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Outside Skinner's Office Scene, The Blessing Way
Scully: Who are these people?
Skinner: These people are doing their job.
Scully: What they're doing is putting an official stamp on the perpetuation of a lie.
Skinner: These people have a protocol to follow, which is something you and Agent Mulder did not do.
Scully: What about the people who were poisoning Agent Mulder's water? Whose protocol was that?
Skinner: The investigation will...
Scully: The investigation will be an exercise! The men who killed Agent Mulder,
the people who killed his father, they aren't meant to be found.
Skinner: We will find them.
Scully: With all due respect, sir, I think you overestimate your position in the chain of command. (Umm, does anyone else hear the words, " 'Non-movie word' you?" )
Comments: Stunning! Scully thinks Mulder is dead, and has assumed the mantle of his quest. In doing so, she has also adopted some of his methods. The meek road is not for her in this the first time she rankles at authority (a very Mulder-esque thing to do.) She looses some of that naiveté that up until this point, she was able to hold on to. A defining moment in Dana Scully's life.
Frohike at Scully's Scene, The Blessing Way
(Scully twists and turns in bed, unable to sleep. The doorbell rings twice. She turns on the lights and looks through the peephole. Perplexed, she unlocks her door and looks at Frohike.)
Scully: Frohike?
Frohike: I know it's late but I heard the news. (She looks down at the bottle of wine in his hand.) Maybe I should go. Pardon my presumptuousness.
Scully: How much have you had to drink? (Frohike holds up the near-empty bottle.)
Frohike: Do you recycle? (Scene change to Scully's kitchen) He was a good friend. A redwood among mere sprouts. (He takes a sip of his coffee as Scully pours herself a cup.) I guess this means he's passing you the torch. (She sits down and looks at him.)
Scully: Uh, I'm afraid not. I'm soon to be out of a job.
Frohike: Those sons of bitches. They're rigging the game.
Scully: And like rats, they just scatter back into the woodpile.
Comments: I'm always touched, whenever I see this scene. Poor Frohike. I suspect he's the most emotional of the three gunman. (He has a crush on Dana, comes to visit her in her hospital room in ONE BREATH, and in PAPER CLIP- he shows up at the hospital when he hears about a shooting at Scully's apartment.) And here he is sharing his sorrow with the one person he knows is just as emotionally tied to Mulder as he is. (No, I'm not talking Slash. Ew...)
Paper Clip
CITD: Conversation in the Diner, Paper Clip
(Skinner has just rendezvous with Mulder and Scully at a small Diner, in a no-name town. They are telling him about the massive warehouse of files they have just uncovered.)
Skinner: Is that answer worth your lives?
Mulder: It's obviously worth killing us for.
Skinner: In your wildest dreams, what do you possibly hope to find, Agent Mulder?
Mulder: Why they killed my father... and what happened to my sister... and what they did to Agent Scully.
Scully: I think we should let him make the deal, Mulder. Look... those answers mean nothing if we're going to be hunted down like animals. We are operating so far outside of the law right now, we've given up on the very notion of justice. We've turned ourselves into outsiders. We have lost our access and our protection.
Mulder: What makes you think there's any such thing as justice, Scully?
Scully: Then what good are those answers to anybody but you, Mulder?
Mulder: What we found last night...
Scully: Look, I want exactly what you want. But I need to see my sister.
Mulder: I suppose you already tried to make a backup of the tape.
Skinner: Whoever downloaded those files put a copy protector on them. I couldn't get a hard copy to print either.
Mulder: What makes you think they'll even honor this deal?
Skinner: Because, if they don't... I'll go state's evidence and testify... or they'll have to kill me too.
Mulder: It's up to you, Scully.
(A short time later, Scully and Skinner walk out. Mulder is standing near the doorway and Scully goes to him. Skinner gets in his car.)
Scully: I told Skinner to make the deal. But not to hand over the tape until you agree to it.
Comments: In some ways I just want to smack Mulder for putting Scully on the spot in this scene, but in a way I can't blame him. She has always been the more rational of the two of them, and it is right, and proper that she should reel him back in. I guess that's really why I like this scene, she 'saves' him here as surely as she did when she got him released from Ellens Airforce Base in Deep Throat. If she hadn't done this, he would have been killed, and the truth would have died with him.
Pucker Up Scene, Paper Clip
(Skinner attempts to make a deal with Cancerman. Too bad he doesn't have the tape anymore, but he does have one more Ace up his sleeve.)
Skinner:This is where you pucker up and kiss my ass.
C. S. M. : Now, listen...
Skinner: No, you listen to me, you son of a bitch. This man's name is Albert Hosteen. You should remember that, because if agents Mulder and Scully come down with so much as a case of the flu, Albert is prepared to recite chapter and verse, file for file, everything on your precious tape.
