#10 Best Of – X-Files
10 – 01×11 – Eve. “Scully: Death by hypovolaemia. 75% blood loss. That’s over 4 liters of blood. Mulder: I’d say the man was running on empty.”
09 – 04×02 – Home. “Scully: Mulder, if you had to do without a cell phone for two minutes, you’d lapse into catatonic schizophrenia. Mulder: Scully, you don’t know me as well as you think you do. You know I’m a working man and I live in a big city, but if I had to settle down? Build a home? It’d be in a place like this. Scully: It’d be like living in Mayberry.”
08 – 06×14 – Monday. “Mulder: I just got the weirdest sensation of deja vu. I’ve been having it all morning. Scully: Well, that’s fairly common. Mulder: It’s a long story but I had the distinct sensation that I had lived that moment before. Scully: Well, you may have. Did you do a lot of drinking in college?”
07 – 06×03 – Triangle. “1939 Scully: Okay…Mulder: So, in case we never meet again…[Mulder grabs her and kisses he; she kisses back. She looks at him; pulls back her right fist and punches him. Mulder rubs his jaw appreciatively.] Mulder: I was expecting a left.”
06 – 06×04-05 – Dreamland. “Mulder: (pointing at a sign) Milepost 134. Two miles to go. Scully: I’m all a-tingle. (they share a look) So, Mulder, this supposed clandestine source who’s contacted you how do we know that he’s not just another crackpot whose encyclopedic knowledge of extraterrestrial life isn’t derived exclusively from reruns of Star Trek?”
05 – 03×20 – Jose Chung’s From Outer Space. “Blaine: (about Scully and Mulder) 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, y’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.”
04 – 03×04 – Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose. “Clyde Bruckman: You know, there are worse ways to go, but I can’t think of a more undignified way than autoerotic asphyxiation. Mulder: Why are you telling me that? Clyde Bruckman: Look, forget I mentioned it. It’s none of my business.”
03 – 05×05 – The Post-Modern Prometheus. “Scully: Isn’t it obvious? I think what we’re seeing here is an example of a culture for whom daytime talk shows and tabloid headlines have become a reality against which they measure their lives. A culture so obsessed by the media and a chance for self-dramatization that they’ll do anything in order to gain a spotlight. Mulder: I am alarmed that you would reduce these people to a cultural stereotype. Not everybody’s dream is to get on Jerry Springer.”
02 – 06×06 – How the Ghosts Stole Christmas. “[Mulder and Scully have just found a corpse.] Scully: You know what’s weird? Mulder: What? Scully: Mulder, she’s wearing my outfit. Mulder: How embarrassing.”
01 – 04×07 – Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man. “The Cigarette-Smoking Man: Life… is like a box of chocolates. A cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that nobody ever asks for. Unreturnable, because all you get back is another box of chocolates. So, you’re stuck with this undefinable whipped-mint crap that you mindlessly wolf down when there’s nothing else left to eat. Sure, once in a while, there’s a peanut butter cup, or an English toffee. But they’re gone too fast, the taste is fleeting. So you end up with nothing but broken bits, filled with hardened jelly and teeth-shattering nuts, and if you’re desperate enough to eat those, all you’ve got left is a… is an empty box… filled with useless, brown paper wrappers.”
