Dana Scully quotes from The X-Files

Skinner

So that's it. They simply disappeared without a trace. And that's exactly what happened from start to finish?

Scully

..Well I can neither confirm nor deny Agent Mulder's version of events which occurred outside my presence.

Mulder

And I can neither confirm nor deny Agent Scully's version of events, but, uh..

Scully

Anyway... I was drugged.

Mulder

That is, essentially exactly the way it happened.

Scully

Essentially.

Mulder

..Except for the part about the buck teeth.

Scully

Shouldn't that be my picture next to the headline? [A picture of Mulder with the headline, "All this conjecture about little green men - false, dangerous, delusional."] ..Or is that just you having a little fun?

Mulder

Do I look like I'm having fun, Scully?

Scully

You look constipated, actually.

Mulder

That would make sense - I've had my head up my rear end for the last five years.

Scully

This wouldn't have anything to do with Cassandra Spender?

Mulder

Cassandra Spender is living proof that the truth I've been so boldly seeking for the last five years is the truth of a madman.

Scully

How's that?

Mulder

One more anal-probing gyro-pyro levitating ecoplasm alien anti-matter story and I'm going to take out my gun and shoot somebody.

Scully

Well - I guess I'm done here; You seem to have invalidated your work. Have a nice life.

Scully

Mmm. [Opens her eyes.] What time is it?

Mulder

(laughing) "What time is it?" It's time to thank your lucky stars.

Scully

Why are you laughing?

Mulder

I'm not laughing at you! (smiles) I'm just very happy to be standing here talking to you, that's all.

Scully

(getting concerned) Mulder, what am I doing here?

Mulder

You were airlifted here in vasogenic shock.

Scully

From what?

Mulder

You've got some first-degree burns, and scorching on your hands and face.

Scully

(touches face, not understanding) From what?

Mulder

You don't remember?

Scully

Mulder... [Looks at the tv, which is showing a report about the attack, along with images of many of the dead bodies found at the scene.]

Mulder

Is any of this coming back to you?

Scully

I was there? [Mulder sighs.] Well, doing what?

Mulder

I was hoping you were going to answer that question for me.

Scully

But it doesn't explain why they would want to kill me. And it doesn't explain why I survived.

Mulder

It all comes down to a question, one that hasn't been answered or I don't think honestly addressed. Who made that chip in your neck? That chip was found in a military research facility. Our government made that chip, implanted it in your neck as part of a secret military project to develop a biochemical weapon, to monitor your immunity or to destroy you like a lab rat... if the truth were to be exposed. Your cancer, your cure. Everything that's happening to you now. It all points to that chip. The truth I've been searching for? That truth is IN you.

Scully

(pauses, looks down) Mulder, when I met you five years ago, you told me that your sister had been abducted... by aliens. That that event had marked you so deeply that nothing else mattered. I didn't believe you, but I followed you... on nothing more than your faith that the truth was out there, based not on facts, not on science, but on your memories that your sister had been taken from you. Your memories were all that you had.

Mulder

I don't trust those memories now.

Scully

Whether you trust them or not, they led you here, and me. But I have no memories to either trust or distrust. And if you ask me now to follow you again, to stand behind you in what you now believe, without knowing what happened to me out there... without those memories, I can't. I won't.

Mulder

[Stands and goes to window, pauses, then looks back at her.] If I could give you those memories, if I could prove that I was right and that what I believed for so long was wrong-

Scully

Is that what you really want?

Scully

There's... there's another one. There's another ship. They see it. They were attacking them.

Who were they attacking, Dana?

Scully

The... the faceless men. They're... oh my God, I can't...

Do you want to stop, Dana?

Scully

No. Now it's coming at us. Oh my God! No! Cassandra! Where's Cassandra? They're... they're taking her. They're... oh my God.

Scully

Mulder? What are you doing sitting here in the dark?

Mulder

Thinking.

Scully

Thinking about what?

Mulder

Well, the usual. Destiny, fate, how to throw a curveball. The inextricable relationships in our lives that are neither accidental nor... somehow in our control either.

