Mulder: We
wanted to listen... I wanted to believe, but the tools had been taken away.
The X-Files had
been shut down. They closed our eyes. Our voices have been silenced. Our
ears now deaf to
the realms of
eXtreme possibilities.
---
Student:
Are you OK, Agent Scully? You kinda sounded, uh, a little spooky...
Scully:
(Reacts surprised to Mulder's nickname)
---
Mulder:
$4 for the first hour of parking is criminal. What you got better be worth
at least 45 minutes...
Scully:
You know, Mulder, from back there you look like him.
Mulder: Him?
Scully:
Deep Throat.
Mulder:
He's dead, Scully. I attended his funeral at Arlington through 8-power
binoculars from 1000
yards away. Now the picture frame was turned down, you wanted to talk?
What have you found?
Scully:
I wanted to talk but I haven't found anthing.
Mulder:
It's dangerous for us just to have a little chat.
---
Scully:
What makes you think they care about us anymore, anyway?
Mulder:
So why have you bothered to come here covertly?
Scully:
Because I realize that it was the only way that you would see me.
---
Mulder:
...Actually the idea was presented to Hale one night while he was playing
billiards. An elf climbed
in his window and told him to get money from the Rockefeller Foundation
for a telescope.
Scully:
And you're worried that all your life you've been seeing elves?
Mulder:
In my case, little green(grey really) men.
---
Mulder:
Seeing is not enough, I should have something to hold onto. Some solid
evidence. I learned that from you.(to Scully)
---
Scully:
Mulder, even if George Hale only saw elves in his mind, the telescope still
got built. Don't give up.
---
Samantha:
Mom and Dad said I could watch some movie, Buttmunch.
---
Sen. Matheson:
(Back to Mulder) Do you know this, Fox?
Mulder:
Bach, Brandenburg Concerto Number 3.
Matheson:
(Holding up 2 fingers) Two.
Mulder: Good
thing it wasn't a Double Jeopardy question...
---
Matheson:
Do you know the significance of this piece?
Mulder:
Well, uh, recalling music appreciation with Professor Ganz, Bach had a
genious for polyphonic..
Matheson:
This is the 1st selection of music on the Voyager Spacecraft.
Mulder:
(makes an 'oh, yeah!' eXpression)
---
Matheson:
Do you like Bach, Mulder?
Mulder:
I live for Bach.
Matheson:
Then let's hear it again.
---
Scully:
I was told by the Assistant Director that Mulder was gone.
Agent:
So?
Scully:
So, whenever he's away I feed his fish.
---
Agent:
Just dump it in the tank.
Scully:
That would be bad for the fish.
---
Mulder:
No, Gorge, don't touch the red button. Noho on the Roho. 'K?
---
Mulder:
Deep Throat said 'Trust No One'. It's hard, Scully. Suspecting everyone,
everything. It wears
you down. You even begin to doubt what you know is the truth. Before, I
could only trust myself.
Now, I can only trust you. And they've taken you away from me.
---
Mulder:
They came, Scully. The ones that took her. They were here.
Scully:
Here? Or here? (Putting hand on his head)
---
Mulder:
A minute ago I was a four-bagger...
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---
Dmitri:
Why is this always my job?
Sailor:
Because you are young. And because it is terrible and smelly work.
---
Mulder:
(Giving seeds to Boze) Treat yourself.
Agent:
You're flying out of National. Your contact in Newark is Detective Norman.
Mulder:
How'd I draw the assignment?
Agent:
Assistant Director Skinner made the request.
Mulder:
Skinner requested me?
---
Mulder:
(Steps in sewer, eww) Ugh!
Norman:
Watch yourself.
Mulder:
Yeah, wouldn't want to *step* into anything.
---
Norman:
They say it cuts the smell if you don't breathe through your mouth.
Mulder:
They lied.
---
Norman:
Would you like us to turn the body over?
Mulder:
No, I'll take your word on it.
Norman:
Hey, Agent Mulder! What would you like us to do with the body?
Mulder:
(Pissed-off) Wrap it up and send it to the FBI care of Assistant Director
Skinner.
---
(Mulder bursts
into Skinner's Office)
Skinner:
Is there a problem, Agent Mulder?
Mulder:
Yeah, there is.
Skinner:
Then make an appointment.
Mulder:
It's kinda hard to make an appointment when you're up to your ass in raw
sewage being jerked
from one meaningless assignment to another.
Skinner:
Excuse me?
Mulder:
What's my next punishment? Scrubbing the bathroom floors with a toothbrush?
Skinner:
You're way out of line, Agent Mulder.
Mulder:
So I gathered...
---
Scully:
Is this seat taken?
Mulder:
No, but I should warn you, I'm experiencing violent impulses.
Scully:
Well, I'm armed, so I'll take my chances. I hear you really endeared yourself
to Assistant
Director Skinner
today.
Mulder:
You know sometimes it just gets hard to smile through it when they ask
you to bend down and
grab your ankles, you know?
---
Scully:
Apparently it had attached itself to the bile duct and was feeding off
the liver.
Mulder:
Lovely.
Scully:
Believe it or not something like 40 million people are infected worldwide.
Mulder:
This isn't where you tell me some terrible story about sushi, is it?
Scully:
Well maybe you'd rather hear what you could catch from a nice rare steak?
Mulder:
So what? The murder weapon was a top sirloin?
---
Scully:
...they are not creatures that go around attacking people.
Mulder:
Well, that's good. I didn't want to have to tell Skinner that his murder
suspect was a giant
bloodsucking
worm...
Scully:
No...
---
Reed:
City runs on several different systems. Some new, some built around the
turn of the century.
Almost as old
as Charlie here. Isn't that right, Charlie?
Charlie:
Ah, yes sir.
---
Mulder:
And all the sewage comes through this plant?
Reed:
560,000 people a day call my office on the porcelain telephone.
---
Reed:
Wouldn't surprise me. No telling what's been breeding down there in the
past 100 years.
---
Scully:
Platyhelminthes are often hermaphroditic. Mulder, this is amazing. Its
vestigial features appear
to be parasitic,
but it has primate physiology. Where the hell did it come from?
Mulder:
I don't know. But it looks like I'm gonna have to tell Skinner that his
suspect is a giant
bloodsucking
worm after all.
---
Scully:
Somebody shoved this under my door. I guess you really do have a friend
in the FBI.
---
Mulder: This
is not a man, it's a monster. You can't put it in an institution.
Skinner:
And what do you do with it, Agent Mulder? Put it in a zoo?
---
Scully:
Is this seat taken?
Mulder:
No, but I should warn you I may reek a bit of the sewer.
Scully:
I'll take my chances.
---
Scully:
Mulder, Nature didn't make this thing. We did...
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Spencer:
Things like this aren't supposed to happen here.
Mulder:
42 year old real estate agent murders 4 strangers with his bare hands.
That's not supposed to
happen anywhere.
---
Spencer:
Played softball with this guy over Labor Day. He was one of those nice
guys. Couldn't play and didn't bitch about being stuck in right field...
Mulder:
What's wrong with right field?
Spencer: Always
the first to shake hands at the end of the game... didn't matter whether
he won or lost...
Mulder:
Gotta have an arm to play right field...
