This is divided by episode. I've written in even the episodes that don't have any quotes under them.
People have been coloured to make reading easier. Mulder is aqua, Scully is gold, and everyone else stays white.
3X01 The Blessing Way
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 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.
-- Albert Hosteen ????????????????????????comment??
Who are these people?
These people are doing their job.
What they're doing is putting an official stamp on the perpetuation of a lie.
These people have a protocol to follow, which is something you and Agent Mulder did not do.
What about the people who were poisoning Agent Mulder's water? Whose protocol was that?
The investigation will...
The investigation will be an exercise! The men who killed Agent Mulder, the people who killed his father, they aren't meant to be found.
We will find them.
With all due respect, sir, I think you overestimate your position in the chain of command.
-- ????????????????????????comment??
Those sons of bitches. They're rigging the game.
And like rats, they just scatter back into the woodpile.
-- Frohike ????????????????????????comment??
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 were 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 die. And only the lies survive us.
-- Ghost of William Mulder ????????????????????????comment??
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.
That's really going to cut into my social life.
-- Albert Hosteen ????????????????????????comment??
Why are you protecting me?
I feel my colleagues are acting... impulsively and your death will draw unnecessary attention to our group.
You're not protecting me, you're protecting yourself.
Why should that surprise you? Motives are rarely unselfish.
What kind of business are you in?
We predict the future and the best way to predict the future is to invent it.
-- Well-Manicured Man ????????????????????????comment??
3X02 Paper Clip
[after Melissa Scully is shot]
** There was a mistake. It will be rectified.
By whom? By whom will this be rectified? Your ridiculously ineffectual assassins?
** These men are professionals.
This is not a profession for men who make mistakes. My God, you presume to make us believe you can simply fix it with enough bullets?
-- **Cancer Man and Well-Manicured Man ????????????????????????comment??
[trying to open the doors at Strughold Mining Facility]
I think with a crowbar and a small nuclear device, I might be able to get through one of these things.
-- ????????????????????????comment??
I have the tape you've been looking for.
** Really?
I'm prepared to hand it over or destroy it in exchange for Mulder and Scully's safety and for their reinstatement here.
** What did I tell you, Mister Skinner? I don't negotiate. Especially not with punks like you who think they can bluff me.
Bluff you?
** You haven't got any tape. You haven't got any deal. You can't play poker if you don't have any cards, Mister Skinner. You ever wonder what it would be like to, uh... die in a plane crash? Of botulism? Even a heart attack's not uncommon for a man your age. You think I'm bluffing?
I'm not finished yet. Albert? [Albert Hosteen enters the room]
++ "Hello whiteman." [translation]
** What is this?
This is where you pucker up and kiss my ass.
*** Now, listen, you...
Now, you listen to me, you son of a bitch! This man's name is Albert Hosteen. You should remember that. Because if Agents Mulder and Scully come down with so much as a case of the flu, Albert is prepared to recite, chapter and verse, file for file, everything on your precious tape.
It's a nice try, Skinner.
I'm sure you're thinking Albert is an old man and there are plenty of ways you might kill him too. Which is why, in the ancient oral tradition of his people, he's told twenty 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.
** You're bluffing.
Am I?
-- Skinner, **Cancer Man, ++Albert Hosteen ????????????????????????comment??
3X03 D.P.O.
And, um, and I've always been, ever since I was a teenager I've been into piercing and sadomasochism and, um, rebellion, extremism. That's something I think that's skipped over.
[Channel changes]
%% Quit fooling with the remote.
[Mrs. Oswald finds the remote and changes the channel]
I used to sleep in a belt at night...
Why do you watch that stuff, anyway? They�re a bunch of losers.
%% At least they�re on TV. I don�t see you on TV.
-- TV talk show, %%Mrs Oswald and D.P.O. ????????????????????????comment??
[Scully is making a plaster cast of a footprint]
Here we go. Well, considering it�s a partial imprint there�s a lot of information here.
That�s great. Now can you make me a little cherub that squirts water?
The tread looks like a standard military boot... men�s... size eight and a half.
[in impressed tone] Eight and a half? That�s pretty impressive, Scully.
Well, it says it right here on the bottom.
Ooooh.
-- ????????????????????????comment??
@@ You know, I been thinking...
First time for everything.
-- @@Zero and D.P.O. ????????????????????????comment??
