Detective Miles identifying a body: Karen Smithson.
Coroner: Is that a positive ID?
Detective Miles: She went to school with my son.
Officer: Would that be the class of '89, Detective? It's happening again, isn't it?

Director: Agent Scully, thank you for coming on such short notice. Sit down. I see you've been with us just over two years.
Dana Scully: Yes sir.
Director: You went to medical school but you chose not to practice. How'd you come to work for the FBI?
Well sir, I was recruited out of medical school. Um, my parents still think of it as an act of rebellion, but I saw it as a place where I could distinguish myself.
Man: Are you familiar with an agent named Fox Mulder?
Scully: Yes, I am.
Man: How so?
Scully: By reputation. He's an Oxford-educated psychologist, who wrote a monograph on serial killers and the occult that helped catch Monty Props in 1988. Generally thought of as the best analyst in the violent crimes section. He had a nickname at the academy. Spooky Mulder.

Director: Are you familiar with the so-called X-Files?
Scully: I believe they have to do with unexplained phenomena.
Director: More or less. The reason you're here, Agent Scully, is we want you to assist Agent Mulder on these X-Files. You will write field reports on your activities along with your observations on the validity of the work.
Scully: Am I to understand that you want me to de-bunk the X-Files project, sir?
Director: Agent Scully, we trust you'll make the proper scientific analysis. You'll want to contact Agent Mulder shortly. We look forward to seeing your reports.

Scully introducing herself: Agent Mulder. I'm Dana Scully. I've been assigned to work with you.
Fox Mulder: Well isn't it nice to be suddenly so highly regarded. So who did you tick off to get stuck with this detail, Scully?
Scully: Actually I'm looking forward to working with you. I've heard a lot about you.
Mulder: Oh really? I was under the impression that you were sent to spy on me.
Scully: If you have any doubt about my qualifications or credentials I—
Mulder: You're a medical doctor. You teach at the Academy. You did your undergraduate degree in Physics. "Einstein's Twin Paradox: A New Interpretation. Dana Scully, Senior Thesis." Now that's a credential—rewriting Einstein.
Scully: Did you bother to read it?
Mulder: I did. I liked it. It's just that in most of my work the laws of Physics rarely seem to apply.

Mulder: Do you believe in the existence of extraterrestrials?
Scully: Logically, I would have to say no. Given the distances needed to travel from the far reaches of space, the energy requirements would exceed a spacecraft's capabilities that—
Mulder: Conventional wisdom. You know this Oregon female. She's the fourth person in her graduating class to die under mysterious circumstances. Now when convention and science offer us no answers, might we not finally turn to the fantastic as a plausibility?
Scully: The girl obviously died of something. If it was natural causes it's plausible that there was something missed in the post-mortem. If she was murdered it's plausible there was a sloppy investigation. What I find fantastic is that there are any answers beyond the realm of science. The answers are there. You just have to know where to look.
Mulder: That's why they put the "I" in FBI. I'll see you tomorrow morning, Scully. Bright and early. We leave for the very plausible state of Oregon at 8am.

Scully: How did you know the girl was going to have the marks?
Mulder: I don't know, lucky guess?
Scully: Dammit, Mulder, cut the crap. What is going on here? What do you know about those marks? What are they?
Mulder: Why, so you can put it down in your little report? I don't think you're ready for what I think.
Scully: I'm here to solve this case, Mulder. I want the truth.
Mulder: The truth? I think those kids have been abducted.
Scully: By who?
Mulder: By what.

Scully: You're saying that time disappeared? Time can't just disappear. It's a universal invariant! The car starts up
Mulder: Not in this zip code.

Mulder: I was twelve when it happened. My sister was eight. She just disappeared out of her bed one night. Just gone. Vanished. No note, no phone calls, no evidence of anything.
Scully: You never found her?
Mulder: Tore the family apart. No one would talk about it. There were no facts to confront, nothing... to offer any hope.
Scully: What did you do?
Mulder: Eventually I went off to school in England. I came back, got recruited by the Bureau. Seems I had a natural aptitude for applying behavioral models to criminal cases. My success allowed me a certain freedom to pursue my own interests. That's when I came across the X-Files.

Scully: By accident?
Mulder: At first it looked like a garbage dump for UFO sightings, alien abduction reports—the kind of stuff that most people laugh at as being ridiculous. But I was fascinated. I read all the cases I could get my hands on. Hundreds of them. I read everything I could about paranormal phenomena, about the occult...
Scully: What?
Mulder: There's classified government information I've been trying to access but someone has been blocking my attempts to get at it.
Scully: Who? I don't understand.
Mulder: Someone at a higher level of power. The only reason I've been allowed to continue with my work is because I've made connections in Congress.

Mulder: I've been able to look into my own repressed memories to the night my sister disappeared. I can recall a bright light outside and a presence in the room. I was paralyzed. Unable to respond to my sister's calls for help. Listen to me, Scully, this thing exists.
Scully: But how do you—
Mulder: The government knows about it. And I gotta know what they're protecting. Nothing else matters to me. And this is as close as I've ever gotten to it.

Mulder: Why would they destroy evidence? What would they want with that corpse?
Scully: I don't know.
Mulder: Makes you wonder what's in those other two graves.

