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• Errors in geography: Dr. Kurtzweil's office is located at Dupont Circle in Washington, DC. However, when the police search it, some of the officers are wearing patches of the Arlington, Virginia, police department.
  
  
• Continuity: Gelatinous red goop on Scully's gloves in the autopsy scene.
  
  
• Continuity: Mulder's mobile phone changes from a non-telescopic antenna type (presumably as a Nokia product placement) to a telescopic antenna type while he is in the room with the drink dispenser bomb.
  
  

• Continuity: After Mulder is shot, he has a wound on his temple. The wound disappears in Antartica and reappears after the hearing at the end of the movie.
  
  
• Continuity: As Mulder and Scully are climbing down the rocks above the corn field, she is wearing flat-soled shoes. When they enter the beehive, she has high heels. (And not a scratch on them either!)
  
  
• Continuity: For a close-up shot where Scully probes a fireman's corpse, she appears to be wearing a white lab coat that she's not wearing in longer shots in that scene.
  
  
• Continuity: Mulder has gloves on when he falls down the ice chute in the Antarctic, but the gloves mysteriously disappear when he comes out of the chute into the main spaceship area.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mulder discovers the bomb in the vending machine, the door to the room gets knocked down. Later, when Michaud is "disarming" the bomb, the door is back up.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mulder falls down through the ice the hood on his coat falls off his head yet the next scene he is seen pulling the hood off his head.
  
  
• Continuity: When Kurtzweil is talking to Mulder, Mulder's cab arrives twice.
  
  
• Continuity: The snow vehicle that CGB Spender rides out to Mulder's vehicle has long parallel treads. When he is driving back to the base, the tracks shown are the treads on Mulder's vehicle.
  
  
• Errors in geography: The coordinates that the Well-Manicured Man gives Mulder to locate Scully are not in Wilkes Land. 83 degrees latitude South & 63 degrees longitude East are indeed in Antarctica but hundreds of miles from Wilkes Land, closer to the South Pole.
  
  
• Errors in geography: In the scene in "North Texas" where Dallas can be seen in the distance, the surrounding area is dusty, treeless desert. The real areas in Texas where Dallas can be seen in the distance are live-oak covered wooded areas or large, sprawling suburbs.
  
  
• Factual errors: The movie takes place in July but during the sequence in Antarctica the Sun is up (fairly high). During July, the Sun never rises in Antartica (at least not at the coordinates given by the Well Manicured Man).
  
  
• Continuity: When Mulder and Scully run out of the domes to escape the bees, Scully takes off her jacket to pull it up over her head twice.
  
  
• Continuity: At the railroad tracks, the car has its parking lights on as Mulder and Scully stand outside, watching the train pass. In the next shot, the headlights are on.
  
  
• Errors in geography: When the helicopter is flying through Dallas, it passes the "One Wilshire" building in Downtown L.A. As it lands, the building to the right bears the "Pacific Bell" logo which would not be found in Texas.
  
  
• Factual errors: It would be almost impossible to go to the interior of the Antarctic continent in July (middle of the winter) due to extremely bad weather. Barring extreme medical emergencies, no U.S. flights land on the continent between April and October.
  
  
• Factual errors: It would be mind-numbingly cold in the interior of the Antarctic continent in July. Given the meager clothing that Mulder was wearing he would have been hypothermic and frostbitten very quickly.
  
  
• Continuity: In the limo where the well-manicured man shoots his chauffeur while sitting beside Mulder, you can see Mulder lowering his arm while holding the vaccine immediately after the shot. But in the next scene, both of Mulder's arms were raised.
  
  
• Continuity: After Scully gets stung by the bee in the hallway, Mulder rushes back into his apartment and dials 911, while through the windows you can see that it is still daylight. But when the paramedics load Scully into the ambulance waiting outside, it's now almost full dark.
  
  
• Errors in geography: When the three boys are questioned by Scully and Mulder about which direction the trucks went, they point to their right (viewer's left). Because they are standing in front of the Dallas skyline with Reunion Tower on the left, then they are south of Dallas, and are pointing west. In the next scene Scully and Mulder are driving through Texas. The shadow is on the driver's side (north side) of the car which means they are driving east.
  
  
• Continuity: As the train carrying the tanker trucks passes by Mulder and Scully, the entire train is past the railroad crossing before they even move, yet when they start to get into the car the train is passing over the crossing again.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Mulder is reading the article in the newspaper in the last Mulder/Scully scene (by the fountain) you can see that some pages of the paper are entirely blank - most noticeably, on the first shot of Mulder's face in this scene, and then again when he hands the paper to Scully.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mulder frees Scully from the aliens she is naked, yet she is fully clothed when they get to the surface. Moreover, Mulder doesn't seem to have prepared any spare clothes for her prior to the rescue.
  
  
• Factual errors: The film opens in prehistoric times, 35,000 B.C., in North Texas . A Neanderthal man stumbles upon what appears to be a large, primal, vicious alien in a cave. Neanderthals' habitat ranged from Western Europe to the Middle East. No Neanderthal has ever set foot in North America as far as the fossil record is concerned.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene where Mulder and Scully enter the bee domes, Mulder opens the door and is blasted by the rush of air used to support the structure. The next shot of Mulder shows his tie blown back and up over his left shoulder; the next shot shows his tie in normal position and the next shot the tie is back up and over his shoulder.
  
  

• Factual errors: SPOILER: The bees have been raised using a corn field in the middle of the desert. Bees do not pollenate/feed on grasses and so cannot have fed on the corn.
  
  

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