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                                               SEASON THREE EPISODES

"The Blessing Way" (Part 2), "Paper Clip" (Part 3), "D.P.O.", "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose", "The List", "2shy", "The Walk", "Oubliette", "Nisei" (Part 1), "731" (Part 2), "Revelations", "War of the Coprophrages", "Syzygy", "Grotesque", "Piper Maru" (Part 1), "Apocrypha" (Part 2), "Pusher", "Teso dos Bichos", "Hell Money", "Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space'", "Avatar", "Quagmire", "Wetwired", "Talitha Cumi (Part 1)"
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                                                    3.1 The Blessing Way

                                             US Airdate: September 22, 1995

                                                    writer: Chris Carter
                                                 director: R.W. Goodwin

STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:
Assistant Director Walter S. Skinner... Mitch Pileggi
Albert Hosteen ........................ Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman
Albert's son .......................... Tim Michael
Eric Hosteen .......................... Dakota House
Camouflage Man ........................ Mitch Davies
Cancer Man ................. William B. Davis
Well-Manicured Man.................John Neville
Senior Agent .......................... Michael David Simms
First Elder ........................... Don Williams
Second Elder .......................... Stanley Walsh
Third Elder ........................... John Moore
Margaret Scully ....................... Sheila Larken
Melissa Scully ........................ Melinda McGraw
Frohike ............................... Tom Braidwood
Bill Mulder ........................... Peter Donat
Deep Throat ........................... Jerry Hardin 
Tour Guide ............................ Benita Ha
Security Guard ........................ Ernie Foort
MD .................................... Forbes Angus
Dr. Pomerants ......................... Alf Humphreys
Mrs Mulder ............................ Rebecca Toolan
Special Agent Krycek .................. Nicholas Lea
Hispanic Man .......................... Lenno Britos
Minister .............................. Ian Victor

MULDER HANGS BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH AS DANA SCULLY IS OUSTED FROM THE 
FBI; THE CIGARETTE-SMOKING MAN CLOSES IN ON THE MISSING DATA TAPE AS 
ASSASSINS TRACK SCULLY.

Dana Scully visits Albert Hosteen's family, and finds them badly beaten by the Cigarette-Smoking Man's thugs. She immediately goes in search of Mulder but finds only a charred ruin. Believing her partner is dead, she starts home to Washington, DC, but is stopped and searched by troops 
demanding the DAT tape Mulder received from his informant, The Thinker. Back at the FBI, she finds herself suspended and must surrender her badge and gun. She discovers a strange implant in her neck, and visits a hypnotist to try to access memories of her abduction. Meanwhile, Albert 
Hosteen has found Mulder dying in the desert, and conducts a "Blessing Way" ceremony to let the Navaho Holy People heal his soul. While he hangs between worlds, Mulder experiences visions of Deep Throat and his father, urging him to complete his quest. Scully attends the funeral of Mulder's father, and there meets the Well-Manicured Man, a member of the Cigarette-Smoking Man's cabal, who warns her that she has been targeted for murder. Mulder returns to his father's house, where confronts his mother with old photographs showing his father, Deep Throat, and other familiar faces taken in 1972, the year his sister disappeared. The Cigarette Smoking Man, increasingly desperate for the missing tape, pressures Skinner to find it. Scully's sister Melissa is gunned down by Krycek and his minion, who mistake her for Dana Scully. Events race to an explosive standoff as Scully, convinced that Skinner is intent on killing her, holds him at gunpoint in Mulder's apartment...as they hear footsteps approach the door. Part 2 of 3.

                                                                 Notes

The title refers to the name of the chant the Indians use to bring back Mulder's spirit.

After some inaccuracies in "Anasazi", Chris Carter was asked to attend a Navajo night chant and the Native American Church Peyote Ritual, which Carter considered a great honor. He does however admit it was "excrutiatingly painful to sit on the ground, Native American-style, for eight hours" during the ceremony.

Here's where we first meet the latest of the X-Files characters with those fab nicknames, the Well-Manicured Man, played by the marvelous John Neville.

The ending reads, "In Memoriam. Larry Wells. 1946-1995." Wells was a costume designer for the series.

                                                                Quotes
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Albert Hosteen's opening monologue, heard as we watch flames engulfing the refrigerated boxcar:
"There is an ancient Indian saying, that something lives only as long as the last person who remembers it. My people have come to trust memory over history. Memory, like fire, is radiant and immutable, while history serves only those who seek to control it, those who would douse the flame of memory in order to put out the dangerous fire of Truth. Beware these men, for they are dangerous themselves and unwise. Their false history is written in the blood of those who might remember and of those who seek the Truth."
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Cancer Man: (to Albert) "I want Mulder and I want those files!"
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(after Scully has been suspended)
Skinner: "We'd also ask that you make yourself available to answer further questions in our 
              investigation into Agent Mulder's whereabouts."
Scully: "I've told you everything I know. To the best of my knowledge, Agent Mulder is dead."
____________________________________________________________
(after she's stormed out of the office)
Skinner: "Agent Scully!"
Scully: (referring to the men in Skinner's office) "Who are these people?!"
Skinner: "These people are doing a job."
Scully: "What they're doing is putting an official stamp on the perpetuation of a lie!"
Skinner: "These people have a protocol to follow, which is something you and Agent Mulder did 
              not do!"
Scully: "The people who were poisoning Agent Mulder's water, whose protocol was that?"
Skinner: "The investigation into..."
Scully: "The investigation will be an exercise! The men who killed Agent Mulder and the people 
            who killed his father, they're not meant to be found!"
Skinner: "We will find them."
Scully: "With all due respect, sir, I think you overestimate your position in the chain of command."
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(meeting with the Consortium)
Cancer Man: "Gentlemen, we have control. The files have been recovered and the men involved in 
                     their theft have been removed without incident. There is a small matter of concern 
                     with the FBI, but we'll handle that internally as usual. The media attention will amount 
                     to nothing more than a few scattered obituaries."
First Elder: "The Mulder problem."
Cancer Man: "Special Agent Mulder is dead. His body will not be recovered, he will be officially 
                     listed as missing until the matter can be resolved quietly."
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Scully: (answering her door to a drunken Frohike) "Frohike?"
Frohike: "I know it's late, but I heard the news....maybe I should go, pardon my presumptuosness."
Scully: "How much have you had to drink?" (Frohike holds up a near-empty bottle of J&B Scotch)
Frohike: "Do you recycle? (he comes in and sits at the kitchen table while she makes him a 
              coffee...awwww) He was a good friend. A redwood among mere sprouts. I guess this 
              means he's passing you the torch?"
Scully: "Uh, I'm afraid not. I'm soon to be out of a job."
Frohike: "Those sons of bitches! They're rigging the game."
Scully: "And like rats they just scatter back into the wood pile."
Frohike: (pulls out an article about The Thinker's death) "The rats that killed the cat."
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(as the Indians perform the Blessing Way ceremony, we see into Mulder's mind)
Deep Throat in Mulder's dream: "I was first struck by the absence of time, having depended on it so completely as a measure of myself and my life. Moving backwards into the perpetual night that consumes purpose and deed, all passion and will. I come to you, old friend, with the dull clarity of the dead, *not* to beckon you, but to feel the fire and intensity that still live in you, and the heavy weight of your burdens, which I had once borne. There is truth here old friend, if that's all you seek, but there's no justice or judgement without which truth is a vast...dead... hollow. Go back, do not look into the abyss or let the abyss look into you, awaken the sleep of reason and *fight* the monsters within and without."

Bill Mulder in Mulder's dream: "Hello son, I did not dare hope to see you so soon, nor ever again hope to broker fate with a life to which I gave life. The lies I told you are a pox and poison to my soul, and now you are here because of them. Lies I thought might bury forever a truth I could not live with. I stand here ashamed of the choices I made so long ago, when you were just a boy. You are the memory Fox, it lives in you. If you were to die now, the truth will lie and only the lies survive us."
Mulder: "My sister? Is she here?"
Bill Mulder: "No. The thing that would destroy me, the truth I felt you must never learn, is the truth you will find if you are to go forward."
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Guard: "Making you come in the front door, are they Agent Scully?"
Scully: "For now."
____________________________________________________________
(Scully asks Skinner to look into whether The Thinker and Bill Mulder were killed by the same gun)
Scully: "You don't want to check?!"
Skinner: "Miss Scully, I think you underestimate the duties and responsibilities of my position as 
               Assistant Director." (Scully gives him a look, acknowledging his use of her own phrase)
Scully: "I was just trying to cooperate with your investigation sir."
Skinner: "To mitigate your situation and enhance your chances at reinstatement, isn't that right?"
Scully: "No! I just want answers!"
Skinner: "And so do I! I want to know why I was asked to execute a search warrant on your 
              apartment? To look for a digital cassette?"
Scully: "I don't have it."
Skinner: "Is this tape what agent Mulder died for?"
Scully: "I believe so."
Skinner: "You want to bring me a smoking gun Scully? You bring me this tape. Otherwise, I would 
               ask you to go home, sit tight and let *us* do our job."
Scully: "Is that all sir?"
Skinner: "Yes that's all." (Scully leaves, Cancer Man appears from another room)
Cancer Man: "Did you ask her about the tape?"
Skinner: "She says she doesn't have it."
Cancer Man: "Is that what she says?"
Skinner: (through gritted teeth) "Yes, that's what she says."
Cancer Man: "Well that's unfortunate for everyone." 
____________________________________________________________
Guard: (as his metal detector keeps going nuts when Scully walks through) "That thing is more 
           sensitive than a toothache."
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(Scully's hypnosis session)
Dr. Pomerants: "You told me of your experience of being taken away and losing time, do you 
                         remember how you felt just before this happened?"
Scully: "I was afraid."
Dr. P: "Do you remember what you were afraid of?"
Scully: "That I would die."
Dr. P: "But you didn't die, someone must have cared for you, do you remember who that someone 
          was?"
Scully: "There were men, a man took me...there was a light and....loud sounds...my ears were 
             bound."
Dr. P: "They performed a procedure on you, do you remember any pain during this?"
Scully: "I'm trying...the sound is all screwed up....there was an alarm...I remember they wanted to 
            know if I was alright."
Dr. P: "Maybe you trusted them not to hurt you. Could this be possible?"
Scully: "I don't know."
Dr. P: "At the FBI you work with people you must entrust with your life. Could it have been one of 
           these people?"
Scully: "I had to trust someone...I was powerless...I couldn't...I could not resist them." 
Dr. P: "If this is too painful, I want you to go back to that comfortable place where we began and try 
           again."
Scully: "No!... (wakes up) I'm sorry, I'm trying, I'm trying. I don't think this is working, I don't think 
            we're getting anywhere, thank you, but you'll have to excuse me." (she walks out and sees 
            Skinner leaving her apartment) 
____________________________________________________________
Albert: "You must be careful now to end the ceremony properly. If you leave, you must not do any 
            work, change clothes or bathe for four days."
Mulder: "That's really gonna cut into my social life." (they all laugh)
____________________________________________________________
Mulder in Scully's dream: "I have been on the bridge that spans two worlds, the link between all souls by which we cross into our own true nature. You were here today looking for a truth that was taken from you, the truth which was never to be spoken but which now binds us together in dangerous purpose. I have returned from the dead to continue with you. But I fear that this danger is now close at hand, and I may be too late." (Scully wakes up)
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(at Bill Mulder's funeral)
Well Manicured-Man: (to Scully) "Hello, I see you're a friend of the family, so am I. Do you think we 
                                might find a moment to speak?"
Scully: "About?"
WMM: "A very serious matter. Please, could we find some place away from the others? (they begin 
            walking) I couldn't help overhearing your conversation, do you think the son is still alive?"
Scully: "Who are you?"
WMM: "I'm a member of a kind of consortium, we represent certain global interests."
Scully: "What kind of interests?"
WMM: "Interests that would be extremely threatened by the digital tape that you are no longer in 
            possession of."
Scully: "Threatened enough to murder?"
WMM: "Oh my, yes."
Scully: "What do you know about Mulder?"
WMM: "That he *is* dead, quid pro quo." (I think he says this, which means compensation)
Scully: "You're lying."
WMM: "I'm not here to tell you lies."
Scully: "What *are* you here for?"
WMM: "To tell you *your* life is in danger too."
Scully: "Leave me alone."
WMM: "They'll kill you one of two ways. They'll send someone, possibly two men, to kill you in your 
             home or in the garage with an unregistered weapon, which will be left at the scene. Using 
             false documents, supplied by associates of mine, they'll be out of the country in less than 
             two hours."
Scully: "You said there were two ways?"
WMM: "Yes...he, or she, will be someone close to you, someone you trust. They'll arrange a 
            meeting or come to your house unexpectedly. Do you have someplace else you might 
            stay?"
Scully: "Why, why kill me?"
WMM: "You want something they don't, justice. And because they are now quite certain you don't 
            have a computer copy of the files they're looking for."
Scully: "Why are you protecting me?"
WMM: "I feel my colleagues are acting impulsively. And your death would draw unnecessary 
            attention to our group."
Scully: "You're not protecting me, you're protecting yourself."
WMM: "Why should that surprise you? Motives are rarely unselfish."
Scully: "What kind of business are you in?"
WMM: "We predict the future. The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Good day young 
            lady."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: (pulls a gun on Skinner) "Eyes forward, put your hands where I can see them, don't turn 
            around or I'll blow your head off! Don't think I won't do it, you son of a bitch."
____________________________________________________________
(still holding a gun on him)
Scully: "I wanna know who sent you, whose errand boy you are."
Skinner: "No one sent me."
Scully: "You got the rest of your life to give me answers."

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                                                            3.2 Paper Clip

                                             US Airdate: September 29, 1995

                                                       writer: Chris Carter
                                                     director: Rob Bowman

STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:
Assistant Director Walter S. Skinner... Mitch Pileggi
Victor Klemper ........................ Walter Gotell
Well-Manicured Man .................... John Neville
Albert Hosteen ........................ Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman
Cancer Man ........................... William B. Davis
Frohike ............................... Tom Braidwood
Langly ................................ Dean Haglund
Byers ................................. Bruce Harwood
Margaret Scully ....................... Sheila Larken
Special Agent Alex Krycek ............. Nicholas Lea
Mrs Mulder ............................ Rebecca Toolan

MULDER AND SCULLY FIND AN UGLY TRUTH FROM THE PAST--AND THE PRESENT-- 
HIDDEN IN AN ABANDONED MINE, WHILE SKINNER AND THE CIGARETTE-SMOKING MAN 
BARGAIN FOR THE AGENTS' LIVES.

Agent Scully and Assistant Director Walter Skinner, deadlocked in an armed stalemate, are equally shocked when Mulder, whom they thought dead, stumbles into their midst. Skinner reveals that he has the missing DAT tape given to Mulder by The Thinker, and offers to bargain for their 
return to the FBI. The Cigarette-Smoking Man reassures the Well-Manicured Man and his cronies that Mulder is dead, but the Well-Manicured Man demands the tape. The Lone Gunmen help Mulder and Scully find an ex-Nazi scientist who claims to have known Mulder's father. He directs them to an abandoned mine where they find a vast filing system containing detailed medical records on millions of people--including Dana Scully and Samantha Mulder. The Well-Manicured 
Man, alerted by the Nazi scientist to the fact that Mulder is alive, despatches a hit squad. Before they arrive, Mulder witnesses the takeoff of a craft unlike any on earth, and Scully sees a crowd of what may be aliens rushing past her. They follow the aliens out a secret exit, escaping the Well- Manicured Man's trap. They agree to Skinner's offer to negotiate a deal for their safety, but when Skinner stops at the hospital where Melissa Scully is lying in a coma, Alex Krycek ambushes 
him and steals the tape. Deception piles on double-cross as events build to a tense confrontation between Skinner and the Cigarette-Smoking Man. The latter, knowing Skinner has no tape with which to barter, sneers at his offer, until Skinner reveals the ingenious means by which the contents of the tape have been shared and secured. Finally, in a poignant moment at Melissa Scully's bedside, Mulder and Scully share a reaffirmation of their faith in one another and their quest for the truth. Part 3 of 3. 

                                                                 Notes

The title refers to real life Operation Paper Clip. At the end of World War II, the government of the United States was very concerned about lagging behind the rest of the world in terms of rocket technology, among other things, so Operation Paper Clip was born. In return for amnesty, Nazi scientists were smuggled to America and given laboratories and equipment to test innocent Americans and aid American technological progress. Much of Operation Paper Clip was halted by 1950, but it meant many Nazis were never tried for their crimes.

Mulder's birthday is shown as 10/13/60, the same month and day as Chris Carter.

Samantha Mulder's birthday is shown as 11/21/64, the same month and day as Chris Carter's wife.

"In Memoriam. Mario Mark Kennedy. 1966-1995." Mario was an xphile who organized AOL discussion sessions and he died after being hit by a car.

Personal notes: From the opening scene with the lightning storm, right through to the scenes in the warehouse, this is a gorgeously shot episode and hats must go off again to the art direction team. Even the episodes you may not care for must be seen through the eye of the directors and as of right now, nothing on TV looks as beautiful as this series.

If anyone ever dares to ask you why Krycek is hated by our heros, just pop this one in the VCR, especially the scene where Krycek beats the crap out of poor Skinner as he steals the tape. After the last shot in the face, Krycek even has to shake the feeling back into his hand, he hit him so hard! Ratboy indeed!

So, in the end, what's the deal? Are we all catalogued in some warehouse, tissue samples just waiting to be tested with alien tissue? Did Mulder see a UFO? And what the heck did Scully see in those tunnels?! I leave it to others to debate and gnash teeth over the unanswered questions and plot-holes in this series. As long as Chris Carter and company promise to wrap this all up in the final episode, I'll be here watching every week. 