Did you see what he did to my phone?
So what? Are we supposed to charge him with assaulting a cellular phone?
-- ????????????????????????comment??
3X04 Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose
I've made Clyde Bruckman's comments the colour lime, because he has a lot of comments. This is one of my very favourite episodes.
[Bruckman picks up a copy of The Midnight Inquisitor]
"I foresee a rocky romance between superstar Madonna and super-witness Kato Kaelin." Well, that's a gimme, 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." Hmmm... that's just playing the odds. "I foresee 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 in next year's Lalapalaza..." Lalapaz... pazoola? What the hell is Lalapalazo?
Who's Buddy Holly?
-- Clerk ????????????????????????comment??
I would just like for you to be able to tell me why I am going to be doing the things I'm going to be doing?
%% Madame Zelma, she is a palm reader, not a psychologist.
I know, I know, it's just... I think I've somehow caught a glimpse of my own future, myself. And I see me doing things that... that just seem so out of character for me. I mean, these are things that not only do I not want to be doing, but I can't even imagine myself capable of doing and yet, there I am. I'm doing them. (Zelma tries to pull her hands away but Puppet grabs onto her wrists. Her fake accent goes away.)
%% Mister... please, you're hurting me.
I know, I know... and I'm sorry. But you're a fortune teller.
%% No...
You should've seen this coming.
-- Puppet and %%Madame Zelma????????????????????????comment??
^^ Is it true you asked for some help in this case?
This guy's supposed to be an expert at this sort of thing.
^^ I heard he was a bit... unorthodox.
He comes highly recommended.
^^ Yeah. I saw him on TV.
Hey, so he's a publicity hound. As long as he gets results.
%% I once worked on a case he did. Very spooky.
As long as he gives us leads, I don't care how big a kook.
[Mulder walks in]
&& Sir, right in here, please.
Who the hell are you?
I'm Agent Mulder. This is Agent Scully.
Oh, I forgot you were coming aboard.
-- Cline; ^^Havez; %%photographer; &&policeman ????????????????????????comment??
** It's gone. I lost the vision. Someone is blocking me. I am picking up negative energy. [looks at Mulder] Please leave this room.
I'm part of this investigation.
** You give off negative energy.
I can assure you, Mister Yappi, I'm a believer in psychic ability.
** So you say with your mouth but your thoughts tell me the truth.
Agent Mulder, please.
I can't take you anywhere.
[Mulder goes and waits outside until Yappi finishes and comes out]
** Now, if you'll excuse me, I have an interview to give. [to Mulder] Skeptics like you make me sick.
Mister Yappi, read this thought.
[Yappi stares at him, then pulls back sharply]
** So's your old man!
[Mulder walks back into the room]
It's too bad about your negative energy, Mulder, you missed quite a performance.
Look what he did to my pen. [It's bent]
Well, let me impress you with my psychic ability. Mister Yappi proclaimed the victim's body would be found near water, he saw a church or a school in the vicinity, he got a flash of the letter S and/or the number seven.
So what's your point?
Well, his leads are so vague as to be practically useless yet easily interpreted to be correct after the fact.
He said the killer doesn't feel in control of his own life but that's true of everyone at times.
He said a lot of things.
Yeah, and some are bound by percentages to be right but most will turn out wrong. Now, which is which?
Look, all I know is that so far, Yappi has provided more solid, concrete leads on this case than you have. Now, if you don't mind, I have to get an A.P.B. out on a white male, age seventeen to thirty-four, with or without a beard, maybe a tattoo... who's impotent. Let's go.
Might as well go home, Mulder, this case is as good as solved.
-- Cline ????????????????????????comment??
You see, the thing is... we were really hoping to buy a boat.
Mister Gordon, uh, as a young husband, I think you're going to find that your new responsibilities to your family take precedent over your recreational needs.
But this is a really good boat.
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 going to be hit head-on by a drunk... driving a blue '87 mustang. You'll end up looking worse than sixty feet of bad road your body slides across... after flying out your front windshield.
Mister... you really need to work on your closing technique.
-- Mr. Gordon the young husband ????????????????????????comment??
It's kind of creepy, isn't it? The Stupendous Yappi said the first victim's body would be dumped somewhere, then we find it in a dumpster.
Oooh, I just got a chill down my spine.
-- Cline ????????????????????????comment??