Mulder: I think I know who did it. I think I know who killed Karen Swenson. Those kids.
Scully: Who? The detective?
Mulder: The detective's son. Billy Miles.
Scully: The boy in the hospital? The vegetable?

Director: Agent Mulder. What are his thoughts?
Scully: Agent Mulder believes we are not alone.
Director: Thank you, Agent Scully. That will be all.

Mulder: Can I buy you a drink?
Scully: It's two o'clock in the afternoon, Agent Mulder.
Mulder: It's not stopping the rest of these people.

Deep Throat (Jerry Hardin): Leave this case alone, Agent Mulder.
Mulder: What?
Deep Throat: The military will not tolerate an FBI investigation.

Mulder: Who are you?
Deep Throat: I, ah... can be of help to you. I have a certain interest in your work.
Mulder: How do you know about my work?
Deep Throat: Let's just say that I'm in a position to know quite a lot of things. Things about our government.

Mulder: You saw exactly what I saw in the sky last night. What do you think they were?
Scully: Just because I can't explain it doesn't mean I'm going to believe they're UFOs.
Mulder: Unidentified Flying Objects. I think that fits the description pretty well. Tell me I'm crazy.
Scully: Mulder, you're crazy.

Mossinger: You do anything stupid and this situation could get big in a hurry.
Scully: Yeah, you just keep telling yourself that.

Scully: We don't know anything. Anything more than when we got here. And that's what I'm going to write in my field report. Let's get out of here, Mulder. As fast as we can.

Deep Throat: Your lives may be in danger.
Mulder: Why?
Deep Throat: Well. You've seen things that weren't to be seen. Care and discretion are now imperative.

Deep Throat: Mr. Mulder, why are those like yourself who believe in the existence of extraterrestrial life on this earth not dissuaded by all the evidence to the contrary?
Mulder: Because all the evidence to the contrary is not entirely dissuasive.
Deep Throat: Precisely.
Mulder: They're here, aren't they.
Deep Throat: Mr. Mulder, they've been here for a long long time.

Tom Colton (Donal Logue): So how are you doing? Have you had any Close Encounters of the Third Kind?
Scully: Is that what everyone thinks I do?
Colton: No, of course not. But you do work with Spooky Mulder.
Scully: Mulder's ideas may be a bit out there, but he is a great agent.

Colton: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 anymore.

Colton: So Mulder, what do you think? Does this look like the work of little green men?
Mulder: Grey.
Colton: Excuse me?
Mulder: Grey. You said green men. A Reticulan's skin tone is actually grey. They're notorious for their extraction of human terrestrial livers. Due to the iron depletion in the Reticulum galaxy.
Colton: You can't be serious.
Mulder: Do you have any idea what liver and onions go for on Reticulum?

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?
Colton: All the way to the top.
Scully: Then I can't wait 'til you fall off and land on your ass.

Blevins: In your opinion, has Agent Mulder's personal agenda clouded his professional judgment?
Scully: In my opinion, no.
Blevins: But you can see how it might appear that way.

Scully: I just think it's a good idea not to antagonize 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: How could an eight year old boy who can barely multiply be a threat to national security? And people call me paranoid.

Mulder: The boy is the key, Scully. I know it.
Scully: The key to what?
Mulder: Finding Ruby. Just think about it for a minute. This is a boy who's receiving all kinds of digitized data from a television screen.

Mulder: You know, when I was a kid I had this ritual. I'd close my eyes before I walked into my room. Because 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. Every day of my life.

Scully: Working hard, Mulder?
Mulder about the centerfold: This woman claims to have been taken aboard a spaceship and held in an anti-gravity chamber without food and water for three days.
Scully: Anti-gravity is right.

Scully: They found a body in the New Jersey woods yesterday. Missing its right arm and shoulder. They had been eaten off. By a human.
Mulder: Where in New Jersey?
Scully: Just outside Atlantic City.
Mulder: Not an uncommon place to lose a body part.

Scully: Well it's not hard to see why they mistook you for a vagrant.
Mulder: You gonna rag on me or you gonna take me to get me something to eat?
Scully: Am I buying or did you manage to panhandle some spare change while you were at it?

Scully: Mulder, we've put men into space. We've built computers that work faster than the human mind.
Mulder: While we over-populate the world and create new technologies to kill each other with? Maybe we're just beasts with big brains.

Scully: Mulder, will you do me a favor? Will you just go out and have a beer? Will you take the day off? I'll cover for you, you just take some time for yourself.

Mulder: Don't you have a life, Scully?
Scully: Keep it up, Mulder, and I'll hurt you like that beast woman.
Mulder: Eight million years out of Africa.
Scully: Look who's holding the door.

Scully: You lied. You have seen it before, I can tell. You lied to them.
Mulder: I would never lie. I willfully participated in a campaign of misinformation.

Scully: Are you saying Lauren Kyte crashed our car?
Mulder: Either that, or a poltergeist.
Scully: "They're here."
Mulder: They may be.

Scully: I think Howard Graves fabricated his own death.
Mulder: Do you know how difficult it is to fake your own death? Only one man has pulled it off. Elvis.

