The X Files Quotes
Scully: It was there that we were met by a representative of local law enforcement, Sheriff-
Sheriff Lucius Hartwell: Lucius Hartwell. You the FBI agents?
Scully: Yes, I'm-
Mulder: Agents Mulder and, uh... (snaps fingers, trying to remember) Scully. What do you say we go take a look at your victim?
Sheriff Lucius Hartwell: Yeah, by all means. After you.
Mulder: Come on, Scully, get those little legs movin! Come on!
Sheriff Lucius Hartwell: Lucius Hartwell. You the FBI agents?
Scully: Yes, I'm-
Mulder: Agents Mulder and, uh... (snaps fingers, trying to remember) Scully. What do you say we go take a look at your victim?
Sheriff Lucius Hartwell: Yeah, by all means. After you.
Mulder: Come on, Scully, get those little legs movin! Come on!
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Mulder: (pulling on dead man's collar to reveal two apparent bite marks) Your Satanic cultists have some sharp little teeth.
Sheriff Lucius Hartwell: What satanic cultists?
Mulder: Go ahead, tell him your, heh, (makes quotation marks in the air, mockingly) "theory."
Sheriff Lucius Hartwell: What satanic cultists?
Mulder: Go ahead, tell him your, heh, (makes quotation marks in the air, mockingly) "theory."
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Sheriff Lucius Hartwell: You really know your stuff, Dana.
Mulder: (disbelief) Dana?! [Cuts back to Mulder's office; he laughs] He never even knew your first name!
Scully: (embarrassed) You gonna interrupt me, or what?
Mulder: No, go ahead. (grinning) Dana.
Mulder: (disbelief) Dana?! [Cuts back to Mulder's office; he laughs] He never even knew your first name!
Scully: (embarrassed) You gonna interrupt me, or what?
Mulder: No, go ahead. (grinning) Dana.
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Mulder: [Investigating a body] Have you noticed that this man's shoes are untied?
Scully: Mulder, what's your point?
Mulder: This means something... Sheriff, do you have an old cemetery in town, off the beaten path, the creepier the better?
Sheriff Lucius Hartwell: Uh, yeah.
Mulder: (snaps his fingers at him) Take me there now! Scully, we're gonna need a complete autopsy on this man, the sooner the better.
Scully: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! What am I even looking for?
Mulder: (puts his hands on her shoulders; looks at her intently) I don't know. (walks off)
Scully: (looks at the sheriff, who seems confused; tries to explain) He does that.
Scully: Mulder, what's your point?
Mulder: This means something... Sheriff, do you have an old cemetery in town, off the beaten path, the creepier the better?
Sheriff Lucius Hartwell: Uh, yeah.
Mulder: (snaps his fingers at him) Take me there now! Scully, we're gonna need a complete autopsy on this man, the sooner the better.
Scully: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! What am I even looking for?
Mulder: (puts his hands on her shoulders; looks at her intently) I don't know. (walks off)
Scully: (looks at the sheriff, who seems confused; tries to explain) He does that.
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Scully: [speaking into a tape recorder] 4: 54 p.m. begin autopsy on one white male, age 60, who is arguably having a worse time in Texas than I am...although not by much.
[She picks up the scalpel provided to her and the blade falls off]
Scully: Yee-haw.
[She picks up the scalpel provided to her and the blade falls off]
Scully: Yee-haw.
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Scully: But I just put money in the "magic fingers"!
Mulder: [hops on bed] I won't let it go to waste!
Mulder: [hops on bed] I won't let it go to waste!
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Mulder: Yesterday morning began like any other morning. You arrived at the office characteristically less than exuberant. [Cuts to Mulder putting plane tickets on the desk, speaking quietly and calmly] I hope you brought your cowboy boots.
Scully: (whiny) Why are we going to Dallas?
Scully: (whiny) Why are we going to Dallas?
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Mulder: But as always, I-I'm very eager to hear your opinion.
Scully: (annoyed) Well, it's obviously not a vampire.
Mulder: Well why not?
Scully: (like it should be obvious) Because they don't exist?
Mulder: Well, that's one opinion and I respect that.
Scully: (annoyed) Well, it's obviously not a vampire.