                                                               Quotes
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Mulder: "Your Cigarette Smoking friend killed my father for this tape. Then he killed me."
Skinner: "What are you talking about?"
Mulder: "I was a dead man. Now I'm back."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "There are truths out there that aren't on that tape." 
____________________________________________________________
Scully: (smiles warmly) "Mulder I...:
Mulder: "Scully whatever you're gonna say.."
Scully: "I went to your father's funeral...and I told your mother that you were gonna be okay."
Mulder: "How did you know?"
Scully: "I just knew." 
____________________________________________________________
(looking at a picture of Mulder's dad and a group of allegedly nasty Nazis)
Byers: "Using his 'scientific' data on the effects of high altitude flying, we were able to put 
            astronauts on the moon before the Soviets."
Langly: "One giant step for mankind..."
Scully: (to Mulder) "What would he be doing in a photo with your father?"
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Whatever happened to Klemper?"
Langly: "He's still here. Living very well at the expense of the American taxpayer."
____________________________________________________________
Frohike: "Unbelievable! We thought you were history!" (big hug for his old friend)
Mulder: "You're gonna have to wait a little bit longer for my video collection, Frohike." 
____________________________________________________________
Well-Manicured Man: "This is not a profession for men who make mistakes. My god, you presume 
                                 to make us believe and simply fix it with enough bullets?"
____________________________________________________________
Klemper: "I'm an old man now, history bores me."
Scully: "Because it escaped you? Or because you escaped it?"
____________________________________________________________
Scully: [to Klemper] "History may be the only justice you'll ever know."
Klemper: "Do you know my work? Do you know what we accomplished?"
Scully: "As a Nazi or for the blood money we paid you?" 
____________________________________________________________
(re: his father and showing Klemper the pic)
Mulder: "You knew him! Was he a murderer too?"
Klemper: "There are some things you don't have to know."
Mulder: "No, I need to know, I need to know the truth! Isn't that what *you* want? For the truth to 
             be known?"
Klemper: "Do you know the formula of Napier's Constant?"
Scully: "Yes."
Klemper: "The photo was taken at the Slockholm mining company in West Virginia, and that is 
               *all* I will tell you, the rest you will find out yourselves." 
____________________________________________________________
(re: Mulder's visit)
Well-Manicured Man: "What did you tell him, Victor?"
Klemper: "I told him that you were the most venal man I ever met." (venal means corrupt)
____________________________________________________________
(inside the "abandoned" mining company)
Scully: "What do you think your father would have been doing here?"
Mulder: "I dunno... but he never came home wearing a miner's cap."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "What do you think?"
Mulder: "I'd like to try door number one, Monty." 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "I think with a crow bar and a small nuclear device it might be able to get through one of 
             these things."
____________________________________________________________
(the classic quote for our duo, as they gaze upon miles of files)
Mulder: "Lots of files."
Scully: "Lots and *lots* of files!" 
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "You're looking for a file on ME?"
Mulder: (reading from file) "Scully, Dana Katherine."
Scully: "What?!" 
____________________________________________________________
File reads:
SCULLY, Dana Katherine
3170 W. 53 Road
Indianapolis, Maryland
Small pox vaccination number 29510 
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "That's your sister's file?"
Mulder: "Yeah."
Scully: "What are you looking for?"
Mulder: "I don't know." (scanning through papers, stops and looks at the file ID sticker)

SUBJECT NAME: MULDER, Samantha Ann
BIRTH DATE: 11/21/65 ID 378671

"Take a look at this Scully..." (peels off Samantha's name to reveal his own name)

SUBJECT NAME: MULDER, Fox William
BIRTH DATE: 10/13/61 ID 292544

"...this file was originally mine!"
Scully: "I don't understand.." (the lights go out)
Mulder: "Wait here Scully." (he runs out on her to go watch a UFO!)
____________________________________________________________
(meeting in a dusty cafe Somewhere...)
Skinner: "This place isn't even on the map, how'd you get here?"
Mulder: "You'd be surprised what's not on the map in this country. And what our government will 
             do to keep it that way." 
____________________________________________________________
(re: a deal to turn over the tape in exchange for their freedom)
Scully: (to Mulder) "I want exactly what you want! But I need to see my sister..."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "They took my sister, why?"
Well-Manicured Man : "They took her as insurance, because your father threatened to expose the 
                                  Project."
Mulder: "Why her? Why not me?"
Well-Manicured Man: "It's not for me to say, but, *your* life is in danger now too. You also 
                                 threatened to expose the Project, you've become your father."
Mulder: "Why are you telling me this?"
Well-Manicured Man: "It's what you want to know ... isn't it?" (walks away)
Mulder: "Is there more?"
Well-Manicured Man: "More than you'll ever know."
____________________________________________________________
(on the phone, Krycek has survived a car bomb, Cancer Man can't really talk as he's with the Well-Manicured Man and the group)
Krycek: "I'm alive...isn't *that* a surprise?"
Cancer Man: "Yes..good, good, good, where are you?"
Krycek: "Somewhere that you'll never find me, you double-crossing son of a bitch!"
Cancer Man: "Are you sure?"
Krycek: "I'm sure of it....if I so much as feel your presence, I'm gonna make you a very, very 
              famous man. Do you understand?"
Cancer Man: "Yes, thank you, I'm going to report that to the group."
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Mulder: (to his mother) "Did he make you make a choice?"
Mrs. Mulder: "No, I couldn't choose. It was your father's choice.....and I hated him for it.....even in 
                     his grave, I hate him still."
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Cancer Man: "What did I tell you, Mr. Skinner. I don't negotiate. Especially with punks like you who 
                     think they can bluff me."
Skinner: "Bluff you?"
Cancer Man: "You haven't got any tape, you haven't got any deal...you can't play poker if you 
                     haven't got any cards Mr. Skinner. You ever wonder what it would be like to...die in a 
                     plane crash, of bocholism, even a heart attack's not uncommon for a man your age. 
                     You're bluffing." (starts to leave)
Skinner: "I'm not finshed yet. (walks to door, opens to show Albert as he walks out) .... Albert?"
Albert: (says something in Navajo)
Cancer Man: "What is this?"
Skinner: "This is where you pucker up and kiss my ass !"
Cancer Man: "Now listen to me..."
Skinner: "No, you listen to me, you son of a bitch!"
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Skinner: "I'm sure you're thinking, Albert's an old man and there are plenty of ways that you might 
              kill him too. Which is why in the ancient oral tradition of his people he's told 20 other men 
              the information on those files. So unless you kill every Navajo living in four states, that 
              information is available with a simple phone call. Welcome to the wonderful world of high 
              technology."
Cancer Man: "You're bluffing."
Skinner: "Am I?"
____________________________________________________________
(Melissa has died, Mulder and Scully talk by her bedside)
Scully: (crying) "She died for me and I tried to tell her I was sorry but I don't think that she'll ever 
           really know"
Mulder: "She knows. Melissa knows."
Scully: "You were right, there is no justice."
Mulder: "I don't think this is about justice Scully."
Scully: "Then what is it about?"
Mulder: "I think it's about something we have no personal choice in. I think it's about Fate. (pause) 
            Skinner told me that he talked to you, that you were insistant on coming back to work. And 
            that Melissa's death is..."
Scully: "I need something to put my back against."
Mulder: "I feel the same way. We've both lost so much. But I believe that what we're looking for is 
             in the xfiles, and more certain than ever that the truth is in there."
Scully: "I've heard the truth, Mulder. Now what I want are the answers."

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                                                            3.3 D.P.O

                                              US Airdate: October 6, 1995

                                                   writer: Howard Gordon
                                                   director: Kim Manners

STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:
Jack Hammond .......................... Mars Andersons
Darren Oswald ......................... Giovanni Ribisi
Bart Liquori (Zero) ................... Jack Black
Stan Buxton ........................... Peter Anderson
Sheriff Teller ........................ Ernie Lively
Sharon Kiveat ......................... Karen Witter
Frank Kiveat .......................... Steve Makaj
Darren's Mom .......................... Kate Robbins
Traffic cop ........................... Brent Chapman
First paramedic ....................... Jason Anthony Griffith
Second paramedic ...................... Cavan Cunningham
Night nurse ........................... Bonnie Hay

WHEN LIGHTNING KILLS A STATISTICALLY IMPOSSIBLE NUMBER OF TEENAGERS IN 
OKLAHOMA, MULDER AND SCULLY TRACK A SERIAL KILLER WHO SEEMS TO BE ABLE 
TO HARNESS THE POWER OF LIGHTNING.

In a noisy all-night video game parlor, two teenagers face off over a game--and minutes later one of them is dead, his very heart "cooked in his chest". What bizzare freak of nature--or statistics--can account for five people being struck by lightning in a tiny Oklahoma town? Mulder and Scully soon discover that this lightning does not strike at random, but with a deadly purpose. Darren Peter Oswald ("D.P.O") survives a lightning strike and develops the ability to focus it on the target of his choosing. Now anyone who ticks him off is in danger and Mulder and Scully must not only track down Darren but his next target.

                                                               Notes

The title refers to the main character, Darren Peter Oswald's initials. It also refers to the message on the arcade machine's screen that leads Mulder to him.

The Astadourian Lightning Observatory is named for Mary Astadourian, chief researcher and office manager at 1013 Productions, as well as Chris Carter's personal assistant.

While Darrin channel surfs, he stops on a music video and the names seen on-screen are all xphiles. The group name seems to be The Rosemarys and the song is called "Mary Beth Clarke, I love you" ( Mary Beth Clarke is an AOL xphile), on JHartling Records (JHartling is an AOL xphile) and Director: Deb Brown (Deb Brown is still another AOL X-Phile). Lucky buggers! 

                                                                Quotes
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Darren Peter Oswald: "Uhm, it was my game...I was playing here..."
Hammond: "Were you, pinhead? Now you're not." 
____________________________________________________________
Zero: "Aw, man... you shouldn't have done that..."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "I wasn't aware of that."
Tuller: "That's as clear as glass." 
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Feel free to jump in any time..."
Mulder: "Why? You were doing just fine." 
Scully: "You have a theory on what's going on here?"
Mulder: "I just don't think it's lightning."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "I hope you're not thinking this has anything to do with government conspiracies or UFOs."
Mulder: "None of the evidence so far indicates either of those possibilities." 
____________________________________________________________
DPO: "Why do you want to watch all that stuff anyway? They're all a bunch of losers." 
Mom: "'Cause they're on TV. I don't see you on TV."
DPO: "Buuurrpp!!"
Mom: "Manners don't cost, Darren, they're free! What girl's gonna want a belchin' fool like you?" 
____________________________________________________________
DPO: "Hey, you know, I think you wanna be someplace else right now, 'cause I'm in the mood for a 
          little barbeque."
Zero: "Naw, man, not the cows again...." 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "That's great, now can you make me a little cherub that squirts water?" 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "8 1/2? That's pretty impressive, Scully."
Scully: "Well, it says it right here on the bottom..."
Mulder: "Ooohh."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Let's go see if the shoe fits."
____________________________________________________________
Zero: "You know, I've been thinking..."
DPO: "First time for everything." (cars squeal, stop inches from each other)
DPO: "Aw, damn ABS brakes..." 
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Mulder, what's in your pocket?"
____________________________________________________________
Zero: "...There's another slight problem, she's married to your boss." 
____________________________________________________________
DPO: "Maybe I could fry him."
Zero: "Dude, he's your Boss!"
DPO: "Not if he's dead he wont be."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "I'm surprised you haven't already read that issue."
Mulder: "Oh, I have. April is the cruelest month, but mine didn't come with this. I found it between 
             Miss April and Women of the Ivy League."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "So what? Are we supposed to charge him with assaulting a cellular phone?" 
   
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                                            3.4 Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose

                                              US Airdate: October 13, 1995

                                                     writer: Darin Morgan
                                                     director: David Nutter

STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:
Clyde Bruckman ........................ Peter Boyle
Clerk ................................. Ken Roberts
Puppet ................................ Stu Charno
Zelma ................................. Karin Konoval
Cline ................................. Frank Cassini
Havez ................................. Dwight McFee
Yappi ................................. Jaap Broeker
Young Husband ......................... David McKay
Mrs Lowe .............................. Doris Rands
Tarot Dealer .......................... Alex Diakun
Photographer .......................... Greg Anderson

FORTUNE TELLERS WHO CANNOT PREDICT THEIR OWN MURDERS FALL VICTIM TO A 
SERIAL KILLER WHO MAY BE PSYCHIC, AS MULDER AND SCULLY TRY TO ENLIST THE 
AID OF A RELUCTANT CLAIRVOYANT IN THEIR SEARCH.

Mild-mannered Clyde Bruckman, insurance salesman, has one unique and useless gift: he can foresee the deaths of others. Unable to affect the outcome, he hides his ability until he stumbles across the latest in a string of murders that has drawn Mulder and Scully into the hunt for a killer who targets fortune tellers. Bruckman is unable to identify the killer, but he tells Mulder and Scully where to find the bodies of two victims. Scully thinks Bruckman may have more to do with the killings than he's telling, but Mulder is delighted to have a real psychic to analyze. The killer, however, now targets Bruckman, Mulder and Scully, forcing them to hole up in a hotel while more gruesomely mutilated corpses pile up. Bruckman foresees not only his own death, but Mulder's 
murder at the hands of a homicidal maniac. It's up to Scully to see if her partner's fate can be changed...

                                                                    Notes

For those who may not know, the word "repose", means to lie, or lay, as in rest, or dying. Thus, the title refers to Clyde's own death.

The character of Clyde Bruckman is named for the real-life director of the same name who worked with Laurel and Hardy, Buster Keaton and W.C. Fields. He also committed suicide. Two other names in this episode are based on people that worked with the real Bruckman; Detective Cline, 
named for director Eddie Cline and Detective Havez, named for Jean C. Havez, who worked with Bruckman on numerous Buster Keaton film screenplays. The hotel that the killer works for is named 'El Damfino,' the same as Buster Keaton's boat 'Damfino' in his movie 'The Boat'. And 
the man under the wheels of the car is named Claude Dukenfield, W.C.Fields' real name.

Also, in an episode of "Space: Above and Beyond" titled "R&R" ( guest appearance by David Duchovny ) Col. McQueen is watching a Clyde Bruckman movie. Writer Darin Morgan's brother, Glen co-created "Space..." so this must have been a nod to him.

If you remember the episode "Beyond The Sea", you'll recall the long drawn out story Boggs' tells while holding what he thinks is the victim's shirt. The shirt is actually Mulder's New York Knicks shirt. The scene is parodied here when Mulder is testing Clyde's psychic gift.

When Clyde plays poker with Scully, he has a 'dead man's hand' (aces and eights).

The Stupendous Yappi is portrayed by Jaap (pronounced Yapp) Broeker, who is not an actor, but really David Duchovny's stand-in. Writer Darin Morgan saw him on the set one day waggling his eyebrows and wrote a scene for him.

The delightful Peter Boyle won an Emmy for this role. He'll never be the monster in the movie "Young Frankenstein" to me anymore, he'll forever be known as Clyde Bruckman.

The actor who plays the last tarot card reader, Alex Diakun, also appears in "Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space' (as the hypnotist, Dr. Fingers, during all the flashbacks) and "Humbug" (as the strange-faced curator of the museum Scully goes to). All of the episodes were written by Darin Morgan.

We meet poor little soon-to-be-gator-meat Queequeg, the dog, in this ep.

After Clyde returns from his meeting with the Young Couple, he settles in for a drink of scotch, have a look at the label on the bottle. For ages now it looked to me like J&B Scotch, a very famous name, but on closer inspection it's actually been changed to J&P Scotch, with the same famous logo. This means nothing to me, but I thought you might appreciate the detail :-)

Personal notes: Hang on to your modems people, it's another Darin Morgan classic and I'm busting with quotes! The humor in this one was much more sutle than other Morgan eps, but with Peter Boyle's delivery, it still had me laughing.

The scene with Scully on Clyde's deathbed sends chills down your spine and has to effect your heart, if you have one. Lovely.

                                                                 Quotes
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Clyde: (reading from tabloid magazine, Midnight Inquisitor, with Buddy Holly's pic in left hand 
           corner and The Stupendous Yappi's pic center) " 'I foresee a rocky romance between 
           superstar Madonna and super-witness Kato Kaelin' ...well that's a gimmee, that's not really 
           going out on a limb is it?.... ' I foresee author J.D. Salinger finally publishing a new novel 
           and hitting the talk show circuit to promote it' ... hmph, that's just playing the odds... ' I 
           forsee the revelation that not Elvis but rather Buddy Holly is still alive, having faked his own 
           death so many years ago. Holly will not only reemerge but also regroup with the Crickets 
           and they will headline next year's Lalla...palala...Lalapazoola..' what the hell is 
           Lollapallazo?"
Clerk: "Who's Buddy Holly?"
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(Clyde and Puppet side step each other in the street)
Puppet: "Don't apologize, you're a better dancer than my last date."
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Zelma: "Mr., please, you're hurting me."
Puppet: "I know, I know, but I'm sorry. But you're a fortune teller. You should have seen this 
              coming."
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(a flash picture is taken of the eyeballs)
Photographer: "They say the eyes capture the last image a murder victim sees before they get 
                       killed."
Cline: "So what do they say about the entrails?"
Photographer: "Yuck."
Havez: "Is it true you asked for some help on this case?"
Cline: "This guy's supposed to be an expert at this sort of thing."
Havez: "I heard he was a bit....unorthadox."
Cline: "He comes highly recommended."
Havez: "Yeah I saw him on TV."
Cline: "Hey, so he's a publicity hound, so long as he gets results."
Photographer: "I once worked on a case he did...very spooky."
Cline: "As long as he gives us leads, I don't care how big a kook... (Mulder enters room and the 
          cops stop and look at him)... who the hell are you?"
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Mulder: "The leaves were telling her she was about to be murdered." 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "I can assure you Mr. Yappi, I'm a believer in psychic ability."
Yappi: "So you say with your mouth, but your thoughts tell me the truth!" (eyebrows arched)
Cline: "Agent Mulder, please."
Scully:(to Mulder) "I can't take you anywhere."
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Yappi: "Sceptics like you make me sick."
Mulder: "Mr. Yappi, read this thought."
Yappi:(reacts as if hit) "So's your old man!"
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Cline: "Look, all I know is, so far, Yappi has provided us with more solid concrete leads on this 
          case than you have. Now if you don't mind, I have to get an APB (all points bulletin) out on 
          (reads his notes) a white male, 17 to 34, with or without a beard, maybe a tattoo, who's 
           impotent. Let's go." (leaves on his quest)
Scully: "Might as well go home Mulder, this case is as good as solved."
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Clyde: (selling insurance to young couple) "You don't get it, do you kid? Two years from now, while 
           driving down route 91 coming home to your wife and baby daughter, you're gonnna be hit 
           head on by a drunk, driving a blue '87 Mustang. You'll end up looking worse than 60 feet of 
           bad road your body slides across after flying out your front windshield."
Young Husband: "Mister, you really need to work on your closing technique."
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Clyde: (looks down at Mrs. Lowe's dog, sees a vision of it eating some kind of meat) "Get out of 
           here you monster! (Lowe arrives back at door) Is everything alright Mrs. Lowe? You have 
           enough supplies? You have enough dog food?"
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Cline: "It's kinda creepy isn't it? The Stupendous Yappi says the first body has been dumped 
           somewhere, then we find it in a dumpster."
Mulder: (sarcastically) "Ooo, I just got a chill down my spine!"
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "A murder occured here earlier this evening and we have reason to believe that it was 
             committed by the same person who murdered the woman you found. Now, is there 
             anything you can tell us about it?"
Clyde: "I didn't do it."
Mulder: "You're not under suspicion. But I do harbour a suspicion that you can *see* things about 
              this crime... (Scully gives him a look) things that we can't see."
Clyde: "I'm not sure I understand what you mean."
Mulder: "I think you *do*.
Clyde: "Yeah...yeah...right...I'd like to see both your badges again right now."
Scully: (showing her badge)"I don't blame you Mr. Bruckman."
Clyde: (looking at Mulder's badge)"I'm supposed to believe that's a real name?"
___________________________________________________________
Scully: (to Mulder) "Oh, so now *you're* psychic?"
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Can you describe him? Can you get any visual impression of him?"
Clyde: (shakes his head)
Scully: "So you can see *into* him, but not *at* him...(both men turn to look at her)...I'm sorry, I 
            didn't mean to give off any negative energy."
Clyde: "Negative energy, what is this?..." (stops, looks at rug, walks towards it)
Mulder: "What is it? What do you see?"
Clyde: "He's having sex with her...there."
Scully: "Is he raping her?"
Clyde: "Oh no, no, no, no, not at all, in fact, she's instigating the whole thing."
Mulder: "Then what's wrong?"
Clyde: "Oh, sometimes it... it just seems that everyone's having sex except for me." 
____________________________________________________________
Clyde: "You'll find a woman tomorrow morning... by the fat little white Nazi stormtrooper at 
            Glenview Lake."
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Mulder: "Be honest, Scully. Doesn't that propane tank bear more than just a slight resemblance to 
             a fat little white Nazi stormtrooper?"
Scully: "Mulder, the human mind naturally seeks meaningful patterns and configurations in things 
            that don't inherently have any. Given the suggestion of a particular image, you couldn't 
            help but see that shape somewhere. If that tank weren't there you'd see it in a, in a rock or 
            in a tree..."
Mulder: "Did you answer my question?" (long pause)
Scully: "Yes, it looks like a fat little white Nazi stormtrooper, but that only proves my point!"
____________________________________________________________
( Clyde is holding his lottery ticket, his numbers are 9, 13, 37, 39, 41 and 45 )
Radio announcer: "38, 40 and 44. Once again the winning Lotto numbers are 8, 12..."
Clyde: (clicks off radio) "Why? Why do I do this to myself? (puts his head in his hands, eyes 
           covered, there's a knock on the door) Come in. (we see Mulder enter, but Clyde can't see 
           him) I knew it was you. I know why you're here. You're here because you found that 
           woman's body where I told you it would be. And now you're convinced I have some sort of 
           psychic power. So while your sceptical lady partner is off performing an autopsy, you came 
           here to ask my help to catch this serial murderer."
Mulder: (amazed at this speech) "Everything you said is correct."
Clyde: (on hearing his voice, opens his eyes) "Oh, it's you."
____________________________________________________________
Clyde: "Do you want to know how you're going to die?"
Mulder:(pause) "Yes, yes I would."
Clyde: "No you don't. Of course, not knowing has it's own drawbacks, which is why a good 
            insurance policy is important. I don't know what kind of coverage the FBI has, but the 
            General Mutual has..."
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Clyde: "How could I see the future if it didn't already exist?"
Mulder: "But if the future is written then why bother to do anything?"
Clyde: "Now you're catching on."
Mulder: "Mr. Bruckman I believe in your ability, but not your attitude. I can't stand by and watch 
             people die without doing everything in my, albeit unsupernatural, power to interfere with 
             that fate."
Clyde: "Well, you see that's another reason I can't help you catch this guy, I might adversely affect 
            the fate of the future. I mean, his next victim might be the mother of the daughter whose 
            son invents the time machine. And the son goes back in time and changes world history. 
            And then Columbus never discovers America, man never lands on the moon, the US 
            never invades Grenada, or something less significant, resulting in the fact that my father 
            never meets my mother and consequently, I'm never born....so when do we start?"
____________________________________________________________
(Mulder is showing Clyde objects from the murder scene, hands him a brass statue of three frogs joined in a circle)
Clyde: "The guy who cast the mold for this will die of prostate cancer at the age of 82, hit or miss?"
Mulder: "I have no way of verifying that information."
Clyde: "Then why'd you ask me?"
Mulder: "Do you receive any other impressions from it?"
Clyde: (after good close inspection) "It's ugly. (drops it hard) Next." 
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Clyde: "I got it. This is yours. This is from your New York Knicks T- shirt!"
Mulder: "Miss."
Clyde: "This is worse than playing the Lotto."
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Clyde: "You know, there are worse ways to go, but I can't think of a more undignified one than 
            auto-erotic asphyxiation."
Mulder: "Why are you telling ME that?"
Clyde: "Look forget I mentioned it, it's none of my business."
____________________________________________________________
(they are looking for a dead body and Clyde is discussing the coin flip that put the Big Bopper on that fatal plane ride with Buddy Holly)
Clyde: "Imagine all the things that had to occur, not only in his life, but in everyone else's, to 
           arrange it so that on that particular night, the Big Bopper would be in a position to live or die 
           depending on a flipping coin. I became so obsessed with that idea, that I gradually became 
           capable of seeing the specifics of everybody's deaths."
Scully: "You know Mr. Bruckman, I'm not one who readily believes in that kind of thing, and if I was 
             I wouldn't believe *that* story."
Clyde: "I know it sounds crazy, but I swear it's true, I was a bigger fan of the Big Bopper than 
           Buddy Holly."
Scully: (exasperated) "Where's the body?"
Mulder: "Yeah Mr Bruckman, I don't understand how you can know that this is the exact area, but 
             you can't pinpoint the exact spot?"
Clyde: (looks around at the trees) "I guess I can't see the forest for the trees."
____________________________________________________________
(they're pushing the car out of the mud, Mulder gets splashed)
Mulder: "I'm glad I could bring a little smile into your life, Mr. Bruckman."
Clyde: "I'm not smiling. I'm wincing." (we see a hand sticking out of the mud under the wheel)
____________________________________________________________
Clyde: "Don't you have crime labs that analyze these things for you?"
Scully: "Yes, yes we do." (raising eyebrows and looking at Mulder)
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Can you see him physically yet?"
Clyde: "No, no...I...just more insight into his character which I know you hate. He thinks he's 
           psychic."
Mulder: "Is he?"
Clyde: "I hope not. I've seen some of the things he's seen."
Mulder: "Like what? What does he see?"
Clyde: (we see a flash of Mulder busting into a room, gun drawn) "You...he sees you...trying to 
           catch him."
Mulder: "Where does this take place?"
Clyde: "In a kitchen...(we see as Clyde says this)...you're looking around for someone...he's behind 
           you now but you don't know it...and he's stalking toward you and....and...oh God!"
Scully: "What? What do you see?"
Clyde: "He's got a knife...it's got blood on it!"
Mulder: "Well why don't I see him? What am I doing?"
Clyde: "You're looking down....you've stepped in a pie that's fallen to the floor....the killer comes up 
            to you and....coconut creme!"
Mulder: "What?"
Clyde: "The pie...coconut creme...or is it lemon meringe? I don't know, I'm not sure, it's hazy."
Mulder: "Whatever, continue."
Clyde: "As you're looking down, he comes up with the knife and....banana creme, definately 
            banana creme." (both Scully and Mulder are getting frustrated now)
Mulder: "Alright, I'm looking down at this banana creme pie, and then what?"
Clyde: "He sees himself coming up to you from behind and...." (we see Mulder getting his neck cut 
            in Clyde's mind)
Mulder:"And? And what does he see?"
Clyde: "Nothing...nothing...the visions of a mad man."
Mulder: "You got all that from this?" (holding up fiber sample)
Clyde: "How am I supposed to get anything from this tiny little thing? This came in the mail today." 
           (hands Mulder an envelope)
Scully: "Who's it from?"
Clyde: (does Carnac impression, holds envelope to head) "The Killer!"
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "We can't come up with suspects by having visions."
Clyde: "Jealous?" 
____________________________________________________________
(Scully's on one bed in the hotel room, Clyde's on the other)
Scully: "That's something you haven't explained yet. Can you see your own end?"
Clyde: "I see *our* end. We end up in bed together. I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that, I don't 
           mean to offend you or scare you, but not here, not this bed. I just meant I see us quite 
           clearly...in bed together...you're holding my hand...very tenderly...and then you're looking at 
           me with such compassion...and I feel...tears are streaming down my face...I feel so grateful. 
           It's just a very special moment neither of us will ever forget."
Scully: "Mr. Bruckman, there are hits and there are misses. And then there are MISSES."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Alright...so how do I die?"
Clyde: "You don't." 
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Chantilly Lace?"
Mulder: "You *know* what I *like*. 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "If coincidences are just coincidences, why do they feel so contrived?"
Scully: "That's one to pose for the psychic philosopher."
____________________________________________________________
(after Clyde tells Mulder his dream about wasting away to nothing but worm food, Scully knocks on the door later)
Scully: "Mulder are you okay?"
Mulder: "Oh yeah, I just didn't sleep well, what's up?"
____________________________________________________________
Clyde: "Don't you understand yet son? Don't you get it? You do the things you do because you're a 
            homicidal maniac."
Puppet: "That...that does explain a lot doesn't it?" 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "If my Miss Manners serves me right, that protrusion from his left cornea is a salad fork."
____________________________________________________________
(Scully is holding a tarot card that reads "Page Of Cups" with a picture of a bellhop)
Scully: "It's the bellhop! He's the killer, the bellhop!" (she runs out of room)
Cline: "How the hell does she know that?"
Mulder: "Women's intuition."
____________________________________________________________
(after Scully shoots him)
Puppet: "Hey, it's not the way it's supposed to happen." 
____________________________________________________________
(the note on Clyde's room, the dog's leash is tied to the door handle)
Miss Scully: My neighbor, Mrs. Lowe, passed away last night, please see that the remains of her remains are taken care of. Would you like a dog? He is paper trained and well behaved, regardless of his actions last night, which you can't really blame him for.

