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.
Within
Mirror Scene, Within [See Scenes]
Scully: What are you doing here?
Doggett: (suggestively) I could ask you the same.
Scully: I came by to feed Mulder's fish.
Doggett: And then you got tired and decided to take a nap.
Scully: (angry) You've got a way about you, Agent Doggett. That might have
worked with the NYPD but you're talking to a fellow FBI agent now and I'd appreciate
some respect.
Doggett: Respect like you showed me over the phone? Give a little, get a little,
Agent Scully.
Scully: Who ambushed me with the phony chitchat about Mulder and then put a wiretap on my phone?
Doggett: That's B.S.
Scully: And now you're following me.
Doggett: I just came by to feed the fish.
Scully: You think by talking in circles, I'm just going to get dizzy and-and blurt it out-- this so-called answer?
Scully: You want me to go on record? I will go on record to say this: that I have seen things that I cannot explain. I have observed phenomena that I cannot deny. And that as a scientist and a serious person it is a badge of honor not to dismiss these things because someone thinks they're B.S.
Without
Scully: He's a bounty hunter.
Doggett: Looking to collect a bounty on...?
Scully: On Gibson Praise... because he's part alien. He's a human anomaly.
Doggett: So, this alien bounty hunter... he disguised himself as Mulder to come out here and grab the boy?
Scully: (avoiding eye contact) To take him back to his ship... where we believe
Mulder is.
Doggett: You know, Agent Scully... you're, uh, you're starting to remind me a lot of
Agent Mulder yourself.
Skinner: If it's true or possible, what you're saying-- that there's someone like this out there, this bounty hunter-- he could just become anyone. You, me, any damn one of us.
Scully: I think that it is true. And possible. And wherever Mulder is right now... he better damn well be smiling.
Scully: For someone who claims he's not following me, you sure have a knack.
Doggett: Hey, you're where the action is.
Scully: What does that tell you? That I'm crazy or that I'm right?
Doggett: Wandering around in the desert in the dead of night, you call it.
Scully: (sarcastically, yet serious) Hey, if something tries to rip your throat out, I got you covered.
Patience
Scully: I'm not here to be a curiosity, Agent Doggett. I'm here to work.
Abbott: There's only four toes.
Scully: That's not an unheard of birth defect. Uh, no more rare than polydactylism.
Abbott: What did she just say?
Doggett: I assume she means it could be human. Is that a fair assumption?
Scully: I say that assumption is the problem here. A strange print is found and immediately the most important piece of evidence is just thrown out to try and force an
explanation. Maybe this print can help explain those bite marks.
Abbott: How?
Scully: I'm not quite sure yet.
Abbott: (sarcastically to DOGGETT) She's not quite sure yet.
Doggett: Well, I have to say I've worked a lot of homicides but if the victims laid out here for any time at all in a setting like this, it'd be pretty remarkable if they didn't
attract animals.
Scully: (quietly frustrated) I think that postmortem predation is definitely a
consideration here, but I only see one print and if it were an animal there would be
numerous prints all over here and in the yard. (They turn to the deputies and technicians standing in the yard. Sheepishly, they look down at their feet and begin carefully stepping aside, searching for any
clues they may have inadvertently contaminated.) You agree, Agent Doggett?
Doggett: The more basic answer is what we're dealing with here is simply a man. A
psychotic killer with a deformed foot. You're familiar with the principle of Occam's Razor?
Scully: Yeah. You take every possible explanation and you choose the simplest one. Agent Mulder used to refer to it as "Occam's Principle of Limited Imagination."
Abbott: (to Scully) Honest to god. You just jump at whatever explanation is the
wildest and most far-fetched, don't you?
Doggett: Well, I told him that you were … um … a... leading authority on
paranormal phenomena and who are we to argue with an expert.
Scully: Look, I am not an expert. I am a scientist who happens to have seen a lot. I am just making a leap here.
Doggett: Well, I am sure you have your reasons.