Robert Dorlund: I came to say to say goodbye. To wish you luck. And to leave you with this little thought. I know Howard told you. And if it ever gets out I won't waste my time trying to pin the source. I'll go straight to you.
Lauren Kyte (Lisa Waltz): And you'll do to me what you did to Howard? I know you had him killed.
Dorlund: Why would you say that?
Lauren: He told me.

CIA Agent: I can make her talk.
Mulder: My advice to you: don't get rough with her.

Scully: I'm giving us a chance to solve a case that's tangible. Instead of chasing after shadows.

Mulder: Hey Scully, do you believe in an afterlife?
Scully: I'd settle for a life in this one.
Mulder: Have you ever seen the Liberty Bell?
Scully: Yes.
Mulder: You know, I've been to Philadelphia a hundred times and I've never seen it.
Scully: Well you're not missing much. It's a big bell with a big crack, and you have to wait in a long line.
Mulder: But I'd really like to go.
Scully: Why now?
Mulder: I don't know. How late do you think they stay open?

Scully: How come you two went your separate ways?
Mulder: I'm a pain in the ass to work with.
Scully: Seriously, Mulder.
Mulder: I'm not a pain in the ass?

Scully: It's headline news how much this guy despised Drake.
Mulder: That just seems too obvious. To kill Drake would be so brazenly egomaniacal.
Scully: And fully consistent with Jerry's excellent behavioral profile.

Scully: Brad Wilczek? We're with the FBI.
Brad Wilczek (Rob LaBelle): What took you guys so long?

COS: Welcome back, Brad.
Wilczek: You're not equipped with a voice synthesizer. What is my user level?
COS: That is now at the discretion of the operating system.

Mulder: So much for the element of surprise. What do you say we take the stairs?

Mulder: Defense department?
Claude Peterson: Let's just say our paychecks are signed by the same person.

We're not who we are. We're not who we are. It goes no further than this. It stops right here. Right now.

Mulder: So far nobody's been able to reach the compound because of bad weather. Obviously they think we're either brilliant or expendable, because we pulled the assignment.

Dr. Murphy (Steve Hytner): Denny Murphy. Professor of Geology, UC: San Diego.
Mulder: San Diego? You get much of a chance to study ice down there?
Dr. Murphy: Just what's around the keg.

Dr. Hodge (Xander Berkeley): Can I see some identification?
Mulder: Why?
Dr. Hodge: I want to make sure we are who we say we are.

Dr. Hodge: Parasitic diagnostic procedure requires that every one of us provide a blood and stool sample.
Bear (Jeff Kober): A stool sample?
Dr. Murphy: Wow. This kind of travel always makes that kinda tough. For me.
Mulder: Okay. Anybody got the morning sports section handy?

Scully: At least everyone's okay.
Mulder: Don't forget. The spots on the dog went away.

Dr. Hodge: Forty-five minutes after they evacuated us they torched the place. There's nothing left
Scully: Who did that?
Dr. Hodge: The military, Centers for Disease Control. You oughta know. They're your people.

Mulder: It's still there, Scully. Two hundred thousand years down. In the ice.
Scully: Leave it there.

Scully: What did the note say?
Mulder: Just that they worked for NASA. They wanted to talk to someone from the FBI.

Mulder: I stayed up all night when I was fourteen to watch your spacewalk.
Marcus Aurelius Belt: Well now it's like a stroll around the block.

Scully: What do you think?
Mulder: I can't believe we put so much faith in machines.

Scully: So you think this x-ray is bogus?
Mulder: God, I hope so.

Belt: You know what it means to be an astronaut, sir? You risk your life every time you get into your spacecraft. For nothing more than the good promise of mankind.
Mulder: You've got no argument from me, sir. You're true American heroes.
Belt: Heroes? We used to make headlines when we did our job right. Now they bury you in the back of the paper. Name me two astronauts in the last mission. You make the front page today only if you screw up.

Mulder: Scully, we send those men up into space to unlock the doors of the universe and we don't even know what's behind them. I think whatever it was, he took it with him. And in the end it was the only way he knew how to stop it.

Deep Throat: Mulder, the continental United States is surrounded by an electronic fence that reaches fifteen thousand miles into space. We use it to track and monitor the seven thousand and eighty-seven man-made objects that orbit the earth. Last night at 2317, that fence was breached. This morning at 0100 Operation Falcon went into effect.

Deep Throat: I'd say you have twenty-four hours before the entire area is sanitized. After that, it'll be like nothing ever happened.

Commander Calvin Henderson: You just made the worst mistake of your life, Agent Mulder.
Mulder: I think you knocked out a filling.

Mulder: You meet Max?
Scully: Who?
Mulder: Max from NICAP. They must have released him. Another intrepid soul in search of a close encounter.
Scully: Is that what this is about?
Mulder: What else?
Scully: Try explaining that to Section Chief McGrath. He stepped over Blevins ordering a full inquiry with a recommendation... Mulder, he wants to shut down the X-Files and he want you out of the Bureau.
Mulder: What else is new.

Max Fenig: So this must be the enigmatic Doctor Scully.

Scully: You're entitled to the truth.
Mrs. Wright: I can't afford the truth!

Lt. Fraser: 2418? Isn't that where— ?
Karen Koretz: Same exact spot, sir. Though I am reading a much larger craft this time.
Fraser: Meteor, Miss Koretz.
Koretz: A much larger meteor, sir.

