Dana Scully quotes from The X-Files

Mulder

I am hesitant to speculate.

Scully

(rolls eyes)

Scully

What are these people dying for? Is it for the truth or for the lies?

Mulder

It's got to be for the truth. If we owe them anything, it's to make sure of that.

Mulder

(looking through Max's trailer) Remember this place?

Scully

I remember being amazed at what some people will call home.

Mulder

You have to admit, the man had an enduring sense of style.

Scully

Only Max Fenig and you would appreciate living like this. (Mulder chuckles. She presses play on the stereo. "Unmarked Helicopters" by Soul Coughing plays. She turns it off.) I think you were actually kindred spirits in some deep, strange way.

Mulder

What do you mean?

Scully

Men with Spartan lives, simple in their creature comforts, and willing to allow for the complexity of their passions.

Scully

I, uh... actually, I was thinking about the- this gift that you gave me for my birthday. (takes out the Apollo 11 pendant/keychain and looks at it) You never got to tell me why you gave it to me or what it means. But I think I know. I think that you appreciate that there are extraordinary men and women and extraordinary moments when history leaps forward on the backs of these individuals. That what can be imagined can be achieved. That you must dare to dream, but that there's no substitute for perseverance and hard work. And teamwork, because no one gets there alone. And while we commemorate the greatness of these events and the individuals who achieved them, we cannot forget the sacrifice of those who make these achievements and leaps possible.

Mulder

...I just thought it was a pretty cool keychain.

Scully

Do you know who the father of your baby is?

His name is Luke Skywalker. He's what's known as a 'Jedi knight.'

Scully

Did he have a lightsaber?

No, he didn't bring it. He did sing a song for me though. (sings "Star Wars" theme)

Scully

How many times have you seen "Star Wars," Amanda?

368. I should break 400 by Memorial Day.

Mulder

How would this happen?

Scully

The birds and the bees and the monkey babies, Mulder.

Mulder

I have a theory. Do you wanna hear it?

Scully

Van Blundht somehow physically transformed into his captor and walked out the door, leaving no one the wiser?

Mulder

(pleased) Scully, should we be picking out china patterns or what?

Scully

So what are you saying, that Van Blundht's an alien?

Mulder

(grinning) Not unless they have trailer parks in space.

Mulder

Hey Scully, if you could be somebody else for a day, who would it be?

Scully

Hopefully myself.

Mulder

So boring! I mean, wouldn't you be tempted to try on somebody else's existence for a day, live your life as somebody else?

Scully

Looking like someone else, Mulder, and being someone else are completely different things.

Mulder

Well maybe it's not. I mean, everybody else around you would treat you like you were somebody else. I mean, ultimately, maybe it's other people's reactions to us who make us who we are.

Scully

(pauses for a while as they walk, thinking) All right then. Eleanor Roosevelt.

Mulder

(regretful) Ay. Can't be a dead person.

Scully

(slightly annoyed) Why the hell not?

Mulder

(as if it is a perfectly acceptable explanation) Because.

Scully

(pouring them each a glass of wine) Seriously, Mulder, what's going on? Are you okay?

Eddie Van Blundht

(as Mulder) Just kind of... knockin around. Just thinking. We never really, uh, talk, do we?

Scully

Well- what do you mean? Really talk? No, no we don't, Mulder.

Eddie Van Blundht

Well, what's stopping us?

Scully

So there we are, at 2 o'clock in the morning, me in my taffeta dress, and Marcus, wherever the hell he was, he was wearing a, uh, a tux. It had a... kelly green cumberbund on it. Anyway, so, I know that Marcus is thinking that it's now or never, and I'm thinking...

Eddie Van Blundht

(smiling) What are you thinking?

Scully

I'm thinking, "What is that siren I hear getting louder?"

Eddie Van Blundht

No way! Who called the cops?

Scully

Well it wasn't the cops, it was the fire department - my friend Silvia and her idiot prom date-

Eddie Van Blundht

Burwood?!

Scully

-had built this campfire that went totally out of control and so we all had to ride back on the, um... what do you call it, the, um- the pumper truck! ("Mulder" laughs) Marcus was the 12th grade love of my life. (Starts to take a sip of wine, then starts laughing) I can't believe I'm telling you this.

Eddie Van Blundht

I can't believe you haven't told me before.

Scully

Now I'm seeing a whole new side of you, Mulder.

Eddie Van Blundht

(hopeful) Is that a good thing?

Scully

I like it.

Eddie Van Blundht

Do you ever wish things were different?

Scully

What do you mean?

Eddie Van Blundht

The person you wanted to be when you grew up when you were in high school. How far off from that did you end up?

Scully

Career wise? Miles off target.

Eddie Van Blundht

No no, not just that. Do you ever wish... that you could go back and do it all differently?

Scully

(curious) Do you?

Scully

I don't imagine you need to be told this, Mulder, but you're not a loser.

Mulder

Yeah, but I'm no Eddie Van Blundht either, am I.

Scully

Mulder, everything this man [Kritschgau] described...you can't just guess at these details. I'm sorry, but the facts here completely overwhelm any argument against them!

Mulder

Facts overwhelmed by the lies created to support them!

Scully

Mulder, the only lie here is the one that you continue to believe.

Mulder

After all I've seen and experienced, I refuse to believe that it's NOT true!

Scully

Because it's easier to believe the lie. Isn't it?

Scully

Early this morning, I got a call from the police asking me to come to Agent Mulder's apartment. The detective asked me...he needed me to identify a body...

Section Chief Blevins

Agent Scully...

Scully

Agent Mulder died... late last night... from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.

Skinner

When you compound the lies, you compound the consequences.

Scully

All lies lead to the truth.

Skinner

Silence won't save you. If you lie, I don't know if anything can.

Scully

Except the truth.