The X Files Quotes
Mulder: And why would God allow this to happen? Why do bad things happen to good people? Religion has masqueraded as the paranormal since the dawn of time to justify some of the most horrible acts in history.
Scully: I was raised to believe that God has His reasons however mysterious.
Mulder: He may well have His reasons, but He seems to use a lot of psychotics to carry out His job orders.
Scully: I was raised to believe that God has His reasons however mysterious.
Mulder: He may well have His reasons, but He seems to use a lot of psychotics to carry out His job orders.
TV Show: The X-Files
Mulder: [Speaking to Father Gregory who is praying inside an interrogation room] What are you asking for, Father? Mercy or forgiveness? You know... they say when you talk to God it's prayer, but when God talks to you it's schizophrenia. What is your God telling you, Father?
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Mulder: [leaving the room to go under cover] If you don't hear from me by midnight... (pauses) feed my fish.
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Mulder: You have to be willing to see.
Scully: I wish it were that simple.
Mulder: Scully, you have to believe me. Nobody else on this whole damn planet does or ever will. You're my one in five billion.
Scully: I wish it were that simple.
Mulder: Scully, you have to believe me. Nobody else on this whole damn planet does or ever will. You're my one in five billion.
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Mulder: What did you tell him?
Scully: The truth … as well as I understand it.
Mulder: Which is?
Scully: Folie a deux. A madness shared by two.
Scully: The truth … as well as I understand it.
Mulder: Which is?
Scully: Folie a deux. A madness shared by two.
TV Show: The X-Files
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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Mulder: You know, when I first met you I figured you were just ambitious. Then this morning my opinion changed and I thought you were arrogant. Now I'm beginning to wonder what you're protecting.
FBI Special Agent Jeffrey Spender: I'm just trying to run this thing right. Not like some ridiculous, paranormal free-for-all.
Mulder: You're insulting me when you should be taking notes. Somehow you got the big assignment, but just because you're wearing the suit doesn't mean it fits.
FBI Special Agent Jeffrey Spender: I'm just trying to run this thing right. Not like some ridiculous, paranormal free-for-all.
Mulder: You're insulting me when you should be taking notes. Somehow you got the big assignment, but just because you're wearing the suit doesn't mean it fits.
TV Show: The X-Files
Skinner: So this kid is a human oddity. Tell me why anyone would go to such lengths as to kill him?
Mulder: This kid may be the key not just to all human potential, but to all spiritual unexplained paranormal phenomena. The key to everything in The X-Files.
Mulder: This kid may be the key not just to all human potential, but to all spiritual unexplained paranormal phenomena. The key to everything in The X-Files.
TV Show: The X-Files
AD Maslin: Agent Mulder... Agent Mulder, I'm reading here a very pie-in-the-sky report about global domination plans by vicious, long-clawed spacelings? Is there going to be data to back this vague, omnibus account?
Mulder: Yes.
AD #1: I see your renowned arrogance has been left quite intact.
Mulder: Yes.
AD #1: I see your renowned arrogance has been left quite intact.
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Cigarette Smoking Man: There was some sloppiness in Phoenix where they found the body. The local PD got involved. These were taken at the scene by a crime reporter.
First Elder: These were run in the press?
Cigarette Smoking Man: I trumped up a story about a crazy Indian on the loose. Never underestimate the public's willingness to blame the Red Man for... anything they can't explain.
First Elder: These were run in the press?
Cigarette Smoking Man: I trumped up a story about a crazy Indian on the loose. Never underestimate the public's willingness to blame the Red Man for... anything they can't explain.
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Scully: Mulder, I just want to remind you that by not informing local PD we are in technical violation of state laws prohibiting contamination of a crime scene. (Mulder pays no attention to her; mutters) Why do I bother?
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Mulder: [Scrapes nail from wall] Ah. Somebody broke a nail.
Scully: Is it an animal?
Mulder: Well, it ain't RuPaul.
