You have to be willing to see.
I wish it were that simple.
Scully, you have to believe me. Nobody else on this whole damn planet does or ever will. You're my one in five billion.
S5 E19Folie a Deux
What did you tell him?
The truth … as well as I understand it.
Which is?
Folie a deux. A madness shared by two.
S5 E20The End
You know, when I first met you I figured you were just ambitious. Then this morning my opinion changed and I thought you were arrogant. Now I'm beginning to wonder what you're protecting.
FSFBI Special Agent Jeffrey Spender
I'm just trying to run this thing right. Not like some ridiculous, paranormal free-for-all.
You're insulting me when you should be taking notes. Somehow you got the big assignment, but just because you're wearing the suit doesn't mean it fits.
FSFBI Special Agent Diana Fowley
Been too many years trying to get inside the head of too many Arab terrorists.. I'm out of practice with this stuff. But you seem at the top of your game.
That's all I do. That's all I've been doing for the last five years. It's... been my life - such as it is.
[Approaches Spender in a parking garage] Agent Spender.. I need to speak with you.
Who are you?
Somebody who's taken an interest in you - In this case of yours.. This case I gave you.
[looks around, approaches CSM] ... What are you? CIA? NSA?
You're a bright boy.
You said you had information.
..Control the board. Know which men to sacrifice and when.
I don't know what you're talking about.
Don't become part of someone else's cause or crusade. Pursue your own self-interest - Always.
So this kid is a human oddity. Tell me why anyone would go to such lengths as to kill him?
This kid may be the key not just to all human potential, but to all spiritual unexplained paranormal phenomena - The key to everything in The X-Files.
S6 E1The Beginning
AMAD Maslin
Agent Mulder... Agent Mulder, I'm reading here a very pie-in-the-sky report about global domination plans by vicious, long-clawed spacelings? Is there going to be data to back this vague, omnibus account?
Yes.
A1AD #1
I see your renowned arrogance has been left quite intact.
There was some sloppiness in Phoenix where they found the body. The local PD got involved. These were taken at the scene by a crime reporter.
These were run in the press?
I trumped up a story about a crazy Indian on the loose. Never underestimate the public's willingness to blame the Red Man for... anything they can't explain.
Mulder, I just want to remind you that by not informing local PD we are in technical violation of state laws prohibiting contamination of a crime scene. (Mulder pays no attention to her; mutters) Why do I bother?
[Scrapes nail from wall] Ah. Somebody broke a nail.
Is it an animal?
Well, it ain't RuPaul.
What does it take? For this thing to come up and bite you on the ass? I saw these creatures. I saw them burst to life. You would've seen them, too but you were infected with that virus. You were passed out over my shoulder.
Mulder, I know what you did. I know what happened to me but without ignoring the science, I can't... Listen, Mulder... (takes his hand) You told me that my science kept you honest. That it made you question your assumptions. That by it, I'd made you a whole person. If I change now... It wouldn't be right... or honest.
I'm talking about extraterrestrial life alive on this planet in our lifetime. Forces that dwarf and precede all human history. I'm sorry, Scully, but this time your science is wrong. (walks away)
Why are you here?
GGibson
They were using me 'cause I can communicate with it.
Communicate with what?
GGibson
You already know. You just don't want to believe it.
[Mulder and Scully glance at each other]
You're not supposed to come here. It's what was agreed to. It's the deal you made.
I had to congratulate you. Commend how you handled things. How you handled Mulder.
I did what I was asked.
You did well, son. He's on very thin ice now, you know?
Mulder will be back. As long as he lives, he won't give up.
Well, there's solutions, of course. Simple but extreme solutions. I've used these methods. They have their place. But not here.
(surprised) You've killed men?
You can kill a man but you can't kill what he stands for... Not unless you first break his spirit. That's a beautiful thing to see.
It would help if you'd shut the door. It would make it harder for them to see that I'm totally disregarding everything I was told.
(closing the door) Everything we were told, Mulder.
They can't take away the X-Files, Scully. They tried.
You know, Agent Fowley's report to OPR painted the facts in an interesting way. I hope you haven't been betrayed.
(not looking at her) Agent Fowley's report was a means to an end. Trying to protect the work. Protect the X-Files.
Mulder, Agent Fowley's report states that the man you saw attacked was bludgeoned by an unknown subject. She makes no mention of a little boy who as it happens, is nowhere to be found. It would seem that her report protects everything but you.
Agent Fowley took me to that plant at great risk to herself where I saw something that you refuse to believe in. Saw it again, Scully. And though it may not say it in her report, Diana saw it, too. And no matter what you think she's certainly not going to go around saying that just because science can't prove it isn't true.
I don't doubt what you saw, Mulder. I don't doubt you. I'm willing to believe, but not in a lie and not in the opposite of what I can prove. It comes down to a matter of trust. [He looks up at her] I guess it always has.
You asking me to make a choice?
I'm asking you to trust my judgment. To trust me. [Hands him a folder]
I can't accept that. Not if it refutes what I know to be true.
Mulder, these are test results. DNA from the claw nail we found matching exactly the DNA from the virus you believe is extraterrestrial.
[Takes the folder and looks at the papers inside] That's the connection.
Which matches exactly DNA that was found in Gibson Praise.
Wait a minute. I don't understand. You're saying that Gibson Praise is infected with the virus?
No. It's a part of his DNA. In fact, it's a part of all of our DNA. It's called a genetic remnant. It's inactive junk DNA. Except in Gibson it's turned on.
So if that were true, that would mean that Gibson is in some part extraterrestrial.
It would mean that all of us are.
S6 E2Drive
Uh, Virgil Nokes? I'm Agent Scully. This is Agent Mulder. We're with the FBI.
(Mulder, in dark sunglasses, leans against one of the porch supports very bored and petulant, eating sunflower seeds.)
FFarmer
Jehovah's Witness?
No, sir. Federal Bureau of Investigation.
But we do have a free copy of the Watchtower for you if you'd like.
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