The worst offense is the random voiceover from Mulder that play like Harrison Ford’s bad reading of Deckard’s narration in the original. It’s as if Carter thinks the audience is so stupid that we need Mulder to tell us directly that he’s concerned about Scully. Adding insult to injury, the editing and pacing of the episode is all over the place. Scenes are seemingly intercut to heighten the tension, but all it really does is undercut it, making the big moments feel choppy and, in the end, frustrating. The scenes to which I’m referring involve Mulder meeting supposed members of the former Syndicate played by A.C. Peterson and Barbara Hershey (they’re both fine), Skinner’s confrontation with Reyes and the Smoking Man, and Scully’s near fatal car accident. We get brief moments of each scene before cutting back and forth to the others, which took me out of each one and left me puzzled as to why that particular editing choice was made. It comes across as disinterest. Maybe Carter wasn’t interested in how last season ended and just wanted to get on with a new story, so this is what he came up with. Who’s to say?