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The Jersey Devil

Brief synopsis: Mulder investigates an alleged sighting of the Jersey Devil, which actually turns out to be a woman living in rather primitive manners. Meanwhile, Scully has a date...

SCULLY: Working hard, Mulder?
MULDER: This woman claims to have been taken onboard a spaceship and held in an antigravity chamber without food or water for three days...
SCULLY: Antigravity is right... Sorry to interrupt your serious investigation.

SCULLY: Mulder, it's the same story I've heard since I was a kid, a folktale, a myth.
MULDER: I've heard the same story when I was a kid, too. Funny thing is, I believed it.

MULDER: Someone or something out there is hungry...

MULDER: What's eating that guy?
SCULLY: He was perfectly in his rights. The FBI has no overriding jurisdiction on the murder case. Anyway, you'd feel the same way if someone was honing in on your work, too.
MULDER: Chances are he's got no clue. He'll be scratching his head, when they bring the next body in...

SCULLY: Missed your opening, Mulder. You could have humiliated him and told him who the perpetrator was...The Jersey Devil...

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 Africa, I don't think we're all that different.

MULDER: What do you say we grab on a hotel, taking the floorshow, drop a few coins in the slot, do some digging in this case?
SCULLY: You're kidding right?
MULDER: Okay, we can skip the floor show.
SCULLY: Mulder, I've got to be back at D.C.
MULDER: You got a date?

SCULLY: You're just such a natural at all this, I don't know how you keep it all together.
ELLEN: Mommy radar.
SCULLY: Mmmm, I don't think I'm cut out for this, El.
ELLEN: Dana, you went through the FBI academy, what better training could there be for motherhood. Seriously, you're great with kids, what're you talking about.
SCULLY: When am I suppose to find the time?
ELLEN: Well, first you've got to get a life.
SCULLY: Ooooh.
ELLEN: And, of course, it helps if you can find a man.
SCULLY: Know of any?
ELLEN: They tend to disappear faster than the Brazilian rain forest...What about that guy you're working with?
SCULLY: Mulder?
ELLEN: I thought you said he was cute...
SCULLY: He's a jerk. (pauses, takes that back) He's not a jerk. He's...He's obsessed with his work.

SCULLY: (on the phone) Mulder? Where are you?
MULDER: (on the phone) Not far from where you left me...
SCULLY: You're still in Atlantic City?
MULDER: Umm... Scully, you got anything going on this morning?
SCULLY: What's that noise in the background?
MULDER: Just a guy getting sick...
SCULLY: Mulder, where are you? The drunk tank?

SCULLY: It's not hard to see why they mistook you for a beggar.
MULDER: Are you gonna rag on me, or are you gonna get me something to eat?
SCULLY: Am I buying, or did you manage to panhandel some spare change, while you were at it?

SCULLY: Well, I've got to be in Washington by 7:30, so...
MULDER: Why? You got another birthday party?
SCULLY: No, I have a date...
MULDER: Can you cancel it?
SCULLY: Unlike you Mulder, I would like to have a life.
MULDER: I have a life!

MULDER: But what if, through some fluke of nature, a human was born, who reverted in its most animal instincts, a kind of carnivorous Neanderthal? Wouldn't he occupied the space above us in the food chain?
DR. DIAMOND: Oh! Sure, All he had to do was wait outside of a fast food restaurant and eat us on the way in...

ROD: So, can I ask about the case you're on, or can't you say?
SCULLY: I don't think it's a case we should discuss over dinner.
ROD: I don't suppose you'd wanna hear about the finer points of the state planning and taxation.

SCULLY: Mulder, would you do me a favor? Would you just go out, have a beer? Will you take the day of? I'll cover for you, just take some time off.
MULDER: Thanks for the offer, but I got a meeting with an ethnobiologist up at the Smithsonian. I can't wait to tell him about this...

MULDER: Who was that on the phone?
SCULLY: A guy...
MULDER: Same guy you had dinner with, the other night?
SCULLY: Same guy.
MULDER: Are you gonna have dinner with him again?
SCULLY: I don't think so.
MULDER: No interest?
SCULLY: Not at this time.
MULDER: What are you doing?
SCULLY: Going with you to the Smithsonian...
MULDER: Don't you have a life, Scully?
SCULLY: Keep it up, Mulder, and I'm gonna hurt you like that beast woman.
MULDER: Eight million years out of Africa...
SCULLY:...And look who's holding the door.


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