The X-Files (TV Series)

The Blessing Way (1995)

Gillian Anderson: Dana Scully

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• Scully : What kind of business are you in?

  Well Manicured Man : We predict the future. And the best way to predict it, is to invent it.

• Scully : You're not protecting me, you're protecting yourself.

  Well Manicured Man : Why should that surprise you? Motives are rarely unselfish.

• Frohike : He was a good friend. A redwood among mere sprouts. I guess this means he's passing you the torch?

  Scully : Uh, I'm afraid not. I'm soon to be out of a job.

  Frohike : Those sons of bitches! They're rigging the game.

  Scully : And like rats they just scatter back into the wood pile.

  Frohike : The rats that killed the cat.

• Scully : Who are you?

  Well Manicured Man : I'm a member of a kind of consortium. We represent certain global interests.

  Scully : What kind of interests?

  Well Manicured Man : Interests that would be severely threatened if the contents of the digital tape you are all pursuing were to come to light.

  Scully : Threatened enough to murder?

  Well Manicured Man : Oh my, yes.

• Scully : What are you here for?

  Well Manicured Man : To tell you your life is in danger, too.

  Scully : Leave me alone.

  Well Manicured Man : They'll kill you one of two ways. They'll send someone, possibly two men. Kill you in your home or in the garage with an unregistered weapon which will be left at the scene. Using false documents supplied by associates of mine, they'll be out of the country in less than two hours.

  Scully : You said there were two ways.

  Well Manicured Man : Yes. He or she will be someone close to you. Someone you trust. They'll arrange a meeting or come to your house unexpectedly. Do you have someplace else you might stay?

  Scully : Why? Why kill me?

  Well Manicured Man : You want something they don't--justice--and because they are now quite certain you don't have the computer copy of the files they're looking for.

  Scully : Why are you protecting me?

  Well Manicured Man : I feel my colleagues are acting... impulsively, and your death would draw unnecessary attention to our group.

  Scully : You're not protecting me, you're protecting yourself.

  Well Manicured Man : Why should that surprise you? Motives are rarely unselfish.