Fox Mulder quotes from The X-Files

Mulder

Don't you want to keep it?

Margaret Scully

When you find her, give it to her.

Mulder

I found this. (He shows a cross) It's something I... I never considered about her. If she was... if she was such a skeptic, why did she wear that?

Margaret Scully

I gave it to her on her fifteenth birthday.

Mulder

Don't you want to keep it?

Margaret Scully

When you find her, give it to her.

Mulder

[holding up a cigarette butt] I found this in Agent Krycek's car. He doesn't smoke. Agent Krycek was the last person with Duane Barry before he died. He was also the last person to see the tram operator before he disappeared. When I got to the top of Skyland Mountain, I saw an unmarked helicopter working the area. I believe that Agent Krycek gave away the whereabouts of Duane Barry and Agent Scully to whoever he's working with.

Skinner

And who is that?

Mulder

I don't know, the military? Some covert organization within the government? Whoever it is that man who smokes those cigarettes works for.

Skinner

Why?

Mulder

Because Agent Scully got too close to whatever it is they're trying to deny. Because she had hard and damning evidence, that metallic implant in her possession. Or because her termination would prevent further involvement with me and my work.

Mulder

Who are these people who can just murder with impunity and we can't do anything about it?

Skinner

Let it go, Agent Mulder.

Mulder

Like hell.

Skinner

There's nothing you can do.

Mulder

What can you do about it?

Skinner

There's only one thing I can do, Agent Mulder. As of right now, I'm reopening the X-Files. That's what they fear the most.

You wasted a trip, Mister Mulder. There's nothing the Senator can do for you now.

Mulder

What?

Not without committing political suicide.

Mulder

Why? Do they have something on him?

They have something on everyone, Mr. Mulder. The question is when they'll use it.

Mulder

I need his help.

No one can help you now. Your channels of appeal and recourse are closed.

Mulder

Your predecessor could have helped me.

...

Mulder

Oh. You know, don't you? You know what's happened to her.

This reaches beyond any of us, Mr. Mulder. Even my predecessor.

Mulder

I want an answer!

..Why kill Duane Barry if there was nothing to hide?

Mulder

You mean the government?

There are no answers for you, Mr. Mulder. They only have one policy... Deny everything.

An old coroner's trick.

Mulder

I can make a quarter appear from behind your ear.

Are you about to ask what a normal person like me is doing in a place like this?

Mulder

How do you define normal?

Misha, red wine... I don't. How do you?

Mulder

All I know is... normal is not what I feel.

You've lost someone. Not a lover... a friend.

Don't you want to live forever?

Mulder

Not if drawstring pants come back in style.

Eternal life. Smashed mirrors. Blood drinking. Should I be issuing my men stakes and cloves of garlic?

Mulder

Only if they're hungry.

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?

I can't be seen in a mirror. Look… anything worth anything has a price and when I'm standing next to your deathbed looking as young as I look right now and I see that fear in your eyes at the moment of death … then, then tell me the price is too stiff.

Mulder

It's more likely I'll be looking in your eyes at the moment before they lead you into the gas chamber. That's a moment you won't have to face if you tell me where the others are.

Why would I? They're the only ones that can kill me.

Mulder

Well, if you are what you say you are, I know what can kill you.

Mulder

Get that gun out of my face!

This high-capacity compact Sig Sauer .40 caliber weapon is pointed at your head to stress my insistence that your search for who put your partner on that respirator desist immediately!

Mulder

You ignore my call for help and then you expect me to do what you say-- you go to hell!

You got him killed! You got her killed! That's not going to happen to me! You're my tool, you understand? I come to you when I need you! Right now, you're heading in a direction that can lead them right here.

Mulder

What the hell are you talking about?

You're not supposed to know. That's the point.

Mulder

I owe her more than just sitting around doing nothing.

She was a good soldier, Mulder, but there's nothing you can do to bring her back.

Mulder

She's not dead.

(laughing) Listen to you. Listen. You're a damn schoolboy, Mulder. You have no idea. No idea!

Mulder

Okay, then tell me. Tell me!

...I used to be you. I was where you are now. But you're not me, Mulder. I don't think you have the heart. Walk away. Grieve for Scully and then never look back. You will be able to live with yourself, Mulder... on the day you die.

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's it feel? Constant denial of everything, questions answered with a question.

Skinner

I want to know what happened, damn it.

Mulder

Him. That's what happened. CANCER MAN! He's responsible for what happened to Scully!

Skinner

How do you know that?

Mulder

It's a rumor. Who is he?

Skinner

It's not your...

Mulder

Oh, you can have it all, you can have my badge, you can have the X-Files, just tell me where he is.

Skinner

And then what? He sleeps with the fishes? We're not the mafia, Agent Mulder. I know it's easy to forget but we work for the Department of Justice.

Mulder

That's what I want.

Skinner

Agent Scully was a fine officer. More than that... I liked her. I respected her. We all know the field we play on and we all know what can happen in the course of a game. If you were unprepared for all the potentials, then you shouldn't step on the field.

I don't have to be psychic to see that you're in a very dark place. Much darker than where my sister is. Willingly walking deeper into darkness cannot help her at all Only the light...

Mulder

[disgustedly] Oh, enough! - with the harmonic convergence crap, okay, you're not saying anything to me.

[angrily] Why don't you just drop your cynicism and your paranoia and your defeat. You know, just because it's positive and good, doesn't mean it's silly or trite.

Skinner

When I was eighteen, I, uh... I went to Vietnam. I wasn't drafted, Mulder, I- I enlisted in the Marine Corps the day of my eighteenth birthday. I did it on a blind faith. I did it because I believed it was the right thing to do. I don't know, maybe I still do. Three weeks into my tour, a ten-year-old North Vietnamese boy walked into camp covered with grenades and I, uh... I blew his head off from a distance of ten yards. I lost my faith. Not in my country or in myself, but in everything. There was just no point to anything anymore. One night on patrol, we were, uh... caught... and everyone- everyone fell. I mean, everyone. I looked down at my body from outside of it. I didn't recognize it at first. I watched the V.C. strip my uniform, take my weapon and I remained in this thick jungle... peaceful... unafraid... watching my- my dead friends. Watching myself. In the morning, the corpsmen arrived and put me in a body bag until... I guess they found a pulse. I woke in a Saigon hospital two weeks later. I'm afraid to look any further beyond that experience. You? You are not. Your resignation is unacceptable.

Mulder

(realizing) You. (exhales heavily) You gave me Cancer Man's location. You put your life in danger.

Skinner

Agent Mulder, every life, every day, is in danger. That's just life.

Mulder

I brought you a present. It's a video. Superstars of the Superbowls.

Scully

I knew there was a reason to live.