The X-Files quotes

Mulder

We call it the miracle of life. Conception - a union of perfect opposites - essence transforming into existence - an act without which mankind would not exist and humanity cease to exist. Or is this just nostalgia now? An act of biology commandeered by modern science and technology? God-like, we extract, implant, inseminate... and we clone. But has our ingenuity rendered the miracle into a simple trick? In the artifice of replicating life can we become the creator? Then what of the soul? Can it, too, be replicated? Does it live in this matter we call DNA? Or is its placement the opposite of artifice, capable only by God. How did this child come to be? What set its heart beating? Is it the product of a union? Or the work of a divine hand? An answered prayer? A true miracle? Or is it a wonder of technology - the intervention of other hands? What do I tell this child about to be born? What do I tell Scully? What do I tell myself?

This has got to be a conspiracy. (holds up two dolls - one a girl, one a boy)

Aw... Maybe it'll be twins.

Thank you, but I would settle for one very healthy boy.

Oh?

Or girl.

Aww!

So many secrets, Margaret.

Margaret Scully

What do you expect? My daughter works for the FBI.

Doggett

What is this place?

Skinner

An illegal medical facility for the purpose of human cloning. It goes on from here. In fact, it occupies the entire warehouse.

Doggett

You read about these things but you don't imagine they exist.

Skinner

Yeah, just like aliens.

Skinner

Talk to you a minute?

Mulder

(follows him outside) You said there'd been a murder?

Skinner

Yeah, we'll get there. Some business we need to clear up. Personal business. About Scully's baby, about who the father is.

Mulder

(smiles) Ahh... Yeah, I hear there's a pool running down at the FBI, placing bets.

Skinner

I've had my suspicions. That is, until I found out that you had questions. Questions about Scully's pregnancy itself.

Mulder

You want to know who the father is, that's Scully's business. But if you're asking me how a woman who was diagnosed as barren and unable to conceive is about to give birth in a couple days, that's an answer I can't honestly give.

Skinner

Well, I need answers. In light of what we found in there and in light of Scully's due date I need good, hard answers. Fast.

Mulder

Whatever you can't get elsewhere, just throw it together.

Scully

(stops him) Mulder, to go where? No, just stop! Can you tell me what's wrong? Is it something to do with my baby?

Mulder

No, your, your baby is fine. It's you who's in danger now, Scully.

Scully

From who? Mulder, from what?

Mulder

I don't know, I'm not sure. I'm not sure about anything. I just know I got to get you out of here.

Scully

Look, Mulder, look, I can't take this! I can't live like this—as, as the object of some unending X-File.

Mulder

This isn't about the X-Files, Scully. It is only about you. Now, you are going to have this baby and I'm going to do everything I can to protect it. I just can't do that here.

Krycek

If I'm so full of crap, why all the precautions?

Skinner

Precisely because you are so full of crap, Krycek.

Skinner

Your ass stays here.

Reyes

I'm guessing I don't have time to go to the little girls' room?

Mulder

You told me that he told you he knew how to stop Billy Miles. Are you telling me now that you think he's a liar?

Doggett

He is or he isn't. What the hell difference does it really make?

Mulder

It doesn't make any difference at all. Unless you want to protect Scully and that baby.

Doggett

And then what? How long can you keep this up? How long until the next Billy Miles rears his head? The next threat? The next phantom? You ever stop to ask yourself? (Mulder looks a little uncomfortable) All the sacrifice, the blood spilled - you've given nearly a decade of your life. Where the hell is it all going to end?

Mulder

(thinks for a moment; softly) I don't know. Maybe it doesn't.

Krycek

(pointing a gun at Mulder) Doesn't seem fair now.. Doesn't seem right. Coming down to this.

Mulder

What do you know about fair or right, Krycek? You're a coward.

Krycek

I could've killed you so many times, Mulder - You've got to know that. I'm the one that kept you alive. Praying you'd win somehow.

Mulder

Then there really is no God.

Krycek

You think I'm bad. That I'm a killer. We wanted the same thing, brother. That's what you don't understand.

Mulder

I wanted to stop them. All you wanted was to save your own ass.

Krycek

No. I tried to stop them. Tried to kill Scully's baby to stop them. It's too late. The tragedy's that you-you wouldn't let it go. That's why I have to do this. 'Cause you know how deep it goes. Right into the FBI.

Mulder

You want to kill me, Alex, kill me. Like you killed my father. Just don't insult me trying to make me understand.

Mulder

What are you going to call him?

Scully

William. (he looks at her) After your father.

Mulder

Well, I don't know. He's... he's got your coloring and your eyes. But he looks suspiciously like Assistant Director Skinner.

Mulder

I don't quite understand that either. Except that maybe he isn't what they thought he was. That doesn't make him any less of a miracle though, does it?

Scully

From the moment I became pregnant, I feared the truth... about how... and why. And I know that you feared it, too.

Mulder

I think what we feared were the possibilities. The truth we both know.

Scully

Which is what?

Scully

What? What's the matter?

Doggett

What's the matter? I've been trying to call you.

Scully

Yeah, the phone's off the hook, because of the baby.

Doggett

I got panicked that you're not going to be here, that you left, too.

Scully

Come in.

Doggett

I've been looking for Mulder. I went to his apartment.

Scully

I know.

Doggett

Where did he go? Dana... where'd he go?

Scully

He's gone. He's just gone.

Reyes

[answering phone] Monica Reyes.

Scully

Yeah. It's Scully.

Reyes

Dana, what's wrong? Are you all right?

Scully

Is Agent Doggett there?

Reyes

Yeah, he's right here with me. [She hands the phone to Doggett]

Doggett

Dana. Something wrong?

Scully

Yeah. Yeah, something. [The mobile over William Scully's cot was spinning by inself] I think I might have been wrong, telling you to drop your investigation.

Doggett

Well, I didn't drop it. As a matter of fact, we found something, I'm not sure how it fits, but we're working on it.

Scully

What is it?

Doggett

A body.

Frohike

(sarcastically) Collecting for the needy and unemployed. Open the door.

Doggett

(opening the door) Thanks for doing this, guys.

Byers

Yeah, like we got anything better to be doing these days. [referring to the cancellation of their own series]

Skinner

Hi. Sorry about the hour.

Scully

I've just put him down.

Skinner

(troubled) I couldn't talk on the phone.

Scully

What is it?

Skinner

I was told to leave this alone. You and Mulder asked me to leave it be. To let Mulder disappear. We were concerned for the safety of the baby and for Mulder. Why am I risking that now? Why are you? Why are you getting mixed up with Doggett's investigation?

Scully

(looking away) Something happened, with my baby.

Skinner

What?

Scully

I can't explain it. It's er, it's unexplainable, it's, um, not normal.

Skinner

Whatever it is, I think you've made a terrible mistake. Letting Doggett pull you into this. He's hell-bent. And Agent Reyes is following right in his tracks.

Scully

I need answers. I need to know. I can't just sit around wondering-

Skinner

If you can't tell me, tell Mulder. Tell him what happened.

Scully

Mulder can't know. He can't be brought back into this. He can't be brought back into the FBI. It's just too dangerous for him right now.

Skinner

(pauses) ..It's too dangerous for everyone.