X files movie: Tonight's the night

Finally!!! Today is the release of the new X-files movie in Belgium.

As I'm still showing some withdrawal signs from my X files movie marathon, I spent last night watching interviews on Youtube and I watched the first X files movie "Fight the future" again (I couldn't decide on any favourite episode).

I'm a bit scared that I've gotten my hopes up too high, then again I'm an X-phile, moreover I'm an X-files shipper, so I don't really see how the movie could possibly dissapoint me. Besides, critics don't seem to like it that much which is usually a very good sign that I will like the movie :-) I want to believe it will be good.

Wishing it was 8pm...

X files movie marathon: rehab

I did it! Saw the last DVD of season 9 of the X-Files last night. After nearly 2 months of daily X-files (doesn't seem that long, time really does fly when you're having fun), I'm pretty sure I'll start showing the first signs of withdrawal by this evening.

Release
That is one creepy student Scully has in her class. So now that Mulder and Scully aren't doing any background checks anymore anyone can get into the FBI.
I'm finding it hard to believe Reyes wouldn't have confronted Follmer if she suspected him of taking bribes, she seems way to open for that.
Follmer sure looks insane after he shot Rigali.
At least Doggett didn't have to wait as long as Mulder to get some closure.


Sunshine days
Doggett whips out his knife again, been a while since he last did that.
Doggett's reaction to Reyes talking about the Brady Bunch house and taking a picture was hilarious.
Someone really likes the Looney Tunes on the X-files, Reyes mentions Wile E Coyote (3rd time) and Daffy Duck.
When did Scully get such a hip microphone to do autopsies? And why do they have a webcam in an autopsy bay?
Scully wants Oliver as a pet lab rat. And she and Reyes can't stop smiling while Skinner is twirling around in the air.



The truth
There are a lot of dead people walking around this double episode. Which I found rather annoying. How long has Mulder been seeing dead people anyway?
You know something's wrong Mulder starts using first names instead of last names.
Why exactly did Skinner tell Mulder about William? Did he think Scully went through enough already?
Once again Mulder is making decisions for Scully in not telling her what he found out. Go ahead Mulder, keep some more secrets. Still don't understand why Mulder won't tell anyone what he knows. It's not like anyone ever listens to what he has to say.
Mule headed Mulder is still hung up with the truth and once again gets them in trouble.
Even the dead Gunmen know Mulder is going to get them killed.
Mulder really underestimated Scully saying he was afraid the truth would crush her spirit. I mean after everything she's been through.
Now I remember why I forgot most of this episode and only remembered the shippy moments, all the rest is just a summary of 9 seasons of the X-Files.

X files movie marathon: the end is near

Only one more DVD to go in my X files movie marathon.
At the moment I'm trying really hard to stay away from the forums, I don't want to read any spoilers concerning the new X files movie I want to believe. Though I have to say, after what I've seen of season 9 I don't even care about the movie's plot, as long as there's lots of Mulder and Scully in it.


Improbable
Finally a funny episode which is somewhat funny.
Apparently Reyes is a bigger math geek than Scully.
Burt Reynolds sure loves checkers. Considering Scully is trying to shoot her way out, I take it she doesn't. Actually, Scully's behaviour while they're locked up in the garage is quite funny.
As was Reynolds dancing while Reyes and Scully were playing checkers.
Why didn't Reyes shoot her gun to signal Scully when the serial killer got hold of her?
Could've done without the singing at the end though.


Scary monsters
Agent Harrison, the accountant from Alone, is back. This must be the first time Scully loses her appetite over crime scene photos.
Why didn't Harrison go to Doggett immediately, why ask Scully first?
Scully is hilarious when that guy walks in with the dead cat in the middle of the night.
She then does an autopsy on the cat with kitchen utensils wearing an apron that reads "something smells goo-ood". Haven't noticed this before, but Mulder's fishtank is in her living room/kitchen.
Why is Reyes digging in the sheriff's corpse with a wooden spoon? What kind of a research method is that?
Everyone on the X-files (except for Scully) seems to be doing a lot of bluescreen falling the last two seasons (Mulder, Mulder and Doggett, Reyes and now Doggett again).


