I know. I missed the meeting.
You didn't miss the meeting. You're extraordinarily late for the meeting. It's still going on.
What are you doing down here?
We took a short break and I came looking for you. What are you doing down here, Mulder?
(sarcastically) I'm having the best damn day of my life. Any moment I'm about to burst into song. (dryly) "Zip a dee doo dah." My, uh, waterbed sprung a leak and shorted out my alarm clock. (Scully looks surprised) My cell phone got wet and crapped out on me and the check I wrote my landlord to cover the, uh, damages is going to bounce if I don't deposit my pay. You ever have one of those days, Scully?
Since I've been working here? Yeah. When did you get a waterbed, Mulder?
(he pauses, thinking; ignores the question) Bank's just down the street. I'll be back in ten. Cover for me, will you? (leaves)
(to herself) When do I not?
I know. I missed the meeting.
Well, not yet, but, uh, only because it's the longest in FBI history.
What are you doing down here, then?
Well, I came looking for you. We took a five-minute break (looks at watch) three minutes ago. Mulder, your cell phone's not working. (He glances up at her.) Did you oversleep?
Scully, did you ever have one of those days you wish you could rewind and start all over again from the beginning?
Yes. Frequently. But, I mean, who's... who's to say that if you did rewind it and start over again that it wouldn't end up exactly the same way?
So you think it's all just fate? We have no free will?
No, I think that we're free to be the people that we are - good, bad or indifferent. I think that it's our character that determines our fate.
And all the rest is just preordained? I don't buy that. There's too many variables. Too many forks in the road. I meant to be on time to work this morning but my waterbed springs a leak flooding my apartment (Scully looks surprised) and the apartment below me so that makes me late for the meeting. Then I realize I got to write a check to cover the damages to my landlord but, as I'm walking to work, I realize that that's gonna bounce unless I deposit my pay. So now I got to go to the bank, which makes me even later.
(curious) Since when did you get a waterbed?
I might just as easily not have a waterbed then I'd be on time for this meeting. You might just as easily have stayed in medicine and not gone into the FBI, and then we would never have met. Blah, blah, blah...
Free will. With every choice, you change your fate.
I just got the weirdest sensation of deja vu. I've been having it all morning.
Well, that's fairly common.
Yeah, but never to this degree. I mean, I woke up, I opened my eyes I was soaking wet... (Scully looks confused and curious) It's a long story but I had the distinct sensation that I had lived that moment before.
Well, you may have. Did you do a lot of drinking in college?
