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S5 E4Detour

(trying to start a fire with stones) You were an Indian guide. Help me out here.

(leaning against a log, as he's been injured) Indian guide says maybe you should run to the store and get some matches.

I would, but I left my wallet in the car. [Sits next to him, gets out her gun]

What are you doing?

Trying to open my gun. [Takes the clip out] If I can separate the shell from the casing, maybe I can get the powder to ignite.

Mm. And maybe it'll start raining weenies and marshmallows.

Do I detect a hint of negativity?

No! Yes, actually. Yeah.

Mulder, you need to keep warm. Your body's still in shock.

I was told once that the best way to regenerate body heat is to crawl naked into a sleeping bag with somebody else who was already naked. (scoots closer to her)

(grinning) Maybe if it rained sleeping bags, you'll get lucky. [Mulder looks up at Scully in surprise; she continues working on getting the bullet apart.] You ever thought seriously about dying?

Yeah, once, when I was at the Ice Capades.

[Gives him a look, then goes back to the bullet.] When I was fighting my cancer, I was angry at the injustice of it, and its meaninglessness. Then I realized that that was a struggle - to give it meaning, to make sense of it. It's like life.

I think nature is supremely indifferent to whether we live or die. I mean, if you're lucky, you get 75 years, if you're really lucky you get 80 years, and if you're extraordinarily lucky, you get to live 50 of those years with a decent head of hair.

(chuckles) I guess it's like Las Vegas. The house always wins. [The bullet suddenly pops open.] Oh! (sings) Ta-da!

Go girl! [Scully gets up to pour the gunpowder from the bullet into the makeshift campfire.] Hey, who did you identify with when you were a kid - Wilma or Betty?

I identified with Betty's bustline.

Yes! I did too.

I could never have been married to Barney though. The kids were cute.

Yeah. But where are they today?

[Uses the rocks to strike a spark into the gunpowder, which instantly burns up and doesn't light the sticks. Looks at Mulder.] Moth Men? Really?

Yeah. But there seem to be only two of 'em. [Scully sighs and goes back to sit next to Mulder, then puts an arm around his shoulder and starts pulling him closer.] I don't wanna wrestle!

(laughs) Get over here. I'm gonna try and keep you warm. [She pulls him over so he's curled up on her lap, her arms around him.] Sorry.

One of us has got to stay awake, Scully.

You sleep, Mulder.

If you get tired, you wake me.

I'm not gonna get tired.

Why don't you sing something?

(firmly) No, Mulder.

If you sing something, I'll know you're awake.

Mulder, you don't want me to sing. I can't carry a tune.

It doesn't matter. Just sing anything.

(sighs; sings, out of tune) Jeremiah was a bullfrog, was a good friend of mine. Never understood a single word he said, but I helped him drink his wine.

Chorus.

(continues singing) Joy... to the world. All the boys and girls. Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea. Joy to you and me.

S5 E5The Post-Modern Prometheus

Why are you humoring them, Mulder?

I'm not humoring them, Scully. This is a very serious crime.

So is perjury. So is calling out FBI. agents under false pretenses.

For the purpose of what?

Isn't it obvious? I think what we're seeing here is an example of a culture for whom daytime talk shows and tabloid headlines have become a reality against which they measure their lives. A culture so obsessed by the media and a chance for self-dramatization that they'll do anything in order to gain a spotlight.

I am alarmed that you would reduce these people to a cultural stereotype. Not everybody's dream is to get on Jerry Springer.

Psychologists often speak of the denial of an unthinkable evil or a misplacement of shared fears, anxieties taking the form of a hideous monster for whom the most horrific human attributes can be ascribed. What we can't possibly imagine ourselves capable of we can blame of the ogre, on the hunchback, on the lowly half-breed. Common sense alone will tell you that these legends, these unverified rumors, are ridiculous.

But nonetheless, unverifiable and, therefore, true in the sense that they're believed to be true.

Is there anything that you don't believe in, Mulder?

S5 E7Emily

It begins where it ends...in nothingness. A nightmare born from deepest fears, coming to me unguarded...whispering images unlocked from time and distance. A soul unbound - touched by others but never held. On a course charted by some unseen hand. The journey ahead promising no more than my past reflecting back upon me. Until at last, I reach the end, facing a truth I can no longer deny. Alone, as ever.

Who is the man who would create a life whose only hope is to die?

I don't know.. But that you found her, and you had a chance to love her - Maybe she was meant for that, too.

S5 E8Kitsunegari

PTPhysical therapist

That gunshot wound did a hell of a lot of damage. (looks at Mulder, realizing) ...you're the officer that shot him.

[Looking around at room covered in painted kanji symbols.] I'm gonna take a wild stab here and guess this is a clue.

Scully, just trace the call and cut off any access that woman has to a phone! I'm heading back now.

Mulder, I'm not at the safe house.

You're not?

We're at the Chaimbridge Mall investigating a suicide.

(frustrated) Why isn't anybody picking up at the safehouse switchboard?!

(sighs and hangs up; turns to US Marshalls) Back in the trucks.

(sarcastically) That's one hell of a plan, Mulder. The serial killer makes us believe that he's guilty, in turn diverting suspicion away from the real estate lady?

Mulder, a moment please? [Mulder pauses, turns around; Skinner approaches.] I just wanted to say you did a good job.

How's that?

Nobody could've figured this out but you. You knew it was Linda Bowman and not Modell. You were way ahead of me.

I almost killed my partner.

Mulder, despite that, you prevailed. You won her game.

How come I feel like I lost?

S5 E9Schizogeny

(about man who died after swallowing 12 pounds of mud; smiling) Is it possible that he took the term "mud pie" literally?

His mother said that Bobby can't make friends. He's been in therapy for his anger since 1995.

(grin) That could be me.

[Mulder comes in carrying a plastic evidence bag.]

BBobby

What is that?

(points to word "Evidence" clearly written on the bag) Evidence.

(as he climbs a tree) Hey, Scully, is this demonstration of boyish agility turning you on at all?

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