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.
Nothing Important Happened TodayFollmer: I'd heard that you and John Doggett are tight.
Reyes: You make it sound like I go home from work with Post-Its on my ass. It's nothing like that.
Doggett: Definitive answer how this guy died, what'll that take?
Scully: Careful autopsy.
Doggett: How fast can you do it?
Scully: That's not what I'm saying.
Doggett: I understand if you don't want to do this, Dana, but you're the only person we can trust.
Frohike: Collecting for the needy and unemployed. Open the door.
Scully: Water. Asphyxiation produced by the inhalation of water. There are contusions on the forehead and on the chest but that isn't in fact hat killed him. (Conclusively) This man drowned. You're looking at me like you hope that there's something more, but there isn't.
Reyes: I'm sorry, that's not it. I'm just impressed that you can do this.
Scully: This is what I do, Agent Reyes.
Reyes: But you're here doing it now. Something did happen, didn't it. I know what you're afraid of. That there's something wrong with your baby.
Scully: We can let our fears get the better of us. We can, uh, imagine things, make connections with things that aren't there. Like with this man.
Reyes: If you ever feel the need to talk to someone, Dana, I'm here. I'd never betray a confidence.
Reyes: This was you, wasn't it? You floated that obituary to me... to set Agent Doggett up, using me.
Follmer:(Surprised) What obituary? I don't know what you are talking about. You came to me for help, remember? I'm only trying to help you help yourself.
Reyes: I know exactly what you're doing, Brad. Don't forget to piss on all the corners before you leave.
Frohike: (as he opens the door) Oh, hello.
Reyes: Considering the recent violence against Agent Doggett, you might want to want to know who's at the door before you actually open it.
Frohike: (Resigned) Next time I'll get a chair.
Nothing Important Happened Today II
Follmer: You're taking on the entire FBI here, Monica. This witch hunt, isn't going to expose, anything, but you, unless you distance yourself from John Doggett. (Reyes gets up to leave) What are you doing?
Reyes: I'm distancing myself Brad, from you, from your political games. You just want to get John Doggett.
Follmer: You're making a big mistake here.
Reyes: Yeah, I seem to make one every single time I walk in your door.
Scully: Mulder can't know. He can't be brought back into this. He can't be brought back into the FBI. It's just too dangerous for him right now.
Skinner: It's too dangerous for everyone.
Scully: Look, I've had my fair share of outrageous conspiracy theories okay, so cut the mystery crap and get to the science.
Frohike: You just never know who's gonna come a knockin' do ya?
Reyes:How'd you get in here?
Langly: Through the front door with the big happy dude, how'd you get in?
Reyes:Through a security checkpoint.
Frohike: (opening his jacket to reveal a phoney FBI ID) Kid's stuff!
Scully: (looking at a decapitated head) I think we found the Captain.
Doggett: (to Kersh) No Sir, I found nothing on you, nothing damning I can honestly include in my report, let me say. And cause I got nothing to lose, let me say that I know that your hands are dirty on this thing Sir, filthy.
Dæmonicus
Reyes:Placing victims in a suicide posture is ritualistic. And this word is undoubtedly Satanic. (The camera focuses on the Scrabble board.)
Doggett: Daemonicus.
Reyes: It means Satan in Latin, or Daemonicus - Demon Possession.
Doggett: (Deadpan) And it's worth 50 extra points. That's why they were posed like this. You think these folks were possessed, right?
Scully: Dr. Dana Scully. I have just been assigned to the Academy as a forensic investigator. For the past eight years I was part of a unit known as the X-Files. (There is muffled laughter.) Some of you may have heard of it.
Cadet: Ever slay a vampire? (This is met with more laughter from the cadets.)
Scully: Sorry to disappoint you, but this is a course in forensic pathology. Hard science. An X-File is a case that has been deemed unsolvable by the Bureau, because such a case cannot be solved it may beg other explanations... a vampire, perhaps. Science, however, tells us that evil comes not from monsters, but from men. It offers us the methodology to catch these men, and only after we have exhausted these methods should we leave science behind to consider more (pause) extreme possibilities.
Reyes:Agent Scully, have you ever sensed what I'm talking about?
Scully: I've felt things that I couldn't understand. Things that I was afraid to admit even to myself.
Reyes: And what did you do?