Scully

(after having a suspect wear gloves that fit perfectly) Hope you saw what just happened in there.

Mulder

Even if the gloves do fit, you can still acquit.

Mulder

And why would God allow this to happen? Why do bad things happen to good people? Religion has masqueraded as the paranormal since the dawn of time to justify some of the most horrible acts in history.

Scully

I was raised to believe that God has His reasons however mysterious.

Mulder

He may well have His reasons, but He seems to use a lot of psychotics to carry out His job orders.

Mulder

You have to be willing to see.

Scully

I wish it were that simple.

Mulder

Scully, you have to believe me. Nobody else on this whole damn planet does or ever will. You're my one in five billion.

Mulder

What did you tell him?

Scully

The truth … as well as I understand it.

Mulder

Which is?

Scully

Folie a deux. A madness shared by two.

Mulder

[Scrapes nail from wall] Ah. Somebody broke a nail.

Scully

Is it an animal?

Mulder

Well, it ain't RuPaul.

Mulder

What does it take? For this thing to come up and bite you on the ass? I saw these creatures. I saw them burst to life. You would've seen them, too but you were infected with that virus. You were passed out over my shoulder.

Scully

Mulder, I know what you did. I know what happened to me but without ignoring the science, I can't... Listen, Mulder... (takes his hand) You told me that my science kept you honest. That it made you question your assumptions. That by it, I'd made you a whole person. If I change now... It wouldn't be right... or honest.

Mulder

I'm talking about extraterrestrial life alive on this planet in our lifetime. Forces that dwarf and precede all human history. I'm sorry, Scully, but this time your science is wrong. (walks away)

Mulder

Why are you here?

They were using me 'cause I can communicate with it.

Scully

Communicate with what?

You already know. You just don't want to believe it.

Mulder

It would help if you'd shut the door. It would make it harder for them to see that I'm totally disregarding everything I was told.

Scully

(closing the door) Everything we were told, Mulder.

Mulder

They can't take away the X-Files, Scully. They tried.

Scully

You know, Agent Fowley's report to OPR painted the facts in an interesting way. I hope you haven't been betrayed.

Mulder

(not looking at her) Agent Fowley's report was a means to an end. Trying to protect the work. Protect the X-Files.

Scully

Mulder, Agent Fowley's report states that the man you saw attacked was bludgeoned by an unknown subject. She makes no mention of a little boy who as it happens, is nowhere to be found. It would seem that her report protects everything but you.

Mulder

Agent Fowley took me to that plant at great risk to herself where I saw something that you refuse to believe in. Saw it again, Scully. And though it may not say it in her report, Diana saw it, too. And no matter what you think she's certainly not going to go around saying that just because science can't prove it isn't true.

Scully

I don't doubt what you saw, Mulder. I don't doubt you. I'm willing to believe, but not in a lie and not in the opposite of what I can prove. It comes down to a matter of trust. [He looks up at her] I guess it always has.

Mulder

You asking me to make a choice?

Scully

I'm asking you to trust my judgment. To trust me. [Hands him a folder]

Mulder

I can't accept that. Not if it refutes what I know to be true.

Scully

Mulder, these are test results. DNA from the claw nail we found matching exactly the DNA from the virus you believe is extraterrestrial.

Mulder

[Takes the folder and looks at the papers inside] That's the connection.

Scully

Which matches exactly DNA that was found in Gibson Praise.

Mulder

Wait a minute. I don't understand. You're saying that Gibson Praise is infected with the virus?

Scully

No. It's a part of his DNA. In fact, it's a part of all of our DNA. It's called a genetic remnant. It's inactive junk DNA. Except in Gibson it's turned on.

Mulder

So if that were true, that would mean that Gibson is in some part extraterrestrial.

Scully

It would mean that all of us are.

Scully

Uh, Virgil Nokes? I'm Agent Scully. This is Agent Mulder. We're with the FBI.

Jehovah's Witness?

Scully

No, sir. Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Mulder

But we do have a free copy of the Watchtower for you if you'd like.