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.
Mulder: That's why they put the 'I' in FBI.
--Pilot

Mulder: Reputation? I have a reputation?"
--Squeeze

Mulder (to Scully): Do you think I'm spooky?
--Squeeze

Scully: Oh, my God, Mulder, it smells like . . . I think it's bile.
Mulder: Is there any way I can get it off my fingers quickly without betraying my cool exterior?
--Squeeze

Scully: Is this what it takes to climb the ladder, Colton?
Tom Colton: All the way to the top.
Scully: Then I can't wait till you fall off and land on your ass.
--Squeeze

Scully: Define hot spot.
--Conduit

Scully: I just think it's a good idea not to antagonize local law enforcement.
Mulder: Who me? I'm Mr. Congeniality.
Scully: You never know, we might need his help one of these days.
Mulder: I'll send him a bundt cake.
--Conduit

Scully: How come you two went your separate ways?
Mulder: I'm a pain in the ass to work with.
Scully: Seriously.
Mulder: I'm not a pain in the ass? We had different career goals. Jerry wanted the fifth floor.
Scully: You?
Mulder: I was gunning for a basement office with no heat or windows.
--Ghost in the Machine

Max Fennig: This must be the enigmatic Agent Scully.
Mulder: Enigmatic Dr. Scully.
--Fallen Angel

Mulder: One girl was just abducted.
Scully: Kidnapped.
Mulder: Po-tay-toe, po-tah-toe.
--Eve

Scully (picking up phone): Hello? Hello? Just a couple of clicks. Must be the wrong number.
Mulder: I'll tell you what. I'm gonna sleep on it, and we'll talk about it in the morning. C'mon. (Guides her to the door.)
Scully (eying him suspiciously): Mulder, you're rushing me out of the room.
Mulder: No, I'm not.
Scully: Do you have a girl coming over?
Mulder: What's a girl? I've got a movie I wanna watch on t.v. Sleep tight. I'll see you in the morning.
--Eve

Scully: I have never met anyone as passionate and dedicated to a belief as you. It's so intense that sometimes it's blinding. But there are others who are watching you, who know what I know, and whereas I can respect and admire your passion, they will use it against you. Mulder, the truth is out there, but so are lies.
--E.B.E.

Mulder: In 1934, long before anyone even knew what an ecoterrorist was, a WPA crew working that same area vanished without a trace. Not one of those men was ever found or heard from again.
Scully: And you suspect, what‹ Bigfoot?
Mulder: Not likely.That's a lot of flannel to be choking down, even for Bigfoot. C'mon, Scully, it'll be a nice trip to the forest.
--Darkness Falls

Scully (opening cocoon and looking at body inside): I think it's a male.
Mulder: Barely.
Ranger: I'd say it's some kind of spider's nest or insect cocoon.
Scully: What kind of an insect could have gotten a man all the way up into that tree?
Mulder: Itsy bitsy spider.
--Darkness Falls

Mulder: Lots of files.
Scully: Lots and lots of files.
--Paper Clip

Mulder (to Scully): You never draw my bath.
--Revelations

Scully (examining body during autopsy): Mulder, would you do me a favor? Would you smell Mr. Jarvis?
Mulder: You want me to smell him?
--Revelations

Scully (answering phone): Hello.
Mulder: I think you'd better get up here.
Scully: What is it?
Mulder: It appears cockroaches are mortally attacking people.
Scully: I'm not going to ask you if you just said what I think you just said because I know it's what you just said.
--War of the Coprophages

Mulder: I had a praying mantis epiphany, and, as a result, I screamed. Not a girlie scream, but the scream of someone being confronted by some before unknown monster that had no right existing on the same planet I inhabited. Did you ever notice how a praying mantis' head resembles an alien's head? You know, mysteries of the natural world were revealed to me that day, but instead of being astounded, I was . . . repulsed.
Scully: Mulder, are you sure it wasn't a girlie scream?
--War of the Coprophages

Scully (Watching Bambi leave with Dr. Ivanov): Smart is sexy. Look at it this way, Mulder, by the time there's another invasion of artificially intelligent dung-eating robotic probes from outer space, their uber-children will have devised a way to save our planet.
Mulder: You know, I never thought I'd say this to you, Scully, but you smell bad.
--War of the Coprophages

Scully: I'm just constantly amazed by you. You're working down here in the basement, sifting through files and transmissions that any other agent would just throw away in the garbage.
Mulder: Well, that's why I'm in the basement, Scully.
Scully: You're in the basement because they're afraid of you. Of your relentlessness. And because they know that they could drop you in the middle of the desert and tell you the truth is out there and you'd ask them for a shovel.
Mulder: That's what you think of me?
Scully: Well, maybe not a shovel. Maybe a back-hoe.
Mulder: Well, that's good, because there's some garbage in San Diego I want you to help me dig through.
--Piper Maru

Officer (looking at image on screen): What the hell is that?
Mulder: Looks like the fuselage of a plane.
Scully: It's a North American P-51 mustang.
Officer: Yeah, sure is.
Mulder: I just got very turned on.
Scully: That's the shape of the canopy. I used to watch my father and brothers put together World Warr>--Piper Maru

Mulder: Modell psyched the guy out. He put the whammy on him.
Scully: Please explain to me the scientific nature of the whammy.
--Pusher

Scully: Meanwhile, I've quit the FBI and become a spokesperson for the ab roller. . . .
Mulder: Smell that. That's perfume. Quarter ball. God, this brings back a lot of memories. My sister, all-day pick up games out on the vineyard. Ride your bikes down to the beach, eat baloney sandwiches. Only place you had to be on time was home for dinner. Never had to lock your doors. No modems, no faxes, no cell-phones.
Scully: Mulder, if you had to deal without a cell-phone for two minutes, you'd lapse into catatonic schizophrenia.
Mulder: Scully, you don't know me as well as you think you do. You know, my work demands that I live in a big city. But if I had to settle down, build a home, it'd be a place like this.
Scully: It's be like living in Mayberry.
Sheriff: Agents Mulder and Scully? Hi, I'm Sheriff Andy Taylor.
Mulder: For real?
--Home

(Scully approaches Mulder, who is doing an antenna dance in hopes of getting better reception.)
Mulder: Ho-! Don't move, don't move. . . . Damn!
Scully: You still planning on making a home here?
Mulder: Nah. Not if I can't get the Knicks game.
Scully: Well, just as long as a brutal infanticide doesn't weigh into your decision. Good night, Mulder.
Mulder: Good night, 'Mom'.
--Home

Mulder (Trying to push pigs out of pigpen): Scully, would you think less of me as a man if I told you I was kind of excited right now?
(She leers at him.)
Mulder: Is there some secret farmer trick to getting these things moving?
Scully: I don't know. (Gives pigs a shove.) Naa Ram Ewe. Naa Ram Ewe.
Mulder: Yeah, that'll work.
Scully: I babysat my nephew this weekend. Watched babe fifteen times a day.
Mulder: And people call me spooky.
--Home

Mulder (heading toward sci crime lab): Agent Pendrell, thanks for turning this materials analysis on us on such short notice.
Pendrell: Shouldn't we wait for Agent Scully? It's just, I don't want to have to repeat myself.
Mulder: She's not coming.
Pendrell: Why not?
Mulder: She had a date.
(Pendrell's shoulders slump and he walks dejectedly into the room.)
Mulder (clasping him on the shoulder): Breathe, Agent Pendrell. It's with a dead man. She's doing an autopsy.
--Teliko

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