Fox Mulder quotes from The X-Files

Scully

[frustrated] They've burned our clothes.

Mulder

Hey... I heard gray is the new black.

Scully

Mulder, this stinks, and not just because I think that woman is a... well, I think you know what I think that woman is.

Mulder

[dryly] No. Actually, you hide your feelings very well.

Mulder

[pointing gun at him] Sorry. Nobody home. What are you doing here?

Cigarette Smoking Man

The door was open. I came in.

Mulder

Interesting company you keep.

Cigarette Smoking Man

No more interesting than your apparent... lingerie fetish.

The way these people died... the loss of life here - it is beyond words. I can't imagine how it must be for you - losing your mother.

Spender

Yes, sir. But that's not why I asked for this meeting.

Why did you ask for it?

Spender

Because I'm responsible for the deaths of those people at the Air Base hangar in no small way. I certainly didn't prevent them.

I can assume then you can explain how they died? Because I have yet to hear any explanation.

Spender

Agent Mulder can explain it. I think Agent Scully, to an extent. They might have even prevented what you see in those photos.

Agents Scully and Mulder have been suspended by the FBI.

Spender

Also my doing... and my mistake.

I would ask...

Spender

I'd ask, sir - before you tell me that it's not my business - that you do everything you can to get them back on the X-Files. Far worse can happen... and it will.

Where are you going?

Spender

To pack up my office.

Agent Spender... [Spender leaves; Kersh turns to Mulder, angrily] You have answers now? Why didn't I hear about those answers before?

Mulder

I've had answers for years.

Then why didn't we hear about them?

Mulder

No one would ever listen.

Who burned those people?

Mulder

They burned themselves. With a choice made long ago by a conspiracy of men who thought they could sleep with the enemy. Only to awaken another enemy.

What the hell does that mean?

Mulder

It means the future is here, and all bets are off.

Agent Scully, make some sense.

Scully

Sir, I wouldn't bet against him.

Oh, no. You're going to kill me.

Mulder

(annoyed) No, I'm not, but I'd like to.

Scully

(holds up badge) Deputy...

(surprised) The FBI? For real?

Scully

(smiles tightly; nods) I'll be in the car.

Mulder

(in nature documentary narrator voice) If the sea is where life began - where our ancestors first walked ashore - then who's to say what new life may be developing in its uncharted depths.

Scully

You know what? Maybe you are a member of the Manson family. (he smiles)

Scully

Sir, it's important that we evacuate the area. We're FBI agents and we need to get to where we're going.

(sighing) Don't all the nuts roll downhill to Florida.

Scully

(annoyed) I'd be happy to show you my ID-

Mulder

(talking over her; rolls up window) Thank you very much, sir. I appreciate the concern. (pissed off; turns the car and drives quickly)

Scully

Mulder.

Mulder

I was just one "howdy do" over the line.

Mulder

You know, Scully, someday we're going to look back on this and we're going to laugh. We'll just think of it as, uh... you know man pitted against the forces of nature. Think of it as a test of our mettle.

Scully

I don't need my mettle tested.

Mulder

You don't know this man, mister...?

Walter

Uh, Suarez. Walter Suarez. (shines light at looter) Uh, no. He's not with you?

(looks at Mulder awkwardly) I'll put it back.

Mulder

Yeah. Everything in your pockets, too.

Oh, it's amazing. It's truly amazing.

Scully

What's that?

That you could come here in the face of a hurricane chasing a sea monster, yet, and end up bringing a new life into the world. And then slaying the monster and save this one's life as he was quite literally circling down the drain.

Mulder

(embarrassed) She didn't save my life, really...

Oh, yes, she did. Yes, with a gun to her head, no less.

Scully

(rationalizing) Well, you wouldn't have known to go out in the rain if I hadn't pointed it out that to you that it was the fresh water that killed the organism...

Mulder

No. No no no no... I-I saw the Shipley's cat!

Uh, well, I-I can't swallow that... No, no, no.

Mulder

I saw the cat, which had been saved which had been in the washing machine. And the Shipleys had boarded up their house which means that the only way they could have vanished was if the creature came up through the plumbing in a backwash of seawater. Seawater. And then the deputy who vanished from a bathtub full of Epsom salts.