[Mulder says something typically crazy]
Yeah, yeah, right. I'd, uh, like to see both your badges again, right now.
I don't blame you, Mister Bruckman.
I'm supposed to believe that's a real name?
-- ????????????????????????comment??
Pinch me.
This guy's performing the same routine as the Stupendous Yappi, he's just doing it in a different style.
No, something told me, Scully, something is telling me this guy's for real.
Oh, so now you're psychic?
-- ????????????????????????comment??
Be honest, Scully. Doesn't that propane tank bear more than just a slight resemblance to a fat, little, white Nazi stormtrooper?
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 can'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...
Did you answer my question?
Yes, it looks like a fat, little, white Nazi stormtrooper but that only proves my point.
-- ????????????????????????comment??
[There is a knock at the door, and Mulder walks in. Bruckman's eyes are covered]
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 kind of psychic power. So while your skeptical lady partner is off performing an autopsy, you came here to ask my help catching this serial murderer.
Everything you said is correct.
[Bruckman opens his eyes]
Oh, it's you.
-- ????????????????????????comment??
How can I see the future if it didn't already exist?
Then if the future is written, then why bother to do anything?
Now you're catching on.
-- ????????????????????????comment??
Mister 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.
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. Then the son goes back in time and changes world history and then Columbus never discovers America, man never lands on the moon, the U.S. 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?
-- ????????????????????????comment??
I don't know what it is but it belonged to one of the victims.
That's a hit. In psychical research parlance, a correct answer's a hit, an incorrect answer's a miss.
The guy who cast the mold for this will die of prostate cancer at the age of eighty-two. Hit or miss?
I have no way of verifying that information.
Then why'd you ask me?
Do you receive any other impressions from it?
It's ugly. Next.
-- ????????????????????????comment??
It was found on the woman that was pulled from the lake. Identical keychains were found on two of the other victims. I managed to trace the insignia to an investment firm called Uranus Unlimited. They provide market strategies based on astrological forecasts. And the company is owned by a man named...
Claude Dukenfield. Age forty-three. 316 Roundview Lane. Divorced with two children. Makes about eighty-seven thousand a year. Non-smoker.
Is that a hit or a miss?
As far as I know, that's correct.
You got all that information just by handling that keychain?
Oh, no. I sold him a policy a couple of months ago. Just a coincidence.
-- ????????????????????????comment??
How are you receiving this information about the body's location?
How should I know?
I mean, are you seeing it in a vision or is it a... sensation? How do you know where to go?
I just know.
But how do you know?
I don't know! Look, it's just up ahead. You know, there are worse ways to go, but I can't think of a more undignified one than autoerotic asphyxiation.
Why are you telling me that?
-- ????????????????????????comment??
Do you remember the first time you foresaw someone's death?
1959.
What happened in 1959?
Buddy Holly's plane crashed.
You prognosticated Buddy Holly's death?
Oh, God, no. Why would I want to do that? But I did have a ticket to see him perform the next night. Actually, I was a bigger fan of the Big Bopper than Buddy Holly. "Chantilly Lace," that was the song.
I'm not following.
There's... the Big Bopper was not supposed to be on the plane with Buddy Holly. He won the seat from somebody else by flipping a coin for it.
I'm still not following.
Imagine all the things that had to occur, not only in his life, but in everybody else's, to arrange it so 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 death.
Well, Mister Bruckman, I'm not one who readily believes in that kind of thing and if I was, I still wouldn't believe that story.
I know it sounds crazy, but I swear it's true. I was a bigger fan of the Big Bopper than Buddy Holly.
-- ????????????????????????comment??
Can you see him physically yet?
No, no, just more insight into his character, which I know you hate.
-- ????????????????????????comment??
So what are you doing?
Studying background checks. This is what detective work is really like. We can't come up with suspects by having visions.
Jealous?
-- ????????????????????????comment??
So, Ahab mistakes the prophecy and as a result, dies. A similar fate happens to Macbeth.
Still, you're not the least bit curious?
[a knock on the door]
That must be Mulder. Time for the midnight shift. [pause] All right. So how do I die?
You don't.
-- ????????????????????????comment??
It's a coincidence.
If coincidences are just coincidences, why do they feel so contrived?
That's one to pose to the psychic philosopher.
-- ????????????????????????comment??
Am I keeping you awake?
I'm waiting for you to ask me another one of those psychic ability questions.
