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The X-Files' credits tagline, from Deep Throat's dying words
Trust no one.
— The X-Files · 1993
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Deep Throat spent a season feeding Mulder half-truths, and his last advice distils the show's creed: the conspiracy reaches everywhere, including people who seem to help you. It gave the series its darkest tagline and became a shorthand for 1990s conspiracy culture. Fans quote it as a grim joke whenever anyone seems too helpful.
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In context
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The credits tagline comes from the first-season finale, "The Erlenmeyer Flask". Deep Throat (Jerry Hardin), Mulder's anonymous informant, hands an alien fetus to the Crew Cut Man at a freeway overpass and is shot seconds later. Scully tends to him, and his last words are "Trust no one". The episode swapped the usual "The Truth Is Out There" credits tagline for this one, the first change of its kind.
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- Wikipedia: The Erlenmeyer FlaskPlot and ProductionReference checked
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