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John Doggett quotes from The X-Files

Played by Robert Patrick · 58 quotes · page 4 of 4

John Doggett

Played by Robert Patrick

The X-Files · 847 quotes

3rd most-quoted character in The X-Files: in 58 of its 847 quotes
Most scenes with: Dana Scully (20), Monica Reyes (17), Fox Mulder (6)

Scenes with John Doggett 52

Doggett

You work here?

Uh, I-I'm a patient aide. I deliver the flowers mostly. Are you her husband?

[Doggett shakes his head no.]

You love her, though. She's not gone - Not her soul.

Doggett

I wish I could talk to her. I wish I could tell her... Guess I wish a lot of things.

Somehow this person materialized inside a maximum security prison, killed an inmate, and then vanished into thin air.

Doggett

Materialized how, like Casper the Friendly Ghost?

[End of the episode, where Reyes talks to a rattled Doggett, who is unable to believe that the one killer had two different appearances, one being the one that was shot, and the other now the one taken away, dead]

..So all that tonight was just you imagining things?

Doggett

I can't accept this.. If you can, God love you - But that's not the way my mind works.

HHarrison

Agent Mulder wasted no time closing that case. I just try to think like him. What would Agents Mulder and Scully do if they were in this situation?

Doggett

Agents Mulder and Scully aren't in this situation - Agents Doggett and Reyes are. I don't know about Agent Reyes, but Agent Doggett's going to sit his tired ass down.

Doggett

Morris Fletcher?

MFMorris Fletcher

(perks up a little) Finally. What took you so long? You must be Reyes. Enchanté.

(rolls eyes) Yeah.

Doggett

Cadet Hayes? Rudolph Hayes? I'm Agent Doggett. This is Agent Reyes. (Hayes is smelling a dead arm; Doggett is confused) Is that part of the training here, Cadet - smelling body parts?

HHayes

This man's flesh smells of creosote... but his skin is soft. Untanned. He worked indoors. A hardware store, probably. The tear marks at his elbow go from left to right. He was broadsided in a car accident. His hands gripped the wheel so hard.. his thumb bone snapped on impact.

Doggett

You determined all that just by looking at that arm?

HHayes

(stands, looks at them) I see things.

We came to thank you. Because of your analysis, we were able to work up a profile to catch the man who murdered those women.

HHayes

What's the profile?

Doggett

White male, twenty-five to thirty-five, ex-military. Employed near the bars where he met.. (Hayes shakes his head) ..why are you shaking your head?

HHayes

The profile's wrong. Your killer is in his forties. A felon recently arrived from out of state. His parole officer thinks he's looking for a job. He already has one - working for organized crime. He's killed many people. He's going to keep on killing. (walks away)

(smiles) Kind of annoying, isn't he?

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What are you lookin' at?

Doggett

I want to check somethin' out. (finds identical pieces of roof tile in the garbage can) Ah-ha. Hold this, please? (she takes the bag, he climbs up on the roof to see it's been re-tiled)Ah-ha.

Twice with the "ah-ha's."

Doggett

(sigh) The roof's been patched. When I was inside, I knew I smelled fresh plaster.

So, are you gonna fill me in?

Doggett

A - Eyewitness places the deceased inside this house just prior to the time of his demise. B - We found a fragment of roofing shingle at the scene of the impact. It would seem it matches the discarded piece you now hold in your hand. C - There's a hole in the roof, recently patched, this big around. Connect A to B to C.

Much in the fashion of, say, Daffy Duck or Wiley Coyote, the deceased shot straight up through the roof, flew high into the air and landed on his buddy's car? (skeptically) You're serious?

Doggett

A to B to C. I gotta tell ya, I think I'm finally gettin' the hang of this job.

Doggett

Okay, so be it. Just tell me how this helps me bust him, and uh, I'm happy.

Well, I'm starting to hope that it doesn't come to that.

What do you mean?

Well, the power that this man seemingly possesses is extraordinary. It needs to be studied.

RDr. Reits

It could expand the scope of human knowledge. It could change everything.

It very well could. I mean, I've.. I've been working this unit for nine years now. I-I've investigated nearly 200 paranormal cases. We are due for some incontrovertible proof. I want vindication, for - for Mulder and.. for all of us.

Doggett

One big question. Why "The Brady Bunch"? Seriously, you two are fans. Why are people still watchin' a 30 year old TV show?

Because.. they're the family everyone wishes they had. Loving parents, lots of brothers and sisters, everybody getting along.

They're the, uh, perfect family. And since Oliver didn't have one as a child, he... created one.

Doggett

Sure, I'd buy all that. But in this case, why "The Brady Bunch"? Why not "The Partridge Family"? Why not "Eight Is Enough"? (to Dr. Reits) Where was Oliver when you first saw "The Brady Bunch"? He was with you, right?

RDr. Reits

He'd always insisted we watch it together every week I was there.

Doggett

And the longer you two were together, the more his psychokinetic power faded, until finally it went away completely. Now, what do you think that was?

RDr. Reits

(slowly realizes) Because for the first time in his life, he was happy.

Doggett

Because he was with you.

Well, what are you suggesting is the course of action, John?

Doggett

A - Oliver's gonna die if he continues to use his power. B - his power goes away when he's happy. And C - you're the father he never had, and he loves you. A to B to C.

Doggett

So close, Dana. I'm sorry you don't get your proof.

Me too. Well, maybe I've had it these past nine years. If not proof of the paranormal, then... of more important things. (looks at Oliver for a moment, then leaves)

Doggett

Well, here's hopin' the TV stays off and he learns how to love the real world.

(smiles and takes his hand) I think you are getting the hang of this job.

Doggett

You saw him? Mulder?

They've accused him of murder?

And they have him believing that he did it.

Doggett

Of murdering who?

Knowle Rohrer.

Doggett

Knowle Rohrer? It can't be. I watched Knowle Rohrer die.

He can't die. Knowle Rohrer's a super soldier.

(Skinner hangs up phone) Mulder side-stepped security at a facility known as Mount Weather - a place where they say our so-called shadow government is installed.

What about this murder charge?

Thirty government workers are ready to testify they witnessed Mulder push a military officer to his death.

Doggett

Killing a man who can't be killed? (Scully begins to leave, Doggett turns to her) Where are you going?

..To beg mercy with the man upstairs.

Doggett

(answering phone) Yeah... I'll tell her. (He hangs up)

Who was it?

Doggett

Skinner.

..Agent Doggett?

Doggett

Death by lethal injection.

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