Scully: I learned not to ignore it... to trust my instincts.
Doggett: (at the mental hospital) You know, Monica, a room here just came open.
Doggett: Come on, Monica. You wanted to know who could stage a textbook example. This guy wrote the damn book!
Doggett: This is not about demons, it's not about demonic possession, it's about men.
Scully: Agent Doggett, have you considered that something else might be going on here?
Doggett: I heard you say, Agent Scully, I heard you tell a classroom full of FBI cadets - most evil in the world comes from men.
Scully: But I also said that once science fails, we have to consider extreme possibilities.
Doggett: Well, you can throw that crap away because I can tell you right now that this guy's liar. He's playin' a game.
Scully: Well, then lets just see how well he plays that game.
Scully: (to Doggett) Agent Reyes is just trying to get to the truth, okay? What are you doing?
Scully: Something still bothering you, Agent Reyes? You're buying his explanation?
Reyes: It all makes sense as far as it goes. But there's something else, something he's afraid to explain.
Scully: You mean that you felt the presence of evil?
Reyes: No, I mean that he felt it too.
4D
Reyes: I just... I don't understand how any of this is possible. He was with me, Dana, in my apartment. How can this be?
Scully: I saw something once. It's only been the last couple of years that I've... fully come to terms with it. In '94 my father passed away... and that night... at the very moment that it happened he came to me. I like to believe that he came to say goodbye.
Scully: He's in there. He's got to be.
Follmer: That's not possible.
Scully: And what if it is? Want to stick around to find out?
Lord of the Flies
Doggett: What if somebody put something in his helmet? Insect pheromone. You know, "Spanish Fly"--that stuff you see advertised in the back of magazines that guys use to attract girls. (Reyes looks at Doggett.) I glance at them for amusement.
Doggett: I think I just solved this case. This kid had crap for brains and the flies couldn't resist.
Reyes: Oh, and you were such a choirboy growing up?
Doggett: I mean, we did some stupid stuff but we didn't know it was stupid at the time. This isn't just stupid, this is glorification of stupid. These kids take enormous pride in being sub-mental.
Reyes: (amused): That's why they call it Dumb Ass.
Reyes: We obtained a copy of a recent e-mail you sent offering to sell the
video of your friend's death to the fox network.
David Winkle: What? No, no, no, I wrote all the networks. Fox was the only one
who had any interest in it.
Doggett: The paramedics arrived and treated him for an aggressive attack of body lice.
Scully: Hmm. Lice are not altogether uncommon in a school environment.
Doggett: Except that these are better spellers than most of the kids.
Rocky Bronzino: You know, when a male and female calliphorid fly mate they stay
joined for up to one and a half hours. One and a half, doctor.
Scully: You know, Rocky ... I'm a mother.
Rocky Bronzino: Mothers are women, too.
Doggett: I've said it before and I'll say it again: The whole reason this case
is attracting flies is because somebody's full of crap.
Rocky Bronzino: Dr. Scully? This is so exciting. I've never had a partner before.
Scully: I have.
Rocky Bronzino: I'd like to think of it as a hymenopteran relationship. Two
scientists using their special knowledge reaching higher than either of them could ever reach alone. And if I may say so, Doctor, you complete me.
Scully: I got upstairs, you take down.
Trust No 1
Scully: (VO) One day, you'll ask me to speak of a truth; of the miracle of your birth. To explain what is unexplained. And if I falter or fail on this day, know there is an answer my child, a sacred imperishable truth, for one you may never hope to find alone. Chance meeting your perfect other, your perfect opposite, your protector and endangerer. Chance embarking with this other on the greatest of journeys; a search for truth's fugitive and imponderable. If one day this chance may befall you, my son, do not fail or falter to seize it. The truths are out there, and if one day you should behold a miracle as I have in you, you will learn the truth is not found in science, or on some unseen plane, but by looking into your own heart. And in that moment you will be blessed, and stricken, for the truest truths are what hold us together, or keep us painfully -- desperatly apart.
Doggett: How long are you going to do this?
Scully: Do what, Agent Doggett?
Doggett: Refuse to trust me ... or anybody. How else you going to get him (Mulder) home?
Scully: These clothes that I'm wearing ... they're my size. How the hell do you know my size?
