John Doggett quotes from The X-Files

Doggett

Wait, you, you're not saying this guy has X-ray vision?

Scully

I am remarking that these wavelengths exist and the only thing that is stopping us from seeing them, if you will, is the biochemical structure of our eyes. I am.. conjecturing that if this structure was somehow different, we'd have the ability to see things that we don't.

Doggett

(leans in and whispers) Calling Clark Kent.

Doggett

(over the phone) What’re you saying? Ray Pearce has become some kind of metal man? 'Cause that only happens in the movies, Agent Scully.

Scully

Does it, Agent Doggett? [Sly reference to Patrick's prior role in T2.]

Doggett

Then why did you shoot him?

Scully

Because it's what the boy saw. And in an instant, I realized that it's what Mulder would have seen.. or understood. Because that's just how he came at things - without judgement and without prejudice.. (starting to sob) ..and with an open mind that I am just not capable of.

Doggett

Were you aware Mulder carried a second weapon, a Walther PPK?

Skinner

Yeah, in an ankle holster.

Doggett

I found it hidden under his sink. The clip was three rounds shy.

Skinner

What's this about?

Doggett

Three shots were fired in a house where Mulder investigated a case last May. He never filed a report on the case or the discharge of his weapon. Do you know any reason why?

Skinner

If Mulder did these things, he would've reported them.

Doggett

Mulder submitted case reports, all right but they indicate he was here in Washington on days his cell phone records prove he was in Pennsylvania.

Skinner

Are you calling Mulder a liar?

Doggett

(pointing to computer screen) This is the muzzle of Mulder's pistol. You see that there?

Skinner

It's blowback.

Doggett

Macrospatter of dried blood in a semi-circular pattern, which indicates Mulder fired close-range at something or someone.

Skinner

I've heard enough. (starts to leave)

Doggett

Where are you going?

Skinner

It's where you're going, Agent Doggett. You're trying to build a case that what? Mulder killed a man and then made himself disappear? That's not what happened. I told you before, he was abducted. I saw it!

Doggett

Agent Mulder signed falsified case reports.

Skinner

(angry) Oh, come on, John, this isn't about Mulder, it's about you! Your career. You give the FBI a narrative for Mulder's disappearance, you're off the X-Files and back on the fast-track to the directorship.

Doggett

I'm just trying to find the truth.

Skinner

You want the truth? Then ask Agent Scully!

Doggett

I can't do that.

Skinner

Why not?

Doggett

Because she... (sighing) she signed those case reports, too.

Skinner

(looks at the file; flatly) You take that story to OPR, the accusation alone could cost Scully her job.

Doggett

I'm not taking it to OPR. I'm taking it to you.

Byers

We learned what we could. This is somewhat short notice, of course.

Frohike

And a little outside our area of expertise.

Langly

Plus the fact we were sleeping.

Doggett

You wearing pants, Langly?

Langly

Uh...yeah. (hurriedly gets out of the range of the camera)

Doggett

Hey, good morning, Agent Scully. How ya feelin' today?

Scully

..I'm fine. How are you feeling?

Doggett

Me? Good. But then, I don't have a little J. Edgar to lug around.

Scully

A.D. Skinner just called. He told me about your meeting with Kersh.

Doggett

Well, whatever he told you, I'm still going to be here to drive you crazy with questions and nagging doubt.

Scully

..You'd be crazy to stay, Agent Doggett. This is a huge career opportunity for you.

Doggett

It's not my career he's got in mind.

Scully

What do you mean?

Doggett

In six weeks, you go on maternity leave. Kersh transfers me out, guess what? He gets to lock that door over there for good. (motioning to the door to the X-Fills office)

Scully

You don't owe me anything, Agent Doggett.

Doggett

They put me down here to find Mulder - I found him. So what? We still got an open file on this case, and I got big questions.

Doggett

What?

Scully

I heard the same speech come out of my mouth seven years ago.. (goes and sits down at Mulder's desk) Get out while you can, Agent Doggett.. Or you may never get out at all.

Doggett

I don't need someone using me to get another man killed.

You think this about Mulder. It's about the truth, John.

Doggett

What truth?

You got it all right in front of you. It's all in the X-Files. I'm just one man trying to point you in the right direction.

Doggett

Sorry, Agent Reyes - I don't see it. (turns and begins walking away)

Reyes

I think you do.. You're just afraid to go there.

Mulder

Whew.. Man, you just keep shooting 'til you hit something, don't you?

Reyes

You'd rather blind yourself to the connections, but I can't.

Doggett

You keep talking about these connections - Connections to what? To who?

Reyes

What if this is a thread of evil, connecting through time.. though men, through opportunity - Connecting back to you? ..In India, in Africa, in Iran, in the Mid-East, in the Far East, most of the world - they take it as a given. They see evil in death the way other people see God in a rose.

Mulder

I saw Elvis in a potato chip once.

Reyes

(To Mulder) You know what I'm talking about.