C. S. M. : It's a nice try, Skinner.
Skinner: I'm sure you're thinking Albert is an old man, and there are plenty of ways that you might kill him too, which is why, in the ancient oral tradition of his people, he's told 20 other men the information on those files. So unless you kill every navajo living in four states that information is available to a simple phone call. Welcome to the wonderful world of high technology.
C. S. M. : You're bluffing.
Skinner: Am I?
Comments: Who doesn't love this scene? Not only does this gem wrap up the "how are Mulder and Scully going to get out of this mess?" question brilliantly, but it also has Skinner telling CSM off! Kudos for CC and company.
Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose
Yappi's insight Scene, Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose
Yappi: He looks like... A white man with facial hair. Or not. But he has... yes! A tattoo! Somewhere on his body. Maybe the tattoo has the facial hair. I think. Hmm! I see him here! Forcing himself, yes! On the girl! But he cannot perform... so he's taking out his rage. (He looks up at Mulder, then slams his palm down and stands up. His eyebrows fluctuate rapidly.) It's gone. I lost the vision. Someone is blocking me. I am picking up negative energy. 
(He walks over to Cline and stares at him, then snaps his head around and looks at Scully, left eyebrow arched. Yappi walks over to her, eyebrows arched and stares at her closely, then quickly looks at Mulder, right eyebrow arched. He walks over to him.) Please leave this room.
Mulder: I'm part of this investigation.
Yappi: You give off negative energy.
Mulder: I can assure you, Mister Yappi, I'm a believer in psychic ability.
Yappi: So you say with your mouth but your thoughts tell me the truth. (He arches an eyebrow and walks away.)
Cline: Agent Mulder, please. (Mulder sighs as Scully leans over to him.)
Scully: I can't take you anywhere.
Comments: <Snort> Mulder the believer gets kicked out of the room, because he doesn't believe in Yappi's powers. Gotta love that Darin Morgan!
Scene at Betsy Hagopian's, Nisei
Betsy Hagopian's house; Allentown, Pennsylvania (Previously, Scully was told by Penny Northern and Lottie Holloway- that she was one of them. They have called other members of Mufon and the room is now filled with women. Scully is at the center. They are all seated.)
Scully: But I've never met any of you. I, I've never seen any of you before in my life.
(Lottie walks in, carrying a cup of coffee, and sits down next to Penny on the couch.)
Lottie: You may not remember. You've only had one experience.
Penny: Most of us here have been taken many times.
Scully: (She looks around at the various women staring at her.) Taken? Uh,
taken where?
Lottie: The bright white place. (Scully stares at her. Suddenly, her memory flashes out to her lying unconscious in a bright white room. But the flash is brief. A woman named Diane leans forward in her chair.)
Diane: You remember it, don't you?
Scully: (She closes her eyes.) I don't know.
Diane: There are men there performing tests.
Scully: (She opens her eyes and looks at her. A memory flash juts out, one of a drill barreling down towards her. Scully stares at her interrogator.) What men?
Lottie: They don't reveal themselves. They take our memories away, but somehow, they start to seep back.
Penny: Some may have come back to you, but they didn't make sense.
(Scully starts to tear up.)
Lottie: Do you know about regression hypnosis?
Scully: Yes, I'm...
Lottie: Have you ever considered it?
Scully: I'm sorry. I don't think I'm ready to discuss this.
Diane: (Diane stands.) You're afraid to remember, aren't you? (She sits down in front of Scully.) It's okay. We were all afraid at first.
(Scully's eyes wander around the room. Then a little later... Penny is now standing.)
Lottie: I don't know, when I opened that door and saw you standing there? It was
like a revelation. The image of your face was so clear to me.
Scully: But why is it that I don't remember you?
Penny: All you remember in the beginning is the light, and then sometimes the
faces of the men who perform the tests.
(She sits. Scully stares at her until her memory returns briefly and she sees some kind of tube attached to her belly button during the tests, exactly like Mulder had imagined when Scully was abducted. Her stomach is inflated, being filled with air. It grows very large as two figures, presumably aliens, watch in the background. Scully looks away from Penny and Lottie.)
Scully: How do you know that you're not mistaking me for somebody else?
Diane: (Lottie looks over to Diane.) You have the mark, don't you? (Scully looks
over at her.)
Scully: What mark?
Diane: Here. (She sits down backwards in front of Scully and pulls down the back of her shirt, revealing a small scar on the back of her neck.) On the back of your neck. (Scully looks at it, then closes her eyes.)
Lottie: We all have them. It's where they put the implants.
(Lottie nods to the other women, who all take out various capsules, medicine bottles and containers, each holding an implant inside. Scully looks at them, her feelings building inside her.)
Scully: I really have to go. (She stands and heads for the door.) I just came...
Lottie: To see Betsy. (She stands next to Penny. Scully turns around.)