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                                                           3.5 The List

                                             US Airdate: October 20, 1995

                                                    writer: Chris Carter 
                                                 director: Chris Carter

STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:
Key Guard .... Denny Arnold
Guard ...... Craig Brunanski
Napoleon "Neech" Manley .... Badja Djola
Chaplain ..... Joseph Patrick Finn
Vincent Parmelly ..... Ken Foree
Danielle Manley .... April Grace
Fornier ..... Mitch Kosterman
Perry Simon ..... Bruce Pinard
Ullrich ..... Paul Raskin
Danny Charez ...... Greg Rogers
John Speranza ..... John Toles-Bey
Warden Leo Brodeur ..... J.T. Walsh
Sammon Roque ..... Bokeem Woodbine

MULDER AND SCULLY MAY FINALLY HAVE PROOF OF REINCARNATION IN THEIR HANDS 
WHEN AN EXECUTED KILLER SEEMS TO BE MAKING GOOD ON A PROMISE TO COME 
BACK FOR REVENGE.

Napoleon "Neech" Manley has been on Florida's Death Row more than eleven years, but tonight his imprisonment comes to an end--in the electric chair. From the chair, he vows to come back and wreak vengeance on his enemies. Only a fellow prisoner knows who is on Manley's enemies 
list--and he's not talking. When a guard dies mysteriously a few days later, Mulder and Scully are asked to help determine the cause of death. When another guard is murdered in grisly circumstances, Mulder begins to wonder if perhaps Manley is as good as his word, and has returned from the grave. Scully, convinced that a more earthly conspiracy is playing out, argues that the guards themselves are in on the murders. A growing pile of maggot-riddled corpses, a deceptive wife, and a hulking prison guard all hide secrets to the mysterious series of deaths, but in the end only the Warden discovers the full truth of Neech Manley's final words.

                                                             Notes

This episode seems to be a homage to Wes Craven's movie "Shocker" as they have both a similar plotline AND Mitch Pileggi, who plays Skinner (not seen in this ep). Mitch was in the movie "Shocker".

The prison set here is used again in season finale, "Talitha Cumi".

                                                               Quotes
____________________
Scully: "Third time's a charm."
____________________________________________________________
Sporanzo: "Hey, look around, we ain't got budding opportunity to itchy-scratchy outside our cell."
____________________________________________________________
(after they find the guard's headless body)
Mulder: "I guess you'll be able to finish up that autopsy now, Scully."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Being obsessed with it doesn't mean you can do it." (reincarnate)
Mulder: "No, unless he knew something we don't."
Scully: "Like what, the magic password?" 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Is there another competing theory?"
Scully: "A very good one and one much more believable..."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Imagine if you could come back and take out 5 people who had caused you to suffer. 
            Who would they be?"
Scully: "I only get 5?"
Mulder: "I remembered your birthday this year, didn't I Scully?"
____________________________________________________________
Roke: "How's it feel on death row, warden?"
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Woman gets lonely, sometimes she can't wait around for her man to be reincarnated..."

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                                                           3.6 2Shy

                                            US Airdate: November 3, 1995

                                                 writer: Jeffrey Vlaming
                                                 director: David Nutter

STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:
Virgil Incanto ..... Timothy Carhart
Monica ....... Glynis Davies
Detective Alan Cross ...... James Handy
Jennifer ..... Suzy Joachim
Lauren MacKalvey ...... Randi Lynne
Agent Kazanjian ..... William MacDonald
Jesse ..... Aloka McLean
Ellen Kaminsky ..... Catherine Paolone
Joanne Steffen ..... Kerry Sandomirsky

A SERIES OF MELTING CORPSES LEAD MULDER AND SCULLY TO A KILLER WHOSE 
INTEREST IN THE WOMEN HE MEETS ON THE INTERNET IS MORE THAN JUST SOCIAL.

When a lonely, overweight woman with connections to Internet chat rooms turns up on the coroner's table, Mulder links her to earlier disappearances of women looking for love in all the wrong places. Despite the local detective's objections to Scully on the team, her analysis reveals strange discrepancies in the victims weight and body composition: somehow the killer removed all the fat from the corpse. But how do Mulder and Scully catch a murderer whose M.O. resembles that of a scorpion than a human being? The investigative team itself becomes the target of a killer with monstrous appetites as the agents track a bizarre stalker.

                                                               Notes

The title is one of the many internet handles Virgil Incanto used to prey on women. And I'm guessing that "Incanto" is a take off on "incognito", which means "concealed under disguised character".

Mulder tells Scully the test results of Incanto's skin sample at 10:13 (Chris Carter's birthday is 10/13)

In the quotes, I've included all the email messages in this episode, as the ep speaks to us all who use computers, whether you're male or female. Personally, I got a kick out of watching how the email/internet community connects to save Ellen at the end, with her last message going to the woman down the hall, the second-last name on their list. Although I have mixed feelings about how the FBI were able to obtain all the phone numbers and names of the women online with Virgil. Scary when you think how *public* your private life is....what files should YOU be password-encrypting hmm? ;-)

                                                              Quotes
____________________
(Emails in chat room, Ellen is Huggs, Virgil is Timid)
Huggs: I'm not sure it's such a good idea for us to meet.
Timid: Why? What are you afraid of?
Huggs: Disappointment. Rejection. The usual round of suspects. (Virgil smiles)
Timid: Believe me, I know. I've been down that road once or twice. But you can't hide behind your 
          computer forever. (Ellen gives that some thought) .... Can you?
____________________________________________________________
(Ellen's email to Virgil, after she stood him up at the restaurant, which *forced* him to kill the prostitute; he smiles after he reads it)
Message: 231721 (wow! that's a lot of email)
To: Timid
From : Huggs

I'm so sorry. Can we please try again? I'll explain when I see you. I promise not to flake out.

Apologetically yours,
Ellen.
____________________________________________________________
(Ellen's almost-last email, and frankly, she sends some dull emails, doesn't she?)
To: Joanne Steffen
From: Ellen

You won't believe who's here right now, I don't know if I should tell you or not. I have to go. Details in the morning.

Ellen. 
____________________________________________________________
(the FBI email message, followed by the artist's sketch of Virgil)
WARNING: This man is wanted by the F.B.I. and should be considered extremely dangerous. If you have any information, immediately contact 800-555-0132
____________________________________________________________ 
Scully: "I'm not observing, I'm performing it myself."
Cop: "You're a medical doctor?"
Scully: "You sound surprised."
Cop: "I dunno, I guess maybe I am."
Scully: "Why?"
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Scully, I wouldn't have made a good Amway salesman, I knocked on more doors..."
____________________________________________________________
Holly MacLean: (the prostitute) "Uh uh. No kissin'. Anything else you want is fine, but no kissin'."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Okay, it's not yet the finely detailed insanity that you've come to expect from me, it's just a 
             theory. But what if he's not doing this out of a psychotic impulse but rather out of some 
             physical hunger? Maybe he needs to replenish this chemical deficiency in order to 
             survive."
Scully: "From a dry skin sample you're concluding what? That he's some kind of a fat-sucking 
            vampire?" (be really careful saying this one!)
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Yeah, scorpions predigest their food outside of their body by regurgitating onto their prey 
             but... I don't know too many scorpions who surf the internet." (have you met the folks in 
             alt.tv.xfiles? kidding, I'm kidding...)
____________________________________________________________
(after Virgil confesses to killing 47 women, Mulder leaves Scully and Virgil alone, a guard outside the door)
Scully: "Why?"
Virgil: "You look at me, you see a monster......but I was just feeding the hunger."
Scully: "You're more than a monster. You didn't just feed on their bodies, you fed on their minds."
Virgil: "My weakness was no greater than theirs. I gave *them* what they wanted. They gave *me* 
          what I needed."
Scully: "Not anymore!" (she turns to leave)
Virgil: "I morti non sono piu soli. (I think, it's Italian, so I'm not sure) (Scully turns in shock)
          The dead are no longer lonely."
Scully: (yells at guard) "Let me out!" 
   
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                                                          3.7 The Walk

                                            US Airdate: November 10, 1995

                                                    writer: John Shiban
                                                  director: Rob Bowman

STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:
Frances Callahan ...... Andrea Barclay
Quinton "Roach" Freely ...... Willie Garson
Army Doctor ...... Deryl Hayes
General Thomas Callahan ...... Thomas Kopache
Trevor Callahan ..... Brennan Kotowich
Amputee ..... Rob Lee
Ward Nurse ...... Paula Shaw
Captain Janet Draper ..... Nancy Sorel
Lt. Colonel Victor Stans ...... Don Thompson
Leonard "Rappo" Trimble ..... Ian Tracey
Burly Nurse ..... Beatrice Zeilinger

SOLDIERS IN A VETERANS HOSPITAL ARE TORMENTED BY AN INVISIBLE PRESENCE 
THAT ATTACKS THEIR LOVED ONES AND TAUNTS THEM BY THWARTING THEIR SUICIDE 
ATTEMPTS.

Several inmates at a veteran's hospital have attempted suicide recently, with varying degrees of success. Mulder and Scully come into the case on the strength of Mulder's curiosity about the latest effort, prevented, so the inmate says, by an invisible man. The men, all veterans of the Gulf War, are afraid of something that walks where no man can walk, that sees them no matter where they hide, and seems to know all their secrets. Mulder and Scully's investigation uncovers tragedies hidden from the official record, a General more afraid of the truth than of war, and the bizarre retribution of a man whose spirit is larger than his body.

                                                                 Notes

The title refers to the "phantom soldier" and its "walk", created by the mind of Leonard 'Rappo' Trimble, a Gulf War veteran quadraplegic. 

Actor Ian Tracey is NOT a quadraplegic, his legs and arms were removed digitally with special effects. Believable looking though, very...

                                                                 Quotes
____________________
Mulder: "What? We didn't sign in at the front desk?"
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Tell him (the General) that it's *our* protocol."
____________________________________________________________ 
Scully: "You never know when he might try and kill himself again." 
____________________________________________________________
Leonard: "You got that... 'I'm freakin out' look on your face...What's the matter?"
Roach: "It's nothing."
Leonard: "Bull. I spent 2 years with your sorry ass in a gun turret, I think I know when you got 
               something on your mind. C'mon Private, make your report!" 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "No, what I can't figure out is why a man who's so deliberately and methodically set out to 
             commit suicide would leave the one entrance to the room unsecured. But then again I 
             obviously have a feeble grasp of army protocol and procedure."
____________________________________________________________
(Mulder is playing the answering machine tape)
Scully: "Find anything?"
Mulder: "No, but I'm really beginning to like the tune..."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Sometimes the only sane response to an insane world is insanity." 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Leonard Trimble?"
Leonard: (motioning to TV) "No, it's Fred Astaire."
____________________________________________________________
Leonard: "How's that? Oh, he's only the guy that turned me into second base by getting my arms 
               and legs blown off. Other than that he was a real good guy."
____________________________________________________________
Leonard: "...I'd like to get a little shuteye."
Mulder: "No sleep-walking."
Leonard: "That's good. I haven't heard that one yet. Har de har har."

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                                                         3.8 Oubliette

                                            US Airdate: November 17, 1995

                                               writer: Charles Grant Craig
                                                   director: Kim Manners

STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:
Myra Jacobs ..... Sidonie Boll
Carl Wade ..... Michael Chieffo
Lucy Householder ..... Tracey Ellis
Mr. Larken ..... David Fredericks
Henry ..... Jacques LaLonde
Special Agent Walt Eubanks ..... Ken Ryan
Fast Food Supervisor ..... Dolly Scarr
Amy Jacobs ..... Jewel Staite
Tow Truck Driver ..... Dean Wray

MULDER PROTECTS A SUSPECT IN A KIDNAPPING CASE WHO SEEMS TO HAVE AN 
UNUSUAL LINK TO THE VICTIM, WHILE SCULLY INSISTS THAT THE WOMAN KNOWS 
MORE THAN SHE IS TELLING.

A young girl is kidnapped out of her own bedroom; at the same time, another former victim twenty miles away bleeds the girl's blood and echoes the kidnapper's words.Mulder suspects a psychic link between the two and tries to persuade the woman, Lucy Householder, to help him find the newest victim. Reluctant to relive the nightmare of her five-year captivity, she resists even as it affects her more and more deeply. Scully suspects that Lucy may in fact be part of the kidnap plan, a suspicion confirmed when DNA analysis bears out her doubts. She is further concerned that Mulder may be becoming too personally involved in a case that has taken on overtones of his sister's abduction. When the kidnapper diverts the FBI's attention with a decoy, only Mulder, Scully 
and the unwilling Lucy can save young Amy from a cold death at the hands of a perverse killer. 

                                                                  Notes

The title comes from the french word "oublier" meaning "to forget". In medieval times, a prison cell was called an "oubliette" as peasants were left there to rot, or, were forgotten.

                                                                   Quotes
____________________
Scully: "That's spooky." 
Mulder: "That's my name."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Have you ever experienced temporary blindness before?"
Lucy: "I've probably experienced everything once or twice. It's all been pretty temporary." 
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "I hate to say this Mulder, but I think you just ran out of credibility." 

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                                                               3.9 Nisei

                                               US Airdate: November 24, 1995

                               writers: Chris Carter & Howard Gordon & Frank Spotnitz
                                                      director: David Nutter

STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:
Assistant Director Walter S. Skinner... Mitch Pileggi
Penny ...... Gillian Barber
Senator Richard Matheson ..... Raymond J. Barry
Agent Pendrell ...... Brendan Beiser
Frohike ..... Tom Braidwood
Langly ..... Dean Haglund
Byers ..... Bruce Harwood
Dr. Takeo Ishimaru ..... Robert Ito
Lottie Holloway ..... Corrine Koslo
Red-Haired Man ..... Stephen McHattie
Coast Guard Officer ..... Paul McLean
Kazuo Sakurai ..... Yasuo Sakurai
Diane ..... Lori Triolo
Mr. X ..... Steven Williams

ATROCITIES DATING FROM JAPANESE ACTIONS IN WORLD WAR II COME TO LIFE 
AGAIN AS MULDER INVESTIGATES A MYSTERIOUS TAPE CLAIMING TO SHOW AN 
ACTUAL ALIEN AUTOPSY.

