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The X-Files, season 1
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Pilot
Third Man: Are you familiar with an agent named Fox Mulder?
Scully: Yes, I am.
Third Man: How so?
Scully: By reputation. He's an Oxford educated psychologist, who wrote a monograph on serial killers and the occult, that…
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Section Chief Blevins: Are you familiar with the so-called X-Files?
Scully: I believe they have to do with unexplained phenomena.
Section Chief Blevins: More or less. The reason you're here, Agent Scully, is we want you…
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Mulder: (without looking who enters) Sorry, nobody down here but the FBI's most unwanted.
Scully: (Scully comes in and looks around the room, Mulder turns and sees her) Agent Mulder. I'm Dana Scully. I've been assigned…
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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 of reaches of space the energy requirements would exceed a…
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Section Chief Blevins: Agent Mulder. What are his thoughts?
Scully: Agent Mulder believes we are not alone.
Read the full quoteDeep Throat [1.1]
Scully: So?
Mulder: So you and I are going to the Spud State to investigate a little kidnapping.
Scully: I don't get it, Mulder. Does this have something to do with an X-File? I thought you only liked those... uh...…
Read the full quoteDeep Throat [1.1]
Deep Throat: Leave this case alone, Agent Mulder.
Mulder: What?
Deep Throat: The military will not tolerate an FBI investigation.
Mulder: Who are you?…
Read the full quoteDeep Throat [1.1]
Ladonna: I'm selling limited edition prints, twenty dollars. Down to my last five, if you're interested.
Mulder: Put it on my tab.
Scully: (leans over to Mulder) Sucker.
Read the full quoteDeep Throat [1.1]
Scully: You believe it all, don't you?
Mulder: Why wouldn't I?
Scully: Mulder, did you see their eyes? If I were that stoned -
Mulder: Oooh... if you were that stoned, what?…
Read the full quoteDeep Throat [1.1]
Man In Black: (tapping on window) Please, step out of the car.
Mulder: (to Scully) You think if maybe we ignore him, he'll go away?
Man In Black: (tapping on window) Please, step out of the car.
Mulder: (to Scully) Guess…
Read the full quoteDeep Throat [1.1]
(voiceover) Lieutenant Colonel Robert Budahas was returned to his home, though his own knowledge of his disappearance and whereabouts is vague and inconclusive. Special Agent Mulder's insistence that Budahas may have…
Read the full quoteScully Deep Throat [1.1]
Deep Throat: Mister 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…
Read the full quoteSqueeze [1.2]
Scully: This looks like an X-File.
Agent Colton: Let's not get carried away. I'm going to solve these murders, but what I would like from you is to go over the case histories, maybe come down to the crime scene.
Scully…
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Mulder: Why would I make them so uncomfortable?
Scully: It probably has to do with your reputation.
Mulder: Reputation? I have a reputation?
Scully: Mulder, look, Colton plays by the book and you don't. They feel your…
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Agent Colton: So, Mulder, what do you think? Does this look like the work of little green men?
Mulder: Grey.
Agent Colton: Excuse me?
Mulder: Grey. You said green men. A Reticulan's skin tone is actually grey. They're…
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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.
Read the full quoteSqueeze [1.2]
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? (flicks it off his hand)
Read the full quoteConduit [1.3]
Scully: At least if we had a legitimate source...
Mulder: This is the essence of science. You ask an impertinent question and you're on your way to a pertinent answer.
Read the full quoteConduit [1.3]
Mulder: Hey, that's a nice tattoo, what is that?
Bartender: What's it look like?
Mulder: Flying saucer. You don't really believe in that stuff, do ya?
Bartender: I take it you don't.…
Read the full quoteConduit [1.3]
You know when I was a kid, I had this ritual. I closed my eyes before I walked into my room, 'cause I thought that one day when I opened them my sister would be there. Just lying in bed, like nothing ever happened. You…
Read the full quoteMulder Conduit [1.3]
Mulder: She should be encouraged to tell her story, not to keep it inside, it's important that you let her.
Darlene: Important to who? I have my daughter back, I don't want any more trouble. Besides she can hardly…
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Mulder: I know I should be afraid, but I'm not.
