Unruhe

Scene between Mulder and Scully in the Woods, Unruhe

Mulder: You know Scully, that word unruhe, unrest, has been bothering me. I mean maybe he thought he was curing them somehow, saving them from damnation. From those things in the pictures, mmm, you know, he called them the howlers.
Scully: It's over Mulder.
Mulder: Well, then that photo wouldn't be his fantasy, it would be his nightmare.
Scully: ( with voice raised ) What the hell does it matter?!!!
Mulder: Because I wanna know.
Scully: I don't.

Home

COTB: Conversation on the Bench, Home

Scully: Imagine all the woman's hopes and dreams for her child and then nature turns so cruel. What must a mother go through?
Mulder: Apparently not much in this case if she'd just throw it out with the trash.
Scully: I... I guess I was just projecting on myself.
Mulder: Why, is there a history of genetic abnormalities in your family?
Scully: No.
Mulder: Well just find yourself a man with a spotless genetic makeup and a really high tolerance for being second-guessed and start pumping out the little ÜberScullys. (Mulder puts a hand on her back, and she smirks at him)
Scully: What about your family?
Mulder: Hmm? Well aside from the need for corrective lenses and a tendency to be abducted by extraterrestrials involved in an international governmental conspiracy, the Mulder family passes genetic muster. (after a pause) Scully that... child inside is a tragedy. Some... young parents, probably scared kids, dispose of an unwanted birth. And in a very certain sense infanticide is involved but this is not an FBI matter.
Scully: But from what I know about genetic defects Mulder, it's unlikely that child is the result of a single polygenic mating.
Mulder: We should let local authorities investigate that.
Scully: Those defects, Mulder, are autosomal dominant disorders. And from the degree I'd say mutations that go back many generations.
Mulder: Scully, Sheriff Taylor implied that the boys in that family were not really the type that could easily get dates.
Scully: But he also implied that they practiced inbreeding. Now we all have a natural instinct to propagate.
Mulder: Do we?
Scully: There are theories which pose that our bodies are simple vehicles for genes needing to replicate.
Mulder: Yeah, but there's no sister. Mother's been dead for ten years.
Scully: But if the instinct and the need is strong enough, they will answer it any way that they can. Now a woman gave birth to that child Mulder, and my guess is against her will.
Mulder: Kidnaping is a bureau matter. (Scully starts to walk off) Scully. I never saw you as a mother before.

The Field Where I Died

Scene between Mulder and Scully in the Car, The Field Where I Died

Scully: Who're you calling?
Mulder: (on car phone ) Forensic therapist trained in hypnosis to be at the command center.
Scully: Because hypnosis is used in the treatment of disassociative identities to bring forth a patients various personalities?
Mulder: She wants to talk Scully, it's a matter of getting it out of her.
Scully: No, it's about regressing her to a past life. ( she pulls the phone cord out ) Don't do this to her Mulder. This poor woman's mind, her life is in shreds. Just being married to Ephesian indicates that she is susceptible to suggestion.
Mulder: ( shouting ) You, you were there Scully! You saw it, you heard it, why can't you feel it!? ( pause ) How could I know about a bunker in a field where I've never been.
Scully: And why is it that Vernon Ephesian is reported by you a paranoid sociopath because he believes that he lived in Greece 100 years ago, and you're not, even though you believe you died in that field?

Paper Hearts

Scene in Cacapon, West Virginia, Paper Hearts

(Roach has told them where one of the two unidentified victim's is buried. Scully moves a small plant out of the way to reveal the words "Mad Hat" carved into a rock. Mulder falls to his knees and starts to dig a spot in the dirt, much to the chagrin of Scully.)

Scully: Mulder... let's get a team out here. Let somebody else do this.
Mulder: (Desperately) Help me, Scully.

(Scully, knowing how obstinate Mulder is, starts to dig as well. They keep digging until they see something in the dirt. Mulder brushes off a set of ribs covered with cloth that has a paper heart cut out. Scully sighs and looks back at Mulder, who stares at the heart.)

