The X Files Quotes
Scully: Why'd you come here if you'd already made up your mind?
Mulder: (smiling) Because I knew you'd talk me out of it if you thought I'd made a mistake.
Mulder: (smiling) Because I knew you'd talk me out of it if you thought I'd made a mistake.
TV Show: The X-Files
Cigarette Smoking Man: But I've come today not to ask, but to offer. To offer you the truths that you so desperately sought - about the project, about the men who conspired to protect it...
Mulder: I know the truth.
Cigarette Smoking Man: Do you?
Mulder: I spoke to one of your men.
Cigarette Smoking Man: How do you know he's not a liar?
Mulder: I've seen enough to know he's not a liar, yeah.
Cigarette Smoking Man: You've seen but scant pieces of the whole.
Mulder: What more can you show me?
Cigarette Smoking Man: This man you spoke to - Michael Kritschgau. He's deceived you with beautiful lies. He's told you that everything you ever believed about the existence of extraterrestrial life is untrue.
Mulder: (nods) What are you saying?
Cigarette Smoking Man: As I said, I'm offering you the chance to know the truth.
Mulder: In exchange for what?
Cigarette Smoking Man: Quit the FBI. Come work for me. You can make your problems go away.
Mulder: (pauses) No deal.
Cigarette Smoking Man: (smiles) After all I've given you?
Mulder: (in disbelief) What have- What have you given me? The claim of a cure for Scully? Is she cured? You show me my sister only to take her right back? You've given me nothing.
Cigarette Smoking Man: I intend to keep my promises. I just need something from you.
Mulder: You murdered my father. You killed Scully's sister. And if Scully dies, I will kill you. I don't care whose father you are, I will put you down.
Cigarette Smoking Man: Well you're certainly capable, so I've been told. I understand you have a hearing tomorrow, where you'll have to testify to these murderous impulses of y
Mulder: I know the truth.
Cigarette Smoking Man: Do you?
Mulder: I spoke to one of your men.
Cigarette Smoking Man: How do you know he's not a liar?
Mulder: I've seen enough to know he's not a liar, yeah.
Cigarette Smoking Man: You've seen but scant pieces of the whole.
Mulder: What more can you show me?
Cigarette Smoking Man: This man you spoke to - Michael Kritschgau. He's deceived you with beautiful lies. He's told you that everything you ever believed about the existence of extraterrestrial life is untrue.
Mulder: (nods) What are you saying?
Cigarette Smoking Man: As I said, I'm offering you the chance to know the truth.
Mulder: In exchange for what?
Cigarette Smoking Man: Quit the FBI. Come work for me. You can make your problems go away.
Mulder: (pauses) No deal.
Cigarette Smoking Man: (smiles) After all I've given you?
Mulder: (in disbelief) What have- What have you given me? The claim of a cure for Scully? Is she cured? You show me my sister only to take her right back? You've given me nothing.
Cigarette Smoking Man: I intend to keep my promises. I just need something from you.
Mulder: You murdered my father. You killed Scully's sister. And if Scully dies, I will kill you. I don't care whose father you are, I will put you down.
Cigarette Smoking Man: Well you're certainly capable, so I've been told. I understand you have a hearing tomorrow, where you'll have to testify to these murderous impulses of y
TV Show: The X-Files
Scully: (pouring them each a glass of wine) Seriously, Mulder, what's going on? Are you okay?
Eddie Van Blundht: (as Mulder) Just kind of... knockin around. Just thinking. We never really, uh, talk, do we?
Scully: Well- what do you mean? Really talk? No, no we don't, Mulder.
Eddie Van Blundht: Well, what's stopping us?
[She pauses for a moment, as if considering. Scene cuts to the two of them drinking the last of the bottle of wine.]
Scully: So there we are, at 2 o'clock in the morning, me in my taffeta dress, and Marcus, wherever the hell he was, he was wearing a, uh, a tux. It had a... kelly green cumberbund on it. Anyway, so, I know that Marcus is thinking that it's now or never, and I'm thinking...
