ABThe Alien Bounty Hunter
Everything dies.
S4 E1Herrenvolk
Nothing happens in contradiction to nature, only in contradiction to what we know of it. And that's a place to start. That's where the hope is.
The fiercest enemy is the man that has nothing left to lose.
S4 E2Home
(Listing the evidence she's found at the scene while Mulder plays with a baseball.) The angle of movement and deeper indentation on the right side of the mark suggest a left-handed individual. I've collected soil specimens and although numerous shoe impressions remain from the sandlot game, I think a couple of stone casts would prove invaluable to the investigation. (Pauses for response; he ignores her) Meanwhile, I've quit the FBI and have become a spokesperson for the ab-roller.
Smell that. (Holds the baseball in front of her nose.) It's perfume. God this brings back a lot of memories of my sister... All-day pickup games out on the vineyard. Ride your bikes down to the beach, eat bologna sandwiches. Only place you had to be on time was home for dinner. Never had to lock your doors. No modems, no faxes, no cell phones.
Mulder, if you had to do without a cell phone for two minutes, you'd lapse into catatonic schizophrenia.
Scully, you don't know me as well as you think you do. You know I'm a working man and I live in a big city, but if I had to settle down? Build a home? It'd be in a place like this.
(Dryly) It'd be like living in Mayberry.
SSheriff
This is my deputy, Barney.
Fife?!
BBarney
(Sighing, frustrated) Pastor!
(Discussing the murdered baby's long list of birth defects) Imagine all a woman's hopes and dreams for her child, and for Nature to turn so cruel... What must a woman go through?
Apparently not much in this case, if she'd just throw it out with the trash.
(Sadly) I- I guess I was just projecting on myself.
Why, is there a history of genetic abnormalities in your family?
No.
(Grinning) Well, just find yourself a man with a spotless genetic makeup and a really high tolerance for being second-guessed and start pumping out the little uber-Scullys.
(Smiles back) What about your family?
Aside from the need for corrective lenses and the tendency to be abducted by extraterrestrials involved in an international governmental conspiracy, the Mulder family passes genetic muster.
We all have a natural instinct to propagate.
Do we?
Scully. (She stops walking and turns around. He smiles.) I never saw you as a mother before.
PMrs. Peacock
Right arm was torn off. Saw it sitting there across my dead husband's lap. Boys took me home... sewed me up just like the family learnt in the War of Northern Aggression. Whole time, felt the same as if been making breakfast...They're such good boys.
Mrs. Peacock, they murdered Sheriff Taylor and his wife. And Deputy Pastor.
PMrs. Peacock
I can tell you don't have no children. Maybe one day you'll learn... the pride... the love... when you know your boy will do anything for his mother.
I think the way it goes here is that Edmund is both the father and brother of the other two.
Does that mean that when Edmund was a kid, he got to ground his brothers for playing with his things?
Don't worry, Mulder. In time, we'll catch them.
I think time already caught them, Scully.
S4 E5The Field Where I Died
[As Mulder and Scully look out over a misty field where Melissa claims she died during her past life.]]
MSMelissa/Sarah
[v.o., whispering] I am he that liveth and was dead. And behold, I am alive, forevermore.
(Revelations 1:18)
[At both the beginning and ending of the episode, Mulder looks at aged photographs in the field where he died in a past life.]
[v.o.] At times I almost dream I too have spent a life the sages' way, and tread once more familiar paths. Perchance I perished in an arrogant self-reliance an age ago. And in that act a prayer for one more chance went up so earnest, so... Instinct with better light let in by death that life was blotted out not so completely, but scattered, wrecks enough of it to remain dim memories, as now, when seems, once more, the goal in sight again.
(Robert Browning, "Paracelsus")
S4 E7Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man
Life... is like a box of chocolates - A cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that nobody ever asks for. Unreturnable, because all you get back is another box of chocolates. So, you're stuck with this undefinable whipped-mint crap that you mindlessly wolf down when there's nothing else left to eat. (sighs) Sure, once in a while, there's a.. peanut butter cup, or an English toffee. But they're gone too fast, and the taste is.. fleeting. So you end up with nothing but broken bits filled with hardened jelly and teeth-shattering nuts - If you're desperate enough to eat those, all you've got left is a... is an empty box... filled with useless, brown paper wrappers.
CICaller ID
Saddam Hussein Line 2.
Call back.
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