A mail-order tape purporting to show an actual alien body being dissected leads Mulder to a Pennsylvania murder site, where he apprehends a Japanese diplomat carrying secret spy satellite 
photographs. While he tracks down a salvage ship that may have brought an alien ship up from the deep, Scully looks up a woman whose name was in the diplomat's papers. She is astonished to discover a group of women who claim to have recognized her from her abduction. Deeply disturbed at this, she is even more troubled to learn that all of the women claim to have been abducted and to have had implants similar to her own removed. Mulder, meanwhile, uncovers evidence leading to a railroad car en route to Canada which may be carrying a living alien being. In a desperate attempt to board the train, he jumps from an overpass onto the train even as Scully, alerted by X, is warning him not to board the train. Part 1 of 2. 

                                                                 Notes

The title refers to a Japanese word for "second generation", people born in America, but whose parents came from Japan. The Japanese scientists featured here were the first of their generation in America.

Agent Pendrell makes his first appearance here and is named after Pendrell Street in the west end of Vancouver where the series is filmed.

                                                                 Quotes
____________________
Scully: "What are you watching?"
Mulder: "Something that just came in the mail."
Scully: "That's not your usual brand of entertainment. What is it?"
Mulder: "According to the magazine ad I answered it's an alien autopsy. Guaranteed authentic."
Scully: "You spent money for this?"
Mulder: (smugly) "$29.95... plus shipping."
Scully: "Mulder, this is even hokier than the one they aired on the Fox network, you can't even see 
            what they're operating on!"
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Front door's boarded up."
Mulder: "Back door's been busted open. (points to mailbox) Hope nobody let the rat out."
____________________________________________________________
(after pulling out 2nd gun)
Mulder: "I got tired of losing my gun."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Either they can't locate an interpreter or the interpreter they located didn't interpret the 
            directions and got lost somewhere, I don't know which."
____________________________________________________________
(Skinner walks towards them through the smoky hallway)
Mulder: "Ah, look at this. A beacon in the night."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Well, I didn't get his name, I was too busy getting my ass kicked." 
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "What would a Japanese diplomat be doing in that house, with a dead man with his head 
            stuffed in a pillow case?"
Mulder: "Obviously not strengthening international relations." 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "I just remembered a piece of evidence from the crime scene that I 'forgot' to turn in." 
             (opens car trunk and pulls out briefcase w/survelillance photos and name list)
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Maybe he's gonna fit her for a pillow case, too."
____________________________________________________________ 
Langly: "Just gotta love them German optics." 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Gotta love that global economy, huh?"
____________________________________________________________
Woman at door: "She's one."
Scully: "One what?"
2nd woman: "One of us."
____________________________________________________________
1st woman: "Did you have an unexplained event in your life last year? Were you missing for a 
                   period of time that can't be accounted for?"
Scully: "Why did you ask me that?"
2nd woman: "I think you better sit down Miss Scully. And there's some people you're gonna want 
                    to meet." 
____________________________________________________________
(Mulder's apartment is trashed)
Mulder: "I don't remember giving you a key."
Skinner: "I came to see you. Obviously I was late for the party."
Mulder: "Yeah, I guess I should really fire my maid, shouldn't I?"
____________________________________________________________
Skinner: "This morning his body was found floating face down in the Seano canal. I think we can 
               assume he wasn't diving for pearls."
____________________________________________________________
Skinner: "So let's cut the crap!"
Mulder: "Am I being accused of murder?"
Skinner: "Where's the briefcase?"
____________________________________________________________
Skinner: "Because whatever you stepped in on this case is being tracked into my office, and I don't 
              like the smell of it."
Mulder: "Mind if I tidy up in here a bit first?"
Skinner: "This is bigger than me, you or the FBI Agent Mulder! I hope you've got other names in 
              your phonebook because I'm taking myself off the hook on this one. You're on your own."
____________________________________________________________ 
Senator Richard Matheson: "I'm on the Intelligence Committee. Secrets are the only real currency 
                                          we deal in."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "What am I on to here?"
Senator Richard Matheson: "Monsters begetting monsters."
____________________________________________________________
(talking about murdered Japanese doctors)
Scully: "Or murdered by whom?"
Mulder: "Possibly our government."
Scully: "Our government? For what possible reason?"
Mulder: "For continuing in their work. The work the Nazis were doing, trying to create an alien-
             human hybrid."
Scully: "Mulder that is still a fantasy."
Mulder: "Scully, after all you've seen...after all you've told me you've seen, the tunnel filled with 
             medical files, the beings moving past you, the implant in your neck, why do you refuse to 
             believe?"
Scully: "Believing's the easy part Mulder. I just need more than you, I need proof."
Mulder: "You think that believing is easy?" 
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "So you're saying that this is man-made."
Agent Pendrell: "What else would it be?"
____________________________________________________________
Agent Pendrell: "I just read about one being designed to help the severly disabled operate 
                        computers using brain waves."
Scully: "How?"
Agent Pendrell: "Through direct electro-chemical interface with the cerebral cortex. Pretty 
                         incredible huh?"
Scully: "Yeah." (with stunned look on face)
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Something serious is going down here Scully."
Scully: "What do you mean?"
Mulder: "The thing they put in the train? It was alive."
____________________________________________________________ 
Scully: "Mulder I was right about Dr. Ishimaru. He isn't dead. In fact, he's on your videotape."
Mulder: "Well that's where you know him from then."
Scully: "No, that's not where I know him from at all." (pause as what she's saying hits Mulder)

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                                                            3.10 731

                                             US Airdate: December 1, 1995

                                                  writer: Frank Spotnitz
                                                  director: Rob Bowman

STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:
Agent Pendrell ..... Brenden Beiser
Escalante ..... Colin Cunningham
Cancer Man ..... William B. Davis
Dr. Shiro Zama aka Dr. Takeo Ishimaru ..... Robert Ito
Red-Haired Man ..... Stephen McHattie
Conductor .... Michael Puttonen
Elder ..... Don S. Williams
Mr. X ..... Steven Williams

MULDER BOARDS A TRAIN CARRYING A BOMB AND A MYSTERIOUS QUARANTINE 
SUBJECT AS SCULLY LEARNS MORE DETAILS OF HER ABDUCTION.

At a remote leper colony in West Virginia, leprosy victims watch in hiding as other patients are rounded up by a death squad and systematically murdered. Aboard a speeding train, Mulder searches for the Japanese doctor in charge of the mysterious being he saw loaded on a 
quarantine car -- a doctor whom Scully identifies from photographs as having been present during her abduction. When Mulder finds the man garroted in a bathroom, he goes in search of the killer still on the train. Scully links the Japanese doctor to a West Virginia leper colony, and discovers a mysterious informant with a tale of human medical experimentation dating back to World War II. Mulder's belief in alien hybridization experiments is tested against Scully's conviction that the 
evidence points to extensive medical atrocities. Only Scully's memories and cryptic messages from X can save Mulder who is trapped in a sealed train car with a bomb, a cold-blooded killer, and an occupant who may or may not be a human/alien hybrid. Part 2 of 2. 

                                                                 Notes

Title refers to the military unit number of the group of scientists who were conducting the experiments.

The combination Scully gives Mulder to free him from the boxcar is #101331 (the 10/31 is Chris Carter's birthday)

Tagline: Apology Is Policy 

                                                                 Quotes
____________________
Scully: "They put something on that train in West Virginia. Something living!"
Mr. X: "What more is there to know?" 
Scully: "What the Japanese have to do with it? How a man named Ishimaru is involved?"
Mr. X: "That I don't know."
Scully: "Don't tell me you don't know you smug....(pulls out gun, grabs him and points it at him) 
            son of a b...!!!!!"
Mr. X: "There are limits to my knowledge."
Scully: "I don't have time for your convenient ignorance!"
Mr. X: "What are you gonna do? Shoot me? Just like the men that shot your sister?"
Scully: "You know them too?"
Mr. X: "You wanna know what's on that train? Who killed your sister? You find out what they put in 
           your neck."
Scully: "The implant."
Mr.X: "It holds more than I could ever tell you. Maybe everything you need to know."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: (the journals are in Japanese) "Why did I study French in high school?"
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Have you ever used a gun before?"
Conductor: "No." (eyes wide with fright)
Mulder: "I just want you to point it at him. (clicks empty gun) Don't pull the trigger. That'll kinda give 
             away the game."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Well done, Agent Pendrell. Keep up the good work."
Pendrell: "Hey, thanks. Keep it up yourself!... (Scully leaves) ... Keep it up yourself... what a goof..." 
____________________________________________________________
Woman: "Ooh, god. He's dead!"
Mulder: "Sshh! He's just got a little motion sickness. I'm gonna go find a doctor. Why don't you 
             and your young man just find another bathroom?" 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "The NSA? Since when did they start issuing you guys piano wire instead of guns?"
Red Haired Man: "Since we learned there's a bomb on this train."
Mulder: "There's something on this train but it's not a bomb."
____________________________________________________________
Elder: "The ruler of the world is no longer the country with the greatest soldiers, but the greatest 
           scientists."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: (on phone to Mulder) "Mulder we've gotten involved with something, but it's not at all what 
            you think."
Mulder: "What are you talking about?"
Scully: "Whatever is on that train is not alien."
Mulder: "You're wrong Scully."
Scully: "Mulder, Ishimaru-Zama he was experimenting on innocent human subjects. He'd been 
            doing it for years operating out of a leper colony."
Mulder: "Whatever his name was Scully, he's dead. I don't think this has anything to do with 
             lepers."
Scully: "The leper colony was just a front. The tests weren't just on lepers, they were on the 
             homeless, on the insane. They were brought here and they were subjected to diseases 
             and radiation tests."
Mulder: "Who told you this?"
Scully: "The man who handed me the phone."
Mulder: "And why do you believe him?"
Scully: "Because of what he's shown me."
Mulder: "What? (pause) What's he shown you?"
Scully: "Mulder I am standing in a train car just like the one on your alien autopsy video. Only I 
            realize that I've been here before."
Mulder: "What are talking about Scully?"
Scully: "This is where they brought me Mulder! This is where they put the implant in my neck, in 
            one of these cars!"
Mulder: "Scully...."
Scully: "It all makes sense Mulder! Ishimaru-Zama he was using the secret railroad to conduct his 
            tests across the country. The women in Allentown, they all remember these cars...." 
            (phone connection starts breaking up)
Mulder: "Scully? Scully ?!"
Scully: "Can you hear me?"
Mulder: "Yeah. So what are you saying that Zama's the one who abducted these women?"
Scully: "What I am saying Mulder is that there is no such thing as alien abduction. It is just a 
             smoke-screen happily created by our government to cover up the biggest lie of all."
____________________________________________________________
Elder: "What's the next stop?"
Scully: "It's not on the map." 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "What about that thing locked back there? What provisions were made for saving its life?"
Red-Haired Man: "I don't know. I wasn't expected to fail."
Mulder: "You know what it is don't you? You're gonna die for that thing, is it important enough to 
             die for? What is it a plague carrier? A leper?! (no answer as Mulder walks towards him, 
             still bound on the floor) We're both gonna die in here, the difference is I'm gonna die 
             quickly. (cocks trigger on gun aimed at Red-Haired Man) As an employee of the National 
             Security Agency you should know that a gunshot wound to the stomach is probably the 
             most painful and the slowest way to die. But I'm not a very good shot. And when I miss... I 
             tend to miss low..."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "What are you watching?"
Scully: "Your alien autopsy video."
Mulder: "You mean I might get my $29.95's worth after all?"
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Don't you see Mulder? You're doing their work for them.You're chasing aliens that aren't 
            there, helping them to create a story to cover the shameful truth. And what they can't cover 
            they apologize for. Apology has become policy."
Mulder: "I don't need an apology for the lies. I don't care about the fictions they create to cover their 
             crimes. I want them held accountable for what DID happen. I want an apology for the 
             truth."

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                                                       3.11 Revelations

                                            US Airdate: December 15, 1995

                                                   writer: Kim Newton
                                                  director: David Nutter

STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:
Owen Lee Jarvis ..... Michael Berryman
Michael Kryder ..... Sam Bottoms
Priest ..... Fulvio Cecerk
Reverend Finley ..... R. Lee Ermy
Carina Maywald ..... Lesley Ewen
Mrs. Tynes ..... Nicole Robert
Susan Kryder ..... Hayley Tyson
Simon Gates ..... Kenneth Welsh
Kevin Kryder ..... Kevin Zegers

AFTER ELEVEN FALSE PROPHETS ARE MURDERED, MULDER AND SCULLY TRY TO 
PROTECT A LITTLE BOY SHOWING THE MARKS OF CRUCIFIXION ON HIS BODY FROM A 
KILLER TARGETING STIGMATICS.

Shortly after the murder of a man claiming to bear the wounds of Christ (stigmata), a little boy in Ohio exhibits similar wounds. Mulder tells Scully of eleven previous cases of people claiming to have stigmata, but that all eleven were murdered by someone who relentlessly stalk them. To 
protect young Kevin from a similar fate, Mulder and Scully sifted through Biblical tradition, religious beliefs, and the shattered past of Kevin's own family.Mulder refuses to believe that the case actually involves religious phenomena, while Scully suspects that the evidence before them points to divine intervention. A strange groundskeeper, a wealthy industrialist and a man committed to an insane asylum for his religious beliefs lead Scully to a crisis of faith that may spell life or death for an innocent child.

                                                                Notes

This refers to the American religious tradition of receiving 'revelations' or visions of God, often through stigmata (wounds on the hands and feet resembling those of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ).

The demonic bad guy in this ep is named Gates (just like the head of Microsoft's Bill Gates?)

A good, solid growth ep for Scully this one, as we learn more about her deep faith, which is tested so often on Mulder's search for the truth. And we see a tender side with her protection of Kevin.

                                                                Quotes
____________________
Rev: "I assured her that yes, miracles do happen. Most people today tend to vest themselves in 
        science and cynicism. They expect proof for all they see. Miracles are wondrous by nature, 
        they need no rationale. No justification." 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "No, I think this is a case of too much faith. (dips his gloved finger into blood and licks it, 
             ugh!) And too much sugar."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Or maybe it's just a... very disgruntled altarboy."
Scully: "Well that narrows down the field."
____________________________________________________________
Michael Kryder: "He's bleeding again isn't he?"
Scully: "Yes, how did you know that?"
Michael Kryder: "Because the faithful know."
____________________________________________________________
Michael Kryder: "They will come in the form of a powerful and respected man." 
____________________________________________________________
Michael Kryder: (to Scully) "God will find someone to stop it. Someone who is strong enough to 
                        make the sacrifice."
Mulder: "He's chosen you?"
Michael Kryder: "I'm merely a messenger."
Mulder: (to Scully) "Let's go." (they start to leave)
Michael Kryder: (to Scully) "You must come full circle to find the truth."
Mulder: "Excuse me?"
Scully: "Full circle to find the truth? I don't know what that means."
Michael Kryder: "You will." 
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Did you get a composite?"
Mulder: "Yeah, looks like Kevin was abducted by Homer Simpson's evil twin."
Scully: "This isn't the killer, Mulder."
Mulder: "I think that's a safe assumption."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "By who? Who asked you to protect him?"
Owen: "God."
Mulder: "That's quite a long distance call, isn't it?"
____________________________________________________________
Owen: (to Scully) "You believe me, don't you? (nods to her cross necklace) I mean you must wear 
           that as a reminder?"
Scully: "Mr. Jarvis, my religious convictions are hardly the issue here."
Owen: "But they are. How can you help Kevin if you don't believe? Even the killer, he believes."
Mulder: "And townsfolk wonder why I sleep in Sundays."
____________________________________________________________
(walks in on Scully's autopsy on Owen)
Mulder: "Any revelations?"
Scully: "Mulder, would you do me a favor? Would you smell Mr. Jarvis?"
Mulder: "You want me to smell him? (sniffs Owen) What am I supposed to be smelling?"
Scully: "You don't detect a faint floral odor? (a Look is exchanged) Mulder this man's body is in no 
            way decomposing normally. In catechism, we learned of instances like this, so called 
            "Incorruptables" whose bodies wouldn't decay and who emitted a smell of flowers."
Mulder: (laughing) "You're serious?"
Scully: "Saint Ceceila, Saint Francis...."
Mulder: "And now you're suggesting that this is Saint Owen?" 
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Well, what do you think this is?"
Mulder: (pointing to Owen) "This man? He was rather abnormal in life, maybe he's decomposing 
            abnormally."
Scully: "Well, isn't a saint or a holy person just another term for someone who's abnormal?"
Mulder: "Do you really believe that?"
Scully: "I believe in the idea that God's hand may be witnessed. I believe he can create miracles, 
            yes."
Mulder: "Even if science can't explain them?"
Scully: "Maybe that's just what faith is."
Mulder: "Well I wouldn't let faith overwhelm your judgement here. These people are simply fanatics 
             behaving fanatically using religion as a justification. They give bona fide paranoics like 
             myself a bad name. They are no more divine or holy than that ketchup we saw on the 
             murdered preacher. And I think once you've finished your autopsy, you'll come to the 
             same conclusion. Saint Owen..." (nods and walks away)
____________________________________________________________
(after Scully gets a bath ready for Kevin)
Mulder: (with a pout) "You never draw MY bath..."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "How is it that you're able to go out on a limb whenever you see a light in the sky, but you're 
            unwilling to accept the possibility of a miracle? Even when it's right in front of you."
Mulder: "I wait for a miracle every day. But what I've seen here has only tested my patience, not my 
             faith."
Scully: "Then what about what I've seen?"
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: (to Scully) "You think it's you don't you? You think you're the one who's been chosen to 
             protect Kevin."
____________________________________________________________
Kevin: (to Scully as she saves him, after Gates dies in a newspaper shredder, eeeewww!) 
"I knew you'd come."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Maybe I'll see you again sometime."
Kevin: "You will." 
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Bless me Father for I have sinned. It has been 6 years since my last confession. And since 
            then I've drifted away from the church. I'm not sure why exactly."
Priest: "Have you come to confess?"
Scully: "No...ummm.. there's a man that I work with, a friend, and usually I'm able to discuss these 
            things with him, but not this. Father do you believe in miracles?"
Priest: "Of course, I see them every day. The rising sun, the birth of a child.."
Scully: "No, I'm talking about events that defy explanation. Things that I believe helped me to save 
            a young boy's life. But now I wonder if I saw them at all....if I didn't just imagine them?"
Priest: "Why do you doubt yourself?"
Scully: "Because my partner didn't see them... he didn't believe them... and usually, he believes 
            without question."
Priest: "Maybe they weren't meant for him to see, maybe they were only meant for you."
Scully: "Is that possible?"
Priest: "With the Lord, anything is possible. Perhaps you saw these things because you needed 
            to."
Scully: "To find my way back?"
Priest: "Sometimes we must come full circle to find the truth. (she looks startled) Why does that 
            surprise you?"
Scully: "Well, see, it just makes me afraid."
Priest: "Afraid?"
Scully: "Afraid that God is speaking.....but that no one's listening." 

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                                                 3.12 War of the Coprophages

                                                  US Airdate: January 5, 1996

                                                       writer: Darin Morgan
                                                      director: Kim Manners

STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:
Sheriff Frass ..... Dion Anderson
Dr. Jeff Eckerle ...... Raye Birk
Dr. Bugger ..... Alex Bruhanski
Dude ..... Alan Buckley
Dr. Newton ..... Bill Dow
Dr. Inanov ..... Ken Kramer
Stoner .... Tyler Labine
Chick ..... Nicole Parker
Dr. Bambi Berenbaum ..... Bobbie Phillips
Orderly ..... Wren Robertz
Resident #1 ..... Tom Heaton
Resident #2 ..... Bobby L. Stewart
Reporter ..... Norma Wick
Customer #1 ..... Maria Herrera
Customer #2 ..... Sean Allan
Customer #4 ..... Dawn Stofer 
Customer #5 ..... Fiona Roeske

INSECTS SWARM AND SIGHT GAGS FLY IN A SMALL NORTHEASTERN TOWN AS MULDER 
AND SCULLY ENCOUNTER A TOWN PANICKED BY A PLAGUE OF COCKROACHES.

Is an alien race disguised as cockroaches invading the earth? Or is a pest control experiment gone awry threatening the populace of Miller's Grove, Massachusetts? Mulder goes to the small town in pursuit of UFO reports but finds instead a town terrorized by roaches, in this darkly humorous send-up. Mulder pursues both a theory on alien robotic probes and a lovely entemologist named Bambi, while Scully faces down a panicked, fleeing mob. Cockroaches with metallic exoskeletons mix with insectoid automatons, a synthetic fuels researcher with a license to import dung, and walls that literally undulate with insects to render a creepy, funny, and very strange night for Mulder and Scully.