Scully: Yes. To see Betsy Hagopian. Why are you all at her house, where is she?
(Penny looks at Lottie nervously.)
Comments: Wow. This is another of those scenes where you just have to say, "Gillian Anderson deserves all the prizes!" It's all in her eyes. They speak volumes. You can see the fear and denial there even before she gives them voice. Good Stuff!
CIC: Conversation in the Confessional, Revelations
Scully: Bless me, Father for I have sinned. It’s been 6 years since my last confession and since then I’ve drifted away from the church. I’m not sure exactly why.
Priest: Have you come to confess?
Scully: No, um... There’s a man that I work with, a friend, and usually I’m able
to discuss these things with him. But not this. Father, do you believe in miracles?
Priest: Of course, I see them everyday. The rising of the sun, the birth of a child.
Scully: No, I’m talking about events that defy explanation. Things that, I believe helped me to save a young boy’s life. But, now, I wonder if I saw them at all. If I didn’t just imagine them.
Priest: Why do you doubt yourself?
Scully: Because my partner didn’t see them. He didn’t... he didn’t believe them. And usually he believes with out question.
Priest: Maybe they weren’t meant for him to see. Maybe they were only meant for you.
Scully: Is that possible?
Priest: With the Lord anything is possible. Perhaps you saw these things because you needed to.
Scully: To find my way back?
Priest: Sometimes we must come full circle to find the truth. (Scully looks up-
startled) Why does that surprise you?
Scully: Mostly it just makes me afraid.
Priest: Afraid?
Scully: Afraid that God is speaking, but that no one’s listening.
Comments: My favorite Scully episode, why?- cause she gets to be right! This scene is the finale and gives an unsettling account of the state of humanity as it appears to Dana Scully. I do love this aspect of her. It will show up again in another of my favorites- All Souls. Many people believe that this episode was out of character for both Mulder and Scully. Click here if you'd like to read a dissenting opinion.
War of the Coprophages
COTP: Conversation on the Phone, War of the Coprophages
Scully: Mulder, are you okay?
Mulder: I can't sleep.
Scully: What happened at the USDA site?
Mulder: They're conducting legitimate experiments. I met an entomologist, a Dr. Berenbaum, who agrees with your theory of an accidental importation of a new cockroach species.
Scully: Did he give you any idea of how to catch them?
Mulder: No, but she did tell me everything else there is to know about insects.
Scully: She?
Mulder: Yeah, did you know that the ancient Egyptians worshiped the scarab beetle and possibly erected the pyramids to honor them? Which may be giant symbolic dung heaps?
Scully: Did you know the inventor of the flush toilet was named Thomas Crapper?
Mulder: Bambi also has this theory I've never come across about U.F.O's....
Scully: Who??
Mulder: Dr Berenbaum.
Scully: Her name is Bambi?
Mulder: Yeah both her parents were naturalists. Her theory is that UFO's are actually nocturnal insect swarms passing through electrical air fields.
Scully: Her name is Bambi??
Mulder: Scully, can I confess something to you?
Scully: Yeah, sure. Ok. (Look of distress on her face as she says this.)
Mulder: I hate insects.
Scully: You know, lots of people are afraid of insects, Mulder. It's just, uh... it's a natural, instinctive...
Mulder: No, no, no. I'm not afraid of them. I hate them. One day, back when I was a kid I was, uh I was climbing this tree when I noticed this leaf walking towards me. It took me forever to realize that it wasn't a leaf.
Scully: A praying mantis?
Mulder: Yeah, I had a praying mantis epiphany and, as a result, I screamed. Not...not a girly scream but the scream of someone being confronted by some before unknown monster that had no right existing on the same planet I inhabited. Did you ever notice how a praying mantis's head resembles an alien's head? The mysteries of the natural world were revealed to me that day but instead of being astounded I was repulsed.
Scully: Mulder, are you sure it wasn't a girly scream?
Comments: This is vintage Darin Morgan. Poor Mulder. He can't sleep, so he calls Scully. Just previous to this scene he was speaking with her on the phone then, abruptly cuts of his conversation. She was thinking <Mulder's in trouble.> Does he call her back to ease her mind? Hell no, he doesn't give it another thought. He was too busy oogling Dr. Bambi, but Scully gets him with that zinger- "Are you sure it wasn't a girly scream?" LOL
Convienence Store Scene, War of the Coprophages
(MILLER'S
GROVE, MASSACHUSETTS- The town is in mass hysteria, and no where is that more evident than in a convenience store. A mother and her children hurry in grabbing supplies. A tall, black man pulls a kid out of the way.)
Man #1: Hey, kid, move! Gimme that! (He grabs a pack of toilet paper. People shout to each other as they grab anything they can. Another man grabs a whole shelf of bottled water. Men take different packages off the shelves.)
Clerk: Hands off, buddy!
