X files movie marathon: oh no...

Season 7 is coming to an end, which means...no more Mulder :-(
Well, not for a little while anyway.

Brand X
Mulder kicking some lawyer butts.
Mulder shows his panic face again when he coughs up blood.
Lots of active Skinner for all you Skin-man lovers out there.
Why weren't Skinner and the shop assistant affected by the smoke?
Where was CSM in all this, doesn't he own at least 50% of the shares of Morley tobacco?
Why is Scully so upset at the end when Mulder shows her the pack of cigarettes? She smoked, as did Mulder in Travellers when he met Arthur Dales.

Lead Counsel: "May I ask where you're going with this, Agent?"
Mulder: "I'm sorry, I can't. Answering that question would violate FBI confidentiality due to the sensitive nature of our investigation."

Scully: "Hey. Good to be back?"
Mulder: "Beats the alternative."

Hollywood AD
Chris Carter makes a small guest appearance in the movie theatre, as does Minnie Driver.
There are some brilliantly funny scenes in this episode, but to me the whole episode feels unbalanced. And the skeletons walking around is just ridiculous, does remind me a bit of a Tim Burton movie.
So what did I like;
Mulder and Scully look absolutely horrified, while Skinner looks extremely amused watching the movie.
The "is that your flashlight" comment that was deleted from home is used here.
Scully telling the story about Sister Spooky the wacky nun.
Scully mentioning Wile E Coyote for the second time this season.
Apparantly Mulder is so used to his apartment being broken into that not only doesn't he lock the door anymore at night, he doesn't even bother to check who's at the door.
Federman kisses Mulder and shakes Scully's hand.
Mulder being a big fan of Téa Leoni.
Scully showing Téa Leoni how to run in heels, while Leoni isn't even paying attention.
Shandling asking Mulder whether he dresses to the left or the right.
Vegetarian zombies complaining that the humans are made of turkey.
The bubble bath scene. What was Mulder's right hand doing while he was on the phone with Scully, those bubbles were moving a bit too quick...
Scully looking for Mulder on the movie set. Scully is never that giddy sober, makes you wonder what they did with that credit card once they left holding hands...
mulder's porn tapes on pause
Was that duchovny's dog on the set?

Mulder: "What did Skinner want you for this morning?"
Scully: "Just paperwork."
Wayne Federman: "Hmm..."

Wayne Federman: "I like the way you guys work — no warrants, no permission, no research. You're like studio executives with guns. Should I call you Agent Mulder or Mr Mulder, or, like do you have a nickname or something like that?"

Mulder: "You're leaving? You don't want to get to the bottom of this?"
Wayne Federman: "Not especially."
Mulder: "Well, you know, sometimes truth can be stranger than fiction."
Wayne Federman: "Well, fiction is quicker than truth and cheaper.

Scully: "We had this wacky nun in Catholic school — Sister Callahan — we used to call her 'Sister Spooky' 'cause she would tell us scary stories all the time."
Mulder: "Twisted sisters, my kind of nun, you know?"

Mulder: "You see? It's just not true that you can't get good science at Catholic school. It's a lie."

Skinner: "Agent Scully... if I'm carrying Marilyn Monroe's purse, do you assume that I slept with JFK? Agent Mulder, the FBI has always prided itself on the speedy expedition of its cases but this is the first time — and I hope you're as proud of this as I am — that we've ever attempted to pursue a murder case where the victim was still alive and healthy."

Dr Burks: "Yes, he did. It's in two parts. The first part here roughly translates as; 'I am the walrus. I am the walrus. Paul is dead. Coo-coo-ca-choo.' Although there is no Aramaic word for 'walrus'. So it literally says 'I am the bearded cow-like sea beast'."

