We finally get some real alien lore in this episode as Mulder and Scully discover a plot to breed alien-human hybrids for an unknown purpose.
This episode really got me thinking about all the security guards, military personnel, test pilots, research scientists, engineers, CIA agents, Men in Black, politicians, and international powerbrokers it requires to maintain conspiracies about aliens by those in the know. Think of how many we've seen this season! Mulder definitely picked the wrong line of work, he could have just tried to get a job as a security guard at the alien sample research lab and he'd have gotten all his answers in no time. When you think about it, it must require literally thousands of people on the inside to pull off. And every decade the majority of them would rotate out and need replaced by thousands more. And this is only one of the major nations involved, they would need to do this in every country that's a part of this conspiracy, which was at least half a dozen. By the time this show takes place, that hundreds of thousands of people involved in an alien conspiracy.
You'd think it'd be easier to get some answers!