(Another man grabs a number of things before grabbing a canister of "Die! Bug! Die!" This seems to be the most popular item as people clamor for it desperately. A sailor stocks up on chocolate and pantyhose. Scully walks in and looks at the panic around her. Outside, a car crashes into another right outside, and Scully turns around in shock. The man in the second car yells at the other one.)
Man #2: Hey, what are you crazy? Watch yourself!
Woman #1: Hey, you idiot, you hit me!
(Scully walks in and a man brushes past her harshly. She looks exasperated, but goes over to the clerk, who is bagging a woman's purchases.)
Scully: Excuse me, do you sell road maps? (The clerk nods.) Could you tell me where they are?
Woman #2: Come on, hurry up! (Scully looks at the impatient shopper.)
Scully: What's going on here?
Woman #2: Haven't you heard about the roaches? They're devouring people whole. (Scully gives her a strange look.) Everybody's getting the hell out of here.
Scully: Have you seen any of cockroaches yourself?
Woman #2: No, but they're everywhere. (She runs off. The next man in line goes to the counter.)
Man #3: Roaches aren't attacking people, lady. They're spreading the Ebola virus. (He throws a bill down on the counter and picks up his stuff.) Look, keep the change. (He looks back at Scully as he starts out.) We're all going to be bleeding from our nipples! (He runs out. Scully has had enough.)
Scully: All right. (She holds up her badge.) ALL RIGHT, LISTEN UP! (Amazingly, as she talks, people stop and listen.) I'm Agent Dana Scully from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. I am assuring you that you are not in any danger. Everything is going to be okay if you just calm down, and start acting rationally. Now, where the hell are those road maps?
(She looks at the clerk. A woman looks at another one and they both reach for the last can of "Die! Bug! Die!" They both grab it and pull at it.)
Woman #3: Hey! This last can is mine! (The other woman yanks her around and knocks her backwards into a store display loaded with Choco Droppings. The small, brown pebbles fall out onto the floor, rolling everywhere. An especially frightened man looks down.)
Man #4: Roaches!
(Everyone screams and leaves, except for Scully. Outside, car engines start and cars honk, people screaming. Scully slowly makes her way over to the spilled candy. She bends down and picks up a half-empty box, then eats a piece, looking around.)
Comments: Everything about this scene sends me into hysterics. The Sailor especially. And one of the newest phrases at the abbey is, "Gillian Anderson deserves all the road maps!" (As well as the prizes.)
Syzygy
Horned Beast Scene, Syzygy
White: (pointing at a V-shaped burn on the body’s chest) What is that?
Scully: What’s what?
White: That pattern, here, on his chest.
Mulder: Yeah, I see it, it looks like a, eh, goat, some kinda horned beast.
Scully: A horned beast?
Mulder: (Pointing at burning that indeed looks kinda like a horned beast.) Yeah, right here, in this circle.
Scully: I think you guys are seeing something that isn’t there.
White: No, no, right here, look, you see, the horns are right there.
Scully: No, I don’t see the horns right there. (Snaps on surgical glove)
White: (After looking at Mulder.) I assume you’ll call me if you need anything further. (leaves)
Mulder: (To Scully) If it’s no bother, if it’s not too big a deal, maybe you can get
me a few photographs of that thing which bears absolutely no resemblance to a horned beast.
Scully: Sure, fine. (Snaps on other glove.) Whatever.
Comments: <Snicker, Snicker> Scully looks absolutely incredulous as Mulder and Det. White point to a burn mark that looks a heck of a lot like a goat. That's what I love about this whole episode. The acting was flawless on both DD and GA's part.
Mr. Tippy Scene, Syzygy
Scully: The bones, turned out to be the skeletal remains not of an infant, but of a
beloved, fourteen year old Lhasa Apso, formerly known as: (holds out collar) Mr. Tippy. (Terri enters the room.)
Terri: Mr. Tippy
Mulder: This may not be any time to mention it, but someone is wearing my favorite perfume.
Scully: Can I have a word with you? (They go out into the hall.) This has gone on far enough.
Mulder: What?
Scully: I am not going to be humiliated by you, in front of you, or by having to
bring a teenage girl in, on her birthday of all days, to identify the bones of her dead dog, Mr. Tippy! ( Mulder loses interest, starts sniffling the air, closing in around Scully’s head.) I see no reason to pursue this case any further and not only that, I find your conduct and comportment in this investigation not just alarming, but highly objectionable. What are you doing?!
Mulder: (slightly distracted.) Must be detective White
Scully: If that’s the reason we’re sticking around, that’s your business. (Walks away.)
Mulder: What? (surprised/incredulous) What are you talking about?
Scully: Detective White.
Mulder: We came down here because of three unexplained deaths, Detective White is just trying to solve them. She could use our help.