Scully: Look, so, so, what, you told him to exhume the body when you don't even
necessarily believe me yourself?
Doggett: I told you I spent the weekend looking through that cabinet full of X-Files
and I saw how pretty much every X-File broke-- with a leap. Now, maybe I'm just an old-
fashioned cop but I don't take leaps. In my experience leaps only get people killed.
Scully: Well, I'd say that you're taking a pretty big leap believing in that article... about a human bat.
Scully: You know, we've been out here for nine hours. The only thing this man seems to be in danger of is terminal loneliness.
Scully: Maybe I'm just trying too hard.
Doggett: To do what? To be Mulder?
Doggett: The guys upstairs were making some noise about this case-- about what's in our field report.
Scully: Yeah. You'll get used to it.
Scully: And I just want to say... thank you for watching my back.
Doggett: Well, I never saw it as an option. I'm sure you don't either.
Roadrunners
Scully: That's water. I barely even smell any gasoline.
Gas Station Man: Oh, God, you're right. I'm sorry. I... I left it out. (looks at the tiny nozzle opening) It must have gotten rain in it.
Scully: Oh, and it rains a lot here, does it? Seeing as how it's basically the desert.
Scully: Him?! That thing in my spine is a "him"?!
Scully: Can you hot-wire it?
Doggett: Can I hot-wire it? Gone in 60 seconds, Jack. I'm
going to strand these lunatics.
Invocation
Doggett: You know, these words: "Anomalous," "supernatural," "paranormal..."
They purport to explain something by not explaining it. It's lazy.
Scully:These are juvenile records. These are sealed by the court, Agent Doggett.
We're not supposed to have these.
Doggett: And we're at a standstill here.
Scully: (angry) Yeah, and you're breaking the law.
Doggett: Look, I want to catch this guy, Agent Scully, whatever it takes.
Scully: This is not a normal child, Agent Doggett, and this is not a normal act.
Doggett: You make it sound like he's possessed. Call the exorcist. He's a kid-- a
kid who's been through who knows what kind of hell. Give him a chance. How do you
know he's not trying to communicate something?
Scully: And what's the message? Yes, he's a kid, Agent Doggett, you're right. He's a kid who materialized out of thin air, unaged. Do you not somehow recognize how strange this is?
Doggett: I don't believe it.
Scully: Okay, the clothes, the age and condition of the bones, the location of the
grave. There is no doubt that that is Billy Underwood's skeleton that is in that grave.
Doggett: We spent time with this boy. Doctors took Billy's blood. You examined him yourself. Now, I can't accept it. I can't believe we're asking them to.
Scully: I know, but the forensic evidence is going to come out, and what then? What if I'm right?
Doggett: Well, what then, Agent Scully? What we do? We move on, let it go, case closed?
Scully: Look, I know where you are with this. I have been there. I know what you're feeling-- that you've failed and that you have to explain this somehow. And
maybe you can.
Doggett: Not if that's Billy's body, I can't.
Scully: But maybe that's explanation enough. That that's not Billy's brother lying in that grave, too. That that man who did this is never going to be able to do it again. Isn't
that what you wanted, Agent Doggett?
Doggett: Agent Scully, don't ask me to believe that this is some kind of justice from beyond the grave.
Scully: All I'm saying is that maybe you succeeded... whether you're willing to see that or not.
Redrum
Wells: I'm not lying to you. You're talking to me about key cards. I'm
sitting in a jail cell. I don't understand any of this. But I did not... kill Vicky.
Scully: If you truly don't remember... then how can you be certain that you didn't?
Shorty: (to Wells) I broke the law. Well, then, I guess that makes you "Wife Killer, Esq."
Wells: This is the day we meet... something is happening to me...
something I need to try to explain to you, to you both. I'm moving backward in time.
Every morning I wake up, it's the day before. For me, yesterday was Thursday, the day
before that was Friday, only it's all new to me. Every single morning I wake up, I can
only remember what's happened the following day.
