QUOTES / I S M S
The following are my favorite quotes from the X-Files. The larger scenes can be found in the Scene's section of my web site. Don't read any of these if you don't want to be spoiled. Click on the X to hear the quote.

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Herrenvolk

Scully: You know what these are, confirm or deny?

X: Don't unlock doors you're not prepared to go through, Agent Scully.

Scully: I think sir, that this is more along my field of expertise.

Scully: I don't know, but it would have to be a government agency.

Bounty Hunter: Everything dies.

Mulder: He took me to a place with green fields...and I saw my sister. She was this little girl. I' ve seen too many things not to believe.
Scully: I've seen things too. But there are answers to be found now. We have hope that there is a place to start. That's what I believe.
Mulder: You put such faith in your science Scully, but... the things I have seen science provides no place to start.
Scully: Nothing happens in contradiction to nature, only in contradiction to what we know of it, and that's a place to start. That's where the hope is.

C. S. M. : ... the fiercest enemy is the man who has nothing to lose.

Marita: Not everything dies Mr. Mulder


Unruhe

Scully: Well, whoever it was who took this photo was obviously privy to the women's abduction.
Mulder: That *is* what you would think.

Mulder: So, which of us gets to use the stun gun on Bruno Halpman over there?

Scully: Mulder, take a look at this. See this smeariness here? I'm thinking that it's heat damage. With the heater sitting under the film right there that the emulsion probably melted.
Mulder: So you think that might make it look like she posed, screaming, for a passport photo?
Scully: Plus, the film is two years out of date.
Mulder: 0h...
Scully: The photographic chemistry could have changed.
Mulder: Uh... ( nodding sarcastically )
Scully: ( Mulder still nodding sarcastically ) The dyes...fade...they...alright, so what's your theory?
Mulder: I'm not sure I have a theory.

Mulder: Yea, but why would she stab here boyfriend through the ear? The magic was gone?

Mulder: Here it is. ( he picks up a camera ) Stand back Scully, it's loaded.

Scene between Mulder and Scully in the Woods, Unruhe [See Scenes]

Scully: After his death, a diary was found among Gerald Schnauze's belongings. Written in the second person and apparently intended as an open letter to his father, it includes the names of his victims. The women he desired to "save". My name is contained in the last entry. I have no further explanation for the existence of the photographs, nor am I confident one is forth coming. My captivity forced me to understand, and even empathize with Jerry Schnauze, my survival depended on it. I see now the value in such insight, for truly to pursue monsters, we must understand them. We must venture into their minds. Only in doing so, do we risk letting them venture into ours.


Teliko

Mulder: Hey, Scully. I heard you were down here slicing and dicing, who's the lucky stiff?

Mulder: There's a Michael Jackson joke in here somewhere but I can't quite find it.

Mulder: He didn't even touch his Jell-O.

Scully: Mulder, not everything is a labyrinth of dark conspiracy, and not everybody is planning to deceive, inveigle, and obfuscate.

Mulder: Agent Pendrell, thanks for returning this material analysis in such short notice.
Agent Pendrell: Shouldn't we wait for agent Scully, just so I won't have to repeat myself?
Mulder: She's not coming.
Agent Pendrell: Why not?
Mulder: She had a date...(Pendrell looks crestfallen) Breathe Agent Pendrell, with a dead man. She's doing an autopsy.

Scully: Where are you?
Mulder: I'm off to water the seeds of doubt. Bye bye.


Home

Scully: Meanwhile I've quit the FBI and become a spokesperson for the AbRoller.

Scully: Mulder if you had to do without a cell phone for two minutes you'd lapse into catatonic schizophrenia.

COTB: Conversation on the Bench - Home [see Scenes]

Scully: Still thinking of moving out here?
Mulder: Not if I can't get the Knicks game.

Mulder: (Pushing some pigs out of a pen) Scully, would you think less of me as a man if I told you I was kinda excited right now?

Scully: I baby-sat my Nephew this weekend. He watches Babe fifteen times a day.
Mulder: And people call me spooky.


The Field Where I Died

Mulder: At times I almost dream. I too have spent a life the sage's way - Tread once more familiar paths. Perchance I'd perish’d in an arrogant self-reliance For one more chance went up so earnest - so Instinct with better light let in by Death - That life was blotted out - not so completely But scatter'd wrecks enough of it to remain Dim memories; as now, when seems once more The goal in sight again.

Scene between Mulder and Scully in the Car, The Field Where I Died [See Scenes]

Mulder: Dana, if in any of the four years that we've been working together, an event occurred to suggest that somebody told you that we'd be friends together, in other lifetimes. Always. Would it have changed some of the ways we looked at each other?
Scully: Even if I knew for certain, I wouldn't change a day. Well, except for that Flukeman thing. I could have lived without that just fine.