Eddie Van Blundht: (smiling) What are you thinking?
Scully: I'm thinking, "What is that siren I hear getting louder?"
Eddie Van Blundht: No way! Who called the cops?
Scully: Well it wasn't the cops, it was the fire department - my friend Silvia and her idiot prom date-
Eddie Van Blundht: Burwood?!
Scully: -had built this campfire that went totally out of control and so we all had to ride back on the, um... what do you call it, the, um- the pumper truck! ("Mulder" laughs) Marcus was the 12th grade love of my life. (Starts to take a sip of wine, then starts laughing) I can't believe I'm telling you this.
Eddie Van Blundht: I can't believe you haven't told me before.
Scully: Now I'm seeing a whole new side of you, Mulder.
Eddie Van Blundht: (hopeful) Is that a good thing?
Scully: I like it.
Eddie Van Blundht: Do you ever wish things were different?
Scully: What do you mean?
Eddie Van Blundht:
Eddie Van Blundht: (as Mulder) Just kind of... knockin around. Just thinking. We never really, uh, talk, do we?
Scully: Well- what do you mean? Really talk? No, no we don't, Mulder.
Eddie Van Blundht: Well, what's stopping us?
[She pauses for a moment, as if considering. Scene cuts to the two of them drinking the last of the bottle of wine.]
Scully: So there we are, at 2 o'clock in the morning, me in my taffeta dress, and Marcus, wherever the hell he was, he was wearing a, uh, a tux. It had a... kelly green cumberbund on it. Anyway, so, I know that Marcus is thinking that it's now or never, and I'm thinking...
Eddie Van Blundht: (smiling) What are you thinking?
Scully: I'm thinking, "What is that siren I hear getting louder?"
Eddie Van Blundht: No way! Who called the cops?
Scully: Well it wasn't the cops, it was the fire department - my friend Silvia and her idiot prom date-
Eddie Van Blundht: Burwood?!
Scully: -had built this campfire that went totally out of control and so we all had to ride back on the, um... what do you call it, the, um- the pumper truck! ("Mulder" laughs) Marcus was the 12th grade love of my life. (Starts to take a sip of wine, then starts laughing) I can't believe I'm telling you this.
Eddie Van Blundht: I can't believe you haven't told me before.
Scully: Now I'm seeing a whole new side of you, Mulder.
Eddie Van Blundht: (hopeful) Is that a good thing?
Scully: I like it.
Eddie Van Blundht: Do you ever wish things were different?
Scully: What do you mean?
Eddie Van Blundht:
TV Show: The X-Files
Scully: I don't imagine you need to be told this, Mulder, but you're not a loser.
Mulder: Yeah, but I'm no Eddie Van Blundht either, am I.
Mulder: Yeah, but I'm no Eddie Van Blundht either, am I.
TV Show: The X-Files
Skinner: I have handled this like I've handled everything else you've asked me to do.
TV Show: The X-Files
Cigarette Smoking Man: You're in no position to question the terms of our arrangement.
Skinner: Then we have no arrangement.
Skinner: Then we have no arrangement.
TV Show: The X-Files
Skinner: (to Cigarette Smoking Man) If anything happens to her, I will expose you! I don't care what happens to me!
TV Show: The X-Files
Cigarette Smoking Man: Only yesterday you said you wouldn't be party to murder, and now, here you are.
TV Show: The X-Files
Scully: (talking to her psychiatrist about Mulder) I guess I never realized how much I rely on him before this. His passion... he's been a great source of strength that I've drawn on.