Terma

CS: Courtroom Scene, Terma

Scully: I left behind a career in medicine to become an FBI agent four years ago because I believed in this country. Because I wanted to uphold its laws, to punish the guilty and to protect the innocent. I still believe in this country, but I believe that there are powerful men in this government who do not . ...men who have no respect for the law, and who flout it with impunity.
Mr. Romine: Uh...Miss Scully...
Scully: (continuing) I have come to the conclusion....
Mr. Romine: (growing impatient) Agent Scully.
Scully: ...that it is no longer possible...
Mr. Romine: This is not a soapbox Miss Scully. Your statement will be entered into the record.
Scully: With all due respect Mr. Chairman, I would like to finish.
Mr. Romine: This is NOT why we are here today.
Scully: Then why are we here, sir?
Senator Sorenson: Agent Scully, do you or do you not know the whereabouts of Agent Mulder? Are you, or are you not aware of Agent Mulder's present location?
Scully: I respectfully refuse to answer that question, sir, because...
Mr. Romine: Agent Scully, you cannot refuse to answer that question.
Scully: Because I believe that answering that question could endanger Agent Mulder's life.
Mr. Romine: You don't seem to understand. Your response is not optional. You are an agent of the FBI.
Scully: Then if I may please finish my statement...that it is no longer possible for me to carry out my duties as an FBI agent.
Senator Sorenson: Are you tendering your resignation, Agent Scully. Is that what you're trying to say?
Scully: No, sir. What I am saying, is that there is a culture of lawlessness that has prevented me from doing my job- that the real target of this committee's investigation should be the men who are beyond prosecution and punishment....the men whose secret policies are behind the crimes that you are investigating.

Comments: Defiant! Scully makes an appearance. Wow. This is a side of Scully they've only hinted at (check out the scene outside of Skinner's office in The Blessing Way.) Part of the reason she is being so 'in your face' is because she's taking her cues from Mulder. He would be doing exactly what she's doing, except he's off in Russian getting himself infected with the dreaded oilalien.
 

SCC: Scully in Contempt of Congress, Terma

(Buzzer Sounds)
Scully is being led down a white hallway (presumably inside a Federal Penitentiary) by a U.S. Marshall. The look on her face is one of defiance and inner strength. She is led to a cell which has a door with a window. She is locked inside.

Never Again

CaD: Conversation about the Desk, Never Again

Scully: Why don't I have a desk?
Mulder: What do you mean? I always assumed that that was your area.
Scully: Back there.
Mulder: Okay, well, we'll have them send down another desk, and we won't be able to move around here but we could put them really closetogether, face to face, and maybe we can play some battleship.
Scully: So what is it you want me to keep an eye on?
Mulder: That contact that we met last night at the wall, who had the distinction of being present for a first. That being you abandoning me during questioning. In the future I'll make sure that all those being interviewed provide you with a multimedia laser show to keep your interest maintained.

Comments: OK, this conversation sets up the tension which will exist for the rest of this episode. Scully is having a personal crisis. She isn't sure where she fits exactly in the scheme of their partnership. Paula Graves said it best in a review she did of this episode. Scully is speaking metaphorically and Mulder is listening literally. Scully is not asking for a desk, but for reassurances that she is an important member of this partnership. Mulder thinks that the request for a desk is impractical, and by blowing it off, indirectly causes Scully to believe he does not consider her an equal. His snide remarks about the laser show, don't win him any points either.
 

CaMS: Conversation about Moose and Squirrel, Never Again

Scully: I'm not going.
Mulder: What do you mean?
Scully: Your contact, while interesting in the context of science fiction, was, at least in my memory, recounting a poorly veiled synopsis of an episode of Rocky and Bullwinkle.
Mulder: Eenie-meanie, chilli-beanie, the spirits are about to speak?
Scully: Rocky and Bullwinkle are looking for an opsidasium mine. Boris Badinov alters the road signs, which causes them to walk onto a secret military base. Where they are picked up by a car with no windows, and no door locks, and there are silent explosions from a compound called Hushiboom.
Mulder: So you're refusing an assignment based on the adventures of moose and squirrel?
Scully: "Refusing an assignment?" It makes it sound like you’re my superior.
Mulder: (Angry) Do what you want. Don’t go to Philadelphia, But let me remind you that I worked my ass off to get the files reopened. You were just assigned. This work is my life.
Scully: (Sadly) And it’s become mine.
Mulder: (Stunned) You don’t want it to be.
Scully: This isn’t about you. Or maybe it is, indirectly. I don’t know. I feel like I’ve lost sight of myself, Mulder. It’s hard to see, let alone find in the darkness of covert locations. I mean, I wish I could say that we were going in circles, but we’re not. We’re going in an endless line - - two steps forwards and three steps back. While my own life is...standing still.
Mulder: Well, maybe it’s good that we get away from each other for a while.

Comments: A continuation of the previous conversation, Scully begins to dig in her heels. She is frustrated (because of this personal crisis she is having) and she isn't in the mood to tolerate Mulder's hare-brained ideas. I am glad Scully at least tried to articulate what was bothering her, but because she has had so little practice with opening herself up in this way, she fails to convey her feelings to Mulder. He, not surprisingly, couldn't help her- although he can recognize that she is not herself.
 