Sanguinarium

Scully: Yeah, there’s magic going on here, Mulder, only it’s being done with silicone, collagen, and a well placed scalpel.

Scully: Well if it's that simple, why don't you put out an APB for someone riding a broom and wearing a tall black hat?

Mulder: (Looking at an old broom) Probable cause.


Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man

Byers: Frohike's close.
Frohike: Don't use my name! What the hell's wrong with you? Now I'll have to kill you.
Byers: Langly and I performed...
Frohike: He's everywhere! Everywhere. He'll kill me.
Mulder: No one would kill you, Frohike. You're just a little puppy-dog.

C. S. M.: What I don't want to see is the Bills winning the Super Bowl. As long as I'm alive that doesn't happen.
Man: Could be tough, sir. Buffalo wants it bad.
C. S. M.: So did the Soviets in 80.
Man: What, you saying you rigged the Olympic hockey game?
C. S. M.: What's the matter? Don't you believe in miracles?


Paper Hearts

Scully: So, tell me about this dream of yours.

Scully: You said it yourself once. You said that a...a dream is an answer to a question that we haven't learned how to ask.

Mulder: (After slicing the car's interior) I'm helping him detail.

Roche: (to Mulder) How about this, sink one from there and I'll tell you. (Mulder sinks the basket) You'd trust a child molester?

Roche: (To guard referring to Mulder) This man hit me.
Guard: I didn't see it.
Scully: I did.

Mulder: My last dream came true. Scully, do you believe that my sister, Samantha, was abducted by aliens? Have you ever believed that? No. So what do you think happened to her?
Scully: What are you saying you believe now?
Mulder: I don't know. I don't know what happened. I don't know what to believe. I just know I have to find out now.

Skinner: (To Mulder) You tread lightly. (To Scully) You see that he does.

Scene in Cacapon, West Virginia, Paper Hearts [See Scenes]

Roche: (To Mulder) You're damn right I do... if only for a day or two. I'm realistic. And more than that, I... I can't wait to see your face.
Scully: Oh, God...You're going to see the inside of your cell instead. You're going to rot there.

Scully: There has to be another way to come to the truth.

Skinner: You're lucky I don't have your ass in a sling!

Mulder: Sorry, Scully. You were right. He was playing me the whole time.
Scully: So you don't think he took Samantha.
Mulder: None of that really matters now, does it?

Scully: ... but beyond that, there's nothing more they can tell us. Mulder, it's not Samantha... and whoever that little girl really is, we'll find her.
Mulder: How?
Scully: I don't know... but I do know you.


Tunguska

Krycek: You go underground, you gotta learn to live with the rats.
Mulder: I'm sure you had no trouble adapting.
Krycek: These men are pathetic revolutionaries, who would kill innocent Americans for their bonehead ideologies.
Mulder: You're an invertebrate scumsucker whose moral dipstick is about two drops short of bone dry.

Mulder: Expose it for him, Scully. (They see a rock) What did you get for Halloween, Charlie Brown?

Scully: Mulder, that rock contains fossils of what is believed to be alien bacteria, and even that is under intense debate.
Mulder: Then why all this effort to get it onto US soil? I think that what Alex Krycek has given us is a pivotal piece to an even larger plot.
Scully: What he's given us is a rock. Alex Krycek is a liar and a murderer.
Mulder: Who wants to expose the same men that we do. And is willing to go to any lengths to succeed.
Scully: What I'm worried about is you, Mulder. How far you will go--and how far I can follow you.

Scully: You want this man brought to justice?
Krycek: You can't bring these men to justice. These men are protected...by the laws of this country in the name of national security. They know no law.
Mulder: Then why don't you put a bullet in his head like you did that man out there?
Krycek: These men, they fear one thing. Exposure. Expose him....expose his crimes, you destroy the destroyer's ability to destroy.
Mulder: The only thing that will destroy this man is the truth.
Krycek: The truth... there's no truth. These men, they make it up as they go along. They're the engineers of the future. They're the real revolutionaries. I can get them for you too.

Skinner: He'll be safe here. ( Wham! He punches Krycek )...relatively safe!

Krycek: You can't leave me out here, I'm gonna freeze to death!
Skinner: Just think warm thoughts.

Senator: Are you familiar with the penalties for obstruction of justice?
Scully: Is that a rhetorical question, sir?


Terma

CS: Courtroom Scene, Terma [See Scenes]

C. S. M.: Wake the Russian bear and it may find we've stolen its honey.

SCC: Scully in Contempt of Congress, Terma [See Scenes]

Scully: Several of the men on this committee are lawyers. It is my experience that lawyers ask the wrong question only when they don't want the right answer.

Mulder: I'm not going to die.
Prisoner: No? Why not?
Mulder: I have to live long enough to kill that man Krycek.

