Fox Mulder quotes from The X-Files

Doggett

I never would've believed it - These stories about you.

Mulder

Really? What stories are those?

Doggett

That you could find a conspiracy at a church picnic.

Mulder

..What church?

Mulder

..I'm out. I'm eighty-sixed, Agent Doggett.

Doggett

What do you mean - You're out of the FBI?

Mulder

Kersh could barely contain himself when he - (slaps his hands) stuck it to me.

Doggett

..So you're taking the fall? Not for me?

Mulder

For you, for the X-Files - You're all the credibility this office has left. You have Kersh's ear and you've seen it now. Out on that platform, you saw it for yourself.

Mulder

..Answer the phone, Agent Doggett. You're in charge now.

Mulder

(Knocks on Scully's door) Hey. Ready to roll?

Scully

Yeah. I'll just get my keys.

Mulder

Hey, don't forget this - (grabs a pillow from the couch) - Relax the back. Breathe in, breathe out. (makes panting breaths)

Scully

How do you know all these things, Mulder?

Mulder

I'm unemployed - I got a lot of time on my hands... Oprah. I watch a lot of Oprah.

Scully

Thank you for doing this with me. (looks anxious)

Mulder

What's the matter?

Scully

..I don't know. I, uh... Maybe it's hormones or... This is just - I'm just feeling so strange about all this.

Mulder

This - having a baby, this?

Scully

No. No.. Leaving work, I guess. I mean, I.. walked out of that office today feeling like a deserter.

Mulder

You've paid your dues there, Scully. More than paid them. (Scully still looks anxious) You're concerned about Agent Doggett.

Scully

You know, the entire time I was down there, I had someone to watch my back.

Mulder

I'm betting that Agent Doggett can take of himself. He's a big boy. You got to worry about the little boy.. or little girl. Boy? Or girl? (Scully manages a brief smile)

Can I ask you something?

Mulder

Sure.

When you went to Antarctica to save Agent Scully from being taken by that spaceship and you ran out of gas in your Sno-cat... how did you get back?

Scully

Um, well, first of all, it was never (coughs) actually proven that it was a spaceship ...

Mulder

It wasn't?

Scully

Well, no, what happened was that we fell off of something that ...

Mulder

Something?

Scully

...that rose out of the ice.

Mulder

Well what do you think that was?

Scully

Well, I don't know what it was. But we never got, we didn't actually get to see a spaceship.

Mulder

I can't believe that you're saying it's not a spaceship.

Scully

Well, it couldn't have been a spaceship.

Mulder

'Course it was a spaceship.

Scully

Well, we don't know it was a spaceship. But you don't have a picture of it or anything.

Mulder

You know it was a spaceship. You saw it.

Scully

No, no, no, no, remember, I was unconscious and when I woke up there was no spaceship.

Mulder

Now, come on, Scully. It was a spaceship.

Scully

Mulder, n-n-n-no.

Mulder

And you were frozen, and I hugged you .... (Their voices trail off.)

Skinner

Talk to you a minute?

Mulder

(follows him outside) You said there'd been a murder?

Skinner

Yeah, we'll get there. Some business we need to clear up. Personal business. About Scully's baby, about who the father is.

Mulder

(smiles) Ahh... Yeah, I hear there's a pool running down at the FBI, placing bets.

Skinner

I've had my suspicions. That is, until I found out that you had questions. Questions about Scully's pregnancy itself.

Mulder

You want to know who the father is, that's Scully's business. But if you're asking me how a woman who was diagnosed as barren and unable to conceive is about to give birth in a couple days, that's an answer I can't honestly give.

Skinner

Well, I need answers. In light of what we found in there and in light of Scully's due date I need good, hard answers. Fast.

Mulder

Whatever you can't get elsewhere, just throw it together.

Scully

(stops him) Mulder, to go where? No, just stop! Can you tell me what's wrong? Is it something to do with my baby?

Mulder

No, your, your baby is fine. It's you who's in danger now, Scully.

Scully

From who? Mulder, from what?

Mulder

I don't know, I'm not sure. I'm not sure about anything. I just know I got to get you out of here.

Scully

Look, Mulder, look, I can't take this! I can't live like this—as, as the object of some unending X-File.

Mulder

This isn't about the X-Files, Scully. It is only about you. Now, you are going to have this baby and I'm going to do everything I can to protect it. I just can't do that here.

Mulder

You told me that he told you he knew how to stop Billy Miles. Are you telling me now that you think he's a liar?

Doggett

He is or he isn't. What the hell difference does it really make?

