Fox Mulder quotes from The X-Files

Langly

L.S.D.M. Obviously, you haven't read our August edition of "T.L.G."

Mulder

Oh, sorry boys. It arrived the same day as my subscription to "Celebrity Skin."

Frohike

So Mulder, where's your little partner?

Mulder

She couldn't come. She was afraid of her love for you.

Mulder

Mrs. McRoberts?

Yes?

Mulder

This is Sheriff Spencer, and I'm Special Agent Fox Mulder, with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. May we come in?

I'm late for work.

Mulder

You can blame me.

Mulder

They've done it before. D.D.T. in the 50's, Agent Orange, germ warfare on unsuspecting neighborhoods.

Scully

Yes, but why, Mulder? Why would they intentionally create a populace that destroys itself?

Mulder

Fear. It's the oldest tool of power. If you're distracted by fear of those around you, it keeps you from seeing the actions of those above.

Byers

In our April edition of "The Lone Gunman," we ran an article on the C.I.A.'s new CCDTH-2138 fiber-optic-lens micro-video camera.

Langly

Small enough to be placed on the back of a fly.

Mulder

Imagine being one of those flies on the wall of the Oval Office.

Frohike

Been there, done that.

Things like this aren't supposed to happen here.

Mulder

A forty-two year old real estate agent murders four strangers with his bare hands? That's not supposed to happen anywhere.

You don't understand. In the last six months, seven people have killed twenty-two. Per capita, that's higher than the combined homicide rate of Detroit, D.C., and Los Angeles. This town is not any of those places.

Scully

[perplexed] This body has all of the secondary, but none of the primary symptoms of having been in a fire! It's almost as if...

Mulder

What?

Scully

It's almost as if his body believed that it was burning.

Mulder

[Mr. X hands Mulder an envelope] What's this?

Data from a top secret military project. Born of the idea that sleep was the soldier's greatest enemy.

Mulder

Grissom was conducting sleep deprivation experiments on Parris Island?

Not deprivation. Eradication.

Mulder

Why?

Why else? To build a better soldier. Sustained wakefulness dulls fear, heightens aggression. Science had just put a man on the moon. So now they looked to science to win a losing war.

Mulder

And Willig and Cole were the lab rats.

Lab rats with the highest kill ratio in the Marine Corps. Four thousand-plus confirmed kills for a thirteen-man squad.

Mulder

You think Cole's behind what's happening now?

I'm not here to do your thinking, Agent Mulder. All I know is, that Augustus Cole hasn't slept in twenty-four years.

They said it'd be like living two lifetimes. At- at first, that's what it was like. Not having to sleep at all made us feel like nothin' could touch us, you know? We'd do 24 hour patrols, night ambushes, you know, and that type of thing.

Mulder

And you never got tired?

No. Not so that we had to sleep. And then, nothing that the pills couldn't fix.

Mulder

Serotonin?

Yeah.

Mulder

How long did this go on?

Quite a while, I'd say. Quite a while - until we stopped taking orders from the company commander in Saigon.

Krycek

You mean the entire squad went AWOL?

Yeah, somethin' like that.

Mulder

Well, then who did you take orders from?

We just made up missions as we went along, until it didn't matter anymore who we were killing. Farmers, women. Outside of Phu Bai, there was this school...they were just kids.

Mulder

All right, what do you want to know?

Alex Krycek

What's the truth? There are things you're not telling me that I need to know.

Mulder

It's just that my ideas usually aren't very popular.

Krycek

I told you, I want to believe. But I need a place to start.

Scully

Sounds like your new partner's working out.

Mulder

He's all right. He could use a little more seasoning and some wardrobe advice. But he's a lot more open to extreme possibilities than...

Scully

Than I was?

Mulder

...than I assumed he would be.

Scully

Must be nice not having someone question your every move, poking holes in all your theories.

Mulder

Oh yeah, it's---it's great. I'm surprised I put up with you so long.

Mulder

Who are you?

Who I am is irrelevant.

Mulder

Why are you trying to help me?

You think I want to be here, Agent Mulder? I don't want to be here.

Mulder

[Mr. X hands Mulder an envelope] What's this?

Data from a top secret military project. Born of the idea that sleep is the soldier's greatest enemy.

Mulder

Grissom was conducting sleep deprivation experiments on Parris Island?

Not deprivation. Eradication.

Mulder

Why?

Why else? To build a better soldier. Sustained wakefulness dulls fear, heightens aggression. Science had just put a man on the moon. So they looked to science to win a losing war.

Mulder

And Willig and Cole were the lab rats.

Lab rats with the highest kill ratio in the Marine Corps. Four thousand-plus confirmed kills for a thirteen-man squad.

Mulder

You think Cole's behind what's happening now?

I'm not here to do your thinking, Agent Mulder. All I know is, Augustus Cole hasn't slept in twenty-four years. There's someone else you should see - Another member of the squad who was reportedly killed in action.

Mulder

I thought Cole was the last?

His name is on the envelope.

Mulder

...How do I contact you?

You can't.

Mulder

I may need more.

[turns around] You still don't get it, do you? Closing the X-Files, separating you and Scully was only the beginning. The truth is still out there, but it's never been more dangerous. The man we both knew paid for that information with his life - A sacrifice I'm not willing to make.

You really believe in this stuff, Agent Mulder?

Mulder

Is that a problem?

We're here to save lives. You'll begin negotiations immediately. Every three hours, we'll reevaluate your progress and let our tactical commander advise and update on the use of force.

Mulder

..If this man is an abductee, I need to know more about him, his personal history. Each abduction case is different.

That material's not been made available to us.

Mulder

And nobody's thought to call the hospital for records?

Look, Agent Mulder. The guy's a psycho. Your object is to keep him on the phone. The longer you do, the more chance he's not going to kill anybody. We stop to do a Freudian analysis, next thing we know, we've got four dead hostages. So whatever crap you got to make up about space men or UFOs, just keep him on the phone.

They're, uh... they're talking to Duane Barry. But they don't speak. He can hear what they're saying. They can... read his mind.

Mulder

That's right. Abductees call it mindscan. It's a kind of telepathy.

I'm telling 'em I don't want to go... but they never listen. They know what I'm saying. But they just... go right on about their business.

Tell him what their business is. Tell him.

Mulder

They take you aboard the ship to perform the tests.

They... drilled my teeth. They drill holes in my damn teeth!

Scully

You okay, Mulder?

Mulder

..Yeah.

Scully

Whatever you're feeling, you did the right thing.

Mulder

It's just that, uh.. I believe him.

Scully

Sometimes when you want to believe so badly, you end up... looking too hard.