been unconscious for 36 hours, but he looked pretty clean shaven for a guy who had been out for that long. I doubt Scully or anyone else would have had the opportunity or inclination to do it. (edit) After Mulder has his tantrum and goes to see Skinner he does not have or reach for his suit coat, but when he walks up to Skinner he has it on. (edit) In Mulder's apartment building when the woman shoots her husband it takes exactly 10 seconds for the police to show up. Talk about service. (edit)

Visual: Majestic 12

The Majestic 12 files supposedly document the existence of a secret organization dedicated to the concealment of extraterrestrial contacts, that purport to have been compiled for Harry Truman soon after the 1947 Roswell crash. (edit)