Well, I've had dreams in my life where I had a vision and then later on, I've seen that vision in reality and then... and as a psychic, have you ever had prophetic dreams like that?
I have only one dream. I dream it every night. You're not one of those people who turns everything into a sexual symbol, are you?
No, no, I'm not a Freudian, no.
-- ????????????????????????comment??
Hey... is it true that you can see how people are going to die? I mean, can you see how I'm going to die? [Bruckman nods yes] Lung cancer? [Bruckman shakes his head no] Thank God. [Havez gets out a cigarette and lights it]
-- Havez ????????????????????????comment??
So there's something I've been wanting to ask you for some time now. You've seen the things I do in the past as well as in the future.
They're terrible things.
I know they are. So, tell me, please, why have I done them?
Don't you understand yet, son? Don't you get it? You do the things you do because you're a homicidal maniac.
That... that does explain a lot, doesn't it? (He sits down next to Bruckman.) It's all starting to make sense now.
[Puppet prepares to kill Bruckman]
No. You don't kill me now.
I don't? Why not?
How should I know?
-- ????????????????????????comment??
Ah, we've got more than that this time, Scully. We've got fingerprints, probably a footprint even.
Yeah, this is more like it. No more psychics and their vague visions and predictions. Hell, we don't even need our own hunches. This case is just now about good old-fashioned forensic police work.
It's the bellhop. He's the killer, the bellhop at the hotel!
How the hell does she know that?
Woman's intuition.
-- Cline ????????????????????????comment??
3X05 The List
Yeah, but imagine if it were true, Scully. Imagine if you could come back and take out five people who had caused you to suffer. Who would they be?
I only get five?
I remembered your birthday this year, didn't I, Scully?
-- ????????????????????????comment??
3X06 2Shy
Well, Mulder, there are any number of factors which could have caused that result. Where are you going with this?
Okay, it�s not yet the finely detailed insanity that you�ve come to expect from me. It�s just a theory...
-- ????????????????????????comment??
There are examples of this in nature, aren�t there?
Yes, 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.
-- ????????????????????????comment??
3X07 The Walk
Sometimes the only sane response to an insane world is insanity.
-- ????????????????????????comment??
3X08 Oubliette
Well, that�s spooky.
That�s my name, isn�t it?
-- ????????????????????????comment??
I hate to say this, Mulder, but I think you just ran out of credibility.
-- ????????????????????????comment??
3X09 Nisei
What is it?
According to the magazine ad I answered, it's an alien autopsy. Guaranteed authentic.
You spent money for this?
Twenty-nine ninety-five, plus shipping.
Mulder, this is even hokier than the one they aired on the Fox network.
-- the autopsy video ????????????????????????comment??
I don't know, Mulder, it just doesn't track. What would a Japanese diplomat be doing in that house with a dead man with his head stuffed in a pillowcase?
Obviously not strengthening the international relations.
Well, what do you want to do now, drop it?
No, I paid my twenty-nine ninety-five, Scully. I think I'm entitled to a few more answers, don't you think?
-- ????????????????????????comment??
----- The name of the boat is the Talapus. Just got to love those German optics.
So you're saying that's from a German satellite?
***** No, the optics are German. The technology is probably ours, but the satellite is most likely Japanese.
Launched from South America.
Got to love that global economy, huh?
-- -----Langly, *****Byers, Frohike ????????????????????????comment??
Believing's the easy part, Mulder. I just need more than you, I need proof.
You think that believing is easy?
-- ????????????????????????comment??
3X10 731
If he finds you before I find him... I want you to make him lie on the ground till I get back, okay? You understand? Have you ever used a gun before?
No.
[Mulder takes the clip out of the gun]
I just want you to point it at him. Don't pull the trigger. That will kind of give away the game.
-- conductor ????????????????????????comment??
We're both going to die in here. The difference is, I'm going to die quickly. 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.
-- to the red-haired man ????????????????????????comment??
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.
I, I don't need an apology for the lies. I, I don't care about the fictions they create to cover their crimes. I want them accountable for what did happen. I want an apology for the truth.
-- ????????????????????????comment??
3X11 Revelations
Did you get a composite?
Yeah, looks like Kevin was abducted by Homer Simpson's evil twin.
-- ????????????????????????comment??
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 paranoiacs like myself a bad name.