Fraser: Where is it?
Koretz: Well sir, the "meteor" seems to be hovering over a small town in eastern Wisconsin.

Mulder: You can deny all the things I've seen, all the things that I've discovered. But not for much longer. 'Cause too many others know what's happening out there. And no one—no government agency—has jurisdiction over the truth.

McGrath: The committee's case was airtight. You've ruined the last, best chance we had to get rid of him.
Deep Throat: I appreciate your frustration, but you and I both know that Mulder's work—his... singular passion—poses a most unique dilemma. But his occasional insubordination is in the end far less dangerous.
McGrath: With respect, sir, less dangerous than what?
Deep Throat: Than having him expose to the wrong people what he knows. {laughs}. What he thinks he knows. Always keep your friend close, Mr. McGrath. But keep your enemies closer.

Scully: Mulder, why would alien beings travel light years to Earth in order to play "doctor" on cattle?
Mulder: For the same reason we cut up frogs and monkeys. Besides, they seem to have stepped up their interest.

Tina: The men from the clouds, they were after my dad.
Mulder: Why were these men after your dad?
Tina: They wanted to exsanguinate him.

Scully: Well there is the random possibility that two people can have an unrelated likeness.
Mulder: Who both just happened to see their fathers exsanguinated? I'd like to get the odds on that in Vegas.

Dr. Katz: We have reason to believe that Dr. Kendrick was tampering with genetic material of fertilized ova in the lab prior to implant. Experimenting with eugenics.
Scully: Did you report this to the AMA?
Dr. Katz: Of course. And I fired her. I also requested an investigation from the US Health Department.
Scully: And what happened?
Dr. Katz: The AMA censured her. My request for an investigation was denied. Dr. Kendrick disappeared.

Deep Throat: Are you certain she hasn't followed you?
Mulder: Yes. What are you doing here?
Deep Throat: I thought we might take in a Warriors game.

Deep Throat: Actually, I was just in the neighborhood and wondered if I had ever told you about the Litchfield experiments.
Mulder: Hm. No, you haven't.
Deep Throat: Well. It was a most interesting project. Highest level of classification, all records have since been destroyed. And those who knew of it will deny knowledge of its existence. In the early fifties, during the height of the Cold War, we got wind the Russians were fooling around with eugenics—rather primitively, I might add. Trying to cross-breed their top scientists, athletes, you name it. To come up with the superior soldier. And naturally, we jumped on the bandwagon.
Mulder: The Litchfield Experiment.
Deep Throat: Mm hm. A group of genetically-controlled children were raised and monitored on a compound in Litchfield. The boys were called Adam and the girls were called Eve.

Scully: Why the flashlights?
Guard: She screams and screams if we turn the overheads on. No one's ever got a really good look at her.

Eve 6 (Harriet Harris): Unlock the chains, and then we'll talk.
Mulder: They're probably there for a good reason.

Scully: Are you Sally Kendrick?
Eve 6 (Harriet Harris): That's not my name. But... she is me and I am her and... we are all together.

Eve 6 (Harriet Harris): You and you, you have 46 chromosomes. The Adams made the Eves. We have 56. We have extra chromosomes. This replication of chromosomes also produces additional genes. Heightened strength. Heighten intelligence.
Mulder: Heightened psychosis.
Eve 6: Saved the best for last.

Dr. Sally Kendrick (Harriet Harris): I had hoped my work at the Stapes Center had corrected the Litchfield flaws. Psychotic behavior didn't develop in the Adams and Eves until age sixteen. Homicidal behavior at twenty. Imagine my... disappointment when I learned of your accelerated development. How did you lean of each other's existence.
Eve 9: We just knew.
Dr. Kendrick: Did you discuss how you'd orchestrate your little prank?
Eve 10: We just knew.

Mulder: Forget your sodas?
Eve 9: We didn't do anything wrong.
Eve 10: We're just little girls.
Mulder: That's the last thing you are.

Eve 6: Hello girls. So nice to have company.

Eve 9: Hello Eve 8.
Eve 10: We've been waiting.
Eve 8: How did you know I'd come for you?
Eve 9: We just knew.
Eve 10: We just knew.

Scully: I forgot what it was like to spend a day in court.
Mulder: That's one of the luxuries to hunting down aliens and genetic mutants. You rarely get to press charges.

Scully: What do you think it is?
Mulder: Ten to one you can't dance to it.

Phoebe Green (Amanda Pays): Oh come on, don't tell me you left your sense of humor in Oxford ten years ago.
Mulder: No, actually. It's one of the few things you didn't drive a stake through.

Mulder: So what brings you on this detour to Washington D.C., Inspector?
Green: I figured my friend Mulder couldn't resist a three-pipe problem.

Scully: “Three pipe problem”?
Mulder: That's from Sherlock Holmes. It's a private joke.
Scully: How private?
Mulder: Um... we knew each other in school in England. She was brilliant and... I got in over my head and, uh, paid the price.
Scully: Mulder, you just keep unfolding like a flower.

Cecil L'Ively (Mark Sheppard): You won't shoot me.
Scully: Stay right where you are.
Cecil L'Ively (Mark Sheppard): See. 'Cause you don't know the spark from that round won't blow this whole house to Kingdom Come.