Jump the shark
Morris Fletcher is back. I think this episode probably would've made more sense if you've seen the Lone Gunmen series. Not that that would make this episode any better.
Why didn't they try to knock the bad guy out and then lock him up?
X-Files without the Lone Gunmen is like James Bond without Q and Moneypenny.


William
Scully sings joy to the world again, this time to William.
I thought Doggett saying that Miller was Mulder was really far fetched. Not the kind of thing you'd expect from Doggett.
This must be the first time Scully doesn't believe in science, in the DNA saying Miller is Mulder.
Some FBI agents they are, they didn't even bother to search Miller's pockets, otherwise they would've found the syringe.
I was never a big fan of the whole William storyline. Scully giving him up to keep him safe doesn't make any sense to me. After everything they have discovered about aliens and conspiracies, how can she honestly believe William would be safer somewhere else? That they wouldn't somehow find him?

X files movie marathon: not impressed

I know the new X files movie is being released in America today. So for my marathon it's a good thing it's only released here July 30th. Unless my DVD player explodes I should be able to finish watching the 9th season by then. Though I don't really care anymore, I'm having quite a bit of trouble with the 9th season. So far I haven't seen one episode that really managed to impress me. A lot of the episodes have potential though, they just don't live up to it IMO.
At first I thought it was due to chronic lack of Mulder, but I thought there were quite a few really good Mulderless episodes in the 8th season, so that can't be it. Oh well, can't wait to see the movie :-)

Lord of the flies
Anything inspired by Jackass can't be good.
Rocky, the Bambi substitute, hits on Scully. She doesn't look as impressed with him as Mulder was with Bambi though.
I'm guessing this was supposed to be a light and funny monster of the week episode...but I'm not sure. Doggett mentioning spanish fly and the look he got from Reyes was funny though. As for Rocky, he would've been a lot funnier if Mulder had been around.Scully does CPR on Rocky who is wide awake. Reyes looks a bit disgusted at that. You'd think Scully as a doctor would know when someone 's faking it. I suppose that could've been funny if the rest of the episode had been funnier.
Natalie drives a VW bug, how fitting.


Trust no 1
This episode actually starts out looking like one of those shippervideos on Youtube (which take up way too much of my time).
In case you want to send our 2 favourite FBI agents an email:
trust_no1@mail.com
queequeg0925@hotmail.com
I wonder if an X-phile would've actually started using these email-adresses...
More Apple computers, I take it Steve Jobs is an X-phile as well.
Why does Scully ask the woman on the street if she needs to call the police? In case you've forgotten Scully, you're a federal agent, just whip out your badge and gun...
Mulder and Scully have always taken the "trust no one" motto with a grain of salt (especially Mulder), but seriously, who lets a complete stranger you met on the street bunk on your couch.
If they know Scully sent Mulder an email, why don't they just lure Mulder out posing as Scully? They faked Scully's mails for 6 months in En ami.
What's on the inside of Scully's right wrist when she's on the phone with that supersoldier? BTW, Scully's phone has quite a battery life.
Scully's reflexes are pretty pathetic these days when agent Michaud, I'm sorry, "dark shadowy big brother supersoldier" starts waving a gun around. Good thing Reyes was there.
She still sends Mulder e-mails after she knows she's being watched?


John Doe
Doggett has a nickname "one shoe". Granted it's not as impressive as "Spooky Mulder" or "Hurricane Scully".
Doggett lost his memory, at least he didn't voluntarily let some doctor drill a hole in his head like Mulder once did. God, I really miss Mulder...
Reyes looks pretty pissed. Even more so when she started speaking Spanish.
She then lies to the Mexican police saying Doggett ran out on her and their kids. That was pretty funny, wish there would've been someone else around to hear her telling lies like that.
Reyes and Doggett get caught in a Mexican shootout and Skinner saves the day.
Doggett ends up looking a bit like one of the zombies from Millenium.