Doggett: Agent Scully, would you mind taking a closer look at his injuries, maybe
check his scalp?
Scully: You do realize that you're not going to be able to prove this, right? I mean, if, uh... if tomorrow is really the day before today, then we won't have had this conversation.
Doggett: Oh, for crying out loud.
Scully: It means you're going to have to tell us all over again.
Doggett: Yeah, well, uh... make sure I skip that freaking meeting.
Shorty: Well, what are you looking for, brother?
Wells: The truth.
Shorty:The truth? (laughs) You better stick to the technicalities! The truth is
going to keep you in here and make you somebody's bitch, that's what the truth's going to
do. So put on that engineering hat, Casey Jones, because you've got a whole lot of trains
to be pulling...
Wells: Trina, you knew about the Nanny-cam, didn't you? You told the
killer about it. You must have given him my key card, too.
Trina: Mr. Wells, I-I-I wasn't even there that night. (Doggett has placed his palm against the center of the door. He unholsters his gun.)
Doggett: First thing you're supposed to say is: "What nanny-cam?"
Via Negativa
Skinner: I'm supposed to give the guys in there answers, Agent Doggett. You're
supposed to help me do that.
Doggett: I'm a good investigator but you know as well as I do I'm not the Agent
that should be investigating this case.
Scully: (on phone) I appreciate your discretion.
Doggett: (on phone) Yeah, well, it's easy to be discreet when you don't know
what's going on. Are you okay?
Skinner: (to Doggett) Uh... What do you want me to do, pinch you? You're already awake.
Doggett: You just saved my life, Agent Scully.
Scully: I just woke you up, Agent Doggett.
Surekill
Doggett: So, lucky shot?
Scully: Very. But this victim here stated that he was going to be killed just moments before he was shot, which doesn't sound lucky at all.
Doggett: Wait, you, you're not saying this guy has X-ray vision?
Scully: I am remarking that these wavelengths exist and the only thing that is stopping us from seeing them, if you will, is the biochemical structure of our eyes. I am conjecturing that if this structure was somehow different we'd have the ability to see things that we don't.
Doggett: (he whispers.) Call in Clark Kent.
Doggett: You know, I gotta get into the bug business. I had no idea you could make so much dough killing things that creep around behind walls.
Salvage
Doggett: (to Scully) You know I hate to ruin your beautiful theory with ugly facts but stop to examine the incident.
Scully: Yeah, these five deep puncture marks match five fingers of one hand.
Doggett: You mean, someone just reached right in and...
Scully: Like a bowling ball.
Doggett: That seems humanly impossible.
Scully: Certainly for any ordinary man.
Doggett: What was their relationship, Mrs. Pearce-- your husband and Curtis Delario-- outside of work?
Nora Pearce: I know what their relationship is now. They're both dead.
Doggett: (on phone) What are you saying? Ray Pearce has become some kind of metal man? Because that only happens in the movies, Agent Scully.
Scully: ... I just got the blood test back on Ray Pearce and it was indeed
the same Ray Pearce who was pronounced dead three days ago. But that's not all. By all
medical standards he should still be dead. His blood has enough metal alloy in it to uh poison an elephant.
Doggett: Except that he's still a man, Agent Scully and he's going to act and think like one even if he is more powerful than a speeding locomotive.
Doggett: A machine? Come on, a machine doesn't know blame, Agent Scully.
Scully: Nor mercy. Unless what drove Ray to kill is also what saved those people. Some flicker of humanity.
Badlaa
Doggett: Things that land in your in-box, huh, Agent Scully?
Scully: So, basically what you're saying is that nobody knows anything.
Doggett: But then I guess that's why it's in your in-box.
Chuck: Powers of the mind. Powers that help them manipulate reality.
Powers that allow them to become invisible or tiny as an atom.
Doggett: Well, I hope they're tiny. Where, whoever it is, is going.