Scully: Well, you two seem to have a certain … simpatico. I’m going back to Washington in the morning.
(Mulder slowly sinks to the wall while Scully leaves.)
Comments: Our poor heroes. How about that Mulder sniffing the air around Scully? And doesn't Scully seem sooo jealous throughout this whole exchange / episode?
Apocrypha
Sceneon the Street, Apocrypha
(Scullycatches up with the ambulance that is transporting Skinner. She notices something wrong, a rattling. She stands and draws her gun. Just as she's about to open the door, the Hispanic Man opens it, fires but misses. He runs away now, and Scully chases him. The Hispanic Man is hit by a car, but he gets up and continues running. He eventually stumbles and falls)
Scully: Federal agent stop right there! ARE YOU LUIS CARDINAL?! ARE YOU LUIS CARDINAL?!
Cardinal: Please.
Scully : ARE YOU THE MAN WHO SHOT MY SISTER?! (She begins to circle
Cardinal)
Cardinal: Don't kill me, please.
Scully: YOU SHOT MY SISTER!
Cardinal: Please, I can tell you.
Scully: TELL ME!
Cardinal: I can tell you.
Scully: TELL ME!
Cardinal: I can tell you what you want, you want Krycek, I can tell you where he
is? Please, please don't shoot me.
(sirens wailing, cop cars arrive)
Officer (yelling): Drop the gun! Put the gun down! Put it down now!
Scully (shows her badge): FBI.
Officer: Don't move.
(Cardinal is arrested. Scully has tears in her eyes.)
Comments: This is a side of Scully we rarely get to see. She has lost control, and you know she wants nothing better than to shoot this SOB. Part of you really wants her to do it, yet you know that she can't ( for the same reasons Mulder didn't in ONE BREATH.) She's too honorable for that.
Pusher
Russian Roulette scene, Pusher
(Scully has just watched Modell take the video headset off of Mulder, and the feed goes black. She rips off her headset and rushes out, followed by the SWAT lieutenant. Down the hall, SWAT team members are lining the halls, armed and ready. The SWAT lieutenant walks down the hall with Scully, who is now wearing a bulletproof vest.)
SWAT Lieutenant: We think they're three doors down. We got both ends sewed up tight, but there are six critical care rooms we can't get to. If we gas the halls, we might kill those patients. (Scully hands her gun to the lieutenant and prepares to go in.) Why do we keep giving this guy exactly what he wants?
Scully: Just wait for a signal from me. (He nods, putting the gun in his vest and putting on his goggles.)
SWAT Member: You're clear.
(Scully walks down the hall. The lieutenant arms himself and watches. Scully looks into the first room and sees a bald man hooked up to monitors. She moves over to the second door and slowly opens it. Two women hooked-up to life support. Opening the door farther, she sees Mulder seated at a table, staring blankly at the wall in front of him.)
Scully: Mulder.
(She opens the door more and sees that Mulder is staring at Modell, who sits directly across from him. The gun rests between Modell's hands, which are flat on the table. Mulder's are as well. She walks in very slowly, unsure of what is going on. Modell and Mulder never take their eyes off each other.)
Modell: Thanks for joining us.
Scully: We've got a dozen law enforcement officers outside in the hall... another thirty in the parking lot.
Modell: Regular convention.
Scully: So whatever you've got planned, it's not going to work out the way you it want to. (Modell continues to stare at Mulder angrily.)
Modell: You don't know what I got planned.
(Scully looks down at the gun, then at Mulder, who is expressionless. She sits down in the chair nearest the door exactly between them. Modell picks up the revolver and checks the chamber.)
Modell: Two warriors of equal skill fight to the death. One is a student of Japanese budo... the way of war. (He spins the chamber, which only contains one bullet.) Budo teaches the warrior to leave himself outside the battle. In other words... (He closes the chamber.) To disregard his own death. (He places the gun down.) Because of that, the budo warrior always wins. I am that warrior. I don't fear my death. So I... (He slides the gun over between Mulder's hands, handle first.) I'm going to give you... one pull of the trigger against me. (Scully's eyes are wide, staring at Mulder.) One-in-six chance. (Mulder continues to stare at Pusher, moving his hand down onto the gun. Pusher puts his hand on top of Mulder's quickly.) One. One pull. (Mulder fits his finger into the trigger and lifts the gun, aiming it nonchalantly at Pusher.)
Scully: Wait. Mulder, look... there's pure oxygen in this room. (The chamber can be heard clicking lowly.) There's no telling what could happen if you pull that trigger...
(He pulls the trigger, but the bullet isn't in the chamber. Scully gasps slightly, having been cut off in mid-sentence. After a few seconds, Pusher exhales deeply, his body relaxing slowly. He smirks, out of breath from fear.)
Modell: Piece of cake. Your turn. (Scully's eyes go to Mulder again.)