Scully: Is it an animal?
Mulder: Well, it ain't RuPaul.
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Mulder: What does it take? For this thing to come up and bite you on the ass? I saw these creatures. I saw them burst to life. You would've seen them, too but you were infected with that virus. You were passed out over my shoulder.
Scully: Mulder, I know what you did. I know what happened to me but without ignoring the science, I can't... Listen, Mulder... (takes his hand) You told me that my science kept you honest. That it made you question your assumptions. That by it, I'd made you a whole person. If I change now... It wouldn't be right... or honest.
Mulder: I'm talking about extraterrestrial life alive on this planet in our lifetime. Forces that dwarf and precede all human history. I'm sorry, Scully, but this time your science is wrong. (walks away)
Scully: Mulder, I know what you did. I know what happened to me but without ignoring the science, I can't... Listen, Mulder... (takes his hand) You told me that my science kept you honest. That it made you question your assumptions. That by it, I'd made you a whole person. If I change now... It wouldn't be right... or honest.
Mulder: I'm talking about extraterrestrial life alive on this planet in our lifetime. Forces that dwarf and precede all human history. I'm sorry, Scully, but this time your science is wrong. (walks away)
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Mulder: Why are you here?
Gibson: They were using me 'cause I can communicate with it.
Scully: Communicate with what?
Gibson: You already know. You just don't want to believe it.
[Mulder and Scully glance at each other]
Gibson: They were using me 'cause I can communicate with it.
Scully: Communicate with what?
Gibson: You already know. You just don't want to believe it.
[Mulder and Scully glance at each other]
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Spender: You're not supposed to come here. It's what was agreed to. It's the deal you made.
Cigarette Smoking Man: I had to congratulate you. Commend how you handled things. How you handled Mulder.
Spender: I did what I was asked.
Cigarette Smoking Man: You did well, son. He's on very thin ice now, you know?
Spender: Mulder will be back. As long as he lives, he won't give up.
Cigarette Smoking Man: Well, there's solutions, of course. Simple but extreme solutions. I've used these methods. They have their place. But not here.
Spender: (surprised) You've killed men?
Cigarette Smoking Man: You can kill a man but you can't kill what he stands for... Not unless you first break his spirit. That's a beautiful thing to see.
Cigarette Smoking Man: I had to congratulate you. Commend how you handled things. How you handled Mulder.
Spender: I did what I was asked.
Cigarette Smoking Man: You did well, son. He's on very thin ice now, you know?
Spender: Mulder will be back. As long as he lives, he won't give up.
Cigarette Smoking Man: Well, there's solutions, of course. Simple but extreme solutions. I've used these methods. They have their place. But not here.
Spender: (surprised) You've killed men?
Cigarette Smoking Man: You can kill a man but you can't kill what he stands for... Not unless you first break his spirit. That's a beautiful thing to see.
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Mulder: It would help if you'd shut the door. It would make it harder for them to see that I'm totally disregarding everything I was told.
Scully: (closing the door) Everything we were told, Mulder.
Mulder: They can't take away the X-Files, Scully. They tried.
Scully: You know, Agent Fowley's report to OPR painted the facts in an interesting way. I hope you haven't been betrayed.
Mulder: (not looking at her) Agent Fowley's report was a means to an end. Trying to protect the work. Protect the X-Files.
Scully: Mulder, Agent Fowley's report states that the man you saw attacked was bludgeoned by an unknown subject. She makes no mention of a little boy who as it happens, is nowhere to be found. It would seem that her report protects everything but you.
Mulder: Agent Fowley took me to that plant at great risk to herself where I saw something that you refuse to believe in. Saw it again, Scully. And though it may not say it in her report, Diana saw it, too. And no matter what you think she's certainly not going to go around saying that just because science can't prove it isn't true.
Scully: I don't doubt what you saw, Mulder. I don't doubt you. I'm willing to believe, but not in a lie and not in the opposite of what I can prove. It comes down to a matter of trust. [He looks up at her] I guess it always has.