-- ????????????????????????comment??
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.
I wait for a miracle every day. But what I've seen here has only tested my patience, not my faith.
Well, what about what I've seen?
-- ????????????????????????comment??
Mostly, it just makes me afraid.
Afraid?
Afraid that God is speaking... but that no one's listening.
-- ????????????????????????comment??
3X12 War of the Cophrohages
[on the phone]
Look, Scully, I know it's not your inclination but... did you ever look up into the night sky and feel certain that... not only was something up there but... it was looking down on you at that exact same moment and was just as curious about you as you are about it?
Mulder, I think the only thing more fortuitous than the emergence of life on this planet is that, through purely random laws of biological evolution, an intelligence as complex as ours ever emanated from it. Uh, the, the very idea... of intelligent alien life is not only... astronomically improbable but at it's most basic level, downright anti-Darwinian.
Scully ... what are you wearing?
(laughs)
I understand what you're saying, but I, I, I just need to keep looking.
Yeah, well, don't look too hard. You might not like what you find.
Isn't that what, uh, Doctor Zaius said to Charlton Heston at the end of Planet of the Apes?
And look what happened.
-- ????????????????????????comment??
[on the phone]
I think you better get up here.
What is it?
It appears that cockroaches are mortally attacking people.
I'm not going to ask you if you just said what I think you just said because I know it's what you just said.
-- ????????????????????????comment??
[on the phone]
Scully, can I confess something to you?
Yeah, sure, okay.
I hate insects.
You know, lots of people are afraid of insects, Mulder. It's just a... it's a natural, instinctive.
No, no, I'm not afraid of them. I hate them. One day back when I was a kid, I, uh... I was climbing this tree when I noticed this leaf walking towards me. It took forever for me to realize that it was no leaf.
A praying mantis?
Yeah, I had a praying mantis epiphany and, as a result, I screamed. No, 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? I mean, the mysteries of the natural world were revealed to me that day, but instead of being astounded, I was... repulsed.
Mulder... are you sure it wasn't a girly scream?
-- ????????????????????????comment??
Have I lost my mind?
No. You've just had a very stressful day that's affected your ability to think clearly. Your judgment is a little clouded right now.
It is? Then how do I know... that you're not a cockroach?
Mulder? Mulder!
[Scully pulls out her phone and dials]
I assure you, Doctor Eckerle, I'm just as human as you are... if not more so.
[Mulder's phone rings, sounding like the chirping cockroaches]
You are one of them!
-- Jeff Eckerle ????????????????????????comment??
The development of our cerebral cortex has been the greatest achievement of the evolutionary processes. Big deal. While allowing us the thrills of intellect and the pangs of self-consciousness, it is all too often overruled by our inner, instinctive brain, the one that tells us to react, not reflect, to run rather than ruminate. Maybe we have gone as far as we can go, and the next advance, whatever that may be, will be made by beings we create ourselves using our own tech... [the computer beeps] Tech... [the computer beeps again, Mulder hits the screen and it beeps three times, and he continues typing] Technology, lifeforms we can design and program not to be ultimately governed and constricted by the rules of survival. Or perhaps that step forward has already been achieved on another planet by organisms that had a billion years head start on us. If these beings ever visited us, would we recognize what we
were seeing? And upon catching sight of us, would they react in anything but horror at seeing such mindless, primitive, hideous creatures?
-- ????????????????????????comment??
3X13 Syzygy
No, no, these are good kids we�re talking about. Outstanding students, and the details they gave, I doubt they could have made them up.
Let me guess, they told you about a wild beast entering in on a black mass, the drinking of blood, the sacrifice of an infant... or a blonde virgin.
Yeah, that�s right, excuse me. [walks away]
Where is she going?
You don�t suppose she�s a virgin, do you?
I doubt she�s even a blonde.
-- Detective Angela White ????????????????????????comment??
Let me drive...
I�m driving.
Scully, it�s not what you think...
I didn�t see anything anyway.
Will you let me drive!
I�m driv... Why do you always have to drive? Because you�re the guy? Because you�re the big macho man?
No. I was just never sure your little feet could reach the pedals.
-- ????????????????????????comment??
