- Mulder: [Agent Scully knocks on his office door] Sorry, nobody down here but the FBI's most unwanted.
- Scully: Agent Mulder? I'm Dana Scully. I've been assigned to work with you.
- Mulder: Oh, isn't it nice to be suddenly so highly regarded. So, who did you tick off to get stuck with this detail, Scully?
- Scully: Actually, I'm looking forward to working with you. I've heard a lot about you.
- Mulder: Oh, really? I was under the impression that you were sent to spy on me.
- Special Agent Dana Scully: [hears a knock on the door] Who is it?
- Special Agent Fox Mulder: Steven Spielberg.
- Special Agent Fox Mulder: When convention and science offer us no answers, might we not finally turn to the fantastic as a plausibility?
- Special Agent Dana Scully: What I find fantastic is any notion that there are answers beyond the realm of science. The answers are there. You just have to know where to look.
- Special Agent Fox Mulder: That's why they put the I in FBI.
- [Mulder has just spray-painted a giant X on the road]
- Special Agent Dana Scully: What the hell was that about?
- Special Agent Fox Mulder: Oh, you know, probably nothing.
- Special Agent Dana Scully: Do you have a theory?
- Special Agent Fox Mulder: I have plenty of theories.
- Special Agent Dana Scully: What happened?
- Special Agent Fox Mulder: We lost power. Brakes, steering, everything.
- [checks watch]
- Special Agent Fox Mulder: We lost nine minutes!
- Special Agent Dana Scully: You're saying that time disappeared. Time can't just disappear. It's a universal invariant!
- Special Agent Fox Mulder: [car restarts itself] Not in this zip code!
- Third Man: Are you familiar with an agent named Fox Mulder?
- Special Agent Dana Scully: Yes, I am.
- Third Man: How so?
- Special Agent Dana Scully: By reputation. Um... He's an Oxford-educated psychologist who wrote a monograph on serial killers and the occult, that helped catch Monty Props in 1988. Generally thought of as the best analyst in the Violent Crime section. He had a nickname at the Academy..."Spooky" Mulder.
- Special Agent Fox Mulder: [after Mulder and Scully's plane hits severe turbulence] This must be the place.
- [Mulder opens a coffin that just rolled down the hill]
- Coroner John Truitt: This isn't official procedure.
- Special Agent Fox Mulder: [sarcastically] Really.
- Section Chief Scott Blevins: Agent Mulder - what are his thoughts?
- Special Agent Dana Scully: Agent Mulder believes we are not alone.
- Special Agent Dana Scully: Am I to understand that you want me to debunk the X Files project, sir?
- Section Chief Scott Blevins: Agent Scully, we trust you'll make the proper scientific analysis.
- Special Agent Dana Scully: [frightened by the marks on her back] What are they? Mulder, what are they!
- Special Agent Fox Mulder: [smiles] Mosquito bites.
- Special Agent Fox Mulder: [Scully and Mulder are examining what appears to be an alien body found in a coffin] If it's not human, what is it?
- Special Agent Dana Scully: It's mammalian. My guess is it's a chimpanzee or something from the ape family. Possibly an orangutan.
- Special Agent Fox Mulder: Buried in the city cemetery in Ray Soames's grave. Try telling that to the good townsfolk or Ray Soames's family. I want tissue samples and X-rays. I'd like blood-typing, toxicology and a full genetic work-up.
- Special Agent Dana Scully: You're serious?
- Special Agent Fox Mulder: What we can't do here, we'll order to go.
- Special Agent Dana Scully: You don't honestly believe this is some kind of extraterrestrial? This is somebody's sick joke.
- Special Agent Fox Mulder: We can do those X-rays here, can't we? Is there any reason we can't do them right now? I'm not crazy, Scully. I have the same doubts you do.
- Special Agent Fox Mulder: There's classified government information I've been trying to access, but someone has been blocking my attempts to get at it.
- Special Agent Dana Scully: Who? I don't understand.
- Special Agent Fox Mulder: Someone at a higher level of power...
- Special Agent Dana Scully: And they're afraid of what, that you'll leak this information?
- Special Agent Fox Mulder: You're a part of that agenda, you know that.
- Special Agent Dana Scully: I'm not a part of any agenda. You've got to trust me. I'm here, just like you, to solve this.