Are you feeling gloomy about Mulder and Scully's romantic forecast? Cheer up and pay no attention to CC's adamant no-romo statements. These moments from past episodes will reassure you of Mulder and Scully's hidden feelings for each other. The episodes with the highest amount of Deep Abiding Love are a wonderful remedy for hopelessness. Any time you feel blue, read these again, take a good look at the pictures above, and remember, the love is out there...
"You set us up. . .This was a trap for Mulder because he helped put you away. Well, I came here to tell you that if he dies because of what you've done, four days from now nobody will stop me from being the one that'll throw the switch and gas you out of this life for good, you son of a bitch!"
In Beyond the Sea, Mulder and Scully establish their relationship of eternal support and love, even when they diagree.
If Mulder first showed his true feelings in One Breath, Irresistible was Scully's turn. During a trying case not long after her return, Scully battles to control her distress at the horrific nature of the case. She goes so far as to return to Washington without Mulder and talk with Karen Kosseff, her counselor. Scully confides that Mulder is the person she trusts most and that she doesn't want him to think he needs to protect her. Scully returns to Mulder and his case despite her fright. After Mulder rescues her from Pfaster, she gives him her usual "I'm fine," only to finally break and fall into a tearful hug. Mulder whispers, "It's okay," and storkes her hair. In my opinion, this was the beginning of the increasingly evident DAL between Mulder and Scully.
Opening Speech
.... I feel these words as if their meaning were weight being lifted from me. Knowing that you will read them, and share my burden as I have come to trust no other, that you should know my heart, look into it, finding there the memory and experience that belong to you, that are you, is a comfort to me now, as I feel the tethers loose, and the prospects darken for the continuance of a journey that began not so long ago, and that began again with a faith shaken and strengthened by your beliefs. If not for which I might never have been so strong now, as I cross to face you, and look at you in complete, hoping that you will forgive me for not making the rest of the journey with you.
Second Entry
....Mulder, I hope that in these terms you might know it, and know me, and accept this stranger so many recognize but cannot ever completely cast out. And if the darkness should have swallowed me as you read this, you must never think that there was the possibility of some secret intervention, something you might have done. I know we've traveled far together; this last distance must necessarily be traveled alone.
Third Entry
Mulder, it's difficult to describe to you the fear of facing an enemy which I can neither conquer nor escape......Mulder, I feel you close, though I know that you are now pursuing your own path. For that, I am grateful. I need to know that you're out there if I am ever to see through this.
Mulder and Scully are in love, and the gorgeous hallway scene shattered any last doubt. Scully tells Mulder that she will fight the cancer, and they fall into an embrace, Scully fitting perfectly beneath Mulder's chin. Mulder cups Scully's face with his hands and *sigh* kisses her forehead. (Three kisses were filmed, including a kiss on the lips, but Mulder kissing the top of Scully's head and a kiss on the LIPS were edited out. CC, how could you?!?) Mulder and Scully share a gaze into each other's eyes.
When Mulder is ready to accept a deal to work for the CSM, he comes to Scully's room in the night and cries on her hand. The next morning he comes back and kisses her again, a lot closer to her mouth. Mulder says again that he won't lay the blame on her, because he couldn't live with it. When the priest comes in, Scully an Mulder immediately grab hands for support, and Scully tells Mulder that he'll be in her prayers. When Scully's cancer goes into remission, Mulder tells Skinner that it's the best news he could have heard. After seeing this episode, it is completely impossible to believe any sentence with the words "Mulder", "Scully", and "just friends" together.
Scully: Well, it seems to me that the best relationships, the ones that last, are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before, like a switch has been flicked somewhere, and the person who was just a friend, is suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.
Scully was supposedly convincing Sheila to look at her friend Holman in a different light, but she spoke from personal experience with Mulder -- the man who is her best friend, for whom she'd put her job and life on the line. Her half-smile and distant expression were dead giveaways that she was thinking of Mulder -- re-living her memories with him, maybe. Finally, Scully admitted that she thinks of Mulder as much more than her partner and friend.