 Club", Zack Handlen rated the episode an A, noting that it was ""X-Files" in top form".He felt that the fight between Skinner and X was "one of the season's great moments", although he derided the use of Scully in a "heroine-as-victim" role.Michelle Bush, in her book "Myth-X", has noted that "End Game" is "a good example of the basic premises that Mulder and Scully cannot succeed without the other", and serves to highlight "the danger of making someone else's choice for them."