We are but visitors on this rock, hurling through time and space at sixty-six thousand miles an hour. Tethered to a burning sphere by an invisible force and an unfathomable universe. This most of us take for granted while refusing to believe these forces have any more effect on us than a butterfly beating its wings halfway around the world. Or that two girls, born on the same date, the same time and the same place, might not find themselves the unfortunate focus of similar unseen forces. Converging like the planets themselves into burning pinpoints of cosmic energy, whose absolute gravity would threaten to swallow and consume everything in its path. Or maybe the answer lies even further from our grasp.
-- voiceover ????????????????????????comment??
3X14 Grotesque
It killed them. How many times do I have to tell you?
Well, its fingerprints weren't on the murder weapon, yours were. And it won't be tried for seven murders under the death penalty.
-- mostow ????????????????????????comment??
Mulder's under the impression that Patterson never thought too highly of him.
No. That's just Patterson. Late at night, with a few beers in him, he starts telling me Mulder stories. He's some kind of crack genius.
-- Nemhauser ????????????????????????comment??
The name is from the French. ????????????????????FRENCH WORD FOR GARGOYLE??????? The name of a medieval dragon that prowled the river Seine. Whose horrible image became the symbol of the soul of the condemned. Turned to stone. Or of the devils and demons of the underworld spared eternal damnation. The embodiment of the lesser forces of the universe who inspired dread, the threat of our own damnation. Ushers into hell or into the realm of our own dark fears and imagination. For over 1200 years, this grotesque image has found its expression in stone, clay, wood, oil and charcoal. Born again and again as if resurrecting itself by its own will through tortured human expression, almost as if it existed. Haunting men inwardly so that it may haunt mankind for eternity. As it must have haunted John Mostow. But what impulses moved it to kill? Could this be the same dark force at work? Its ultimate expression the destruction of the flesh? Of the very hand that creates it? Is this evil
something born in each of us? Crouching in the shadow of every human soul waiting to emerge? A monster waiting to violate our bodies and twist our will to do its bidding? Is this the monster called madness?
-- ????????????????????????comment??
3X15 Piper Maru
I'm just constantly amazed by you... you're working down here in the basement, sifting through files and transmissions that any other agent would just throw away in the garbage.
Well that's why I'm in the basement, 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.
Is that what you think of me?
Well, maybe not a shovel. Maybe a backhoe.
-- ????????????????????????comment??
We bury our dead alive, don't we?
I don't know if I understand.
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.
-- Johansen ????????????????????????comment??
3X16 Apocrypha
Hi, how are you feeling?
Like someone's been inside my stomach redecorating.
-- Skinner after being shot ????????????????????????comment??
I've got something here... writing somebody wrote on top of the package and left an impression.
Let me see that.
Your guys at the FBI turned a major serial murderer with a vestigial pen impression.
Hand me a pencil.
----- Your sci-crime guys at the Bureau have a laser there that can measure any change in a surface down to a few nanometers.
[Mulder goes over hte impression with the pencil]
***** Actually they can lift a 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.
Actually...
Actually, it's a phone number, New York City area code 212, 555 1012. Now don't drop that [passes the pencil to Frohike] that's a finely calibrated piece of investigative equipment. I gotta make a phone call.
I'll be damned.
-- Frohike, *****Byers, -----Langly ????????????????????????comment??
3X17 Pusher
Modell psyched the guy out. He put the whammy on him.
Please explain to me the scientific nature of the whammy.
-- ????????????????????????comment??
[Mulder sees a health drink im Modell's apartment]
Hey, Scully, check this out. Mango Kiwi Tropical Swirl. Now we know we're dealing with a madman.
-- ????????????????????????comment??
3X18 Teso Dos Bichos
Personally, if someone digs me up in a thousand years I hope there's a curse on them too.
-- ????????????????????????comment??
The icons from that world represent forces that cannot be tamed or collected in a museum. The true curse that struck the museum was the failure to understand that there are powers that should not be disturbed... that some things are better left buried.
-- voiceover ????????????????????????comment??
3X19 Hell Money
Well, we�re gonna need more help from you than that, Detective.
The implication being that I�m not trying to help?
No.
Either you resent us being here or you feel some kind of protectiveness towards the Chinese community.
Look you don�t even know what the hell you�re dealing with here. This isn't some pretty little lacquer box you can just take the lid off and find out what's inside. You might see the face of a Chinese man here but let me tell you something - they don't see the same face. They see the face of a cop... American-born Chinese, ABC. To them, I�m just as white as you are. You think because I speak the language I can get all your answers for you but what good is an interpreter when everyone speaks the language of silence?
