Fox Mulder quotes from The X-Files

Scully

Arthur and Roland Grable, born at Puget Presbyterian to Mr. and Mrs. Louis Grable on July 15, 1952. Arthur was four minutes older than Roland.

Mulder

Identical twins.

Scully

Which means that they're the result of a single egg fertilized by a single sperm.

Mulder

I've read studies which suggest that in some cases the identical twin arises very early in the embryonic stage when a mutation in one cell is rejected by the other cells as foreign.

Scully

So that maybe Roland's condition is the result of a damaged chromosome rejected by one of Arthur's cells?

Mulder

In a way, that would explain Arthur's genius and Roland's strange mathematical gift.

Mulder

You got a brother, don't you, Scully?

Scully

Yeah, I've got an older one and a younger one.

Mulder

Well, have you ever thought about calling one of them all day long and then all of a sudden the phone rings and it's one of them calling you?

Scully

Does this pitch somehow end with a way for me to lower my long distance charges?

Mulder

I believe in psychic connections, and evidence suggests that it's stronger between family members, strongest of all between twin siblings that shared the same womb.

Scully

OK, maybe. But in this case, one sibling has closer ties to a frozen fudgesicle than he does to his own brother.

Mulder

Arthur Grable is not dead. He's in a state of consciousness that no human has ever returned from. And what if that state allows one to develop psychic ability to a potential that the conscious mind is too preoccupied to explore or believe in? He could use that ability to control his brother to kill those scientists.

This is Arthur Grable. Uh, because of the massive internal damage to his body caused by the car accident, we could only preserve the head.

Scully

Wouldn't your client find it somewhat inconvenient to be thawed out in the future, only to discover he had no functional mobility?

We believe that by the time science figures a way to revive our clients...

Mulder

... you'll also know how to clone new bodies for them.

Exactly. This technology is progressing faster than anyone thought possible. Ask anyone here at the university. So, while for us the passing of each second brings our bodies closer to death, for our clients it brings them closer to life.

Scully

You don't really think that Roland ...

Mulder

Besides Nollette and Keats, he's the only person we can prove was in the lab that night.

Scully

Yes, but we're talking about a sophisticated fluid dynamics equation. Roland Fuller barely has an IQ of 70.

Mulder

Well, you saw his facility with mathematics. Don't some autistic individuals display unusual abilities?

Scully

Yes, but even savants behave only as human calculators. I mean, they can perform certain functions but they can't tell you the value of anything or even the meaning of a number.

Mulder

I don't believe you.

Deep Throat

There are limits to my knowledge, Mr. Mulder.

Deep Throat

Calling it a night, Mr. Mulder?

Mulder

My mother usually likes me home before the street lights come on.

Scully

Who is this "Deep Throat" character? I mean, we don't know anything about him. What his name is, what he does...

Mulder

He's in a delicate position. He has access to information and indiscretion could expose him.

Scully

You don't know that this isn't just a game with him. He's toying with you. Rationing out the facts.

Mulder

You think he does it because he gets off on it?

Scully

No. I think he does it because you do.

Scully

Mulder, there are thousands of scientists working on the Human Genome project.

Mulder

Yeah, but only one who decided to go bungee jumping with medical gauze wrapped around his neck.

I take it you're familiar with the high-resolution microwave survey?

Mulder

The search for extraterrestrial radio signals. They shut it down.

You have to get to the radio telescope at Arecibo, Puerto Rico. I'll try to delay them as long as I can but my guess is you'll have at least twenty-four hours. After that, I can no longer hold off the Blue Beret U.F.O. Retrieval Team. And they have been authorized to display terminal force.

Mulder

What am I looking for?

..Contact.

Mulder

Have you ever been to San Diego?

Scully

Yeah.

Mulder

Did you check out the Palomar observatory?

Scully

No.

Mulder

From 1948 until recently, it was the largest telescope in the world. The idea and design came from a brilliant and wealthy astronomer named George Ellery Hale. 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 men.

Scully

But, Mulder... during your time with the X-Files, you've seen so much.

Mulder

That's just the point. Seeing is not enough, I should have something to hold onto. Some solid evidence. I learned that from you.

Scully

Your sister's abduction, you've held onto that.

Mulder

I'm beginning to wonder if... if that ever even happened.

Scully

Mulder, even if George Hale only saw elves in his mind, the telescope still got built. Don't give up.

Mulder

It should be right here. The entire tape is blank.

Scully

You know, an electrical surge in the outlet during the storm may have degaussed everything, erasing the entire tape. You still have nothing.

Mulder

I may not have the X-Files, Scully, but I still have my work. And I've still got you. And I still have myself.

Scully

...Flatworms are what are known as obligate endoparasites. They live inside of the host entering the body through ingestion of larvae or eggs. They are not creatures that go around attacking people.

Mulder

That's good. I didn't wanna tell Skinner his murder suspect was a giant bloodsucking worm.

Scully

Mulder, this is amazing! [looking at the flukeman] its vestigial features seem 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.

Mulder

You know, sometimes, it just gets really hard to smile through it when they ask you to bend down and grab your ankles. You know?

Scully

It's not exactly as if you've ever tried to fit into the program.

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 really hard to smile through it when they ask you to bend down and grab your ankles. You know?

Scully

It's not exactly as if you've ever tried to fit into the program.