Dana Scully quotes from The X-Files

Mulder

What happened today? Anything out of the ordinary?

Skinner

I'm not going to play this game.

Scully

Look, it could've been anything. It could have been the slightest touch, or a handshake.

Mulder

This morning, you woke up...

Skinner

I woke up.

Mulder

Alone?

Skinner

(defensive) Yes. Alone.

Scully

Sir, there's something I'd like to try. It's a treatment called therapeutic plasmapheresis. It requires filtering all of the blood in your body. It's a radical procedure and there is a danger that your body might go into shock.

Skinner

I'm in your hands. (weakly) I think I owe you an apology, Scully. You and Mulder.

Scully

Sir?

Skinner

I've been lying here thinking. Your quest... it should have been mine.

Scully

What do you mean?

Skinner

If I die now, I die in vain. I have nothing to show for myself. My life...

Scully

Sir, you know that's not true.

Skinner

It is. I can see now that... I always played it safe. I wouldn't take sides. Wouldn't let you and Mulder... pull me in.

Scully

You've been our ally more times than I can say.

Skinner

Not the kind of ally that I could have been. (Scully touches his wrist gently)

Mulder

So they're splitting us up, huh?

Scully

(firmly) No.

Mulder

No?

Scully

This is a one-time thing.

Mulder

Who told you that? Obviously, if you do a good job they're not going to stick you back here. (Scully sees Ritter coming in) Right?

Agent Scully, we're all set.

Scully

Peyton Ritter, this is Fox Mulder.

It's a pleasure to meet you, Fox.

Mulder

(stays seated; polite, but unenthusiastic) A pleasure to meet you... Peyton.

Scully

We should get going.

Off to New York.

Scully

(on phone) Scully.

Mulder

(on phone, disguising his voice jokingly) Hi. My name is Fox Mulder. We used to sit next to each other at the FBI. (both smile)

Scully

(on phone) I don't know what to think. (looks up as Fellig passes her) He's, uh... unusual.

Mulder

(on phone) As in he, uh, plugs up like a cork when you stab him? (looking at an image of Fellig's stab wounds on his computer)

Scully

Mulder, where are you getting this stuff?

Mulder

Well, young man Ritter has been sending progress reports to Kersh. My computer may have inadvertently intercepted a few of those. He's got nice things to say about you, though... mostly. Why don't you let me do a little background check on Fellig for you.

Scully

Mulder...

Mulder

Come on. It's, you know... it's what I do now. I'm getting good at it.

Scully

He's right. Tell me, Ritter, did he have any help concocting that story?

(defensive) Look, Fellig is a murderer. Whether or not he did this specific one, I don't care-- not if it buys me a few days in the box with him.

Scully

No judge is going to issue a warrant based on this.

No, no, no. I know the judge. We'll have it by noon. (she stares at him in shock, then turns to leave) You know, Kersh warned me about you.

Scully

Uh, he did?

Yeah - you and your partner. God knows his reputation precedes him so I guess I should have seen this coming. You muck up my case, and Kersh'll hear about it. Are we clear, Dana?

Scully

(coldly correcting him) Scully. (cell phone rings) And we're done with this conversation.

Mulder

(on phone) Hey, Scully, uh, how's that X-File coming? And before you tell me that it's not an X-File...

Scully

(on phone) It is.

Mulder

What happened?

Scully

Alfred Fellig seems to know an awful lot about death.

Mulder

Oh, yeah? Well, that's not surprising, given that he's reached the ripe old age of 149.

(to Mulder) Hey, Milk, let's play ball. (Mulder waits for Scully to walk closer; player is irritated) Yo, Homestyle, cough up the rock.

Mulder

Game.

(shaking his hand) Oh, no, no. Aw, it don't work like that.

Mulder

(joining Scully, ignoring the game) Hey, Homegirl, word up.

Scully

Mulder it's my distinct impression that you just cheated. And that you're not coming in again today.

Mulder

Oh, Scully, I got game.

Scully

Yeah, you got so much game I'm wondering if you have any work left in you.

Mulder

No, I'm ready to J-O-B just not on some jagoff shoeshine tip.

Scully

(VERY small smile) No "jagoff shoeshine tip"?

