At least, we're pretty sure guest star Burt Reynolds is God in Improbable at any rate. A rather stunning surprise from Chris Carter, this episode is tremendous fun, though unable to escape more questions about why Reyes isn't fired for this sequence of events.

We talk about our own life-path numbers and how relevant they are; also how Mulder crazy contrasts with Reyes crazy...

Scary Monsters sees the welcome return of Leyla Harrison to the series in a amusing if still grisly episode that can't quite hide how much it resembles a rather famous The Twilight Zone episode.

We wind up talking about fandom given how Leyla views the X-Files staff and how Mulder might be becoming Poochy...

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One of them anyway...

Audrey Pauley feels more like a Twilight Zone episode, but is an interesting contrast to Steven Maeda's previous season 9 episode of 4D. And yet, somehow we end up talking about Dark Souls and Die Hard during the course of this episode. And how familiar the villain is.

Underneath is an episode we really did completely forget existed. And this despite it being the most The X-Files episode this season! A shame that Doggett is completely correct in this episode for a succession of completely wrong reasons.

Also not clear how he trusts anything after this...

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...mostly about the current state of the conspiracy here in Season 9...

Providence, wait, Provenance. No, Providence. Dammit, its Provenance!

Provenance has the Lone Gunmen for hilariously, almost futile inclusion and seems to want to hark back to one of the series more startling reveals - a half-buried ancient UFO off the coast of Africa. Except not we have one in Calgary, Canada.

We complain at length about what has been done to Scully's character and how weirdly certain people are that Mulder has died somewhere off-screen (made pointless given Carter's reported statement that Duchovny would be appearing in the finale).

Providence doesn't get much better as a weird alien prophecy means either Mulder or William has to die for... reasons, and how everyone acts like Mulder stopped the aliens taking over when he did effectively nothing of the sort.

The episode also reminds of us of better things. Babylon 5, The Tommyknockers. Quatermass and the Pit...

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