Mulder

Yes, I do. I do. But if this man doesn't see it, he doesn't see it, right?

Reyes

What are you scared of? ..Why does it scare you?

Doggett

..I gotta believe I did everything I could to find.. my son.

Reyes

You did do everything to find your son.

Doggett

I gotta believe I did everything I could to save him. To get him back safe. To not let him down. I gotta believe I did everything humanly possible.. 'Cause if I can't believe that.. then these-these 'other possibilities' that you talk about, that Mulder talks about, that Agent Scully talks about - If they're real.. If they're real, then.. that's something else I could have done to save my son.

Doggett

We, uh, we caught this killer, Jeb Dukes. He's in the ICU - He may not make it.

Mulder

And now you're wondering if there really was a connection? (Doggett gives him a slight look) ..You know, when I uh, I first came to work at the FBI, I worked at Violent Crimes. And I saw.. I saw the worst of humanity - I saw monsters. And I wondered how they became that way, how these men became so evil. I knew there were psychological explanations - victims of their environment, victims of their parents - but.. the scientific explanations were never truly satisfying, and I began to think about evil like a disease. You know it goes from man to man or age to age. Most of us walk around thinking we're incapable of any acts of evil, and we are - You know we can stifle that momentary urge to kill, or to hurt. We have some kind of immunity to it. But I think it's possible that there's.. an occurrence in somebody's life; a tragedy or a loss that.. leaves them vulnerable - hurts their immunity to evil. And all of a sudden, at that point in their lives, when they're weakened - they're open to evil, and they can become evil.

Doggett

If that were true, then what you're saying is.. this man when wheeled in here tonight is infected with evil - The same evil that killed my son.. You really believe that, Agent Mulder?

Mulder

Uh, I'm not really a good test for questions like that - I'll believe almost anything, you know? But the uh.. the pisser is that you may never know. It may be like Agent Reyes says, it could be random and meaningless - who it affects, who it goes to.

Doggett

What if it isn't?

Mulder

Well then you'd be seeing something I don't, Agent Doggett.

Doggett

Agent Mulder - I understand that you have more than just a proprietary interest in these cases, but I can't help it if you're not assigned to this unit anymore. ..I didn't see any reason to pursue this oil worker case.

Mulder

Oh, well maybe you missed the fact this worker's corpse washed ashore at Port Aransas, Texas - Massive flash burns on 90% of his body.

Doggett

I read the report, Agent Mulder, if you're insinuating I didn't.

Mulder

Then you must also know that this man was not the only man to disappear from the Galpex-Orpheus platform that night, but one of two men; The communications officer is also missing.

Doggett

The company attributes that to an explosion on the rig - a "blowout" - which is what they say caused Simon de la Cruz's burns.

Mulder

Burns the M.E. said in his report were not inconsistent to exposure to high levels of radiation.

Doggett

"Not inconsistent" - That's not exactly what I'd call a ringing endorsement.

Mulder

These files include the same kind of radiation phenomena. Tissue destroyed by exposure to -

Doggett

- Black oil. ..Five years ago you and Agent Scully investigated a case of a World War II plane salvaged from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean - Where a substance was brought to the surface which you describe as a highly contagious virus of extraterrestrial origin, that has radioactive properties and can take over a man's body. And is a part of an alien conspiracy to colonize the planet, if I'm not mistaken.

Mulder

(slightly bemused) And you'd love to help, but you left your lightsaber at home.

Doggett

I never would've believed it - These stories about you.

Mulder

Really? What stories are those?

Doggett

That you could find a conspiracy at a church picnic.

Mulder

..What church?

Mulder

..I'm out. I'm eighty-sixed, Agent Doggett.

Doggett

What do you mean - You're out of the FBI?

Mulder

Kersh could barely contain himself when he - (slaps his hands) stuck it to me.

Doggett

..So you're taking the fall? Not for me?

Mulder

For you, for the X-Files - You're all the credibility this office has left. You have Kersh's ear and you've seen it now. Out on that platform, you saw it for yourself.

Mulder

..Answer the phone, Agent Doggett. You're in charge now.

Doggett

What is this place?

Skinner

An illegal medical facility for the purpose of human cloning. It goes on from here. In fact, it occupies the entire warehouse.

Doggett

You read about these things but you don't imagine they exist.

Skinner

Yeah, just like aliens.

Mulder

You told me that he told you he knew how to stop Billy Miles. Are you telling me now that you think he's a liar?

Doggett

He is or he isn't. What the hell difference does it really make?

Mulder

It doesn't make any difference at all. Unless you want to protect Scully and that baby.

Doggett

And then what? How long can you keep this up? How long until the next Billy Miles rears his head? The next threat? The next phantom? You ever stop to ask yourself? (Mulder looks a little uncomfortable) All the sacrifice, the blood spilled - you've given nearly a decade of your life. Where the hell is it all going to end?

Mulder

(thinks for a moment; softly) I don't know. Maybe it doesn't.