The X-Files · Season 1, Episode 16
“E.B.E.” · Season 1, Episode 16
In this episode: Fox Mulder (6), Dana Scully (3), Deep Throat (3), John Fitzgerald Byers (1)
The world's reaction to such knowledge would be far too dangerous.
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.
That's why we like you, Mulder. Your ideas are weirder than ours.
If a shark stops swimming, it will die. Don't stop swimming.
I tied up an air phone for three hours. I don't speak Japanese, but I think some businessman told me to stick a piece of sushi where the sun don't shine.
You're awfully quiet, Mr. Mulder.
I'm wondering which lie to believe.
From the trucker's description, the shape he fired on could conceivably have been a mountain lion.
Conceivably.
The National Weather Service last night reported atmospheric conditions in this area that were possibly conducive to lightning.
Possibly.
It is feasible that the truck was struck by lightning, creating the electrical failure.
It's feasible.
And you know, there's a marsh over there. The lights the driver saw may have been swamp gas.
Swamp gas?
It's a natural phenonemon in which phospine and methane rising from decaying organic matter ignite, creating globes of blue flame.
Happens to me when I eat Dodger Dogs.
Those were the most paranoid people I have ever met. I don't know how you could think that what they say is even remotely plausible.
I think it's remotely plausible that someone might think you're hot.
Mulder, you're the only one I trust.
Then you're gonna have to trust me.
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