Dr. Werber: Do you know why?
Mulder: Because of the voice... The voice in my head.
Dr. Werber: What's it telling you?…
Read the full quoteThe Jersey Devil [1.4]
Scully: Mulder, it's the same story I've heard since I was a kid. It's a folk tale, a myth.
Mulder: I heard the same story when I was a kid too. Funny thing is I believed it. Fact is we've got a cannibalized body in New…
Read the full quoteThe Jersey Devil [1.4]
Ellen: And, of course, it helps if you can find a man.
Scully: Know of any?
Ellen: Yeah, they're disappearing faster than the Brazilian rain forest. What about that guy you work with?
Scully: Mulder?…
Read the full quoteThe Jersey Devil [1.4]
Scully: He was perfectly in his rights. The FBI has no overriding jurisdiction in a murder case. Anyway, you'd feel the same way if someone was horning in on your work.
Mulder: Yeah, chances are he's without a clue.…
Read the full quoteThe Jersey Devil [1.4]
Mulder: What if it is a female, Scully? How close is she to you or me? Does she feel emotion? Or are her days just spent looking for food?
Scully: Maybe, she spends her day shopping.
Mulder: Eight million years out of…
Read the full quoteThe Jersey Devil [1.4]
Mulder: Who was that on the phone?
Scully: A guy.
Mulder: A guy. Same guy as the guy you had dinner with the other night?
Scully: Same guy.…
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Scully: So the machine killed Drake out of self-defense?
Mulder: Self-preservation. It's the primary instinct of all sentient beings.
Scully: Mulder, that level of artificial intelligence is decades away from being…
Read the full quoteGhost in the Machine [1.6]
Mulder: You're afraid of the government but you're willing to accept the risk that your machine will kill again.
Wilczek: The lesser of two evils.
Mulder: What about a third option? You created that machine. Now you tell…
Read the full quoteGhost in the Machine [1.6]
Deep Throat: You won't find him.
Mulder: They can't just take a man like Brad Wilczek without an explanation.
Deep Throat: They can do anything they want.
Mulder: Where is he?…
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Bear: You folks the ones going up to Icy Cape?
Mulder: Yeah.
Bear: Then I'm the one flying you. My name's Bear. The plane's across the way, provisions are loaded. Grab your gear.
Hodge: Oh, could we see some credentials?…
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[taking his shirt off for a physical exam] Before anyone passes judgment, may I remind you - we are in the Arctic.
Read the full quoteMulder Ice [1.7]
Hodge: Alright, parasitic diagnostic procedure requires that each of us provide a blood and a stool sample.
Bear: A stool sample?
Murphy: Well, this kind of travel always makes that kind of tough... for me.
Mulder: Okay…
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Scully: Mulder, what are you doing?
Mulder: Murphy's dead...
Hodge: You killed him.
Mulder: I found him like this. I heard one of the doors close, I came out to check it out. It's one of you.…
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Mulder: We're all wired and hypersensitive, it'll be good to get a fresh start in the morning.
Scully: Mulder, I don't want to waste a second trying to find a way to kill this thing.
Mulder: I don't know if we should…
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Mulder: It's still there, Scully, two hundred thousand years down in the ice.
Scully: Leave it there.
Read the full quoteSpace [1.8]
Scully: Why would somebody want to sabotage the Space Shuttle?
Mulder: Well, if you were a terrorist, there probably isn't a more potent symbol of American progress and prosperity. And if you're an opponent of big…
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Hey, 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.
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Mulder: You never wanted to be an astronaut when you were a kid, Scully?
Scully: Guess I missed that phase.
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Mulder: (after seeing a shuttle launch from the control room) I have to admit, that fulfilled one of my boyhood fantasies.
Scully: Yeah, it ranks right up there with getting a pony and learning how to braid my own hair.
Read the full quoteFallen Angel [1.9]
Mulder, the continental United States is surrounded by an electronic fence that reaches 15,000 miles into space. We use it to track and monitor the 7,087 man-made objects that orbit the earth. Last night at 23:17 that…
Read the full quoteDeep Throat Fallen Angel [1.9]
Scully: Mulder, the hearing is tomorrow at 10 o'clock.