Mulder: You asking me to make a choice?
Scully: I'm asking you to trust my judgment. To trust me. [Hands him a folder]
Mulder: I can't accept that. Not if it refutes what I know to be true.
Scully: Mulder, these are test results. DNA from the claw nail we found matching exactly the DNA from the virus you believe is extraterrestrial.
Mulder: [Takes the folder and looks at the papers inside] That's the co
Scully: (closing the door) Everything we were told, Mulder.
Mulder: They can't take away the X-Files, Scully. They tried.
Scully: You know, Agent Fowley's report to OPR painted the facts in an interesting way. I hope you haven't been betrayed.
Mulder: (not looking at her) Agent Fowley's report was a means to an end. Trying to protect the work. Protect the X-Files.
Scully: Mulder, Agent Fowley's report states that the man you saw attacked was bludgeoned by an unknown subject. She makes no mention of a little boy who as it happens, is nowhere to be found. It would seem that her report protects everything but you.
Mulder: Agent Fowley took me to that plant at great risk to herself where I saw something that you refuse to believe in. Saw it again, Scully. And though it may not say it in her report, Diana saw it, too. And no matter what you think she's certainly not going to go around saying that just because science can't prove it isn't true.
Scully: I don't doubt what you saw, Mulder. I don't doubt you. I'm willing to believe, but not in a lie and not in the opposite of what I can prove. It comes down to a matter of trust. [He looks up at her] I guess it always has.
Mulder: You asking me to make a choice?
Scully: I'm asking you to trust my judgment. To trust me. [Hands him a folder]
Mulder: I can't accept that. Not if it refutes what I know to be true.
Scully: Mulder, these are test results. DNA from the claw nail we found matching exactly the DNA from the virus you believe is extraterrestrial.
Mulder: [Takes the folder and looks at the papers inside] That's the co
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Scully: Uh, Virgil Nokes? I'm Agent Scully. This is Agent Mulder. We're with the FBI.
(Mulder, in dark sunglasses, leans against one of the porch supports very bored and petulant, eating sunflower seeds.)
Farmer: Jehovah's Witness?
Scully: No, sir. Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Mulder: But we do have a free copy of the Watchtower for you if you'd like.
(Mulder, in dark sunglasses, leans against one of the porch supports very bored and petulant, eating sunflower seeds.)
Farmer: Jehovah's Witness?
Scully: No, sir. Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Mulder: But we do have a free copy of the Watchtower for you if you'd like.
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Farmer: I figure I got better things to do with my fertilizer than going around blowing government buildings sky high.
Scully: Yeah. Well, as we said, sir this is just routine.
Mulder: (quietly to Scully) So routine, it numbs the mind.
Scully: Yeah. Well, as we said, sir this is just routine.
Mulder: (quietly to Scully) So routine, it numbs the mind.
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Scully: (firmly) Mulder, we're not going to Nevada.
Mulder: Come on, Scully. Just one quick side trip.
Scully: No. Sorry, Mulder. We have a whole new assignment.
Mulder: Running down people that buy fertilizer? This is scut work, bozo work - the FBI equivalent of being made to wear an orange jumpsuit and pick up trash by the side of the highway. They mean to humiliate us.
Scully: Look, Mulder, like it or not, humiliated or not, we're on domestic terrorism now and, yes, this is... This is a punishment, but if we want to get back to where we want to be we have to follow orders. We can't freelance.
Mulder: You saw that news report. What did you make of that?
Scully: I think that the obvious assumption is that the woman was shot, regardless of what the police say. Maybe it was a sniper.
Mulder: In the words of their captain, "she just sort of popped." And what about this guy who supposedly tried to take her hostage, her husband? Looked to me like he was trying to warn the cops before she died. Now, the sun will rise in America tomorrow regardless of whether or not we're at yet another farm investigating yet another enormous pile of doo-doo. We can be in and out in a day. Nobody has to know.
