Fox Mulder quotes from The X-Files

Mulder

What did you tell him?

Scully

The truth … as well as I understand it.

Mulder

Which is?

Scully

Folie a deux. A madness shared by two.

Mulder

You know, when I first met you I figured you were just ambitious. Then this morning my opinion changed and I thought you were arrogant. Now I'm beginning to wonder what you're protecting.

I'm just trying to run this thing right. Not like some ridiculous, paranormal free-for-all.

Mulder

You're insulting me when you should be taking notes. Somehow you got the big assignment, but just because you're wearing the suit doesn't mean it fits.

Been too many years trying to get inside the head of too many Arab terrorists.. I'm out of practice with this stuff. But you seem at the top of your game.

Mulder

That's all I do. That's all I've been doing for the last five years. It's... been my life - such as it is.

Skinner

So this kid is a human oddity. Tell me why anyone would go to such lengths as to kill him?

Mulder

This kid may be the key not just to all human potential, but to all spiritual unexplained paranormal phenomena - The key to everything in The X-Files.

Agent Mulder... Agent Mulder, I'm reading here a very pie-in-the-sky report about global domination plans by vicious, long-clawed spacelings? Is there going to be data to back this vague, omnibus account?

Mulder

Yes.

I see your renowned arrogance has been left quite intact.

Mulder

[Scrapes nail from wall] Ah. Somebody broke a nail.

Scully

Is it an animal?

Mulder

Well, it ain't RuPaul.

Mulder

What does it take? For this thing to come up and bite you on the ass? I saw these creatures. I saw them burst to life. You would've seen them, too but you were infected with that virus. You were passed out over my shoulder.

Scully

Mulder, I know what you did. I know what happened to me but without ignoring the science, I can't... Listen, Mulder... (takes his hand) You told me that my science kept you honest. That it made you question your assumptions. That by it, I'd made you a whole person. If I change now... It wouldn't be right... or honest.

Mulder

I'm talking about extraterrestrial life alive on this planet in our lifetime. Forces that dwarf and precede all human history. I'm sorry, Scully, but this time your science is wrong. (walks away)

Mulder

Why are you here?

They were using me 'cause I can communicate with it.

Scully

Communicate with what?

You already know. You just don't want to believe it.

Mulder

It would help if you'd shut the door. It would make it harder for them to see that I'm totally disregarding everything I was told.

Scully

(closing the door) Everything we were told, Mulder.

Mulder

They can't take away the X-Files, Scully. They tried.

Scully

You know, Agent Fowley's report to OPR painted the facts in an interesting way. I hope you haven't been betrayed.

Mulder

(not looking at her) Agent Fowley's report was a means to an end. Trying to protect the work. Protect the X-Files.

Scully

Mulder, Agent Fowley's report states that the man you saw attacked was bludgeoned by an unknown subject. She makes no mention of a little boy who as it happens, is nowhere to be found. It would seem that her report protects everything but you.

Mulder

Agent Fowley took me to that plant at great risk to herself where I saw something that you refuse to believe in. Saw it again, Scully. And though it may not say it in her report, Diana saw it, too. And no matter what you think she's certainly not going to go around saying that just because science can't prove it isn't true.

Scully

I don't doubt what you saw, Mulder. I don't doubt you. I'm willing to believe, but not in a lie and not in the opposite of what I can prove. It comes down to a matter of trust. [He looks up at her] I guess it always has.

Mulder

You asking me to make a choice?

Scully

I'm asking you to trust my judgment. To trust me. [Hands him a folder]

Mulder

I can't accept that. Not if it refutes what I know to be true.

Scully

Mulder, these are test results. DNA from the claw nail we found matching exactly the DNA from the virus you believe is extraterrestrial.

Mulder

[Takes the folder and looks at the papers inside] That's the connection.

Scully

Which matches exactly DNA that was found in Gibson Praise.

Mulder

Wait a minute. I don't understand. You're saying that Gibson Praise is infected with the virus?

Scully

No. It's a part of his DNA. In fact, it's a part of all of our DNA. It's called a genetic remnant. It's inactive junk DNA. Except in Gibson it's turned on.

Mulder

So if that were true, that would mean that Gibson is in some part extraterrestrial.

Scully

It would mean that all of us are.

Scully

Uh, Virgil Nokes? I'm Agent Scully. This is Agent Mulder. We're with the FBI.

Jehovah's Witness?

Scully

No, sir. Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Mulder

But we do have a free copy of the Watchtower for you if you'd like.

I figure I got better things to do with my fertilizer than going around blowing government buildings sky high.

Scully

Yeah. Well, as we said, sir this is just routine.

Mulder

(quietly to Scully) So routine, it numbs the mind.

Scully

(firmly) Mulder, we're not going to Nevada.

Mulder

Come on, Scully. Just one quick side trip.

Scully

No. Sorry, Mulder. We have a whole new assignment.

Mulder

Running down people that buy fertilizer? This is scut work, bozo work - the FBI equivalent of being made to wear an orange jumpsuit and pick up trash by the side of the highway. They mean to humiliate us.

Scully

Look, Mulder, like it or not, humiliated or not, we're on domestic terrorism now and, yes, this is... This is a punishment, but if we want to get back to where we want to be we have to follow orders. We can't freelance.

Mulder

You saw that news report. What did you make of that?

Scully

I think that the obvious assumption is that the woman was shot, regardless of what the police say. Maybe it was a sniper.

Mulder

In the words of their captain, "she just sort of popped." And what about this guy who supposedly tried to take her hostage, her husband? Looked to me like he was trying to warn the cops before she died. Now, the sun will rise in America tomorrow regardless of whether or not we're at yet another farm investigating yet another enormous pile of doo-doo. We can be in and out in a day. Nobody has to know.

What are you doing?!

Mulder

What? What am I doing?

What the hell are you doing?!

Mulder

(sarcastically) I'm composing a sonnet. I'm slowing down for a light!

Mulder

Crump? Crump, what else can you tell me about what's happening to you?

Mr. Crump. You call me by my last name, you say "mister" in front of it.

Mulder

"Mister." I got you.

Not Crump. Mr. Crump.

Mulder

I can think of something else I'd like to call you. I could put "mister" in front of that, too if you'd like.

You know, what kind of name is Mulder, anyway? What is that, like... like, Jewish?

Mulder

(disbelieving) Excuse me?

Jewish... It is, right?

Mulder

(annoyed) It's Mr. Mulder to you, you peanut-picking bastard. Now, Mr. Crump what can you tell me about what's happening to you?

Hey, uh... The Jew stuff? No offense. I mean, uh... A man can't help who he's born to.

Mulder

(sarcastic) That was an apology, right? Gee, I don't know if I can see to drive my eyes are tearing up so bad.