Dana Scully quotes from The X-Files

Scully

Thanks for ditching me.

Mulder

I'm sorry, I, uh... I couldn't let you risk your life on this.

Scully

Did you find what you were looking for?

Mulder

No... no. But I found something I thought I'd lost.

Mulder

Faith to keep looking.

Mulder

I'd be willing to admit the possibility of a tornado, but it's not really tornado season. I'd even be willing to entertain the notion of a black hole passing over the area or some cosmic anomaly but it's not really black hole season either . . . If I were a betting man, I'd say it was . . .

Scully

An invisible elephant?

Mulder

I saw David Copperfield make the Statue of Liberty disappear once.

All animals should run free.

Scully

Even if that means trampling a man to death?

Maybe he should have gotten out of the way.

Mulder

I'm sure he would have if he had seen it coming.

Scully

Something very strange is going on here, Mulder.

Mulder

Did they let you in to see Lieutenant Harper?

Scully

Yeah I saw somebody, but whether it was actually the Lieutenant...

Mulder

What do you mean?

Scully

He looked about 90 years old. Off by about half a century. You don't seem too surprised.

Mulder

Scully, what do you know about the Philadelphia Experiment?

Scully

It was a program during World War II, to render battleships invisible to radar.

Mulder

On July 8, 1944, the USS Eldridge did more than just hide from radar screens. It vanished from the Philadelphia Navy Yard... Only to reappear minutes later, hundred of miles away in Norfolk, Virgina.

Mulder

See, this is a helium balloon here and the one thing I did learn in kindergarten is when you let them go they float up, up and away, but see this is moving away from him. Horizontally.

Scully

Did you learn about wind in kindergarten?

Scully

According to the briefing, the prisoners escaped while hiding in a laundry cart.

Mulder

I don't think the guards have been watching enough prison movies.

Scully

There's no sign of him, Mulder. Maybe he's moved on. What are you looking at?

Mulder

On the videotape, Dr. Banton kept staring at the floor. I've been trying to figure out what he might have been looking at.

Scully

Well, maybe the exposure affected his mind. Nonsensical repetitive behavior is a common trait of mental illness.

Mulder

You trying to tell me something?

Frohike

He was a good friend. A redwood among mere sprouts. I guess this means he's passing you the torch?

Scully

Uh, I'm afraid not. I'm soon to be out of a job.

Frohike

Those sons of bitches! They're rigging the game.

Scully

And like rats they just scatter back into the wood pile.

Frohike

The rats that killed the cat.

Scully

I went to your father's funeral. I told your mother that you were going to be okay.

Mulder

How did you know?

Scully

I just knew.

Scully

I need something to put my back up against, Mulder.

Mulder

I know. I feel the same way. I feel that we've lost so much... but we've got The X-Files, and I believe what we're looking for is in them. I'm more certain than ever the truth is out there, Scully.

Scully

I've heard the truth, Mulder. Now what I want are the answers.

Byers

Are you familiar with a post-World War II project known as Operation Paper Clip?

Mulder

Our deal with the devil. The U.S. government provided safe haven for certain Nazi war criminals in exchange for their scientific knowledge.

Langly

[Points at the picture.] I know who this man is. Victor Klemper.

Byers

The man standing next to your father is one of those criminals, though not the most famous of the bunch. Wernher von Braun, designer of the V-2 rockets that leveled London, may be the most notorious, but Victor Klemper certainly takes the prize for the most... evil Nazi to escape the Nuremburg trials.

Scully

What did he do?

Langly

He experimented on the Jews... drowned them, suffocated them, put them in pressure chambers. All in the name of science.

Byers

Together with Von Braun, Klemper helped us win the space race. Using his scientific data on the effects of high-altitude flying, we were able to put astronauts on the moon before the Soviets.

Langly

One giant step for mankind.

Scully

So, how do I die?

Clyde Bruckman

You don't

Mulder

Ok, but imagine if it was true, Scully. Imagine if you can come back [from the dead] and take out five people, who caused you to suffer. Who whould they be?

Scully

I only get five?

Mulder

[looks up at her] I've remembered your birthday this year, didn't I, Scully?

Mulder

The man was obsessed with reincarnation.

Scully

Being obsessed with it doesn't mean you can do it.

Mulder

No. Unless he knew something we don't.

Scully

Like what? The secret password?