Hellbound
Scully seems to find a babysitter for William a lot easier than a dogsitter for Queequeg. Considering Queequeg untimely end, that's probably a good thing.
Reyes looks really hurt when Doggett called her out of the interviewing room questioning her methods. He should know about her "feelings" by now shouldn't he?
Somewhere halfway through I fell asleep again. But I was dreaming about zombies so I wasn't that far off with the storyline.

I seem to have lost the second DVD of season 9. I don't even know how I did
that. After 2 hours of going through my entire dvd and cd collection I still
haven't found it. Tomorrow I'll be borrowing that DVD from a friend so I'll
skip ahead for now and continue with some thoughts on the 3rd DVD.


Provenance
Ugh, another mytharc.
That was quite an explosion for a small bike like that. They're basically rehashing the 6th extinction trilogy.
Follmer threatens Doggett to stay out of the case, Doggett doesn't look too impressed though and breaks into Skinner's office to steal evidence, very Mulderesque (yes, that's a word now).
Another spacecraft, this time in Canada. I'm sure the accounting department of the X-files will be glad about the limited travel expenses.
Scully doesn't even knock on Reyes' door, just walks in. Makes sense I suppose, why would you lock your door in the middle of the night while you have stolen evidence sprawled all over the floor.
Scully's mother gets smacked around, which is a first. I think I now understand where Scully got her "Hurricane Scully" nickname. We all know she's a force to be reckoned with when Mulder's in danger, but threaten that little baby and she goes ballistic.
A cult threatening Mulder's life, is that really the best the writer's could come up with? And then saying Mulder's dead, I'm losing track of how many times he's "died".
When Scully gives William to the Gunmen, Langly tells her the baby is in good hands after which Byers quickly takes William from Langly. That crazy woman certainly is a better shot than Doggett.


Providence
Scully doesn't seem too upset about Mulder being dead, maybe she doesn't believe it, or she's getting just as tired of hearing that as I am. And what's with Skinner not believing in conspiracies in the FBI?
Scully's acting completely irrational. Even Reyes thinks Scully's a bit foolish not telling the FBI about the woman. Usually when people start believing their child is some sort of Messiah they get locked up in a padded room. Good thing Reyes can talk some sense into Scully.
Scully knows the artifact has healing powers from 6th extinction trilogy doesn't she?
Now all of a sudden Mulder's not dead? Where do these people get their information from?Wiliam has his very own remote controlled spacecraft, how cool is that.
Scully and Reyes see the spacecraft fly away, and this time Scully's conscious.


Audrey Pauley
1013 really can't deal with romance, they should've just followed through with the Reyes Doggett conversation.
Reyes ends up in a freaky floating hospital. I'm guessing Reyes was the only one working on the X-files who hadn't been dead yet. She had some catching up to do.
I was a bit surprised at how easy Scully was willing to give up on Reyes despite a nearly complete lack of injuries.
So doctor Death walks around with ready to go lethal injections in his pocket, just in case someone annoys him?
Reyes takes skydiving to a whole new level.
The actress who plays Audrey dies in every X-Files episode she's in.
Oh just kiss already.


Underneath
Watch out for the cable guy.
How did the cops get there that quickly?
You know if you pray and people die, maybe you should stop praying...
Doggett lapses into Scully's old habits, not believing what he sees.

X files movie marathon: 9th season

Started watching season 9 in my X files movie marathon last night.The only good thing about a mostly Mulderless season is that I won't have to hear Doggett say Mulder that much.

Nothing important happened today I and II

48 hours later, Mulder sure has a lot of bags ready at Scully's. I'm assuming
he was living there full-time. It's also not quite clear to me how you can go
on the run with that many bags.

AD Brad Follmer is introduced and Reyes doesn't seem to happy with Brad's
greeting. He's a bit presumptuous after 2 years if you ask me.

I hope that 's not drinking water Shannon's swimming in.

