The X-Files (TV Series)
Sleepless (1994)
David Duchovny: Fox Mulder
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Quotes
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Dana Scully : [perplexed] Somehow, this man suffered all the secondary, but none of the primary physiological responses to having been in a fire!
Fox Mulder : Any theories?
Dana Scully : I can't even begin to explain what could have caused something like this. I mean, it's almost as if...
Fox Mulder : What?
Dana Scully : ...As if his body believed that it was burning.
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Fox Mulder : [Mr. X hands Mulder an envelope] What is this?
Mr. X : Data from a top secret military project. Born of the idea that sleep was the soldiers greatest enemy.
Fox Mulder : Someone was conducting sleep deprivation experiments on Parris Island.
Mr. X : Not deprivation. Eradication.
Fox Mulder : Why?
Mr. X : Why else? To build a better soldier. Sustained wakefulness dulls fear, heightens aggression. Science had just put a man on the moon. So they looked to science to win a losing war.
Fox Mulder : And Willig and Cole were the lab rats.
Mr. X : Lab rats with the highest kill ratio in the Marine Corps. Four thousand plus confirmed kills for a thirteen-man squad.
Fox Mulder : You think Cole's behind what's happening now?
Mr. X : I'm not here to do your thinking, Agent Mulder. All I know is Augustus Cole hasn't slept in twenty-four years.
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Salvatore Matola : They said it'd be like living two lifetimes. And that... at first, that... that's what it was like. Not having to sleep and all made us feel like nothin' could touch us, you know? We'd do 24 hour patrols, night ambushes, you know, that type of thing.
Fox Mulder : And you never got tired?
Salvatore Matola : Nah. Not so that we had to sleep. And then, nothing that the pills couldn't fix.
Fox Mulder : Serotonin?
Salvatore Matola : Yeah.
Fox Mulder : How long did this go on?
Salvatore Matola : Quite awhile, I'd say. Quite awhile until we stopped taking orders from company commander in Saigon.
Krycek : The entire squadron went AWOL?
Salvatore Matola : Yeah, somethin' like that.
Fox Mulder : Well, then who did you take orders from?
Salvatore Matola : We didn't. We just made up missions as we went along, until it didn't matter anymore who we were killing. Farmers, women. Outside of Phu Bai, there was this... school and uh... they were just kids.
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Krycek : The victim's name was Henry Willig. Unemployed and lived on disability. Police found no indication of forced entry or struggle, no abrasions or contusions on the body and cause of death is being listed as a burst aneurysm.
Fox Mulder : So why did your friend from Homicide call us?
Krycek : Because the medical examiner called him. The autopsy revealed forty-three small internal hemorrhages and skeletal fragments, which doesn't just happen spontaneously. Not without some corresponding external trauma.
Fox Mulder : So what does the M.E. have to say about it?
Krycek : He said if he didn't know otherwise, he would swear they were gunshot wounds.
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Augustus Cole : Go ahead, shoot me.
Fox Mulder : That's not why I'm here. I'm putting down my gun. I just want to talk to you for a few minutes, after that, you're free to do whatever you want.
Augustus Cole : [fighting tears] I'm tired.
Fox Mulder : I know.
Augustus Cole : No, man, you don't know. You have no idea.
Fox Mulder : One minute is all I'm asking.
Augustus Cole : One minute is more than I can give. My blood's boiling in my veins. I can feel the air stinging on my skin...
Fox Mulder : What the military did to you was wrong, but your testimony can help.
Augustus Cole : They cut out a part of my brain! They made me into somebody else. I can never get back what they took away from me, and I'm gonna stop them from taking anything more.
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Fox Mulder : But why Grissom? He was never in country, he wasn't even part of the squadron.
Salvatore Matola : Sure he was. He made us what we are. Him and Dr. Gerardi.
Fox Mulder : Who's Gerardi?
Salvatore Matola : The other Doc. The one who did the surgeries on us. It's because of him... I haven't slept a night in twenty-four years.
