Fox Mulder quotes from The X-Files

Scully

(whispering) Mulder, please just keep reminding him you were drugged.

Mulder

Would you stop that?

Scully

It wouldn't hurt.

Mulder

Stop it.

Skinner

Scully, Mulder-

Mulder

I was drugged!

Skinner

(sighs) ..I want you two back in Texas - Ronnie Strickland's body has gone missing from the morgue; in conjunction with this the coroner's been attacked. His throat was bitten.

Scully

The coroner's dead?

Skinner

(uncomfortably) No.. his throat was.. bitten. It was sort of.. gnawed on. (Mulder and Scully exchange a look) Daylight's burning, agents.

Scully

(bewildered) But.. he was dead!

Mulder

(bemused) I noticed that.

Scully

He had a stake through his heart!

Mulder

I noticed that too.

Scully

Mulder, he had fake fangs. Why would a real vampire need fake fangs? I mean, for the sake of argument?

Mulder

Fangs are very rarely mentioned in the literature; they're more or less an invention of Bram Stoker's. I think you were right before when you said this was about a guy who's watched too many Dracula movies. It's just that he happens to be a real vampire.

Skinner

So that's it. They simply disappeared without a trace. And that's exactly what happened from start to finish?

Scully

..Well I can neither confirm nor deny Agent Mulder's version of events which occurred outside my presence.

Mulder

And I can neither confirm nor deny Agent Scully's version of events, but, uh..

Scully

Anyway... I was drugged.

Mulder

That is, essentially exactly the way it happened.

Scully

Essentially.

Mulder

..Except for the part about the buck teeth.

The regression hypnosis work I did with you-

Mulder

No, I'm not questioning your methods, Dr Werber. I'm questioning myself, and how I was tricked. How I was led to believe, through an elaborate staging of events, that my sister had been abducted.

A man with faith can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.

Mulder

I don't think you understand. There's just too much evidence that it's all been a lie. The conspiracy is not to hide the existence of extraterrestrials. It's to make people believe in it so completely that they question nothing.

So, you and I have been advocates of insanity all along? Is this the extreme possibility you believe in now?

Scully

Shouldn't that be my picture next to the headline? [A picture of Mulder with the headline, "All this conjecture about little green men - false, dangerous, delusional."] ..Or is that just you having a little fun?

Mulder

Do I look like I'm having fun, Scully?

Scully

You look constipated, actually.

Mulder

That would make sense - I've had my head up my rear end for the last five years.

Scully

This wouldn't have anything to do with Cassandra Spender?

Mulder

Cassandra Spender is living proof that the truth I've been so boldly seeking for the last five years is the truth of a madman.

Scully

How's that?

Mulder

One more anal-probing gyro-pyro levitating ecoplasm alien anti-matter story and I'm going to take out my gun and shoot somebody.

Scully

Well - I guess I'm done here; You seem to have invalidated your work. Have a nice life.

Scully

Mmm. [Opens her eyes.] What time is it?

Mulder

(laughing) "What time is it?" It's time to thank your lucky stars.

Scully

Why are you laughing?

Mulder

I'm not laughing at you! (smiles) I'm just very happy to be standing here talking to you, that's all.

Scully

(getting concerned) Mulder, what am I doing here?

Mulder

You were airlifted here in vasogenic shock.

Scully

From what?

Mulder

You've got some first-degree burns, and scorching on your hands and face.

Scully

(touches face, not understanding) From what?

Mulder

You don't remember?

Scully

Mulder... [Looks at the tv, which is showing a report about the attack, along with images of many of the dead bodies found at the scene.]

Mulder

Is any of this coming back to you?

Scully

I was there? [Mulder sighs.] Well, doing what?

Mulder

I was hoping you were going to answer that question for me.

Scully

But it doesn't explain why they would want to kill me. And it doesn't explain why I survived.

Mulder

It all comes down to a question, one that hasn't been answered or I don't think honestly addressed. Who made that chip in your neck? That chip was found in a military research facility. Our government made that chip, implanted it in your neck as part of a secret military project to develop a biochemical weapon, to monitor your immunity or to destroy you like a lab rat... if the truth were to be exposed. Your cancer, your cure. Everything that's happening to you now. It all points to that chip. The truth I've been searching for? That truth is IN you.

Scully

(pauses, looks down) Mulder, when I met you five years ago, you told me that your sister had been abducted... by aliens. That that event had marked you so deeply that nothing else mattered. I didn't believe you, but I followed you... on nothing more than your faith that the truth was out there, based not on facts, not on science, but on your memories that your sister had been taken from you. Your memories were all that you had.

Mulder

I don't trust those memories now.

Scully

Whether you trust them or not, they led you here, and me. But I have no memories to either trust or distrust. And if you ask me now to follow you again, to stand behind you in what you now believe, without knowing what happened to me out there... without those memories, I can't. I won't.