Doggett: I'm sorry, Dr. Burks, you're a... you're a professor of what?
Chuck: I run the Advanced Digital Imaging lab at the University of
Maryland. And, um, I dabble.
Doggett: You dabble. (to Scully, sarcastic) Well, this has been... insightful.
Scully: I asked you to keep an open mind.
Doggett: Yeah, well, I try to keep an open mind but it tends to shut my eyes.
Open Mind Scene, Badlaa [See Scenes]
The Gift
Skinner: It's where you're going, Agent Doggett. You're trying to build a case that what? Mulder killed a man and then made himself disappear? That's not what happened. I told you before, he was abducted. I saw it!
Doggett: Agent Mulder signed falsified case reports.
Skinner: (angry) Oh, come on, John, this isn't about Mulder, it's about you! Your career. You give the FBI a narrative for Mulder's disappearance, you're off the X-Files and back on the fast-track to the directorship.
Doggett: I'm just trying to find the truth.
Skinner: You want the truth? Then ask Agent Scully!
Doggett: I can't do that.
Skinner: Why not?
Doggett: Because she... she signed those case reports, too.
Skinner: You take that story to OPR, the accusation alone could cost Scully her job.
Doggett: I'm not taking it to OPR. I'm taking it to you.
Byers: We learned what we could. This is somewhat short notice, of course.
Frohike: And a little outside our area of expertise.
Langly: Plus the fact we were sleeping.
Doggett: You wearing pants, Langly?
Langly: Uh...yeah. (Sheepishly, Langly, ducks out of the range of the camera.)
Skinner: We don't have much time. What did you find?
Frohike: Thought you'd never ask, big guy.
Langly: Well-- that's the part that takes some conjecture there, Agent Dogbird.
Medusa
Lyle: Dr. Hellura Lyle. Special pathogens branch, CDC.
Scully: We were told you folks said that the tunnel was free of pathogens.
Lyle: (dryly) Well, I guess I'm just here for the moral support.
D. C. Karras: Agent Scully is a medical doctor. Who they tell me has a lot of experience with equivocal deaths.
Melnick: Equivocal? (chuckles) Hey, I mean you're dead or you're not, right?
Scully: (slightly uncomfortable) Deaths for which there may be many explanations or for which an explanation may be hard to find.
Lyle: (to Doggett) What about you?
Doggett: I'm just a good shot.
Doggett: Yeah, but I'm just tag along here. This is your thing. You've got all the experience.
Scully: You've got capable people with you, Agent Doggett. What I need down there are eyes and ears.
Doggett: Okay. I'll be your eyes and ears. But I wish somebody would tell me what the hell I'm supposed to be looking for.
Scully: (on radio) Agent Doggett, you still reading me down there?
Doggett: (on radio) Like a songbird, Agent Scully.
Doggett: Agent Scully needs some data.
Doggett: All right, we just got our order. We're going to continue on.
Lt. Bianco: Says who?
Doggett: Says the boss.
Lt. Bianco: Agent Doggett. This agent you work with deals with weird stuff, right?
Doggett: She works on something called the X-Files-- FBI cases dealing with unexplained phenomena.
Lt. Bianco: You know her at all?
Doggett: Yeah, I know her. We've worked together for a short time.
Lt. Bianco: I wonder why she sent you down here instead of coming herself.
Doggett: It's the right call. (pause) You got a problem, Lieutenant?
Lt. Bianco: Yeah. A problem when somebody I don't know keeps me down here in the dark looking for jack squat when we've already found our man.
Doggett: It's a question of contagion.
Lt. Bianco: It's a question of who's in charge.
Lyle: (horrified) What the hell was that?
Doggett: I don't know, and I don't like it that you don't know!
Young Woman: Is this a bad time? (After Scully throws the headset to the floor in disgust.)
Scully: Excuse me?
Young Woman: I don't know, I'm looking for an FBI Agent Dana Scully. Do you know where I can find him?