TV Show: The X-Files
Scully: Although cleared of any wrongdoing in the deaths of Amy and David Cassandra, Agent Mulder still has no recollection of the events that lead to their deaths. His seizures have subsided, with no evidence of permanent cerebral damage, but I am concerned this experience will have a lasting effect. Agent Mulder undertook this treatment hoping to lay claim to his past, that by retrieving memories lost to him he might finally understand the path he's on. But if that knowledge remains elusive, and if it's only by knowing where he's been that he can hope to understand where he's going, then I fear Agent Mulder may lose his course. And the truths he's seeking from his childhood will continue to evade him, driving him more dangerously forward in impossible pursuit.
TV Show: The X-Files
Scully: Four years ago, Section Chief Blevins assigned me to a project you all know as the X Files. As I am a medical doctor with a background in hard science, my job was to provide an analytical perspective on the work of Special Agent Fox Mulder, whose investigations into the paranormal were fueled by a personal belief that his sister had been abducted by aliens when he was 12. I come here today, four years later, to report on the illegitimacy of Agent Mulder's work. That it is my scientific opinion that he became over the course of these years a victim. A victim of his own false hopes and of his belief in the biggest of lies.
TV Show: The X-Files
Scully: Mulder, everything this man [Kritschgau] described...you can't just guess at these details. I'm sorry, but the facts here completely overwhelm any argument against them!
Mulder: Facts overwhelmed by the lies created to support them!
Scully: Mulder, the only lie here is the one that you continue to believe.
Mulder: After all I've seen and experienced, I refuse to believe that it's NOT true!
Scully: Because it's easier to believe the lie. Isn't it?
Mulder: Facts overwhelmed by the lies created to support them!
Scully: Mulder, the only lie here is the one that you continue to believe.
Mulder: After all I've seen and experienced, I refuse to believe that it's NOT true!
Scully: Because it's easier to believe the lie. Isn't it?
TV Show: The X-Files
Scully: Early this morning, I got a call from the police asking me to come to Agent Mulder's apartment. The detective asked me...he needed me to identify a body...
Section Chief Blevins: Agent Scully...
Scully: Agent Mulder died... late last night... from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
Section Chief Blevins: Agent Scully...
Scully: Agent Mulder died... late last night... from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
TV Show: The X-Files
Cigarette Smoking Man: (angrily) I created Mulder!
Fat Man: Agent Mulder is dead. Our FBI source confirmed it this morning. Mulder killed himself.
Fat Man: Agent Mulder is dead. Our FBI source confirmed it this morning. Mulder killed himself.
TV Show: The X-Files
Scully: The very existence of this cure would mean with certainty that I had believed in a lie from the start.
TV Show: The X-Files
Skinner: When you compound the lies, you compound the consequences.
Scully: All lies lead to the truth.
Scully: All lies lead to the truth.
TV Show: The X-Files
Skinner: Silence won't save you. If you lie, I don't know if anything can.
Scully: Except the truth.
Scully: Except the truth.
TV Show: The X-Files
Mulder: I was depending on Scully to tell her story, to weave her tale, to make them believe the lie.
TV Show: The X-Files
Skinner: Agent Mulder...Where you going?
Mulder: I.C.U.
Skinner: You're moving pretty good for a dead man.
Mulder: No, I'm only half-dead.
Mulder: I.C.U.
Skinner: You're moving pretty good for a dead man.
Mulder: No, I'm only half-dead.
TV Show: The X-Files
Mulder: Please tell me you're here with severe chest pains.
Cigarette Smoking Man: I'm here tonight as a friend, Agent Mulder.
Cigarette Smoking Man: I'm here tonight as a friend, Agent Mulder.
TV Show: The X-Files
Bill Scully: You really believe this crap, don't you?
Mulder: Yes, I do.
Bill Scully: You see, she's your big defender, but...I think the truth is, she just doesn't wanna disappoint you.
Mulder: Well, if it works, I don't care what you think she thinks.
Bill Scully: You're a real piece of work, you know that, Mr. Mulder?
Mulder: Why is that? Because I don't think the way you think? Because I won't just sit passively back and watch the family tragedy unfold?