Mulder: It's nice to put my arms around you. Both of them.
Scully: When did you get back here?
Mulder: It's been a long strange trip...


El Mundo Gira

Scully: Mulder, this happened how long ago?
Mulder: Tres diaz. Mue Incredible, no?

Scully: Purple rain?
Mulder: Yeah. Great album. Deeply flawed movie, though.

Scully: (softly, only Mulder can hear) Maria ... Maria ... I just met a girl named Maria.

Mulder: I’m looking for a man named Eladio Buente. He hasn’t been seen for three days and he’s not in police custody. I thought he might be in INS custody.
Lozano: He might. Let’s see. Okay! We have a Jose Feliciano. We have Juan Valdez, we have Cesar Chavez, we have Placido Domingo here. But I don’t see any Eladio Buente.

Scully: (referring to the body being autopsied) I don’t think he’s going anywhere.

Mulder: They think he’s the Chupacabra.
Lozano: That may be, but I will tell you with a tremendous degree of certainty this guy is not Erik Estrada.


Kaddish

Mulder: Spectral figures are not often known to leave fingerprints. Casper never did.

Scully: You haven't heard the rumors?
Bjunes: What rumors?
Scully: That Luria is back from the dead? That he's risen from his grave?
Bjunes: What kind of Jew trick is this?
Mulder: A Jew pulled it off 2000 years ago.

Jacob Weiss: Our synagogue has been vandalized 13 times in the last year. I heard a noise in the attic. I went up to see what it was and he attacked me. It was self-defense.
Mulder: Hanging a man in self defense?


Leonard Betts

(Looking inside Leonard’s now empty morgue drawer.)
Mulder: Pretty cozy. Who’d ever want to leave.

Scully: You're not suggesting that a headless body kicked it's way out of a latched morgue freezer are you?

Mulder: Oh….. I think I got the toy surprise. (Pulls up a slimy head.)

Mulder: Well you got yourself a nice paperweight.

Mulder: Let’s get a slice to go.

Scully: Salamanders are one thing, but no mammal possesses that kind of regenerative power. I mean, there isn’t a creature walking this earth that can regrow its head.
Mulder: Worms. You cut a worm in half, you get two.
Scully: Mulder, they’re worms.

Mulder: (Holds up a human thumb inside evidence bag) Siskle or Ebert?

Mulder: On the other hand, how evolved can a man be who drives a Dodge Dart?

Scully: Why do I think that Charles Darwin is rolling in his grave right now.


Never Again

Conversation about the Desk, Never Again [See Scenes]

Conversation about Moose and Squirrel, Never Again [See Scenes]

Scully: (Talking about Ed's tattoo) So it wasn’t so much "impulsive" as it was "hammered?"

Conversation on the Phone, Never Again [See Scenes]

Scully: Ed, I-I uh, I don’t go out very much. I think the last time I went on a date was to see Glen Garry, Glen Ross and the characters in the movie had a much better time.

Scully: Not everything is about you, Mulder. This is *my* life.
Mulder: Yes, but it’s m - -


Memento Mori

CiH: Conversation in the Hospital, Memento Mori [See Scenes]

CMSK: Conversation with Mulder, Scully and Kurt, Memento Mori [See Scenes]

Scully: Mulder, whatever you found or whatever you might find, I think that we both know that right now the truth is in me, and that's where I need to pursue it.
Mulder: I will be right there.

Mulder: ...This is a file directory from a federally operated fertility clinic. Agent Scully's name is on this file, although I'm pretty sure, pretty damn sure she's never undergone treatment for infertility.

Skinner: You deal with this man, you offer him anything and he will own you forever.
Mulder: (heated) He knows what they did to Agent Scully. He may very well know how to save her.
Skinner: (sharp) If he knows, you can know too but you can't ask the truth of a man who trades in lies. I won't let you.

Mulder: Pick out something black and sexy and prepare to do some funky poaching.

Skinner: At least he doesn't take an elevator up to get to work.

C.S.M.: ... Oh Mr. Skinner, which way is the elevator?

Penny: Dana, I want you to get well. You've been such a comfort. You've got to be the one. You can't give up hope.
Scully: I haven't. I won't.

C/H/K/LITH: Conversation/Hug/Kiss/Look in the Hallway - Memento Mori [See Scenes]

The Diary Entries


Unrequited

Skinner: Right now, I'm flying by the seat of my pants.
Mulder: You mean there's no procedure outlined for an invisible assassin?

Skinner: You heard his story, Mulder?
Mulder: Yeah. I found his story compelling, personally, but then again I believe the Warren Commission.

(There are two groups of armed soldiers on the outside of the fence.)
Mulder: There goes the neighborhood.


