"The Truth Is Out There" X Files Quotes

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Mulder: Whatever happened to playing a hunch, Scully? The element of surprise, random acts of unpredictability? If we fail to anticipate the unforeseen or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite possibilities, we may find ourselves at the mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categorized or easily referenced. What are we doing up here, Scully? It's hotter than hell. Scully: I know you're bored in this assignment, Mulder, but unconventional thinking is only gonna get you in trouble now. Mulder: What makes you think I'm bored? Scully: You've gotta quit looking for what isn't there. They've closed the X-files. There's procedure to be followed now ... protocol. Mulder: Maybe we should call in a bomb threat to Houston. I think it's free beer night at the Astrodome.

Fight the Future - First X Files film.

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Scully: Mulder. Mulder: What. Scully: Stop. Mulder: Okay, just feel free to give up like everybody else. Scully: This is not my job any more, Mulder. Mulder: No, that's right, that's right, you're just like my booking agent now, right? Scully: You're right. This is my fault. Mulder: What do you mean, it's your fault. Scully: For getting you involved in this. Mulder: No, no. It was the right thing to do, Scully. Scully: This is not about finding an FBI agent. This is about you trying to save your sister. Mulder: My sister is dead. Scully: It hasn't stopped you from looking for her. Mulder, I have been through this too many years with you, believing you can you save her. You cannot save her, not now and not ever.

“I Want to Believe” - second X Files film.

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Mulder: The world didn't end. Scully: No, it didn't. Mulder: Happy New Year, Scully. Scully: Happy New Year, Mulder.

Episode 7x04 - Millenium

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Scully: Then who are we staking out? Mulder: The former occupants. Scully: They've come back? Mulder: That's the story. Scully: I see. The dark, gothic manor the, uh, omnipresent low fog hugging the thicket of overgrowth. Wait... is that a hound I hear baying out on the moors? Mulder: No. Actually that was a left cheek sneak. Scully: Mulder, tell me you didn't call me out here on Christmas Eve to go ghost busting with you. Mulder: Technically speaking they're called apparitions.

Episode 6x06 - How the Ghosts Stole Christmas 

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Scully: So, Sherlock, is the game afoot? Mulder: I'm afraid so, Watson. But you're off the hook on this one. Scully: What do you mean? Mulder: I mean I'm not going to put you through this. Scully: Put me through what? Mulder: Phoebe's little mindgame. Scully: What are you talking about? Mulder: There's something else I haven't told you about myself, Scully. I hate fire. Hate it. Scared to death of it. When I was a kid, my best friend's house burned down. Had to spend the night in the rubble to keep away looters. For years, I had nightmares about being trapped in a burning building. Scully: Wait, and Phoebe knows about this? Mulder: This is classic Phoebe Green. Mindgame player extraordinaire. Ten years it's taken me to forget about this woman, and she shows up in my life with a case like this.

Episode 1x11 - Fire

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Scully: You set us up. You're in on this with Lucas Henry. This was a trap for Mulder because he helped put you away. Well, I came here to tell you, that if he dies because of what you've done, four days from now, no body will stop me from being the one that will throw the switch and gas you out of this life for good, you son of a bitch!

Episode 1x12 - Beyond the Sea

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Mulder: I need you to set up a meeting for me. A.D. Skinner: (to his assistant) Hold up my calls. Where's Agent Scully? Mulder: She's at a hospital in Allentown beginning treatment. A.D. Skinner: What happened to your investigative avenues? Mulder: They've taken a turn. A pretty big U-turn by the looks of it. This is a file directory from a federally operated fertility clinic. Agent Scully's name is on this file, although I'm pretty sure, pretty damn sure she's never undergone treatment for infertility. A.D. Skinner: What's in the file? Mulder: I don't know. It's just a directory for a mainframe housed in the Lumbard Research Facility. A.D. Skinner: So you want to set a meeting, with whom? Mulder: Cigarette man. I have no doubt in my mind he's behind this. A.D. Skinner: You've come to me before like this Mulder. Mulder: Yeah, well this is different, this is different, I'm willing to deal now. A.D. Skinner: Find another way. Mulder: No, no I need that meeting. A.D. Skinner: You deal with this man, you offer him anything and he will own you forever. Mulder: He knows what they did to Agent Scully. He may very well know how to save her. A.D. Skinner: If he knows, you can know too but you can't ask the truth of a man who trades in lies. I won't let you. Mulder: We are talking about Agent Scully's life. A.D. Skinner: Find another way.

Episode 4x14 - Momento Mori

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Langly: L.S.D.M. Obviously, you haven't read our August edition of "T.L.G." Mulder: Oh, I'm sorry, boys. It arrived the same day as my subscription to "Celebrity Skin." Byers: Come over here. Frohike: So, Mulder, where's your little partner? Mulder: She wouldn't come. She's afraid of her love for you. Frohike: She's tasty. Mulder: You know, Frohike, it's men like you that give perversion a bad name.

Episode 2x03 - Blood

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Cancer Man: It struck me as I was sitting here. Teena Mulder: What? Cancer Man: Everything changes but the sea. Teena Mulder: What do you want from me? Cancer Man: I thought we might at least allow ourselves to reminisce. Teena Mulder: I have nothing to say to you. Cancer Man: Really? We used to have so much to say to each other, so many good times at the Mulder's summer place [smiling]. Your kids.. young and energetic. I remember water-skiing down there with Bill. He was a good water-skier your husband, not as good as I was but then that could be said about so many things...[Mrs. Mulder looks angry] couldn't it? Teena Mulder: I've repressed it all. Cancer Man: Well, I find that hard to believe, particularly since I came here today to ask you to remember something. Something I'm gonna have to ask you to try very hard to recollect.

