Fox Mulder quotes from The X-Files

Scully

How come you two went your separate ways?

Mulder

I'm a pain in the ass to work with.

Scully

Seriously.

Mulder

I'm not a pain in the ass?

Scully

Must be for the visually impaired.

Mulder

How do you like that? A politically correct elevator.

Scully

So the machine killed Drake out of self-defense?

Mulder

Self-preservation. It's the primary instinct of all sentient beings.

Scully

Mulder, that level of artificial intelligence is decades away from being realized.

Mulder

Then why was our government trying to usurp Wilczek's research?

Mulder

You're afraid of the government but you're willing to accept the risk that your machine will kill again.

The lesser of two evils.

Mulder

What about a third option? You created that machine. Now you tell me how to destroy it.

Deep Throat

You won't find him.

Mulder

They can't just take a man like Brad Wilczek without an explanation.

Deep Throat

They can do anything they want.

Mulder

Where is he?

Deep Throat

In the middle of what we in the trade call "hard bargaining".

Mulder

Wilczek won't deal. He'll never work for them.

Deep Throat

Loss of freedom does funny things to a man.

Mulder

It's still there, Scully, two hundred thousand years down in the ice.

Scully

Leave it there.

You folks the ones going up to Icy Cape?

Mulder

Yeah.

Then I'm the one flying you. My name's Bear. The plane's across the way, provisions are loaded. Grab your gear.

Hodge

Oh, could we see some credentials?

Credentials. The only credentials that I have is that I'm the only pilot willing to fly you up there. You don't like those credentials... walk.

Hodge

Alright, parasitic diagnostic procedure requires that each of us provide a blood and a stool sample.

A stool sample?

Well, this kind of travel always makes that kind of tough... for me.

Mulder

Okay, anyone got the morning sports section handy?

I ain't dropping my cargo for no one. (smashes jar)

Scully

Mulder, what are you doing?

Mulder

Murphy's dead...

Hodge

You killed him.

Mulder

I found him like this. I heard one of the doors close, I came out to check it out. It's one of you.

Hodge

He's lying.

You could've done it and not even known.

Scully

No! He said he didn't do it.

Mulder

I don't have any of the symptoms.

Scully

You checked him yourself, Hodge.

Hodge

Yeah, six hours ago.

Mulder

It was ONE OF YOU!

Scully

STOP IT! Stop it! Shut up! Mulder, just put the gun down and let Hodge give you a blood test.

Mulder

Oh, so he can doctor the results? I'm not gonna let him stick a needle in me! He could be infected!

Hodge

He has to be confined - now!

Scully

Then, just turn around and let us take a look at your neck!

Mulder

I'm not turning my back on anybody! As far as I'm concerned, you're all infected!

Hodge is right, we oughta lock him up!

Scully

Mulder!

Mulder

Scully, get that gun off me.

Scully

Mulder, you have to understand!

Mulder

PUT IT DOWN!!!

Scully

YOU PUT IT DOWN FIRST!!

Mulder

SCULLY!!! For God's sakes, it's me!

Scully

Mulder, you may not be who you are!

Mulder

In here, I'll be safer than you.

Mulder

We're all wired and hypersensitive, it'll be good to get a fresh start in the morning.

Scully

Mulder, I don't want to waste a second trying to find a way to kill this thing.

Mulder

I don't know if we should kill it. This area of the ice sheet was formed over a meteor crater. The worm lived in ammonia. It survived sub-zero temperatures. Theorists in alternative life-designs believe in ammonia-supported life systems on planets with freezing temperatures.

Scully

No.

Mulder

The meteor that crashed here a quarter of a million years ago may have carried that type of life to earth.

Mulder

You never wanted to be an astronaut when you were a kid, Scully?

Scully

Guess I missed that phase.

Mulder

[about seeing a shuttle launch from the control room] I have to admit, that fulfilled one of my boyhood fantasies.

Scully

Yeah, it ranks right up there with getting a pony and learning how to braid my own hair.

Scully

Why would somebody want to sabotage the Space Shuttle?

Mulder

Well, if you were a terrorist, there probably isn't a more potent symbol of American progress and prosperity. And if you're an opponent of big science, NASA itself represents a vast money trench that exists outside the crucible and debate of the democratic process. And of course there are those futurists who believe the Space Shuttle is a rusty old bucket that should be mothballed. A dinosaur spacecraft built in the 70's by scientists setting their sights on space in an ever declining scale.

Scully

And we thought we could rest easy with the fall of the Soviet Union.

Mulder

Not to mention certain fringe elements who accuse our government itself of space sabotage. The failure of the Hubble Telescope and the Mars Observer are directly connected to a conspiracy to deny us evidence.

Scully

Evidence of what?

Mulder

Alien civilization.

Scully

Oh. Of course.

Mulder

Then what can I say? How can I disprove lies that are stamped with an official seal?

That will be all, Mr Mulder?

Mulder

You can deny all the things I've seen, all the things I've discovered, but not for much longer because too many others know what's happening out there. And no one, no government agency, has jurisdiction over the truth.

Scully

Mulder, the hearing is tomorrow at 10 o'clock.

Mulder

So that gives us 24 hours to investigate.

Scully

My assignment is to bring you back, not help you dig yourself in deeper.

Mulder

"The Last Detail" starring Dana Scully.