Clyde Bruckman is going through evidence trying to get psychic visions. When he is holding a blue piece of cloth, he says to Mulder, "I got it! This is yours. This is from your New York Knicks T-shirt!" He was wrong. However, in Season 1's Beyond the Sea (1994), murderer Luther Lee Boggs claims that he gets a psychic vision from a similar blue piece of cloth, but Mulder tells him, "I tore this off my New York Knicks T-shirt. It has nothing to do with the crime."
This episode won two Emmy Awards: Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series (Peter Boyle), and Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series.
In 1997, the TV Guide ranked this episode number 10 on its "100 Greatest Episodes of All Time" list.
There is a scene where Clyde Bruckman is playing cards with Scully. The camera briefly shows his cards - the two black aces and the ace of hearts, and the two black eights. That hand is a variation on the so-called Dead Man's Hand that 'Wild Bill' Hickok was holding when he was shot in the back of the head in 1876 while playing poker. Four of the five cards in Hickok's hand were the two black aces and the two black eights.
Each of the winning lottery numbers announced on the radio is one number off of the numbers on Clyde Bruckman's ticket.