The X-Files Season 11: 10 Biggest Reveals From 'The Lost Art Of Forehead Sweat'
2. Skinner Gets The Best Line Of The Episode
Despite appearing for all of a minute in The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat, Walter Skinner gets the best line of the episode. Just after the climax, with Reggie being hauled off to the nuthouse (sorry, the Spotnitz Sanatorium), Skinner arrives on the scene. He takes one look through the rear window of the departing ambulance, and exclaims "hey, where are they taking Reggie!?"
It's a line that throws the episode on its head. Because Skinner, unlike Mulder and Scully themselves, clearly remembers Reggie as actually having worked for the FBI. He knows who the man is, when Reggie himself isn't sure for much of the episode.
It's also one of the most comical lines of the episode, coming from the straight-man, and delivered with perfection by Mitch Pileggi.
Eagle-eyed X-Philes will have noticed, a few weeks back in This, that Reggie briefly appears in some FBI files pertaining to The X-Files. So maybe there's something to him having worked with Mulder and Scully after all.
Heck, maybe there's something to the Berenstein Bears and Shazzam, too! Then again, maybe it's just evidence of a parallel universe.