If Agent Scully had not been there with you, I shudder to think what would have happened to you. I'd say you owe her your life. It takes a big man to admit this, but... if I had had someone as savvy as her by my side all those years ago in the X-Files I might not have retired. (both Mulder and Scully look a little embarrassed)

Mulder

I know. I missed the meeting.

Scully

You didn't miss the meeting. You're extraordinarily late for the meeting. It's still going on.

Mulder

What are you doing down here?

Scully

We took a short break and I came looking for you. What are you doing down here, Mulder?

Mulder

(sarcastically) I'm having the best damn day of my life. Any moment I'm about to burst into song. (dryly) "Zip a dee doo dah." My, uh, waterbed sprung a leak and shorted out my alarm clock. (Scully looks surprised) My cell phone got wet and crapped out on me and the check I wrote my landlord to cover the, uh, damages is going to bounce if I don't deposit my pay. You ever have one of those days, Scully?

Scully

Since I've been working here? Yeah. When did you get a waterbed, Mulder?

Mulder

(he pauses, thinking; ignores the question) Bank's just down the street. I'll be back in ten. Cover for me, will you? (leaves)

Scully

(to herself) When do I not?

Mulder

I know. I missed the meeting.

Scully

Well, not yet, but, uh, only because it's the longest in FBI history.

Mulder

What are you doing down here, then?

Scully

Well, I came looking for you. We took a five-minute break (looks at watch) three minutes ago. Mulder, your cell phone's not working. (He glances up at her.) Did you oversleep?

Mulder

Scully, did you ever have one of those days you wish you could rewind and start all over again from the beginning?

Scully

Yes. Frequently. But, I mean, who's... who's to say that if you did rewind it and start over again that it wouldn't end up exactly the same way?

Mulder

So you think it's all just fate? We have no free will?

Scully

No, I think that we're free to be the people that we are - good, bad or indifferent. I think that it's our character that determines our fate.

Mulder

And all the rest is just preordained? I don't buy that. There's too many variables. Too many forks in the road. I meant to be on time to work this morning but my waterbed springs a leak flooding my apartment (Scully looks surprised) and the apartment below me so that makes me late for the meeting. Then I realize I got to write a check to cover the damages to my landlord but, as I'm walking to work, I realize that that's gonna bounce unless I deposit my pay. So now I got to go to the bank, which makes me even later.

Scully

(curious) Since when did you get a waterbed?

Mulder

I might just as easily not have a waterbed then I'd be on time for this meeting. You might just as easily have stayed in medicine and not gone into the FBI, and then we would never have met. Blah, blah, blah...

Scully

Fate.

Mulder

Free will. With every choice, you change your fate.

Mulder

I just got the weirdest sensation of deja vu. I've been having it all morning.

Scully

Well, that's fairly common.

Mulder

Yeah, but never to this degree. I mean, I woke up, I opened my eyes I was soaking wet... (Scully looks confused and curious) It's a long story but I had the distinct sensation that I had lived that moment before.

Scully

Well, you may have. Did you do a lot of drinking in college?

(very friendly) You must be the Petries. Hi. Welcome. Welcome to The Falls.

Mulder

(shaking her hand) I'm Rob (puts hands on Scully's shoulders) and this is my lovely wife, Laura.

Rob and Laura Petrie.

Scully

We pronounce it "Pee-trie," actually.

Oh.

Mulder

(cheerfully) Like the dish!

Scully

(videotaping the house) The local police departments were at a dead end so they turned to the FBI. AD Skinner, in assigning us this case thought a fruitful approach to the investigation would be if we went undercover posing as prospective home buyers as this planned community would seem to hide a dark, possibly murderous conspiracy of silence.

Mulder

(gets up close to the camera; seductively) You want to make that honeymoon video now?

Scully

Rob and Laura Petrie?

Mulder

"Pee-trie."

Scully

Mulder, if we ever go undercover again I get to choose the names, okay?

Mulder

Fine.

Scully

It just tells me that you're not taking this seriously.

Mulder

I'm taking it seriously. I just don't understand why we're on it. It's our first catch back on the X-Files. This isn't an X-File.

Scully

Sure it is. It's unexplained. What do you want, aliens? Tractor beams?

Mulder

Wow. Admit it: you just want to play house. (demanding, jokingly) Woman, get back in here and make me a sandwich! (She stops, smiles slightly; throws her latex gloves at at his head; heads toward the door) Did I not make myself clear?

Scully

Mulder...

Mulder

The name... is Rob.