John Doggett quotes from The X-Files

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.

Frohike

(sarcastically) Collecting for the needy and unemployed. Open the door.

Doggett

(opening the door) Thanks for doing this, guys.

Byers

Yeah, like we got anything better to be doing these days. [referring to the cancellation of their own series]

(reading Doggett's report) "Super Soldiers, a Navy ship, a woman at the Department of Justice who drowned two men - All disappeared now, but which constitute a conspiracy like a cancer in the U.S. government." (flicks through the rest of the report) ..Not a mention of my name, John.

No, sir. I found nothing on you. Nothing damning that I could honestly include in my report, let me say. ..And 'cause I got nothing to lose, let me say that I know your hands are dirty on this, sir - filthy.

(smirking) That's why you're here - Take a last wild punch before the bell.

Doggett

(begins removing his weapon and holster) There's one thing I can't figure, and then I'll be on my way (unclips his ID) - Is why you slipped that obituary under my door?

You think I did that?

Doggett

Over and over in my mind, it had to be you. You're the only one who had a reason.

What's my reason?

Doggett

You tell me - You looking to just get me fired, or get me killed?

..You ever hear of King George III?

Doggett

(turns around, angry) You answer my question!

He was king of England when America declared independence in 1776. King George III kept a diary. On July 4th, 1776, he made an entry in it... 'Nothing Important Happened Today.'

Doggett

What the hell does that got to do with me?

Revolution started. Things that changed the world forever - And even kings can miss them if they're not paying attention.

Doggett

You planned this whole thing. I want to know why.

I've been thinking a lot about you, Agent Doggett.

Doggett

You're not answering my question, Professor.

About why someone so ill-suited would draw this duty. Clearly, you have feelings for her.

Doggett

You ordered Dr. Richmond to kill these people, didn't you?

But you can't compete with the long-lost Agent Mulder. With his easy good looks, his Oxford education.

Doggett

(getting more and more angry) This is about you, Professor.

Mulder has what you can't have. What you stumble for. The flat-footed cop, thinking he could put handcuffs on a demon.

Doggett

(very mad now) Answer the question!

You want her, but she feels sorry for you. They both do.

Doggett

(entering Reyes' new residence) So, this is how the uptown crowd lives, huh?

Reyes

This is it! Moving on up.

Doggett

So is there anything really heavy that I can move for you, a dresser, a fridge?

Reyes

(smiling) No, but thank you, John - you just missed the movers.

Doggett

You don't say? (Reyes chuckles) I brought you a housewarming gift. (Doggett opens the bag he's carrying)

Reyes

(Reyes looks) Hot dogs?

Doggett

Polish sausage! It's the best in the city. There's a little stand a couple of blocks over on M Street. You'll be able to walk to it.

Reyes

Wow.

Doggett

Try one.

Reyes

Mmm. Like I'm back in Gdansk. Let me get some plates.

Doggett

Plates? For crying out loud.. who eats Polish sausage with plates?

Doggett

(typing computer text in a device with his usable finger) 1st time I ever hoped for a little prick

Reyes

(Reyes smirks slightly) ..You kiss you mother with that mouth?

Doggett

(typing) Hows case?

Reyes

It's coming along.. It's nowhere, basically. There's so much that's impossible to reconcile. You say I was on a stakeout with you - I say you were at my apartment bringing me... John.. do you know a little stand on M Street, supposed to be really good hot dogs?

Doggett

(typing) Polish Sausage Best in city

Reyes

..John, what if we were both right? What if you were at my apartment - And I was on a stakeout with you at the exact same time? What would it take for that to be true?

Doggett

(typing) We both had twins Which we dont

Reyes

Except maybe we do - Maybe all of us do. (leans in closer to Doggett) ..You've heard of the idea of a parallel universe - One that's identical, or nearly identical to our own. One in which we all have a double. It's theoretical physics, but.. what if it's real?

Doggett

(typing) Too much Star Trek

Reyes

You said yourself, Erwin Lukesh was known for his impossible escapes. You said that in the alley, you looked away only for an instant, and he was gone. And then somehow he was behind you, and he shot you. With my gun - my gun that never left my possession that entire afternoon. What if Lukesh can pass freely from one parallel world to the other? Like.. like he's opening a door. And what if somehow you followed him through that door, without even knowing it? Maybe when you followed Lukesh into this world, my.. my Doggett got forced out.

Doggett

(typing) Wow

Reyes

My Doggett would have called that crazy, too - But give me another theory that fits.

Doggett

I've said it before and I'll say it again - The whole reason this case is attracting flies is because somebody's full of crap.

Reyes

I think what we just saw was a show. Dylan Lokensgard caused those bugs to attack him to make him look like a victim instead of the perpetrator

Doggett

Okay, but how? This guy's the horse whisperer, only with bugs?

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?

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.

Why would you want to remember? You can't tell me you're happier now because you recall your life. I saw it all. So much pain... Why would you want to struggle so long and hard to get that pain back?

Doggett

Because it's mine.

(looking at Doggett) You Reyes?

Doggett

I'm Doggett. She's Reyes.

Reyes

Detective Van Allen?

That's right.

Reyes

I appreciate your help on this.

What help is that?

Reyes

On this investigation.

There isn't a lot to investigate. I mean, Victor Potts wasn't exactly one of the FBI's ten most wanted.

Doggett

I think she means your insight into the way he died, Detective.

Don't have any. But I'm sure you'd rather talk to somebody who actually gives a damn, right? (walks off)

Doggett

(to Reyes) ..Hate to say it but, he probably sums up most peoples feelings.

Reyes

So, big plans for the weekend?

Doggett

Oh, huge. Microwave pizza, satellite TV.

Reyes

Wow. Thanks for making my life sound exciting. Maybe we both need pets. They say people with pets live longer.

Doggett

(confesses) I was thinking about getting a cat.

Reyes

There's dog people, and there's cat people. You are a dog person, John.

Doggett

How do you figure?

Reyes

(chuckles) You're faithful, you're dependable, you're without guile, you're very comfortable to be around. ..So why a cat?

Doggett

Low maintenance. They don't expect much from you, so you can't disappoint 'em.

Reyes

I don't see you ever disappointing anyone, John.

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.