Mulder-Scully Moments
Those that make us go, "Awww...."

Now, one thing I have to get straight. I do not want Mulder and Scully to "get together," as some die-hard fans do. I love their relationship: more than friends, then family, than lovers. Heck, I'll admit that I actually felt a twinge of disappointment when that darn bee interrupted their kiss in the movie. And I love the classic Mulder-Scully "moments" which tantalize us by threatening to cross that uncrossable line. So here they are, in order:

Scully: It seems like you were acting very territorial. I don't know, forget it.
Mulder: (catching her necklace with his finger) Of course I was.
--Squeeze

Mulder (to Scully): I don't trust them. I want to trust you.
--Ice

Byers: Hey, Mulder. Listen to this, Vladimir Znirmovsky, the leader of the Russian social Democrats; he's been put into power by the most heinous and evil force of the twentieth century.
Mulder: Barney?
Byers: The CIA.
Langley: Is this your skeptical partner?
Frohike: She's hot.
Mulder: Settle down, Frohike.
. . . .
Scully: Those were the most paranoid people I have ever met. I don't know how you could think what what they say is even remotely plausible.
Mulder: I think it's remotely plausible that someone might think you're hot.
--E.B.E.

Scully: Mulder, you're the only one I trust.
--E.B.E.

Mulder (sighing): They're out to put an end to the X-Files, Scully. I don't know why, but any excuse'll do. Now I don't really care about my records, but you'd be in trouble just sitting in this car. And I'd hate to see you carry an official reprimand in your career file because of me.
Scully: Fox. . .
Mulder (laughing): I- I even made my parents call me Mulder. . . . Mulder.
Scully: Mulder, I wouldn't put myself on the line for anybody but you.
Mulder: If there's an iced tea in that bag, could be love.
Scully (reaching into bag): Must be fate, Mulder. (She hands drink to him.) Root beer.
(Mulder sighs disappointedly.)
Scully: 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 sport talk radio show.
Scully (getting out of car): Wouldn't miss it for the world.
--Tooms

Mulder: Dana, after all you've seen, after all the evidence, why don't you believe?
Scully: I'm afraid. I'm afraid to believe.
Mulder: You couldn't face that fear, even if it meant never knowing what your father wanted to tell you?
Scully: But I do know.
Mulder: How?
Scully: He was my father.
--Beyond the Sea

Mulder: Just, uh, sittin' and thinkin'. Widespread accounts of unidentified colored lights hovering in the skies were reported in this area last night. Look, Scully, I know it's not your inclination, but . . . did you ever look up into the night sky and feel certain that not only was something up there but it was looking down on you at the exact same moment and was just as curious about you as you are about it?
Scully: Mulder, I think the only thing more fortuitous than the emergence of life on this planet is that through purely random laws of biological evolution an intelligence as complex as ours ever emanated from it. The very idea of intelligent alien life is not only astronomically improbable, but at its most basic level, downright anti-Darwinian.
Mulder: Scully. . . What are you wearing?
--War of the Coprophages

Mulder (over phone): She did tell me everything there is to know about insects.
Scully: She?
Mulder: Yeah. Did you know the ancient Egyptians worshipped the scarab beetle and possibly erected the pyramids to honor them, which may just be giant symbolic dung heaps?
Scully: Did you know the inventor of the flush toilet was named Thomas Crapper?
Mulder: Bambi also has this theory I've never come across.
Scully: Who?
Mulder: Dr. Berenbaum. Anyway, her theory-
Scully: Her name is Bambi?
Mulder: Yeah, both her parents were naturalists. Her theory is that UFO's are actually nocturnal insect swarms passing through electrical airfields.
Scully: Her name is Bambi?
Mulder: Scully, can I confess something to you?
Scully: Yeah, sure, okay.
Mulder: I hate insects.
--War of the Coprophages

"Scully, you are the only one I trust."
-Mulder
--Wetwired,

Mulder: I had one chance and I let it slip away.
Scully: You don't know that, Mulder. You can't blame yourself for what you could only hope.
Mulder: He took me to a place with green fields. I saw my sister. She was just a little girl. I've seen too many things not to believe.
Scully: I've seen things, too. But there are answers to be found now. We have hope that there's a place to start. That's what I believe.
Mulder: You put such faith in your science, Scully. The things I've seen, science provides no place to start.
Scully: Nothing happens in contradiction to nature. Only in contradiction to what we know of it. And that's a place to start. That's where the hope is.
Mulder: I feel I came so close.
Scully: I feel it too. I know it.
--Herrenvolk

Scully:Imagine all a woman's hopes and dreams for her child and the nature turns so cruel. What must a mother go through?
Mulder: Apparently not much in this case if she'd just throw it out with the trash.
Scully: I- I guess I was just projecting on myself.
Mulder: Why? Is there a history of genetic abnormalities in your family?
Scully: No.
Mulder: Well, just find yourself a man with a spotless genetic makeup and a really high tolerance for being second-guessed and start pumping out the little uber-Scully's. (He rubs her back.)
Scully: What about your family?
Mulder: Mm? (They exchange looks.) Well, aside for the need for corrective lenses and the tendency to be abducted by extraterrestrials involved in international governmental conspiracies, the Mulder family passes genetic muster.
--Home

Scully: Now, we all have a natural instinct to propagate.
Mulder: Do we?
Scully: There are theories which pose that our bodies are simply vehicles for genes needing to propagate. (She turns away.)
Mulder: Scully? I never saw you as a mother before.
--Home

Mulder: Dana, if, um, early in the four years we've been working together an event occurred that suggested or somebody told you that we'd been friends together in other lifetimes- always- would it have changed some of the ways we had looked at one another?
Scully: Even if I knew for certain, I wouldn't change a day. (Starts to leave, but turns back.) Well, maybe that flukeman thing. I could have lived without that just fine.
--The Field Where I Died

Mulder: It's good to put my arms around you. . . both of them.
Scully: When did you get back here?
Mulder: It's been a long, strange trip-
Skinner: Some other time.
--Terma


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Wendy Elizabeth Kemp