The X Files (1998)

Gillian Anderson: Agent Dana Scully

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• Special Agent Dana Scully : I need this building evacuated and cleared out in ten 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.

  Security Guard : Ten minutes?

  Special Agent Dana Scully : DON'T THINK! JUST PICK UP THAT PHONE AND MAKE IT HAPPEN.

• Special Agent Fox Mulder : [after Scully tells him that she is planning on resigning from the FBI rather than being transferred]  You wanna tell yourself that so you can quit with a clear conscience, you can, but you're wrong!

  Special Agent Dana 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.

  Special Agent Fox 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 kept me honest. You made me a whole person. I owe you everything. Scully, and you owe me nothing. I don't know if I wanna do this alone. I don't even know if I can. And if I quit now, they win.

• Special Agent Dana Scully : [Mulder revives Scully by performing CPR]  I had you big time.

• Special Agent Fox Mulder : 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.

  Special Agent Dana Scully : This is different, Mulder.

  Special Agent Fox 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 gonna watch you die, Scully, because of some hallow personal cause of mine. Go be a doctor. Go be a doctor while you still can.

  Special Agent Dana 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, it has a cure. You held it in your hand. How many other lives can we save?

  [clasps Mulder's hand] 

  Special Agent Dana Scully : Look... if I quit now, they win.

• Special Agent Dana Scully : Are you drunk, Mulder?

  Special Agent Fox Mulder : I, I was until about 20 minutes ago, yeah.

  Special Agent Dana Scully : Was that before or after you decided to come here?

  Special Agent Fox Mulder : What exactly are you implying?

• Special Agent Dana Scully : Any thoughts as to why anybody would be growing corn in the middle of the desert?

  Special Agent Fox Mulder : Those could be giant Jiffy-Pop poppers.

• Special Agent Dana Scully : Mulder what are you doing?

  Special Agent Fox Mulder : Something's wrong!

  Special Agent Dana Scully : Mulder!

  Special Agent Fox Mulder : Something's not right!

  Special Agent Dana Scully : Mulder get in the car! THERE'S NO TIME!

• Special Agent Fox Mulder : [Mulder and Scully are attempting to follow a truck]  I think they went left.

  Special Agent Dana Scully : I don't know why, I think they went right.

  Special Agent Fox Mulder : [Mulder impulsively guns it and takes off straight ahead]  Five years together, Scully. How many times have I been wrong? Never!

  Special Agent Fox Mulder : [He looks at her and amends:]  Not driving, anyway.

• Special Agent Dana Scully : I saw your face, Mulder. There was a definite moment of panic.

  Special Agent Fox Mulder : You've never seen me panic. When I panic, I make this face.

  [remains impassive] 

• Special Agent Dana Scully : [after tricking Mulder into the door being locked]  I had you.

  Special Agent Fox Mulder : No, you didn't.

  Special Agent Dana Scully : Oh, yeah. I had you big time.

• Special Agent Fox Mulder : After what you saw last night, after all you've seen, you can just walk away?

  Special Agent Dana Scully : I have. I did. It's done.

• Special Agent Fox Mulder : You got about 14 minutes to evacuate this building.

  Special Agent Dana Scully : [thinking Mulder is joking about finding a bomb]  Come on Mulder.

  Special Agent Fox Mulder : Thirteen fifty-six. Thirteen fifty-four. Thirteen fifty-two. Thirteen fifty. You see a pattern emerging here, Scully?

• Special Agent Fox Mulder : [the alien spacecraft emerges from the ice and flies overheard]  Scully, you gotta see this. Scully

  Special Agent Dana Scully : [whispering]  I saw it. I saw it, too.

• Special Agent Dana Scully : [hands over bee evidence]  I don't believe the FBI currently has an investigative unit qualified to pursue the evidence in hand.

• Special Agent Dana Scully : I have to be in Washington, D.C. in 11 hours for a hearing, the outcome of which might affect one of the biggest decisions of my life and here I am in the middle of nowhere, Texas, chasing phantom tanker trucks.

• Special Agent Dana Scully : Mulder, I can't tell you what killed this man. I'm not sure anybody else could claim to either.