Scully with an English accent: Care to take me to lunch? {Mulder turns} Scare you?
Mulder: You have no idea.
Scully: Where is Phoebe?
Mulder: I don't know.
Scully: You don't know. She didn't call?
Mulder: Nope. She did messenger this to me last night though.
Scully: Did you play it?
Mulder: No.
Scully: Why not? Aren't you curious what's on it?
Mulder: Ten to one you can't dance to it.

Nurse: Can I get you anything, sir?
L'Ively: I'm just dying for a cigarette.

William Scully (Don S. Davis): Are you going to leave this up all year?
Scully: Yep, all year. Since you always made us take the Christmas tree down the day after Christmas I'm making up for lost time.
Scully: If your idea of a good time is to pick up dried pine needles, treat yourself.
Maggie Scully: As if he's an authority on having a good time.

Scully: Good sailing, Ahab.
William Scully: Good night, Starbuck.

Scully: Dad? I thought you guys left. Where's mom? {the phone rings} Hello?
Maggie Scully: Dana?
Scully: Mom? What's the matter?
Maggie Scully: We, um... we lost your dad. He had a massive coronary about an hour ago. He's gone.

Scully: Last time you were that engrossed it turned out you were reading the Adult Video News.

Mulder: At the age of six, Luther Boggs slaughtered every pet animal in his housing project. When he was thirty he strangled five family members over Thanksgiving dinner and then sat down to watch the fourth quarter of the Detroit-Green Bay game. Some killers are products of society, some act out past abuses. Boggs kills because he likes it.

Scully: I know that you and Dad were... disappointed that I chose the path I'm on instead of medicine. But I need to know. Was he at all proud of me?
Maggie Scully: He was your father.

Luther Lee Boggs (Brad Dourif): The dead, living, all souls are connected.
Mulder: And you're the conduit?

Scully: Did Boggs confess?
Mulder: No. No, it was five hours of Boggs' channeling. After three hours I asked him to summon up the soul of Jimi Hendrix and requested “All Along the Watchtower.” You know guy's been dead twenty years, but he still hasn't lost his edge.

Luther Lee Boggs: I know what you want. And I know who you want to talk to. Why don't you just go ahead and ask me.
Scully: I'll believe you, if you let me talk to him.
Luther Lee Boggs: Starbuck. {he wrestles with himself} No no no! Nobody talks to anybody until I get a deal.

Boggs: Last time I went to Death's Door I looked inside. I ain't never talked to a minister before in my life. Ever. Until that day. And he said, "He who doth not love, remains in death. And he who hates his brother is a murderer, and no murderer has eternal life abiding in him." My family, who I killed after their last meal, was right there to watch me over mine. And their fear and their horror that I made them feel when I killed them was injected into me and their collective fear alone was just one taste of Hell.

Boggs: This cold dark place, Scully, Mulder's lookin' in on it right now.
Scully: It may be a cold, dark place for you. But it's not for Mulder. And it's not for my father.

Scully: Luther, if you really were psychic—
Luther Lee Boggs: I'd have known you lied. That they' never was a deal. I know you tried. {she starts to leave.} Scully, avoid the Devil. Don't follow Henry to the Devil. Leave that to me.

Scully: I'm afraid. I'm afraid to believe.
Mulder: You couldn't face that fear? Even if it meant never knowing what your father wanted to tell you?
Scully: But I do know.
Mulder: How?
Scully: He was my father.

Scully: So what is our profile of the killer? Indeterminate height, weight, sex. Unarmed. But extremely attractive.

Scully: Wait a minute, aren't these people famous for their abstinence and their pure Christian ways?
Mulder: Yes. But it looks as if one of them may have forgotten to clean under his fingernails.

Scully: There's something up there, Mulder.
Mulder: Oh, I've been saying that for years.

Mulder: The Addams Family finds religion.

Scully: Think he was trying to kill me?
Mulder: Maybe it's the sex that kills.
Scully: Well if he was trying to kill me, why did they let us go?
Mulder: I don't know.

Scully: Well we can't rule out the possibility that who we're looking for is a transvestite.
Mulder: I think Don Juan in there knows the difference between the male and the female of the species.

Dupré: What, are you nervous?
Lula: Nope. I just don't want our luck to run out.
Dupré: Baby, you are my luck. And no matter what happens, whenever I look up at stars, I know you're gonna be looking up at the same ones.

Mulder: You said that Dupré and Willis went into cardiac arrest at the exact same time, right?
Scully: Right.
Mulder: Which means that for a period of minutes, both men were technically dead.
Scully: Technically. But we resuscitated Willis.
Mulder: You resuscitated his body.
Scully: Mulder—
Mulder: Two men died in that crash room, Scully. One man came back. The question is, which one?

Mulder: How well do you know him?
Scully: We dated for almost a year. He was my instructor at the Academy.
Mulder: The plot thickens.

Bruskin: This isn't one of your X-File theories, is it?
Mulder: It doesn't matter what I think. We're still after the same thing.

Scully about Willis’ watch: It's not working. It stopped. At 6:47.
Mulder: The exact time that Jack went into cardiac arrest at the hospital.
Scully: What does that mean?
Mulder: It means.... It means whatever you want it to mean.