Mulder: So that gives us 24 hours to investigate.
Scully: My assignment is to bring you back, not help you dig yourself in deeper.
Mulder: "The Last Detail" starring…
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Mulder: You really believe that story?
Scully: That story happens to be highly classified.
Mulder: It's a highly classified lie.
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Mulder: Then what can I say? How can I disprove lies that are stamped with an official seal?
Section Chief McGrath: That will be all, Mr. Mulder.
Mulder: You can deny all the things I've seen, all the things I've…
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Section Chief McGrath: Why did you countermand my decision? Mulder's conduct was in clear violation not only of bureau procedures but of federal law.
Deep Throat: Yes.
Section Chief McGrath: I don't understand. The…
Read the full quoteEve [1.10]
Deep Throat: Actually I was.. just in the neighborhood... And wondered if I ever told you about the Lichfield Experiments.
Mulder: Hmm.. No you haven't.
Deep Throat: Well, it was the most interesting project. Highest…
Read the full quoteEve [1.10]
Mulder: One girl was just abducted.
Scully: Kidnapped.
Mulder: Potato, potahto.
Scully: She was kidnapped from the social services home around 11:00pm last night. Looks like someone was afraid she might remember too…
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Eve 6: Take off the chains... then we'll talk.
Mulder: They're probably there for a good reason.
Eve 6: No. Bad reason. I paid too much attention to a guard. Bit into his eyeball. ..I meant it as a sign of affection.
Read the full quoteEve [1.10]
Eve 6: You and you. You have 46 chromosomes. The Adams and the Eves... we have 56. We have extra chromosomes. Number 4, 5, 12, 16, and 22. This replication of chromosomes also produces additional genes. Heightened…
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Eve 10: Hello, Eve 8.
Eve 9: We've been waiting...
Eve 8: How did you know I'd come for you?
Eve 10: We just knew.…
Read the full quoteFire [1.11]
Mulder: There's something else I haven't told you about myself, Scully. I hate fire. Hate it. Scared to death of it.
Scully: Mulder? Are you sure you don't want me to help you out on this one?
Mulder: Sooner or later, a…
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Mulder: But there have been cases of pyrokinetics, people who can control and conduct fire.
Beatty: Well, I've seen fire bend around corners, seen it bounce like a rubber ball. Fire's got a certain genius, you know? A…
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Beatty: There have been some arson fires in Seattle lately and, uh, Pennsylvania that burn so hot that the firemen can't put them out - 7,000 degrees. I mean, hosing that down just makes it worse.
Mulder: How's that?…
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Mulder: Ten years it's taken me to forget about this woman and she shows up in my life with a case like this.
Scully: So she shows up knowing the power she has over you and then she makes you walk through fire, is that…
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Well, that's one of the luxuries of hunting down aliens and genetic mutants. You rarely get to press charges.
Read the full quoteMulder Beyond the Sea [1.12]
Mulder: Why did you lie in your police report?
Scully: I thought it would be a better explanation under the circumstances.
Mulder: What you're really saying is that you didn't want to go on record admitting that you…
Read the full quoteBeyond the Sea [1.12]
Mulder: Dana, after all you've seen, after all the evidence, why can't you believe?
Scully: I'm afraid. I'm afraid to believe.
Read the full quoteBeyond the Sea [1.12]
Last time you were that engrossed, it turned out you were reading the Adult Video News.
Read the full quoteScully Beyond the Sea [1.12]
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 one…
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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, the guy's been…
Read the full quoteGender Bender [1.13]
Scully: There's something up there, Mulder.
Mulder: Ooh, I've been saying that for years.
Read the full quoteE.B.E. [1.16]
Mulder: Conceivably.
Scully: The National Weather Service last night reported atmospheric conditions in this area that were possibly conducive to lightning.
Mulder: Possibly.
Scully: It is feasible that the truck was…
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That's why we like you, Mulder. Your ideas are weirder than ours.
Read the full quoteByers E.B.E. [1.16]
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.
Read the full quoteE.B.E. [1.16]
Dangerous. You mean in a sense of outrage, like the reaction to the Kennedy assassinations or M.I.A.s or radiation experiments on terminal patients, Watergate, Iran-Contra, Roswell, the Tuskegee experiments, where will…
Read the full quoteMulder E.B.E. [1.16]
Deep Throat: You're awfully quiet, Mr. Mulder.