Spencer:
Bought a round of beers afterwards even though he didn't drink...
Mulder:
I played right field.
---
Mulder:
There have been reported abductee paranoia in UFO mass abduction cases...
Scully:
I was wondering when you'd get to that.
Mulder:
...I find no evidence of this to be the case.
---
Winter:
Agent Mulder? Larry Winter, county supervisor.
Mulder:
(Showing gloved hand) Pardon my rubber.
---
McRoberts:
S'okay if I have my breakfast?
Mulder:
It's the day's most important meal...
---
Frohike:
Hmm...
Byers:
In our April edition of The Lone Gunman we ran an article on the CIA's
new CCD-TH 2138 fiber-optic
lens micro video camera.
Langly:
Small enough to be placed on the back ofa fly.
Mulder:
Imagine being one of those flies on the wall of the Oval Office...
Frohike:
Been there... Done that...
Byers:
That is an Eurasian Cluster Fly. They infest vegetation like, uh, apples
or cherries and can
inflict a great
deal of damage to crops.
Langly:
This one's probably been irradiated to control propagation.
Byers:
Or, agents of competing South American agricultural corporations posing
as Franklin City
employees are
releasing fertile flies to destroy the crop.
Frohike:
(Dunks fly in petrie dish, fly fries) Nope. This bug's been nuked.
Mulder:
(Patting Byers on back) It was a fine effort, though. Have you ever come
across this
chemical compound?
Langly: LSDM.
Obviously you haven't read our August edition of TLG?
Mulder:
Oh, I'm sorry, boys. It arrived the same day as my subscription to Celebrity
Skin.
Byers:
Come over here.
Frohike:
(Playing with night goggles) So, Mulder? Where's your little partner?
Mulder:
She wouldn't come... She's afraid of her love for you.
Frohike:
She's tasty.
Mulder:
You know, Frohike, it's men like you that give perversion a bad name...
---
Mulder:
Hey, Frohike. Can I borrow those? (Night goggles)
Frohike:
If I can have Scully's phone number...
---
Winter:
I checked up on you. You have a pension for "spooky" evidence.
Mulder:
Don't start with that tired crap. Don't start diverting blame...
---
Mulder:
Scully, are you familiar with subliminal messages?
Scully:
You mean like seX in ice cubes in liquor ads? That's paranoia.
---
(Spencer leaves
after Mulder's tirade)
Mulder:
He's probably one of those people that thinks Elvis is dead...
Scully:
Mulder, I was wrong. Exposure to the insecticide *does* induce paranoia.
Mulder:
I think this area is being subjected to a controlled experiment.
Scully:
Controlled by who? By the government, by a corporation, by reticulans?
---
Scully:
This is odd... (Doorbell ripped out)
Mulder:
Frustrated Jehovah's Witness?
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Mulder:
The article makes no mention of a fire.
Skinner:
Yes, Agent Mulder, I can read...
---
Krycek:
I paid off your cab. Yeah, I don't appreciate being ditched like someone's
bad date.
Mulder:
Sorry if I hurt your feelings.
Krycek:
Where do you get off copping this attitude? I mean you don't know the first
thing about me...
Mulder:
eXactly.
Krycek:
You know, back at the Academy, some of the guys used to make fun of you...
Mulder:
Stop it, or you'll hurt *my* feelings...
---
(Scene: Scully
is finishing weighing a 3.99 kg organ)
Mulder:
Spleen? Or pancreas?
Scully:
Stomach. I was just about to start on it.
Mulder:
Oh. Uh, This is AleX Krycek, we're... working the case together.
Scully:
Good to meet you (walks right by Krycek's outstretched hand).
---
Mulder:
What's this scar right here?
Krycek:
According to his medical history, the only surgery he ever had was an appendectomy.
Mulder:
Well, unless they got to his appendiX through his neck...
---
Mr. X:
The truth is still out there. But it's never been more dangerous.
---
Mulder:
Is he(Augustus Cole)
alive?
Krycek:
He was alive when the night manager saw him.
---
Scully:
I'm going over the reports you faxed me. They're incredible.
Mulder:
The military already sent troops through radioactive mushroom clouds. I
guess they figured they
had to top themselves, right?
---
Scully:
Even if you're right, you'll have a much better chance of finding Cole
if you work up a profile
and try and
surmise his next move.
Mulder:
Alright, I'll sharpen my pencils and I'll see you later...
---
Scully:
Sounds like your new partner's working out.
Mulder:
He's alright. He could use a little more seasoning and some, uh, wardrobe
advice. But he's
a lot more open
to extreme possibilities than...
Scully:
...then I was?
Mulder:
Than I assumed he would be.
Scully:
Must be nice not having someone questioning your every move, poking holes
in all your theories?
Mulder:
Oh oh, yeah... i-i-it's great, a-ah I'm surprised I put up with you so
long... (Very long and a bit sad pause)
Scully:
You better go...
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Kazdan:
He's bent on taking the doctor with him to an alien abduction site, only
he can't quite remember
where the site is so he stopped at a travel agency.
---
Kazdan:
...So whatever crap ya gotta make up about spacemen or UFOs, just keep
him on the phone.
---
Duane:
Well I'm gonna hurt you, doc. Because this time you're going with Duane
Barry. So you can see what it's like. That it's REAL!!
---
Mulder:
Duane?
Duane:
Yeah?
Mulder:
This is Special Agent Fox Mulder. Look I want to try to help you.
Duane:
Yeah? Well, we're just sitting here waiting for, uh, travel plans.
---
Kazdan:
They would like it done as neatly and cleanly as possible (the FBI)
Mulder:
Well you're getting off to a hell of a start.
Rich:
Negotiation IS a process, Agent Mulder.
Mulder:
Well if you just wanted somebody to come down and read the script you didn't
have to bring
me out...
---
Mulder:
... Would you like to know what they do to a woman's ovaries?
Kazdan:
Not particularly.
Mulder:
Well then understand that you might have to alter your approach a little
bit here.
Krycek:
Is there anything I can do?
Kazdan:
Yeah. What's your name again?
Krycek:
Krycek.
Kazdan:
Krycek. Have you got your notepad?
Krycek:
Yeah...(starts pulling it out from jacket pocket)
Kazdan:
Grande, 2% cappuccino with vanilla. Agent Rich? (Rich shakes no, she
walks away,Krycek puts notepad back...)
---
(Realizing
he shot someone in his fright)
Duane:
I guess we're gonna need a doctor.
---
Duane:
It's like living with a gun in your head. And never knowing when it's gonna
go off...
Mulder:
You can let the others go, Duane... Let the others go and take me.
Duane:
Aw, they heard you talk like that, they gonna have your ass! (laughs)
Mulder:
(Sounding like a lunatic) I don't care about that, Duane.
Duane:
No. I wouldn't do that to you. Besides, Doc n' I got an appointment. Ain't
that right, Doc?
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Krycek:
The US Department of Transportation estimates that over 190,000 fatal car
crashes every year
are caused by sleepiness?
Mulder:
Did they estimate how many people are put to sleep listening to their statistics?
---
CSM:
We tell you only what you need to know.
Krycek:
I think I have the right to know.
