The X-Files · Season 2
Are you about to ask what a normal person like me is doing in a place like this?
How do you define normal?
Misha, red wine... I don't. How do you?
All I know is... normal is not what I feel.
You've lost someone. Not a lover... a friend.
Don't you want to live forever?
Not if drawstring pants come back in style.
Eternal life. Smashed mirrors. Blood drinking. Should I be issuing my men stakes and cloves of garlic?
Only if they're hungry.
It's a stiff price, though. Look at yourself - drinking blood, living in darkness, unable to see your reflection in a mirror. Or is that just a myth?
I can't be seen in a mirror. Look… anything worth anything has a price and when I'm standing next to your deathbed looking as young as I look right now and I see that fear in your eyes at the moment of death … then, then tell me the price is too stiff.
It's more likely I'll be looking in your eyes at the moment before they lead you into the gas chamber. That's a moment you won't have to face if you tell me where the others are.
Why would I? They're the only ones that can kill me.
Well, if you are what you say you are, I know what can kill you.
Look, what nobody realizes is that there is no afterlife. I know this. Listen, listen, I know this because when we prolong our lives by taking theirs all I see is such …horror in their eyes and that's because at that moment they're face-to-face with death and then suddenly they realize there's nothing else. There's no heaven. There's no soul. There's just rot and there's just decay. And I will never, ever, ever, ever have to face that.
We'll rise up! You can't kill us! You're not one of us!
But I will be. I'm tasting the blood of a believer.
[getting nervous] But you haven't taken a life.
I'll take mine.
Don't do that. Don't do that! Don't! Don't! Don't! No! Don't! Don't!
Get that gun out of my face!
This high-capacity compact Sig Sauer .40 caliber weapon is pointed at your head to stress my insistence that your search for who put your partner on that respirator desist immediately!
You ignore my call for help and then you expect me to do what you say-- you go to hell!
You got him killed! You got her killed! That's not going to happen to me! You're my tool, you understand? I come to you when I need you! Right now, you're heading in a direction that can lead them right here.
What the hell are you talking about?
You're not supposed to know. That's the point.
I owe her more than just sitting around doing nothing.
She was a good soldier, Mulder, but there's nothing you can do to bring her back.
She's not dead.
(laughing) Listen to you. Listen. You're a damn schoolboy, Mulder. You have no idea. No idea!
Okay, then tell me. Tell me!
...I used to be you. I was where you are now. But you're not me, Mulder. I don't think you have the heart. Walk away. Grieve for Scully and then never look back. You will be able to live with yourself, Mulder... on the day you die.
There is no police report of this incident, Agent Mulder, and there is no body. You know that.
Since I am unfamiliar with any such incident, sir, no, how would I know that?
Knock it off!
How's it feel? Constant denial of everything, questions answered with a question.
I want to know what happened, damn it.
Him. That's what happened. CANCER MAN! He's responsible for what happened to Scully!
How do you know that?
It's a rumor. Who is he?
It's not your...
Oh, you can have it all, you can have my badge, you can have the X-Files, just tell me where he is.
And then what? He sleeps with the fishes? We're not the mafia, Agent Mulder. I know it's easy to forget but we work for the Department of Justice.
That's what I want.
Agent Scully was a fine officer. More than that... I liked her. I respected her. We all know the field we play on and we all know what can happen in the course of a game. If you were unprepared for all the potentials, then you shouldn't step on the field.
Don't try and threaten me, Mulder. I've watched presidents die.
Hello, Starbuck. It's Ahab. People would say to me, life is short - kids, they grow up fast, before you know it, it's over. I never listened. To me life went at a proper pace, there were rewards until the moment that I knew, I understood, I would never see you again. My little girl. Then my life felt as if it had been the length of one breath, one heartbeat. I never knew how much I loved my daughter until could never tell her. At that moment I would have traded every medal, every commendation, every promotion for one more second with you. We'll be together again, Starbuck. But not now. Soon.
I don't have to be psychic to see that you're in a very dark place. Much darker than where my sister is. Willingly walking deeper into darkness cannot help her at all Only the light...
[disgustedly] Oh, enough! - with the harmonic convergence crap, okay, you're not saying anything to me.
[angrily] Why don't you just drop your cynicism and your paranoia and your defeat. You know, just because it's positive and good, doesn't mean it's silly or trite.
When I was eighteen, I, uh... I went to Vietnam. I wasn't drafted, Mulder, I- I enlisted in the Marine Corps the day of my eighteenth birthday. I did it on a blind faith. I did it because I believed it was the right thing to do. I don't know, maybe I still do. Three weeks into my tour, a ten-year-old North Vietnamese boy walked into camp covered with grenades and I, uh... I blew his head off from a distance of ten yards. I lost my faith. Not in my country or in myself, but in everything. There was just no point to anything anymore. One night on patrol, we were, uh... caught... and everyone- everyone fell. I mean, everyone. I looked down at my body from outside of it. I didn't recognize it at first. I watched the V.C. strip my uniform, take my weapon and I remained in this thick jungle... peaceful... unafraid... watching my- my dead friends. Watching myself. In the morning, the corpsmen arrived and put me in a body bag until... I guess they found a pulse. I woke in a Saigon hospital two weeks later. I'm afraid to look any further beyond that experience. You? You are not. Your resignation is unacceptable.
(realizing) You. (exhales heavily) You gave me Cancer Man's location. You put your life in danger.
Agent Mulder, every life, every day, is in danger. That's just life.
I feel, Scully... that you believe... you're not ready to go. And you've always had the strength of your beliefs. I don't know if my being here... will help bring you back. But I'm here.
I brought you a present. It's a video. Superstars of the Superbowls.
I knew there was a reason to live.
Hello, Fox.
[smiles] Not Fox. Mulder. [opens her eyes]
Mulder: How you feeling?
[suddenly, apologetically] Mulder, I don't remember anything. After Duane Barry...
[shakes his head] Doesn't... doesn't matter.
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