Mulder: I'm wondering which lie to believe.
Read the full quoteShapes [1.18]
Ish: I could smell you a mile away.
Mulder: Well, they told me that even though my deodorant is made for a woman, it's strong enough for a man.
Read the full quoteDarkness Falls [1.19]
Mulder: 30 loggers working a clear-cutting contract in Washington state. Rugged, manly men in the full bloom of their manhood.
Scully: Right, but what am I looking for?
Mulder: Anything strange, unexplainable, unlikely…
Read the full quoteDarkness Falls [1.19]
Scully: What kind of an insect could have gotten a man all the way up into that tree?
Mulder: Itsy-bitsy spider.
Read the full quoteDarkness Falls [1.19]
I think I'm going to suggest we sleep with the lights on.
Read the full quoteMulder Tooms [1.20]
[trying to distract Eugene Tooms] I'm looking for my dog. His name is Heinrich. He's a Norwegian Elkhound. I use him to hunt moose!
Read the full quoteMulder Tooms [1.20]
You think they would have taken me more seriously if I wore the grey suit?
Read the full quoteMulder Tooms [1.20]
Assistant Director Walter Skinner: Are you suggesting that the bureau adopt separate standards for you and Agent Mulder?
Scully: No, sir.
Skinner: Are you suggesting that Agent Mulder obstructs you from proper procedure?…
Read the full quoteTooms [1.20]
Mulder: If there's an ice tea in that bag, could be love.
Scully: Must be fate, Mulder. Root beer.
Read the full quoteTooms [1.20]
Mulder: They're out to put an end to the X-Files, Scully. I don't know why, but any excuse will do. Now, I don't really care about my record, but you'd be in trouble just for sitting in this car and I'd hate to see you…
Read the full quoteBorn Again [1.21]
Mulder: Metempsychosis, transmigration, reimbodiment, call it what you will.
Scully: All based on the coincidence that Michelle Bishop and Officer Morris both practice the obscure art of paper folding?
Mulder: Well, what…
Read the full quoteBorn Again [1.21]
Scully: Looks like a match.
Det. Lazard: Yeah. Name's Charlie Morris. Officer Charlie Morris. Used to work narcotics out at the two-seven.
Scully: Do you know him?
Det. Lazard: No. Before my time.…
Read the full quoteBorn Again [1.21]
Mulder: ... and check for burns or lesions on Barbala's body.
Scully: Why?
Mulder: Psychokinesis is usually associated with an electrical charge.
Scully: Are you saying Michelle possesses the ability to psychically…
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Det. Lazard: I was right outside. I'm telling you, there was nobody else there except for Barbala and the kid.
Mulder: So you didn't get a description of who the kid saw?
Det. Lazard: I'm telling you, there was no one…
Read the full quoteRoland [1.22]
Mrs. Stodie: How could this happen? Roland never exhibited any violent tendencies.
Mrs. Stodie: What do you mean?
Mulder: This is the work of Arthur Grable, Roland's brother. It's a new theory of jet propulsion…
Read the full quoteRoland [1.22]
Scully: Arthur and Roland Grable, born at Puget Presbyterian to Mr. and Mrs. Louis Grable on July 15, 1952. Arthur was four minutes older than Roland.
Mulder: Identical twins.
Scully: Which means that they're the result…
Read the full quoteRoland [1.22]
Mulder: You got a brother, don't you, Scully?
Mulder: Well, have you ever thought about calling one of them all day long and then all of a sudden the phone rings and it's one of them calling you?
Mulder: I believe in…
Read the full quoteRoland [1.22]
Barrington: This is Arthur Grable. Uh, because of the massive internal damage to his body caused by the car accident, we could only preserve the head.
Scully: Wouldn't your client find it somewhat inconvenient to be…
Read the full quoteRoland [1.22]
Scully: You don't really think that Roland ...
Mulder: Besides Nollette and Keats, he's the only person we can prove was in the lab that night.
Scully: Yes, but we're talking about a sophisticated fluid dynamics…
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