Bill Scully: You're the reason for it. And I've already lost one sister to this quest you're on. Now I'm losing another. Has it been worth it? To you, I mean. Have you found what you've been looking for?
Mulder: No.
Bill Scully: No. You know how that makes me feel?
Mulder: In a way, I think I do. I lost someone very close to me--I lost a sister...I lost my father--all because of this thing I'm looking for.
Bill Scully: This what? Little green aliens?
Mulder: Yeah. Little green aliens.
Bill Scully: You're one sorry son of a bitch. Not a whole lot more to say. (leaves)
Mulder: (after his phone rings) One sorry son of a bitch speaking.
Mulder: Yes, I do.
Bill Scully: You see, she's your big defender, but...I think the truth is, she just doesn't wanna disappoint you.
Mulder: Well, if it works, I don't care what you think she thinks.
Bill Scully: You're a real piece of work, you know that, Mr. Mulder?
Mulder: Why is that? Because I don't think the way you think? Because I won't just sit passively back and watch the family tragedy unfold?
Bill Scully: You're the reason for it. And I've already lost one sister to this quest you're on. Now I'm losing another. Has it been worth it? To you, I mean. Have you found what you've been looking for?
Mulder: No.
Bill Scully: No. You know how that makes me feel?
Mulder: In a way, I think I do. I lost someone very close to me--I lost a sister...I lost my father--all because of this thing I'm looking for.
Bill Scully: This what? Little green aliens?
Mulder: Yeah. Little green aliens.
Bill Scully: You're one sorry son of a bitch. Not a whole lot more to say. (leaves)
Mulder: (after his phone rings) One sorry son of a bitch speaking.
TV Show: The X-Files
Mulder: Four years ago, while working on an assignment outside the FBI mainstream I was paired with Special Agent Dana Scully who I believe was sent to spy on me. To debunk my investigations into the paranormal. That Agent Scully did not follow these orders is a testament to her integrity as an investigator, a scientist, and a human being. She has paid dearly for this integrity.
Section Chief Scott Blevins: Agent Mulder, Agent Scully lied straightfaced to this panel about your death.
Mulder: She lied because I asked her to. Because I had evidence of a conspiracy, a conspiracy against the American people.
Senior Agent: We've already heard testimony to these allegations Agent Mulder.
Mulder: AND a conspiracy intended to destroy the lives of those who would reveal its true purpose. To conduct experiments on unwitting victims to further a secret agenda for someone within the government operating at levels without restraint or responsibility, without morals or conscience. Men who pretend to honor as they deceive, the price of this betrayal the lives and reputations of those deceived. Agent Scully...is lying in a hospital bed right now, diagnosed with terminal cancer. A victim of these same tests, conducted without her knowledge or consent. By these same men, who as they try to cover their tracks, who suborne and persecute the same people they have used in their plot, I will NOW call by name.
Senior Agent: Agent Mulder did you, or did you not shoot the man found dead in your apartment?
Mulder: I will answer that question, Sir.
Section Chief Scott Blevins: Did you shoot Scott Ostlehoff? Employee of the Department of Defense?
Mulder: I will answer that question, Sir.
Senior Agent: Answer the question asked, Agent Mulder!
Mulder: I will answer the question after I name the man!
Section Chief Scott Blevins:
Section Chief Scott Blevins: Agent Mulder, Agent Scully lied straightfaced to this panel about your death.
Mulder: She lied because I asked her to. Because I had evidence of a conspiracy, a conspiracy against the American people.
Senior Agent: We've already heard testimony to these allegations Agent Mulder.
Mulder: AND a conspiracy intended to destroy the lives of those who would reveal its true purpose. To conduct experiments on unwitting victims to further a secret agenda for someone within the government operating at levels without restraint or responsibility, without morals or conscience. Men who pretend to honor as they deceive, the price of this betrayal the lives and reputations of those deceived. Agent Scully...is lying in a hospital bed right now, diagnosed with terminal cancer. A victim of these same tests, conducted without her knowledge or consent. By these same men, who as they try to cover their tracks, who suborne and persecute the same people they have used in their plot, I will NOW call by name.
