SKINNER: Agent Scully, we have reviewed your reports and frankly we are quite displeased. Irregular procedure, untenable evidence, anonymous witnesses, inconclusive findings aggravated by vague opinion....
SCULLY: But, sir the very nature of the X-Files, cases often precludes orthodox investigation.
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?
SCULLY: No, sir. If anything, I'm suggesting that these cases be reviewed with... an open mind.
SKINNER: Maybe your mind has become too open.
MULDER: I contend, that perhaps, through genetic mutation, Eugene Tooms is capable of contorting and elongating his body, in order to gain access to victims, so that he may extract the livers which provide him with sustenance for the hibernation period of 30 years. He needs one more liver to complete the cycle.
MULDER: If you release Eugene Tooms, he will kill again. It's in his genetic make up.
MULDER: You think they would have taken me more seriously if I wore the grey suit?
SCULLY: Mulder, your testimony, you sounded so...
MULDER: I don't care how it sounded as long as it was the truth. And where were you? Your testimony was important.
SCULLY: I was called into a meeting by Assistant Director Skinner.
MULDER: What did he want?
SCULLY: Just wanted to reel me in...
MULDER: I'm not taking my eyes off him. He needs to kill, he'll do it the first chance he can, but he won't kill the old couple. He won't be that obvious. Tooms didn't remain a secret for a 100 years, by not being careful. Think of him as an animal. He'll kill out of necessity, or self defense. If he makes an attempt, I'll be there to stop him.
SCULLY: Okay, well then, I'll keep surveillance with you.
MULDER: No, I'll watch him. If he can't be tied to the most recent evidence, you'll have to go back to the earlier murders to prove it was him.
SCULLY: That was 30 or 60 years ago.
MULDER:There's no statute of limitation on murder.
SCULLY: Mulder, that's going to entail unorthodox methods of investigation.
MULDER: Look, Scully, if you're resistant because you don't believe, I'll respect that. But if you're resistant because of some bureaucratic pressure, they've not only reeled you in, they've already skinned you!
SCULLY: Mulder it's getting a bit ripe in here, don't you think?
MULDER: Pine scented. (Pulling an air freshener) Better? Tooms hasn't come out of the house all day. I sat through a Phillies game, an Orioles game, and four hours of Ba-Ba-Booey. When it got dark I took a walk around the block. Do you have that sandwich I asked you to bring?
SCULLY: It's liverwurst.
MULDER: A-ha!
SCULLY: Mulder, you know that proper surveillance, requires two pairs of agents, one pair relieving the other after twelve hours.
MULDER: Article 30, paragraph 8?
SCULLY: This isn't about doing it by the book. This is about you not having slept for three days. Mulder, you're gonna get sloppy and you're gonna get hurt. It's inevitable at this point.
MULDER: A request for others agents to stake out Tooms would be denied. Then we have no grounds.
SCULLY: Well then I'll stay here. You go home...
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 to carry an official reprimand on your file, because of me.
SCULLY: Fox...
MULDER: (laughs) I...I even made my parents to call me Mulder.... Mulder.
SCULLY: Mulder, I wouldn't put myself on the line for anybody but you.
MULDER: If there's an ice tea in that bag, could be love...
SCULLY: Must be fate Mulder. Root beer. You're delirious. Go home and get some sleep.
MULDER: Here take my sandwich, I only had one bite. You're gonna want it later, believe me. And you'll call me if anything happens, immediately. I'll be here. Oh, oh! and 11:30, station 790. Pete Rose Late Night Sports Talk Radio Show.
SCULLY: Wouldn't miss it for the world.
SKINNER: Mulder, are you suggesting that Tooms is framing you?
MULDER: Of course.
SKINNER: If indeed you were engaged in an unauthorized round the clock surveillance of Tooms, how could he possibly gain access to your shoe, without you seeing him?
SCULLY: Sir? I was engaged in the unauthorized surveillance as well and Agent Mulder was orienting me on the situation at the time Tooms was admitted into the hospital. Agent Mulder couldn't have done it because he was with me.
SKINNER: Agent Scully, you wouldn't be lying to, would you?
SCULLY: Sir, I would expect you to place the same trust in me, as I do in you.
SCULLY:There's only room for one.
MULDER: You can get the next mutant.
