First person shooter
Boys with virtual toys.
All through the episode I kept wondering why they didn't just unplug the computer.
Mulder acusing Scully of being sexist was kinda funny, especially since I don't recall her calling him sexist despite his porn addiction and innuendos.
Mulder's trying to get his ya-yas out saving the Lone Gunmen.
After which he gets his ass kicked by a virtual vixen (if I wanted to create my own virtual "goddess" to cope with working in a men's world she certainly wouldn't look as degrading to woman as Maitreya...no, I think I'd go for the kick-ass Scully look).
Mulder takes a sword to a gunfight (he'd only lose his gun anyway).
Scully to the rescue (what else is new).
That about sums it up, basic, mindless Hollywood entertainment.
Oh and Mulder, those sunglasses, ridiculous...

Mulder: "I've got a birthday coming up." [He models the damaged stun suit] "You have to admit, though, Scully, this is a pretty amazing piece of technology."
Scully: "Yeah, wasted on a stupid game."
Mulder: "Stupid?"
Scully: "Dressing up like high-tech warriors to play a futuristic version of cowboys and indians? What kind of moron gets his ya-yas out like that?" [Mulder points to himself] "Mulder, what purpose does this game serve except to add to a culture of violence in a country that's already out of control?"
Mulder: "Who says it adds to it?"
Scully: "You think that taking up weapons and creating gratuitous virtual mayhem has any redeeming value whatsoever? I mean, that the testosterone frenzy that it creates stops when the game does?"
Mulder: "Well, that's rather sexist, isn't it? I mean, maybe the game provides an outlet for certain impulses, that it fills a void in our genetic makeup that the more civilising effects of society failed to provide for."
Scully: "Well, that must be why men feel the great need to blast the crap out of stuff."

Scully: "For the record, can you state your name, please?"
Jade Blue Afterglow: "For the record again, my name is Jade Blue Afterglow. I reside..."
Scully: "I'm sorry. Your real name?"
Jade Blue Afterglow: "That is my real name. What were you expecting? Mildred?"
Scully: "No."
Jade Blue Afterglow: "I sure seem to be upsetting a lot of people around here."
Scully: "Well, you're not upsetting me, Miss, uh..."
Mulder: "Afterglow."

Jade Blue Afterglow: "The medical imaging place in Culver City. I got paid to let them do this body-scan thing."
Scully: "They paid you to scan your body?"
Jade Blue Afterglow: "You think that's the strangest thing I've been paid to do?"
Mulder: "We're very sorry... Miss Afterglow but, um... We're sorry. You're... You're free to go."
"I don't know about you, Scully, but I am feeling the great need to blast the crap out of something."

Phoebe: "What is he doing?"
Scully: "He's getting his ya-yas out."

Ivan Martinez: "We are back in business. Baby... You are dope."
Scully: "What?"
Ivan Martinez: "We were toast. I felt the flames licking my ass. Then the bankers saw the letters on the autopsy: F-B-I. Cause of death: Unknown. You fixed our problems. The game's going to ship and we're going to be counting Franklins."
Scully: "Yeah, and you're going to be counting teeth."

Scully: "Hey. No fair picking on a girl."

Frohike: "Go, girl!"
Byers: "Oh... Scully's on fire!"
Langly: "The bloodthirst is unquenchable."
Frohike: "Are you witnessing this?"
Ivan Martinez: "Oh, yeah."
Byers: "Scully's in the zone."

Scully: "You okay?"
Mulder: "Ask me if I'm humiliated."


Theef
When I started watching 24 I knew James Morrison (Bill Bauchanan) looked familiar, now I know why.
If you ever need proof why grown men shouldn't play with dolls, just watch this episode.
Scully goes temporarily blind, I wonder if Mulder would've kept the voodoo doll?
After 7 years Scully still keeps Mulder guessing.

Mulder: "What do you think, Scully, is this a name, possibly? Or a code, or an anagram?"
Scully: "'T-H-E-E-F'. I assume it's supposed to be T-H-I-E-F — 'thief'."
Mulder: "Insert your own Dan Quayle joke here. Lousy spelling aside, what do you think it refers to? Who's the thief?"
Scully: "Well, that's certainly one question. I've got many."
Mulder: "'Mulder, why are we here?'"
Scully: "To be fair, I might have used the words 'Mulder, how is this an X-File?'"
Mulder: "You see that, Scully, you always keep me guessing.

Scully: "Dirt?"
Mulder: "Dirt. It's a very powerful component of hexcraft. As well as the pattern in which it was originally arranged. Check this out. Looks like a human form."
Scully: "Hexcraft, as in, uh, putting a curse on someone? Murdering them magically?"
Mulder: "Yeah, that's what it looks like to me. Now, I know what you're going to say, Scully."
Scully: "No, hexcraft. I mean, I'll buy that as the intent here. It certainly jibes with the evidence. I say we talk to the family." [She walks away from Mulder, then turns back] "I'll always keep you guessing."