Scully: Mulder, no.
Modell: Mulder, yes. (Scully is about to cry.) Go.
Scully: Mulder, listen to me. Give me the gun. We can stop this thing right now. You and I can walk outside of this room...
(Mulder cringes and jerks the barrel to his head while pulling the trigger in one quick, fluid motion. No gunshot. Scully stands and pounds the table with both hands, near tears, glaring at Modell.)
Scully: No! Damn you! You bastard! Mulder, hand me the g...
(She
reaches for the gun, but Mulder's head jerks back up, glaring at Modell, aiming the gun at his controller. Scully sobs shallowly, no tears forthcoming though. Mulder nonchalantly moves his arm and points the gun at Scully. Her eyes widen. She breathes shallowly.)
Scully: Mulder, you don't have to do this. You're stronger than this.
Modell: Your turn, Scully. Got to play by the rules. Pull the trigger, Mulder.
Scully: ( The awful realization has hit Scully, that Mulder might just pull the trigger. A lone tear rolls down her face.) Mulder, fight him. You can fight this.
Modell: Come on. Pull the trigger, Mulder. She shot you, I read it in her files. Payback time... shoot the little spy!
(Scully looks at the mirror across the way from her and spots a fire alarm on the back wall in the hallway. Mulder speaks angrily, glaring but not
at Scully, even though that is who he must face. )
Mulder: I'm going to kill you, Modell.
Modell: Yeah, pull the trigger, you get another crack at me. (Scully slowly starts to back out of the room.)
Mulder: Scully, run! Scully...
(His finger tenses on the finger. The chamber starts to turn, clicking into position. She stares at him, then runs out and pulls the alarm. The alarm blares and Modell looks away from Mulder for the first time, over to Scully. He looks back at Mulder, who turns to him, glaring, and points the gun. Modell gasps. Mulder pulls the trigger and Modell is shot, slamming against the back of his chair, then falling. Mulder stands, tips over the table and continues to dry-fire at Modell, even though he knows the chamber is empty. Other agents swarm in.)
SWAT Lieutenant: Federal agents! Get down, get down, get down!
(Mulder continues to pull the trigger until finally lowering the gun. The alarm continues to ring. Scully looks at him, worried. He hands the gun to her, then puts his elbows on his knees and his face in his hands.)
Comments: What's to comment on? Go watch this scene again! Vince Gilligan's writing is incredible and the acting by GA and DD is intense.
José Chung's, From Outerspace
Roky Crikenson Scene, José Chung's, From Outer Space
Roky:
Because last night, the weirdest thing happened. (Cut to the previous night. He turns to see a black sedan with more than just a slight resemblance to the Batmobile pull in. The garage door closes.)
MIB #1: No other object as been misidentified as a flying saucer more often than the planet Venus.
Roky: Really? (Cut to present.) That was when I realized something was weird
Scully: At which point?
Roky: See, normally, if two strangers drive into my garage, I tell them to get the hell off the property. But this time, I didn't! It was like I was in a trance or something. (Cut to previous scene.)
MIB #1: Even the former leader of your United States of America, James Earl Carter Jr., thought he saw a UFO once...But it's been proven he only saw the planet Venus.
Roky: I'm a republican.
MIB#1: Venus was at its peak brilliance last night. You probably thought you saw something up in the sky other than Venus, but I assure you, it was Venus.
Roky:
know...What I saw.
MIB#1: Your scientists have yet to discover how neural networks create self-consciousness, let alone how the human brain processes two-dimensional retinal images into the three-dimensional phenomenon known as perception. Yet you somehow brazenly declare seeing is believing? Mister Crikenson, your scientific illiteracy makes me shudder, and I wouldn't flaunt your ignorance by telling anyone that you saw anything last night other than the planet Venus, because if you do, you're a dead man.
Roky: You... can't threaten me.
MIB#1: I just did.
Scully: In short, Roky showed signs of being what is known as a fantasy-prone personality.
Chung: Agent Scully, you are so kindhearted. He's a nut! I just read his manifesto!
Scully: How did you get a copy?
Chung: One was sent to my publishers. I don't know what was more disturbing... his description of the inner core reincarnated souls sex orgy... or the fact that the whole thing is written in screenplay format.
Comments: OK, is it just me or does the appearance of Jesse 'the Body' Venture make sense here? And the line about being a republican puts me on the floor every time!
Chung's Epilog, José Chung's, From Outerspace
Chung: Evidence of extraterrestrial existence remains as elusive as ever...but the skies will continue to be searched by the likes of Blaine Faulkner, hoping to someday find not only proof of alien life, but also contentment on a new world. Until then, he must be content with his new job. Others search for answers from within. Roky relocated to El Cajon, California, preaching to the lost and desperate.
