The X-Files: I Want to Believe
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Trivia: Actress Vanessa Morley, who plays Samantha Mulder in the series, makes a cameo as an agent walking past Mulder and Scully at the headquarters.

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Continuity mistake: When Mulder cuts out the article about "Dr. Frankenstein", the cut is just above the article title, but when he tacks up the article it includes the heading of the 'Times Dispatch'. Then in its close-up the paper is cut just above the article title again and it continues to go back and forth in following shots. (01:37:20)

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Continuity mistake: When the FBI are searching the office, Dacyshyn walks out, sees Mulder, drops the donor bag and runs with Mulder and Agent Whitney in pursuit. The donor bag is rear-facing when he drops it, but in the close-up it's front-facing to show the words "human organ for transplant", and its straps positions also change between all shots. (01:07:00)

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Continuity mistake: At the end, there's a white car parked outside Mulder and Scully's house. When Scully comes out, it's now a silver car. (01:35:20 - 01:38:15)

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Continuity mistake: When the doctor brings the soup to Cheryl Cunningham, who is being held prisoner in the box, (before he unlocks it) in the shot from inside the box there is a spoon handle sticking out of the bowl, but next close-up the spoon is gone. (01:02:50)

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Continuity mistake: When Mulder tacks up the Princeton ESP article, in the first shot it blocks most of the large letter 'o' in the word 'to', but next shot the tacked up article is only beside that letter 'o'. (00:08:05)

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Continuity mistake: When Sculley stands at the doorway telling Mulder that the FBI wants his help, the top book beside her has its spine facing her, but in the close-up when she says, "Someone's come forward," the book faces the opposite way. (00:08:10)

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Continuity mistake: As Mulder's car hits Dacyshyn's truck, the front left side of the car and its headlight sustain significant damage, but when the truck's snow plow pushes the car all that damage is gone and the headlight is fixed. (01:18:45)

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Fox Mulder: Are you asking me to give up?
Dana Scully: No. I can't tell you to do that, Mulder. But I can tell you that I won't be coming home.

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Trivia: Actress Vanessa Morley, who plays Samantha Mulder in the series, makes a cameo as an agent walking past Mulder and Scully at the headquarters.

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Question: Why did the Russian man keep kidnapping women (not men) for the doctors to attach the bald Russian man's head to?

Answer: Women are easier to overpower and abduct.

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