Mulder: Well why not?
Scully: (like it should be obvious) Because they don't exist?
Mulder: Well, that's one opinion and I respect that.
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Scully: (objecting) He had big buck teeth?
Mulder: He had a slight overbite
Scully: And that's significant? How?
Mulder: I was just trying to be thorough!
Mulder: He had a slight overbite
Scully: And that's significant? How?
Mulder: I was just trying to be thorough!
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Sheriff Hartwell: Yeah. Okay. Uh... what she said, that's what I'm thinking, and, uh... Yeah.
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Mulder: Historically, cemeteries were thought to be a haven for vampires, as are castles, catacombs and swamps, but unfortunately, you don't have any of those.
Sheriff Hartwell: We used to have swamps, only the EPA made us take to calling 'em "wetlands."
Sheriff Hartwell: We used to have swamps, only the EPA made us take to calling 'em "wetlands."
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Mulder: Anyway, skipping ahead...
Scully: Why skipping ahead? (no response) Mulder... you shot out the tires, what then?
Mulder: Well, here's something you may not know - shooting out the tires on a runaway RV is a lot harder than it looks. I then tried a different approach. [Cuts to Mulder being dragged behind the RV as he attempts to hold on to it, screaming loudly]
Scully: Why skipping ahead? (no response) Mulder... you shot out the tires, what then?
Mulder: Well, here's something you may not know - shooting out the tires on a runaway RV is a lot harder than it looks. I then tried a different approach. [Cuts to Mulder being dragged behind the RV as he attempts to hold on to it, screaming loudly]
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Mulder: (voiceover) Tired, frustrated, and lacking a solid lead, I just wanted to get cleaned up. I had the sheriff drop me at the motel, which is where I ran into you.
Scully: (sitting on the vibrating bed, yelling at Mulder) What do you mean you want me to do another autopsy?! Why do I have to do it now?! I just spent hours on my feet doing an autopsy, all for you! I do it all for you, Mulder! You know I haven't eaten since 6 o'clock this morning, and that was half a cream cheese bagel. And it wasn't even real cream cheese, it was light cream cheese! Now you want me to run off and do another autopsy?! (finally notices how beaten up he looks) What the hell happened to you?
Mulder: (voiceover) Finally you left.
Scully: (leaving the motel room) Don't you touch that bed!
Scully: (sitting on the vibrating bed, yelling at Mulder) What do you mean you want me to do another autopsy?! Why do I have to do it now?! I just spent hours on my feet doing an autopsy, all for you! I do it all for you, Mulder! You know I haven't eaten since 6 o'clock this morning, and that was half a cream cheese bagel. And it wasn't even real cream cheese, it was light cream cheese! Now you want me to run off and do another autopsy?! (finally notices how beaten up he looks) What the hell happened to you?
Mulder: (voiceover) Finally you left.
Scully: (leaving the motel room) Don't you touch that bed!
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[Mulder throws his sunflower seeds at Ronnie, which forces him to pick them up] Oh man! What'd you have to go and do that for?! You are in big trouble.
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Scully: Mulder, he had fake fangs. Why would a real vampire need fake fangs? I mean, for the sake of argument?
Mulder: Fangs are very rarely mentioned in the literature; they're more or less an invention of Bram Stoker's. I think you were right before when you said this was about a guy who's watched too many Dracula movies. It's just that he happens to be a real vampire.
Mulder: Fangs are very rarely mentioned in the literature; they're more or less an invention of Bram Stoker's. I think you were right before when you said this was about a guy who's watched too many Dracula movies. It's just that he happens to be a real vampire.
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Mulder: (to the sheriff) You can stay behind here with Agent Scully and keep an eye on things where I go check something out. (to Scully, with a bad southern accent) Don't say I never did nothin' for ye!
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Sheriff Lucius Hartwell: He's just not who we are anymore. I mean we pay taxes, we're good neighbors. Old Ronnie... he just can't seem to grasp the concept of low profile. But, though he may be a moron, he is one of our own.
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Skinner: So that's it. They simply disappeared without a trace. And that's exactly what happened from start to finish.
Scully: Well I can neither confirm nor deny Agent Mulder's version of events which occurred outside my presence.