Garry Shandling: "Uh, do you dress to the left or to the right?" [In the background, Scully runs back and forth in her heels]
Mulder: "What do you... What do you mean?"
Garry Shandling: "Look, when I play a character I need to find his centre, his, sort of, rudder, so to say and then everything comes from that."
Mulder: "Uh... I guess mostly to the left."
Garry Shandling: ""Mostly"?"
Mulder: "Most of the time."
Garry Shandling: "Most of the time. To the left."
Mulder: "Mm-hmm."
Garry Shandling: "Wardrobe!"



Fight club
The Mulder and Scully lookalikes are actually their stuntdoubles.
The conversation during the slideshow was pretty funny.
As was Scully talking to Bob Danfous in jail.
Sure took Mulder long enough to climb out of that storm drain.

Mulder: "No, the interesting thing about these agents is they had worked together for seven years previously without any incident."
Scully: "Seven years?"
Mulder: "Yeah, but they are not... romantically involved if that's what you're thinking."
Scully: "Not even I would be so farfetched."

Mulder: "Don't go thinking I'm going to start doing the autopsies."

Scully: "Well, I guess that's why they put the 'I' in the FBI."

Scully: "Mr Danfous, I'm Special Agent Dana Scully with the FBI."
Bob Danfous: "What's so special about you?!"
Scully: "It's an FBI title, sir."
Bob Danfous: "I know it is. I'm not stupid!"

Bob Danfous: "They could electrocute me quicker!"


Je souhaite
Again a very funny episode and one of my favourites. Can't say anything bad about this one.
Scully's reaction to Gilmore is hilarious. Apparently Mulder forgot to fill her in on the details again.
The jinni suggesting to wish that Leslie could walk again, twice, is funny as hell.
As was the invisible corpse and Scully's reaction to it. How exactly do you check dental records of an invisible man?
Scully seems completely obsessed with the corpse.
What's with that sly Mulder smile after Scully says she's fairly happy?

Mulder: "You been out of circulation a long time."
Jenn: "So what? In 500 years, people have not changed a bit."
Scully: "500 years."
Jenn: "Granted, they smell better now generally speaking but human greed still reigns... shallowness... a propensity for self-destruction."

Jenn: "A very... powerful class of jinni. He offered me three wishes. For the first I asked for a stout-hearted mule. For the second, a magic sack that was always full of turnips... Did I mention this was 15th century France?"

Jenn: "Mm, how grotesquely egotistical of you. I bet you wish you hadn't made your first wish."
Mulder: "Yes, I do, since you butchered the intent of that wish so completely. And another thing — I think you've got a really horrible attitude. I guess that comes from being rolled up in a rug for the last 500 years. But we're not all that stupid. We're not all chimpanzees with revolvers. I think there's another possibility here and that's just that you're a bitch." [Jenn indicates that Mulder should look behind him, he does and Jenn disappears]
Skinner: "Agent Mulder?"
Mulder: "Sir."
Skinner: "How did you get in here?"
Mulder: "Uh..."

Jenn: "'Whereas, I have one wish left and desire to use it most effectively for the good of all mankind.' Yadda, yadda, yadda... 'Here on this plane of existence...' Hmm... Hmm-hmm. What, are you a lawyer?"
Mulder: "Well, I have to be with you. I'm going to get this last wish perfect. I'm not going to leave you any loopholes. I'm not going to let you interpret this as an edict to bring back the Third Reich or to make everyone's eyes grow on stalks."

Scully: "Skinner called me, Mulder. Is everything all right?"
Mulder: "You don't remember disappearing off the face of the earth for about an hour this morning?"
Scully: "No."
Mulder: "Well, I guess everything's okay."

Mulder: "I can't believe you don't want butter on your popcorn. Uggh. It's un-American."
Scully: "'Caddyshack', Mulder?"
Mulder: "It's a classic American movie."
Scully: "That's what every guy says. It's a guy movie."
Mulder: "Okay, when you invite me over to your place we can watch 'Steel Magnolias'."
Scully: "So, um... What's the occasion?"
Mulder: "I don't know. Just felt like the thing to do. Cheers."
Scully: "Cheers."
Mulder: "I don't know if you noticed but, um, I never made the world a happier place."
Scully: "Well, I'm fairly happy. That's something. So what was your final wish, anyway?"