CoP: Conversation on the Phone, Never Again

Mulder: How do you know?
Scully: What do you mean, how do I know? You assigned me the background check. I did as told, as always.
Mulder: Okay, just hold off until I get there, okay?
Scully: What, you don’t think I’m capable?
Mulder: Of course I believe that you’re capable, it’s just that in this case I need you to...
Scully: It’s not just in this case, Mulder.
Mulder: Wh-what’s the agent’s name in Philadelphia?
Scully: It is over. Done. Pudovkin is out of our hands. Look Mulder, I have to go.
Mulder: (sneering) What, have you got a date, or something? (Scully doesn’t answer) Y-you’re kidding.

Memento Mori

CiH: Conversation in the Hospital, Memento Mori

Mulder: Scully? I uh, stole these from some guy with a broken leg down the hall. (Hands her a bouquet of flowers) He uh, won't be able to catch me. How ya doing?
Scully: I guess that's the question. Actually I feel fine.
Mulder: What uh, what exactly are we looking at here?
Scully: It's what's called nasopharengeal mass. It's a small growth between the superior conchea and the sinoidal sinus.
Mulder: A growth?
Scully: A tumor. You're the only one I've called.
Mulder: Is it operable?
Scully: No.
Mulder: But it's treatable.
Scully: The truth is that the type and placement of the tumor make it difficult, to the extreme.
Mulder: I refuse to believe that, I..
Scully: For all times I have said that to you I am as certain of this as you have ever been. I have cancer. It is a mass on the wall between my sinus and cerebrum. If it pushes into my brain statistically there is about zero chance of survival.
Mulder: I, I, I don't accept that. Th..there must be some people who have received treatment for this, we..can....
Scully: Yes there are.

Comments: <Sigh> A touching scene to start one of the best X-Files ever. Scully calls Mulder before anyone else to tell him she has cancer. That's how close they've become. My 'shippy' heart does a little pitter-patter at Mulder's stammering attempts at denial. The man loves her.
 

CMSK: Conversation with Mulder, Scully and Kurt, Memento Mori

Scully: You think he's credible?
Mulder: Well he seems to know an awful lot about Betsy and the other women in the MUFON group you met in his house.
Scully: Well, that will have to be cross-checked.
Mulder: We can't.
Scully: Why not? (Mulder and Scully look at each other- realization flashes across Scully's face) How did they die?
Kurt: Brain cancer. All within the last year.
Scully: All of them?
Mulder: I want you to listen to me.
Scully: About what?
Mulder: About what you won't to admit to yourself, what you're denying.
Scully: What am I denying?
Mulder: Where your cancer came from.
Scully: Mulder, it doesn't matter.
Mulder: It does matter, if what you have is a result of your abduction and that abduction is something the government knows about then those are facts that should be brought to light.
Scully: (sharp) I don't know what happened to me. I have no clear recollection and I don't think these abductions are even abductions.
Mulder: But these women are dead.
Scully: No they are not. One woman isn't. There's Penny Northern.
Mulder: If you won't listen to me then I think you should go talk to her.
Scully: (angered) About what? What it feels like to be dying of cancer? What it's like to know that there's absolutely nothing you can do about it?
Mulder: If that's too hard for you then I think you should call an investigator. You have one remaining witness Agent Scully: I'd think you'd want to know what her story is.

Comments: Beautiful scene. The range of emotions that GA must portray is varied. First she's annoyed, then she's scared, then she's angry. Her eyes (and voice in this scene) are a window to what Scully is thinking and she uses them well.
 

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

Mulder: She gone? (Scully nods) I'm sorry. I know what she meant to you. Byers came to find you. You weren't in your room, I got scared that something had happened. And I read some of what you wrote.
Scully: Oh. I didn't want you to read that. I had decided to throw it out. I decided tonight that um... I'm not going to let this thing beat me. I came into this hospital able to work, and that's how I'm leaving.
Mulder: Byers tell you about Dr Scanlon?
Scully: Yes.
Mulder: He may very well have killed those women.
Scully: It will have to be proven. If we find him.
Mulder: Scully, something was done to you. Something that you're just beginning to remember. You can't quite figure it out, but it can be explained and it will be explained. And no matter what you think as a scientist or a doctor, there is a way, and you will find it. To save yourself.
Scully: Mulder, I can't kid myself. People live with cancer, they carry on. And so will I. And you know, I've got things to finish. To prove to myself, to my family. But for my own reasons.
Mulder: (In a Whisper) Come on back. (Normal voice) They're worth having. The truth will save you Scully, I think it will save both of us. (Mulder kisses the top of Scully's head, then cups her face in his hands and kisses her forehead. They hug tightly before she walks down the hallway, pausing to look back at him, and he is left standing with the vial of Scully's ova.)

