(voiceover) Every minute of every day we choose. Who we are. Who we forgive. Who we defend and protect. To choose a side or to walk the line. To play the middle. To straddle the fence between what is and what should be. This was the course I chose. Trying to find the delicate balance of interests that can never exist. Choosing by not choosing. Defending a center which cannot hold. So death chose for me.
“S.R. 819” · Season 6, Episode 9
In this episode: Fox Mulder (4), Walter Skinner (3), Dana Scully (2)
What happened today? Anything out of the ordinary?
I'm not going to play this game.
Look, it could've been anything. It could have been the slightest touch, or a handshake.
This morning, you woke up...
I woke up.
Alone?
(defensive) Yes. Alone.
TDTunisian diplomat
(something Arabic and angry)
Yeah, so's your mom.
SSSkinner's assistant
(hearing someone going through Skinner's things in his office, opens the door) Sir? Is that you? (sees that it's actually Mulder) Agent Mulder!
Hey, do you have the key to this drawer?
(looking at hairs from a blonde wig) Don't hate me 'cause I'm beautiful.
[Scully enters Skinner's room at the hospital. He looks very sick, but smiles as she enters.]
Sir, there's something I'd like to try. It's a treatment called therapeutic plasmapheresis. It requires filtering all of the blood in your body. It's a radical procedure and there is a danger that your body might go into shock.
I'm in your hands. (weakly) I think I owe you an apology, Scully. You and Mulder.
Sir?
I've been lying here thinking. Your quest... it should have been mine.
What do you mean?
If I die now, I die in vain. I have nothing to show for myself. My life...
Sir, you know that's not true.
It is. I can see now that... I always played it safe. I wouldn't take sides. Wouldn't let you and Mulder... pull me in.
You've been our ally more times than I can say.
Not the kind of ally that I could have been. (Scully touches his wrist gently)
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