SCULLY: Mulder, when a terrorist bomb threat is called in, the rational
purpose of providing that information is to allow us to find the bomb.
The rational object of terrorism is to promote terror. If you'd study the
statistics, you'd find the model behavioral pattern for virtually every
case where a threat has turned up an explosive device; and if we don't
act in accordance with that data, if you ignore it as we have done,
the chances are great that if there actually is a bomb, we might not find it.
Lives could be lost.
SCULLY: Hold on, Mulder, I'm gonna get you out of there.
SCULLY: I need this building evacuated and cleared out in 10 minutes!
I want you to call the fire department and have them block off the city
center in a one mile radius around the building!
GUARD: Ten minutes?
SCULLY: Don't think! Just pick up
that phone and make it happen!
SCULLY: Because they wanted me to invalidate your investigations
into the paranormal. But I think this goes deeper than that now.
MULDER: This is not about you, Scully. They're doing this to me.
SCULLY: They're not doing this.
Mulder, I left behind a career in medicine because I thought that I could
make a difference at the FBI. But it hasn't turned out that way. And now
if they were to transfer me to Omaha or Cleveland, or some field office,
it just doesn't hold the interest for me that it once did. Not after what
I've seen and done.
SCULLY: Go home, Mulder.
SCULLY: This is great, this is fitting.
MULDER: What?
SCULLY: I have to be in Washington, D.C. in eleven hours for a hearing,
the outcome of which might possibly effect one of the biggest decisions
of my life, and here I am in the middle of Nowhere, Texas chasing
phantom tanker trucks!
SCULLY: Mulder, they haul oil in tanker trucks, they haul gas in tanker
trucks, they do not haul viruses in tanker trucks!
SCULLY: Mulder...? What are you not
telling me?
SCULLY: This is weird, Mulder.
SCULLY: You don't need me, Mulder. You never have.
I've just held you back.
SCULLY: Why did they assign me to you in the first place, Mulder?
To debunk your work, to rein you in, to shut you down …
SCULLY: I had you big time.
SCULLY: I can't. I won't. Mulder, I'll be a doctor, but my work is here
with you now. That virus that I was exposed to, whatever it is, it has
a cure. You held it in your hand. How many other lives can we save?
Look ... If I quit now, they win.