                                                               Notes

The word "coprophage" means literally "dung-eater", and the "war" part of the title refers to H. G. Wells' "War Of The Worlds", which this episode parodies. The name of the town here is Miller's Grove, while the name in the movie was Grover's Mill. Witness the scenes of mass hysteria, same as the movie, and the sailor grabbing chocolate and pantyhose is reminiscent of World War II. Another obvious dung reference is when Scully eats the Choco Droppings, ewww!

Scully is reading the book "Breakfast at Tiffany's" during one of Mulder's numerous telephone interruptions. This was the Final Jeopardy answer that David Duchovny missed when he appeared on the show.

Dr. Bambi Berenbaum is named for Dr. May R. Berenbaum, head of the Entomology Department at the University of Illinois and author of many books on insects.

The robotics researcher, A. Ivanov, has a name very similar to the great writer of sci-fi (sometimes dealing with robotics) stories, I. Asimov.

The television news reporter's name is Skye Leikin, a mixed version of the name of an AOL xphile, Leikin Skye, who won an AOL trivia contest -- the prize was to get her screen name on one of the episodes.

The phrase "Smart is sexy", which Scully says at the end referring to the scientists, has become a phrase used by the media to describe Mulder and Scully. 

                                                                Quotes
____________________
Sheriff: "What are you doing?"
Mulder: "Just sittin' and thinkin'."
Sheriff: "Sitting and thinking... and talking on the phone?"
Mulder: "Yeah."
Sheriff: "To who? Your drug dealer?" 
____________________________________________________________
Sheriff: "Who was that?"
Mulder: "My drug dealer." 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "...It took forever for me to realize that it was no leaf."
Scully: "A praying mantis?"
Mulder: "Yeah, I had a praying mantis epiphany and, as a result, I screamed. Not... not a girly 
             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? The 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 girly scream?" 
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Mulder, you're not thinking about tresspassing on government property again, are you? I 
            know you've done it in the past but I don't think this case war..."
Mulder: "Too late. I'm already inside."
Scully: (heavy sigh)
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Did he give you any idea how to catch them?"
Mulder: "No...but she did tell me everything else there was to know about insects."
Scully: "She?" 
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Her name is Bambi?"
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Yeah, did you know that the ancient Egyptians worshipped the scarab beetle and possibly 
             erected the pyramids to honor them? Which may be giant symbolic dung heaps?"
Scully: "Did you know the inventor of the flush toilet was named Thomas Crapper?" 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Oh that makes perfect sense, Scully, I don't like it at all." 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "I see the correlation, but just because I work for the federal government doesn't mean I'm 
             an expert on cockroaches."
____________________________________________________________
(answering phone yet again)
Scully: "Who died now?"
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Crap."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Mulder, I think the only thing more fortuitous than the emergence of intelligent life on this 
            planet is that through purely random laws of biological evolution and intelligence as 
            complex as ours ever eminated 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? 
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "I'm not going to ask if you just said what I think you said because I know it's what you 
            said."
____________________________________________________________
(answers phone during conversation with Dr. Bambi)
Mulder: "Not now." (hangs up on Scully) 
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Mulder, I'm coming up there."
Mulder: "Whatever." 
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Mulder, this town is insane."
Mulder: "Where are you?"
Scully: "In a convinence store just outside... civilization."
____________________________________________________________
Dr. Ibanov: "Anyone who thinks that alien visitation will come not in the form of robots but living 
                 beings with big eyes and grey skin, has been brainwashed by too much science-
                 fiction." 
____________________________________________________________
Sheriff: "You two should get some rest. You look pooped."
____________________________________________________________ 
Mulder: "Scully, I never thought I'd say this to you but... you smell bad." 

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                                                           3.13 Syzygy 

                                              US Airdate: January 26, 1996

                                                      writer: Chris Carter
                                                    director: Rob Bowman

STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:
Margi Kleinjan ..... Wendy Benson
Minister ..... Ryk Brown
Bob Spitz ..... Garry Davey
Dr. Richard W. Godfrey ..... Tim Dixon
Terri Roberts ..... Lisa Robin Kelly
Brenda Summerfield ..... Gabrielle Miller
Scott Simmons ..... Russell Porter
Eric Bauer ..... Jeremy Radick
Jay "Boom" DeBoom ..... Ryan Reynolds
Detective Angela White ..... Dana Wheeler-Nicholson
Zirinka ..... Denalda Williams

MULDER AND SCULLY FIND THEIR OWN RELATIONSHIP AFFECTED BY THE MYSTERIOUS 
COSMIC FORCE THAT IS CAUSING THE DEATHS OF TEENAGERS IN THE SMALL TOWN 
OF COMITY.

When several teenagers meet untimely deaths in a small town swept by rumors of a satanic cult, Mulder and Scully answer a local investigator's call for help. Detective Angela White is convinced that evil is stalking the town's high school students, but Scully soon wonders if Detective White is not stalking Agent Mulder. Mulder, in turn, searches for the answer to the mystery of the horned beast found burned in a local boy's body, and Scully doubts the story of two sobbing teenage girls who fear that the local cult wants to sacrifice blonde virgins. The local astrologer warns Mulder and Scully that a once-in-every-84-years planetary alignment is about to focus the energies of the cosmos on this town, whose local geography makes it a "cosmic G-spot".

                                                                 Notes

Note that this is episode number 13 of the season, cosmic!

The title refers to an astrological term for the conjunction and harmony of certain planets, occuring only at specific times of the year.

The name of the school, Grover Cleveland Alexander High School, is another nod to David Duchovny's infamous appearance on Jeopardy. He gave this as an incorrect answer.

The name of the town, Comity means "courtesy". Notice how the camera shows the sign saying "Leaving Comity" on the other side of the intersection as our intrepid agents arrive in town, and as it turns out, they ARE leaving courtesy behind! Then at the end, we see the other sign as they leave saying "Entering Comity". Whew! Back to courtesy right?

We like to think that the dialogue about Scully driving is another nod to us, as the on-line xphiles were deep in discussion about how much driving Mulder does!

When Mulder brings the first girl into the police station, the time is 11:48 (Chris Carter's wife, Dori Pierson, was born 11/21/48). 

                                                               Quotes
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Scully: "Map says to turn right at the intersection."
Mulder: "The Detective who contacted me told me to turn left."
Scully: "At the intersection?"
Mulder: "At the stop light."
Scully: "This isn't a stop light it's a stop sign."
Mulder: "Well, I'm sure she meant the stop sign."
Scully: "...Turn right." 
(car goes offscreen ..... then returns going other way)
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Go ahead."
Scully: "No, you go ahead."
Mulder: "No, I know how much you love snapping on the latex."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "If, ah, you detect a hint of skepticism or incredulity in Agent Scully's voice, its because of 
             the overwhelming evidence gathered by the FBI debunking virtually all claims of ritual 
             abuse by Satanic cults."
Detective White: "Is that true?"
Mulder: (gives Scully the look) "Don't ask me."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "You don't suppose she's a virgin, do you?"
Scully: "I doubt she's even a blonde."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "If you detect a hint of impatience in Agent Scully's voice that's because the FBI study also 
             found that in most cases, like the McMartin preschool trial, witnesses were often prompted 
             in their statements by rumors of stories that were being circulated, and there was in fact 
             nothing to support them."
White: "How do you explain the burning coffin at the funeral?"
Mulder: "Don't ask me."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "If it's no bother -- if it's not too big a deal -- maybe you can get me a few photographs of 
             that thing which bears absolutely no resemblence to a horny beast."
Scully: "Sure. Fine. (SNAPS on latex glove) Whatever."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: (re Scully) "She tends to be rather rigid; but rigid in a wonderful way -- not like she was 
             today."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "I was hoping you could help me solve the mystery of the horny beast." 
____________________________________________________________
Astrologer: "I think the whole town's lost it's marbles."
____________________________________________________________ 
(White throws Mulder onto his motel room bed and straddles him)
White: "Maybe we can solve the mystery of the horny beast."
Mulder: "Maybe we should just watch some television...uh...there's, there's a movie on the TV. 
             Actually, its the same, the same movie on every channel."
White: "Weird. I like weird. I feel weird." (kisses him)
____________________________________________________________
Astrologer: "I'm just waiting for authorization."
Mulder: "I'm a federal agent."
Astrologer: "Last I heard the federal government couldn't pay it's bills." 
____________________________________________________________
Astrologer: "Well, the same reason my dogs been trying to mate with the barbecue grill for the last 
                   two months. A cosmic G-spot."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Mulder, what the hell's going on here?"
Mulder: "Something cosmic." 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder & Scully: "Put that gun down!"
____________________________________________________________
Principal Bob: "I think that it was Satan. Yes sir...Satan it was."
Mob: "Oooooohhhhhhhhh...."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "You ready?"
Mulder: "You're the driver. Uh, Scully. If I'm not mistaken, we're going to take a left up here...Uh, 
              there's an intersection up here. You're gonna wanna...Scully! You're going to want...You 
              just...ran a stop sign back there, Scully."
Scully: "Shut up Mulder."
Mulder: "Sure. Fine. Whatever."
____________________________________________________________
Terri: "You know, maybe if we weren't virgins we wouldn't be so scared." 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "It looks like a... goat. Some kind of horned beast."
Scully: "A horned beast?"
Mulder: "Yeah, right here. In the circle."
Scully: "I think you guys are seeing something that isn't there."
____________________________________________________________
Margi: (like sportscaster) "Hate him, Roger."
____________________________________________________________
Terri: "Points though for improved dermatology, Gene."
____________________________________________________________ 
Terri: "Scott Simmons. Babe-o-licious in overtime, Gene!"
Margi: "Minus the Brenda appendage."
Terri: "Hate her."
Margi: "Hate her. Wouldn't want to date her."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "...but I didn't expect you to ditch me."
Mulder: "I didn't ditch you."
Scully: "Fine... whatever."
____________________________________________________________
Bob: "Maybe Harvey's got something to hide. We got two kids who are prepared to say he took 
         them on a camping trip and made them play naked movie star games!" 
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "The bones... turn out to be the skeletal remains not of an infant but of a beloved 14 year 
            old Llasa-Apso, formerly known as... (pulls out collar) Mr. Tippy."
Terri: "Mr. Tippy!"
Mulder: "This may not be any time to mention it, but somebody is wearing my favorite perfume."
____________________________________________________________
(Mulder sniffs Scully as she is ranting at him)
Scully: "...I find your conduct and comportment in this investigation not just alarming but highly 
            objectionable... WHAT are you doing ?!?"
Mulder: "Must be Detective White..."
____________________________________________________________
Brenda: "What are you guys doing?"
Margi: "You just close your eyes and count to thirteen, and Bloody Mary appears in the mirror."
Terri: "C'mon in... Bren-da!" 
____________________________________________________________
Scully: (as a whiny Mulder) "Detective White could use our help. (angry) Detective White..."
____________________________________________________________
(Mulder sniffs White deeply while she's talking)
White: "What are you doing?"
Mulder: (sheepish): "Nothing."
White: "You've been drinking."
Mulder: "Yes... eh... I have. Which is... funny 'cause I usually, uh, normally never, I don't drink."
White: (picks up bottle and downs the whole thing)
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Let me drive."
Scully: "I'm driving."
Mulder: "Scully, it's not what you think."
Scully: "I didn't see anything anyway."
Mulder: "Will you let me drive?" 
Scully: "I'm driving. Why do you always have to drive? Because you're the guy? Because you're 
            the big, macho man?"
Mulder: "No, I was just never sure your little feet would reach the pedals. (mockingly) I'm a macho 
             man..."
____________________________________________________________
Terri: "Look, Scott. We're not dressed like this for the funeral. We're here to make you feel better 
          tonight. Harpe P.M."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "What if today was my birthday?"
Zaharas: "Then I'd say 'Happy Birthday!' Unless of course you were born in 1979, and then I'd call 
               the police." 
____________________________________________________________
Margi: "Back off, Terri."
Terri: "Happy Birthday, bitch!" 
____________________________________________________________
Terri: "So you blow me off so you could snack some shoulder time with rudeboy." 
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Sure. Fine. Whatever."
   
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                                                      3.14 Grotesque 

                                             US Airdate: February 2, 1996

                                                 writer: Howard Gordon
                                                 director: Kim Manners

STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:
Agent Sheherlis ...... Susan Bain
Young Agent ...... Kasper Michaels
John Mostow ...... Levani Outchaneichvili
Agent Bill Patterson ...... Kurtwood Smith
Agent Greg Nemhauser ...... Greg Thirloway
Peter ...... Zoran Vukelic

MULDER'S FORMER MENTOR IN THE BUREAU ENLISTS HIS AND SCULLY'S AID IN A 
SERIAL MURDER CASE, WHOSE BIZARRE MUTILATION MURDERS CONTINUE EVEN AFTER THE KILLER IS CAUGHT.

Assistant Director Walter Skinner assigns Mulder and Scully to a serial killer case, where Mulder finds his old mentor in charge. Special Agent Bill Patterson of the Behavioral Sciences unit has already caught the killer, but when another murder following the same pattern occurs, he needs the "cracked genius" of Fox Mulder to solve the case. Was confessed murderer John Mostow working with an accomplice, who now continues the killing spree? Or was the murder committed by a copycat? Patterson and Scully hope to resolve the question either way, but Mulder believes in a third possibility: demonic possession.

                                                               Notes

The title refers to another, older name for gargoyles.

Agent Nemhauser shares his name with Post Production Supervisor Lori Jo Nemhauser. 

                                                               Quotes
____________________
Nemhauser: "He bit me! The sonuvabitch bit me like a dog!"
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "...failed to mention on his INS application that he spent the better part of his 20's in an 
             insane asylum."
Scully: "He was arrested last week for the serial murders of at least seven men."
Mulder: "You thought all they produced were great hockey players." 
____________________________________________________________
Scully: (taken aback) "The level of violence and overkill here would suggest the work of a very 
           angry individual."
Mulder: "Or individuals. (to Scully's look) If you count the spirit Mastau says possessed him during 
             the murders."
____________________________________________________________
Mastau: "Leave me alone."
Scully: "You have a nice soft bunk, sir. Why aren't you using it?"
Mulder: " Cause he's been working. Haven't you, John?"(we see a gargoyle drawn on the wall)
____________________________________________________________
Patterson: "So what is it Mulder? Little green men? Evil spirits? Hounds of Hell?"
Mulder: "Scully, this is Bill Patterson. He runs the investigative support unit out of Quantico."
Scully: "Yes, I know. Behavioral Science, you wrote the book. It's an honor, sir."
Patterson: "Is that what you think? (upon Scully's questioning look) That the suspect is possessed 
                 by some dark spirit?"
Scully: (smiling) "No, not at all, sir."
Patterson: (eyeing Mulder) "Strange company you keep, then."
Mulder: (laughing to himself) "That's what always amazed me about you, Bill. How you never fit 
            your own profile. No one would ever guess how really mean-spirited you are." (walks away)
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Patterson never liked me."
Scully: "I thought you were considered the fair-haired boy when you joined the bureau."
Mulder: "Not by Patterson."
Scully: "Why not?"
Mulder: "Didn't want to dirty my knees. (upon Scully's look) Couldn't quite cast myself in the role of 
             the dutiful student."
Scully: "You mean you couldn't worship him."
Mulder: "Something like that, yeah."
____________________________________________________________
(Scully gets spooked by a black cat)
Scully: "Now our guys must have locked it in here."
Mulder: (looks under the bed at cat) "Pss-pss. (cat hisses at him and ducks into hole in wall) Uh 
             no, he's obviously got his own key to the place."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "I've got a few theories, I'm just trying to stitch them together right now."
Patterson: "With your face stuck in a library book!"
Mulder: "You said it yourself, Bill. If you want to know the artist look at the art. (surprised at himself) 
              I'm finally agreeing with you." 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: (to Patterson) "Well I wouldn't want to disappoint you by not disappointing you."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: (to Mulder) "Look, when I couldn't reach you I went to your apartment. I saw your new 
            wallpaper." (referring to all the gargoyle drawings)
____________________________________________________________
(regarding Mulder's mental state)
Skinner: "Are you worried about him Agent Scully?"
Scully: (obviously scared and upset) "No sir."
Skinner: "Off the record."
Scully: (silence... the look...)
Skinner: "So am I."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: (points to clay sculpture with cop's face) "It's Nemhauser. (pause to stitch the theories 
             together) But you already knew that, didn't you?"
Patterson: "What is this?"
Mulder: (pointing gun at Patterson) "You killed him, Bill. When he suspected it was you. You killed 
             him."
Patterson: "Are you out of your mind?"
Mulder: "Not me. Not now."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder's closing monologue:
"We work in the dark. We do what we can to battle the evil that would otherwise destroy us. But if a man's character is his fate, this fight is not a choice, but a calling. Yet sometimes the weight of this burden causes us to falter, breaching the fragile fortress of our mind, allowing the monsters without to turn within and we are left alone staring into the abyss. Into the laughing face of madness."

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                                                          3.15 Piper Maru

                                               US Airdate: February 9, 1996

                                          writers: Frank Spotnitz & Chris Carter
                                                   director: Rob Bowman

STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:
Jeraldine Kallenchuk ...... Jo Bates
Dr. Seizer ...... Paul Batten
Hispanic Man aka Luis Cardinal ...... Lenno Britos
Commander Johansen ..... Robert Clothier
Medic ..... Russell Ferrier
Waitress ..... Rochelle Greenwood
Alex Krycek ..... Nicholas Lea
World War II Pilot ..... Robert F. Maier
Wayne Morgan ..... Stephen E. Miller
Young Dana ..... Tegan Moss
Navy Base Guard ..... David Neale
Grey-haired Man ..... Morris Panych
Young Johansen ..... Tom Scholte
First Engineer ...... Joel Silverstone
Bernard Gauthier ..... Ari Solomon
Joan Gauthier ...... Kimberly Unger

WHEN A FRENCH SALVAGE SHIP FINDS A LIVING BEING TRAPPED IN A 50 YEAR OLD 
SUNKEN AIRCRAFT, THE CREW BEGINS TO DIE. MULDER AND SCULLY UNCOVER A 
DEADLY SECRET DATING BACK TO HIROSHIMA. 

The French salvage ship "Piper Maru" finds the remains of a World War II squadron on the bottom of the Pacific ocean -- but not everything trapped inside is dead. The ship takes aboard a being of deadly force, who walks among them in the guise of a human. Mulder and Scully are called in when the Piper Maru's crew begin to die of radiation exposure. Back in Washington, Assistant Director Walter Skinner is warned by members of the "intelligence community" to shut down the investigation into Melissa Scully's murder, but refuses. Scully visits an old family friend and uncovers an old and shameful mystery from the Pacific war. Mulder tracks an enigmatic "salvage broker" to the Far East, where he finds Alex Krycek selling government secrets from the DAT tape he stole from Skinner. Even as Mulder prepares to bring Krycek back to the States, Walter Skinner is gunned down in a DC restaurant -- apparently as a means of closing Melissa Scully's case for good. Part 1 of 2

                                                                Notes

The title is the name of the boat featured in this ep and is a homage to Gillian Anderson's daughter, Piper.

Drop Dead Red, the inscription on the side of the Zeus Faber, is also another tribute to Gillian Anderson.

The first appearance of what's come to be known as the "oily alien". The eye effect was created with a combo of balsamic vinegar and engine oil, yum!

The flight Mulder and Krycek take back to Washington is flight number 1121.

The diver shares his name with Dave Gauthier, the X-Files effects supervisor . 