Mulder: The judge promised me he would die in prison.
Scully: So you think he escaped?
Mulder: No. that's just it. He did die in prison. Four years ago.
Scully: You're sure?
Mulder: I was paying attention.

Anderson: Guy a friend of yours?
Mulder: Yeah. I play golf with him every Sunday. What do you think?
Anderson: You just brought this in ten minutes ago.
Mulder: You're slipping, Anderson.
Anderson: Ten minutes may be enough time for you, Mulder. Of course I wouldn't know that from personal experience.

Scully: You did the right thing, Mulder.
Mulder: Did I? Steve Wallenberg had a wife and two kids. One of his boys is an all-star on his football team now. I pull that trigger two seconds earlier, and Wallenberg would be here to see his kid play. Instead I got some dead man robbing jewelry stores and sending me haikus.

Scully: Mulder, I know what you did wasn't by the book.
Mulder: Tells you a lot about the book, doesn't it?

Mulder: I'm going to talk to some people when we get back to Washington.
Scully: Mulder, the military isn't going to talk about classified aircraft.
Mulder: No, these guys are like an extreme government watchdog group. They publish a magazine called the Lone Gunmen. Some of their information is first rate. Covert actions. Classified weapons. Some of their ideas... are downright spooky.

Byers: Hey Mulder, listen to this. Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of the Russian Social Democrats. He's being put into power by the most heinous and evil force of the twentieth century.
Mulder: Barney?

Langly: Is this your skeptical partner?
Frohike: She's hot.

Byers: You don't believe that the CIA, threatened by a loss of power and funding because of the collapse of the Cold War, wouldn't dream of having the old enemy back.
Scully: I think you give the government too much credit.

Mulder: What do you know about Gulf War Syndrome?
Langly: Agent Orange of the nineties.

Langly: UFOs caused the Gulf War Syndrome. That's a good one.
Byers: That's why we like you, Mulder. Your ideas are weirder than ours.

Scully: Those were the most paranoid people I have ever met. I don't know how you could think that what they say is even remotely plausible.
Mulder: I think it's remotely plausible that someone might think you're hot.

Scully: Mulder the truth is out there. But so are lies.

Deep Throat: Mulder. If a shark stops swimming it will die. Don't stop swimming.

Mulder: Called every waystation and bureau office west of Colorado. Tied up an airphone for three hours. I don't speak Japanese but I think some businessmen told me to stick a piece of sushi where the sun don't shine.

Deep Throat: I know how badly—how very badly—you want to look through that window. But it would be pointless. It's dead.

Deep Throat: After the Roswell incident in 1947, even at the brink of the Cold War, there was an ultra-secret conference attended by the United States, the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China, Britain, both Germanies, France. And it was agreed that, should any extraterrestrial biological entity survive a crash, the country that held that being would be responsible for its termination. I, um, have the distinction of being one of three men to have exterminated such a creature.

Deep Throat: I was with the CIA in Vietnam. A UFO was spotted for three nights over Hanoi. The Marines shot it down and brought it to us. Maybe... it didn't know what a gun was, or perhaps they don't show emotion. But that innocent and blank expression as I pulled the trigger has haunted me. Until I found you. That's why I come to you, Mr. Mulder. And will continue to come to you. To atone for what I’ve done. And maybe sometime, through you, the truth will be known.

Deep Throat: You're awfully quiet, Mr. Mulder.
Mulder: I'm wondering which lie to believe.

Mulder: I think I saw some of these people at Woodstock.
Scully: You weren't at Woodstock.
Mulder: I saw the movie.

Scully: Maybe we should head backstage and see what the Reverend has to say.
Mulder: No wait, this is the part where they bring out Elvis.

Sheriff Daniels: Ninety-nine percent of the people in this world are fools. The rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

Samuel: I have looked on the infirm and seen their sickness, their cancer. Just as I can see that pain of this man, right here.
Mulder: Really? What pain is that?
Samuel: The pain you have regarding a brother. Or sister. It's an old pain. It's never been healed.

Scully: Mulder, what is it?
Mulder: It was a girl.
Scully: Who, Jessica Hahn?
Mulder: A little girl.

Scully: Apparently miracles don't come cheap.

Scully: I was raised a Catholic, and I have a certain... familiarity with the Scripture. And God never lets the Devil steal the show.
Mulder: You must have really liked The Exorcist.
Scully: One of my favorite movies.

Ish: Go home, FBI.
Mulder: How'd you know?
Ish: I could smell you a mile away.
Mulder: Well they told me that even though my deodorant's made for a woman it's strong enough for a man.

Ish: I was at Wounded Knee in 1973. Know what I learned fighting the FBI? They don't believe in us, and we don't believe in them.
Mulder: I want to believe.

Ish: Why are you here? What are you looking for?
Mulder: I think you already know what we're looking for.
Ish: Don't tell me what I know.

Mulder: The woman in the pool hall said that people were afraid of some Indian legend. What do they believe happened in the Parker case?
Sheriff Tskany: Look, I'm not a park ranger here to answer all your questions about Indians.

Scully: Mulder, since we've been here you've acted as if you've expected to find every piece of evidence that we've come across. What aren't you telling me? Why are we here?
Mulder: A true piece of history, Scully. The very first X-File. Initiated by J. Edgar Hoover himself in 1946.

