 The A.V. Club 's Todd VanDerWerff rated the episode a " B " , finding the character of Catherine Black to have been one of its downfalls . VanDerWerff also criticised the holy blood plot line , comparing it to other contemporary takes on the idea such as the computer game Gabriel Knight 3 : Blood of the Sacred , Blood of the Damned . However , VanDerWerff felt that Cloke and Gallagher worked well on screen together , but ultimately did not believe that Millennium had room for a character like Catherine Black . Bill Gibron , writing for DVD Talk , rated the episode 3 out of 5 , finding it to be " out of step , both with the series and the times " . Gibron also felt that the characters of Black and Means were not strong enough to hold an episode together as lead roles . Robert Shearman and Lars Pearson , in their book Wanting to Believe : A Critical Guide to The X @-@ Files , Millennium & The Lone Gunmen , rated " Anamnesis " one @-@ and @-@ a @-@ half stars out of five . Shearman felt the episode suffered from having set up an interesting and emotive cold open , which he saw as a red herring to the episode 's mystical , theological focus . He was also critical of using Means and Black as the episode 's lead roles , finding that the lack of Henriksen 's character detracted from the episode . 
