Dana Scully quotes from The X-Files

What the hell is that?

Mulder

Looks like the fuselage of a plane.

Scully

It's a North American P-51 Mustang.

Mulder

I just got very turned on.

Scully

How are you feeling?

Skinner

Like someone's been inside my stomach redecorating.

Scully

Business is booming.

Mulder

I think you mean banging.

Scully

I called him Ahab and he called me Starbuck. So I named my dog Queequeg. It's funny, I just realized something.

Mulder

It's a bizarre name for a dog, huh?

Scully

No. How much you're like Ahab. You're so... consumed by your personal vengeance against life, whether it be its inherent cruelties or its mysteries, that everything takes on a warped significance to your megalomaniacal cosmology.

Mulder

Scully, are you coming on to me?

Scully

(Listing the evidence she's found at the scene while Mulder plays with a baseball.) The angle of movement and deeper indentation on the right side of the mark suggest a left-handed individual. I've collected soil specimens and although numerous shoe impressions remain from the sandlot game, I think a couple of stone casts would prove invaluable to the investigation. (Pauses for response; he ignores her) Meanwhile, I've quit the FBI and have become a spokesperson for the ab-roller.

Mulder

Smell that. (Holds the baseball in front of her nose.) It's perfume. God this brings back a lot of memories of my sister... All-day pickup games out on the vineyard. Ride your bikes down to the beach, eat bologna sandwiches. Only place you had to be on time was home for dinner. Never had to lock your doors. No modems, no faxes, no cell phones.

Scully

Mulder, if you had to do without a cell phone for two minutes, you'd lapse into catatonic schizophrenia.

Mulder

Scully, you don't know me as well as you think you do. You know I'm a working man and I live in a big city, but if I had to settle down? Build a home? It'd be in a place like this.

Scully

(Dryly) It'd be like living in Mayberry.

Scully

(Discussing the murdered baby's long list of birth defects) Imagine all a woman's hopes and dreams for her child, and for Nature to turn so cruel... What must a woman go through?

Mulder

Apparently not much in this case, if she'd just throw it out with the trash.

Scully

(Sadly) I- I guess I was just projecting on myself.

Mulder

Why, is there a history of genetic abnormalities in your family?

Scully

No.

Mulder

(Grinning) Well, just find yourself a man with a spotless genetic makeup and a really high tolerance for being second-guessed and start pumping out the little uber-Scullys.

Scully

(Smiles back) What about your family?

Mulder

Aside from the need for corrective lenses and the tendency to be abducted by extraterrestrials involved in an international governmental conspiracy, the Mulder family passes genetic muster.

Scully

We all have a natural instinct to propagate.

Mulder

Do we?

Right arm was torn off. Saw it sitting there across my dead husband's lap. Boys took me home... sewed me up just like the family learnt in the War of Northern Aggression. Whole time, felt the same as if been making breakfast...They're such good boys.

Scully

Mrs. Peacock, they murdered Sheriff Taylor and his wife. And Deputy Pastor.

I can tell you don't have no children. Maybe one day you'll learn... the pride... the love... when you know your boy will do anything for his mother.

Scully

I think the way it goes here is that Edmund is both the father and brother of the other two.

Mulder

Does that mean that when Edmund was a kid, he got to ground his brothers for playing with his things?

Scully

Don't worry, Mulder. In time, we'll catch them.

Mulder

I think time already caught them, Scully.

Scully

Don't you think the car might've been searched at least once already?

Mulder

Not by me.

Scully

What are we doing here, Mulder?

Mulder

Did I mention that Mr Betts had no head?

Mulder

You check out how he died, I wanna see how he lives.

Scully

(Correcting him) Lived.

Mulder

Lived.

Mulder

I refuse to believe that.

Scully

For all the times that I've said that to you, I am as certain about this as you have ever been.

Mulder

(sarcastically) I didn't know it was your birthday, Scully.

Scully

Mulder, ... you have never remembered my birthday in the four years I've known you.

Mulder

That's the way I like to celebrate them ... It's every four years, it's like dog years that way.

Scully

Dog years? Thank you.