CSM:
You have no rights. Only orders to be carried out. If you have
a problem with that we'll make
other arrangements.
---
Agent:
Why are you so paranoid?
Mulder:
Oh, I don't know. Maybe it's because I find it hard to trust anybody.
---
Mulder:
Why? Do they have something on him?
Mr. X:
They have something on everyone, Mr. Mulder. The question is when
they'll use it.
---
Mr. X:
They only have one policy: Deny Everything.
---
Skinner:
There is only one thing that I can do, Agent Mulder. As of right now, I'm
reopening the X-Files. That's what they fear the most.
---
Mrs Scully:
(Giving Mulder back the cross) When you find her give it to
her.
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Policeman:
An FBI agent without a partner?
---
Mulder:
Hi, this is Marty Mulder from your payroll service?
---
Janitor:
Easy, man! Easy! Sorry, man. I didn't know you were there.
Damn freak night watchman down
there always breaking the light bulbs.
---
John:
I'll only talk to him...
Interrogator:
Lucky you (to Mulder)
---
John:
No! When a snake eats a fly, it's not murder. It just is.
Mulder:
Frogs eat flies... Are you dead?
John:
I never will be.
Mulder:
Do you believe that?
John:
Don't you want to live forever?
Mulder:
Well, not if drawstring pants come back into style.
---
Mulder:
It's a stiff price though. Look at yourself, drinking blood, living
in darkness, unable to see your
reflection in a mirror. Or is that just a myth? (Pulls out
mirror, sees John's reflection).
John:
I can't be seen in no mirror.
---
Mulder:
It's more likely I'll be looking into your eyes at the moment before they
lead you into the gas chamber.
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Mrs Scully:
That day in the woods I felt for my daughter. But at this moment, I know
how my daughter felt.
---
Melissa:
We were told not to call you FoX.
Mulder:
By who?
Melissa: Dana,
just now.
---
Mulder:
I need to do more than just wave my hands in the air.
---
Byers:
Good work sneakin' out these charts...
Frohike:
Tucked them in my pants.
Mulder:
There's plenty of room down there.
Langly:
You look down, Mulder? Tell you what, you're welcome to come over Saturday
night. We're
all hoppin' on the Internet to nit-pick the scientific inaccuracies of
Earth 2...
Mulder:
I'm doing my laundry.
---
Mr. X:
I didn't expect you here till after visiting hours!
---
Skinner:
Yeah, come in. Sit down. I called you right up here because of rumors about
an incident at the
hospital last night?
Mulder:
Is this about the tooth that was found in the cafeteria Jell-O?
Skinner:
The rumor has it that you were involved? In the laundry room?
Mulder:
No sir?
Skinner:
A man was executed, Agent Mulder.
Mulder:
I was with Scully.
Skinner:
Traces of her blood were found at the scene.
Mulder:
May I see the police report?
Skinner:
There is no police report of this incident, Agent Mulder, and there is
no body. You know that.
Mulder:
Since I am unfamiliar with any such incident, sir, no, how would I know
that?
Skinner:
Knock it off!
Mulder:
How does it feel? Constant denial of everything. Questions answered with
a question?
Skinner:
I want to know what happened, dammit!
Mulder:
Him! That's what happened. Cancer Man! He's responsible for what's happened
to Scully.
Skinner:
How do you know that?
Mulder:
It's a rumor...
---
Skinner:
It's not your...
Mulder:
Oh, you can have it all, my badge, you can have the X-Files. Just tell
me where he is.
Skinner:
And then what? He sleeps with the fishes?
---
Mr Scully:
Hello, Starbuck. It's Ahab.
---
CSM:
Don't try and threaten me, Mulder. I've watched Presidents die...
---
CSM:
I have more respect for you, Mulder. You're becoming a Player.
---
Skinner:
When I started out this room was where they kept the copier.
Mulder:
At least back then it wasn't just wasted space.
---
Mr. X:
Your plane ticket...
Mulder:
Well, we hardly know each other...
---
Melissa: Why
is it so dark in here?
Mulder:
'Cause the lights aren't on.
---
Mrs Scully:
Hello, FoX.
Scully:
(Embarrassed, correcting Mom) Not FoX... *Mulder*.
---
Mulder:
I brought you a present. Superstars of the Superbowls...
Scully:
I knew there was a reason to live.
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Mulder:
You think he's responsible for what happened?
Pierce:
Whatever there is between, me n' Trepkos, I pray that he isn't. We've got
$20 million tax dollars in this project. If word of it were to get out,
it could destroy years of work. I'm afraid to go through
proper channels.
Mulder:
We're not exactly proper channels.
---
Ludwig:
This isn't what it looks like.
Mulder:
Just about took my head off... do you always greet people this way?
---
O'Neil:
...but with his medication we was just fine (Trepkos).
Ludwig:
Yeah, well I think Ericson's wife might disagree with that.
---
Mulder:
What do you make of Mr. Trepkos' neighborhood?
Scully:
What do you mean?
Mulder:
Don't you think their behavior's a little bizarre? Almost paranoid?
---
Scully: Based
on what?
Mulder:
Based on when Ludwig tried to play T-Ball with my head. He knew I wasn't
Trepkos.
Scully:
Now, Mulder, you're sounding paranoid.
---
Mulder:
I'm going to go find Trepkos.
Scully:
What if he's already dead?
Mulder:
Then he'll have a tough time answering my questions.
---
Mulder:
Why are you doing this, Trepkos? He's already dead. How many times do you
have to kill him?
Trepkos:
It's not him I'm trying to kill.
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Mulder: Gary
Kane. 16 years old, high school junior, C student, 1st string Varsity Football,
member of the local 4-H Club. Not one of Wisconson's more remarkable kids,
but still the apple of his
mother's eye.
---
Sheriff: Well,
Odin and the rest of them are a bunch of vegetarians. They drove the ranch
right into the ground. Turned 500 head of beef cattle into pets. Calls
it a monument to barbarism.
Mulder: Probably went over big with the local ranchers.
Sheriff: (Laughs)
Well you gotta admit it takes some big ones to set down in the middle of
cow country and start a church like his.
---
Mulder: ...you
become open and vulnerable.
Scully: To inhabitation
by a new spirit.
Mulder: A new
Enlightened spirit. According to the literature, Abe Lincoln was a Walk-In.
And Mikail Gorbachev and Charles Colson, Nixon's advisor.
Scully: But
not Nixon?
Mulder: No.
Not even they want to claim Nixon.
---
Mulder: Looks
like the sperm posse just arrived...
---
Rick: Well,
why don't you run along with the little wife? You're gonna miss the tour
bus.
---
Scully: Well,
it's kinda hard to tell the villains without a score-card.
---
Mulder: You
know, for a holy man you've got quite a knack for pissing people off.
---
Mulder: Looks
like the doctor may have been delivering more than babies.
---
Sheriff: ...he
was the last of the county doctors.
Mulder: Well,
wherever he was coming from, I'd say that was a hell of a house call.
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Orderly:
Hey, guess who died this afternoon? Mrs. Richardson.
Orderly 2:
Face landed right in a bowl of pudding.
---
Scully:
Good morning.
Mulder:
Whatever tape you found on that VCR, it isn't mine.