Mulder: And I can neither confirm nor deny Agent Scully's version of events, but, uh...
Scully: Anyway... I was drugged.
Mulder: That is, essentially exactly the way it happened.
Scully: Essentially.
Mulder: Except for the part about the buck teeth.
Scully: Well I can neither confirm nor deny Agent Mulder's version of events which occurred outside my presence.
Mulder: And I can neither confirm nor deny Agent Scully's version of events, but, uh...
Scully: Anyway... I was drugged.
Mulder: That is, essentially exactly the way it happened.
Scully: Essentially.
Mulder: Except for the part about the buck teeth.
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Mulder: Before the exploration of space, of the moon and the planets, man held that the heavens were the home and province of powerful gods, who controlled not just the vast firmament but the earthly fate of man himself, and that the pantheon of powerful warring deities was the cause and reason for the human condition, for the past and future, and for which great monuments would be created, on earth as in heaven. But in time man replaced these gods with new gods and new religions that provided no more certain or greater answers than those worshipped by his Greek or Roman or Egyptian ancestors. And while we've chosen now our monolithic and benevolent gods and found our certainties in science, believers all, we wait for a sign, a revelation. Our eyes turn skyward, ready to accept the truly incredible, to find our destiny written in the stars. But how do we best look to see? With new eyes or old?
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Werber: The regression hypnosis work I did with you-
Mulder: No, I'm not questioning your methods, Dr Werber. I'm questioning myself, and how I was tricked. How I was led to believe, through an elaborate staging of events, that my sister had been abducted.
Werber: A man with faith can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.
Mulder: I don't think you understand. There's just too much evidence that it's all been a lie. The conspiracy is not to hide the existence of extraterrestrials. It's to make people believe in it so completely that they question nothing.
Werber: So, you and I have been advocates of insanity all along? Is this the extreme possibility you believe in now?
Mulder: No, I'm not questioning your methods, Dr Werber. I'm questioning myself, and how I was tricked. How I was led to believe, through an elaborate staging of events, that my sister had been abducted.
Werber: A man with faith can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.
Mulder: I don't think you understand. There's just too much evidence that it's all been a lie. The conspiracy is not to hide the existence of extraterrestrials. It's to make people believe in it so completely that they question nothing.
Werber: So, you and I have been advocates of insanity all along? Is this the extreme possibility you believe in now?
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Mulder: One more anal-probing gyro-pyro levitating ecoplasm alien anti-matter story and I'm going to take out my gun and shoot somebody.
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[Scully throws a newspaper at Mulder.]
Scully: Shouldn't that be my picture next to the headline? [A picture of Mulder with the headline, "All this conjecture about little green men - false, dangerous, delusional."] Or is that just you having a little fun?
Mulder: Do I look like I'm having fun, Scully?
Scully: You look constipated, actually.
Mulder: That would make sense. I've had my head up my rear end for the last five years.
Scully: Shouldn't that be my picture next to the headline? [A picture of Mulder with the headline, "All this conjecture about little green men - false, dangerous, delusional."] Or is that just you having a little fun?
Mulder: Do I look like I'm having fun, Scully?
Scully: You look constipated, actually.
Mulder: That would make sense. I've had my head up my rear end for the last five years.
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[Mulder stands next to Scully, who is laying on a bed in the hospital, and move a strand of her bangs out of her eyes. She begins to wake up.]
Scully: Mmm. [Opens her eyes.] What time is it?
Mulder: (laughing) "What time is it?" It's time to thank your lucky stars.
Scully: Why are you laughing?
Mulder: I'm not laughing at you! (smiles) I'm just very happy to be standing here talking to you, that's all.
Scully: (getting concerned) Mulder, what am I doing here?
Mulder: You were airlifted here in vasogenic shock.
Scully: From what?
Mulder: You've got some first-degree burns, and scorching on your hands and face.
Scully: (touches face, not understanding) From what?
Mulder: You don't remember?
Scully: Mulder... [Looks at the tv, which is showing a report about the attack, along with images of many of the dead bodies found at the scene.]
Mulder: Is any of this coming back to you?
