Walter Skinner quotes from The X-Files

Skinner

(on the phone with Mulder) There's always another way. [Hangs up; camera pans around to reveal Cigarette Smoking Man]

Cigarette Smoking Man

Yes, I think there is. If you're willing to pay the price.

Skinner

Is this man on the plane?

Mulder

I think he got the connecting flight.

Cigarette Smoking Man

You're in no position to question the terms of our arrangement.

Skinner

Then we have no arrangement.

Skinner

When you compound the lies, you compound the consequences.

Scully

All lies lead to the truth.

Skinner

Silence won't save you. If you lie, I don't know if anything can.

Scully

Except the truth.

Skinner

Agent Mulder.. Where you going?

Mulder

I.C.U.

Skinner

You're moving pretty good for a dead man.

Mulder

I'm only half-dead.

Skinner

The Smoking Man's dead.

Mulder

How?

Skinner

Shot through his window. [Hands Mulder a photo of young Mulder and Samantha] Forensics found it at the scene. We're assuming it's his blood.

Mulder

Assuming?

Skinner

Well no body was found, though there was too much blood lost for anyone to have survived. (sighs) This afternoon when you named Blevins... how did you know?

Mulder

I didn't. I just guessed.

Skinner

Well it was a hell of a guess. Blevins had been on payroll for four years to a biotechnology company called Roush, which is somehow connected to all this.

Mulder

Well, I'm sure whatever connections there were, they're being erased right now.

Skinner

They're cleaning up, taking everything away.

Mulder

Not everything.. Scully's cancer's gone into remission.

Skinner

(looks shocked) That's unbelievable news.

Mulder

(grins) It's the best news I could have ever heard.

Skinner

What turned it around?

Mulder

I don't know. I don't think we'll ever know.

Skinner

Can I see her?

Mulder

Yeah, she's in there with her family right now, but I'm sure she'd love to see you.

Mulder

What happened?!

Skinner

(sigh) You were told to go home, Mulder.

Mulder

WHAT. HAPPENED?!

Skinner

Mulder, a moment please? [Mulder pauses, turns around; Skinner approaches.] I just wanted to say you did a good job.

Mulder

How's that?

Skinner

Nobody could've figured this out but you. You knew it was Linda Bowman and not Modell. You were way ahead of me.

Mulder

I almost killed my partner.

Skinner

Mulder, despite that, you prevailed. You won her game.

Mulder

How come I feel like I lost?

Scully

(whispering) Mulder, please just keep reminding him you were drugged.

Mulder

Would you stop that?

Scully

It wouldn't hurt.

Mulder

Stop it.

Skinner

Scully, Mulder-

Mulder

I was drugged!

Skinner

(sighs) ..I want you two back in Texas - Ronnie Strickland's body has gone missing from the morgue; in conjunction with this the coroner's been attacked. His throat was bitten.

Scully

The coroner's dead?

Skinner

(uncomfortably) No.. his throat was.. bitten. It was sort of.. gnawed on. (Mulder and Scully exchange a look) Daylight's burning, agents.

Scully

(bewildered) But.. he was dead!

Mulder

(bemused) I noticed that.

Scully

He had a stake through his heart!

Mulder

I noticed that too.

Skinner

So that's it. They simply disappeared without a trace. And that's exactly what happened from start to finish?

Scully

..Well I can neither confirm nor deny Agent Mulder's version of events which occurred outside my presence.

Mulder

And I can neither confirm nor deny Agent Scully's version of events, but, uh..

Scully

Anyway... I was drugged.

Mulder

That is, essentially exactly the way it happened.

Scully

Essentially.

Mulder

..Except for the part about the buck teeth.

Skinner

So this kid is a human oddity. Tell me why anyone would go to such lengths as to kill him?

Mulder

This kid may be the key not just to all human potential, but to all spiritual unexplained paranormal phenomena - The key to everything in The X-Files.

