Mulder: Whatever happened to playing a hunch, Scully? The element
of surprise, random acts of unpredictabilty? If we fail to anticipate
the unforeseen or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite
possibilites, we may find ourselves at the mercy of anyone or
anything that cannot be programmed, categorized or easily referenced.
[Pops a sunflower seed into his mouth.] What are we doing up here,
Scully? It's hotter than hell.
-- Chris Carter. movie, The X-Files (1998)
Mulder [To a bartender, while drinking.]:
I'm the key figure in
an ongoing government charade, the plot to conceal the truth about
the existence of extraterrestrials. It's a global conspiracy,
actually, with key players in the highest levels of power, that
reaches down into the lives of every man, woman, and child on this
planet, so, of course, no one believes me. I'm an annoyance to my
superiors, a joke to my peers. They call me Spooky. Spooky Mulder,
whose sister was abducted by aliens when he was just a kid and who
now chases after little green men with a badge and a gun, shouting
to the heavens or to anyone who will listen that the fix is in,
that the sky is falling and when it hits it's gonna be the shit-storm
of all time.
-- Chris Carter. movie, The X-Files (1998)
Dana Scully [Gillian Anderson]:
Nothing happens in contradiction to nature, only in
contradiction to what we know of it.
-- Chris Carter "Talitha Cumi" episode of the The
X-Files
(May, 1996)