Dana Scully quotes from The X-Files

Mulder

I don't quite understand that either. Except that maybe he isn't what they thought he was. That doesn't make him any less of a miracle though, does it?

Scully

From the moment I became pregnant, I feared the truth... about how... and why. And I know that you feared it, too.

Mulder

I think what we feared were the possibilities. The truth we both know.

Scully

Which is what?

Scully

What? What's the matter?

Doggett

What's the matter? I've been trying to call you.

Scully

Yeah, the phone's off the hook, because of the baby.

Doggett

I got panicked that you're not going to be here, that you left, too.

Scully

Come in.

Doggett

I've been looking for Mulder. I went to his apartment.

Scully

I know.

Doggett

Where did he go? Dana... where'd he go?

Scully

He's gone. He's just gone.

Reyes

[answering phone] Monica Reyes.

Scully

Yeah. It's Scully.

Reyes

Dana, what's wrong? Are you all right?

Scully

Is Agent Doggett there?

Reyes

Yeah, he's right here with me. [She hands the phone to Doggett]

Doggett

Dana. Something wrong?

Scully

Yeah. Yeah, something. [The mobile over William Scully's cot was spinning by inself] I think I might have been wrong, telling you to drop your investigation.

Doggett

Well, I didn't drop it. As a matter of fact, we found something, I'm not sure how it fits, but we're working on it.

Scully

What is it?

Doggett

A body.

Skinner

Hi. Sorry about the hour.

Scully

I've just put him down.

Skinner

(troubled) I couldn't talk on the phone.

Scully

What is it?

Skinner

I was told to leave this alone. You and Mulder asked me to leave it be. To let Mulder disappear. We were concerned for the safety of the baby and for Mulder. Why am I risking that now? Why are you? Why are you getting mixed up with Doggett's investigation?

Scully

(looking away) Something happened, with my baby.

Skinner

What?

Scully

I can't explain it. It's er, it's unexplainable, it's, um, not normal.

Skinner

Whatever it is, I think you've made a terrible mistake. Letting Doggett pull you into this. He's hell-bent. And Agent Reyes is following right in his tracks.

Scully

I need answers. I need to know. I can't just sit around wondering-

Skinner

If you can't tell me, tell Mulder. Tell him what happened.

Scully

Mulder can't know. He can't be brought back into this. He can't be brought back into the FBI. It's just too dangerous for him right now.

Skinner

(pauses) ..It's too dangerous for everyone.

So many flowers... so little time.

Scully

Excuse me?

Pheromones, Dr. Scully. Heavy in the air. Nature's natural attractants. Driving the insect world to go forth and pollinate.

Scully

I'm aware of how pheromones work. But according to this device there isn't a single pheromone to be found out here.

Well, that can't be right. The bio-sensor we use is an actual fly antennae over which the pheromones pass. But I modified the EAG to measure in picograms which makes it sensitive to traces a mile in any direction.

Scully

But I'm still not sure why you think that pheromones might cause an otherwise harmless fly to attack a human so violently, Doctor..

Rocky.

Scully

Rocky.

Bugs are small-minded creatures, and therefore very predictable. They don't have moods, per se. They react to circumstance and stimuli, as they have been doing it for millennia.

Scully

So what do you suppose they're reacting to out here?

It may be the bugs are being somehow driven crazy with desire. You know, they say we humans respond to pheromones, too.

Scully

Yeah, I tend to agree with that, yeah.

'Women's dormitory syndrome' - It's believed that pheromones are the reason that women who live together share the same menstrual cycle.

Scully

Fascinating.

You know, when a male and female calliphorid fly mate they stay joined for up to one and a half hours. One and a half, doctor.

Scully

You know, Rocky... I'm a mother.

..Mothers are women, too.

Doggett

What the hell are you doing?

Scully

I'm trying to teach a class.

Doggett

You understand what we're being offered here? If we know who these super-soldiers are we can go after them. This is somebody giving us a way that can make it safe for Mulder to come home.