Scully: No... Yes... I mean, I'm-I'm she. Can I help you?
Scully: (on radio) This organism that's on your skin-- something triggers it, and I don't know what. It could be body temperature. It could be heart rate.
Doggett: (on radio) It could be from standing still, too, right? Maybe the only thing keeping me from sparking up right now is that I'm moving.
Scully: You're on with the CDC? (Dr. Bowe nods.) I need anything they can give me about what sets this organism off-- an idea, a notion, a wild guess.
Scully: Look, Agent Doggett, not a criminal charge is going to stick. These guys were just doing their job-- keeping the trains running. But they've got you to thank. And not just for saving their butts.
Doggett: No. You figured it out. I was just your eyes and ears.
Per Manum
Scully: (after Duffy leaves) Thank you, Agent Doggett. I'm sure the rest of my afternoon can't possibly be so amusing.
Doggett: I thought you'd find it interesting, actually.
Scully: Interesting? As in preposterous and outrageous?
Dr. Parenti: Well, you need a father, of course. I can get you genetic counseling on finding an anonymous donor if that's what you want... unless you already have someone
in mind.
Scully: Yeah... I, uh... I just have to figure out how to ask him.
Doggett: Agent Scully, I just got a call from a Dr. Parenti's office. About an
ultrasound you left there this morning. (His tone is accusing. Scully is defensive. She heads for Mulder's desk.)
Scully: Dr. Parenti is my doctor.
Doggett: Come on, Agent Scully.
Scully: You don't believe me?
Doggett: Well, if there's nothing to do, then why are you investigating?
Scully: You are jumping to conclusions.
Doggett: No, I'm just trying to do my job, only it gets hard to do if the person you're working with is keeping secrets and telling lies.
Scully: I assume that he'll want to meet you and go through the, uh, the donor procedure.
Mulder: At that part, I'm a pro.
Skinner: Agent Doggett as Assistant Director in charge of your assignment Agent
Scully has come to me and asked to take a leave of absence.
Doggett: (sarcastically) Hey, great. Can I ask why?
Scully: No.
Doggett: So I'm the X-Files now? Just me?
Skinner: Agent Scully isn't quitting the FBI. She's just going away. (Doggett looks over at Scully who avoids his eyes. He looks at Skinner.)
Doggett: Thanks for getting me out of bed to give me the news. (Doggett stands and looks to Scully again) Drop me a line if you get a chance.
Scully: Agent Doggett? (Doggett closes the door of the truck and turns back to her.) I want you to understand.
Doggett: What is it you want me to understand, Agent Scully? The secrets or the lies?
Agent Farah: I didn't see you in here, John. What are you doing in the dark?
Doggett: I'm in the dark pretty much most of my time on the X-Files, Joe.
Doggett: I told you I'd help you. I said we'd find him.
End Scene, Per Manum [See Scenes]
This is Not Happening
Doggett: John Doggett. I'm an FBI Agent. This is Agent Scully, Assistant Director Skinner, our boss. You mind if we come in? (Doggett steps into the room.)
Richie: Dude, you're, you're already in.
Doggett: ...You ever hear of an alien in Nikes?
Richie: Doesn't mean it wasn't.
Hotel Parking Lot Scene, This Is Not Happening [See Scenes]
Doggett: She's got her master's in religious studies. Her specialization is ritualistic crime.
Scully: Ritualistic crime? Are we working the same case here?
Reyes: So, Agent Doggett's been taking me through the case. Interesting.
Scully: Interesting?
Reyes: What do you think happened?
Scully: Isn't that what you're here to tell us?
Reyes: Oh, I have my own thoughts. It's just, what we think happened and what actually happened aren't always the same thing but not altogether insignificant, either.
Scully: I'm sorry, this feels like therapy.
Reyes: What happened being different from what we want to have happened.
Scully: What "who" wants to have happened?
Reyes: Well, I'm told this case involves you.
