Fox Mulder quotes from The X-Files

Margaret Scully

Hello, Fox.

[smiles] Not Fox. Mulder. [opens her eyes]

[suddenly, apologetically] Mulder, I don't remember anything. After Duane Barry...

Mulder

[shakes his head] Doesn't... doesn't matter.

Mulder

[holding a gun on the Cigarette Smoking Man/Cancerman] Why her?? Why her and not me?? ..ANSWER ME!

The Cigarette-Smoking Man

..I like you. I like her, too - That's why she was returned to you.

Mulder

[holds gun closer to CSM's head] You should be the one to die.

The Cigarette-Smoking Man

Why? Look at me. No wife. No family. Some power. I'm in the game because I believe what I'm doing is right.

Mulder

Right? Who are you to decide what's right?

The Cigarette-Smoking Man

Who are you? ..If people were to know of things that I know.. It would all fall apart. I told Skinner you shot the man in the hospital, but I didn't really believe it. And here you are with a gun to my head. I have more respect for you, Mulder. You're becoming a player. You can kill me now, but you'll never know the truth.

The Cigarette-Smoking Man

..And that's why I'll win. Don't worry - This will be our secret. We wouldn't others to.. start rumors.

Mulder

I'm going to find Trepkos.

Scully

What if he's already dead?

Mulder

Then he'll have a lot of trouble answering my questions.

Mulder

Scully? I don't think it's a good idea for you to go.

Scully

Mulder, I appreciate your concern - but I'm ready. I want to work.

Mulder

Well, maybe you should take some time off.

Scully

I've already lost too much time.

There's something I think you ought to see first. They call themselves the Church of the Red Museum. They're followers of a guy named Odin that moved out here from California three years ago and bought a ranch.

Scully

What's the significance of the name "Red Museum?"

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.

(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.

Business changed. People changed too.

Mulder

In what way?

Competition. Used to get by with fifty milk cows. Now, you got to have five hundred. Used to turn them out to pasture, now you keep them in pens and grain feed them.

Scully

You said you wanted to show us something.

You're looking at it. See those men over there? Well, they're injecting the cattle with something called B.S.T. Bovine somatotrophin.

Scully

A genetically-engineered growth hormone.

Yeah, shoot them up and a cow will produce ten percent more milk. Feed it to beef cattle, more meat on the hoof. Changed the business. Changed a whole lot of things.

Scully

How do you mean?

Well, that, uh, fracas in town this afternoon. Ten, even five years ago, never would have happened. People around here have changed... gotten mean... spiteful... dog-eat-dog. We had seven rapes here last year by high school boys. Well, that, um... this, this business of the kids being found in the woods... well, I think that you're going to find it all comes from the same root source.

Mulder

Like the growth hormone.

Scully

So, you started to tell me about walk-ins but I'm not sure if I grasped the finer points.

Mulder

Well, it, it's kind of a new age religion based on an old idea. That if you, uh, lose hope or despair and want to leave this mortal coil, 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 Mikhail Gorbachev and Charles Colson, Nixon's advisor.

Scully

But not Nixon?

Mulder

No. Not even they want to claim Nixon.

Scully

I just got the toxicology report back on the broken vial. The residual substance couldn't be analyzed because it contained synthetic corticosteroids with unidentified amino acids. That's "Purity Control," Mulder.

Mulder

(to the deputy) Book him. (To Scully) Do you know what you're saying, Scully?

Scully

The man who died in that plane crash, Dr. Larson, was inoculating those kids with antibodies derived from what may have been an extraterrestrial source.

Mulder

He's been injecting those kids with alien DNA.

Scully

No, Mulder, that was never proven conclusively.

Mulder

But it's the same substance we found in the Erlenmeyer flask, isn't it? The same material our Deep Throat contact died for.

Scully

Yes.

Mulder

Well, it all makes sense. The money in the briefcase, they've been conducting an experiment here. Somebody's been paying to have those kids injected with alien DNA to see how they'd react. It's been going on for years.

Scully

Good morning.

Mulder

Whatever tape you found in that VCR, it isn't mine.

Scully

Good, because I put it back in that drawer with all those other videos that aren't yours.

Scully

[playing a video tape] This is Michelle Charters. She's a registered nurse at a convalescent home in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Mulder

What happened to her?

Scully

According to Miss Charters, she was raped. The abrasions and contusions here would be consistent with her claims as would be the medical report which cites the kind of injury and tearing associated with sexual trauma.

Mulder

Where did you get this? Violent Crimes?

Scully

No. The woman made the video herself. It seems that no one will believe her story.

Mulder

Why not?

Scully

Because she claims to have been raped by an invisible entity. A spirit being.

Mulder

I have several X-Files that document similar cases.

Scully

I know. I've been here since 6:00 this morning going through them.

Mulder

Well, then you know none of them have ever been substantiated.

Scully

Not surprisingly.

Mulder

Given the emotional and psychological violence of rape, the face or identity of the attacker is often blurred or erased from memory. That he could be perceived as invisible is a logical leap for me.

Scully

Yes. But this case is different.

Mulder

Why?

Scully

The victim has filed a lawsuit against the government. She seems to be certain who the spirit being is.

Mulder

I think you're right, Scully.

Scully

About?

Mulder

What's been happening is the result of the medication, but not the medication the Doctor's been giving them.

Scully

Mulder, mushrooms aren't medication. They taste good on hamburgers, but they don't raise the dead.

Mulder

Shamans have used them for centuries to gain entrance to the spirit world.

Scully

I think you've been reading too much Carlos Castaneda.

Mulder

Ask any anthropologist then.

Scully

I know --- a shaman gets intoxicated, he has dreams or hallucinations, and he interprets them. I don't think it's any more magical than that.

Mulder

I don't know how else to explain what's happening here.

Scully

Well, I think, if anything, these mushrooms are a poison to the system and I think that's what killed Hal Arden.

Mulder

And raped Michelle Charters and killed those two orderlies? Something's been unleashed here, Scully. I don't know how to explain it, but it has something to do with those pills.

Mulder

I...I think you're looking too hard, Scully, for something that's not there. I think Michelle Charters concocted this story to get out of a job she hates.

Scully

Her lip required 13 stitches. The blow to her head resulted in a subdural hematoma. That's quite a concoction.

Scully

What if there's a connection?

Mulder

Between the rape case and the Alzheimer's? When they're not drawing childlike pictures they're brutal sex offenders?

Scully

Dr. Grago's therapy produces acetylcholine. Too much cholinergic activity causes a psychotic state similar to schizophrenia.

Mulder

You think that 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 in the medication. Maybe it's the place itself.

Mulder

Are you saying that the building's haunted? If you are, you've been working with me for too long, Scully.

Scully

I'm talking about an environmental reason behind what's happening there. Even the disinfectant couldn't mask that smell. Who knows what's breeding behind the walls or in the sub-structure. Some fungal contaminants have been known to cause delusions, dementia, violent behavior.

Scully

Mulder, I don't think BJ was in the woods that night because of engine failure.

Mulder

What are you talking about?

Scully

Well, the Motel Black would have been a perfect meeting place. Away from town, away from his wife.

Mulder

What do you mean?

Scully

It's obvious BJ and Tillman are having an affair.

Mulder

How do you know?

Scully

A woman senses these things.

Scully

What's your interest in this case?

Mulder

During their time, Chaney's and Ledbetter's ideas weren't very well received by their peers. Using psychology to solve a crime was something like, um ...

Scully

Believing in the paranormal?

Mulder

Exactly. There's another mystery.

Scully

Which is?

Mulder

Well, I'd like to know why this policewoman 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 who's been missing for fifty 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 B.J.