 Guest actor Tom Noonan , who played the killer John Lee Roche , recalled filming the scene in which his character is introduced , playing basketball in prison . Noonan , a capable basketball player , was asked to " downplay " how well he could play ; although he regretted not being able to play against David Duchovny , who had played basketball for Princeton University . Episode writer Vince Gilligan and director Rob Bowman assert that Duchovny 's successful basketball shot in this scene was filmed in just one take , without special effects . While the episode was the eighth produced in the season , it was the tenth aired , having been delayed to free up production resources for the two part episodes " Tunguska " and " Terma " . The episode 's climactic scene was filmed in a " bus graveyard " in Surrey , British Columbia , a location which had been scouted months previously with the intention of eventually including it in an episode of the series ; although filming at the location did not even last a full day despite the long wait to use it . 