Ish: You even have an Indian name. "Fox." You should be Running Fox. Or Stinky Fox.
Mulder: Just as long as it's not Spooky Fox.

Ish: FBI. See you in about... eight years.
Mulder: I hope not.

Mulder: Take a good look, Scully.
Scully: What am I looking at?
Mulder: Thirty loggers, working a clear-cutting contract in Washington State. Rugged manly-men. In the full bloom of their manhood.
Scully: Right. What am I looking for?
Mulder: Anything strange, unexplainable, unlikely... a boyfriend.

Scully: And you suspect, what? Bigfoot?
Mulder: Not likely. That's a lot of flannel to be choking down, even for Bigfoot.

Steve: You gonna take this man's word over mine?
Spinney: You don't want to go out in the night. You can take my word on that. It's out there.
Steve: What? If I go out that door something's going to attack me, eat me alive and spin me in its web?
Spinney: Yes.
Steve: What, it's too polite to come in here and get me?
Spinney: For some reason it's afraid of the light.

Scully: You think these mites are what killed the men?
Spinney: Maybe they've been lying there dormant for hundreds of years. Maybe they woke up hungry.

Scully: I thought we were supposed to be safe in the light!
Mulder: We are. I think the light keeps them from swarming. We'll be safe as long as we stay in the light.

Dr. Monte: You nervous about tomorrow? Don't be. I know you think they won't let you out, so I snuck a peek at the reports of the doctors that will testify at your review tomorrow. And they concur with my opinion that you're ready to be released from here and rejoin the community.

Assistant Director Walter Skinner (Mitch Pileggi): Agent Scully. We have reviewed your reports and frankly we are quite displeased. Irregular procedure. Untenable evidence. Anonymous witnesses. Inconclusive findings aggravated by vague opinion.
Scully: Sir, the very nature of the X-Files cases often precludes orthodox investigation.

Scully: On X-Files cases investigated by Agent Mulder and myself to date we have a conviction or case solution rate of 75%. That's well above the current Bureau standard.
Skinner: That is your only saving grace.

Mulder: If you release Eugene Tooms he will kill again. It's in his genetic make-up.

Mulder: You think they would have taken me more seriously if I wore the grey suit?
Scully: Mulder, your testimony, you sounded so—
Mulder: I don't care how it sounded as long as it was the truth.

Mulder: Look, Scully, if you're resistant because you don't believe I'll respect that. But if you're resistant because of some bureaucratic pressure, they've not only reeled you in, they've already skinned you.

Frank Ranford: I hope you'll be comfortable, Eugene. The room in the back is small. But I'm sue you'll be able to squeeze in.
Tooms: I'm sure I will.

Mulder: Excuse me, could you help me find my dog? He's a Norwegian Elk Hound. {Tooms storms off.} His name is Heinrich. I use him to hunt moose!

Mulder: They're out to put an end to the X-Files, Scully. I don't know why, but any excuse will do. And I don't really care about my record. But you'd be in trouble just sitting in this car. And I'd hate to see you carrying an official reprimand in your career files because of me.
Scully: Fox, I—
Mulder: I, I even made my parents call me Mulder. Mulder.
Scully: Mulder, I wouldn't put myself on the line for anybody but you.
Mulder: If there's an iced tea in that bag, it could be love.
Scully: Must be fate, Mulder. {she pulls out the drink.} Root beer.

Scully: Agent Mulder could not have done it because he was with me.
Skinner: Agent Scully, you wouldn't be lying to me, would you?
Scully: Sir, I would expect you to put the same trust in me as I do in you.

Scully peering into the access shaft: There's only room for one.
Mulder: You can get the next mutant.

Skinner: You read this report? {silence.} You believe them?
Cigarette Smoking Man (William B. Davis): Of course I do.

Mulder: It's amazing how things change, isn't it?
Scully: The caterpillar?
Mulder: No, a change for us. It's coming.
Scully: How do you know?
Mulder: A hunch.

Scully: Are you saying Michelle possesses the ability to psychically project her own will?
Mulder: How else could a sixty-pound kid throw a two-hundred-pound detective out the window?

Lazard (Maggie Wheeler): Scully, could I talk to you for a second?
Scully: I just started the autopsy.
Lazard (Maggie Wheeler): Yeah, um. I don't think he's going anywhere.

Scully: Well, where is he now? Has he been transferred?
Lazard: You could say that. Agent Scully, this guy's been dead for nine years. Which means that little girl saw a ghost.

Leon Felder: You listen to me, Tony. We agreed to wait ten years. And that is exactly what we're going to do.
Tony Fiore: I listened to you once before and look what happened.

Scully: So where does that leave us?
Mulder: One short step away from proving the pre-existence of the human soul.

Mulder: Michelle! This won't make right what happened.

Anita Fiore: Please don't hurt him anymore.

Mulder: How was the wedding?
Scully: You mean the part where the groom passed out or the dog bit the drummer?
Mulder: Did you catch the bouquet?
Scully: Maybe. So is that what you couldn't talk to me about over the phone?
Mulder: The project that everyone says doesn't exist, does exist.
Scully: The Icarus Project.
Mulder: The next generation in engine design.

