The X-Files Season 1 quotes

I'm selling limited edition prints, twenty dollars. Down to my last five, if you're interested.

Mulder

Put it on my tab.

Scully

(leans over to Mulder) Sucker.

Scully

This looks like an X-File.

Let's not get carried away. I'm going to solve these murders, but what I would like from you is to go over the case histories, maybe come down to the crime scene.

Scully

Do you want me to ask Mulder?

Okay, if he wants to come and do you a favour, great. But make sure he knows this is my case. Dana, if I can break a case like this one, I'll be getting my bump up the ladder. And you, maybe you won't have to be Mrs. Spooky any more.

Mulder

Why would I make them so uncomfortable?

Scully

It probably has to do with your reputation.

Mulder

Reputation? I have a reputation?

Scully

Mulder, look, Colton plays by the book and you don't. They feel your methods, your theories are...

Mulder

Spooky? Do you think I'm spooky?

So, Mulder, what do you think? Does this look like the work of little green men?

Mulder

Grey.

Excuse me?

Mulder

Grey. You said green men. A Reticulan's skin tone is actually grey. They're notorious for their extraction of terrestrial human livers. Due to iron depletion in the Reticulan galaxy.

You can't be serious.

Mulder

Do you have any idea what liver and onions go for on Reticula?

Scully

Mulder, they don't want you involved, they don't want to hear your theories. That's why Blevins has you hidden away down here.

Mulder

You're down here, too.

Scully

Oh my god, Mulder. It smells like... I think it's bile.

Mulder

Is there any way I can get it off my fingers quickly without betraying my cool exterior?

Scully

Is this what it takes to climb the ladder, Colton?

All the way to the top.

Scully

Then I can't wait 'til you fall off and land on your ass.

Scully

I just think it's a good idea not to antagonise local law enforcement.

Mulder

Who, me? I'm Mr. Congeniality.

Scully

You never know, we might need his help one of these days.

Mulder

I'll send him a bundt cake.

Mulder

Hey, that's a nice tattoo, what is that?

What's it look like?

Mulder

Flying saucer. You don't really believe in that stuff, do ya?

I take it you don't.

Mulder

No, I think it's all just a bunch of crazy people howling at the moon.

Mulder

Great.

Scully

What?

Mulder

You shouldn't have told them. They have no jurisdiction.

Scully

Mulder... They're NSA. They think the boy may be a threat to national security.

Mulder

Come on. How could an eight year old boy, who can barely multiply, be a threat to national security? And people call me paranoid.

Mulder

I know I should be afraid, but I'm not.

Do you know why?

Mulder

Because of the voice... The voice in my head.

What's it telling you?

Mulder

Not to be afraid. It's telling me that no harm will come to her and that one day she'll return.

Do you believe the voice?

Mulder

I want to believe.

Scully

At least if we had a legitimate source...

Mulder

This is the essence of science. You ask an impertinent question and you're on your way to a pertinent answer.

Mulder

You know when I was a kid, I had this ritual. I closed my eyes before I walked into my room, 'cause I thought that one day when I opened them my sister would be there. Just lying in bed, like nothing ever happened. You know I'm still walking into that room, everyday of my life.

Mulder

She should be encouraged to tell her story, not to keep it inside, it's important that you let her.

Important to who? I have my daughter back, I don't want any more trouble. Besides she can hardly remember anything.

Mulder

But she will remember one day, one way or another, even if it's only in dreams. And when she does, she's gonna wanna talk about it, she's gonna need to talk about it.

Like I did? Listen to me, all of my life I have been ridiculed, for speaking my mind.

Mulder

But it was the truth, Darlene.

The truth has caused me nothing but heartache, I don't want the same thing for her.

Scully

Mulder, it's the same story I've heard since I was a kid. It's a folk tale, a myth.

Mulder

I heard the same story when I was a kid too. Funny thing is I believed it. Fact is we've got a cannibalised body in New Jersey. Someone or something out there is hungry.