Small Potatoes

SMAK: The Scully / Mulder almost Kiss, Small Potatoes

(Scully is sitting on the floor in front of the sofa in her apartment. She has a book and papers in front of her.  There is a knock on the door, and she removes her glasses and gets up to answer it. Through the peephole, she sees 'Eddie as Mulder", who flashes a wide grin. She opens the door.)

Scully: (looking alarmed) Mulder, what's up?
Eddie / Mulder: Scully? Is this a bad time?
Scully: No. No uh...come on in. (she sees that he's carrying a wine bottle) Who's that for?
Eddie / Mulder: Uh...us. (She stares at him for a second, then takes the wine bottle.)
Scully: Okay. Have a seat. (She goes to the counter, throwing a confused glance over her shoulder at him.)
Eddie / Mulder: So uh...what are you working on? (He grabs a spoon and examines himself in the reflection, while Scully gets wine glasses from her cupboard.)
Scully: More autopsy data. You know, everyone at the lab found Mr Van Blundht pretty fascinating. (He makes a sour expression) We discovered an additional anomaly related to the hair follicles in his scalp. I can't even begin to guess at the nature of it until we can run it through the transmission electron microscope. (Scully pulls the cork from the bottle. 'Eddie / Mulder' awkwardly puts his elbow on a pillow, then reconsiders and throws it aside.)
Eddie / Mulder: Sounds very interesting. (She brings the wine and glasses back and sits on the sofa next to him. She studies him for a second, then pours the wine into the glasses.)
Scully: Yes, it is. So seriously Mulder, what's going on? You okay? (She hands him a glass and pours her own.)
Eddie / Mulder: (nods) Mm. I was just kind of knocking around, I was (they click glasses together) just thinking... (they take a sip. He coughs.) Uh, good. We never really...uh...talk much...do we?
Scully: What do you mean like...really talk? (beat) No, no we don't, Mulder.
Eddie / Mulder: Well what's stopping us? (She looks at him, draws a breath, looks away, looks at him again, looks away again and sighs.)

(A while later, a fire is blazing in the fireplace and Al Green's "Ain't It Funny How Time Slips Away" is playing in the background. 'Eddie / Mulder' is pouring the last few drops of wine into her glass, and the wine seems to have had the usual effect.)

Scully: So there we are at two o'clock in the morning, me and my moiré taffeta dress and Marcus in whatever the hell it was he was wearing - (He pounds the bottle to get the last drop out) thank you very much. It had a um... (She uses a circular motion with her hand.) a kelly green cummerbund on it. Anyway, so, I know that Marcus is thinking that it's now or never, (He nods) and I'm thinking...
Eddie / Mulder: What are you thinking?
Scully: I'm thinking "What is that siren I hear getting louder?"
Eddie / Mulder: No way! Who called the cops?
Scully: It wasn't the cops it was the fire department. My friend Sylvia and her idiot prom date ...
Eddie / Mulder: Berwood?
Scully: ... had built this campfire that went totally out of control and so we all had to ride back on the um... what do you call it? The um, the pumper truck. (She playfully slaps 'Mulder's' thigh, and smirks.) Yeah. Marcus was the twelfth grade love of my life. (She laughs into her glass) I can't believe I'm telling you this!
Eddie / Mulder: I don't believe you haven't told me before.
Scully: No, I'm seeing a whole new side of you, Mulder.
Eddie / Mulder: Is that a good thing?
Scully: (Shyly) I like it.
Eddie / Mulder: Do you ever wish things were different?
Scully: (She furrows her brow.) What do you mean?
Eddie / Mulder: The person you wanted to be when you grew up, when you were in high school. How far off from that did you end up?
Scully: Career wise? Miles off target.
Eddie / Mulder: No, no, not just that. Do you ever wish...that you could go back and do it all differently?
Scully: Do you? (Eddie nods sadly)

( All background- noise, music stops. 'Eddie / Mulder' scoots closer to her on the sofa. He has that sad, puppy dog look on his face. Scully is confused, but she also looks sympathetic- as if she's sharing his pain. Her eyes widen for a moment and she lets out a quick sigh of surprise. He leans closer to her and her lips part in another sigh. Just as their lips are about to touch, the real Mulder bursts in the door. She looks at him in amazement, and he looks at the two of them on the sofa in equal amazement. Scully looks at 'Eddie / Mulder', then pushes him away with a slight yelp and quickly stands. While the real Mulder continues to stare at them, 'Eddie / Mulder' slumps back dejectedly and morphs back into himself. Scully stares at him in a bewildered haze, while Eddie gives her a shrug.)