"5 Episodes [of The X-Files] That Could Be Made Into Movies" list. Other reviews were more mixed. Paula Vitaris from Cinefantastique gave the episode a mixed review and awarded it two stars out of four. She called the scene featuring Scully singing to Mulder "a failed attempt to create 'a special X-Files moment'" and noted that the sequence was "a poor substitute for meaningful dialogue". Vitaris, however, did applaud the guest cast and called the creature's effects "very creepy". Robert Shearman and Lars Pearson, in their book Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen, rated the episode two stars out of five. The two noted that it replicated "Quagmire" too much for its own good and was "satisfied with the intention alone". They reasoned that because "it's so busy telling us how cute the interplay" between Mulder and Scully is, the episode "forgets to make it any good". Shearman and Pearson also called the Spanish conquistador revelation "so utterly left field it feels self-parodic." Footnotes Bibliography External links "Detour" on TheXFiles.com 1997 American television episodes Television episodes set in Florida Mothman The X-Files (season 5) episodes