Scully:
Good, because I put it back in that drawer with all the other tapes that
aren't yours.
---
Michelle:
Look, when you bathe somebody every day for 5 years, you get to know more
about them
than you really need to.
---
Hal:
I'm 74 years old. I've got plumbing older than this building. Hmm? (They
are looking at his um, ahh.. ahem...) And
it doesn't work much better either.
Mulder:
Thank you for sharing.
---
Hal:
I thought whats-her-name was Rogered by a ghost. I may have one foot in
the grave,
but I certainly can't fly down hallways... spreading Amore.
Mulder:
Apparently not.
Hal:
If if if that's what it's like... If that's what it's like in Heaven, Lord
take me now!
Scully:
What do you think, Mulder?
Mulder:
'Bout his plumbing?
---
Mulder:
So you think Michelle Charters was raped by a 74 year old schizophrenic.
Scully:
It's possible.
Mulder:
An invisible 74 year old schizophrenic...
Scully:
Well, maybe it's not the medication, maybe it's the place itself.
Mulder:
Are you saying that the building's haunted? Because if you are, I think
you've been working with me too long.
---
Orderly:
(To Stan) What are you? Track star all of a sudden?
---
Scully:
Mulder, mushrooms aren't medication. They taste good on hamburgers but
they don't raise the dead...
Mulder:
Shamens have been using them for centuries to gain entrance to the spirit
world.
Scully:
I think you've been reading too much Carlos Casteneda. (or something spelled
like that)
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Mulder:
(looking at missing teeth on X-ray) I brush after every meal. Would
you say they match?
---
Mulder:
During their time, Cheney's and Ledbetter's ideas weren't very well received
by their peers.
Using psychology
to solve a crime was something like... (points to Scully)
Scully:
Beleiving in the paranormal?
Mulder:
Exactly. But there's another mystery.
Scully:
Which is?
Mulder:
Well, I'd like to know why this police woman would suddenly drive her car
into a field the
size of Rhode
Island and for no rhyme or reason dig up the bones of a man whose been
missing for 50 years. I mean unless there was a neon sign saying 'Dig Here'...
Scully:
I guess that's why we're going to Aubrey.
Mulder:
Yes, and, also, I've always been intrigued by women named BJ.
--
Scully:
(After Mulder's reading of Cheney) Well that's poetic but it doesn't
help us much.
--
Mulder:
Well, I don't want to jump to any rash conclusions but I'd say he's definitely
our prime
subject, huh?
Scully:
Mulder, the man we're talking about is 77 years old.
Mulder:
Well, George Foreman won the heavyweight crown at 45. Some people are late
bloomers.
--
Mulder:
You mean a hunch?
Scully:
Yeah, something like that.
Mulder:
Well that's a pretty extreme hunch.
Scully:
Well I seem to recall you having some pretty eXtreme hunches.
Mulder:
(Smiling) I never have...
--
Cokely:
Doctors said I was sick back then. They gave me some pills. I served my
time and... now I'm
better.
Scully:
What kind of pills.
Cokely:
Red and white ones, litle sister.
--
Cokely:
...On the night you're talkin' about, I was sitttin' here watching a show
about a lost dog. Then
after that it
was a show about a...
Scully:
That won't be necessary.
Cokely:
Good. Now, are you about finished with me, little sister?
Scully:
For now.
Cokely:
(Cough, Wheeze, hack...)
--
Scully:
I don't think that Mendel had serial killers in mind when he developed
his theory on genetics.
--
Mulder:
There are countless stories of twins who are seperated at birth who end
up in the same
occupation,
marrying the same kind of people, each naming their child Waldo.
Scully: Waldo?
--
Scully: Well
then how do you explain the cuts on her own chest?
Mulder: I can't
explain everything. Maybe she carved them on herself or maybe it's some
kind of
wierd stigmata.
Whatever it is, BJ's not herself.
--
BJ: This time
you'll stay dead (to Mulder)
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Bocks: Anything
slightly freakazoid, that's the drill. Call Mo Bocks. As if I'm tied with
all the nut cases
in town.
--
Mulder: Tends
to be bad for business when those kind of stories get around..
--
Bocks: You're
saying some human's been doing this?
Mulder: Yeah,
if you want to call him that.
--
Mulder: Well,
some people collect salt and pepper shakers. Fetishists collect dead things-
fingernails and
hair. Noone quite knows why. Though I've never really understood salt and
pepper shakers myself.
--
Scully: It took
us 3 hours to get here, our plane doesn't leave until tomorrow night. If
you suspected...
Mulder: Vikings
versus Redskins, Scully. 40 yard line in the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome.
You and
me.
--
Newscaster:
Oh, long pass, Chris Carter with the catch. And Carter brought down by
Lars Mayos at the Washington 5 yard line for a Viking 1st down!
Bocks: Sorry
you had to miss your game but- we found more bodies dug up.
Scully: Did
you get your forensics report on the first murder?
Newscaster:
Carter's gotta be happy about that!
--
Bocks: There
was somebody down there in the grave, cut the hair with a pair of pinking
shears. Gotta
wonder about this guy...
Mulder: Well
at least he wasn't down there with his dippity-do and his blow-dryer.
--
Prostitute:
You gonna catch this guy?
Bocks: We'll
catch him.
Mulder: It might
be a good week to take that paid vacation the boss owes you.
Prostitute:
Yeah. Right.
--
Mulder: ...It's
an unfathomable hatred of women. Probably going back to his mother.
Bocks: I'd say
she's pretty fried at him, too.
--
Mulder: You
know people videotape police beatings on darkened streets. They manage
to spot Elvis
in three cities across America every day. But no one saw a pretty woman
being forced off the
road in her
rental car.
--
Mulder: Where
would he go?
Bocks: Anywhere
but his mother's, right?
Mulder: Why
do you say that?
Bocks: Being
he's so pissed off at her, from what your profile says. Right?
--
Pfaster: There's
no way out, girlie-girl... I know this house, girlie-girl, there's nowhere
to hide.
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Paul: Well if
he wants to be young I have no problems with Grease or Annie or..
Psych: Doesn't
Grease have the F-word?
--
Sheriff: Well
I know he and his friends listen to devil music.
Mulder: 'The
Night Chicago Died?'
--
Sheriff: This
stump here is supposed to be the ceremonial altar. What do you think?
Mulder: I think
with a few turquoise chips, a picture of John Wayne and 3 cans of shellac
it would make
a pretty nice coffee table.
--
Scully: Well
most people don't set out to drink 2 six-packs by themselves.
--
Mulder: Better
hide your Megadeath albums.
--
(Toads falling,
Mulder looks up and wipes his face)
Mulder: So...
Lunch?
Scully: Mulder,
toads just fell from the sky!
Mulder: Guess
their parachutes didn't open. You were saying something about this place
not feeling odd?
(Mulder leaves,
Scully picks her path carefully through the toad sea)
--
Scully: The
FBI recently concluded a 7-year study and found little or no evidence of
the existence of occult
conspiracies.
Psych: And J
Edgar Hoover never admitted to the existance of the Mafia.
--
Mrs. Paddock:
Extra credit will be given for dissecting the heart.
