Dana Scully quotes from The X-Files

Scully

Mulder, this is amazing! [looking at the flukeman] its vestigial features seem parasitic, but it has primate physiology. Where the hell did it come from?

Mulder

I don't know. But it looks like I'm gonna have to tell Skinner that his suspect is a giant bloodsucking worm after all.

Mulder

You know, sometimes, it just gets really hard to smile through it when they ask you to bend down and grab your ankles. You know?

Scully

It's not exactly as if you've ever tried to fit into the program.

Scully

Is this seat taken?

Mulder

No, but I should warn you I'm experiencing violent impulses.

Scully

Well, I'm armed. So I'll take my chances. I hear you really endeared yourself to Assistant Director Skinner today.

Mulder

You know, sometimes, it just gets really hard to smile through it when they ask you to bend down and grab your ankles. You know?

Scully

It's not exactly as if you've ever tried to fit into the program.

Mulder

They've done it before. D.D.T. in the 50's, Agent Orange, germ warfare on unsuspecting neighborhoods.

Scully

Yes, but why, Mulder? Why would they intentionally create a populace that destroys itself?

Mulder

Fear. It's the oldest tool of power. If you're distracted by fear of those around you, it keeps you from seeing the actions of those above.

Scully

[perplexed] This body has all of the secondary, but none of the primary symptoms of having been in a fire! It's almost as if...

Mulder

What?

Scully

It's almost as if his body believed that it was burning.

Scully

Sounds like your new partner's working out.

Mulder

He's all right. He could use a little more seasoning and some wardrobe advice. But he's a lot more open to extreme possibilities than...

Scully

Than I was?

Mulder

...than I assumed he would be.

Scully

Must be nice not having someone question your every move, poking holes in all your theories.

Mulder

Oh yeah, it's---it's great. I'm surprised I put up with you so long.

Scully

Where's Mulder?

Krycek

He traded himself for one of the hostages.

Scully

What?

Krycek

He's in with Duane Barry.

Scully

You've got to get him out of there.

Krycek

Well, they're working on it.

Scully

No, you've got to get him out of there now or he's going to be killed!

Krycek

How can you be sure?

Scully

Because Duane Barry is not what Mulder thinks he is.

Scully

You okay, Mulder?

Mulder

..Yeah.

Scully

Whatever you're feeling, you did the right thing.

Mulder

It's just that, uh.. I believe him.

Scully

Sometimes when you want to believe so badly, you end up... looking too hard.

Mulder

I brought you a present. It's a video. Superstars of the Superbowls.

Scully

I knew there was a reason to live.

Margaret Scully

Hello, Fox.

[smiles] Not Fox. Mulder. [opens her eyes]

[suddenly, apologetically] Mulder, I don't remember anything. After Duane Barry...

Mulder

[shakes his head] Doesn't... doesn't matter.

Mulder

I'm going to find Trepkos.

Scully

What if he's already dead?

Mulder

Then he'll have a lot of trouble answering my questions.

Mulder

Scully? I don't think it's a good idea for you to go.

Scully

Mulder, I appreciate your concern - but I'm ready. I want to work.

Mulder

Well, maybe you should take some time off.

Scully

I've already lost too much time.

There's something I think you ought to see first. They call themselves the Church of the Red Museum. They're followers of a guy named Odin that moved out here from California three years ago and bought a ranch.

Scully

What's the significance of the name "Red Museum?"

Well, Odin and the rest of them are a bunch of vegetarians. They drove the ranch right into the ground, turned 500 head of beef cattle into pets. Calls it a monument to barbarism.

Mulder

Probably went over big with the local ranchers.

(laughs) Well, you gotta admit, it takes some big ones to set down in the middle of cow country and start a church like his.

Business changed. People changed too.

Mulder

In what way?

Competition. Used to get by with fifty milk cows. Now, you got to have five hundred. Used to turn them out to pasture, now you keep them in pens and grain feed them.

Scully

You said you wanted to show us something.

You're looking at it. See those men over there? Well, they're injecting the cattle with something called B.S.T. Bovine somatotrophin.

Scully

A genetically-engineered growth hormone.

Yeah, shoot them up and a cow will produce ten percent more milk. Feed it to beef cattle, more meat on the hoof. Changed the business. Changed a whole lot of things.

Scully

How do you mean?

Well, that, uh, fracas in town this afternoon. Ten, even five years ago, never would have happened. People around here have changed... gotten mean... spiteful... dog-eat-dog. We had seven rapes here last year by high school boys. Well, that, um... this, this business of the kids being found in the woods... well, I think that you're going to find it all comes from the same root source.

Mulder

Like the growth hormone.

Scully

So, you started to tell me about walk-ins but I'm not sure if I grasped the finer points.

Mulder

Well, it, it's kind of a new age religion based on an old idea. That if you, uh, lose hope or despair and want to leave this mortal coil, you become open and vulnerable.

Scully

To inhabitation by a new spirit.

Mulder

A new enlightened spirit. According to the literature, Abe Lincoln was a walk-in. And Mikhail Gorbachev and Charles Colson, Nixon's advisor.

Scully

But not Nixon?

Mulder

No. Not even they want to claim Nixon.