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The X-Files · Season 8, Episode 17

Doggett, Reyes and others in “Empedocles”

[Doggett is called to look at a body at a crime scene to see if he was a 'vision' of it appearing burned/ashen.]

Sorry, Agent Reyes - I don't see it. (turns and begins walking away)

I think you do.. You're just afraid to go there.

Whew.. Man, you just keep shooting 'til you hit something, don't you?

You'd rather blind yourself to the connections, but I can't.

You keep talking about these connections - Connections to what? To who?

What if this is a thread of evil, connecting through time.. though men, through opportunity - Connecting back to you? ..In India, in Africa, in Iran, in the Mid-East, in the Far East, most of the world - they take it as a given. They see evil in death the way other people see God in a rose.

I saw Elvis in a potato chip once.

(To Mulder) You know what I'm talking about.

Yes, I do. I do. But if this man doesn't see it, he doesn't see it, right?

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