--
Mrs. Paddock:
Some kids just have trouble dissecting things.
--
Ausbury: We
skip over the ancient rituals that we didn't want to do.
Mulder: Like
drinking grape juice instead of wine at communion? Did you really think
you could call up
the devil and ask him to behave?
--
Scully: It would
take a large python hours to consume and weeks to digest a human being.
Mulder: You
really do watch The Learning Channel.
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Mulder: Private
John McAlpin, one of the few... proud... the dead. Last week he wrapped
his car around
a tree, died on impact.
---
Scully: Let's
go, Mulder.
Mulder: Wait,
you should always carry protection.
---
Scully: ...I'll
admit the power of suggestion is considerable, this is no more magic than
a pair of fuzzy dice...
(the charm from Chester).
---
Scully: He's
non-verbal, non-responsive to voice, touch or pain. The neurologists suspect
he's suffered
a severe concussion in the crash resulting in amnesia.
Mulder: It's
a plausible diagnosis only I'm more interested in how he came back to life.
Scully: Well
obviously he never left.
---
Scully: Except
this is strange. The lab detected trace levels of tetrodotoxin in his blood.
That's a poison
found in the liver and reproductive organs of Puffer fish, a Japanese delicacy.
Mulder: Only
I get the feeling that Private McAlpin didn't frequent too many sushi bars.
Scully: You
have a theory on how it got into his blood?
Mulder: What
do you know about zombies?
Scully: Well
I hope you don't intend to tell Robbie McAlpin that she married one...
---
Scully: (When
found Chester's bag of frogs) Maybe I should kiss a few and find out if
one is Gutierez.
---
Chester: He
(Bauvais) even made my fries disappear!
Mulder: Well
Chester, I got magic, too. And I bet I can make your fries reappear.
---
Scully: You
think he's telling the truth?
Mulder: Until
I can figure out why he lied, yeah.
---
Colonel: I'm
sorry. I'm having my breakfast.
Mulder: That's
alright. We already ate.
---
Mulder: You
O.K.?
Scully: I feel
better than you look...
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Mulder: What
happened to me out on the ice has justified every belief. If I should die
now it will be with
the certainty that my faith has been rightous. And if through death larger
mysteries are revealed I will
have already learned the answer to the question that has driven me here.
That there is intelligent life
in the universe other than our own. That they are here among us. And that
they have begun to colonize.
---
Shipman 1: You've
got to see this, Captain. We've got a UFO or something buzzin' us. Right
up here...
Shipman 2: It's
been just hovering up there for about 20 minutes.
Cap't: Could
be a helicopter...
Ship 2: Not
the way it flew over us
Ship 1: It's
coming at us again
Ship 2: It's
gonna crash!
Cap't: Reverse
Engines!
Navigator: All
astern!
Captain: We're
going after it.
(dummy...)
---
Mulder: Oh,
hey. I've been looking for you.
Scully: I was
just down the street. Someone fired more shots at the White House last
night.
Mulder: You
gotta wonder about a country where even the President has to worry about
drive-by shootings.
---
Mulder: ...all
worked in abortion clinics. They died in separate arson fires.
Scully: Sounds
like the work of militant right-to-lifers...
---
Scully: Triplets?
Mulder: Nope.
I can't find any blood connection between them. In fact, I can't find any
records on them
at all. It's as if before they died, they never existed.
Scully: What?
---
Policeman: Dr.
Prince performed legal clinical abortions. He seems to be having his own
share of occupational
hazards these days.
---
Police: We're
hoping for an indictment.
Mulder: Soon
as you locate Dr. Prince's remains...
---
Scully: I've
got a bad feeling about this case, Mulder.
Mulder: What
do you mean?
Scully: Well,
nothing about it makes sense. We've got three deaths of identical victims,
no bodies, a virtual
non-suspect...
Mulder: Sounds
just like an X-File...
---
Mulder: If somebody
really wanted to set us up would they give us this little to go on?
---
Mulder: How
would you access that (voice mail)
Newspaper Clerk:
Well, you'd start by paying the bill.
---
Scully: How
are you feeling?
Mulder: Like
I should have used the crosswalk. A lot better than my phone.
---
Scully: Our
'friend' from the CIA is about as unbelievable as his story. As is everything
about this case.
I mean, whatever happened to 'Trust No One,' Mulder?
Mulder: I changed
it to 'Trust Everyone'. I didn't tell you?
---
Scully: Well
Skinner's going to wonder why you didn't file your report. What are you
going to say?
Mulder: Just
the truth. I got hit by a car...
---
'Samantha':
Is it too late for a game of Stratego?
Mulder: It's
twenty-two years too late.
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Captain: Prepare
to surface!
Midshipman:
Surface into what? We're under 32 feet of glacial ice!
---
'Mulder': Okay,
I'm going to take my left hand and reach into my pocket and get my ID,
okay? Just don't
shoot me. I got shot once and I didn't much care for it...
---
'Samantha':
I know how to kill him.
Mulder: how?
'Samantha':
By piercing the base of the skull...
Mulder: That
would kill anybody.
---
'Samantha':
I'm fairly sure it will work
Mulder: Fairly
sure?!?!?!
---
Mulder: That's
a good story. But I've heard a lot of good stories lately.
---
Mulder: (lounging
on the couch with a loaded gun) Make yourself at home...
Skinner: What's
going on here, Agent Mulder? Why are all the lights out?
Mulder: Orders
from my opthalmologist.
---
Mulder: These
guys can hollow out a dime at 200 yards.
---
Mr. X: You wanted
to see me?
Mulder: How
was the opera?
Mr. X: Wonderful.
I've never slept better. I don't like these hasty public meetings, Agent
Mulder.
Mulder: I'm
sorry. I need your help.
Mr. X: It's
over. The fat lady is singing.
---
Mr X: The key
to winning the war, Mr. Mulder, is knowing which battles to fight. (might
have been picking
the right battles to fight)
---
Mr. X: Excuse
me..
Skinner: Did
you tell her what she needed to know? (shoves X against the elevator wall)
How hard to you
want to make this?
Mr. X: No harder
than it has to be. (Hits each other, then Skinner throws
X down on the floor.
X pulls gun)
Mr. X: I've
killed men for far less.
Skinner: You
pull that trigger you'll be killing 2 men. Now I want to know where Mulder
is...
---
Scully: How
did you get this?
Skinner: (all
beaten-up and lookin' bad by X) Unofficial channels...
---
Sharpshooter:
Is the answer to your question worth dying for? Is that what you want?
Mulder: Where
is she? Just tell me where she is.
Sharpshooter:
She's alive. Can you die now?
---
Scully: Hey...
How you feeling?
Mulder: Like
I got a bad case of freezer burn.
---
Scully: Thanks
for ditching me...
---
Scully: Did
you find what you were looking for?
Mulder: No...
no. But I found something I thought I'd lost. Faith to keep looking...
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Janitor: They
don't pay you to dance, Roberto... God is watching...
---
Mulder: Well
if somebody would have seen it, Scully, we wouldn't be here... (deleted)
I'd be willing to
admit the possibility of a tornado, but it's not really tornado season.
I'd even be willing to entertain the
notion of a black hole passing over the area or some cosmic anomaly but
it's not really black hole season
either...
