(voiceover) We live in a darkness of our own making... blind to a habitant world all but unseen by us. A world of beings traveling through time and space imaginable to us only as flights of fancy. Who are these beings we dare to imagine but fear to accept? What dark work goes on inside their impossible machines... cloaked from us by invisible forces? If they know our secrets, why can't we know theirs?
S8 E2Without
This has gone too far, Scully.
No. That's what's wrong here. It hasn't gone far enough. I need those car keys.
And what do you think you're going to do?
(tearing up) Look, we are being hampered here by the FBI, by John Doggett, by doubt, by our own mistrust. Whatever it is, it is working... as long as we let it.
You told me Mulder wouldn't allow it. Wouldn't let me ruin my career over this. Over him. But what about you, Scully? I mean, my god, you've got even more at stake.
(voice cracking; nearly crying) I-I can't take the chance that I'm never going to see him again.
[ending dialog]
(speaking about Mulder) Whatever you and I may differ on.. I'll find him, Agent Scully.
S8 E3Patience
Well... do you have any questions?
(understatement, chuckling) Just a few. Maybe first you could tell me where your area is here and, uh.. where mine's going to be.
(firmly) This is my partner's office, Agent Doggett. You and I will just be using it for a while. (sets Mulder's nameplate on the front of his desk)
You know, there is a more obvious explanation.
Mm-hmm.
The more basic answer is what we're dealing with here is simply a man. A psychotic killer with a deformed foot. You're familiar with the principle of Occam's Razor?
Yeah. You take every possible explanation and you choose the simplest one. Agent Mulder used to refer to it as "Occam's Principle of Limited Imagination."
S8 E4Roadrunners
Can you hot-wire it?
(confident) Can I hot-wire it? Gone in 60 seconds, Jack. We're going to strand these lunatics.
S8 E5Invocation
There are X-files cases that describe similar paranormal findings. Alien abductees, who came back with anomalous medical stats.
You know, these words - "anomalous," "supernatural," "paranormal" - they purport to explain something by not explaining it. It's lazy.
SPSharon Pearl
(looking at watch) Is this going to happen?
Shouldn't you be telling us that?
SPSharon Pearl
(smiles) You're no doubt confused, Agent Doggett. I take psychic readings, not see through walls.
S8 E6Redrum
(knocking on the door) FBI! I saw your curtains move. I know you're in there.
TTrina
(opens door) M-Mr. Wells, I...
MWMartin Wells
Trina, you knew about the Nanny-cam, didn't you? You told the killer about it. You must have given him my key card, too.
TTrina
Mr. Wells, I-I-I wasn't even there that night.
(unholsters his gun) First thing you're supposed to say is: "What nanny-cam?" (pushes the door open suddenly, knocking the man hiding behind it to the ground)
MWMartin Wells
(voiceover) The passage of time in prisons is not in a cell of brick and mortar but in one of hopes dashed and tragedies unaverted. How precious, then, the chance to go back only to discover that in facing the past you must face up to yourself... that exiting the prison of time doesn't free you from the prison of your own character... one from which there is no escape.
S8 E7Via Negativa
If I'm working this case, I'd appreciate a heads up before you tell the Deputy Director any more science fiction stories.
Hey, I don't have another explanation.
Those guys in there are right. This whole story doesn't make a damn bit of sense.
I'm supposed to give those guys in there answers, Agent Doggett. You're supposed to help me do that.
Tipet's on the run. Find him, and we just might.
I'm a good investigator but you know as well as I do I'm not the Agent that should be investigating this case.
Agent Scully can't be here.
You spoke to her?
Tonight. She told me to tell you she's fine. She's taking some personal time.
I've got 22 people dead, and she's taking personal time? (he picks up the phone, frustrated; Skinner grabs it to stop him)
(firmly) You're not listening to what I'm telling you. Do your best without her. (hangs up the phone and walks off)
We all have a third eye. If we could open it, we'd see a new reality, one closer to God. At least that's what Kesey told me on the bus back in '64.
You were not on the bus with Kesey in '64.
Hey, I got the pictures to prove it, my longhaired friend.
Before or after you partied with the Stones at Altamont?
Don't be a boob, Altamont was in '70s.
Whatever.
S8 E8Surekill
Wait, you, you're not saying this guy has X-ray vision?
I am remarking that these wavelengths exist and the only thing that is stopping us from seeing them, if you will, is the biochemical structure of our eyes. I am.. conjecturing that if this structure was somehow different, we'd have the ability to see things that we don't.
(leans in and whispers) Calling Clark Kent.
S8 E9Salvage
(over the phone) What’re you saying? Ray Pearce has become some kind of metal man? 'Cause that only happens in the movies, Agent Scully.
Does it, Agent Doggett? [Sly reference to Patrick's prior role in T2.]
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