[Scully seems to consider the idea. Mulder waggles his eyebrows at her.]
Mulder: Come on, Scully. Just one quick side trip.
Scully: No. Sorry, Mulder. We have a whole new assignment.
Mulder: Running down people that buy fertilizer? This is scut work, bozo work - the FBI equivalent of being made to wear an orange jumpsuit and pick up trash by the side of the highway. They mean to humiliate us.
Scully: Look, Mulder, like it or not, humiliated or not, we're on domestic terrorism now and, yes, this is... This is a punishment, but if we want to get back to where we want to be we have to follow orders. We can't freelance.
Mulder: You saw that news report. What did you make of that?
Scully: I think that the obvious assumption is that the woman was shot, regardless of what the police say. Maybe it was a sniper.
Mulder: In the words of their captain, "she just sort of popped." And what about this guy who supposedly tried to take her hostage, her husband? Looked to me like he was trying to warn the cops before she died. Now, the sun will rise in America tomorrow regardless of whether or not we're at yet another farm investigating yet another enormous pile of doo-doo. We can be in and out in a day. Nobody has to know.
[Scully seems to consider the idea. Mulder waggles his eyebrows at her.]
TV Show: The X-Files
[Mulder stops the car at a stoplight; Crump screams.]
Crump: What are you doing?!
Mulder: What? What am I doing?
Crump: What the hell are you doing?!
Mulder: (sarcastically) I'm composing a sonnet. I'm slowing down for a light!
Crump: What are you doing?!
Mulder: What? What am I doing?
Crump: What the hell are you doing?!
Mulder: (sarcastically) I'm composing a sonnet. I'm slowing down for a light!
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Mulder: Crump? Crump, what else can you tell me about what's happening to you?
Crump: Mr. Crump. You call me by my last name, you say "mister" in front of it.
Mulder: "Mister." I got you.
Crump: Not Crump. Mr. Crump.
Mulder: I can think of something else I'd like to call you. I could put "mister" in front of that, too if you'd like.
Crump: You know, what kind of name is Mulder, anyway? What is that, like... like, Jewish?
Mulder: (disbelieving) Excuse me?
Crump: Jewish... It is, right?
Mulder: (annoyed) It's Mr. Mulder to you, you peanut-picking bastard. Now, Mr. Crump what can you tell me about what's happening to you?
Crump: Mr. Crump. You call me by my last name, you say "mister" in front of it.
Mulder: "Mister." I got you.
Crump: Not Crump. Mr. Crump.
Mulder: I can think of something else I'd like to call you. I could put "mister" in front of that, too if you'd like.
Crump: You know, what kind of name is Mulder, anyway? What is that, like... like, Jewish?
Mulder: (disbelieving) Excuse me?
Crump: Jewish... It is, right?
Mulder: (annoyed) It's Mr. Mulder to you, you peanut-picking bastard. Now, Mr. Crump what can you tell me about what's happening to you?
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Mulder: On behalf of the International Jewish Conspiracy, I've got to inform you that we're almost out of gas.
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Crump: Hey, uh... The Jew stuff? No offense. I mean, uh... A man can't help who he's born to.
Mulder: (sarcastic) That was an apology, right? Gee, I don't know if I can see to drive my eyes are tearing up so bad.
Mulder: (sarcastic) That was an apology, right? Gee, I don't know if I can see to drive my eyes are tearing up so bad.
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Scully: Lieutenant Breil? My name is Dana Scully. I called in regard to the electrical equipment the Navy is maintaining in the town of Montello.
Lieutenant Breil: Right. I don't know if there's been some miscommunication between you and your Washington office, but, uh...
Scully: My Washington office?
Lieutenant Breil: Yeah. I was under the impression that I'd explained this to the FCC's satisfaction.
Scully: Oh, I'm... I'm so sorry to make you run through it again, uh... For my official report to the, uh... To the FCC.