Mulder

(smile) No background checkin' jagoff shoeshine tip.

Scully

Well, about your J-O-B, Mulder somebody's been trying very hard to reach you by phone. Somebody who wants you back at the FBI ASAP.

Mulder

(more serious) About what?

Scully

About an X-File.

Scully

[frustrated] They've burned our clothes.

Mulder

Hey... I heard gray is the new black.

Scully

Mulder, this stinks, and not just because I think that woman is a... well, I think you know what I think that woman is.

Mulder

[dryly] No. Actually, you hide your feelings very well.

The way these people died... the loss of life here - it is beyond words. I can't imagine how it must be for you - losing your mother.

Spender

Yes, sir. But that's not why I asked for this meeting.

Why did you ask for it?

Spender

Because I'm responsible for the deaths of those people at the Air Base hangar in no small way. I certainly didn't prevent them.

I can assume then you can explain how they died? Because I have yet to hear any explanation.

Spender

Agent Mulder can explain it. I think Agent Scully, to an extent. They might have even prevented what you see in those photos.

Agents Scully and Mulder have been suspended by the FBI.

Spender

Also my doing... and my mistake.

I would ask...

Spender

I'd ask, sir - before you tell me that it's not my business - that you do everything you can to get them back on the X-Files. Far worse can happen... and it will.

Where are you going?

Spender

To pack up my office.

Agent Spender... [Spender leaves; Kersh turns to Mulder, angrily] You have answers now? Why didn't I hear about those answers before?

Mulder

I've had answers for years.

Then why didn't we hear about them?

Mulder

No one would ever listen.

Who burned those people?

Mulder

They burned themselves. With a choice made long ago by a conspiracy of men who thought they could sleep with the enemy. Only to awaken another enemy.

What the hell does that mean?

Mulder

It means the future is here, and all bets are off.

Agent Scully, make some sense.

Scully

Sir, I wouldn't bet against him.

Oh, no. You're going to kill me.

Mulder

(annoyed) No, I'm not, but I'd like to.

Scully

(holds up badge) Deputy...

(surprised) The FBI? For real?

Scully

(smiles tightly; nods) I'll be in the car.

Mulder

(in nature documentary narrator voice) If the sea is where life began - where our ancestors first walked ashore - then who's to say what new life may be developing in its uncharted depths.

Scully

You know what? Maybe you are a member of the Manson family. (he smiles)

Scully

Sir, it's important that we evacuate the area. We're FBI agents and we need to get to where we're going.

(sighing) Don't all the nuts roll downhill to Florida.

Scully

(annoyed) I'd be happy to show you my ID-

Mulder

(talking over her; rolls up window) Thank you very much, sir. I appreciate the concern. (pissed off; turns the car and drives quickly)

Scully

Mulder.

Mulder

I was just one "howdy do" over the line.

Mulder

You know, Scully, someday we're going to look back on this and we're going to laugh. We'll just think of it as, uh... you know man pitted against the forces of nature. Think of it as a test of our mettle.

Scully

I don't need my mettle tested.

Oh, it's amazing. It's truly amazing.

Scully

What's that?

That you could come here in the face of a hurricane chasing a sea monster, yet, and end up bringing a new life into the world. And then slaying the monster and save this one's life as he was quite literally circling down the drain.

Mulder

(embarrassed) She didn't save my life, really...

Oh, yes, she did. Yes, with a gun to her head, no less.

Scully

(rationalizing) Well, you wouldn't have known to go out in the rain if I hadn't pointed it out that to you that it was the fresh water that killed the organism...

Mulder

No. No no no no... I-I saw the Shipley's cat!

Uh, well, I-I can't swallow that... No, no, no.

Mulder

I saw the cat, which had been saved which had been in the washing machine. And the Shipleys had boarded up their house which means that the only way they could have vanished was if the creature came up through the plumbing in a backwash of seawater. Seawater. And then the deputy who vanished from a bathtub full of Epsom salts.

If Agent Scully had not been there with you, I shudder to think what would have happened to you. I'd say you owe her your life. It takes a big man to admit this, but... if I had had someone as savvy as her by my side all those years ago in the X-Files I might not have retired. (both Mulder and Scully look a little embarrassed)