Scully really didn't want to have that conversation with Doggett, who sure is having a bad day with everybody telling him to drop the case. Reyes on the other hand is hilarious during the Skinner Doggett conversation only movng her eyes, like watching a tennis game.

Sleepy Scully really is out like a light if she didn't hear that creaking mere seconds after she hit the bed.

Reyes has some very impressive "feelings" to look for a pencil in the ceiling.

Reyes is once again impressed with Scully and assumes Scully's afraid
something's wrong with her baby. Scully must be losing her touch though, how
do you miss something as obvious as those fingerprint bruises on the ankle, don't
they normally examine the outside first during an autopsy, before they start
slicing and dicing?

Frohike seemed pleasantly surprised to see Reyes at the door, maybe he finally gave up on Scully.

Doggett whips out his knife again. Those files are going to be pretty useless after being in the water, and why don't they float upwards when Doggett's being pulled down and obviously not
holding them?

I'm a bit confused, who stuck his hand through Shannon and let Doggett go on his merry way? the headless "corpse" of Knowle Rohrer?

And why is Doggett holding Scully's hand when they're trying to get out of the ship? Can't she run by herself anymore now that she's a mommy?

So Kersh is in fact a good guy and told Mulder his life was in danger (what else is new)? Does make sense that Scully would be the only person able to convince Mulder to go.

Daemonicus

Playing boardgames is just as dangerous as going to the toilet on the X-files, abductions during stratego, muder-suicides during scrabble. And they say TV and videogames lead to violence...

I had the feeling there was something wrong with Reyes, then I realised she only started smiling after about 10 minutes.

So how much time has passed since William was born now that Scully is teaching
at the academy?

Kobold, very fitting name for a daemonic looney.

Why are the crazy guys always spot on with their psycho babble? And why does Doggett keep standing in front of Kobold when he's giving his best exorcist performance? You'd think he would move backwards after the first stream of projectile vomiting hit him...some reflexes you got there Agent Doggett...

4-D

Very confusing beginning and it just keeps getting weirder. I actually like this storyline, a parallel universe is a first for the X-Files (though there are plenty of fanfics out there about this).

Scully tries to stop the interrogation of Reyes. I guess they've gotten close after delivering William in the middle of nowhere surrounded by supersoldiers.

I'm surprised Scully, the navy-brat linguist, didn't pick up on the morse-code thingy.

Pretty funny to hear Reyes talking about "her" Doggett.

Really loved Skinner during the interrogation of Lukesh. I'm glad he's got more to do these days than to look annoyed at his subordinates and tell them he can't help cause he's compromised.

Wow, Reyes really knows how to stay cool when Lukesh was talking to her at the police station. Yet not a cigarette in sight afterwards, did she kick the habit, cause I haven't seen her smoke for 4 episodes?

Reyes shaving Doggett at the hospital was really sweet. Although the following conversation wasn't.

Nice shot from Follmer, he didn't even hesitate, which considering Reyes' situation was probably a good thing.

X files movie marathon: 1 season to go

Empedocles
Pretty neat idea of evil jumping bodies.
Eversmiling Reyes stops smiling when she tastes the gum she's trying out to help her quit smoking.
Scully waiting for the pizza man to jump into the shower. Funny conversation apart from the we just work together part...I suppose he's just joking as they don't really work together anymore.
Makes me wonder though, does Scully eat pizza in the shower if she wasn't planning on anything with the pizza man himself?
Very nice scene where they both look really relaxed and enjoying eachother's company, untill Scully's rushed of to the hospital that is. Still wondering how Doggett got to the hospital before Mulder and Scully.
I'm pretty sure Scully was expecting Mulder when she woke up in the hospital instead of Doggett.
Mulder doesn't believe Reyes (that's a first, Mulder not believing). That little look/move he made with his head after Reyes asked him whether that was why he didn't want to help Doggett was hilarious.
Why does Mulder ask Scully if she's awake, he's always waited by her bedside if she was asleep.
Oh and the look on Mulder's face when he touches Scully's belly, pure wonder and happiness.
Jeb Larold Dukes, and I thought Knowle Rohrer was a strange name.
Doggett is spending way too much time sneaking up to Scully's bedside. Even to Mulder's liking. Just look at Mulder's stance after he leads Doggett out of Scully's room, arms crossed, legs spread, right in front of Scully's door.
What hospital were they in anyway, cause that doctor sure gave up on Jeb real quick.
I think I missed most of the story with all the shippy parts, but I'm beyond caring, Mulder and Scully looked way too happy this episode.


