MULDER: Conceivably.
MULDER: Possibly.
MULDER: It’s feasible.
SCULLY: And you know, there’s a marsh over there.
The lights the driver saw may have been swamp gas.
MULDER: Swamp gas?
SCULLY: It’s a natural phenonemon in which phospine and methane
rising from decaying organic matter ignite, creating globes of blue flame.
MULDER: Happens to me when I eat Dodger Dogs. How can a dozen
witnesses including a squad of police vehicles in three counties become
hysterical over swamp gas?
SCULLY: Isn’t it more plausible that an exhausted truck driver became
swept up in the hysteria and fired at hallucinations? I mean, after all,
the road can play tricks on you.
MULDER: Yeah, it can play tricks on you. But not like this.
RANHEIM: I was never in the Gulf War.
MULDER: Ok. So, how long have you not been yourself?
SCULLY: What are you suggesting, that Gulf War Syndrome is
caused by UFOs?
MULDER: UFOs are frequently witnessed by soldiers during wartime.
SCULLY: Possibly.
SCULLY: Mulder, the military isn’t going to talk about classified aircraft.
MULDER: No, these guys are like an extreme government watchdog group.
They publish a magazine called “The Lone Gunman.” Some of their
information is first-rate; covert actions, classified weapons. Some of
their ideas are downright spooky.
LANGLY: So, check this out Mulder, today I had breakfast with the guy who shot J.F.K.
MULDER: Is that so?
LANGLY: Old dude now, but yeah! Says he was dressed as a cop on the grassy knoll.
BYERS: And, Mulder listen to this...Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the leader of the Russian Social Democrats? He's being put into power by the most heinous and evil force of the 20th century.
MULDER: Barney?
BYERS: The C.I.A.
SCULLY: Hmmm...
LANGLY: Is this your skeptical partner?
FROHIKE: She's hot!
BYERS: You don't believe that the C.I.A, threatened by a loss of power and funding, because of the end of the cold war, wouldn't dream of having the old enemy back?
SCULLY: I think, you give the government too much credit. I mean, the government can't control the deficit or manage crime. What makes you think they could plan and execute such an elaborate conspiracy?
FROHIKE: She is hot!
MULDER: Settle down, Frohike.
MULDER: What do you know about the Gulf War Syndrome?
LANGLY: Agent Orange of the 90's.
BYERS: Artillery shells coated with depleted uranium.
MULDER: Have you heard of any classified planes being flown during the Persian Gulf War?
BYERS: Why would you need to expose a secret plane to an air force that runs to Iran whenever you take it to the air?
MULDER: What about UFO activity during that period?
LANGLY: Yeah, UFO caused the Gulf War Syndrome, that's a good one...
BYERS: That's why we like you Mulder, your ideas are weirder than ours...
SCULLY: Those were the most paranoid people I have ever met. I don't know how they could think that they say is even remotely plausible.
MULDER: I think it's remotely plausible that someone might think you're hot.
MULDER: I'm beginning to sound like those guys at "The Lone Gunman" right?
SCULLY: Where did you obtain this information?
MULDER: Let's just say it's a source with a deep background.
SCULLY: I want to know all about him.
MULDER: All I know is that he's guided us away from harm.
SCULLY: How do you know that? We work for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and we're being bugged! What does that tell you?
MULDER: That tells me that not everything is as it appears to be.
SCULLY: Exactly. And for all we know, this "deep background" is responsible for the bug.
MULDER: He's never lied to me. I won't break that confidence...I trust him.
SCULLY: Mulder, you're the only one I trust.
MULDER: Then you're gonna have to trust me.
MULDER: Why don't you just admit it Scully? You're determined not to believe him!
SCULLY: Well, maybe you're too determined to believe him!
MULDER: I'm determined to follow a lead that may result in proof of the existence of extraterrestrial biological entities. I need to go.
SCULLY: Mulder, listen to me!
MULDER: No.
SCULLY: Please, will you hear me? I have never met anyone as passionate and dedicated to a belief as you. It's so intense that sometimes it's blinding! But there are others, who are watching you, who know what I know! And whereas I can respect and admire your passion, they will use it against you Mulder. The truth is out there, but so are lies...
MULDER: You were right, Scully. It's a fake. He tried to deceive us. Now we're alone on this. There's no one we can trust. They went to a lot of trouble to put us on the wrong track. There's something here, that no one is supposed to find.
MULDER:I thought you were my ally.
DEEP THROAT: Oh, I am.
MULDER: Yeah, imagine if Eisenhower told the rest of the Allies that the D-Day would take place in Belgium.
DEEP THROAT: A lie Mr Mulder, is most convincingly hidden, between two truths, Mulder... When a shark stops swimming, it will die... Don't stop swimming.
MULDER: Called every weigh station and bureau office west of Colorado. Tied up an airphone for three hours. I don't speak Japanese, but I think some businessman told me to stick a piece of sushi where the sun don't shine.
SCULLY: My ear's numb from being on hold for so many hours.
MULDER: Scully?
SCULLY: Oh my God!
MULDER: It was an extraterrestrial biological entity...alive!
SCULLY: Where'd it go?
MULDER: I think we just were witness to a rescue mission.
SCULLY: God, Mulder I can't stop shaking. What we saw... did it fit the profile?
MULDER: Are you asking me if it was real? Did we just have a close encounter? No, it was another hoax.
SCULLY: But how could anyone generate such force?
MULDER: Whatever they used, we probably haven't heard of it. Sound weapons, stealth helicopters with an ultra intensity light. It doesn't matter, there's no evidence that this was a UFO.
SCULLY: So they created this elaborate show, just to deflect us again? I mean, wouldn't it have been easier just for them to...
MULDER: Just kill us? Yeah, I wondered that myself. Maybe they're using me against myself, like you said before. That I want to believe so badly, that I'd just accept the obvious conclusions and walk away.
DEEP THROAT: I know how badly, how... very badly you want to look through that window. But it would be pointless. It's dead. After the Roswell incident in 1947, even at the brink of the Cold War, there was an ultrasecret conference attended by the United States, the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China, Britain, both Germanies, France and it was agreed that should any extraterrestrial biological entity survives a crash, the country that held that being would be responsible for it's extermination. I, uhm...have the creature. I was with the C.I.A in Vietnam. A UFO was sighted for five nights over Hanoi. The marines shot it down and brought it to us. Maybe it didn't know what a gun was, or perhaps they don't show emotion but that innocent blank expression, as I pulled the trigger had haunted me until I found you. And maybe sometime, through you the truth will be known...
DEEP THROAT: You're awfully quiet Mr. Mulder.
MULDER: I'm wondering which lie to believe...