Shadowman:Your size? I know your blood type, your resting heart rate your childhood fear of clowns. I know the name of your college boyfriend your true hair color, your ATM pin number favorite charities, pet peeves. I know you spend too much time alone. And I know ... that on one lonely night you invited Mulder to your bed.
Scully: (Hoarsely) Oh, my God.
Shadowman: I was as surprised as you are.
Scully: (voice over) I hold no hope you can respond to this or that it reaches
you. I only hope that you are alive. I cannot help believing that you jumped off that train because you knew what I now know -- that these super soldiers -- if that's what they are -- can, in fact, be destroyed. That the key to their destruction lies in the iron compound at that quarry. I'm scared for you,
Mulder, and for William. The forces against us are unrelenting but so is my determination to see you again, to regain the comfort and safety we shared for so brief a time. Until then, I remain forever yours, Dana.
John Doe
Domingo: This isn't Tijuana or Cabo. We don't see Americans in this town unless
they're on the run from something, somebody. This town ... people like you come here to disappear.
Doggett: People like me? You don't know me.
Domingo: Hey... you don't know you.
Drug Cartel Man: Why would you want to remember? You can't tell me you're happier now because you recall your life. I saw it all. So much pain. Why would you want to struggle so long and hard to get that pain back?
Doggett: Because it's mine.
Hellbound
Doggett: It looks like housekeeping hasn't been here in awhile.
Reyes: You or me?
Reyes: Whoever I was, I failed. In 1868. In 1909. In 1960, I failed. I
was always there, but I couldn't stop the killings. And he knew that. Just
like he knows I'm here right now. He feels me -- the way I felt him when I
saw that picture of the first victim. And somehow he knows my deepest fear
that I'll fail.
Scully: Well, maybe in this life you succeed.
Reyes: Maybe.
Provenance
Reyes: What are they?
Scully: Rubbings. Taken from the surface structure of a craft.
Doggett: A craft?
Scully: A spacecraft. Agent Doggett, if you can wrap your brain around
that.
Doggett: You got a body?
Follmer: We will, Agent Doggett. Like you say, I got the cavalry out here. (Doggett smiles.) Find that funny?
Doggett: Dead man up and disappearing? Happens every day, right? At least it does on the X-files.
Scully: Mom, it's important. I wouldn't go if it weren't.
Mrs. Scully: Yes, I know, Dana. You say it's about getting answers.
Scully: Answers about William, mom.
Mrs. Scully: I know you're worried about him ... that there are things about
him that you just can't explain -- but even if you were to get those answers what would it change?
Scully: Mom, he's my child.
Mrs. Scully: And you have to love him and raise him in spite of everything.
Dana, God has given you a miracle. A child that wasn't supposed to be. Maybe it’s not to question ... just to be taken as a matter of faith.
Scully: Mom, I can't take this on faith. I need to know. I need to know if
it's really God I have to thank.
Providence
Skinner: Deputy Director Kersh asked him to take the lead. He knows how to
run a task force. I think you see that in there.
Scully: I see a man who withholds information for Kersh. A man who not once
but twice failed to prevent an attack on my son. You see a task force in there. I see a whitewash.
Follmer: (observing Reyes in a chapel) I've known you a long time and this just seems, uh ... a little traditional for you.
Reyes: Maybe when you're lost you knock at the door with the porch light on.
Audrey Pauley
Reyes: You're faithful, you're dependable, you're without guile, you're very
comfortable to be around. So why a cat?
Doggett: Low maintenance. They don't expect much from you, so you can't
disappoint 'em.
Reyes: I don't see you ever disappointing anyone, John.
Murdoch: Okay, okay, let's concentrate on one unexplainable event at
a time here. What the hell happened to Mr. Barreiro?
Reyes: My opinion? I think he died. (pause) You can't die if you're already dead. Which backs up my belief that you and I are alive. I have no idea where she went.
Murdoch: Hold on. If he's dead ... and we're not ... then where the hell are we?
Scully: You're thinking that somebody murdered her to cover something up.
Doggett: Well, if it were you, how would you go about it make it look like
natural causes?
Scully: Well, I'd use a fast-acting barbiturate like pentobarbital. I'd use a
small-bore needle to make it next to impossible to find an injection mark.
Doggett:Next to impossible ... That's why you're perfect for the job.
Should probably test her blood, too, while you're at it, right?