Lieutenant Breil: Right. I don't know if there's been some miscommunication between you and your Washington office, but, uh...
Scully: My Washington office?
Lieutenant Breil: Yeah. I was under the impression that I'd explained this to the FCC's satisfaction.
Scully: Oh, I'm... I'm so sorry to make you run through it again, uh... For my official report to the, uh... To the FCC.
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Scully: (on phone) Mulder, are you okay?
Mulder: (on phone) Yeah, aside from terminal cell phone withdrawal... That, and I got to pee.
Mulder: (on phone) Yeah, aside from terminal cell phone withdrawal... That, and I got to pee.
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AD Kersh: "Justice department jet: 2.6 turbine hours round trip at $1,400 an hour. Car rental - over-mileage, out-of-state use penalties: $346. Compensation to one Walter R. Duncan for unauthorized use of his 1968 Caprice station wagon: $500."
Mulder: Why don't you bill me?
AD Kersh: I'll bill your partner instead. You too obviously relish the role of martyr.
Mulder: Okay. So are we done here? Back to the bozo work investigating huge piles of manure?
AD Kersh: You can always quit.
[Mulder looks at Scully; leaves the office, slams door.]
Scully: Sir, Agent Mulder has been through a lot.
AD Kersh: And you apologize for him a lot. I've noticed that about you.
Scully: I'm not apologizing for this. Because of his work, the DOD is shutting down their antenna array in northeastern Nevada. Our participation in this case has saved lives.
AD Kersh: I don't see you proving that. The Department of Defense admits no culpability whatsoever. Furthermore, they say the closing of the facility was coincidental.
Scully: ("yeah, right" tone) Right.
AD Kersh: Don't misunderstand me, Agent. I don't care if you and your partner saved a school bus full of doe-eyed urchins on their way to Sunday bible camp. You no longer investigate X-Files. You are done and the sooner you and Mulder come to recognize that, the better for both of you.
Scully: (mutters angrily as she leaves) Big piles of manure.
Mulder: Why don't you bill me?
AD Kersh: I'll bill your partner instead. You too obviously relish the role of martyr.
Mulder: Okay. So are we done here? Back to the bozo work investigating huge piles of manure?
AD Kersh: You can always quit.
[Mulder looks at Scully; leaves the office, slams door.]
Scully: Sir, Agent Mulder has been through a lot.
AD Kersh: And you apologize for him a lot. I've noticed that about you.
Scully: I'm not apologizing for this. Because of his work, the DOD is shutting down their antenna array in northeastern Nevada. Our participation in this case has saved lives.
AD Kersh: I don't see you proving that. The Department of Defense admits no culpability whatsoever. Furthermore, they say the closing of the facility was coincidental.
Scully: ("yeah, right" tone) Right.
AD Kersh: Don't misunderstand me, Agent. I don't care if you and your partner saved a school bus full of doe-eyed urchins on their way to Sunday bible camp. You no longer investigate X-Files. You are done and the sooner you and Mulder come to recognize that, the better for both of you.
Scully: (mutters angrily as she leaves) Big piles of manure.
TV Show: The X-Files
Mulder: My name's Mulder. Fox Mulder.
Sailor: That a name? Mulder?
Mulder: I got ID in my pocket.
Sailor 2: (pulling out and reading Mulder's badge) "Fox Mulder, Federal Bureau of Investigation." Sorry, mate, never heard of it! [They begin dragging Mulder below decks.]
Mulder: (surprised) Never heard of it?
Sailor: Tell you what we do with foxes. (laugh) Care to know?
Mulder: You never heard of the FBI?
Sailor: That a name? Mulder?
Mulder: I got ID in my pocket.
Sailor 2: (pulling out and reading Mulder's badge) "Fox Mulder, Federal Bureau of Investigation." Sorry, mate, never heard of it! [They begin dragging Mulder below decks.]
Mulder: (surprised) Never heard of it?
Sailor: Tell you what we do with foxes. (laugh) Care to know?