Mulder

It doesn't make any difference at all. Unless you want to protect Scully and that baby.

Doggett

And then what? How long can you keep this up? How long until the next Billy Miles rears his head? The next threat? The next phantom? You ever stop to ask yourself? (Mulder looks a little uncomfortable) All the sacrifice, the blood spilled - you've given nearly a decade of your life. Where the hell is it all going to end?

Mulder

(thinks for a moment; softly) I don't know. Maybe it doesn't.

Krycek

(pointing a gun at Mulder) Doesn't seem fair now.. Doesn't seem right. Coming down to this.

Mulder

What do you know about fair or right, Krycek? You're a coward.

Krycek

I could've killed you so many times, Mulder - You've got to know that. I'm the one that kept you alive. Praying you'd win somehow.

Mulder

Then there really is no God.

Krycek

You think I'm bad. That I'm a killer. We wanted the same thing, brother. That's what you don't understand.

Mulder

I wanted to stop them. All you wanted was to save your own ass.

Krycek

No. I tried to stop them. Tried to kill Scully's baby to stop them. It's too late. The tragedy's that you-you wouldn't let it go. That's why I have to do this. 'Cause you know how deep it goes. Right into the FBI.

Mulder

You want to kill me, Alex, kill me. Like you killed my father. Just don't insult me trying to make me understand.

Mulder

What are you going to call him?

Scully

William. (he looks at her) After your father.

Mulder

Well, I don't know. He's... he's got your coloring and your eyes. But he looks suspiciously like Assistant Director Skinner.

Mulder

I don't quite understand that either. Except that maybe he isn't what they thought he was. That doesn't make him any less of a miracle though, does it?

Scully

From the moment I became pregnant, I feared the truth... about how... and why. And I know that you feared it, too.

Mulder

I think what we feared were the possibilities. The truth we both know.

Scully

Which is what?

Mulder

(After escaping Knowle Rohrer with help from Krycek's ghost) No! You're dead!

Krycek

Go. There's others. (An alarm rings & Krycek vanishes)

What are you thinking?

Mulder

Where am I?

Wrong answer! (hits the wall next to Mulder with a club) What are you thinking?

Mulder

..I'm thinking about getting the hell out of here.

Wrong.. answer! (He hits Mulder and walks to the door of the cell) No sleeping!

What are you thinking?

Mulder

About my son.. about his mother.

Wrong answer! (He swings at Mulder and misses) What are you thinking?

Mulder

What do you want from me?!

Wrong.. answer! (He swings at Mulder again, they grapple before the guard throttles Mulder with his baton) I want answers, you hear me? I want answers! (he leaves)

Scully

Mulder.. Mulder!

Mulder

(makes a smirking face) ..I smelled you coming, Clarice.

Scully

Oh.. Damn it, Mulder. It's not funny to see you putting on that act.

Mulder

No, that is funny. What's not funny is what they do to you in here if you don't put on that act.

Mulder

(moves to hug Skinner) Come here, you big, bald, beautiful man.

Skinner

The only thing you're going to be kissing, Mulder, is your sweet ass good-bye, with the trouble you're in.

Mulder

Uh-huh, I kind of gathered that, right around the 50th brainwashing session. (he kisses Scully on the hand)

Scully

Mulder, why are they doing this to you?

Mulder

They think they're preparing me for my trial - For my testimony.

Scully

Mulder, it's me.

Mulder

Oh. Is it time to go?

Scully

No. That's why I'm here. Mulder, I need you to talk to me. Confide in me.. or we'll lose.

Mulder

We can't win, Scully. We can only hope to go down fighting.

Scully

You're scaring me. Mulder, I'm so scared that I've just got you back and now I'm going to lose you again.

Mulder

I know what I'm doing.

Scully

Well.. whatever you're doing... you have no idea how much has already been lost... What I've had to do...

Mulder

I do know. Skinner told me.

Scully

Our son, Mulder... I gave him up. (cries and hugs Mulder) ..Our son. I'm so afraid you could never forgive me.

Mulder

I know you had no choice. I just missed both of you so much.

Scully

God, where have you been? Where have you been hiding?

Mulder

In New Mexico.

Scully

Doing what?

Mulder

Looking for The Truth.

Scully

You found something, didn't you? Huh? What did you find?

Mulder

I can't tell you.

Scully

You found something in that facility? That's what you were doing, right? Mulder, what did you find out there?

Mulder

Scully, I can't tell you.

Scully

That doesn't make sense.

Mulder

You've got to trust me, Scully. I know things. It's better you don't.