Deep Throat quotes from The X-Files

Deep Throat

Mulder, the continental United States is surrounded by an electronic fence that reaches 15,000 miles into space. We use it to track and monitor the 7,087 man-made objects that orbit the earth. Last night at 23:17 that fence was breached.

Deep Throat

If a shark stops swimming, it will die. Don't stop swimming.

Deep Throat

[last words] Trust no one.

Deep Throat

(last words) Trust.. no one.

Deep Throat

[standing over an unconscious Mulder] I was first struck by the absence of time, having depended on it so completely as a measure of myself and my life. Moving backwards into the perpetual night - it consumes purpose, indeed, all passion and will. I come to you, old friend, with the dull clarity of the dead, not to beckon, you but to feel the fire and intensity that still live in you... and the heavy weight of your burdens which I had once borne. There is truth you know, friend, if that's all you seek, but there's no justice or judgment, without which truth is a vast... dead... hollow. Go back. Do not look into the abyss or let the abyss look into you; awaken the sleep of reason and fight the monsters within and without.

Deep Throat

Leave this case alone, Agent Mulder.

Mulder

What?

Deep Throat

The military will not tolerate an FBI investigation.

Mulder

Who are you?

Deep Throat

I, er, can be of help to you. I've had a certain interest in your work.

Mulder

How do you know about my work?

Deep Throat

Well, let's just say that I'm in a position to know quite a lot of things, er, things about our government.

Mulder

Who are you? Who do you work for?

Deep Throat

It's unimportant, I came here to give you some valuable advice. You are exposing yourself and Agent Scully to unnecessary risk, I advise you to drop the case.

Mulder

I can't do that.

Deep Throat

You have much work to do, Agent Mulder, don't jeopardise the future of your own efforts.

Deep Throat

Mister Mulder, why are those like yourself, who believe in the existence of extraterrestrial life on this Earth, not dissuaded by all the evidence to the contrary?

Mulder

Because, all the evidence to the contrary is not entirely dissuasive.

Deep Throat

Precisely.

Mulder

They're here, aren't they?

Deep Throat

Mister Mulder, they've been here for a long, long time.

Deep Throat

You won't find him.

Mulder

They can't just take a man like Brad Wilczek without an explanation.

Deep Throat

They can do anything they want.

Mulder

Where is he?

Deep Throat

In the middle of what we in the trade call "hard bargaining".

Mulder

Wilczek won't deal. He'll never work for them.

Deep Throat

Loss of freedom does funny things to a man.

Why did you countermand my decision? Mulder's conduct was in clear violation not only of bureau procedures but of federal law.

Deep Throat

Yes.

I don't understand. The committee's case was air tight. You've ruined the last best chance we had to get rid of him.

Deep Throat

I appreciate your frustration, but you and I both know Mulder's work, his singular passion-- poses a most unique dilemma. But his occasional insubordination is in the end, far less dangerous.

With respect sir, less dangerous than what?

Deep Throat

Than having him exposed to the wrong people. What he knows... what he thinks he knows... Always keep your friends close, Mr. McGrath... but keep your enemies closer.

Deep Throat

Actually I was.. just in the neighborhood... And wondered if I ever told you about the Lichfield Experiments.

Mulder

Hmm.. No you haven't.

Deep Throat

Well, it was the most interesting project. Highest level of classification. All records have since been destroyed. And those who knew of it, will deny knowledge of its existence. Back in the early fifties, during the height of the Cold War, we got wind the Russians were fooling around with Eugenics. Rather primitively, I might add. Trying to crossbreed their top scientists, athletes... to come up with the superior soldier. Naturally, we jumped on the band wagon.

Deep Throat

I know why you've contacted me. Listen and I'll explain. I am not particularly proud of the way in which this matter was handled, but, like it or not, John Barnett is a fact of life.

Mulder

I wish Agent Perdue were around to appreciate the irony.

Deep Throat

The world's reaction to such knowledge would be far too dangerous.

Mulder

Dangerous. You mean in a sense of outrage, like the reaction to the Kennedy assassinations or M.I.A.s or radiation experiments on terminal patients, Watergate, Iran-Contra, Roswell, the Tuskegee experiments, where will it end? Oh, I guess it won't end as long as...men like you decide what is truth.

Deep Throat

You're awfully quiet, Mr. Mulder.

Mulder

I'm wondering which lie to believe.

Mulder

I don't believe you.

Deep Throat

There are limits to my knowledge, Mr. Mulder.

Deep Throat

Calling it a night, Mr. Mulder?

Mulder

My mother usually likes me home before the street lights come on.