The X-Files quotes

Scully

I just got the toxicology report back on the broken vial. The residual substance couldn't be analyzed because it contained synthetic corticosteroids with unidentified amino acids. That's "Purity Control," Mulder.

Mulder

(to the deputy) Book him. (To Scully) Do you know what you're saying, Scully?

Scully

The man who died in that plane crash, Dr. Larson, was inoculating those kids with antibodies derived from what may have been an extraterrestrial source.

Mulder

He's been injecting those kids with alien DNA.

Scully

No, Mulder, that was never proven conclusively.

Mulder

But it's the same substance we found in the Erlenmeyer flask, isn't it? The same material our Deep Throat contact died for.

Scully

Yes.

Mulder

Well, it all makes sense. The money in the briefcase, they've been conducting an experiment here. Somebody's been paying to have those kids injected with alien DNA to see how they'd react. It's been going on for years.

Scully

Good morning.

Mulder

Whatever tape you found in that VCR, it isn't mine.

Scully

Good, because I put it back in that drawer with all those other videos that aren't yours.

Scully

[playing a video tape] This is Michelle Charters. She's a registered nurse at a convalescent home in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Mulder

What happened to her?

Scully

According to Miss Charters, she was raped. The abrasions and contusions here would be consistent with her claims as would be the medical report which cites the kind of injury and tearing associated with sexual trauma.

Mulder

Where did you get this? Violent Crimes?

Scully

No. The woman made the video herself. It seems that no one will believe her story.

Mulder

Why not?

Scully

Because she claims to have been raped by an invisible entity. A spirit being.

Mulder

I have several X-Files that document similar cases.

Scully

I know. I've been here since 6:00 this morning going through them.

Mulder

Well, then you know none of them have ever been substantiated.

Scully

Not surprisingly.

Mulder

Given the emotional and psychological violence of rape, the face or identity of the attacker is often blurred or erased from memory. That he could be perceived as invisible is a logical leap for me.

Scully

Yes. But this case is different.

Mulder

Why?

Scully

The victim has filed a lawsuit against the government. She seems to be certain who the spirit being is.

Mulder

I think you're right, Scully.

Scully

About?

Mulder

What's been happening is the result of the medication, but not the medication the Doctor's been giving them.

Scully

Mulder, mushrooms aren't medication. They taste good on hamburgers, but they don't raise the dead.

Mulder

Shamans have used them for centuries to gain entrance to the spirit world.

Scully

I think you've been reading too much Carlos Castaneda.

Mulder

Ask any anthropologist then.

Scully

I know --- a shaman gets intoxicated, he has dreams or hallucinations, and he interprets them. I don't think it's any more magical than that.

Mulder

I don't know how else to explain what's happening here.

Scully

Well, I think, if anything, these mushrooms are a poison to the system and I think that's what killed Hal Arden.

Mulder

And raped Michelle Charters and killed those two orderlies? Something's been unleashed here, Scully. I don't know how to explain it, but it has something to do with those pills.

Mulder

I...I think you're looking too hard, Scully, for something that's not there. I think Michelle Charters concocted this story to get out of a job she hates.

Scully

Her lip required 13 stitches. The blow to her head resulted in a subdural hematoma. That's quite a concoction.

Scully

What if there's a connection?

Mulder

Between the rape case and the Alzheimer's? When they're not drawing childlike pictures they're brutal sex offenders?

Scully

Dr. Grago's therapy produces acetylcholine. Too much cholinergic activity causes a psychotic state similar to schizophrenia.

Mulder

You think that Michelle Charters was raped by a 74-year-old schizophrenic?

Scully

It's possible.

Mulder

An invisible 74-year-old schizophrenic?

Scully

Well, maybe it's not in the medication. Maybe it's the place itself.

Mulder

Are you saying that the building's haunted? If you are, you've been working with me for too long, Scully.

Scully

I'm talking about an environmental reason behind what's happening there. Even the disinfectant couldn't mask that smell. Who knows what's breeding behind the walls or in the sub-structure. Some fungal contaminants have been known to cause delusions, dementia, violent behavior.

Mulder

I've always figured that dreams are answers to questions we haven't figured out how to ask yet.

Scully

Mulder, I don't think BJ was in the woods that night because of engine failure.

Mulder

What are you talking about?

Scully

Well, the Motel Black would have been a perfect meeting place. Away from town, away from his wife.

Mulder

What do you mean?

Scully

It's obvious BJ and Tillman are having an affair.

Mulder

How do you know?

Scully

A woman senses these things.

Scully

What's your interest in this case?

Mulder

During their time, Chaney's and Ledbetter's ideas weren't very well received by their peers. Using psychology to solve a crime was something like, um ...

Scully

Believing in the paranormal?

Mulder

Exactly. There's another mystery.

Scully

Which is?

Mulder

Well, I'd like to know why this policewoman would suddenly drive her car into a field the size of Rhode Island and for no rhyme or reason dig up the bones of a man who's been missing for fifty years. I mean, unless there was a neon sign saying "Dig Here" --

Scully

I guess that's why we're going to Aubrey.

Mulder

Yes, and also I've always been intrigued by women named B.J.

Mulder

Well, on a basic cellular level, we're the sum total of all our ancestors' biological matter. But what if more than biological traits get passed down from generation to generation? What if I like sunflower seeds because I'm genetically predisposed to liking them?

Scully

But children aren't born liking sunflower seeds. Environments shape them; behavior patterns are taught.

Mulder

There are countless stories of twins separated at birth who end up in the same occupation, marrying the same kind of people, each naming their child Waldo.

Scully

Waldo?

Mulder

Jung wrote about it when he talked about the collective unconscious. It's genetic memory, Scully.

Mulder

Listen to this, Scully. "One must wonder how these monsters are created." Chaney wrote this. "Did their home life mold them into creatures that must maim and kill, or are they demons from birth?"

Scully

Well, that's poetic but it doesn't help us much. What did he say about the 1942 homicides?

Mulder

Well, the press called the murderer "The Slash Killer." His three victims were all young women aged twenty-five to thirty. He disabled them with a blow to the head. He would carve the word "SISTER" on their chests and paint it on the wall with their blood.

Scully

It is somehow easier to believe, as Agent Bocks does, in aliens and UFOs, than in the kind of cold-blooded inhuman monster who could prey on the living to scavenge from the dead.

Mulder

People videotape police beatings on darkened streets. They manage to spot Elvis in three cities across America every day, but no one saw a pretty woman forced off the road in a rental car.

Scully

I know these things. I'm conscious of them. I know the world is full of predators, just as it has always been. And I know it's my job to protect people from them. And I've counted on that fact to give me faith in my ability to do what I do... I want that faith back... I need it back.

Scully

You think you find a way to deal with these things. In med school, you develop a clinical detachment to death. In your FBI training, you are confronted with cases, the most terrible and violent cases. You think you can look into the face of pure evil. And then you find yourself paralyzed by it.