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The X-Files · Season 4, Episode 17

“Tempus Fugit” quotes from The X-Files

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“Tempus Fugit” · Season 4, Episode 17

In this episode: Fox Mulder (6), Dana Scully (3)

(sarcastically) I didn't know it was your birthday, Scully.

Mulder, ... you have never remembered my birthday in the four years I've known you.

That's the way I like to celebrate them ... It's every four years, it's like dog years that way.

Dog years? Thank you.

MMMike Millar

(to Mulder, sarcastically) And if any of the capable men and women find... Doctor Spock's phaser or some green alien goo, we'll be sure to give you all the credit.

(to Mulder, sarcastically) You sure know how to make a girl feel special on her birthday.

Nine minutes, Scully. Do you remember the last time you were missing nine minutes?

These men are trained to identify moving parts. Hydraulics, electronics. They're trained to reconstruct those parts and the past and arrive at the present. But they can't do that because somebody has stolen the past from them. Nine minutes of it. Nine minutes that became a lifetime for those passengers, and now for their families. Someone has got to figure out what happened in those nine minutes. Somehow, we've got to get them back.

(About to scuba dive to the bottom of a lake) Once, I got a quarter off the deep end at the Y pool!

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