---
Mulder: If I
was a betting man I'd say it was, uh...
Scully: An invisible
elephant?
Mulder: I saw
David Copperfield make the Statue of Liberty disappear once.
---
Scully: What
are you looking for, Mulder?
Mulder: Uh,
local paper... I want to see if David Copperfield is in town.
---
Willa: Elephants
aren't particularly good jumpers, if that's what you're thinking...
---
Mulder: How's
your relationship with Ed Meecham?
Willa: I'm his
boss and I'm a woman, and Ed doesn't like that much.
---
Scully: And
you consider that inhumane treatment?
Kyle: It's like
you were out living in a pickle barrel.
---
Kyle: ...All
animals should run free.
Scully: Even
if that means trampling a man to death?
Kyle: Maybe
he should have gotten out of the way.
Mulder: I'm
sure he would have if he had seen it coming.
---
Mulder: It's
all happening at the zoo, Scully.
---
Scully: And
where are you going?
Mulder: Talk
to the animals (The Lone Gunmen).
---
Frohike: Beam
me up Scotty!
Mulder: Did
anybody ever tell you the camera loves you, Frohike?
Frohike: Yeah,
the arresting officers at the Free James Brown rally...
Byers: What's
this costing the taxpayers, Mulder?
Mulder: Uh,
about 150 bucks an hour.
Frohike: Ouch!
Almost as much as Bill Clinton's haircuts!
Mulder: Where's
Langly?
Byers: He has
a philosophical issue with having his image bounced off a sattelite.
Frohike: What
are you doing in Idaho?
---
(Mulder's cell
rings)
Frohike: (Eyebrows
up) If that's the lovely Agent Scully, let her know I've been working out...
I'm buff!
---
Scully: Well
that guy really pisses me off.
Mulder: You
OK, Scully?
Scully: Yeah...
Mulder: Calmed
down?
---
Mulder: What?
Scully: Is this
who you wanted to speak with? (Sophie)
Mulder: It's
basic investigative procedure, Agent Scully. Interview all the possible
witnesses.
---
Scully: I hope
you know what you're getting us into, Mulder.
Mulder: I'm
pretty sure of what we're gonna find.
Scully: 'Cause
this isn't exactly in my job description.
Mulder: Ah,
next thing you know they'll be doing it on MTV Sports.
---
Scully: There's
evidence of hyperplasia and the corpus luteum is ruptured.
Willa: (Reacting
to the evidence that the elephant was pregnant) That's not possible.
Mulder: Neither
is an invisible elephant.
---
Construction
worker: (Laughs) Still can't believe you bet on the Chargers!
---
Ed: It's all
right, Willa. They don't all talk and draw pictures. (about shooting the
tiger)
---
Willa: Aliens
impregnating zoo animals?
Mulder: Yes,
and harvesting embryos.
Willa: Why?
Mulder: Maybe
their own Noah's ark? To preserve the DNA of those animals that we're depleting
to extinction. Whatever
it is, that's probably the reason why you've never had a successful birth
at
this facility.
Willa: I think
that's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.
Mulder: I understand
that you might think it was ridiculous and maybe you should ask Sophie...
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Scully: Feeling
any better?
Mulder: Oh.
You're lucky you inherited your father's legs.
Scully: What?
Mulder: Sea
legs...
Scully: Oh...
---
Trondheim: It's
a ghost ship. I mean, look at all this corrosion. Noone's been on this
ship in 20... 30 years.
---
Trondheim: I
guarantee it was Olaffson's men took my boat and left him stranded here.
It's just like these
dogs to slit each other's throats.
---
Mulder: I think
I lapped George Burns...(a)
---
Mulder: You're
almost out of pages. It's good you kept a record.
---
Scully: I looked
everywhere. And this is all I could find... It's sardine juice, half a
dozen lemons and uh...
the water from a snow globe.
Mulder: Slurp!
(licking lips).
Scully: It's
not Evian...
---
Mulder: You
know, I always thought when I got older, I'd maybe take a cruise somewhere.
This isn't
exactly what I had in mind... The service on this ship is terrible, Scully.
It's not fair... It's not our time. We still have work to do...
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[This is pretty long, you might as well read the whole script or a transcript of this episode...]
Mulder: (about
a photo of a corpse) This shows the entry wounds of the undetermined weapon.There
were no other injuries inflicted upon the body, no internal organs were
removed and/or cannibalized,
and there's no signs of any sexual molestation, either.
---
Armless eulogist:
...for although Jerry was a world-renowned escape artist, there is one
strongbox from
which none of us can escape..." (coffin begins to shake violently, as if
Jerry's is alive from the dead)
---
Dr. Block: (Block)
...But as an admirer of the man's work, I am in a position to perform an
impromptu tribute
in his honor! Namely, ramming this spike into my chest!
---
Mulder: (After
everyone leaves) I can't wait for the wake.
---
Mulder: I got
the impression that Glazebrook wasn't the only sideshow performer residing
here...
---
Sheriff: ...on
the inside, they're as normal as anybody.
Scully: Until
their arrest, many serial killers are considered by their friends and family
to be quite normal.
If you truly regard these people as normal, then you must also consider
the possibility that they
are capable of committing these crime.
---
Helm: ...it's
not a funhouse, it's a tabernacle of terror.
Sheriff: It's
a funhouse.
---
Sheriff: You
don't mean to tell me you think these tracks are made by the Fiji (or Fee
Jee) Mermaid?
Scully: Do you
recall what Barnum said about suckers? (She indicates Mulder)
---
Mulder: Tell me, have you done much circus work in your life?
Mr. Nut: And what makes you think I've ever spectated a circus? Much less been enslaved by one?
Mulder: I know that many of the citizens here are former circus hands, and I just thought that...
Mr Nut: You thought
that because I am a person of short stature, that the only career I could
procure for myself
would be one confined to the so-called 'Big Top'. You took one quick look
at
me, and decided
that you could deduce my entire life. Never did it occur to you that a
person of my height
could have possibly obtained a degree in Hotel Management.
Mulder: I'm sorry. I meant no offense.
Mr Nut: Well then why should I take offense? Just because it's human nature to make instantaneous judgements of others based solely upon their physical appearances? Well I've done the same thing to you, for example. I've taken in your all- American features, your dour demeanor, your unimaginative necktie design, and concluded that you work for the government; an FBI agent... but do you see the tragedy here? I have mistakenly deduced you to a stereotype. A caricature, instead of regarding you as a specific, unique individual.
Mulder: But I am an FBI agent (flips out badge)
(dog whines)
---
Lenny: Mr. Nut,
the kind-hearted manager here, convinced me that to make a living by publicly
displaying my deformity
lacked dignity. So... now I carry other people's luggage. I believe these
are
your trailers;
if they are not... then I am wrong.
---
Bellman: Good
night, sleep tight, don't let the bedbugs bite. No, no, that's... that's
not what I meant.. I...
I didn't mean to imply that we had bedbugs... I... I meant to say don't
let... don't let the...
Mulder: The
Fiji mermaids bite.
Bellman: Yes,
that's right... The Fiji Mermaids...
---
Mulder: Just
try not to be so exclusive, Scully.