Tempus Fugit

Mulder: I didn't know it was your birthday, Scully!
Scully: Awful. You have never remembered my birthday in the four years I've known you.
Mulder: That's when I like to celebrate them is every four years. It's like dog years, that way.
Scully: Dog years? Thank you.
Mulder: You're welcome. Oh I got something for you.
Scully: Oh you've got to be kidding me.
Mulder: It's just something that reminded me of you
Scully: What, an alien implant?
Mulder: Two actually, I made them into earrings.
Scully: Hmmm. Apollo 11.
Mulder: Read the back.
Scully: Commemorating Apollo 11 and the mission to the moon, July 1969. I'm touched.
Mulder: It's um...
Sharon Grath: Excuse me, are you Scully and Mulder?
Scully: Oh promise me this isn't leading to something really embarrassing.

Scully: You sure know how to make a girl feel special on her birthday.

Mulder: Does your policy cover the acts of extra terrestrials?


Max

Scully: Mulder, what are these people dying for? Is it for the truth or for the lies?

Scully: I think you were actually kindred spirits in some deep, strange, way....Men with Spartan lives, simple in their creature comforts, if only to allow for the complexity of their passions.

Mulder: Do you know where she is?
Scully: A mental institution.
Mulder: Well, I'd go with you but I'm afraid they might lock me up.
Scully: Me too.

Mulder: More people are trying to get their hands on this thing than a "Tickle-Me Elmo" doll. I'm getting on a flight.

Scully: You never got a chance to tell me what it means, but I think I know. I think you appreciate that there are extraordinary men, and women, and extraordinary moments when history leaps forward on the backs of these individuals. That what can be imagined can be achieved. That you must dare to dream, but that there is no substitute for perseverance and hard work. And team work. Because no one gets there alone. And while we commemorate the greatness of these events and the individuals who achieve them, we cannot forget the sacrifice of those who made these achievements and leaps possible.
Mulder: I just thought it was a cool keychain.


Synchrony

Scully: What was he wearing, a long black robe and carrying a scythe?

Mulder: You were a lot more open minded when you were a youngster.

Mulder: Well you see what happens when you drink and drive?

Mulder: The security officer who's now in the morgue has a body temperature a little south of Frosty the Snow Man.

Scully: If he would lie *for* you what makes you think he wouldn't lie *to* you.


Small Potatoes

Scully: Did he have a light saber?

Mulder: Take your best shot Scully, but I think there's more going on here then Luke Skywalker and his light saber.

Mulder: How would this happen?
Scully: Birds and the bees and the monkey babies Mulder.

Mulder: I was just here, where did I go?

Mulder: Good night! So this is where my tax dollars go? (looking at Mulder’s name plate) Fox?!? Brother.

Mulder: You lookin' at me? There ain't no one else here so you must be looking at me. You want a piece of this?

SMAK: The Scully / Mulder almost Kiss, Small Potatoes [See Scenes]


Zero Sum

C.S.M.: A man digs a hole, he risks falling into it.


Elegy

Mulder: What *is* that look, Scully?
Scully: I would have thought that after four years you'd know *exactly* what that look was.

Scully: I guess I never realized how much I rely on him before this. His passion....He's been a great source of strength that I've drawn on.

Mulder: I know what you're afraid of, Scully. I'm afraid of the same thing.


Demons

Scully: Mulder, you are not 'really good.'

Mulder: Do the words Orenthal J Simpson mean anything to you?

Scully: Are you going to shoot me? Is that how much this means to you?

Scully: This is not the way to the truth, Mulder. You've got to trust me.

Scully: ...I'm concerned that this experience will have a lasting effect....Agent Mulder undertook this treatment hoping to lay claim to his past. That by retrieving memories lost to him, he might finally understand the path he's on. But if that knowledge remains elusive, and if it's only by knowing where he's been that he can understand where he's going, then I fear Agent Mulder may lose his course; and the truths he's seeking from his childhood will continue to evade him, driving him more dangerously forward in impossible pursuit.


Gethsemane

Scully: I come here today, four years later, to report on the illegitimacy of Agent Mulder's work...that it is my scientific opinion that he became, over the course of these years, a victim...a victim of his own false hope and his belief in the biggest of lies.

Scully: I am here today to expose this lie, to show the mechanism of deception that drew him and me into it, and to expose Agent Mulder's work for what it is.

Scully: I have strength. And I'm not going to come running back now. It's just not who I am. I'd be lying to myself and to you.

Scully: This is your Holy Grail, not mine....Proving to the world the existence of alien life is not my last dying wish.

Mulder: After all that I've seen and experienced I refuse to believe that it's not true.

Scully: Mulder, the only lie here is the one that you continue to believe.

Scully: He said that the men behind this hoax, behind these lies, gave me this disease to make you believe.


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