Overall I enjoyed this much more at the start of the episode where you have the mystery, than when it's solved and you know how they survive. The truck stuff and lack of thought behind the memory-vampire spoilt things a bit.
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Good:
- cinematography.
- Love the shoe. That shoe deserves a best supporting actor award (at least until they invent an award for best prop use).
- re: the shoe. It's moving that under the circumstances D would want to hold onto the only things he had. Shows his character.
- several great one-liners (already mentioned by others).
- Yay the acting of Robert Patrick.
- acting from everyone in Mexico very good.
- surprised D would back out of a deal.
- gun taking awesome
- good that because R can speak Spanish she actually does something in this ep. The scene with her and the lawyer makes her look like a capable useful agent.
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not so good:
- Would like a bit more Scully and a little less R. Mostly because I think the D-remembering-scene would have a more interesting dynamic with S(and R does spoil the moment by yelling at him). It'd be interesting to see how S would handle that moment, and we wouldn't have the R + D romance hanging over things.
- plot contrivances
- lack of detail on case D originally investigating.