The whiplash between Mulder walking into the office and going “whatever tape you found in the TV wasn’t mine” and Scully going “good because I put it in the drawer with all those other tapes that aren’t yours” and you as a viewer going “oh my god??” and then showing a battered woman on the TV screen as we just plow full steam ahead into the case with no release of that tension is so WILD, this show is craaazyyy










