The X-Files (TV Series)
Pilot (1993)
David Duchovny: Fox Mulder
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Quotes
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Mulder : [Agent Scully knocks on his office door] Sorry, nobody down here but the FBI's most unwanted.
Scully : Agent Mulder? I'm Dana Scully. I've been assigned to work with you.
Mulder : Oh, isn't it nice to be suddenly so highly regarded. So, who did you tick off to get stuck with this detail, Scully?
Scully : Actually, I'm looking forward to working with you. I've heard a lot about you.
Mulder : Oh, really? I was under the impression that you were sent to spy on me.
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Special Agent Dana Scully : [hears a knock on the door] Who is it?
Special Agent Fox Mulder : Steven Spielberg.
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Special Agent Fox Mulder : When convention and science offer us no answers, might we not finally turn to the fantastic as a plausibility?
Special Agent Dana Scully : What I find fantastic is any notion that there are answers beyond the realm of science. The answers are there. You just have to know where to look.
Special Agent Fox Mulder : That's why they put the I in FBI.
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[Mulder has just spray-painted a giant X on the road]
Special Agent Dana Scully : What the hell was that about?
Special Agent Fox Mulder : Oh, you know, probably nothing.
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Special Agent Dana Scully : Do you have a theory?
Special Agent Fox Mulder : I have plenty of theories.
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Special Agent Fox Mulder : [to Scully] Do you believe in the existence of extraterrestrials?
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Special Agent Dana Scully : What happened?
Special Agent Fox Mulder : We lost power. Brakes, steering, everything.
[checks watch]
Special Agent Fox Mulder : We lost nine minutes!
Special Agent Dana Scully : You're saying that time disappeared. Time can't just disappear. It's a universal invariant!
Special Agent Fox Mulder : [car restarts itself] Not in this zip code!
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Special Agent Fox Mulder : [after Mulder and Scully's plane hits severe turbulence] This must be the place.
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Mulder : Ah, you got to love this place. Every day is like Halloween.
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[Mulder opens a coffin that just rolled down the hill]
Coroner John Truitt : This isn't official procedure.
Special Agent Fox Mulder : [sarcastically] Really.
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Special Agent Dana Scully : [frightened by the marks on her back] What are they? Mulder, what are they!
Special Agent Fox Mulder : [smiles] Mosquito bites.
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Special Agent Fox Mulder : [Scully and Mulder are examining what appears to be an alien body found in a coffin] If it's not human, what is it?
Special Agent Dana Scully : It's mammalian. My guess is it's a chimpanzee or something from the ape family. Possibly an orangutan.
Special Agent Fox Mulder : Buried in the city cemetery in Ray Soames's grave. Try telling that to the good townsfolk or Ray Soames's family. I want tissue samples and X-rays. I'd like blood-typing, toxicology and a full genetic work-up.
Special Agent Dana Scully : You're serious?
Special Agent Fox Mulder : What we can't do here, we'll order to go.
Special Agent Dana Scully : You don't honestly believe this is some kind of extraterrestrial? This is somebody's sick joke.
Special Agent Fox Mulder : We can do those X-rays here, can't we? Is there any reason we can't do them right now? I'm not crazy, Scully. I have the same doubts you do.
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Special Agent Fox Mulder : There's classified government information I've been trying to access, but someone has been blocking my attempts to get at it.
Special Agent Dana Scully : Who? I don't understand.
Special Agent Fox Mulder : Someone at a higher level of power...
Special Agent Dana Scully : And they're afraid of what, that you'll leak this information?
Special Agent Fox Mulder : You're a part of that agenda, you know that.
Special Agent Dana Scully : I'm not a part of any agenda. You've got to trust me. I'm here, just like you, to solve this.