Fox Mulder quotes from The X-Files

Mulder

Well, on a basic cellular level, we're the sum total of all our ancestors' biological matter. But what if more than biological traits get passed down from generation to generation? What if I like sunflower seeds because I'm genetically predisposed to liking them?

Scully

But children aren't born liking sunflower seeds. Environments shape them; behavior patterns are taught.

Mulder

There are countless stories of twins separated at birth who end up in the same occupation, marrying the same kind of people, each naming their child Waldo.

Scully

Waldo?

Mulder

Jung wrote about it when he talked about the collective unconscious. It's genetic memory, Scully.

Mulder

Listen to this, Scully. "One must wonder how these monsters are created." Chaney wrote this. "Did their home life mold them into creatures that must maim and kill, or are they demons from birth?"

Scully

Well, that's poetic but it doesn't help us much. What did he say about the 1942 homicides?

Mulder

Well, the press called the murderer "The Slash Killer." His three victims were all young women aged twenty-five to thirty. He disabled them with a blow to the head. He would carve the word "SISTER" on their chests and paint it on the wall with their blood.

Mulder

So... lunch?

Scully

Mulder, toads just fell from the sky!

Mulder

I guess their parachutes didn't open. You were saying something about this place not feeling "odd"?

Mulder

The water...

Scully

What's wrong with it?

Mulder

It's going down the drain counter-clockwise! Coriolis force in the Northern Hemisphere dictates that it should go down clockwise.

Scully

That isn't possible.

Mulder

Something's here, Scully. Something is making these things possible.

Mulder

There are tracks in the dirt... like from a snake.

Scully

That's impossible. It would take a large python hours to consume and weeks to digest a human being.

Mulder

You really do watch The Learning Channel.

Mulder

I was surprised to get your card. I had assumed our last contact... would be our last. Why are you here?

Your investigation is faltering, Agent Mulder.

Mulder

I've got a renegade Marine who may be violating every human rights provision...

These people have no rights. In 24 hours all access to Folkstone will be restricted to military personnel. No press, no third-party monitoring.

Mulder

What about Scully and me?

You'll be called back to Washington on a priority matter.

Mulder

They're making the camp invisible. Why?

In case you haven't noticed, Agent Mulder, the Statue of Liberty is on vacation. The new mandate says if you're not a citizen you'd better keep out.

Mulder

What do you know about zombies?

Scully

Well I hope you don't intend to tell Robin McAlpin that she married one.

Dana 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?

Fox Mulder

Oh, I changed it to "trust everyone". I didn't tell you?

Mulder

How was the opera?

Wonderful. I've never slept better.

Scully

Thanks for ditching me.

Mulder

I'm sorry, I, uh... I couldn't let you risk your life on this.

Scully

Did you find what you were looking for?

Mulder

No... no. But I found something I thought I'd lost.

Mulder

Faith to keep looking.

You wanted to see me?

Mulder

How was the opera?

Wonderful. I've never slept better. I don't like these hasty public meetings, Agent Mulder.

Mulder

I'm sorry. I need your help.

It's over. The fat lady is singing.

Mulder

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 . . . If I were a betting man, I'd say it was . . .

Scully

An invisible elephant?

Mulder

I saw David Copperfield make the Statue of Liberty disappear once.

All animals should run free.

Scully

Even if that means trampling a man to death?

Maybe he should have gotten out of the way.

Mulder

I'm sure he would have if he had seen it coming.

Frohike

Beam me up, Scotty!

Mulder

Anybody ever tell you the camera loves you, Frohike?

Frohike

Yeah, the arresting officers at the "Free James Brown" rally.

Scully

Something very strange is going on here, Mulder.

Mulder

Did they let you in to see Lieutenant Harper?

Scully

Yeah I saw somebody, but whether it was actually the Lieutenant...

Mulder

What do you mean?

Scully

He looked about 90 years old. Off by about half a century. You don't seem too surprised.