Scully

That's the operative word here - somebody. Somebody that we don't know.

Doggett

And you don't want to check it out.

Scully

(insistent) What I don't want is Agent Mulder's life to be endangered any more than it already is.

Doggett

How long are you going to do this?

Scully

Do what, Agent Doggett?

Doggett

Refuse to trust me.. or anybody. How else you going to get him home?

Scully

It's okay. I understand. I mean... it's hard enough caring for a child.

You don't have anyone, do you?

Scully

No. (looks down) But I wish I did.

(smiling) Maybe he'll come back.

Scully

These clothes that I'm wearing.. they're my size - How the hell do you know my size?

Your size? I know your blood type, your resting heart rate, your childhood fear of clowns. I know the name of your College boyfriend, your true hair color, your ATM pin number, favorite charities, pet peeves. I know you spend too much time alone. And I know.. that on one lonely night.. you invited Mulder to your bed.

Scully

(her eyes well up with tears; speechless) Oh, my God.

I was as surprised as you are.

Scully

(crying) Who authorizes you? I mean, what gives you the right? Who are you?!

I'm the future, Agent Scully. And I risked my life being here.

Scully

Well, then why do it? I mean, why meet me?

Because you can reach Mulder - Mulder needs to know what I know or he may have no future. Perhaps no one will. ..Another car is parked on the main road, half a mile out. If I see that you haven't contacted Mulder in the next twenty-four hours, I disappear and you never see me again. Do you understand, lady?

Doggett

Well, you can call the whole thing off?

Scully

I can't. I've already sent for him. Mulder's on a train. He'll be here at midnight.

Doggett

Maybe you can reach him.

Scully

You can't do that to me.

Doggett

I'm sorry.

Scully

(passionately) I want to see him so bad.

Doggett

I know. And I want to make sure that you get to, Dana. That's the whole reason I'm here.

Scully

Well, it's too late. And I have to go.

Agent Comer - our undercover man - was sent to infiltrate the cult... based on a series of... threats.

Scully

What threats? Threats to who? To me, to my child...

Threats... on Agent Mulder's life.

Scully

(looking at Follmer) That's what this is about? Then why pull me in here and show me those rubbings? I don't understand.

(everyone else is silent) Before losing all contact with our undercover agent he sent us a communication. A communication we've been trying to confirm that, uh... (swallows nervously; gently) that Mulder was already dead.

I'm on my way. That was Agent Doggett again. They're waiting. Mom, I've got to go.

Margaret Scully

It's the middle of the night, Dana. I just don't understand what can't wait 'til tomorrow.

Mom, it's important. I wouldn't go if it weren't.

Margaret Scully

Yes, I know, Dana. You say it's about getting answers.

Answers about William, Mom.

Margaret Scully

I know you're worried about him... that there are things about him that you just can't explain - but even if you were to get those answers what would it change?

Mom, he's my child.

Margaret Scully

And you have to love him and raise him in spite of everything. Dana, god has given you a miracle. A child that wasn't supposed to be. Maybe it's not to question... just to be taken as a matter of faith.

Mom, I can't take this on faith. I need to know. I need to know if it's really God I have to thank.

Doggett

Hell of a thing to wake up to, huh? We stopped after work. She had a beer.

Scully

Well, the man who hit her had fifteen. Don't do this to yourself, John.

Scully

It's true, John. She's gone.

Doggett

I don't accept that - Look at her breathing. Her heart's still beating. There's got to be hope.

Scully

There's no measurable electrical activity in her brain. Brain death is... indeed death, John. I'm sorry.

Scully

What are you doing here?

Burt

I'm waiting for a friend.

Scully

At midnight? In a parking garage?

Burt

(looks to his arm where a watch would be, except there's no watch) He should be here any minute.

Burt

What's this about numbers?

Scully

(exasperated) Will you just..!

Burt

I'm very good with numbers.

Reyes

The killer is driven by an impulse we believe is numerological.

Burt

Of course, he's a serial killer.