Scully: Agent Doggett ... I'm happy to do this for you. Just don't kid
yourself that this is going to somehow bring her back.
Undreneath
Janet: (a teenage girl) You can't think Milli Vanilli is cool. I will disown
you.
Doggett: Look, I get it. Enough people tell you you're drunk it's time to lie
down. But I know what I know. I could really use your help.
Scully: You know, John ... whatever we find here, sometimes ... sometimes even
good cops make mistakes.
Doggett: Yeah. And I've made more than I can count but this wasn't one of
them. Whatever you think ... I'm not here trying to cover my ass.
Scully: That's not what I think. It's not. I just ... I just worry that maybe
this is about you feeling guilty.
Doggett: I feel guilty. Like what, subconsciously? Like I was told I sent an
innocent man to prison only I refuse to accept it? A cop I know, a man I respect deeply he told me one time, 'you don't
clock out at the end of your shift unless you know you did everything you
could.' That's what this is about -- me not clocking out.
Doggett: You know? Then you know that what you're saying's impossible.
Scully: And yet, somehow it's true.
Doggett:So what, we've moved on from Casper, The Friendly Ghost to Dr. Jekyll
and Mr. Hyde?
Reyes: So what happened tonight? All that was just you seeing things?
Doggett: I can't accept this. If you can, God love you, but it's not the way
my mind works.
Reyes: You closed this case. This time around, that was enough.
Doggett: What happens next time?
Improbable
Mr. Burt: You know your problem, my friend? It's not the cards. It's playing the hand you were dealt. Plenty of guys get a bad deal. It's all in what you
do with it. You know what I'm saying, partner? You can think.Cards can't. They just lie there. You've got to make them work for you. Jack of hearts. (turning over the next card it's the Jack of Hearts.) Two million five hundred ninety eight thousand nine hundred and sixty possible five card hands. Twelve hundred and seventy seven flushes in any give suit. One million ninety eight thousand two hundred and forty ways to make two pairs. And yet ... the game can't beat a man. Man only beats himself and so on and so forth.
Reyes: I want to ask you to open your mind to something. I don't want you to think I'm crazy, alright?
Scully: Why would I think that you're crazy?
Reyes: Do you believe the universe is knowable as a mathematical calculation of the whole reducible to a single equation?
Scully: No.
Reyes: Why not?
Scully: Because I don't think that its complexity allows for it to be reduced so simply.
Reyes: But you accept that some people do?
Scully: I presume you mean the so-called "Unified Theory?" What physicists often refer to as the Theory of Everything? An equation so simple, they say
that it might be printed on a t-shirt. It's a Holy Grail in the world of science. Potentially, the most important question that mankind has ever asked. But that such a complex calculation is even possible is the subject of enormous
controversy. (pause) Is that what you mean?
Reyes: Um... potentially.
Reyes: So you're saying these cases are connected, that numerology may actually be driving the killer, and that I'm definitely not crazy.
Scully: Or that maybe you're both crazy.
Mr. Burt: You know, there's a secret to this game, Wayno, and I'm going to tell you what the secret is. Choose better.
Reyes: If he acts on impulses he can't understand isn't it possible we can't understand them either? Can we not accept that every killer is not driven by the same impulses and that there are some impulses that not every killer kills for?
Agent Fordyce: No.
Reyes: Why not?
Agent Fordyce: Because it's unacceptable.
Mad Wayne (to Mr Burt) Go to hell!
Mr. Burt: Are the reservations in your name? You're a card, You really are a card. But I love you. Got time for a quick game?"
Mad Wayne I don't play your games.
Mr. Burt:Never truer words been spoken.
Agent Fordyce: Agent Doggett I think we have a psychological profile on
the murderer.
Doggett: What is it?
Agent Fordyce: Based on the amalgam of forensic detail of facts such as
time and place the murders were committed and the amount of force used we believe the killer is a man in his mid-20s to late 40s of average build and looks who is driven by rage stemming from a hatred of his mother from a very early age. He was a bedwetter who was made to feel inferior which he took out on the world by killing small animals.
Doggett: That's it?
Agent Fordyce: Go to work.
Doggett: That's the average profile of almost every single serial killer the FBI'S ever hunted down.
Agent Fordyce: Is that really all that surprising?