Scully: As long
as you try not to let the atmosphere of this town distort your list all
out of proportion.
---
Block: How many
people do you know that can get out of a straight jacket in under 3 minutes?
Scully: Fortunately
none...
---
Mulder: Have
you ever performed this... act on anyone else? (Putting a nail up the nose)
Block: What,
are you sick? I tell my audiences that if they're stupid enough to try
this on themselves they'll
end up with a slight lobotomy. I am a professional.
Mulder: Exactly
how does one become a professional Blockhead? May I? (pulls out the nail
w/ an eeeewww look)
---
Block: Did you
know that through the protective practice of Tiea Bu Shan, you can train
your testicles
to draw up into your abdomen?
Mulder: Oh,
I'm doing that as we speak...
---
Mulder: I saw
him this morning down by the river. He was eating a fish.
Block: He knows
eating between-show snacks will ruin his appetite.
Mulder: I could
be mistaken. Maybe it was another bald-headed jigsaw puzzle tattooed naked
guy I
saw.
Scully: Is this
man also a body manipulator?
Block: No, in
the classical sense The Conundrum is a geek.
Mulder: he eats
live animals...
Block: He eats
anything: live animals, dead animals, rocks, light bulbs, corkscrews, battery
cables, cranberries...
Scully: Human
flesh?
Block: Only
The Conundrum can answer that question. But, he doesn't answer questions,
he merely poses
them. When an audience partakes in The Conundrum's human piranha act, they
are left to ask
themselves...
why? But, where are my manners? (Offers Scully a cricket-filled jar)
Scully: (Takes
one) Thank you. (Eats cricket, smiles at Mulder then walks away. Mulder
refuses the crickets)
---
Scully: (Pulling
cricket out of M's ear) It's an old sleight of hand my uncle taught me.
He was only an amateur
magician but he was still better than those two.
Mulder: Well
I'm going over to the lab to see if they can test the blood on the window
against the blood
on Dr. Blockhead's nail. (gets a nail from mid-air). Everybody's uncle's
an amateur
magician.
---
Museum placard:
"Freaks Free, Others Please Leave Donation"
Scully: (leaves
donation...)
---
Curator: At the
autopsy it was officially concluded that Chang died of a cerebral hemorrhage.
Scully: And
what was the official cause of Eng's death?
Curator: Fright.
---
Mr Nut: I know
what you're thinking my friend, but you're grossly mistaken... Just because
I'm not of
so-called average height does not mean I must receive my thrills vicariously.
Not all women are
attracted to
overly tall, lanky men such as yourself. You'd be surprised how many women
find my size
intriguingly alluring.
Mulder: You'd be surprised how many men do as well.. (since Mr Nut is at the exact height to Mulder's lower waist, uhhh...)
Mr Nut: (Disgusted)
Fegh.
---
Mulder: (pauses
from his digging) Scully, hypertrichosis does not connote lycantrophy.
Scully: What
are you implying?
Mulder: We're
being highly discriminatory here. Just because a man was once afflicted
with excessive
hairiness, we've no reason to suspect him of aberrant behavior.
Scully: It's
like assuming guilt based solely on skin color, isn't it?
(eXchanges looks
and goes back to diggin')
Sheriff: May
I ask what you're doing?
Mulder: We're
exhuming... your potato.
Sheriff: May
I ask why?
Scully: Sheriff,
it's... it's... it's been documented that many serial killers... (goes
on and on and on....)
Mulder: (interrupting
Scully's looong rationalzation speech) We found out that you used to be
a dog-faced boy.
(gives pamphlet
to Sheriff)
Sheriff: Boy,
look how skinny I was back then.
---
Scully: That
doesn't quite eXplain the potato.
Sheriff: I got...
ah, some warts on my hand.
Mulder: That
doesn't quite eXplain the potato.
---
Sheriff: To
get rid of warts, you... rub a sliced potato on your hand and bury it under
a full moon. Investigation
isn't going too well, is it?
Mulder: (throws
potato back into hole)
---
Sheriff: ...I
spent the first half of my life as Jim Jim. Then one morning I noticed
a bald spot on top of my
head and realized I wasn't only losing my hair but my career as well. Eventually
all the hair went, on
top my head anyways. The rest of my body's still pretty hairy, which is...
why I never go to the beach.
---
Mr Nut: So tell
me, Commodore(his dog)? Why are the weirdos the only ones that pay their
rent checks in advance?
---
Scully: You
know, Mulder. For a while there I was beginning to suspect this case involved
something a
bit more... uhm...
Mulder: Freakish?
You really shouldn't complain about banality, Scully. When your main suspect
is the
human Blockhead...
---
Block: ...If
people knew the true price of spirituality, there'd be more atheists.
(he has hooks
in his chest with fishing line tied to each)
---
Scully: Sir,
if you're going to be uncooperative, I'll have to handcuff you.
Block: What
gives you fascists the right to do that?
Scully: Did
I not mention we're federal agents?
Block: Did I
not mention that I'm an escape artist?
(easily takes
off handcuffs)
(Block breaks
free, pushes Mulder down and goes out Mulder falls onto a bed full of nails
sticking up)
Scully: Mulder,
are you alright?
Mulder: It's
more comfortable than a futon...
Sheriff: Hey,
look what I caught! (Has Block by the fishing lines, tugs at it to emphasize
point)
Block: Ouch!
---
Block: So...,
your twin can, uh (signals an 'eXiting' motion) and then...(signals an
'entering' motion)? (Lenny nods)
What an act!
--
Mulder: (To
Conundrum) Have you seen a... a... (gives up trying to describe Leonard)
---
Sheriff: Now
you're sure it was the twin running around here? Now maybe it was the Fiji
Mermaid, he
jumped back in the river and swum his way back to Fiji...
Mulder: (To
Scully) Now you know how I feel.
---
Scully: I already
performed the autopsy on him (Lenny) this morning.
Block: So I
guess it's true. You can never go home again.
---
Block: ...You
see, I've seen the future, and the future looks just like him...Imagine,
going through your whole life looking like that. That's why it's left up
to the self-made freaks
like me -n- The Conundrum to remind people...
Scully: Remind
them of what?
Block: Nature
abhors normality. It can't go too long without a mutant.
---
Mulder: What's
the matter with your friend?
Block: I don't
know what his problem is. Maybe it's the Florida heat?
Scully: Hope
it's nothing serious.
Conundrum: Probably
something I ate. (Grins)
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Mulder: ...You
see this is a helium balloon here, and the only thing I learned in kindergarten
is when you
let them go they
float up, up,
and away. But you see this is moving away from him. Horizontally.
Scully: Did
you learn about wind in kindergarten?
---
Chuck: ...but
with this special software which... I designed...
Mulder: (Gives
Scully an 'I don't know...' look about Chuck)
Chuck: ...we
can detect hidden 'information'.
---
Mulder: ...I
think from the... 'information'... here, this is clearly some kind of poltergeist
activity.
Scully: Mulder,
this information is the same reason why I'll see a newspaper photo with
Jesus' face appearing
in the... the foliage of an Elm tree.
---
Scully: I've
seen some pretty slippery 2 year olds...
