Paper Clip is the final part of the trilogy and much of it weak.
I'm not sold on it at all, perhaps the worst episode of the series thus far. It's a bailout, their lives are in danger because they have the tape and anytime they're on to something in the future, their lives will be in danger too. They get Albert to decode it and then don't even find out what's on it. Their family members died and for what? Hello? Skinner makes such poor decisions here, why did he argue that he must have the tape and immediately want to trade it and then just carry it around in his coat pocket... People died for this! Mulder says "Come on, Scully, let's go. There are truths out there that aren't on that tape." The most ridiculous line of the series, yeah who cares about the tape, what I just almost died for and my father died for and your sister died for and Scully's just in a state of wooed shock. There's plenty of poor dialogue in here. Scully's seen the Bounty Hunter in person, so that ship's sailed too.
I'm not sold on it at all, perhaps the worst episode of the series thus far. It's a bailout, their lives are in danger because they have the tape and anytime they're on to something in the future, their lives will be in danger too. They get Albert to decode it and then don't even find out what's on it. Their family members died and for what? Hello? Skinner makes such poor decisions here, why did he argue that he must have the tape and immediately want to trade it and then just carry it around in his coat pocket... People died for this! Mulder says "Come on, Scully, let's go. There are truths out there that aren't on that tape." The most ridiculous line of the series, yeah who cares about the tape, what I just almost died for and my father died for and your sister died for and Scully's just in a state of wooed shock. There's plenty of poor dialogue in here. Scully's seen the Bounty Hunter in person, so that ship's sailed too.