Scully: It may involve someone close to me. Can we stick to the facts, please?
Scully: I'm glad you agree with her, Agent Doggett, because I'm not even sure that she agrees with you. Nor has she made any sense for me of how the doctor who removed
Teresa Hoese from the hospital last night seems, by all accounts to have been in two
places at once.
Doggett: I know where you're going with this, Agent Scully but if you're going to tell me this is another alien bounty hunter this is where we part company. (Scully considers.)
Scully: Enjoy your new company.
Scully: Is there something you're looking for, Agent Reyes in particular?
Reyes: Implants, or signs of them.
Scully: Implants? I don't understand.
Reyes: Metallic implants. Placed in the body, oftentimes in the nasal cavity. Sometimes made of bone or cartilage making detection a little more difficult.
Scully: Yeah, I'm well aware of how they work.
Reyes: You said you didn't understand.
Scully: I don't understand your interest in what is commonly considered evidence of alien abduction as a disbeliever in that phenomena.
Reyes: I'm not a disbeliever.
Scully: Excuse me. I, I, uh, I'm very confused. I know what I heard and I heard you say that what we're dealing with here is nothing more than a UFO cult.
Reyes: There's the confusion. I still believe that but it doesn't mean I don't believe in the phenomena.
Scully: You believe in extraterrestials?
Reyes: (small laugh) Let's just say I don't not believe. As I said, I try to stay open.
Scully: What is it you specialize in again? Ritualistic crime?
Reyes: Right. Satanic ritual abuse. Or, I should say claims of it. We never found any hard evidence.
Scully: We should talk sometime.
Gary's Autopsy, This Is Not Happening [See Scenes]
Absalom: How many times can I tell you?
Doggett: Night's early. Coffee's hot.
Mulder's Apparition, This Is Not Happening [See Scenes]
Finding Mulder, This Is Not Happening [See Scenes]
Dead Alive
Doggett: Hey, good morning, Agent Scully. How you feeling today?
Scully: I'm fine. How are you feeling?
Doggett: Me? Good. But then I don't got a little J. Edgar to lug around.
Scully: You don't owe me anything, Agent Doggett.
Doggett: They put me down here to find Mulder. I found him. So what? We still
got an open file on this case and I got big questions. (Scully smiles and laughs softly.) What?
Scully: I heard the same speech come out of my mouth seven years ago. Get out while you can, Agent Doggett... or you may never get out at all.
Dr. Orovetz: At 2:00 in the morning? I've once to see a DA down here
in his jammies waiting for an answer.
Krycek: The word on the street is he's back from the dead. He's a regular Houdini.
Scully: Agent Doggett... ...However I felt about you when we first met, you
changed my opinion with the quality of your character and of your work. Now, I am
thankful to know you and I am thankful for your concern... ...But no matter what
Mulder's chances are the choice not to open up that grave was wrong. And not because
of me personally but as my partner on the X-Files. Now, the truth may hurt but it's all
that matters.
Scully: Agent Doggett... Where are you going?
Doggett: Back to the real world. Why?
Scully: You just won't believe it, will you? Not even for a minute. Not even with
it staring you right in the face.
Scully: I underestimated you, Agent Doggett. I thought this was just simple... resistance to extreme possibilities... when, in fact, you're just downright bullheaded.
Bed Side Scene, Dead Alive [See Scenes]
Three Words
Scully: Mulder, you okay?
Mulder: Yeah. For a guy who was, uh... in a coffin not too long ago I think I'm
doing pretty damn good. I don't quite have my legs under me... yet.
Dr. Lim: How do you feel, Agent Mulder?
Mulder: Like Austin Powers.
Mulder: Something looks different.
Scully: (a little embarrassed) It's clean.
Doggett: You sent me to find Mulder. I found him. Don't charge me with driving a stake through his heart.
Scully: Mulder, I know you know this, but if anything leaves this room you could be in violation of the law.
Mulder: Really? When I was dead I was hoping maybe they changed the rules.