Episode 3x24 - Talitha Cumi

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William Scully: Why don't you just go see the movie? Cancer Man: I'd rather read the worst novel ever written than sit through the best movie ever made.

Episode 4x07 - Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man

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Mulder: People videotape police beatings on dark streets. They see Elvis in three cities across America every day. But no one saw a pretty woman being run off the road in her rental car.

Episode 2x13 - Irresistible

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Mulder: You okay, Scully? Scully: Yeah... I've read about cases of desecrating the dead, but this is the first time I've seen one. Mulder: Nothing can prepare you for it. It's almost impossible to imagine. Scully: Why do they do it? Mulder: Some people collect salt and pepper shakers. The fetishist collects dead things. Hair, fingernails...no one quite knows why. though I've never quite understood salt and pepper shakers myself.

Episode 2x13 - Irresistible

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Scully: Did you experience any unusual complications during your pregnancy, Amanda? Did you undergo any kind of fertility treatment? Amanda Nelligan: No. I wasn't trying to get pregnant. I guess you could just sort of say I'm a single mom now. Mulder: When you were admitted you said that the baby's father was from another planet. What did you mean by that exactly? Amanda Nelligan: You know, that he's not from this planet. Mulder: Were you abducted? Amanda Nelligan: Huh? No, no, he dropped by my apartment one day, and one thing sort of led to another.. Mulder: But the baby's father is an alien? Amanda Nelligan: No, no, I didn't say he was an alien, I said he was from another planet. His name is Luke Skywalker. He's what's known as a Jedi Knight. Scully: Did he have a light saber? Amanda Nelligan: No, he didn't bring it. He did sing me a song for me though. Da dum da da da da dum... Scully: How many times have you seen Star Wars, Amanda? Amanda Nelligan: Three hundred and sixty eight. I should break four hundred by Memorial Day.

Episode 4x20 - Small Potatoes

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Mulder: "No"? What do you mean, "no"? Scully: I mean, this has reached the point of absurdity, Mulder. We're out here on half a hunch off of a cryptic phone call chasing down a, a clue that's based on nothing but speculation. Mulder: Well, 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 and 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: You think he does it because he gets off on it? Scully: No. I think he does it because you do.

Episode 1x24 - The Erlenmeyer Flask

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Fr. Ybarra: As you and I discussed, Dr. Scully, I was just informing the staff and doctors of the hospital's decision on Christian Fearon. Scully: I'm sorry, what decision? Fr. Ybarra: To relocate the patient to a hospice who will manage his palliative care. Scully: That was a discussion, not a decision. Fr. Ybarra: Well, it's been discussed here at length with no objection from your colleagues. Scully: I have an objection. Fr. Ybarra: You have, Dr. Scully, a patient with an untreatable condition. And that's very sad and unfortunate, nobody disagrees with that. Scully: But he's my patient. Fr. Ybarra: And unless you've come here today with a cure for Sandhoff disease, we all ask that you let the boy go in peace. Thank you. Now I'd like to wrap up so we can get on to the day's good work. We have the final matter of a patient in intensive care, Dr. Willer's patient, I believe. Admitted after suffering myocardial infarction during surgery... Scully: There is a treatment. Fr. Ybarra: The matter is resolved, Dr. Scully. Scully: No, it's not. The disease can be treated with intrathecal stem cell therapy. Female Doctor: You're not serious? Don't put the boy through hell. Scully: Would you do it if it were your son? Fr. Ybarra: It's not her son, and he's not yours. Scully: And it's not a decision for hospital administration, it's his doctor's. If you would like to challenge that you can take the matter up with a higher authority. Fr. Ybarra: I have taken it up with the highest authority, Dr. Scully. As should you.

“I Want to Believe” - second X Files film.

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Scully: They called me in today. Mulder: What did you tell them? Scully: That nothing was wrong. Mulder: Well you told them the truth then. Scully: Mulder, you opened the door for them, they're just looking for a good reason now. Mulder: Okay, I'll say I'm sorry. Scully: Mulder, these files, who knows you have them? Mulder: Why? Scully: Because I had to lie today. And I put my job in jeopardy in order to do so. If they find out about those files... Mulder: How would they find out? Scully: Maybe they already know. The question is, is it worth it? Is this cassette worth risking everything? Mulder: I'll tell you when I find out what's on it. Now just tell me who I can talk to about breaking that code. Scully: I'm meeting with someone in an hour. I might know something later tonight, I just need some kind of assurance that they're not going to let us hang ourselves with this. That I'm doing the right thing. Mulder: I'll try to find out. Scully: I need to know one more thing Mulder. Why did you attack Skinner? Mulder: I've thought of that Scully. I honestly can't say.

Episode 2x25 - Anasazi

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The Thinker: I...I don't want you to know my real name. I...I just don't think it's that important that you know. Mulder: Sounds like a line I used in a bar once. The Thinker: Look, I'm sorry about the wait but I kinda got this ninja party shaking my butt. Mulder: Why? What have you got? The Thinker: Well if I'm correct I got the original defense departments UFO intelligence files. Everything from the 1940's and up. Mulder: Everything? The Thinker: Everything. Roswell, MJ12 and beyond. Mulder: You've read them? The Thinker: Not entirely. I downloaded all I could and then I split. I mean, I knew that these guys would be after me. Mulder: What makes you think they know who you are? The Thinker: I didn't take any precautions. I mean I... I didn't even expect to get inside. Mulder: You know they always denied that these files even existed. What do you want from me? The Thinker: I want the truth. And I want you to promise that those rat bastards answer to the people.

Episode 2x25 - Anasazi