Roky: And so, at each death, the soul descends further into the inner earth,
attaining ever greater levels of purification, reaching... enlightenment at the core. Assuming, of course, that your soul is able to avoid... the lava men.
Chung: Seeking the truth about aliens means a perfunctory nine-to-five job to
some. For although Agent Diana Lesky is noble of spirit and pure of heart, she remains, nevertheless, a federal employee. As for her partner, Reynard Muldrake... that ticking timebomb of insanity... his quest into the unknown
has so warped his psyche, one shudders to think how he receives pleasures from life. Chrissy Giorgio has come to believe her alien visitation was a message to improve her own world, and she has devoted herself to this goal wholeheartedly.
Chrissy: Oh, it's you. What do you want?
Harold: I just wanted to tell you I still love you.
Chrissy: Love. Is that all you men think about?
Chung: Then there are those who care not about extraterrestrials, searching for
meaning in other human beings. Rare or lucky are those who find it. For although we may not be alone in the universe, in our own separate ways on this planet, we are all... alone.
Comments: Nothing special here. I just liked how Chung wrapped up a really crazy ride. <g>
Quagmire
COTR: The Conversation on the Rock - Quagmire
Scully: (On the boat.) It's too bad we're not out here fishing. (Looking at a fish
radar, showing many fish near the boat.)
Mulder: We are fishing.
Scully: You really expect to find this thing, don't you Mulder?
Mulder: You want to head right...here. (Points at the map.)
Scully: I'll take that as a yes.
Mulder: I know the difference between expectation and hope. Seek and ye shall find, Scully.
Scully: You know, on the old mariner's maps, the cartographers would designate uncharted territories by writing 'Here Be Monsters'.
Mulder: got a map of New York City just like that.
Scully: What was that? (A huge blob appears on the radar screen.)
Mulder: It ain't no bass.
Scully: What is that? What is that, Mulder?
Mulder: Here be monsters, Scully.
Scully: It looks like it's coming straight at us.
Mulder: Yep, that's what it looks like. (A huge crash is heard, then water pours in through a hole in the boat's stern.]
Scully: (Talking on the radio.) Mayday! Mayday! Can anybody hear me? This is the Patricia Rae. CA78327. Mayday! Mayday! (They pull on life jackets, then swim out from the boat. As the boat sinks, they stand on a nearby rock, watching.) There goes our five hundred dollar deposit.
Mulder: I say we swim to shore.
Scully: Swim?
Mulder: Yeah, the shore can't be too far from here.
Scully: In which direction?
Mulder: When you're living in the city you forget that night is actually so...dark.
Scully: Living in the city you forget a lot of things. You know what I was just thinking about, being mugged or hit by a car, It's not until you get back to nature that you realize that everything is out to get you. So my father always told me to respect nature, because it has no respect for you. (A ripple moves through the water.)
Mulder: That was him Scully, that was Big Blue.
Scully: So what if it was. Mulder, what are we doing here?
Mulder: What do you mean, what are we doing here?
Scully: What are you hoping to accomplish?
Mulder: Scully, some of the things that we investigate are so intangible but this creature it exists within the specific earthly confines of this lake, and I want to find it.
Scully: What for?
Mulder: You're a scientist, why do you ask that question? I mean, it would be a
marvelous discovery, it could revolutionize our evolutionary biological thinking.
Scully: Is that really the reason why? You know when you showed me those pictures the photographer took, you want to know what I really saw in them?
Mulder: A tooth?
Scully: No, you. That man is your future. Listening only to himself, hoping to catch a glimpse of the truth, for who knows what reason.
Mulder: I read his journals, did you know that he was hoping to live off the copyrights fees of a genuine Big Blue photo?
Scully: Well, as dumb as it sounds, at least it's a legitimate reason.
Mulder: You don't think my reasons are legitimate?
Scully: Mulder, sometimes I just can't figure them out. (A noise is heard, they jump up,
their guns aimed, but it is only a duck. Scully lets out a sob.)
Mulder: I'm still tempted to fire. Hey Scully, you think you could ever cannibalize someone? I mean if you really had to.
Scully: Well as much as the very idea is abhorrent to me, I suppose under certain conditions a living entity is practically conditioned to perform whatever extreme measures are necessary to ensure its survival. I suppose I'm no different.
Mulder: You've lost some weight recently haven't you?
Scully: Well, actually I have, thanks for...(she glares at him.)
Mulder: Though it is amazing what some animals will do to guarantee the continuation of a species isn't it? A creature of this size must have adapted its behavior over the years to minimize its chances of being seen by its only predator, us. Its coming closer to shore must have been an act of desperation on
its part.
Scully: Poor Queequeg.
Mulder: Why did you name your dog Queequeg?
Scully: It was the name of the harpoonist in Moby Dick. My father used to read to me from Moby Dick when I was a little girl, I called him Ahab and he called me Starbuck. So I named my dog Queequeg. It's funny, I just realized something.