-- Chao ????????????????????????comment??
3X20 Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space'
Jose Chung's comments are in lime. This episode's a little difficult to follow because of the changes between past and present time.
I spent three months in Klass County and everybody there has a different version of what truly happened. Truth is as subjective as reality. That will help explain why when people talk about their UFO experiences, they always start off with "well, now, I know how crazy this is going to sound... but..."
So you're here to get my version of the truth?
Exactly.
-- ????????????????????????comment??
Well, thanks a lot! You really bleeped up this case.
[return to present day]
Well, of course, he didn't actually say "bleeped." He said...
I'm, uh, familiar with, uh, Detective Manners' colorful phraseology.
-- Det. Manners ????????????????????????comment??
Your scientists have yet to discover how neural networks create self-consciousness, let alone how the human brain processes two-dimensional retinal images into the three-dimensional phenomenon known as perception. Yet you somehow brazenly declare seeing is believing?
-- man in black ????????????????????????comment??
In short, Roky showed signs of being what is known as a fantasy-prone personality.
Agent Scully, you are so kindhearted. He's a nut!
-- ????????????????????????comment??
[present day]
It definitely was peculiar.
Well, surely, your partner didn't believe any of it?
Wh, wh, well, Mulder's had his share of peculiar notions. He's not inclined to dismiss anything outright.
[cut to memory]
Mulder, you're nuts!
-- ????????????????????????comment??
I should've known to just go get my video camera then instead of notifying the proper authorities.
What was wrong with doing that?
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, I think he was a mandroid.
-- Blaine Faulkner describes the "mib", Mulder and Scully????????????????????????comment??
Aren't you nervous telling me all this after receiving all those death threats?
Well, I didn't, I didn't spend all those years playing Dungeons and Dragons and not learn a little something about courage.
Oh.
-- Blaine Faulkner ????????????????????????comment??
Seeking the truth about aliens means a perfunctory nine-to-five job to some. For although Agent Diana Lesky is noble of spirit and pure in heart, she remains, nevertheless, a federal employee. As for her partner, Reynard Muldrake... that ticking timebomb of insanity... his quest into the unknown has so warped his psyche, one shudders to think how he receives any pleasures from life.
-- from Jose's book ????????????????????????comment??
Then there are those who care not about extraterrestrials, searching for meaning in other human beings. Rare or lucky are those who find it. For although we may not be alone in the universe, in our own separate ways on this planet, we are all... alone.
-- from the book ????????????????????????comment??
3X21 Avatar
Maybe that's it. Maybe that's why Skinner's running. He's afraid.
That he did it?
That he doesn't know he didn't do it.
-- ????????????????????????comment??
3X22 Quagmire
A frog holocaust is currently being executed, Dr. Bailey, and man is the executioner.
You're the biologist, Dr. Farraday. You've never heard of survival of the fittest?
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 and Bailey ????????????????????????comment??
Has anyone ever told you two you have a great problem coming to the point?
-- to M&S ????????????????????????comment??
See, this is what always happens. This is how it starts.
What?
The deflection, sleight of hand. See, whenever an issue requires any real thought, any serious mental effort, people turn to UFO's, and sea serpents and sasquatch. Afternoon talk shows and tabloid TV. They've reduced our attention span to the length of a sound byte. So that soon our ability to think will be as extinct as a ranas sanasephela frog.
-- Farraday ????????????????????????comment??
It's been reported for centuries in dozens of countries. From the monsters in Loch Ness, Nessie, to the Ogopogo in Lake Okonagan.
And Lake Champagne, Lalavack Iceland...
Sounds like you know a little something about the subject.
I did as a kid. But, then I grew up, and became a scientist.
Well some very grown up crypto-zoologist believed it could be an evolutionary throwback, quite possibly prehistoric.
An aquatic dinosaur.
A pleosaur, actually. Though admittedly, there's not a lot of hard evidence to back that up.
You know why? Because those creatures don't exist, Mulder. They're folk tales born out of some collective fear of the unknown.
Well how many folk tales do you know that could eat a boy scout leader and a biologist?
-- ????????????????????????comment??
Saw this, you know on the Discovery Channel? They got like this, you know, cult built up around these toads. The skin's got these, hallucionogenic properties. Let's you see all these visions. It's really spiritual.