                                                                 Quotes
____________________
Scully: "You know, it's strange. Men can blow up buildings, and they can be nowhere near the 
             crime scene. But we can piece together the evidence and convict them beyond a doubt. 
             Our labs here can recreate out of the most microscopic details their motivation and 
             circumstance to almost any murder, right down to a killer's attitude towards his mother 
             and that he was a bedwetter. But in a case of a woman... my sister...who was gunned 
             down in cold blood in a well-lit apartment building by a shooter who left the weapon at the 
             crime scene, we can't even put together enough to keep anybody interested."
Skinner: "I don't think this has anything to do with interest."
Scully: "If I may say so sir, it has everything to do with interest. Just not yours, and not mine."
____________________________________________________________
(Scully laughs at Mulder)
Mulder: "What?"
Scully: "I'm just constantly amazed by you. I mean, 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. (smiles) Maybe a backhoe."
Mulder: "Well that's good, because there's some garbage in San Diego I want you to help me dig 
              through." (gives Scully the ticket, she stops smiling)
____________________________________________________________
Doc: "Whatever these men came in contact with, it was manmade. Levels like this just don't 
          appear in nature."
Mulder: "Not on this planet."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "So it's ok for us to go on board?"
Morgan: "Sure. Probably get more radiation off your cel- phone."
____________________________________________________________
Morgan: "...It's a mess, huh?" (the ship)
Mulder: "Feels like home."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Looks like the fuselage of a plane."
Scully: "It's a North American P-51 Mustang."
Morgan: "Yeah, sure is."
Mulder: "I just got very turned on." 
____________________________________________________________
Johansen: "We bury our dead alive, don't we?"
Scully: "I don't know if I understand."
Johansen: "We hear them everyday, they talk to us, they haunt us, they beg us for meaning 
                  conscience... it's just the voices of the dead...trying to save us from our own 
                  damnation." 
____________________________________________________________
Skinner: "Who are you guys?"
MIB: "We work with the intelligence community." 
Skinner: "Remind me not to move there."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "This seat taken, Ms. Kallenchek? Geraldine Kallenchek, isn't it?"
Ms. K: "Jerri, with a 'J'"
Mulder: "I noticed you flew first class. Must be good money selling classified documents."
Ms. K: "It's a bull market, hon. And I'm Miss Popular. Let's Make A Deal." 
____________________________________________________________
Ms. K: "Arrest me? With what, your chopsticks? This is Hong Kong, Mr. Mulder. They don't allow 
            handguns here. They took yours away at the airport."
(Mulder smiles and handcuffs her to him)
Ms. K: "Hey! Hey! You can't do that!"
Mulder: "I just did. (Hauls her up and around to the back) NOW let's make a deal..."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Open it. (the door to her office, she does nothing so he kicks it open) Pardon my gender 
              type, but after you. (shoves her in) Where are the lights?"
Krycek: "Right here." (points gun)
Mulder: "Krychek. Thought guns were against the law here."
Krycek: "Yeah, well you know what they say,when guns are outlawed..."
Mulder: "Why don't you take that gun and shoot yourself in your head like you shot my father."
Geraldine: "Great.. high noon in Hong Kong."
Krycek: "Aw... why don't you SHUT UP!" (he pushes her out the office and closes the door... she's 
             still cuffed to Mulder)
Geraldine: "My God!"
Mulder: "It's no way to treat your business partner, especially since she's been moving those 
             secrets you've been selling so well." (we hear shots, Geraldine is killed, Krycek is on his 
             way to the window)
Krycek: "Looks like she's your partner now."
____________________________________________________________
(Krycek approaches Mulder, who punches him in stomach)
Mulder: "That's for your partner. (kicks him below the belt) This is for me. (headbutts him in the 
             nose) And this is for my father." (points Krycek's gun at his stomach)
Krycek: "No! I didn't kill your father."
Mulder: "NOW you tell me..."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Feeling better?"
Krycek: "Like a new man." (eyes cloud over with oily alien)

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                                                       3.16 Apocrypha 

                                              US Airdate: February 16, 1996 

                                           writers: Frank Spotnitz & Chris Carter 
                                                    director: Kim Manners

STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:
Assistant Director Walter S. Skinner... Mitch Pileggi
Agent Pendrell ...... Brenden Beiser
Frohike ..... Tom Braidwood
Hispanic Man aka Luis Cardinal ..... Lenno Britos
First Government Man ..... Dmitry Chepovetsky
Armed Man ....... Jeff Chivers
Cancer Man ..... William B. Davis
Major Domo ...... Martin Evans
Nurse ...... Frances Flanagan
Langly ..... Dean Haglund
Byers ...... Bruce Harwood
Alex Krycek ...... Nicholas Lea
Navy Doctor ...... Barry Levy
Agent Caleca ....... Sue Mathew
Agent Fuller ..... Kevin McNulty
Well-Manicured Man ....... John Neville
Sick Crewman ....... Peter Scoular
Elder #1 ...... Don S. Williams

MULDER PURSUES AN ALIEN TRYING TO RETURN TO ITS SHIP, WHILE SCULLY 
INVESTIGATES THE SHOOTING OF ASSISTANT DIRECTOR SKINNER.

Assistant Director Walter Skinner warns Scully as he is wheeled into surgery that he recognized the man who shot him.Although the Bureau is ready to write the incident off as a random shooting, Scully presses the investigation and discovers that the man who shot Skinner. Luis Cardinal, is the same one who shot her sister. Mulder, meanwhile, is unknowingly escorting an alien life form into the United States, one which is "hiding" inside Alex Krycek. When the pair is run off the road into a ditch by agents of the Cigarette-Smoking Man, Mulder is too dazed to see Krycek kill their assailants by irradiation. Although Krycek flees, Mulder still has the key to Krycek's locker. With the aid of the Lone Gunmen, he recovers--an empty digital tape box. But he discovers a phone number on the package: the phone number of the Well-Manicured Man. Scully meanwhile fears for Skinner's life; she foils an attempt on his life by Luis Cardinal. Mulder, meanwhile, has learned that the cargo salvaged from the sea floor by the "Piper Maru" is being stored in a missile silo in North Dakota; he and Scully arrive and find dead, irradiated soldiers. Knowing Krycek (and the alien inside him) is in the silo, they stalk him through the darkened halls, but are ambushed by the 
Cigarette-Smoking Man's agents and hustled away. As they are driven off, Krycek kneels on top of a UFO, the alien entity pouring from his eyes and mouth, re-entering its craft. Krycek, still alive, beats on the locked doors in terror, begging to be released.

                                                               Notes

The Apocrypha is the collective name given to the books of the New Testament of the Christian Bible with the exception of the Gospels (ie those set after the time of Jesus Christ).

The number on the silo door where Krycek and the alien craft are being held is 1013 (Chris Carter's birthday).

                                                               Quotes
____________________
Crewman: "That thing ...is still down there! The Navy'll deny it, but you've got to make sure the 
                 truth gets out. I can trust you to do that, can't I Mr. Mulder?"
Young Bill Mulder: (Mulder looks left, middle man looks left, left man lights up)
Young Cancer Man: "You can trust all of us... "
____________________________________________________________
Skinner: (whispering to Scully from hospital gurney) "I've seen him before... the man who shot 
              me."
____________________________________________________________
Fuller: "How's he doing?"
Scully: "He's on steady Demerol, he's in and out. I thought I asked for guards to be posted 
            outside."
Caleca: "We put in a request with the DC police."
Scully: "This wasn't a random shooting. I want guards posted here and I want them here now!"
Fuller: "I think it's a matter of pulling men on something else."
Scully: "I've heard the excuses. I don't care if you and agent Caleca have to stand in the hallway 
            yourself. This man has to be protected. Okay?!" (she walks away)
____________________________________________________________
Cancer Man: "What's the prognosis?"
Doc: "It's just a matter of time. This kind of absorption will have a rapid effect on cellular activity, 
         giving rise to the onset of massive and malignant cancers." (Cancer Man lights his cigarette)
____________________________________________________________
Cancer Man "Have the bodies destroyed."
Doc: "But sir, these men aren't dead yet!"
Cancer Man: "Isn't that the prognosis?"
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: (wakes up to Scully's smiling face) "Guess I'm not dead."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Hi. How are you feeling?"
Skinner: "Like someone's been inside my stomach redecorating."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "You're saying, that they closed down my sister's case not because of lack of evidence but 
             because they didn't want us to catch the killer."
Skinner: "You should be very careful about the accusations that you make."
____________________________________________________________
Skinner: "Listen to me, anger is a luxury that you cannot afford right now. If you're angry you're 
              gonna make a mistake, and these people will take advantage of that, you've seen how 
              they operate."
Scully: "I'll be ok." (walking out)
Skinner: "Scully.. if you can't keep your head.. it's all right to step away."
Scully: "It's exactly what they want." (leaves)
____________________________________________________________
Scully: (comes into Mulder's office and notices NewtSuit)
Mulder: "It looked great on me in the store..."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "This just wasn't ordinary diesel oil, I think it's um....I think it's a medium, a medium being 
              used by some kind of alien creature that uses it to .. body jump."
Scully: "So you're saying that this stuff has intelligence."
Mulder: "I think that it came off of whatever they pulled from the bottom of the Pacific ocean, it's 
             been waiting 50 years down there for another host, another body to bring it up to the 
             surface."
Scully: "Waiting to jump into the diver and then into the diver's wife..."
Mulder: "And then into Krycek."
Scully: "Krycek?"
Mulder: "I think that Mrs Gauthier went to Hong Kong under the control of this thing (Scully laughs) 
             to find Krycek. I know, I know how it sounds."
Scully: "Is anybody NOT looking for Krycek?"
Mulder: "No but I think that the 64 thousand dollar question is what is this thing looking for? And 
             now that it's in Krycek, what does it want?"
____________________________________________________________
Frohike: "Nothin' to it."
Byers: "You should call upon our services more often." 
Langly: "We show talent for these G-MAN activities."
Mulder: "You mean if I want somebody whacked on the knee with a lead pipe?"
Frohike: "Only if you want it done right."
Mulder: (opens case, no tape) "It's gone."
____________________________________________________________
Well-Manicured Man: "...we'd like an explanation about this business with the assistant director of 
                                the Bureau, Skinner."
Cancer Man: "Random shooting for all I know."
Well-Manicured Man: "They have a waitress, who has given a description of the shooter, they 
                                  released a composite of his face to the press...(hands him a newspaper, it's 
                                  the face of the Hispanic-Man)....one of yours, isn't he?"
____________________________________________________________
Frohike: (wearing special glasses) "I've got something here.. writing somebody wrote on top of the 
             package and left an impression."
Mulder: "Let me see that."
Byers: "Your guys at the FBI turned a major serial murderer with a vestigial pen impression."
Mulder: "Hand me a pencil." (starts rubbing on paper)
Langly: "Your sci-crime guys at the Bureau have a laser there that can measure any change in a 
             surface down to a few nanometers."
Byers: "Actually they can lift perfect impression using magnetic toner and a sheet of mylar an 
            electrostatic device is applied to the specimen, and renders the information, by drawing the 
            toner from the indentation to the mylar surface." 
Frohike: "Actually.."
Mulder: "Actually, it's a phone number, New York City area code (212), 555 1012. Now don't drop 
             that (giving the pencil to Frohike) that's a finely calibrated piece of investigative equipment. 
             I gotta make a phone call." (Frohike is puzzled)
Frohike: (looking at pencil) "I'll be damned."
____________________________________________________________
Well-Manicured Man: "Who gave you this number?"
Mulder: "You probably know. A man named Krycek."
Well-Manicured Man: "Alex Krycek?"
Mulder: "Yeah nice guy, killed my father, you wouldn't happen to know where he is, do you?"
____________________________________________________________ 
Fuller: "His name is Luis Cardinal (The Hispanic Man) , native of Nicaragua, school of the 
           America's alumni, career mercenary, apparently impressed a lot of people with his 
           marksmanship during the Iran contra deal."
Scully: "I'll bet."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Keep looking for him."
Fuller: "We.. pretty much exhausted our avenues." 
Scully: "What's it gonna take?"
Caleca: "At this point? Other than a sign from god?"
Scully: "I've seen stranger things, believe me."
Man: "I believe she has." 
____________________________________________________________
The Well-Manicured Man: "I trust we're all alone."
Mulder: "We're all alone in New York City, sir."
____________________________________________________________
The Well-Manicured Man: "I'm curious, if you've encountered Krycek, why didn't you kill him then?"
Mulder: "Cause he has the tape."
The Well-Manicured Man: "Ahh yes, the tape ."
Mulder: "The tape he's been selling those secrets off. (The Well-Manicured Man is surprised) You 
             don't know where he is either, do you? (the Well-Manicured Man smiles) you're looking for 
             him too."
The Well-Manicured Man: "Mr Mulder, everyone can be gotten to, certainly, you've no doubt of 
                                        that...(Mulder walks away) Mr Mulder?"
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Federal agent! Stop right there! Are you Luis Cardinal?!! Are you Luis Cardinal?!!" 
Cardinale: "Please..."
Scully: "Are you the man that shot my sister?!!! YOU SHOT MY SISTER!!!!"
Cardinale: "Please don't kill me! I can tell you..."
Scully: "TELL ME!!!"
Cardinale: "I can tell you what you want. You want Krycek! I can tell you where he is. Please--
                 please don't shoot me."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "There must be 200 silos out here. And if I'm correct they were all filled with concrete in 
            accord with the disarmament treaty when the base was decommissioned."
Mulder: (pulling out gun) "I didn't sign any disarmament treaty.." 
____________________________________________________________
Scully: (in silo) "Where's the concrete?"
Mulder: "Apparently nobody else signed that treaty either."
Scully: "One down, 199 silos to go."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "We saw bodies in there! (she's taken away) Men with radiation burns!"
Cancer Man: "You saw nothing." (enters the silo)
Mulder: "You won't get away with this! You can't bury the truth!"
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Actually I wanted to talk to you, I wanted to... thank you for everything you did." 
Skinner: "You mean me getting shot in the gut?"
Mulder: "You got a shot because you stood up to these people"
Skinner: "I think you're perceiving from a mistaken impression, what I did, I did it because it's my 
              job."
Mulder: "From what I understand, you put your job and your life on the line for Scully."
Skinner: "This isn't my crusade agent Mulder. A woman was murdered, I mistakenly thought that 
               we could bring the man who committed that crime to justice."
Mulder: "What do you mean mistakenly?"
Skinner: "This is what I need to talk to Scully about." 
____________________________________________________________
(at her sister's grave, with Mulder)
Scully: "I was just thinking about something that a man said to me. That the dead speak to us from 
            beyond the grave, that that what's conscience is."
____________________________________________________________
(after finding out Luis Cardinal's dead, a supposed suicide)
Scully: "And what about Krycek?"
Mulder: "Oh he was there. I know that."
Scully: "You think they got to him too."
Mulder: "I don't know, but if they haven't they will. I doubt it'll weight on their consciences though."
Scully: "I think the dead are speaking to us Mulder, demanding justice. Maybe that man was right. 
            Maybe we bury the dead alive."

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                                                           3.17 Pusher

                                             US Airdate: February 23, 1996

                                                   writer: Vince Gilligan
                                                  director: Rob Bowman

STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:
Holly ...... Julia Arkos 
Agent Collins ..... Steve Bacic
Defense Attorney .... Meredith Bain Woodward
SWAT Lieutenant ..... Roger R. Cross
Lobby Guard ..... Ernie Foort
Lead SWAT Cop ..... Darren Lucas
Judge ........ Don MacKay
Deputy Scott Kerber ...... D. Neil Mark
Agent Frank Burst ..... Vic Polizos 
Prosecutor ....... Brent Sheppard
Robert Patrick Modell aka Pusher ...... Robert Wisden

A KILLER WHO INFLUENCES PEOPLE WITH HIS MIND PLAYS CAT AND MOUSE GAMES 
WITH THE FBI, AND ZEROES IN ON MULDER AS A WORTHY OPPONENT.

Was it murder or suicide? A man claims to have committed fourteen "perfect" murders by making them look like suicides, and his confessions include so much crime-scene detail that he convinces the FBI. But when he escapes from custody by mesmerizing a young deputy into driving into the path of an oncoming truck, the agent in charge of the case calls on Agents Mulder and Scully for help.Mulder is convinced that Robert Modell, who calls himself "Pusher", is exerting psychic control over people through his voice. Using his ability to cloud people's minds, Pusher is able to walk freely into the heart of the FBI, seeking an opponent worthy of his mettle. He settles on Oxford-trained Fox Mulder as his adversary, and taunts him by inducing a heart attack in another agent in front of Mulder's own eyes. Scully discovers a deadly secret about Pusher that tells the agents that their quarry has nothing to lose. But just when Mulder thinks he has Pusher trapped, the tables are turned on him and he finds himself in a deadly game, in which the stakes are his and Scully's lives.

                                                                Notes

Title refers to Modell's ability to "push" people, and control their minds through telepathy.

Modell picks up a tabloid newspaper in the checkout line and the front cover has a picture of Flukeman from "The Host" and a picture in the top corner that we're still trying to figure out. I think Carter just threw that in to drive us nuts!

Look for Dave Grohl (of Nirvana and the Foo Fighters) and his wife, Jennifer Youngblood-Grohl, in a cameo. The scene where Modell gets into the FBI building.

Eagle eye xphiles swear that Doug Hutchinson (Tooms) is the dead technician in the hospital, but no confirmation yet. 

                                                                Quotes
____________________
Pusher: "Let's get this show on the road... " (pulls down flap of man in front of him, exposing the 
              FBI letters)
____________________________________________________________
Pusher: (face in register turnstyle that is spinning) "Turn this thing off!"
Frank: "You're Pusher, I presume?"
Pusher: "You must be Frank BURST. You know I gotta tell ya, hah, ya got the greatest name."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: " Ro-neen. It's a samurai without a master. (on Scully's look) What, you never saw 
              Yojimbo?"
Scully: "Still, what does it mean?"
Mulder: "Means I bet I know ten to one what this guy's got stacked on the back of his toilet."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Mulder, I'm still not sure what we're looking for."
Mulder: "Samurais without masters have to advertise."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Inducing someone to buy hair color is a little different than inducing them to drive in front 
            of a speeding truck."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Well even if he could push his will, why would he...he cause an accident when he himself 
             was in the car?"
Mulder: "Maybe he REALLY didn't want to go to jail." 
____________________________________________________________
(reading from paper)
Mulder: "Well, look at this. 'I solve problems. OSU.' "
Scully: "OSU... Ohio State University?"
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: (after looking in Japanese dictionary) "OSU, hey, osu, it's a Japanese word, it means "to 
            push".
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: (waking Scully) "Hey. I think you drooled on me."
Scully: (sleepily) "Uh... sorry."
____________________________________________________________
Pusher: "...You and your pretty partner seem awfully close. Do you work well together?" 
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "So, he's a killer AND a golfer."
Mulder: "Rings a bell, huhm? Let's go, G-woman."
____________________________________________________________
Pusher: (to Mulder) "Betcha five bucks I get off."
____________________________________________________________
Pusher: (to Mulder) "I believe you owe me five dollars."
Mulder: (takes out fiver, but as he's looking at his wallet says) "Hey, your shoe's untied. (Pusher 
             looks down) Made you look. How do YOU do it?"
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "...Modell psyched the guy out... he put the whammy on him."
Scully: "Please explain to me the scientific nature of the "whammy"."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "...I'm just looking for an explanation a little more mundane than the whammy." 
Mulder: "Well, he's laughing at us, Scully."
____________________________________________________________
Skinner: (to Mulder) "And you're saying this same mysterious phenomenon is the reason I have a 
             size 7 heel mark on my face."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: (investigating the fridge) "Hey Scully, check this out. Mango Kiwi Tropical Swirl. Now we 
            KNOW we're dealing with a madman."
____________________________________________________________
Frank: "What's up, Modell? How ya doin? Long time no see. Told ya we knew where you lived. 
            Nice apartment, Modell. Who does your decorating? The Grinch who stole Christmas?"
Modell: "Ha ha ha! Agent Frank Burst. The guy with the great name!"
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: (admiring video camera gear) "Think I can get the Playboy channel?"

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                                                     3.18 Teso Dos Bichos

                                                  US Airdate: March 8, 1996

                                                      writer: John Shiban
                                                    director: Kim Manners

STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:
Dr. Winters ..... Garrison Chrisjohn
Dr. Lewton .... Tom McBeath
Mona Wustner ... Janne Mortil
Roosevelt ..... Alan Robertson
Mr. Decker .... Ron Sauve
Shaman ..... Gordon Tootoosis
Bilac ..... Vic Trevino

A CURSE FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE BRINGS MULDER AND SCULLY INTO A STRING OF 
MURDERS COMMITTED BY AN UNSEEN FORCE IN A NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM.

When an archaeological expedition forcibly removes the remains of a South American shamaness against the wishes of the tribespeople, members of the expedition and the sponsoring museum begin to disappear from blood-soaked sites. Is it the working out of an ancient curse, or an act of political terrorism? Suspicion falls on Dr. Bilac, a member of the expedition who opposed the removal and who has become a raving recluse since the expedition's return to Boston. But before Mulder and Scully can find any evidence against him, two more museum members disappear in a welter of blood. A toilet choked with rats, a piece of small intestine gnawed by vermin, and a long-closed maze of steam tunnels lead the team to a horrible discovery far below the museum, where the fanged menace they seek turns on them in the darkness.

                                                                Notes

The title is Spanish for "mound of animals" or "animal hill", which refers to the site which was disturbed during this episode.

