Cigarette Smoking Man quotes from The X-Files

Mulder

[pointing gun at him] Sorry. Nobody home. What are you doing here?

Cigarette Smoking Man

The door was open. I came in.

Mulder

Interesting company you keep.

Cigarette Smoking Man

No more interesting than your apparent... lingerie fetish.

Spender

Get out of here.

Cigarette Smoking Man

This picture you have - I haven't seen it since you were born. You probably don't even know who the other man is.

Spender

I don't care. Get out.

Cigarette Smoking Man

It's Bill Mulder, Fox Mulder's father. Isn't that something. He was a good man... a friend of mine... who betrayed me in the end.

Spender

I know more than enough about your past... enough to hate you.

Cigarette Smoking Man

Your mother was right. I came here hoping otherwise. [takes out gun] Hoping that my son... might live to honor me... ...like Bill Mulder's son. [fires, then leaves the office]

Cigarette Smoking Man

..What's the matter, Agent Mulder? You come to see the wise man but you look as if you've seen a ghost.

Mulder

You're not a wise man, you're a dead man. Just like Krycek and X.

Cigarette Smoking Man

You see a dead man, Agent Scully?

Scully

I hoped and prayed you were dead, you chain-smoking, son of a bitch.

Cigarette Smoking Man

You waste your time. Ask Mulder - He knows the futility of hope and prayers. He knows the truth now.. You have told her the truth, haven't you, Fox? I helped you find it.

Mulder

You didn't help me - You sent me to that government facility knowing exactly what I'd find.

Cigarette Smoking Man

And now you've refused to speak it. Not to Scully, not to anyone, even though it would have saved your life. You damn me for my secrets, but you're afraid to speak the truth.

Mulder

You call me afraid? Look at you sitting alone in the dark like a fossil.

Cigarette Smoking Man

It's the final refuge. The last place to hide from those who are insidiously taking power now.

Scully

Who?

Cigarette Smoking Man

The aliens.. They fear this place, its geology. Magnetite, like that which brought down the original UFO in Roswell. Indian wisemen realized this over 2,000 years ago. They hid here, and watched their own culture die. The original shadow government.

Cigarette Smoking Man

Leaves me to tell you what Mulder's afraid to, Agent Scully.

Mulder

Come on, let's go.

Cigarette Smoking Man

It's a scary story. Want to come sit on my lap?

Scully

..You don't scare me.

Cigarette Smoking Man

My story's scared every president since Truman in '47.

Mulder

(To Scully) You don't have to hear this.

Scully

No, I wanna hear it, Mulder.

Cigarette Smoking Man

Ten centuries ago the Mayans were so afraid that their calendar stopped on the exact date that my story begins. December 22, the year 2012. The date of the final alien invasion. Mulder can confirm the date - He saw it at Mount Weather.. where our own 'Secret Government' will be hiding when it all comes down.

Mulder

Yeah, you smile... feeling drunk with power. The power to do nothing.

Cigarette Smoking Man

My power comes from telling you. Seeing your powerlessness hearing it.. They wanted to kill you, Fox. I protected you all these years.. waiting for this moment... to see you broken. Afraid. Now you can die.