Scully: (punching a numeric door lock) Great, there are all these numbers in this case except the ones we need.
Scully: Sir, does it look like we're here to play checkers?
Mr. Burt: You sure there's nothing I can do?
Scully: Do you have the combination to the door?
Mr. Burt: No.
Reyes: Do you have a cell phone that works?
Mr. Burt: I wish I did. There's always checkers.
Scully: (to Reyes) How'd we get ourselves into this?
Scully: (to Mr. Burt) Who are you?
Mr. Burt: Obviously, someone you are very lucky to have run into.
Scully: Hey, keep your hands up!
Mr. Burt: Why?
Scully: I don't know.
Mr. Burt: What's this about numbers?
Scully: Would you just...
Mr. Burt: I'm really good with numbers.
Mr. Burt: So, it's a kind of a game.
Scully: No, it's not.
Reyes: No, maybe it is. Maybe that's what this is about...who wins the game.
Mr. Burt: I think she's onto something.
Scully: Agent Reyes, you can't reduce a complex factor as physical and psychological into a game.
Reyes:You're a scientist, Agent Scully. Your world is ruled by numbers. Atoms, molecules...
Mr. Burt: Wow.
Reyes: And wouldn't if follow that everything made from those things is made from those numbers too? Genes, chromosomes, us...the universe?
Mr. Burt: Go Girl!
Scully: Agent Reyes, that is utter nonsense, okay? It would mean that all we are are checkers on a checkerboard, being moved around by some forces completely outside and unbeknownst to us.
Reyes: What did Einstein say?
Mr. Burt: Einstein... now there's a winner.
Reyes: God does not play dice with the universe.
Scully: Nor does he play checkers. Look, Agent Reyes, you can reduce all of life, all creation, every piece of art, architecture, music, literature, into a game of win or lose.
Reyes: Why not? Maybe the winners are those who play the game better. Those who see the patterns and the connections, like we're doing right now.
Mr. Burt: Free will.
Scully: (to Mr. Burt) What are you looking at?
Mr. Burt: Same thing you are.
Scully: Alright, I need to know.
Reyes:What?
Scully: What my numerology is, my number...whatever you call it. What am I?
Reyes:You're a nine.
Scully: Which means what?
Reyes:Nine is completion. You've evolved through the experiences of all the other numbers to a spiritual realization that this life is only a part of a larger whole. (pause) Dana? Are you there?
Scully: I just want to know one more thing.
Reyes: Yeah...
Scully: Who was that man?
Reyes: God knows.
Scary Monsters
Doggett: "How'd you spend your Friday night, John?" Ran around like an
idiot.
Gabe: You calling the cops on me?
Scully: If only, God help me, but Agent Harrison might be on to something after all
Leyla: Phones that won't work. Cars that won't start. It reminds me of a case Mulder and Scully investigated. A teenager who was struck by lightening-his body affected the electrical workings of everything around him.
Reyes: I don't think that's what we're dealing with here, Leyla.
Leyla: Agent Mulder wasted no time closing that case. I just try to think like him. What would Agents Mulder and Scully do if they were in this situation?
Doggett: Agents Mulder and Scully aren't in this situation. Agents Doggett and Reyes are. I don't know about Agent Reyes, but Agent Doggett's gonna sit his tired ass down.
Leyla: I know what you're thinking. Black magic! Mirrors are powerful symbols in conjuring and the dark arts. That's what this is, right?
Doggett: (unconvincingly) Uh huh.
Gabe: So this is Johnny Fabulous, huh? (looking at Mulder's badge- then in a girly tone) Oh, Mulder's so smart, Mulder's so dreamy. (Scully snatches the badge away) That's all Leyla ever talks about, Mulder and Scully, Scully and Mulder, blah blah blah.
Doggett: Found anything?
Reyes: (holding up a bloody spoon) Yeah, a salad spoon nobody's going to use again.
Tommy: I made this!
Gabe: So, this is where the magic happened, huh?
Leyla: It still happens, I'm happy it's in good hands.
Leyla: I have to say, it's clear to me that you were better equipped for this challenge than even Agent Mulder would have been. Your lack of imagination saved our lives.
Doggett: Gee, thanks.
Leyla: That didn't come out right.
Jump the Shark
Brittany: Morris? Morris, it's going "ping."