Personal note: And strictly my humble opinion, of course, this is probably my least favorite episode. The storyline alone is a turnoff, but those cheap looking cats?! Please, spare me! When this one aired, both the newsgroup and the mailing list were full of headers like, "Teso Dos Suckos".

                                                                Quotes
____________________
Dr. Roosevelt: "We're not disturbing her, we're saving her!"
____________________________________________________________
Dr. R: "Have the piece cleaned and packed. It's going with us." 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Personally, if someone digs me up in 1000 years, I hope there's a curse on them, too."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Well apparently they've learned something from you, too."
Bilac: "Yesssss, I've been teaching them the joys of American beurocracy."
____________________________________________________________
(after leaving Bilac's house)
Mulder: "Nice to meet people who really believe in something, isn't it?"
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "...and the lack of other suspects."
Mulder: "He did look a bit squirrely back there."
Scully: "Maybe because he was up late last night murdering Craig Horning." 
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "So you think Bilac's innocent? That the victim wasn't even killed at all? That he was 
            devoured by a mythical jaguar spirit?!?!?"
Mulder: "Go with it, Scully." 
____________________________________________________________
Scully: (drops split-rat in bag) "Ugh. Label that."
Cop: "As what?"
Scully: "Partial... dead rat body part."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Well, it's human, small intestine. There's about four feet of jejunum and another foot of 
             ilium."
Mulder: "Do we know for sure it's Luden?"
Scully: "Yeah, by what he had for lunch: corn chowder and... it looks like he'd been snacking on 
             sunflower seeds all afternoon."
Mulder: "A man with taste... "
____________________________________________________________
Curator: "Police found something outside."
Scully: "Mona Wassner?"
Curator: "No, Sugar, her dog. He's dead."
Mulder: "Finally a body."
____________________________________________________________ 
Vet: "When I dissected the dog's stomach, I found an undigested fragment of intestine, which 
        appears to be feline..."
Scully: "The dog ate a cat."
Vet: "I also found what appears to be bits of rat fur. I think the rat ate the poison."
Scully: "Cat ate a rat."
Mulder: "And the dog ate the cat. (Scully gives Mulder the 'eyebrow') More rats, Scully." 
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "So what are we taking about, Mulder? A posessed rat? The return of Ben?" 
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Have YOU been drinking Yahe, Mulder?"
Mulder: "Go with it, Scully." 

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                                                      3.19 Hell Money

                                              US Airdate: March 29, 1996

                                                   writer: Jeff Vlaming
                                                 director: Tucker Gates

STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:
B.D. WONG as Detective Chao
MICHAEL YAMA as Hsin
GRAHAM SHIELS as the Night Watchman
DOUG ABRAHAMS as Lt. Neary
LUCY LIU as Kim
STEPHEN CHANG as the Large Man
DONALD FONG as the Vase Man
PAUL WONG as the Wiry Man
DINA HA as Dr. Wu
JAMES HONG as the Hard Faced Man
ED HONG-LOUIE as the Money Man

MULDER AND SCULLY INVESTIGATE A SERIES OF CHINATOWN MURDERS AND DISCOVER A LOTTERY WHERE THE PRICE OF A TICKET IS LIFE ITSELF.

When a young Chinese immigrant is burned alive in a crematorium, the X-Files team go to Chinatown in search of a ring of masked killers. During the Festival of the Hungry Ghosts, they are aided by a handsome young Chinese-American police detective as they delve into the secrets of the close-knit community, where outsiders are viewed with suspicion and centuries-old traditions still rule. A clandestine burial is uncovered and Scully finds a living frog in a dead man. Finally, a 
father's desperate sacrifice for his dying daughter leads Mulder and Scully to a secret room, a cold- blooded surgeon, and a lottery from hell.

                                                              Notes

The title refers to the phoney money the Chinese buy to tempt (ie bribe) their family ghosts.

Personal note: Unfortunately, after a couple of repeats and "Teso Dos Bichos", we were ready to have our socks knocked off and were disappointed with this one. I have not watched it since it's original broadcast. BUT, points for highlighting the wonderful B. D. Wong, a very underrated Canadian actor. Cute as a bug's ear too :-)

                                                             Quotes
____________________
Scully: "What a way to go...." (burned alive in a crematorium)
____________________________________________________________
Cop: "We got lucky with this one." (finding a body)
Mulder: "Lucky? Thats an interesting word for it."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "How many dishes do you have to break before your boss tosses you in an oven?"
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "So you're saying that the ancestral spirits pushed Johnny Lo into the oven and turned on 
            the gas?"
Mulder: "Well, it would sure teach him to respect his elders, wouldn't it?" 
____________________________________________________________
Scully: (feeling paint on door) "It's still tacky."
Mulder: "Can you copy it down for me?" (painted words)
Cop: "Yeah, sure..."
Mulder: (looking around apartment) "Talk about tacky..."
____________________________________________________________
Cop: "But the truth is I'm more haunted by the size of my mortgage payments." (than ancestral 
         spirits)
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Looks like somebody was trying to get two burials for the price of one." 
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Do you know how much the human body is worth, Mulder?"
Mulder: "Depends on the body."

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                                         3.20 Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space' 

                                             US Airdate: March 12, 1996

                                                  writer: Darin Morgan
                                                 director: Rob Bowman 

STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:
CHARLES NELSON REILLY as Jose Chung
WILLIAM LUCKING as Roky
JASON GAFFNEY as Harold
SARAH SAWATSKY as Chrissy
JESSE VENTURE as 1st Man in Black
LARRY MUSSER as Detective Manners
ALEX DIAKUN as Dr. Fingers
TERRY ARROWSMITH as Air Force Man
ANDREW TURNER as CIA Man
MINA MINA as Dr. Hand
ALLAN ZINYK as Blaine
MICHAEL DOBSON as Lt. Schaeffer
JAAP BROEKER as Yappi

A WRITER'S ATTEMPT TO GET AT THE TRUTH OF AN ALIEN ABDUCTION LEADS HIM 
INTO A MAZE OF CONFLICTING STORIES, WHERE EVEN SCULLY AND MULDER FIND 
THEMSELVES DUPED.

When writer Jose Chung interviews Dana Scully for a book about alien abductions, he asks her about a case involving two teenagers who claim to have been abducted while out on a date. Were they really abducted, or are they lying? If they were carried off, who took them: extraterrestrials or very human conspirators? The victims' and witnesses' stories grow increasingly confused, as even hypnosis reveals deeper and deeper layers of deceit and manipulation. Is the Air Force engaged in an ongoing coverup of covert intelligence operations, using UFOs as camouflage? Or is that yet another elaborate lie told to discredit witnesses of real abductions? Who are the mysterious Men In 
Black who warn witnesses against spreading the word--and why do they look so familiar? One of the most bizarre X-Files of all twists and turns as witnesses contradict one another, Mulder discovers strange visitors in Scully's bedroom, and Scully dissects an alien body. In the end, it is up to writer Jose Chung to reveal it all in his book--unless he, too, is part of an elaborate conspiracy on the part of the military-industrial-entertainment complex...

                                                                Notes

Where to begin with this Darin Morgan gem?! Okay, the title refers to the book that author Jose Chung is writing, "From Outer Space". Now where do we go? :-) Reports have it that the original title was to be "Eth Snafu" with the first word being a purposeful misspelling of the word "the". I think it was confusing enough as is right?

The opening shot certainly looked like the "Imperial Star Cruiser" opening of "Star Wars", but then we find out it's not alien at all. Just the beginning of our lesson in perceived realities.

The "alien" Lord Kinbote's name comes from the character David Kinbote in Vladimir Nabokov's book "Pale Fire." The book is supposedly about how reality depends upon who is perceiving it.

The town Klass County, is named for UFO debunker Philip J. Klass, whose book "UFOs Explained" states that "No single object has been misinterpreted as a 'flying saucer' more often than the planet Venus."

Robert Vallee, Jack Schaffer and Sergeant Hynek all share their names with authors who have written books on UFOs, Robert Schaffer, Jaques Vallee, and Allen Hynek. The last two worked together on the book "The Edge of Reality: A Progress Report on UFO's".

One of Mr. Chung's earlier works, "The Caligari Candidate", is a reference to two different movies on mind control. "The Manchurian Candidate", where a brainwashed soldier is manipulated into believing in alternate versions of reality by political enemies and "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari", a German silent movie also dealing with mind control and an evil hypnotist. 

Jose shows Scully an alien autopsy movie "Dead Alien: Truth or Humbug" which sounds a lot like "Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction", a Fox TV broadcast that The X-Files has made references to before. And of course the word humbug must refer to the episode "Humbug". The music that plays 
during the video is also a different, lighter version of the familiar X-Files theme by Mark Snow.

Roky Crickenson, the witness to the kids' abduction, seems to be named for Roky Erickson, the psychedelic lead singer for the 13th Floor Elevators who later formed a band called 'Roky Erickson and the Aliens'.

Another "Space: Above and Beyond" reference with Blaine wearing the show's t-shirt. This episode aired the same night that David Duchovny made a guest appearance on "Space.." and is a nod to writer Darin Morgan's brother, Glen Morgan, who co-created the show. This same episode of "Space.." has a reference to Clyde Bruckman as a character watches an old movie of his, but that's another show!

Blaine has an 'I Want to Believe' poster just like Mulder's, but the words 'Want to' have been covered, leaving just the words 'I Believe'.

The pseudonym Jose uses for Mulder, Reynard Muldrake, is taken from the French word for "fox", "renard".

Detective Manners is named for producer Kim Manners, with the other joke being, of course, he has no manners, bleeping all over the place!

Two other references we picked up on: the mashed potatoes mountain in the diner looks just like the one from "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and all that pie just has to be a reference to "Twin Peaks". As you may know, Duchovny played a transvestite on the show.

The biggest surprise cameo had to be Alex Trebek and there's a good chance he was on to torment Duchovny yet again about his Jeopardy appearance.

At the end, we're told that Roky has relocated to El Cajon, California, which is where Darin and Glen Morgan were born and raised.

Personal notes: If you've read through this episode guide, you'll note that I'm a HUGE Darin Morgan fan, the man can do no wrong in my book, so keep this in mind as you read my comments. The story, such as it is, is told from various points of view and left some viewers completely lost and frustrated, but not this xphile, I loved it. The group I watched with could barely hold down our drinks, we were laughing too much.

When the credits were leaked to the press before this ep aired, we all went, "Charles Nelson Reilly?! Isn't he dead?!" But what a delight he turned out to be, sheer joy exuded from him on-screen and this appearance apparently woke up the rest of Hollywood, 'cause he's now hot stuff. This is a classic episode and another personal favorite. Now if someone would just write the script out for me :-)

                                                             Quotes
____________________
(after Scully gives him a compliment on his books)
Chung: "And here I was thinking you were just some... brainy beauty. Now I find out that you also 
            have... good taste."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Ok, just as long as you're attempting to record the truth..."
Chung: "Dear god no! How could I possibly do that?"
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "She was suffering from what my partner calls "missing time". She recalled nothing of the 
             previous night nor how she had arrived at her present whereabouts. Her body exhibited 
             signs of physical abuse and her clothes were on inside out and backwards."
Chung : "Have I had my share of mornings like THAT!"
____________________________________________________________
Cop: "Cuz I don't need no lie detector test to see the only thing you were abducted by were your 
         rampaging hormones, you punk!"
____________________________________________________________
Det. Manners: "Well, thanks a lot! You really BLEEPED up this case!"
Scully: "Well, of course he didn't actually say 'bleeped', he said..."
Chung: "No need to elaborate. I'm quite familiar with law enforcement... vernacular."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "You still gonna hold the boy?"
Det. Manners: "Oh, you bet your blankety-blank bleep I am!"
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Well, so what if they had sex?"
Scully: "So we know it wasn't an alien that probed her."
____________________________________________________________
Chung: "Agent Scully, you are so kind... He's a nut! I read his manifest-o..." 
____________________________________________________________
Blaine: "I just want to be taken away to some place where I don't have to worry about... finding a 
            job."
____________________________________________________________
Roky: "I knew I should have gone for my video camera then, instead of notifying the proper 
           authorities..."
Jose: "What was wrong with doing that?"
Roky: "Because the "proper authorities" showed up with a couple of Men In Black--one of them 
           was disguised as a woman, but wasn't pulling it off--like her hair was red, but it was a little 
           *too red*, you know? And the other one, the tall, lanky one, his face was so blank and 
            expressionless, he didn't even seem human. I think he was a mandroid. The only time he 
            reacted was when he saw the dead alien body..."
Mulder: "WHOOOOO!!" (a girly scream)
Det. Manners: "Yep, that's a bleeping dead alien body if I ever bleeping saw one."
Scully: "Wrap it up."
____________________________________________________________
Blaine: "Well, hey, I didn't spend all those years playing Dungeons and Dragons and not learn a 
            little something about courage."
____________________________________________________________
Schaefer: "Y'ever flown a flying saucer? Afterwords, sex seems trite."
                (eating at restaurant called 'OVALTINE')
____________________________________________________________
(while Mulder eats a heck of a lot of sweet potato pie!)
Mulder: "Have you ever found a metal implant in your body?"
Cook: (shakes his head)
Mulder: "Have you checked everywhere?"
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "That was Detective Manners. He said they just found your bleepin' UFO." 
____________________________________________________________
Chrissy: "Love... is that all you men think about?"

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                                                          3.21 Avatar

                                                 US Airdate: April 26, 1996

                                    Story by: David Duchovny and Howard Gordon
                                              Teleplay by: Howard Gordon
                                                director: James Charleston

STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:
MITCH PILEGGI as Assistant Director Walter Skinner
TASHA SIMMS as Jay Cassal
AMANDA TAPPING as Carina Sayles
BETHOE SHIRKOFF as Old Woman
TOM MASON as Detective Waltos
CAL TRAVERSY as the Young Detective
STACY GRANT as Judy Fairly
JANIE WOODS-MORRIS as Lorraine Kelleher
JENNIFER HETRICK as Sharon Skinner
MALCOLM STEWART as Agent Bonnecaze
BRENDAN BEISER as Dr. Rick Newton
WILLIAM B. DAVIS as The Cigarette-Smoking Man
MICHAEL DAVID SIMMS as Senior Agent
MORRIS PAYNCH as the Gray-Haired Man

DID WALTER SKINNER KILL THE STRANGE WOMAN IN HIS BED? NOT EVEN HE KNOWS, 
AS MULDER AND SCULLY WORK TO CLEAR HIM WHEN A MURDER INVESTIGATION 
TARGETS THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR.

When Assistant Director Walter Skinner wakes up in bed next to a murdered prostitute, Mulder and Scully go to work trying to prove his innocence. But the more evidence they uncover, the worse things look for their boss. He is separating from his wife, seeing a psychiatrist for a 
dangerous sleep disorder, and refused to cooperate with the murder investigation. Perhaps Skinner's unstable frame of mind is linked to the dissolution of his 17 year marriage. And when his wife is run off the road and nearly killed, it looks like Skinner may be responsible. Scully tries to hold off her own suspicions even as Skinner confesses his bewilderment to Mulder. Only Mulder, convinced that Skinner has been visited by an apparition known to medieval scholars, can clear his superior of the charge. His investigation uncovers new layers of deceit in the case against Skinner, leading him to a frightened call girl, a deflated air bag, and a connection to a deeper conspiracy involving Skinner. 

                                                                 Notes

An avatar is an earthly representation of a godlike being or deity.

Reports on the newsgroup swear that Gillian's daughter, Piper, can be seen looking out of a window on the bus that sped in front of Skinner as he was trying to cross the street.

Personal note: Pardon my hormones for a moment people....wahooo!!! The opening scene with Skinner doing the wild thing is a keeper! Not until next season's "Tunguska" have we seen this much skin from the assistant director. Rowr! ;-)

                                                                 Quotes
____________________
Skinner: "After 17 years, they (divorce papers) can wait another day."
____________________________________________________________
Girl: "Thanks."
Skinner: "For what, ordering another drink?" 
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Mulder, it's me. I just got your message. You said Skinner called in a homicide?" 
Mulder: "Yeah, it appears to be a little more complicated than that. It seems like he had a front row 
             seat."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "They found no semen samples. There was some irritation, probably an allergic reaction to 
             latex."
Mulder: "Least they're having safe sex."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: (outside condo where the escort business is) "Business must be booming."
Mulder: "I think you mean banging."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Well you can start by telling us if she was working last night and if she was, who paid for 
             her company."
Madam Lorraine: "I'm afraid I can't do that."
Mulder: "I guess that would hurt future book sales, eh?"
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Do you know him?"
Mrs Skinner: "I used to think so. I'm Sharon Skinner. I'm his wife."
____________________________________________________________
Techie: "D'ya know how an air bag works?"
Mulder: "Your car hits somethin', a bag fills with air, you don't die."
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Why not just kill him?"
Mulder: "Well, they already tried that once, and a second attempt would be too obvious, even to 
             these thugs."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "What happened here?"
Cop: "Jumper. Whenever it rains two days straight."
____________________________________________________________
Skinner: "If you'll excuse me, I've got a bit of catching up to do. The OPC did a number on my 
              office."

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                                                         3.22 Quagmire

                                                 US Airdate: May 3, 1996

                                                      writer: Kim Newton
                                                    director: Kim Manners

STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:
TIMOTHY WEBBER as Dr. Farraday
PETER HANLON as Dr. Bailey
MURRAY LOWRY as the fisherman
R. NELSON BROWN as Ansel Bray
MARK ACHESON as Ted
CHRIS ELLIS as the Sheriff
NICOLE PARKER as the chick
TERRANCE LEIGH as the Snorkel Dude

MULDER JUMPS IN WITH BOTH FEET WHEN A MISSING PERSONS CASE IN GEORGIA 
TIES IN WITH AN OLD AND PERSISTENT LEGEND OF A LAKE-DWELLING MONSTER. 
SCULLY REMAINS SKEPTICAL UNTIL AN ACCIDENT STRANDS THEM IN THE MONSTER'S 
TERRITORY IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT.

Scully can hardly believe that even Mulder would be gullible enough to take on a Nessie-type lake monster legend when a Federal Forest Service worker is killed along a lakeshore in Georgia. They find that the area has been experiencing a "frog holocaust", a steady and disastrous decline in the native frog population. The local fishing and boating population begins to decline as well, with parts of bodies turning up in remote areas. Mulder pleads with the local sheriff to close the lake to tourists. Scully is more inclined to believe in a human serial killer, but when her beloved dog gets involved in the hunt and people are attacked before their eyes, she joins Mulder in tracking down the prehistoric creature who is feeding on the locals. They find themselves trapped in the middle of a fog-shrouded lake, with something very, very big closing in on their position.

                                                             Notes

A quagmire is a big muddy swamp.

Heuvelman's Lake in this episode was named after Van Heuvels, a Dutch cryptozoologist who wrote "In the Wake of the Sea Serpents".

The photographer is named Ansel after famous photographer Ansel Adams.

Dr. Faraday is named for chemist and physicist Dr. Michael Faraday, who discovered the principle of electromatic induction, which is the basis for generating electric power.

Personal note: I've included here the full transcript of what's come to be known as "The Conversation On The Rock".

