 The producers considered screening the first part of the season premiere at Comic @-@ Con in San Diego , but ultimately decided against it because they thought the scene " ends in such an exciting way that we were afraid to let it out " . As a promotion , Fox did send out a DVD " screener " package of the premiere to certain journalists , which included a copy of the New York Times article shown in the first season finale as well as a piece of paper with a list of typed phrases . The paper was a copy of the instructions one of the shapeshifters received on the typewriter , which included phrases like " Mission Accomplished " and " Target Terminated " . 