---
Mulder: ...So
unless Teddy Holvey was the reincarnation of Houdini. And that would
have been an X-File
in itself.
Chuck: (Gives
Scully an 'I agree with him' look)
---
Scully: Well
I think this boy needs as much protection as he can get, but just not from
ghosties and beasties.
(Scully is quoting
the old Scottish prayer- 'From ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggedy beasties,
the Good
Lord deliver us')
---
Scully: Have
you ever heard of Munchausen by ProXy?
Mulder: Yeah,
my grandfather used to take that for his stomach.
---
Mulder: Before
Chuck succumbed to the glamours of academia he did a tour of duty on the
old Hippie
Trail.
---
Chuck: In 1979
I witnessed a guru named Sy Baba create an entire feast out of thin air.
Scully: Too
bad you didn't take a picture. You could have run it through your computer
and seen the
entire Last Supper.
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Scully: According to the briefing, prisoners escaped by hiding in a laundry cart.
Mulder: I don't
think the guards are watching enough prison movies.
---
Mulder: I thought
this was about escaped prisoners...
Scully: It is.
Mulder: Then
who are the men in the funny suits?
---
Marshall:...
Well then you'd be a real big help is you just tried to... stay out of
the way.
Mulder: Well,
we'd be happy to, soon as we can talk to someone who's in CHARGE...
Marshall: (Peeved)
I'm in charge here.
Mulder: Apparently
not, or you'd know why our involvement was requested.
---
Scully: Where
are you going?
Mulder: To see
if I can get in the way.
---
Mulder: Deadly?
How deadly?
Scully: Well,
from what I've seen so far, 36 hours after infection deadly.
---
CSM: The truth
would have caused panic. Panic would have cost lives. We control the disease
by controlling
the information.
Mulder: You
can't protect the public by lying.
CSM: It's done
every day...
---
CSM: How many
people are being infected while you stand here not doing your job? 10?
20? What's
the truth, Agent Mulder?
---
Scully: There'll
be a time for the truth, Mulder, but this isn't it.
---
Skinner: You
really have no idea who you're dealing with, do you?
Mulder: I THOUGHT
I was dealing with you.
---
Skinner: I stand
right on the line that you keep crossing.
---
Skinner: Agent
Mulder. I'm saying this as a friend. Watch your back. This is just the
beginning.
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Kelly: Heard
a lot about you... (to Mulder)
Mulder: (To
Scully) We'll talk later...
---
Kelly: Agent
Scully, what are you looking at?
Scully: Uh,
the heat register.
Kelly: You don't
think anyone could have squeezed in there?
Mulder: You
never know... (remembering Tooms)
---
Scully: (about
Mulder's spontaneous combustion theory) Let's just forget for the moment
that there's no
scientific theory to support it.
Mulder: Okay.
---
Mulder: Hey
Scully, can you spare a prophylactic? (rubber glove)
---
Scully: Darkness
covers a multitude of sins.
Mulder: Check
this out. My newest tool in the fight against crime. $49.95 at your local
hardware store.
Scully: Neat
trick. For your birthday I'll buy you a utility belt.
---
Mulder: Yeah
but half of Richmond earns their paycheck making cancer sticks.
---
Mulder: Maybe
it's not so spontaneous. Get on the phone to your 'young detective' and
tell her to get
a detail down to the train station.
---
Scully: Chances
are he's not walking around carrying a sign with an arrow on it.
---
Mulder: Why's
he doing that? (Looking at the floor)
Scully: Probably
the same reason he spends his whole afternoon in the train station.
---
Mulder: Powered
by what?
Davey: Couple
billion megawatts. Virginia Power loved us.
---
Scully: ...Nonsensical
repetitive behavior is a common trait of mental illness.
Mulder: You
trying to tell me something?
---
Det. Beren:
Yeah, I was just wondering what your involvement is here.
Mulder: We caught
the guy.
---
Mulder: ...He
believes the government is out to get him.
Mr X: It's taX
season. So do most Americans.
---
Mr. X: Dead
men can't keep promises. The next time the blood and regret might be yours.
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Scully: I'm surprised
she didn't call Oprah as soon as she got off the phone with the police.
---
Mulder: ...It
gave me nightmares.
Scully: I didn't
think anything gave you nightmares.
Mulder: Well
I was young.
---
Mulder: The
state police found his car on the I-10, right in the middle of Dudley,
Arkansas. Home of Chaco
Chicken.
---
Mulder: Chickens
eat chickens?
Mr Chaco: Not
many people I know as useful as these chickens.
---
Mulder: Who
knows, Scully? This could turn out to be even *more* interesting than foXfires.
---
Scully: I just
came up with a sick theory.
Mulder: Oooo,
I'm listening!
---
Mulder: Well
I'd like it dragged as soon as possible.
Sheriff: Why
would ya wanna do that?
Mulder: See
what's in there...
---
Scully: All
of them share one strange detail, Mulder.
Mulder: Well
they seem to have lost their heads...
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Thinker: You
BITCH! Beautiful!
---
Mulder: I'm
not feeling well. I didn't sleep last night. Really not in the mood for
the Three Stooges.
Frohike: I don't
think we've been followed.
Mulder: Who
would follow YOU?
---
Langly: Trained
killers. School of the America's alumni.
Mulder: You
boys been defacing library books again?
---
Thinker: I..
I don't want you to know my real name. I.. I just don't think it's that
important that you know.
Mulder: Sounds
like a line I used in a bar once.
---
Mulder: Are
you familiar with the 10 Commandments, Scully?
Scully: You
want me to recite them?
Mulder: Just
number 4, the one about obeying the Sabbath. The part where God made heaven
and earth
but didn't bother to tell anybody about his side projects?
---
Scully: What
is this?
Mulder: The
Holy Grail...
---
Scully: Where
did you get this?
Mulder: Your
friendly neighborhood anarchist.
---
Scully: Mulder,
are you okay?
Mulder: Yeah,
I just haven't been sleeping.
---
CSM: As always,
we maintain plausible denial. The files are only as real as their possible
authentication.
---
Mulder: I came
home. Must be running a fever. Maybe it's the threat of being burned at
the stake.
---
Mulder: So you
can clear your conscience and your name? You've been making reports on
me since the
beginning, Scully, taking your *LITTLE NOTES*!!!
---
Mulder: You
shot me!
Scully: Yes,
I did. You didn't give me much choice. You were about to kill Krycek.
Mulder: Why'd
you shoot ME? HE'S the one...
---
(Putting LSD
in the water)
Scully: Well
it wasn't an eXercise in subtlety.
---
Albert: You're
lucky she's a good shot.
Mulder: Or a
bad one...
---
CSM: You're
a hard man to reach.
Mulder: Not
hard enough, apparently.
CSM: Where are
you?
Mulder: I'm
at the Betty Ford Center, where are you?
CSM: I need
to talk to you, Mr. Mulder. In person. There are things to explain.
Mulder: I'll
save the government the plane fare. I just need to know which government
that is.
---
Mulder: No,
he couldn't live with it because you had him killed.
---
Mulder: But
these aren't human, Scully. From the look of it I'd say they were alien.
Scully: Are
you sure?
Mulder: I'm
pretty damn sure.
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