Scully: What are you doing?
Mulder: I'm going to book myself on that Princess cruise.
Scully: I'll book it for you.
Frohike: You know, it's really not fair. You've been dead for six months and you
still look better than me. But not by much.
Mulder: Melvin. I'd be a whole lot happier to see you if you'd just take your hands off my ass.
Mulder: Well, just remember, boys, this is America. Just because you get more votes doesn't mean you win.
Mulder: (on radio) Frohike? Langly? Byers? Let's go. I'm dying out here.
Frohike: (on radio) Well, let us just finish our cappuccino and biscotti, and we'll see what we can do.
Mulder: (on radio- re Doggett) Just a fly buzzing around the window.
Empedoceles
Scully: I was just about to jump in the shower but I was waiting for the pizza man.
Mulder: You got something going on with the pizza man I should know about?
Scully: The pizza man?
Mulder: Well, correct me if I'm wrong but you just said you were waiting for the
pizza man to jump in the shower.
Scully: I feel like I'm stuck in an episode of Mad About You.
Mulder: What I'm saying is that the pizza man, is not above suspicion. (points to Scully's belly)
Scully: Is that for me? (sees a present Mulder's hidden)
Mulder: Yeah.
Scully: (looking down at the 'gift') Nice package.
Scully: (to pizza man) Hi... just, uh, give it to the man with the funny look on his face.
Pizza man: Yeah, it's $29.08.
Mulder: (surprized) $29.08? What'd she get on it, a tank of gas?
Reyes: (on phone) Agent Mulder, my name is Monica Reyes. We never met. Not since you've been alive, I should say.
Doggett: You worked with Agent Mulder for how long? A long time.
Scully: Mm-hmm.
Doggett: You never believed in any of this stuff. This paranormal or whatever you call it. So, what changed your mind?
Scully: I realized it was me, that I was afraid. Afraid to believe.
Mulder: I think that's a coincidence. I think that life is full of them.
Reyes: And full of patterns things we see, but can't comprehend. You believe that. Why can't you believe this?
Mulder: I think there's an opening coming up in this office soon. You might want to apply.
Doggett: You keep talking about these connections. Connections to what? To
who?
Reyes: What if this is a thread of evil … connecting through time through men,
through opportunity, connecting back to you. In India, in Africa, in Iran, in the Middle
East, in the Far East. Most of the world, they take it as a given. They see evil in death
the way other people see God in a rose.
Mulder: (dryly) I saw Elvis in a potato chip once.
Reyes: (to Mulder) You know what I'm talking about.
Mulder: Yes, I do. I do. But if this man doesn't see it, he doesn't see it, right?
Scully: I like her. (Agent Reyes)
Mulder: You're nothing at all alike.
Scully: Well, then neither are you and I....
Reyes: I'm not talking about the job, John. What are you scared of? Why does it scare you?
Doggett: I got to believe that I did everything I could to find my son.
Reyes: (reassuring) You did do everything to find your son.
Doggett: I got to believe that I did everything I could to save him, to get him back
safe, to not let him down. I got to believe that I did everything humanly possible 'cause if
I can't believe that then these other possibilities that you talk about, that Mulder talks
about, that Agent Scully talks about... if they're real... if they're real, then... that's
something else I could have done to save my son.
Mulder: You miss you're regular pizza man. Don't you?
Scully: (slyly) Yes. (pause) but he's coming by, Later.
Scully: Wondering what on earth you could have given me.
Mulder: And...
Scully: Oh my god, Oh Mulder. (as she opens the gift- its a doll)
Mulder: Is it what you imagined?
Scully: Not even close. (laughs)
Mulder:Oh my, that's the wrong doll.
Scully: But then that's the other gift that you gave me, Mulder. (He looks at her questioningly. She looks back at him fondly.) Courage... to believe. And I hope that's a gift I can pass on.
Vienen
Doggett:I never would have believed it. Theses stories about you.
