I really enjoyed this episode. The two rating blogs I linked to above didn't give this episode a very good grade... but I thought it was great! One of the blogs mentioned this was Carter's favorite episodes of the season though. I think the reason I liked the episode so much is that it was a really good mystery. In a lot of the episodes, I feel like you always pretty much know what's going on... there's a clear bad guy and the episodes are pretty straight forward. With this one, I was wondering how the pervert guy, the religious people, the hormones, the kids in the woods, etc. all fit together. By the end of the episode, it all came together pretty nicely and made sense. Near the end of the episode, I was like "oh, I get it now, but then I guess the religious people have nothing to do with anything...." and then Scully mentions in her report how they were used as the control group. I guess I just thought that this was really clever and I didn't really realize that until she mentioned it right at the end.

The Smoking Man got blown the **** up by a direct hit from a helicopter gunship. Even for the X-Files, it's a pretty bold retcon for him to be alive. And the cast listing for future episodes suggest even more egregious back from the dead cameos.