home
  isms index
  the x-files
  pictures
  spoilers
  links
  david duchovny
  gillian anderson
Mulderisms

MULDER: Whatever happened to playing a hunch, Scully? The element of surprise, random acts of unpredictabilty? If we fail to anticipate the unforeseen or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite possibilites, we may find ourselves at the mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categorized or easily referenced. What are we doing up here, Scully? It's hotter than hell.

MULDER: What makes you think I'm bored?

MULDER: Scully, you know that face I just showed you? I'm making it again.

MULDER: Next time, you're buying.

MULDER: Whatever you told them in there, Scully, you don't have to protect me.

MULDER: I'm the key figure in an on-going government charade, the plot to conceal the truth about the existence of extraterrestrials. It's a global conspiracy, actually, with key players in the highest levels of power, that reaches down into the lives of every man, woman, and child on this planet. So, of course, no one believes me. I'm an annoyance to my superiors, a joke to my peers. They call me Spooky. Spooky Mulder, whose sister was abducted by aliens when he was just a kid and who now chases after little green men with a badge and a gun, shouting to the heavens or to anyone who will listen that the fix is in, that the sky is falling and when it hits it's gonna be the shit-storm of all time.

MULDER: You know, one is the loneliest number.

MULDER: Listen, son, we don't have time to dick around while you demonstrate your ignorance of the chain of command. The order came directly from General McAddie, you call him. We'll conduct our business while you confirm authorization.

SCULLY: Mulder, you knew before we got here this man didn't die at the bomb site.
MULDER: I've been told as much.
SCULLY: You're saying this is a coverup? Of what?
MULDER: I don’t know, but I have a hunch that what you're gonna find won't be categorized or easily referenced.

MULDER: We are being blamed for this man’s death, I'd like to know what he died of, wouldn't you?

MULDER: And they call me paranoid.

MULDER: Five years together, Scully. How many times I been wrong? Never. Not driving anyway.

MULDER: I was right about the bomb, wasn't I?

MULDER: The virus may be extraterrestrial.

MULDER: You wanna tell yourself that so you can quit with a clear conscience, you can, but you're wrong!

MULDER: But you saved me! As difficult and as frustrating as it's been sometimes, your goddamned strict rationalism and science have saved me a thousand times over! You've kept me honest ... you've made me a whole person. I owe you everything ... Scully, and you owe me nothing.

MULDER: There's an interesting work of fiction on page 24. Mysteriously, our names have been omitted. They're burying this thing, Scully. They're just going to dig a new hole and cover it up.
SCULLY: I told OPR everything I know. What I experienced, the virus, how it's spread by the bees from pollen in transgenic crops.
MULDER: You're wasting your time, Scully. They'll never believe you, not unless your story can be programmed, categorized, or easily referenced.

MULDER: No. No. How many times have we been here before, Scully? Right here. So close to the truth and now with what we've seen and what we know to be right back at the beginning with nothing.
SCULLY: This is different, Mulder.
MULDER: No it isn't! You were right to want to quit! You were right to want to leave me! You should get as far away from me as you can! I'm not going to watch you die, Scully, because of some hollow personal cause of mine. Go be a doctor. Go be a doctor while you still can.

MULDER: This has nothing to do with common sense.


Many thanks to Tiny Dancer's X-Files Transcripts and The X-Files Scripts Archive


Next: Shippy