Vienen
The black oil is back.
Scully doesn't seem too happy to see Mulder in the office.
Doggett proves to Mulder he's read the x-files, but Mulder still doesn't trust him (or is he just jealous).
Just how dumb is Mulder in thinking Kersh would send out Scully to an oil rig?
And how do you "accidently" find something in someone's brain Scully? Skinner's reaction when the black oil flowed out of the corpse was once again adorable. He really is putty when it comes to Scully's wellbeing.
Sully scolds Mulder for not following orders while she did an unauthorised authopsy herself was pretty funny. And Mulder once again implies Scully's baby is his.
Mulder takes the blame for what happened and is basically handing over the X-Files to Doggett. Of course the fact that he's out of th FBI might have something to do with it too.


Alone
While Scully is packing to go on maternity leave, she finds the two coins from Dreamland and Queequeg 's nametag. Scully hugs Doggett, but she looks a bit uncomfortable doing that.
Doggett is actually wearing a glove to touch the goo, did they change the guidelines after Mulder got kicked out of the FBI?
Mulder takes Scully to a lamaze class and admits to watching a lot of Oprah. He looks a bit jealous of Doggett getting Scully's attention. And he really isn't happy to find Scully doing an autopsy.
While Mulder is impersonating Kersh, Doggett is stuck in a tunnel with a rookie accountant, both blind as a bat.
Mulder and Scully end up giving the Apollo keychain to agent Harrison.
I think the writers have been reading to many X-phile forums for the end. It was pretty funny to to see Mulder and Scully arguing like an old married couple on whether or not it was a spaceship in Antarctica.


Essence
Scully's mother is finally back, helping out with the baby shower and hiring help for Scully. Help which isn't all that helpful, changing Scully's pills.
So why exactly does Scully need help from Lizzy? Isn't Mulder unemployed with a lot of time on his hands? Of course he's not that good at doing general household tasks (or even plumbing) looking at his apartment.
Mulder is up to his old tricks again, breaking and entering...and getting caught.
Billy Miles is back cutting of people's heads with his bare hands (what happened to the alien baby dr Lev was holding before he lost his head?).
I think it's a bit weird Doggett decides to call Mulder "Fox". At least he doesn't make Fox sound as annoying as Mulder. Unfortunately he switched back to Mulder rather quickly.
Judging by Mulder's reaction it's a good thing Scully only works on dead people. Although, this is the first time I've seen him complain.
Why does Scully refuse to tell who the baby's father is, especially after all the problems with the pregnancy?
Mulder finally admits Scully is more important than the X-files and wants to take her away to a safe place. Good thing Scully's apartment building has more than one exit.
I'm not quite clear on why Mulder suddenly trusts Krycek with Scully's life, but at least he got the job done.