Morris Fletcher: Oh... it most certainly is.
Morris Fletcher: Agents I'm telling you, you don't want these three involved. And they don't even have their ridiculous Tinker Toy gizmos. This place is like
"How The Grinch Stole Radio Shack".
Frohike: Where the hell you been, big guy?
Jimmy Bond: Zurich ... then Malta ... then Yemen ... and just now, New Jersey. It's been a real geology lesson.
Morris Fletcher: Those things will kill you (cigarettes), you know.
Frohike: Yeah, that's why I quit 20 years ago. You want one?
Byers: And do what instead? We never gave up. We never will. In the end if
that's the best they can say about us, it'll do.
Frohike: (to Jimmy) Buddy, fight the good fight.
Langly: (to Yves as well) Both of you.
Byers: Never give up.
William
Doggett: (doing pushups) 1,492. ... 1,493 ... 20.
Scully: That's ridiculous. It's absurd.
Doggett: Is it? What is true and what we want to be true aren't always the same.
Scully: (softly) Can you open your mouth, sir? I need to look at your
dental work.
The Breather: You're not going to tell me I need braces, are you?
The Breather: I'm sorry. I'd heard so much about William. Mulder told
me how he missed him.
Scully: Well, if that's true, then where the hell is he?
Scully: You know a person in so many ways. Ways that a test can't even
begin to know.
Spender: Your son is the one thing the aliens need. I took revenge on my father by taking William away from them.
Scully: So, he's all right now? I mean, just like that? (He nods.) So, it's over. They'll let him be.
Spender: It'll never be over. They'll always know what he was.
They'll never accept what he is.
Scully: Well, I can protect him.
Spender: And if you can't? Look at me ... what they did. Is this what you want for your son?
Release
Doggett: Cadet, you should know there's a real good chance you're nuts.
AD Follmer: Is it me, or, uh is this becoming an odd conversation?
Hayes: I've been recognized by Agent Doggett's ex-wife who failed to identify Nicholas Regali in that same room yesterday.
Scully: Because Nicholas Regali did not kill Agent Doggett's son. You did.
Hayes:That's one explanation.
Doggett: It's the explanation.
Sunshine Days
Doggett: Well, how else do you explain it? A guy falls from a plane, or a... I don't know, maybe a helicopter. Out the door and then... (falling whistle) ... bam. Simple as that.
Reyes: And how, exactly, did he wind up in a helicopter, when supposedly he was busy breaking into someone's house at the time?
Doggett: Details.
Doggett: A - Eyewitness places the deceased inside this house just prior to the time of his demise. B - We found a fragment of roofing shingle at the scene of the impact. It would seem it matches the discarded piece you now hold in your hand. C - There's a hole in the roof, recently patched, this big around. Connect A to B to C.
Reyes: Much in the fashion of, say, Daffy Duck or Wiley Coyote, the deceased shot straight up through the roof, flew high into the air and landed on his buddy's car? (Sceptically) You're serious?
Doggett: A to B to C. I gotta tell ya, I think I'm finally gettin' the hang of this job.
Reyes: Smile. All of Southern California's watching us scratch our heads in confusion.
Doggett: Yeah. Judge, I want to toss the house of a man who makes people magically zoom into the sky. It has somethin' to do with electricity and poltergeists and what not. (Chuckling at the thought) Yeah, that'll fly.
Reyes: Ah- ha. I was wondering why a man with no criminal record would change his name. And then I thought about the name itself. Oliver Martin. It sounded familiar, so I ran it.
Doggett: Through what, NCIC?
Reyes: No. A Brady Bunch website. It popped right up.
Scully: Well, the power that this man seemingly possesses is extraordinary. It needs to be studied.
Dr. Reits: It could expand the scope of human knowledge. It could change everything.
Scully: It very well could. I mean, I've... I've been working this unit for nine years now. I-I've investigated nearly 200 paranormal cases. We are due for some incontrovertible proof. I want vindication, for ... for Mulder and ... for all of us.
Reyes: What happens next?
Skinner: I want Kersh to see this. I want the Director himself in here. I mean, do you realize what this means? This kind of proof? It ensures that they can't shut you down. It means the X-Files will go on forever.
Scully: Well, what are you suggesting is the course of action, John?