Dr. Keats: Roland didn't do that.
Scully: How do you know?
Dr. Keats: Let's just say Roland isn't exactly a rocket scientist.

Scully: You must like stars.
Roland Fuller (Zeljko Ivanek): One hundred and forty-seven.
Scully: Sorry?
Roland pointing to her scarf: Stars.

Scully: Now I've seen this demonstrated on a fish before.
Mulder: I don't think they'll be performing this experiment on Beekman, Scully.

Mulder: You've got a brother don't you, Scully?
Scully: Yeah. I've got an older one and a younger.
Mulder: Well have you ever thought about calling one of them all day long and then all the sudden the phone rings and it's them calling you?
Scully: Does this pitch somehow end with a way for me to lower my long distance charges?

Scully: We're out here on half-a-hunch, off of a cryptic phone call, chasing down a clue that's based on nothing but speculation.
Mulder: That's all we've got.
Scully: That's all he's given us. Who is this Deep Throat character? I mean, we don't know anything about him. What his name is, what he does.
Mulder: He's in a delicate position. He has access to information. An indiscretion could expose him.
Scully: You don't know that this isn't just a game with him. He's toying with you. Rationing out the facts.
Mulder: Do you think he does it because he gets off on it?
Scully: No. I think he does it because you do.

Deep Throat: Calling it a night, Mr. Mulder?
Mulder: My mother usually likes me home before the streetlights come on.

Deep Throat: Don't give up on this one. Trust me, you've never been closer.
Mulder: Closer to what?

Scully: I'm sorry, Mulder. I'm seeing the pieces but I'm not seeing the connection.
Mulder: Well, maybe that's just it. Maybe we're not seeing it because it can't be seen. Not in any obvious way. {shows her the Purity Control flask} What do you think this is?
Scully: I don't know.
Mulder: Can you find out for me?
Scully: What are you going to do?
Mulder: See what else I can find out about Terrance Allen Berube.
Scully: Okay Mulder. But I'm warning you. If this is monkey pee, you're on your own.

Scully: I've got something for you.
Mulder: Is it smaller than a silver Sierra?
Scully: Much. And it's not silver. It's green.
Mulder: What is it?
Scully: Some kind of bacteria. Each containing virus. And it looks like Berube may have been cloning them.

Dr. Carpenter: Only four nucleotides exist in nature. Four. And through some design that we have yet to fathom, every living thing is created out of these four basic building blocks. What you're looking at is a sequence of genes from the bacteria sample. Normally, we find no gaps in a sequence. But with these bacteria we do.
Scully: And why is that?
Dr. Carpenter: I don't know why, but I tell you, under any other circumstances my first call would have been to the government.
Scully: What exactly did you find?
Dr. Carpenter: A fifth and sixth DNA nucleotide. A new base pair. Agent Scully, what you are looking at exists nowhere in nature. It would have to be, by definition, extraterrestrial.

Scully: Mulder, I just want to say that I was wrong.
Mulder: That's all right. Don't worry about it.
Scully: No. If you had listened to me we wouldn't be here right now. I should know by now to trust your instincts.
Mulder: Why? Nobody else does.

Scully: You know, I've always held science as sacred. I've always put my trust in the accepted facts. What I saw last night... for the first time in my life I don't know what to believe.
Mulder: Well whatever it is you do believe, Scully, when you walk into that room nothing sacred will hold.

Deep Throat: There are limits to my knowledge, Mr. Mulder. Inside the intelligence community there are so-called "black organizations". Groups within groups, conducting covert activities unknown to the higher levels of power.

Deep Throat: You must put together everything that you have found and you must find Dr. Secare before they do. I'll have no further contact with you on this matter.

Assassin: Your cellular phone's been ringing off the hook.
Mulder: I'm a popular guy. Why don't you answer it for me?
Assassin: I don't like talking on the phone. I have this thing about unsecured lines. When you feel like talking, let me know though.

Guard: Project password?
Scully: Purity Control.

Deep Throat: I'll take the parcel.
Scully: No sir. I'll make the exchange.
Deep Throat: I made the deal, Scully. They're expecting me.
Scully: I don't trust you.
Deep Throat: You've got no one else to trust.
Scully: I don't know who you are. I know nothing about you.
Deep Throat: Oh for gods sake, don't screw this up! Let me tell you something you should know. In 1987 a group of children from a Southern state were given what their parents thought was a routine innoculation. What they were injected with was a cloned DNA from the contents of that package you're holding as a test. That's the kind of people you're dealing with.
Scully: So why give it back to them?
Deep Throat: To save Mulder's life.
Scully: At the risk of so many other's lives?
Deep Throat: Tip of the iceberg. You and Mulder are the only ones who can bring it to light. Now give me the parcel. {the van pulls up.} Give me the parcel, Scully.

Deep Throat: Trust.... Trust no one.

Mulder: They're shutting us down, Scully.
Scully: What?
Mulder: They called me in tonight. And they said they're going to reassign us to other sections.
Scully: Who told you that?
Mulder: Skinner. He said word came down from the top of the Executive branch.
Scully: Mulder—
Mulder: It's over, Scully.
Scully: Well you have to lodge a protest. They can't—
Mulder: Yes they can.
Scully: What are you going to do?
Mulder: I'm not going to give up. I can't give up. Not as long as the truth is out there.