Scully: I was there? [Mulder sighs.] Well, doing what?
Mulder: I was hoping you were going to answer that question for me.
Scully: Mmm. [Opens her eyes.] What time is it?
Mulder: (laughing) "What time is it?" It's time to thank your lucky stars.
Scully: Why are you laughing?
Mulder: I'm not laughing at you! (smiles) I'm just very happy to be standing here talking to you, that's all.
Scully: (getting concerned) Mulder, what am I doing here?
Mulder: You were airlifted here in vasogenic shock.
Scully: From what?
Mulder: You've got some first-degree burns, and scorching on your hands and face.
Scully: (touches face, not understanding) From what?
Mulder: You don't remember?
Scully: Mulder... [Looks at the tv, which is showing a report about the attack, along with images of many of the dead bodies found at the scene.]
Mulder: Is any of this coming back to you?
Scully: I was there? [Mulder sighs.] Well, doing what?
Mulder: I was hoping you were going to answer that question for me.
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Scully: But it doesn't explain why they would want to kill me. And it doesn't explain why I survived.
Mulder: It all comes down to a question, one that hasn't been answered or I don't think honestly addressed. Who made that chip in your neck? That chip was found in a military research facility. Our government made that chip, implanted it in your neck as part of a secret military project to develop a biochemical weapon, to monitor your immunity or to destroy you like a lab rat... if the truth were to be exposed. Your cancer, your cure. Everything that's happening to you now. It all points to that chip. The truth I've been searching for? That truth is IN you.
Scully: (pauses, looks down) Mulder, when I met you five years ago, you told me that your sister had been abducted... by aliens. That that event had marked you so deeply that nothing else mattered. I didn't believe you, but I followed you... on nothing more than your faith that the truth was out there, based not on facts, not on science, but on your memories that your sister had been taken from you. Your memories were all that you had.
Mulder: I don't trust those memories now.
Scully: Whether you trust them or not, they led you here, and me. But I have no memories to either trust or distrust. And if you ask me now to follow you again, to stand behind you in what you now believe, without knowing what happened to me out there... without those memories, I can't. I won't.
Mulder: [Stands and goes to window, pauses, then looks back at her.] If I could give you those memories, if I could prove that I was right and that what I believed for so long was wrong-
Scully: Is that what you really want?
Mulder: It all comes down to a question, one that hasn't been answered or I don't think honestly addressed. Who made that chip in your neck? That chip was found in a military research facility. Our government made that chip, implanted it in your neck as part of a secret military project to develop a biochemical weapon, to monitor your immunity or to destroy you like a lab rat... if the truth were to be exposed. Your cancer, your cure. Everything that's happening to you now. It all points to that chip. The truth I've been searching for? That truth is IN you.
Scully: (pauses, looks down) Mulder, when I met you five years ago, you told me that your sister had been abducted... by aliens. That that event had marked you so deeply that nothing else mattered. I didn't believe you, but I followed you... on nothing more than your faith that the truth was out there, based not on facts, not on science, but on your memories that your sister had been taken from you. Your memories were all that you had.
Mulder: I don't trust those memories now.
Scully: Whether you trust them or not, they led you here, and me. But I have no memories to either trust or distrust. And if you ask me now to follow you again, to stand behind you in what you now believe, without knowing what happened to me out there... without those memories, I can't. I won't.
Mulder: [Stands and goes to window, pauses, then looks back at her.] If I could give you those memories, if I could prove that I was right and that what I believed for so long was wrong-
Scully: Is that what you really want?
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[Scully is under hypnosis]
Scully: There's... there's another one. There's another ship. They see it. They were attacking them.
Weber: Who were they attacking, Dana?
Scully: The... the faceless men. They're... oh my God, I can't...
Weber: Do you want to stop, Dana?
Scully: No. Now it's coming at us. Oh my God! No! Cassandra! Where's Cassandra? They're... they're taking her. They're... oh my God.
Scully: There's... there's another one. There's another ship. They see it. They were attacking them.
Weber: Who were they attacking, Dana?
Scully: The... the faceless men. They're... oh my God, I can't...
Weber: Do you want to stop, Dana?