Mulder: "Hey, Scully."
Scully: "Uh-huh."
Mulder: "This dirt we found? Gas chromatograph shows pronounced spikes of methane and sulphur compounds — the signature of decay. It's graveyard dirt. Also known as conjure dust. It's one of the most powerful hexing elements, whether for good or evil, not the kind of stuff you want to be on the wrong end of."
Scully: "Uh-huh."
Mulder: "Go ahead, Scully, keep me guessing."
Scully: "Kuru."
Mulder: "The, uh... the disease that New Guinea tribesmen get?"
Scully: "From eating the brains of their relatives."
Mulder: "I thought my grandpa slurping his soup was bad."

Mulder: "Lynette Peattie's body is on its way back home to Indiola, West Virginia."
Scully: "She's going back to her people after all. You know, Mulder, I would've made the same call... as a doctor... if I was certain that I couldn't save her life and she was in that much pain... I would've done what Wieder did."
Mulder: "Mm-hmm. It seems pretty clear-cut."
Scully: "Except maybe it's not."
Mulder: "You're wondering if maybe Peattie could've saved her life? You do keep me guessing."


En ami
Great story written by William B. Davis.
CSM convinces Scully to come with him offering her the only thing that could lure her away and lie to Mulder; the cure for cancer.
Doesn't Mulder have a key to Scully's apartment anymore? Or why didn't he just pick the lock, if CSM can do it...Though admittedly the conversation with the landlord was rather hilarious.
Why doesn't she just leave Mulder a note explaining things? I mean, why did she say there was a family emergency, she must have known mulder would call her mother.
Funny scene; while Scully's on the phone with Skinner, Mulder is trying to take the phone from him.
Scully really does fall asleep everywhere, even in the car with CSM (or was she indeed drugged?) The very thought of being undressed by SCM...
Why doesn't Mulder buy her a dress like that? Then again, she doesn't wear a hidden microphone around Mulder...
Mulder is pissed because Scully ditched him, how many times has he ditched Scully for purely selfish reasons? At least she thought she was getting a cure for all human diseases, he sure knows how to overreact.
Oh, and Scully really cannot tell a lie :-) Unless it's to save Mulder's ass, she always manages to sound convincing then.

Apartment Manager: "Yeah, she said it was a family matter. Dropped off the key... asked me to water the plants — no biggie. Hey, great girl — independent as they come, you know, but a great girl."
Mulder: "Yeah, yeah."
Apartment Manager: "Tenants like having an FBI agent in the building. Gives them a sense of security."
Mulder: "Do you know how many people have died in there?"
Apartment Manager: "Oh, we don't really talk about that."

Smoking Man: "You're not being honest with yourself. Think back. There was a time when you feared for your future, for your career when you were first partnered with this man. I told you, I've studied you for years... and if you would permit me, I'd like to make an observation. You're drawn to powerful men but you fear their power. You keep your guard up, a wall around your heart. How else do you explain that fearless devotion to a man obsessed, and, yet, a life alone? You'd die for Mulder but you won't allow yourself to love him."
Scully: "Wow. I'm learning a whole other side to you. You're not just a cold-blooded killer, you're a pop psychologist as well."

Skinner: "She says she's fine."
Mulder: "She's in trouble."

Smoking Man: "How do you take your coffee?"
Scully: "Unadulterated, thank you." [She takes the coffee, then empties it out the window] "You drugged me."
Smoking Man: "I did nothing of the sort."
Scully: "How the hell did I get out of my clothes and into bed?"
Smoking Man: "I carried you. You'd been up for over 30 hours. You were delirious. I only wanted to make you comfortable."

Langly: "Is this place secure?"
Skinner: "Is it secure?"
Frohike: "Don't get testy, G-man."

Chimera
The "significant other" episode.
I really liked the opposite worlds Mulder and Scully were in; Mulder rather uncomfortable in Martha Stewart suburbia and Scully equally uncomfortable on stakeout in a rundown place in the seamy underbelly of society.

Scully: "Mulder, please tell me I can go home."
Mulder: "Oh, hey, Scully. How's the stakeout?"
Scully: "Well, the furnace broke and I can just about see my breath in here."
Mulder: "Ouch. I'm sorry to hear that."
Scully: "That... and I've witnessed a couple hundred things I'd like to erase from my brain. Eww. But as of yet, no mystery woman."
Mulder: "Well, she'll come, you know? It's just a matter of time. She'll show up — I'm sure of that."
Scully: "Yeah, well not before I die of malnutrition."
Mulder: "Hey, Scully, tough it out. Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Right?" [to Ellen Adderly] "No, no, no, no. No capers, thank you."
Scully: "I'm sorry. What?"
Mulder: "I said, 'What a... what a crazy caper.' I'll talk to you later... and, uh, keep warm. Bye."