Senior Agent: Agent Mulder did you, or did you not shoot the man found dead in your apartment?
Mulder: I will answer that question, Sir.
Section Chief Scott Blevins: Did you shoot Scott Ostlehoff? Employee of the Department of Defense?
Mulder: I will answer that question, Sir.
Senior Agent: Answer the question asked, Agent Mulder!
Mulder: I will answer the question after I name the man!
Section Chief Scott Blevins:
TV Show: The X-Files
[Mulder is sitting on a chair in the hospital. Skinner approaches and sits next to him.]
Skinner: The Smoking Man's dead.
Mulder: How?
Skinner: Shot through his window. [Hands Mulder a photo of young Mulder and Samantha] Forensics found it at the scene. We're assuming it's his blood.
Mulder: Assuming?
Skinner: Well no body was found, though there was too much blood lost for anyone to have survived. (sighs) This afternoon when you named Blevins... how did you know?
Mulder: I didn't. I just guessed.
Skinner: Well it was a hell of a guess. Blevins had been on payroll for four years to a biotechnology company called Roush, which is somehow connected to all this.
Mulder: Well, I'm sure whatever connections there were, they're being erased right now.
Skinner: They're cleaning up, taking everything away.
Mulder: Not everything. Scully's cancer's gone into remission.
Skinner: (looks shocked) That's unbelievable news.
Mulder: (grins) It's the best news I could have ever heard.
Skinner: What turned it around?
Mulder: I don't know. I don't think we'll ever know.
Skinner: Can I see her?
Mulder: Yeah, she's in there with her family right now, but I'm sure she'd love to see you.
[Skinner heads in to her room, where Scully and her family are waiting. She smiles at him. He enters and shuts the door; Mulder sits outside staring at the picture of himself and Samantha and begins to cry.]
Skinner: The Smoking Man's dead.
Mulder: How?
Skinner: Shot through his window. [Hands Mulder a photo of young Mulder and Samantha] Forensics found it at the scene. We're assuming it's his blood.
Mulder: Assuming?
Skinner: Well no body was found, though there was too much blood lost for anyone to have survived. (sighs) This afternoon when you named Blevins... how did you know?
Mulder: I didn't. I just guessed.
Skinner: Well it was a hell of a guess. Blevins had been on payroll for four years to a biotechnology company called Roush, which is somehow connected to all this.
Mulder: Well, I'm sure whatever connections there were, they're being erased right now.
Skinner: They're cleaning up, taking everything away.
Mulder: Not everything. Scully's cancer's gone into remission.
Skinner: (looks shocked) That's unbelievable news.
Mulder: (grins) It's the best news I could have ever heard.
Skinner: What turned it around?
Mulder: I don't know. I don't think we'll ever know.
Skinner: Can I see her?
Mulder: Yeah, she's in there with her family right now, but I'm sure she'd love to see you.
[Skinner heads in to her room, where Scully and her family are waiting. She smiles at him. He enters and shuts the door; Mulder sits outside staring at the picture of himself and Samantha and begins to cry.]
TV Show: The X-Files
Frohike: (to Langly) With that long blonde hair, you'll be the first one in here who gets traded for cigarettes, and I'm gonna be laughing my ass off.
TV Show: The X-Files
Frohike: Me and the narc have a proposition for you.
Langly: What proposition?
Frohike: The coolest hack in the world.
Langly: [smiles] Say it. [Frohike hesitates] Say it...
Frohike: [grudgingly] ...Your kung fu is the best.
Langly: What proposition?
Frohike: The coolest hack in the world.
Langly: [smiles] Say it. [Frohike hesitates] Say it...
Frohike: [grudgingly] ...Your kung fu is the best.
TV Show: The X-Files