“Born Again” quotes from The X-Files

Best we can figure, it was some kind of payback.

Mulder

For what?

Well, around that time, the organized crime division was doing a major sweep in Chinatown.

Mulder

The Triads.

Yeah. Some very heavy busts went down against the Woo Shing Woo. A lot of smack never made it to the street. You can bet there were some pretty pissed off people playing mahjong that week.

Mulder

So you think that Charlie Morris was killed as a warning to back off?

I think they picked a cop - any cop - and they whacked him.

Mulder

Why is it still so hard for you to believe, even when all the evidence suggests extraordinary phenomena?

Scully

Because sometimes ...

Mulder

What?

Scully

... looking for extreme possibilities makes you blind to the probable explanation right in front of you.

Scully

Do me a favor, Mulder. Let me say it. Reincarnation.

Mulder

Metempsychosis, transmigration, reimbodiment, call it what you will.

Scully

All based on the coincidence that Michelle Bishop and Officer Morris both practice the obscure art of paper folding?

Mulder

Well, what about the composite drawing and the dolls and the fact that Michelle was witness to two deaths that can be tied to Charlie Morris?

Scully

So what, you think he's back like Peter Proud to avenge his murder?

Mulder

It's not so far-fetched, Scully. Reincarnation is a basic tenet of many major religions.

Scully

That still doesn't explain how an eight-year-old girl can kill two grown men.

Mulder

Well, individuals with strong past-life memories often exhibit enhanced psychic abilities - ESP, telekinesis.

Scully

So where does that leave us?

Mulder

One short step away from proving the pre-existence of the human soul.

Scully

Looks like a match.

Yeah. Name's Charlie Morris. Officer Charlie Morris. Used to work narcotics out at the two-seven.

Scully

Do you know him?

No. Before my time.

Scully

Where is he now? Has he been transferred?

You could say that. Agent Scully, this guy's been dead for nine years. Which means that little girl saw... a ghost.

Mulder

... and check for burns or lesions on Barbala's body.

Scully

Why?

Mulder

Psychokinesis is usually associated with an electrical charge.

Scully

Are you saying Michelle possesses the ability to psychically project her own will?

Mulder

How else could a 60-pound kid throw a 200-pound detective out the window?

I was right outside. I'm telling you, there was nobody else there except for Barbala and the kid.

Mulder

So you didn't get a description of who the kid saw?

I'm telling you, there was no one else. Listen. The department is treating this as a suicide, but I gotta tell you. I knew this guy. There's no way he did himself.

Scully

Was he depressed or under psychiatric care of any kind?

No. Only time he ever looked at himself was in the mirror. And he always liked what he saw.

Mulder

Plus jumpers tend to open the window before they jump.