Doggett: A - Oliver's gonna die if he continues to use his power. B - his power goes away when he's happy. And C - you're the father he never had, and he loves you. A to B to C.
Doggett: So close, Dana. I'm sorry you don't get your proof.
Scully: Me too. Well, maybe I've had it these past nine years. If not proof of the paranormal, then ... of more important things.
Doggett: Well, here's hopin' the TV stays off and he learns how to love the real world. (Reyes takes his hand in hers.)
Reyes: I think you are getting the hang of this job.
The Truth
Gen. Suveg: A fair hearing for your agent by his own agency. Your
prosecutor, your judges. Held in my court.
Kersh: That can't be legal. Why do this?
Gen. Suveg: I want a verdict. A guilty verdict. This man Mulder has made a lot of enemies. He's a crusader. And a lot of people do not like the crusade.
Kersh: I can't do that.
Gen. Suveg: Oh, you'll do it, Deputy Director. You and I both know there are forces inside the government now that a man would be foolish to disobey.
Mulder's Holding Cell (second visit) , The Truth [See Scenes]
Mulder: Come here, you big, bald, beautiful man.
Skinner: The only thing you're going to be kissing, Mulder, is your sweet ass good-bye, with the trouble your in.
Scully: Mulder, they're saying you killed a man.
Mulder: Have they produced a body? You can't produce a body because you can't kill a man who won't die.
Mulder: (when Reyes and Doggett walk in) Whooo, now it's a party.
Scully: Mulder, I need you to talk to me. Confide in me ... or we'll lose.
Mulder: We can't win, Scully. We can only hope to go down fighting.
Skinner: I move to dismiss these proceedings on the grounds it violates the accused's rights to a fair trail. I'm not a lawyer. You're not a judge. This is not a court of law.
Skinner:Assigned not just as an agent, but as a medical doctor. A scientist.
And as a serious scientist you came to believe in Agent Mulder's theories.
Scully: I came to believe in the existence of extraterrestrial life and in a conspiracy inside the government to keep their existence a secret.
Skinner: The proof was overwhelming. It was even scientifically undeniable.
Scully: Well, then, expose it, Mulder! Take the stand. Whatever it is that you're withholding take the stand and hit them full force.
Scully: You say this is greater than us, and maybe it is, but this is us
fighting this fight, Mulder, not you. It's you and me. That's what I'm fighting for, Mulder. You and me.
Mulder: What are you doing here?
X: That's what I'm here to ask you.
Mulder: I'm putting the truth on trial.
X: What truth? Who's truth? You think these men will even hear it?
Mulder: They're afraid to hear it.
X: They're not afraid. They have too much power to be afraid. You're going to learn that, just like I did. You'll die learning it.
Marita: They were pretending to work with the aliens to infect the entire
population with an alien virus, but the conspirators were trying to save themselves by secretly and selfishly developing a vaccine. The conspirators believed all life in the universe had been infected with the virus including a race of shape-shifting alien bounty hunters who policed the conspiracy for the aliens. But they were wrong and it led to the destruction of the conspiracy.
Mulder: Listen to me, they'll destroy you. They'll put you out on the street.
Doggett: What's left for us on the X-Files?
Reyes: We came to this job to give it our best. It's the way we're going to leave.
Mulder: It's not about how good you are. They control the game. They own it.
Doggett: Then let's shove it up their ass.
Kallenbrunner: Objection. Agent Doggett was not present at the murder nor has he seen or examined the victim.
Doggett: That's because I've been getting the bum's rush from the government.
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Skinner: I want to move to dismiss again based on new evidence I just received that there is no victim. That the body of Knowle Rohrer is not Knowle Rohrer, but that of a man who died of a broken neck and whose body was burned postmortem.
Kersh: Motion denied.
Scully: You can't deny it.
Kersh: You're out of order and in contempt of court, Agent Scully.
Scully: You're in contempt. I have evidence proving that Agent Mulder is innocent.
Kersh: You have no authorization to examine the body, Agent Scully. Have her removed from the courtroom.
Scully: Where are you going?
Mulder: To see a man about The Truth.
CSM: The aliens. They fear this place ... its geology. Magnetite. Like that which brought down the original UFO in Roswell. Indian wise men realized this over 2,000 years ago. They hid here and watched their own culture die. The Original Shadow Government.
The Hotel Scene, The Truth [See
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