Yeah? I don't know.
It's 'sposed to take the doors of perception, and swing them so wide open, you know, plus you get to see all these cool streaks and trails and crap.
[he licks the toad]
Well? Are you sure that's even a toad?
[a diver rises out of the water]
Dude, what's wrong with you? You made me drop my toad.
-- guy and girl ????????????????????????comment??
You know, on the old mariner's maps, the cartographers would designate uncharted territories by writing 'Here Be Monsters'.
I got a map of New York City just like that.
-- ????????????????????????comment??
When you're living in the city you forget that night is actually so...dark.
-- ??????????comment??
You know when you showed me those pictures the photographer took, you want to know what I really saw in them?
A tooth?
No, you. That man is your future. Listening only to himself, hoping to catch a glimpse of the truth, for who knows what reason.
I heard him joke that he was hoping to live off the copyrights fees of a genuine Big Blue photo.
Well, as dumb as it sounds, at least it's a legitimate reason.
You don't think my reasons are legitimate?
Mulder, sometimes I just can't figure them out.
-- ???????????comment??
Hey, Scully, you think you could ever cannibalize someone? I mean if you really had to.
Well as much as the very idea is abhorrent to me, I suppose under certain conditions a living entity is practically conditioned to perform whatever extreme measures are necessary to ensure its survival. I suppose I'm no different.
You've lost some weight recently haven't you?
Yeah, actually I have, thanks for... [she breaks off and glares at Mulder]
-- ????????????comment??
Why did you name your dog Queequeg?
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, I called him Ahab and he called me Starbuck. So I named my dog Queequeg. It's funny, I just realized something.
It's a bizarre name for a dog, huh?
No, how much you're like Ahab. You're so consumed by your personal vengeance against life, whether it be its inherent cruelties or its mysteries, that everything takes on a warped significance to fit your megalomaniacal cosmology.
Scully, are you coming on to me?
It's 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.
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 and more content to chase after these creatures of the unknown.
And that's not flippant?
-- ????comment??
3X23 Wetwired
I was asked to make sure you weren't followed.
It's just you, me, and the drug dealers.
This area's always been known for its criminal element.
Especially when Congress is in session.
-- plain-clothed man ????????????????????????comment??
Well, recent studies have linked violence on television to violent behavior.
Yeah, but those studies are based on the assumption that Americans are just empty vessels ready to be filled with any idea or image that's fed to them like a bunch of Pavlov dogs and go out and act on it.
-- ????????????????????????comment??
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" could do that to you.
-- ????????????????????????comment??
I think television plays a large part in both of these murderers' lives.
As it does in almost every American home, but television does not equal violence. I don't care what anybody says... [he picks up an ugly figurine] Unless you consider bad taste an act of violence.
-- ????????????????????????comment??
***** You know the way television works?
Yeah, you click it on, you have a picture.
-- *****byers ????????????????????????comment??
I was so sure, Mulder. I saw things and I heard things, and... it was just like the world was turned upside-down. Everybody was out to get me.
Now you know how I feel most of the time.
-- Scully recovering from her psychosis ????????????????????????comment??
Why kill them if you wanted me to expose them?
Those were always my orders, Agent Mulder. I was just hoping you'd get to them first.
And uncover what? What were they trying to do, manipulate people's behavior? Alter their decision making-process? What to buy, who to vote for?
You think they'll stop at commerce and politics?
Where will they stop?
-- X ????????????????????????comment??
3X24 Talitha Cumi
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.
I no longer believe in the greater purpose.
Then your fate is just.
My justice is not for you to mete out. You may have reason, but you have no right. You have no means either.
You presume to dictate duty to me? Have you any idea what the cost of your actions is? What their effect might be? Who are you to give them hope?
What do you give them?
I give them happiness and they give us authority.
The authority to take away their freedom under the guise of democracy.
Men can never be free... because they are weak, corrupt, worthless and restless. The people believe in authority. They've grown tired of waiting for miracle and mystery. Science is their religion. No greater explanation exists for them. They must never believe any differently if the project is to go forward.
At what cost to them?
The question's irrelevant... and the outcome inevitable. The date is set.
-- Jeremiah Smith to Cancer Man ????????????????????????comment??
You are dying of lung cancer.
It's a lie.
-- Jeremiah Smith to Cancer Man ????????????????????????comment??