Mulder: It's a bizarre name for a dog, huh?
Scully: No, how much you're like Ahab. You're so consumed by your personal vengeance against life, whether it be its inherent cruelties or mysteries, everything takes on a warped significance to fit your megalomaniacal cosmology.
Mulder: Scully, are you coming on to me?
Scully: It's the truth or a white whale. What difference does it make? I mean, both obsessions are impossible to capture, and trying to do so will only leave you dead along with everyone else you bring with you. You know Mulder, you are Ahab.
Mulder: You know, its interesting you should say that, because I've always wanted a peg leg. It's a boyhood thing I never grew out of. I'm not being flippant, I've given this a lot of thought. I mean. if you have a peg leg or hooks for hands then maybe its enough to simply keep on living. You know, bravely facing life with your disability. But without these things you're actually meant to make something of your life, achieve something earn a raise, wear a necktie. So if anything I'm actually the antithesis of Ahab, because if I did have a peg leg I'd quite possibly be more happy and more content not to be chasing after these creatures of the unknown.
Scully: And that's not flippant?
Mulder: No, flippant is my favorite line from Moby Dick. 'Hell is an idea first
born on an undigested apple dumpling', huh?
Scully: What was that?
Mulder: I don't know, but it ain't no duck. (The lamp goes out.)
Farraday: I thought I heard voices. what are you two doing out here?
Scully: Dr Farraday?
Farraday: Hope I'm not interrupting anything.
Scully: No, no. we had a little trouble with our boat.
Mulder: Actually it sank.
Farraday: How'd that happen?
Scully: It was my fault. We would have been out here all night if you hadn't answered our distress call.
Farraday: Oh, I didn't. I was walking by, I heard you talking.
Scully: Walking by?
Farraday: Yeah, the shore is just a stone's throw from here. Come on, I'll take you back.
Comments: Good stuff. Very nice insight. The viewer (as well as each of the characters) is given a glimpse of what's driving our two heroes, what has shaped them. I find these two scenes enormously interesting.
Wetwired
Scene at Mrs. Scully's, Wetwired
(Mulder taps the knocker three times, waits, then does it again louder. Having no response, he looks at the window, peers in, then bangs the knocker four times. Margaret answers the door, but only enough so that her face is shown.)
Mulder: Mrs. Scully, is she here?
Margaret: Uh, no.
Mulder: You haven't been answering your phone.
Margaret: Well, when I hear from her, I'll call you, okay? (She tries to close the
door, but Mulder holds it open.)
Mulder: I need to see her.
Margaret:
Fox, please, go away... (He pushes his way past her.) Go away!
Mulder: Sorry.
(She closes the door and he walks down the foyer and looks in the main room. Seeing no one, he turns to Margaret.)
Mulder: Where is she?
(Scully steps out from behind the wall in the main room, aiming her gun at Mulder. Mulder turns around.)
Margaret: Dana, put down the gun!
Mulder: I'm here to help you, Scully. (Margaret walks over and stands next to Mulder.)
Scully: I told you, Mom. He's here to kill me.
Mulder: I'm on your side, you know that.
Margaret: Put it down, Dana.
Mulder: Scully, listen to me very carefully. You don't know it, but you're sick with the same thing that drove those other people to murder... and whatever you think may be happening... (He takes a step forward.)
Scully: Just step back. (She cocks the hammer. Margaret steps up next to Mulder.)
Margaret: Dana, you're not yourself. He's telling you the truth.
Scully: It's not the truth, Mom. He's lied to me from the beginning. (Mulder shakes his head slightly.) He's never trusted me.
Mulder: Scully, you are the only one I trust. (Scully is about to cry.)
Scully: You're in on it. You're one of them. You're one of the people who abducted me. You put that thing in my neck. You killed my sister!
Margaret: That's not true, Dana.
Scully: It is.
Margaret: (She steps in front of Mulder.) I want you to listen to me...
Scully: Mom, just get out of the way! (Motioning with her hand)
Margaret: You trust me, don't you? 
(Scully is fighting back tears, her gun trained on her mother now.) You know that I would never hurt you. That I would never let anybody hurt you. That's why you came here, isn't it? You're safe here. Put the gun down, Dana. (Scully stares at them, very distraught. They look very concerned. Margaret steps towards her daughter.) Put it down. Put the gun down, Dana. Put it down.
(Scully points her gun away as she and her mother press their foreheads against one another. Scully falls into her mother's arms, sobbing. Margaret and Dana kneel down to the floor as Dana cries.)
Comments: Ouch! Scully goes mad- and GA does a marvelous job of it. And if you had no opinion about Mrs. Scully before, you've got to love her now. This scene shows you where Dana gets her strength and compassion from. It takes guts to step in front of a crazed woman with a gun, even if she is your daughter.
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