Headscratchers / The X-Files Game

Selective Radiation Poisoning

• Why did only John Amis get radiation poisoning and not Willmore or Astadourian? Or Cook, for that matter? If anything, Willmore and Astadourian spent more time on the ship while they turned it upside down looking for evidence.
  • The game took an approach of Artistic License – Nuclear Physics in how it handled Acute Radiation Syndrome. Willmore and Astadourian standing in an area where even taking a random item out of it would cause someone else to get ARS should have caused immediate symptoms given they had no protective equipment and were thus touching things and breathing everything in. Furthermore, Scully's stated symptoms when she was brought to the hospital would indicate a potentially lethal dose but she's already fresh as a daisy by the time you visit her in the hospital and she's running around like it was merely an inconvenience.

What was Cook's plan beyond "distract Willmore?"

• Did he not think Willmore would realize almost immediately after the raid that he didn't have a warrant? Seriously, did he expect Willmore to just let it go? Couldn't he lose his job over something like that? Was he planning on leaving the FBI with the money he was going to make, thus meaning he didn't have to care anymore? Or was he going to pin it all on Willmore? It just seems not very well-thought out.
  • It's kind of mind-boggling how much Cook is implied to have set up. Planting Wong, planting Wong's criminal record in the database, murdering Wong, planting the mobsters that apparently know to kill Willmore in the dead of the night if he gets caught?

Wong's "accent."

• What accent? How could his perfect American accent "give away" his immigrant status? Sure, he's probably lying through his teeth, but it just seems like either he's a horrible liar or the casting director didn't care enough to find an actor with a legitimate accent.

Instant-Recovering Scully, Just Add Protagonist

• She was shot square in the shoulder and suffered radiation poisoning, yet she's up and about just fine after she speaks with Willmore.

The Liar Whistle

• The nurse blowing a whistle on Willmore for telling lies is an instant game over but... why? First off, she wouldn’t know if most of them true or not and second, even if she calls him out on his lying, that shouldn’t actually stop Willmore from continuing his investigation. He didn’t break the law so the nurse blowing on a whistle shouldn’t have much repercussions beyond some sore eardrums.
  • Scully's using the hospital as a safe house; presumably, she's got loyal security of some sort who will remove Willmore if they think he's up to something shady.
    • That sort of answers it but it's not entirely clear why Scully would have a random nurse that knows everything about her at a hospital in Seattle, why she'd know in encyclopedic detail if Wilmore is lying to her, and why just randomly blowing a whistle in the hallway results in a game over if Wilmore says a dumb thing. He still didn't break the law, he's an FBI agent and could just make the nurse tell him what he wants to know. That's also a headscratcher there (bordering on Idiot Hero) for Craig on why the player even has the option to lie since telling the truth is the only way to not fail the sequence.