Mulder: You never heard of the FBI?
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First Mate: Sir, the Germans, sir. They've taken control of the bridge. Steering a course for their homeland.
Captain Marburg: Not on the watch of captain Yip Harburg, they're not. Lock the prisoner up in here.
Mulder: It's okay. The war's over. Let them take you to Germany. They make nice cars.
[They all ignore him and leave.]
Mulder: (to himself, grinning, thrilled) This is unbelievable.
Captain Marburg: Not on the watch of captain Yip Harburg, they're not. Lock the prisoner up in here.
Mulder: It's okay. The war's over. Let them take you to Germany. They make nice cars.
[They all ignore him and leave.]
Mulder: (to himself, grinning, thrilled) This is unbelievable.
TV Show: The X-Files
[Mulder is moving across the dancefloor when one of the dancing couples bumps into him.]
WOMAN: (accusingly) Excuse me.
[Mulder sees that the woman is a 1939 version of Scully, wearing a long dress and dancing with an older man. He grabs her arm, surprised.]
Mulder: Scully?
1939 Scully: (boldly) I suggest you get your Nazi paws off me before you get one in the kisser.
Mulder: (lifting his hat so she can see him) Scully, it's me, Mulder.
1939 Scully: Oh, you speak English, do you? Well, how'd you like to see the stars on the American flag? (holds her fist in front of his face)
Mulder: (hurt, confused) I'm not a Nazi.
1939 Scully: Oh, sure. You just look like one, right? (returns to dancing)
Mulder: I had to steal this uniform! (putting his hands on her back) Scully?
Singer: (stops singing, points at Mulder) Hier ist der Mann, den sie wollen! (Here is the man you want!)
Nazi: (fires gun into air) Halt! Hände hoch! Hände hoch! (Stop! Hands up! Hands up!)
[Mulder looks at 1939 Scully for help.]
1939 Scully: (translating) He said, "Put your hands up."
[Mulder puts his hands up; is grabbed by Nazis]
Mulder: (to 1939 Scully) You see, I told you.
WOMAN: (accusingly) Excuse me.
[Mulder sees that the woman is a 1939 version of Scully, wearing a long dress and dancing with an older man. He grabs her arm, surprised.]
Mulder: Scully?
1939 Scully: (boldly) I suggest you get your Nazi paws off me before you get one in the kisser.
Mulder: (lifting his hat so she can see him) Scully, it's me, Mulder.
1939 Scully: Oh, you speak English, do you? Well, how'd you like to see the stars on the American flag? (holds her fist in front of his face)
Mulder: (hurt, confused) I'm not a Nazi.
1939 Scully: Oh, sure. You just look like one, right? (returns to dancing)
Mulder: I had to steal this uniform! (putting his hands on her back) Scully?
Singer: (stops singing, points at Mulder) Hier ist der Mann, den sie wollen! (Here is the man you want!)
Nazi: (fires gun into air) Halt! Hände hoch! Hände hoch! (Stop! Hands up! Hands up!)
[Mulder looks at 1939 Scully for help.]
1939 Scully: (translating) He said, "Put your hands up."
[Mulder puts his hands up; is grabbed by Nazis]
Mulder: (to 1939 Scully) You see, I told you.
TV Show: The X-Files
[Scully sitting at her desk; the Lone Gunmen approach.]
Scully: What are you guys doing here?
Frohike: Mulder's in trouble.
Langly: Big trouble.
Scully: What do you mean?
Byers: Let's take a walk.
Scully: Okay, where are we going?
Frohike: The walls have ears.
Scully: (impatient) I have ears. Will you tell me what's going on?
Scully: What are you guys doing here?
Frohike: Mulder's in trouble.
Langly: Big trouble.
Scully: What do you mean?
Byers: Let's take a walk.
Scully: Okay, where are we going?
Frohike: The walls have ears.
Scully: (impatient) I have ears. Will you tell me what's going on?
TV Show: The X-Files