Existence
Billy Miles who was crushed in a garbage truck doesn't seem to be all that dead after all.
Meanwhile, Reyes and Scully are on a roadtrip, with Scully once again sleeping. Wish I could sleep like that.
Reyes follows her "feelings" again and apparently the gum didn't work, though you can't really blame her for smoking considering she's being chased by supersoldiers and is about to deliver a baby in the middle of nowhere.
Knowle Rohrer tells Doggett the chip is what made Scully pregnant, that's the first thing I've heard on the X-files for a long time that actually makes some sense.
Skinman gets wacked on the head by a supersoldier. Even Krycek looked a bit upset when that arm went through the elevator door.
Reyes making things homey, she more than welcome to come by my place sometime.
Reyes impersonating a whale is hilarious (reminded me of Finding Nemo) and it reminded Scully of Melissa.
With a windscreen that dirty it's a surprise that ranger or whatever she was managed to stop in time without running over Reyes.
You know Reyes, telling a pregnant woman in the middle of nowhere you get the feeling something's off is not a very reassuring thing to say.
Considering the situation I thought it was a bit weird that Scully still calls her agent Reyes.
Why would there be a supersoldier posing as a ranger in the middle of nowhere? Either the world is overcrowded with supersoldiers or they have telepathic abilities, otherwise it just doesn't make any sense (even for the X-Files).
Agent Crane, Knowle Rohrer and Krycek are in it together. Krycek threatens to shoot Mulder again, you'd think by now he'd know better to just pull the trigger instead of babbling away.
At least Skinner got to have some fun with Krycek this way. Mulder actually looked a bit surprised that Skinner shot Krycek.
Must be slightly disturbing when you're about to have a baby and someone starts throwing boiling water at people. Why does the ranger say this baby will be born? That's the big idea isn't it?
Supersoldiers aren't superfriendly to eachother, the way Knowle ran over Crane.
The whole Mulder and Gunmen/3 wise men bearing gifts conversation got a bit annoying after the 5th time, after which I got pretty good at rewinding it right up to the moment where Mulder enters Scully's bedroom. Obsessed? Who? Me? Noooooo?
Still think they should've quit after that ending. Or just written season 9 without Mulder and Scully in it (I can't believe I actually wrote that). Seriously, they deserve to finally be happy and then 1013 ruins everything with supersoldiers and more human than human babies...

X files movie marathon: not too bad

I remember feeling a bit cheated the first time I watched the 8th season of the X-Files, didn't think it was fair to give us only half a season of Mulder. Which greatly influenced how I looked at this season the first time I watched it. But now that I'm all grown up (cough), I actually can appreciate it. Sure I miss Mulder, but I never truly appreciated what a damn good actress Gillian Anderson is until now. Don't get me wrong, I always thought she was brilliant, I guess I was just way too distracted by Mulder-candy before (can you blame me?).


Within
Certain parts of the episode had an "All things" feel to it. I just love Mark Snow's music, I'll be calling it "sad Scully" music from now on (hmm, I think hours and hours of emotional Scully is starting to get to me).
Something I still don't understand about the basement office, why on earth does Scully, after 8 years, still refer to it as her partner's office? You'd think that after the big fire and Fowley and Spender moving in, there would be two desks there. Then again, those two didn't actually work so I guess they didn't really need a desk. At least there isn't a name sign on the door anymore.
What have we learned from Scully and Doggett's first meeting? If you're going to lie to Scully, don't give her water first. Although, I think that cup of water might have saved Doggett from a broken jaw or something...
Although I loved the scene where Scully tries to talk to her mother on the phone, I really wish we could've actually seen those two talk again.
When exactly did Scully move up a floor, wasn't she living on a groundfloor apartment when Duane Barry broke her window. Let's just assume she moved after shooting Pfaster. How she could possibly still feel safe in that apartment after everything that's happened there is beyond me.
Apparantly alien bounty hunters aren't very well informed on how human computers work, why else would he steal Mulder's monitor. Or maybe he crashed his UFO again and needed the monitor for spare parts...
Another great scene was where Doggett walks into Mulder's apartment finding Scully asleep holding Mulder's shirt. She must've really been out of it if she can't remember where Mulder keeps the fish food all of a sudden. It's not the first time she was there to "feed the fish".
This is the first time we see that Doggett isn't necessarily a bad guy, but just trying to do his job.
Kersh is back, he always reminds me of the pointy hair boss in the Dilbert comics, the evil manager from hell, determined not to solve any problems.
And what's with the Mulder manhunt, I thought the FBI would be glad to get rid of him. Especially after they complained about his expenses, now they're out looking for him with dozens of men and helicopters?
The only real problem I have with the storyline is Mulder's illness. I find it very hard to believe Scully wouldn't know about it, she is his doctor after all. You'd think that after Amor fati she would've ordered regular check-ups. And what's with the tombstone? Aranging your funeral beforehand so you're loved-ones won't have to go through it is one thing, putting the year of your death on a tombstone is something completely different. Also, I'm not too sure his parents would like to be burried together...
Really loved the whole Scully and Skinner against the FBI thingy as well. Skinner's always proven he's got a soft spot for Scully, even more so now she's all alone and pregnant.
Something I could've certainly done without is all the Mulder torture. I love naked Mulder as much as the next girl, but there's something about him propped on a weird alien chair being drilled, sliced and stretched that's a bit of a turn-off...
Why exactly did the writers think a school for the deaf in the middle of the Arizona desert made sense? Do they even have a regular school in such a small town?