Scully: "Mulder, when you find me dead, my desiccated corpse propped up staring lifelessly through the telescope at drunken frat boys peeing and vomiting into the gutter, just know that my last thoughts were of you, and how I'd like to kill you."
Mulder: "I'm sorry. Who is this?"
Scully: "It's a freak show, Mulder. It's a non-stop parade of every single lowlife imaginable."
Mulder: "Well, the view may not be too different here. It's dressed up a little nicer but underneath the surface, it's the same seamy underbelly."
Scully: "It's not the same, trust me."
Mulder: "You know, Scully, this case has turned out to be a little more interesting than I thought and I could use your help."
Scully: "Are you talking about a reprieve for me?"
Mulder: "Well, there's a murder victim that I'd like you to autopsy for me. What do you think? Scully? You still there? Hello?"
Scully: "That van is back."
Mulder: "What? What did you say?"
Scully: "Nothing, Mulder. I'll talk to you later, okay?"

Ellen Adderly: "I get the feeling you're not used to anyone taking care of you."
Mulder: "Well, that has a vaguely pathetic ring to it."
Ellen Adderly: "No, I just meant I didn't notice a wedding band."
Mulder: "Oh."
Ellen Adderly: "Do you have a... a significant other?"
Mulder: "Um, not in the widely understood definition of that term."
Ellen Adderly: "Ah. Well, the right woman will come along and change all that. Don't miss out on home and family, Mr Mulder. With all the terrible things you must see in your work — well, it could be a refuge for you."

Scully: "Mulder. I am free."
Mulder: "You're free?"
Scully: "Mm-hmm. I'm going to go home, take a shower for, I don't know eight or nine hours, burn the clothes that I'm wearing and then... sleep until late spring."
Mulder: "Oh, you solved the X-File."
Scully: "Yes, except it's not an X-File, Mulder."
Mulder: "What are you saying? You didn't catch our blonde mystery serial killer?"
Scully: "Oh, no, we caught her, but she isn't a serial killer, nor is she a blonde, and she isn't even a she."


All things
Great episode written and directed by Gillian Anderson.
I'm not having trouble with the storyline, Scully believing and having visions (she's come a long way after all), but I do find it hard to believe Scully would have a relationship with a married man.
I guess scully gave him a heart attack after being so open and putting her head on his chest (pretty sure it would give Mulder a heart attack ;-))
"the sky is broken" is one of my favourite Moby songs (I need to dig up that cd again).
Scully has a new nickname: Hurricane Scully. Pretty sure Mulder would agree with that nickname.
Mulder's so sweet when Scully falls asleep in the middle of the conversation. And as for the "did they or didn't they", I say they did. Scully was being way to honest and open not to :-) Somehow I also doubt she would "sneak out" like that in the morning if nothing had happened...

Mulder: "Computer-generated crop circles. It's a fractal image predicted by a computer program and using data of every known occurrence of the phenomena over the past 40 years. What most people don't realise is that, since 1991, there's been a dramatic increase in size and complexity of circle design. That's when the Mandelbrot Set appeared in England. A series of geometrically perfect rings appearing almost impossibly overnight, in a field near Cambridge. But that was merely prelude of what was to come. Three years later, in 1994, even more complex formations occurred simultaneously on opposite ends of the English countryside with the Mandelbrot Set, were it still there, at its centre. Then, in 1997, even more complex formations occurred... and I'm not wearing any pants right now."
Scully: "Hmm?"
Mulder: "You're not listening."
Scully: "I am. I guess I just don't see the point."
Mulder: "The point is is that a computer program has shown us that these are not just random, happenstance coincidental occurrences and that same program has predicted that in just 48 hours even more complex formations are going to be laid down in a field near Avebury — 48 hours, Scully — but I wouldn't mind getting there earlier if you don't mind."
Scully: "Getting where?"
Mulder: "England — I got two tickets on a 5:30 flight."
Scully: "Mulder, I still have to go over to the hospital and finish the final paperwork on the autopsy you had me do. And, to be honest, it's Saturday and I wouldn't mind, I don't know, taking a bath?"
Mulder: "Well, what the hell does that mean?"
Scully: "What it means, Mulder, is I'm not interested in tracking down some sneaky farmers who happened to ace geometry in high school. And besides, I mean... what could you possibly get out of this? Or learn? I mean, it's not even remotely FBI-related."
Mulder: "I'll just cancel your ticket. Thanks for lunch."
Scully: "Mulder... Look, we're always running. We're always chasing the next big thing. Why don't you ever just stay still?"
Mulder: "I wouldn't know what I'd be missing."

Mulder: "I just find it hard to believe."
Scully: "What part?"
Mulder: "The part where I go away for two days and your whole life changes."
Scully: "Mmm, I didn't say my whole life changed."
Mulder: "You speaking to God in a Buddhist temple. God speaking back."
Scully: "Mmm, and I didn't say that God spoke back. I said that I had some kind of a vision."
Mulder: "Well, for you, that's like saying you're having David Crosby's baby. What is it?"
Scully: "I once considered spending my whole life with this man. What I would have missed."
Mulder: "I don't think you can know. I mean, how many different lives would we be leading if we made different choices. We... we don't know."
Scully: "What if there was only one choice and all the other ones were wrong? And there were signs along the way to pay attention to."
Mulder: "Mmm. And all the... choices would then lead to this very moment. One wrong turn, and... we wouldn't be sitting here together. Well, that says a lot. That says a lot, a lot, a lot. That's probably more than we should be getting into at this late hour."