Mulder

[Stands and goes to window, pauses, then looks back at her.] If I could give you those memories, if I could prove that I was right and that what I believed for so long was wrong-

Scully

Is that what you really want?

Krycek

You must be losing it, Mulder. I can beat you with one hand.

Mulder

Isn't that how you like to beat yourself?

Mulder

If those were my last words, I can do better.

Krycek

I'm not here to kill you, Mulder. I'm here to help you.

Mulder

(sarcastically) Hey, thanks.

Krycek

You know, if it wasn't in my best interests, I would just as soon squeeze the trigger.

Mulder

What's stopping you?

Krycek

Hear this, agent Mulder. Listen very carefully, because what I'm telling you is deadly serious. There is a war raging, and unless you pull your head out of the sand, you and I and about 5 billion other people are gonna go the way of the dinosaur. I'm talking planned invasion- the colonization of this planet by an extraterrestrial race.

Mulder

(laughing) I thought you were serious.

Krycek

Kazakhstan, Skyland Mountain, the site in Pennsylvania, they're all alien lighthouses where the colonization will begin, but where now a battle is being raged, a struggle for heaven and earth where there is one law: fight or die. And one rule: resist or serve.

Mulder

Serve who?

Krycek

No, not who. What.

Mulder

Krycek, you're a murderer, a liar and a coward. Just because you stick a gun in my chest, I'm supposed to believe you're my friend?!

Krycek

(smiles) Get up. I was sent by a man... a man who knows, as I do, that resistance is in our grasp, and in yours. The mass incinerations were strikes by an alien rebellion, to upset plans for occupation. One of these rebels is being held captive. And if he dies, so does the resistance. [Leans forward and seems to kiss him on the cheek?, then puts his gun away and starts to leave.] (in Russian) Good luck to you, my friend.

Scully

Mulder? What are you doing sitting here in the dark?

Mulder

Thinking.

Scully

Thinking about what?

Mulder

Well, the usual. Destiny, fate, how to throw a curveball. The inextricable relationships in our lives that are neither accidental nor... somehow in our control either.

Yes, sir?

Mulder

We're federal agents requesting permission to enter the base.

Do you have any paperwork to go with that, Agent "Muldar?"

Mulder

(annoyed) It's Mulder.

Scully

(after having a suspect wear gloves that fit perfectly) Hope you saw what just happened in there.

Mulder

Even if the gloves do fit, you can still acquit.

Mulder

I like you Marty. I admire you. And I don't want to see you confess to crimes you didn't commit.

You just feel sorry for me.

Mulder

No I don't - Not the way you think I do.

Read the confession. I got it all perfect - every detail. How could I do that if I'm innocent?

Mulder

I believe you witnessed both murders. You-you saw them somehow, but you were way across town when they happened - You were a $60 cab ride away.

You're crazy.

Mulder

I think you tried to stop them - You tried to, but you didn't get there in time.

..I don't have to talk to you anymore.

Mulder

And why would God allow this to happen? Why do bad things happen to good people? Religion has masqueraded as the paranormal since the dawn of time to justify some of the most horrible acts in history.

Scully

I was raised to believe that God has His reasons however mysterious.

Mulder

He may well have His reasons, but He seems to use a lot of psychotics to carry out His job orders.

Welcome, Agent Mulder.

Mulder

Okay, deal me in.

This is just a little method we use... to learn the truth.

Mulder

Well, you-you might wanna put that hood back on me unless you want to see a grown man cry.

What happened in the park?

Mulder

I told you on the phone. [Skin-Head Man pulls back on Mulder's fingers] Grrh!

I was set up.

Mulder

I'm telling the truth-- wait, wait. WAIT! [breathes sharply] I let you go.

You're spying on us, aren't you?

Mulder

No... no! [Skin-Head Man pulls back again] D-AAAHH... You want me to lie and say yes? [man pulls Mulder's fingers back] AAHH... Gah, I'm gonna kill you, you SON OF A BITCH!! I'm gonna kill you! [breathing heavily] If I set you up, do you think I would even get into the car with this Nazi piece of shi...?! [man breaks Mulder's fingers] AAHHH-- [Mulder headbutts him] I risked EVERYTHING! If I was lying, there'd be federal agents descending upon this place like the wrath of God right now! [he notices the man getting back up] IF YOU TOUCH ME AGAIN, you better kill me!! [Skin-Head man grabs Mulder's already broken fingers again] Grr... [muffled whimper]

A war is going on, Agent Mulder. Either you're on the right side... or the wrong. [points a hair-spray can at Mulder] You've seen the effects of this.

Mulder

Yeah, I--

Like to see them again?

Mulder

NO! I didn't set you up! If you got set up, it was one of yours.

Mulder

You have to be willing to see.

Scully

I wish it were that simple.

Mulder

Scully, you have to believe me. Nobody else on this whole damn planet does or ever will. You're my one in five billion.