Requiem
Our two favourite agents are back at Bellefleur where everything started.
Scully even ends up in Mulder's bedroom again, though with more clothes on than the first time.
Mulder wasn't wrong in suggesting they could start sharing rooms to save on expenses.
Scully actually looks happy about Mulder assaulting an auditor and even goes as far as suggesting to Mulder they break the rules (has she been drugged again?)
Krycek and Marita are back. Marita mysteriously healed and even speaks differetnly now. And CSM can't possibly look any worse. Not even after Krycek throws him down the stairs.
I just loved the way Mulder looked at Scully when she was holding the baby. Mulder seems to finally be thinking of Scully first instead of his alien goose-chase. He proves several times in this episode. First when Scully comes to his room saying she's not feeling well (whatever happened to "I'm fine, Mulder"?) and he does everything he can to comfort her. Nice emotional scene, not in a hallway for a change. And the second time, yep in a hallway, where he tells Scully he won't let her go back to Bellefleur.
I bet Frohike got the scare of his life when Scully fainted.
Skinner turns into a believer overnight after Mulder is abducted (although it was never quite clear what Skinner thought about all the strange reports Mulder and Scully handed in, then again he did have an out of body experience).
After that last scene, I don't understand why so many people wondered who the baby's father was. Do you really think Scully would look that happy through all her tears if she didn't know?

Mulder: "More alien abductions, Scully."
Scully: "I don't know how we could possibly justify the expense."
Mulder: "We'd probably turn up nothing."
Scully: "Let's go waste some money."

Mulder: "Who is it?"
Scully: "It's me."
Mulder: "What's wrong, Scully? You look sick."
Scully: "I don't know what's wrong."
Mulder: "Come in."
Scully: "I, um... I was starting to get ready for bed and I started to feel really dizzy — vertigo or something — and then I just... I started to get chills."
Mulder: "You want me to call a doctor?"
Scully: "No, I just... I just want to get warm." "Thank you."
Mulder: "It's not worth it, Scully."
Scully: "What?"
Mulder: "I want you to go home."
Scully: "Oh, Mulder, I'm going to be fine."
Mulder: "No, I've been thinking about it. Looking at you tonight, holding that baby... knowing everything that's been taken away from you. A chance for motherhood and your health and that baby. I think that... I don't know, maybe they're right."
Scully: "Who's right?"
Mulder: "The FBI. Maybe what they say is true, though for all the wrong reasons. It's the personal costs that are too high. There so much more you need to do with your life. There's so much more than this. There has to be an end, Scully."

Scully: "Mulder, if any of this is true..."
Mulder: "If it is, or if it isn't, I want you to forget about it, Scully."
Scully: "Forget about it?"
Mulder: "You're not going back out there. I'm not going to let you go back out there."
Scully: "What are you talking about?"
Mulder: "It has to end some time. That time is now."
Scully: "Mulder..."
Mulder: "Scully, you have to understand that they're taking abductees. You're an abductee. I'm not going to risk... losing you."
Scully: "I won't let you go alone."

Skinner: "How's it supposed to work?"
Mulder: "Not exactly sure, sir. But, uh... budgetarily, I'd say we're looking pretty good."

Skinner: "Agent Scully."
Scully: "Hi."
Skinner: "Hi. How you feeling?"
Scully: "I'm feeling fine. They're just running some tests on me."
Skinner: "Well... um..."
Scully: "I already heard."
Skinner: "I lost him. I don't know what else I can say. I lost him. I'll be asked... what I saw. And what I saw, I can't deny. I won't."
Scully: "We will find him. I have to. Sir, um... there's something else I need to tell you. Something that I need for you to keep to yourself. I'm having a hard time explaining it. Or believing it. But, um... I'm pregnant."