Scully

Sir, I couldn't waste time explaining myself to your assistant.

Skinner

Tell me what is so urgent.

Scully

It's about Agent Mulder. He's done something incredibly rash.

Skinner

I can't.

Scully

He may be lost at sea.

Skinner

I can't, Agent Scully.

Scully

You can't what?

Skinner

I can't help you. There's nothing I can do.

Scully

This isn't for me; it's for Agent Mulder.

Skinner

My hands are tied. I'm not your direct superior any longer.

Scully

Don't you want to know what this is about?

Skinner

No, I don't. I don't even what to hear it.

Scully

(pleading) Sir, this is about a man's life.

Skinner

(louder) I'm not allowed to have contact with you - any contact with either you or Mulder.

She walked right past me, sir.

Skinner

You're out of line, Scully.

Scully

No, sir, you're out of line. I'm sorry, but I'm coming to you for help and I've got nowhere else to go. I would hope that after everything that we have been through that you would at least have the courtesy and the decency and not to mention the respect to listen to what I have to say. Now, all I need is information. (Skinner takes note; glances at it.) You don't have to do anything else. Look, sir, if you know anybody at the Office of Naval Intelligence it would be of great help.

Skinner

(pauses; hands back the note) I could lose my job, my pension, I could even be subject to legal action.

Skinner

Use your head, Scully. It'll save your ass.

Scully

Save your own ass, sir. You'll save your head along with it.

Skinner

(joining her in the elevator) I've been trying to reach you. I got the information you needed.

Scully

How?

Skinner

Don't even ask.

Scully

(grateful) Sir, what you've done...

Skinner

Is save Mulder's ass. I know.

Scully

Yes.

Skinner

(sternly) And if you ever ask me to break policy or protocol I will have you written up, wrapped up and tossed out of the FBI for good. Am I understood, Agent Scully?

Scully

Yes. (gets back on the elevator; excited) Yes!

Scully

Mulder? Mulder, it's me. Hmm?

Mulder

(waking) Where am I? (tries to sit up)

Scully

You're in a hospital.

Mulder

Ooooo.

Scully

Lie still.

Mulder

I feel... Like hell.

Scully

I don't blame you. You've been through the wringer, I'd say.

Mulder

What happened to me?

Scully

You did something incredibly stupid.

Mulder

What did I do?

Scully

You went looking for a ship, Mulder. In the Bermuda Triangle.

Mulder

Say that again?

Frohike

Gilligan awakes.

Mulder

You were there.

Scully

Hmm?

Mulder

You were there, Scully.

Langly

(to the others) He's delirious.

Mulder

(referring to Skinner) And he was there, too.

Skinner

(dropping a bouquet of flowers on the nightstand) Right - Me and my dog Toto.

Mulder

No, you were there with the Nazis.

Scully

Mulder, will you settle down? It's an order.

Skinner

Not that he takes orders...

Mulder

You saved the world, Scully.

Scully

Yeah... You're right. I did.

Frohike

What kind of drugs is he on?

Langly

I want some.

Mulder

No, no, no... The Queen Anne- I found it. You were there with Thor's Hammer. I told you you had to turn the ship around and then I jumped overboard.

Scully

Yeah, I bet you did. The boat that you were on was busted into a million pieces. And as for the Queen Anne... it was nothing more than a ghost ship.

Mulder

No, no, no. You and I were on that ship, Scully. In 1939.

Skinner

Get some rest, Mulder, 'cause when you get out of here I'm going to kick your butt but good.

Mulder

I would've never seen you again. But you believed me.

Scully

In your dreams. (as if talking to a child) Mulder, I want you to close your eyes and I want you to think to yourself "there's no place like home."

Mulder

Mmm. (chuckles) [Scully starts to leave; he calls her back.] Hey, Scully. (leans up on his elbow)

Scully

[Comes back and leans close to his face.] Yes?

Mulder

I love you.

Scully

Oh, brother... (turns away and leaves the room)