Without
Why doesn't "Mulder" just take Gibson and let Doggett shoot him, it would hurt Doggett not him. At least Mulder's hair has grown back, and apart from his arm, he looks damn good for someone falling from that height, maybe he got lucky like Weems.
I just loved the scene where the bounty hunter turns into Scully; 2 Scully's and you don't want to mess with either of them. The end was brilliant as well with Scully looking in the mirror.
Why do people always leave their keys in the car and then look surprised when they're gone? Now that I think about it, that would surprise me too, why take the keys and not the car?
Scully points a gun at Skinner again, well I gues it has been a while since she's done that. And Skinner once again proves he can be trusted, turning his back on her. Pretty awkward situation after Skinner takes her gun though...again.
Hormones really must do weird things to a pregnant woman cause logical Scully flew out the window and now she's wondering around the desert in the middle of the night.
Of course Doggett ruined everything, Scully was so close to Mulder and then she has to leave to save Gibson.
After being thrown across the room Scully shoots the alien in the neck killing it (something an FBI sniper can't even do), and then realizes she just lost her last chance of finding Mulder. Again a very emotional Scully scene.
Kinda liked the end as well where Doggett visits Scully in the hospital. Though Scully has never looked as bad as she does here (I'm not counting the Fight Club debacle).
Kudos to the special effect department, I don't think we've ever been treated to such a good close-up of an alien dissolving.


Patience
Peronnaly, I think Mulder would've loved the whole "Batman" idea.
Scully is having trouble making the leaps Mulder made.
Just when I was wondering why Scully didn't whip out a huge flashlight out of one of her pockets (which never bulge by the way), Doggett asks if she's carries a flashlight.
His first real X-File and Doggett is already injured.
Scully promising Doggett to get him a desk and then she puts Mulder's name sign in the drawer. Pretty emotional for Scully.
In my opinion this was a very good episode; a real and interesting monster of the week X-file, we see Scully and Doggett's partnership take shape and Scully struggling with Mulder's absence. She even promises to get Doggett a desk and puts Mulder's nameplate in a drawer.

Doggett: "Think I've got another partial here. You know, there is a more obvious explanation."
Scully: "Mm-hmm."
Doggett: "A more basic answer, is what we're dealing with here is simply a man. A psychotic killer with a deformed foot. You're familiar with the principle of Occam's Razor?"
Scully: "Yeah. You take every possible explanation and you choose the simplest one. Agent Mulder used to refer to it as 'Occam's Principle of Limited Imagination'. Unless you have a simple explanation as to how a killer with a deformed foot leaves a print only every 25 feet."

Scully: "What happened to the lynch mob?"

Scully: "You know, we've been out here for nine hours. The only thing this man seems to be in danger of is terminal loneliness. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe this is all just a... a grand coincidence and we're wasting our time out here."
Doggett: "You were so sure before."
Scully: "Yeah, I was sure of the facts as I had deduced them scientifically. Maybe I'm... I'm trying to force them into shape. Maybe I'm manufacturing a theory."
Doggett: "Well, what happened to taking a leap?"
Scully: "Maybe I'm just trying too hard."
Doggett: "To do what? To be Mulder? You know, I'm not Oxford educated. About all I know about the paranormal is men are from Mars and women are from Venus. But I don't think you're wrong, Agent Scully."
Scully: "What makes you say that?"
Doggett: "Well, I'm no Fox Mulder, but I can tell when a man's hiding something. Myron Stefaniuk fishes a woman out of the river who's been gone for 40 years. He has a brother he hasn't seen in over 40 years. A brother who just happened to hunt down some kind of creature over 40 years ago."
Scully: "Well, what does he have to hide?"
Doggett: "Well, that's what I'm hoping this good cop work is going to show us."

