ARCHIVED COMMUNICATION – MEDIA MONITORING DIVISION

Date: February 23rd, 1996
From: Agent Kelsey
To: Oversight Committee, Division of Narrative Integrity
Subject: The X-Files S3:E14 – “Grotesque” (Airdate: 2/2/96)

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Team,

Please be advised that last week’s episode of The X-Files contained at least five semi-accurate references to D.C.B. phenomena, albeit filtered through their usual alien-vampire-demon blender.

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Concerning overlaps:

• “Entity-driven possession linked to drawings” mirrors Seethe Residue Case 014-A (Cedar Rapids, 1991).

• The line “We become the thing we fear most” is almost verbatim from Heiser’s Murmuration Doctrine draft (redacted 1992).

• Agent Scully theorizing “psychogenic suggestion manifesting physically” got closer to the Red than we’d like.

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Before we panic, remember: no one believes what’s on TV anymore. Even if they land on 90% truth, as long as they wrap it in enough fog machines and rubber suits, the public reads it as fiction.

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That said, we may want to consider a narrative injection op on Season 4, just to ensure they stay focused on Antarctica tunnels and invisible government lizard people.

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Also—Area 51 is, of course, real. But please remind new hires not to refer to it as “our dry storage for nonsense.” It’s still under dual-use custody with the Air Force and has a lot of paperwork attached.

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—Kelsey

(PS: Agent Felder says if he gets name-dropped again he wants royalties.)