                                                                Quotes
____________________
Farraday: "A frog holocaust is currently being executed, Dr. Bailey, and Man is the executioner."
Bailey: "You're the biologist Farraday, you've never heard of survival of the fittest?"
Farraday: "Well don't forget that rule also applies to Mankind! You can't turn your back on Nature 
                or Nature will turn her back on you!" 
____________________________________________________________
Farraday: "Bailey was the worst kind of hypocrite. The closest he ever came to communing with 
                nature was subscribing to National Geographic."
____________________________________________________________
Farraday: "Has anyone ever told you two you have a great problem coming to the point?" 
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "I'll take that rambling diatribe to mean that you don't believe in the existance of such a 
             creature."
Farraday: "I'm not even going to grace that statement with a reply." 
____________________________________________________________
(after shopkeeper tells story of Big Blue grabbing a cow from the riverbank)
Scully: "That's quite a story."
Ted: "That's just one."
Scully: "Those stories must sell a lot of t-shirts."
____________________________________________________________
(after finding half of scout leader's body in water)
Scully: "We eat fish and the fish eat us."
Mulder: "But are fish also known for eating half and saving half for later?"
____________________________________________________________
(after scuba diver surfaces right after he's licked the toad, making him drop it)
Snorkel Dude: "Dude what's wrong with you ?! You made me drop my toad!"
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "Could you repeat the last part again I kinda faded out?" 
____________________________________________________________
Scully: "It's too bad we're not out here fishing."
Mulder: "We ARE fishing."
Scully: "You really expect to find this thing don't you Mulder?"
Mulder: (holds up map and points) "You wanna head right here."
Scully: "I'll take that as a yes."
Mulder: "I know the difference between expectation and hope. Seek and ye shall find Scully."
Scully: "You know, on the old mariners maps, the cartographers would designate uncharted 
             territories by writing "Here Be Monsters"."
Mulder: "Oh, I got a map of New York City just like that."
             (big blip appears on radar screen coming towards them)
Scully: "What was that?"
Mulder: "It ain't no bass."
Scully: "What IS that?! What is that Mulder?"
Mulder: "Here be monsters Scully."
Scully: "It looks like it's coming straight at us."
Mulder: "Yup, that's what it looks like." (something crashes into boat)
Scully: (yelling into ship's radio) "Mayday, Mayday, can anybody read me?!(something about ship's 
            number, hard to hear over music and effects) Mayday!" 
Mulder: "Scully, let's get out of here!" 
(they put on life jackets as the boat takes on water, we see the boat sink and they are now standing on a rock)
Scully: "There goes our 500 dollar deposit."
Mulder: "I say we swim to shore." 
Scully: "Swim?"
Mulder: "Yeah the shore can't be too far from here."
Scully: "In which direction?"
Mulder: "Man when you're living in the city you forget that night is actually so.....dark."
Scully: "Living in the city you forget a lot of things. You know there you're always thinking about 
            being mugged or hit by a car. It's not until you get back to nature until you realize that 
            everything is out to get you. That's why my father always taught me to respect nature, 
            'cause it has no respect for you." (a disturbance in the water as something swims by) 
Mulder: "That was him Scully, that was Big Blue!"
Scully: "So what if it was? Mulder what are we doing here?"
Mulder: "What do you mean what are we doing here?"
Scully: "What are you hoping to accomplish?"
Mulder: "Scully so many of the things that we investigate are so intangible, but this creature it 
             exists within the specific earthly confines of this lake. And I want to find it."
Scully: "What for?"
Mulder: "You're a scientist, why do you ask that question? I mean it would be a miraculous 
              discovery, it could revolutionize evolutionary biological thinking."
Scully: "Is that really the reason why? You know when you showed me those pictures that the 
            photographer took? You want to know what I really saw in them?"
Mulder: "A tooth?"
Scully: "No, you. That man is your future. Listening only to himself, hoping to catch a glimpse of 
            the truth for who knows what reason."
Mulder: "Well I did read in his journals that he was hoping to live off the copy-right fees from a 
             genuine Big Blue photo."
Scully: "Well, as dumb as it sounds at least it's a legitimate reason."
Mulder: "You don't think my reasons are legitimate?"
Scully: "Mulder, sometimes I just can't figure them out. (a sound in the distance, they draw their 
            guns....) Mulder!" (a duck appears through the fog) 
Duck: "Quack, quack."
Mulder: "I'm still tempted to fire."
(Mulder is now lying down, Scully is sitting)
Mulder: "Hey Scully do you think you could ever cannabilize somebody? I mean if you really had 
             to."
Scully: "Well, as much as the very idea is abhorrent to me, I suppose under certain conditions the 
             living entity is practically conditioned to perform whatever extreme measures are 
             necessary to ensure it's survival. I suppose I'm no different."
Mulder: "You've lost some weight recently haven't you?"
Scully: "Yeah actually I have, thanks for...." (realizes what he meant)
Mulder: (laughs) "But it is amazing what some animals will do to guarantee the continuation of the 
             species isn't it? I mean a creature, the one of this size, must have adapted its behaviour 
             over the years to minimize its chances of being seen by its own predator, us. It's coming 
             closer to shore for its prey must be an act of desperation on its part."
Scully: "Poor Queequeg."
Mulder: "Why did you name your dog Queequeg?"
Scully: "It was the name of the harpoonist in "Moby Dick". My father used to read to me from "Moby 
            Dick" when I was a little girl and I called him Ahab and he called me Starbuck, so I named 
            my dog Queequeg. It's funny, I just realized something."
Mulder: "It's a bizarre name for a dog huh?"
Scully: "No, how much you're like Ahab. You're so consumed by your personal vengence against 
            life, whether it be it's inherent cruelties or it's mysteries that everything takes on a warped 
            significance to fit your megalomaniacal cosmology."
Mulder: "Scully are you coming on to me?"
Scully: "It's just...the truth or a white whale, what difference does it make? I mean, both obsessions 
            are impossible to capture and trying to do so will only leave you dead along with everyone 
            else you bring with you. You know Mulder, you ARE Ahab."
Mulder: "You know it's interesting you should say that, because I've always wanted a peg leg. It's a 
             boyhood thing I never grew out of. No I'm not being flippant, I mean, I've given this a lot of 
             thought. If you have a peg leg or hooks for hands, you know, maybe it's enough to simply 
             carry on living, you know, bravely facing life with your disability, it's heroic just to survive. 
             But without these things, you're actually expected to make something of your life, achieve 
             something, earn a raise, wear a necktie. So if anything, I'm actually the antithesis of Ahab 
             because if I did have a peg leg I'd quite possibly be more happy, more content and not 
             feel the need to chase after these creatures of the unknown."
Scully: "And that's not flippant?"
Mulder: (laughs) "No, flippant is my favorite line from "Moby Dick"... (she mouths along as he 
            says:) 'Hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple dumpling'." (movement in the 
            water)
Scully: "What was that?"
Mulder: "I don't know but it ain't no duck!"
(they stand with their guns drawn.....lantern goes out.....light shines in their eyes)
Farraday: "I thought I heard voices. What are you two doing out here?"
Scully: "Dr. Farraday?"
Farraday: "Hope I'm not interrupting anything."
Scully: "No, no, we had a little trouble with our boat."
Mulder: "Actually it sank."
Farraday: "How'd that happen?"
Scully: "It was my fault. We'd have been out here all night if you hadn't answered our distress call."
Farraday: "Oh I didn't, I was walking by, I heard you talking."
Scully: "Walking by?"
Farraday: "Yeah, yeah the shore is just a stone's throw from here. (shines flashlight on shoreline) 
                Come on, I'll take you back."
(Mulder and Scully sheepishly step off the rock and walk to shore)
____________________________________________________________
(after Mulder kills the alligator that tried to attack him) 
Scully: "Well, you slew the big white whale Ahab."
Mulder: "Yeah, but I still don't have that peg leg." (laughs)
Scully: "How can you be disappointed? That alligator would have gone through the local population 
            if you hadn't killed it."
Mulder: "I know. I guess I just wanted Big Blue to be real. I guess I see hope in such a possibility."
Scully: "Well there's still hope. That's why these myths and stories have endured. People want to 
             believe." 

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                                                          3.23 Wetwired

                                                  US Airdate: May 10, 1996

                                                        writer: Mat Beck
                                                    director: Rob Bowman

STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:
MITCH PILEGGI as Assistant Director Walter Skinner
WILLIAM B. DAVIS as The Cigarette-Smoking Man
BRUCE HARWOOD as Byers
TOM BRAIDWOOD as Frohike
DEAN HAGLUND as Langly
STEVEN WILLIAMS as X
SHEILA LARKEN as Margaret Scully
LINDEN BANKS as Joseph Patnik
ZINAID MEMISEVIC as the Cruel-Faced Man
SANDY TUCKER as Mrs. Riddick
COLIN CUNNINGHAM as Dr. Stroman

A CASE INVOLVING SEVERAL MURDERS LINKED TO TELEVISION SETS BREEDS HOSTILITY AND PARANOIA BETWEEN MULDER AND SCULLY.

Otherwise stable individuals in Braddock Heights, Maryland are killing right and left in sudden outbursts of homicidal mania. The only link Scully can find is that all of the victims watched a lot of television, and taped their favorite shows. Mulder isn't buying this link until the mysterious behavior of a cable repairman catches his eye. Meanwhile, Scully is drawn deeper and deeper into a psychotic nightmare, where she learns she can trust no one. When she finally loses it and fires on her own partner, Assistant Director Walter Skinner launches a manhunt, calling her armed and dangerous. Mulder consults the Lone Gunmen for help in solving the puzzle. Their analysis of a mysterious cable trap is interrupted by a phone call from Maryland police asking him to come down 
to the morgue and identify Scully's body. An evasive informant forces Mulder to choose between loyalty to his partner and the case he is working on. Mrs. Scully lies to Fox Mulder about her daughter's whereabouts. Finally, a shady doctor leads Mulder to a showdown where we learn that Mulder's erstwhile ally is playing an even deeper game than we imagined. 

                                                                Notes

The term "wetwired" comes from cyberpunk novels, and I'm not sure of it's exact definition, but presume it to be related to technology. 

                                                               Quotes
____________________
Mulder: "Our blind date's not off to a great start. I've been waiting here nearly 2 hours."
____________________________________________________________
Man In Black: "I was asked to make sure you weren't followed."
Mulder: "It's just you, me and the drug dealers."
MIB: "Well, this area's always been known for its criminal element."
Mulder: "Especially when Congress is in session."
____________________________________________________________
Mulder: "Isn't this a school day?"
Boy 1: "We didn't cut!"
Boy 2: "We got a pass."
Mulder: (amused) "You got a pass to come in here and eat these people's food and watch their 
            TV?"
Boy 1: "No...."
Scully: "How did you get in here?"
Boy 1: "Through the window. They leave it open for the cat."
Mulder: "Well maybe you should head back to school. (they move for window) No no no, use the 
             front door!"
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Scully: "Mulder, look at this. There must be thousands of videos here."
Mulder: "Anything good?" (Scully gives him a look) 
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Scully: "...You know that's what Patrick was watching at the hospital when he went all 'wiggy'."
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Mulder: "I just watched 36 hours of Bernard Shaw and Bobbi Batista. I'm about ready to kill 
             somebody too."
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Mulder: "Studies have also shown a causal connection between cow flatulence and the depletion 
             of the ozone layer."
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Mulder: "All I know is television does not make a previously sane man go out and kill five people 
             thinking they're all the same guy. Not even Must-See TV can do that to you." 
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Scully: "No, I'm gonna watch the rest of these tapes. Just out of curiosity."
Mulder: "You have fun."
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Mulder: "She claims she looked out the window and saw her husband in the hammock... with the 
             blond." (motions to barking dog)
Scully: "THAT blond?" 
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Mulder: "A thing of beauty is a joy forever. What do you think, Scully?" 
(holding Little Traveller ceramic figurine)
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Mulder: (still holding figurine) "Unless you consider bad taste an act of violence..."
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(referring to the Lone Gunmen)
Mulder: "Bet all you guys were officers in the audio-visual club in high school, huh?"
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Frohike: (motions to wave on oscilloscope) "We have touchdown."
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Frohike: "But we don't want to talk about it over the phone. Big Brother may be listening." 
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Mulder: "It's the naked lady in the ice cubes."
Frohike: "Ah, one of my personal favorites."
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Scully: "...Everybody was out to get me."
Mulder: "Now you know how I feel most of the time."
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Mulder: "You want me to go first this time?" (last time innkeep got shot at through the door)
Innkeep: "Damn straight!" 

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                                                      3.24 Talitha Cumi

                                               US Airdate: May 17, 1996

                                                 Teleplay by: Chris Carter
                                 Story by: David Duchovny and Chris Carter
                                                 director: R.W. Goodwin

STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:
HROTHGAR MATHEWS as Galen
ROY THINNES as Jeremiah Smith
ANGELO VACCO as the door man
STEPHEN DIMOPOULOS as the detective
MITCH PILEGGI as Assistant Director Walter Skinner
WILLIAM B. DAVIS as The Cigarette-Smoking Man
STEVEN WILLIAMS as X
BONNIE HAY as the Night Nurse
BRIAN BARRY as the Last Man 
ROSS CLARKE as Pleasant Man

MULDER AND SCULLY'S SEARCH FOR A MAN WHO CAN HEAL WITH A TOUCH IS MADE 
MORE URGENT BY THE APPARENT INVOLVEMENT OF SOMEONE VERY CLOSE TO MULDER.

A deranged man goes postal in a restaurant with a handgun, shooting several victims before he is himself shot by a SWAT team. But a serene and gentle man speaks soothingly to him, heals him and all the shooting victims with a touch of his hand,and then disappears from in front of a police detective while he is being questioned. Mulder starts a full-scale search for this elusive "Jeremiah Smith", racing the Cigarette-Smoking Man to find a wonder worker. The investigation is hampered by the re-appearance of the Alien Assassin we saw in "Colony " and "End Game", who is also looking for Jeremiah Smith. As Scully searches Social Security files and finds a myriad of Jeremiah Smiths, Mulder hastens to the bedside of his stricken mother, whose last conversation appears to have been with The Cigarette-Smoking Man. Alerted by his mother to a secret hidden in an old vacation home, Mulder finds evidence that she has known more than she is telling for a long, long time. A battle between Mulder and X, a metaphysical dialogue between The Cigarette-Smoking Man and the real Jeremiah Smith, and hints that some deadline fast approaches us leaves Mulder facing a deadly warrior from another world, and Scully caught between two mysteries...

                                                                  Notes

The title of the episode is Aramaic for "Little girl rise" and is in the Bible, Mark 5:41, as words spoken by Jesus to the apparently dead daughter of a Jewish leader.

When Mulder visits his mother in the hospital, the time at the bottom of the screen is 11:21PM (Chris Carter's wife's birthday)

When Scully finds the multiple pictures for Mr. Smith on her computer, the time at the bottom of the screen is 11:21PM (not the same day as the above entry).

Other than the concerns about what the rest of the conversation tells us, when Cancer Man tells Mrs. Mulder that he's a good waterskier it's a reference to the actor himself, William B. Davis, as he is one of Canada's top waterskiers in the 55 - 65 age group.

About this ep, Chris Carter says, "That is really a summation of my feelings about science. That it has definately usurped religion and can explain everything now." And about the scene between Cancer Man and Smith: "His speech was greatly inspired by 'The Grand Inquisitor ' chapter of "The Brothers Karamazov", where the Inquisitor imprisons Christ and won't let him speak."

Personal notes: What a way to end the season! Cancer Man and Mrs. Mulder?! What's up with that?! Those of us xphiles online that summer spent countless hours debating that one conversation between these two characters....and we're still at it! 

                                                               Quotes
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Cancer Man: "It struck me as I was sitting here."
Mrs. Mulder: "What?"
Cancer Man: "Everything changes but the sea." 
Mrs. Mulder: "What do you want from me?"
Cancer Man: "I thought we might at least allow ourselves to reminisce."
Mrs. Mulder: "I have nothing to say to you."
Cancer Man: "Really? We used to have so much to say to each other, so many good times at the 
                     Mulder's summer place. (smiling) Your kids.. young and energetic. I remember 
                     water-skiing down there with Bill. He was a good water-skier your husband, not as 
                     good as I was but then that could be said about so many things...couldn't it?"
Mrs. Mulder: "I've repressed it all."
Cancer Man: "Well, I find that hard to believe, particularly since I came here today to ask you to 
                     remember something. Something I'm gonna have to ask you to try very hard to 
                     recollect." 
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Mr. X: "He was here with her."
Mulder: "What?"
Mr. X: "With your mother, the Cancer Man."
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Cancer Man: "This becomes a responsibility. The thing I am now called upon to put right and put 
                     down. Certainly you expected nothing less."
Smith: "I'm not ashamed of my actions."
Cancer Man: "Ashamed? You're not allowed the luxury of human weakness in penitence. You're 
                    not allowed to put your indulgences ahead of the greater purpose."
Smith: "I no longer believe in the greater purpose."
Cancer Man: "Then your fate is just."
Smith: "My justice is not for you to mete out. You may have reasons, you have no right, you have 
            no means."
Cancer Man: "You presume to dictate duty to *me*? Have you any idea what the cost of your 
                     action is? What their affect might be? Who are you to give them hope?"
Smith: "What do you give them?" 
Cancer Man: "We give them happiness, and they give us authority."
Smith: "The authority to take away their freedom in the guise of democracy."
Cancer Man: "Men can never be free, because they're weak, corrupt, worthless and restless. The 
                     people believe in authority, they've grown tired of waiting for miracle or mystery. 
                     Science is their religion, no greater explanation exists for them. They must never 
                     believe any differently if the project is to go forward."
Smith: "At what cost to them?"
Cancer Man: "The question is irrelevant, and the outcome inevitable, the date is set." 
Smith: (morphs into Deep Throat and freaks out Cancer Man) "At what cost to them for your own 
           selfish benefit? How many must die at your hand to preserve your stake in the project?"
Cancer Man: (stands up and pounds on the door) "I'm not impressed by your miracles or moved 
                    by your trickery. Your justice will be meted out." 
Smith: "By whom this time, and by what tool?"
Cancer Man: "By those who possess the tool of your destruction."
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Mulder: "I want The Smoking Man smoked out, I want him exposed for the murdering sonuvabitch 
             that he is!"
Skinner: "What's your problem Mulder?"
Scully: "Where have you been?"
Mulder: "To our summer house, he was there with my mother. (shows them the pictures) He's the 
              reason for what happened to her."
Skinner: "Where did you get these?"
Mulder: "It doesn't matter where I got those, the only thing that matters is that THAT man is called 
             to answer, now I want his name!"
Skinner: "I don't know his name."
Mulder: "You know how to get it."
Skinner: "These men don't have names." 
Mulder: "Well then you tell me how to find him."
Skinner: "Agent Mulder, there was a time when I might have been able to tell you, but that time is 
              passed."
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Cancer Man: "It's only a matter of time now."
Smith: "You put me in a cage, within a cage, why are you so afraid of me?"
Cancer Man: "I'm not."
Smith: "Yes you are, you *live* in your fear, that's your whole life."
Cancer Man: "You don't know anything about me." 
Smith: "I know everything about you. You think the miracles I perform..are the extent of my power."
Cancer Man: "You think you're God. You're a drone, a cataloguer, chattel!"
Smith: "What you're afraid of is.. *they'll* believe I'm God."
Cancer Man: "It doesn't matter, most of them have ceased to believe in God."
Smith: "Why?"
Cancer Man: "Because God presents them with no miracles to earn their faith."
Smith: "You think when man ceases to believe in miracles, he rejects God?"
Cancer Man: "Of course."
Smith: "You rule over them in God's name."
Cancer Man: "They don't believe in Him but they still fear Him. They're afraid not to because they're 
                     afraid of freedom."
Smith: "And you give them happiness."
Cancer Man: "We appease their conscience, anyone who can appease a man's conscience can 
                     take his freedom away from him." (looks down as he steps on one of his cigarettes, 
                     he looks up)
Smith: (who has morphed into Bill Mulder) "And if you can't appease their conscience, you kill 'em 
           but you can't kill em all. You can't kill their love, which is what makes them who they are, 
           makes them better than us, better than you."
Cancer Man: "You talk, I'm not one of you."
Smith: "No. All you want is to be part of it, is to be one of the commandants, when the process 
            begins. (morphs back to himself) But you are wrong."
Cancer Man: "Oh, am I?"
Smith: "Yes, you are dying of lung cancer." 
Cancer Man: "It's a lie."
Smith: "You think it's a lie?"
Cancer Man: "You wanna save your life."
Smith: "And you?"
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(Mulder sees Cancer Man outside his mother's hospital room, runs over to him, shoves him against the wall, sticks his gun in his face)
Mulder: "You gonna smoke that? Or you wanna smoke on this?"
Cancer Man: "Are you giving me a choice?"
Mulder: "I should shoot you right here, but they probably would be able to save you."
Cancer Man: "Do it, do it Agent Mulder."
Mulder: "Or maybe shoot a bullet through your brain so you'd be bedridden on a bed for the rest of 
             your life."
Cancer Man: "How is she?"
Mulder: "What do you care?"
Cancer Man: "I've known your mother since before you were born, Fox."
Mulder: "I don't care."
Cancer Man: "I've gone to see her recently." 
Mulder: "And I know what you are looking for."
Cancer Man: "I wasn't looking for anything. It's what she was looking for actually. She contacted 
                    me."
Mulder: "Liar!"
Cancer Man: "I had information, possibly..on the whereabouts of your sister."
Mulder: "Where is she? Where is she?"
Cancer Man: "It seems the..the man who has the information has disappeared."
Mulder: "I have what you want."
Cancer Man: "There's nothing I want Agent Mulder, except to see how your mother's doing."
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Mr. X: "You're a dead man Agent Mulder. One way, or the other." 

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