Scully: No. Now it's coming at us. Oh my God! No! Cassandra! Where's Cassandra? They're... they're taking her. They're... oh my God.
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Krycek: You must be losing it, Mulder. I can beat you with one hand.
Mulder: Isn't that how you like to beat yourself?
[Krycek cocks gun]
Mulder: If those were my last words, I can do better.
Krycek: I'm not here to kill you, Mulder. I'm here to help you.
Mulder: (sarcastically) Hey, thanks.
Krycek: You know, if it wasn't in my best interests, I would just as soon squeeze the trigger.
Mulder: What's stopping you?
Krycek: Hear this, agent Mulder. Listen very carefully, because what I'm telling you is deadly serious. There is a war raging, and unless you pull your head out of the sand, you and I and about 5 billion other people are gonna go the way of the dinosaur. I'm talking planned invasion- the colonization of this planet by an extraterrestrial race.
Mulder: (laughing) I thought you were serious.
Krycek: Kazakhstan, Skyland Mountain, the site in Pennsylvania, they're all alien lighthouses where the colonization wil be gin, but where now a battle is being raged, a struggle for heaven and earth where there is one law: fight or die. And one rule: resist or serve.
Mulder: Serve who?
Krycek: No, not who. What.
Mulder: Krycek, you're a murderer, a liar and a coward. Just because you stick a gun in my chest, I'm supposed to believe you're my friend?!
Krycek: (smiles) Get up. I was sent by a man... a man who knows, as I do, that resistance is in our grasp, and in yours. The mass incinerations were strikes by an alien rebellion, to upset plans for occupation. One of these rebels is being held captive. And if he dies, so does the resistance. [Leans forward and seems to kiss him on the cheek?, then puts his gun away and starts to leave.](in Russian)Good luck to y
Mulder: Isn't that how you like to beat yourself?
[Krycek cocks gun]
Mulder: If those were my last words, I can do better.
Krycek: I'm not here to kill you, Mulder. I'm here to help you.
Mulder: (sarcastically) Hey, thanks.
Krycek: You know, if it wasn't in my best interests, I would just as soon squeeze the trigger.
Mulder: What's stopping you?
Krycek: Hear this, agent Mulder. Listen very carefully, because what I'm telling you is deadly serious. There is a war raging, and unless you pull your head out of the sand, you and I and about 5 billion other people are gonna go the way of the dinosaur. I'm talking planned invasion- the colonization of this planet by an extraterrestrial race.
Mulder: (laughing) I thought you were serious.
Krycek: Kazakhstan, Skyland Mountain, the site in Pennsylvania, they're all alien lighthouses where the colonization wil be gin, but where now a battle is being raged, a struggle for heaven and earth where there is one law: fight or die. And one rule: resist or serve.
Mulder: Serve who?
Krycek: No, not who. What.
Mulder: Krycek, you're a murderer, a liar and a coward. Just because you stick a gun in my chest, I'm supposed to believe you're my friend?!
Krycek: (smiles) Get up. I was sent by a man... a man who knows, as I do, that resistance is in our grasp, and in yours. The mass incinerations were strikes by an alien rebellion, to upset plans for occupation. One of these rebels is being held captive. And if he dies, so does the resistance. [Leans forward and seems to kiss him on the cheek?, then puts his gun away and starts to leave.](in Russian)Good luck to y
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Scully: Mulder? What are you doing sitting here in the dark?
Mulder: Thinking.
Scully: Thinking about what?
Mulder: Well, the usual. Destiny, fate, how to throw a curveball. The inextricable relationships in our lives that are neither accidental nor... somehow in our control either.
Mulder: Thinking.
Scully: Thinking about what?
Mulder: Well, the usual. Destiny, fate, how to throw a curveball. The inextricable relationships in our lives that are neither accidental nor... somehow in our control either.
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Guard: Yes, sir?
Mulder: We're federal agents requesting permission to enter the base.
Guard: Do you have any paperwork to go with that, Agent "Muldar?"
Mulder: (annoyed) It's Mulder.
Mulder: We're federal agents requesting permission to enter the base.
Guard: Do you have any paperwork to go with that, Agent "Muldar?"
Mulder: (annoyed) It's Mulder.
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