Mulder: No, what stories are those?
Doggett:That you could find conspiracy at a church picnic.
Mulder: What church?
Mulder: You find the virus, you can find what knocks it out, you can find what kills it.
Scully: And what if I can't?
Mulder: Well, when he gets old enough you tell the kid I went down swinging.
Doggett: I'm in charge here. On a two count. (to jump)
Mulder: (squeemish) How about a twenty count?
Alone
Scully: (after giving Doggett the Apollo 11 key chain) Agent Mulder gave it to me a few years back. It symbolizes teamwork, partnership. It means no one gets there alone.
And after this past year and everything that we've been through, we just - I wouldn't be here with out you.
Mulder: Hey don't forget this (grabs pillow) Relax the back, breathe in, breathe out. (pants rhythmically).
Scully: How do you know all these things Mulder?
Mulder: I'm unemployed, I've got a lot of time on my hands. Oprah. I watch a lot of Oprah.
Scully: ... Leaving work I guess, I mean I walked out of my office today feeling like a deserter.
Mulder: You've paid your dues there Scully. More than paid them. You're concerned about Agent Doggett?
Scully: You know the entire time that I was down there I had someone to watch my back.
Mulder: I'm betting that Agent Doggett can take care of himself. He's a big boy. You've got to worry about the little boy... or little girl (waggles his eyebrows) Boy or girl?
Mulder:Seems like old times. You in scrubs, slicing and dicing.
Visiting Harrison, Alone [See Scenes]
Essence
Ma Scully: Well, I know it's a boy, I can just tell by the way you're carrying. It's a boy.
Scully: Well see, you obviously don't need me to tell you because, you already know.
Ma Scully: So it's a boy? (when Scully doesn't respond) Oh it's the least you can tell your mother, considering everything else you're keeping a secret.
Older Woman: So many secrets, Margaret.
Ma Scully: What do you expect? My daughter works for the FBI.
Doggett: What is this place?
Skinner: An illegal medical facility for the purpose of human cloning. It goes on from here. In fact, it occupies the entire warehouse.
Doggett:You read about these things but you don't imagine they exist.
Skinner: Yeah, just like aliens.
Scully: Look Mulder, look I can't take this! I can't live like this as the object of some unending X-File.
Mulder: This isn't about the X-Files, Scully. This is only about you. Now, you're going to have this baby. and I'm going to do everything I can to protect it. I just can't do that here.
Krycek: If I'm so full of crap, why all the precautions?
Skinner: Precisely because you are so full of crap, Krycek. Your ass stays here.
Existence
Pathologist: (looking at box of Billy Miles) Ohh... Ugggh. And they want me to do what exactly?
Pathologist's Assitant: Your order was to establish and confirm real fact of death.
Pathologist: I'd say he's dead. How about you?
Reyes: Aside from whatever danger we're in... Where we're going doesn't sound like... there's all that much in the way of a … facility. You know what I mean? I've never delivered a baby.
Scully: Well, I've never had one. That makes us both beginners.
Reyes: I think I told you, I feel these energies about people and stuff and places. I found it works best to go with my instincts.
Scully: (as she looks around the filthy room) I'm getting a feeling myself.
Mulder: (to Doggett) Did he ever lie to you? Give you bad information, false leads? (Doggett pauses and avoids Mulder's eyes.) Well, you have to think about it?
Doggett:... What the hell difference does it really make?
Mulder: It doesn't make any difference at all. Unless you want to protect Scully and that baby.
Doggett: And then what? How long can you keep this up? How long until the next Billy Miles rears his head? The next threat? The next phantom? You ever stop to ask
yourself? All the sacrifice, the blood spilled-- you've given nearly a decade of your life. Where the hell is it all going to end?
Mulder: (softly) I don't know. Maybe it doesn't.
Mulder: What do you know about fair or right, Krycek? You're a coward.
End : Scully's Apartment, Existence [See Scenes]