Scully: "Do you believe it, Agent Doggett?"
Doggett: "Believe it?"
Scully: "That this thing is still out there and some day it's going to come after us?"
Doggett: "I'm pretty sure I hit it, Agent Scully. Pretty sure you hit it, too. The guys upstairs were making some noise about this case — about what's in our field report."
Scully: "Yeah. You'll get used to it. I, uh... I never had a desk in here, Agent Doggett, but I'll see that you get one."
Doggett: "All right."
Scully: "And I just want to say, um... thank you for watching my back."
Doggett: "Well, I never saw it as an option. I'm sure you don't either."


Roadrunners
Wow, that has to be a pretty busy bus route out there in the middle of nowhere in the dead of night for the bus to be completely full.
Darn, Scully finds white goo and Mulder isn't there to put his fingers in it.
Didn't Mulder once ask Scully to find a file giving her just one specific to go on? She looks really cute and uncomfortable asking Doggett the same thing over the phone.
When at a gas station and someone asks you your occupation, have them fuel up your car first. Trust no one Scully, especially not someone offering free fuel in the middle of nowhere when there's a fuel shortage.
Why doesn't Scully whip out her badge after she suspects they don't want her to leave? I'm sure they would be smart enough not to get an FBI agent involved in their freaky cult. At least she keeps her gun close at hand. Of course the very next day she gives her gun to a complete stranger...smart move Scully, very Mulderesque.
What's funny about this episode? Scully once again proves she's a navy brat with lots of swearing once she's been tied up. What would Mulder have thought of Scully tied to a bed like that? Oh and exactly how low on her lower back is Scully's tattoo? Or did the parasite choose her tattoo as the entry point?
Not that we didn't already know, but Scully sure is a tough little trooper, I'm pretty sure I would've passed out a long time ago if someone was cutting in the back of my neck to get a huge parasite out. This is the first time Doggett whips out a knife. Did Mulder ever carry around a knife?
Really liked the scene where Scully apoligizes for ditching Doggett. Never seen Mulder do that.

Doggett: "Well, if there's anything I can do from here."
Scully: "Well, actually, there might be, if you don't mind. Somewhere in our files... there is a, uh, an unsolved murder case. Unfortunately, I , uh, don't remember any of the particulars like where or when it took place, but I do remember that there were some glycoproteins found at the crime scene."
Doggett: "'Glycoproteins'."
Scully: "Yeah, mucous... But it was, uh, unable to be identified, and seeing as how you, uh, recently read through all of our files I thought maybe it would ring a bell with you."
Doggett: "Well, I don't have a great memory for mucous... but I'll be happy to look.

Scully: "Hey. Excuse me. You put something in my tank that killed my engine."
Gas Station Man: "What?"
Scully: "Where's that gas can? I'd like to see it, please." "That's water. I barely even smell any gasoline."
Gas Station Man: "Oh, God, you're right. I'm sorry. I... I left it out. It must have gotten rain in it."
Scully: "Oh, and it rains a lot here, does it? Seeing as how it's basically the desert."

Scully: "What did you put in me?! I'm going to get every last one of you bastards!"
Mr Milsap: "No. You'll love us. You'll protect us. You'll teach us, make us better than we are. We're taught not to envy, but I do envy you so. That you'll soon be one with him."
Scully: "Him?! That thing in my spine is a 'him'?!"

Scully: "Can you hot-wire it?"
Doggett: "Can I hot-wire it? Gone in 60 seconds, Jack. I'm going to strand these lunatics. Agent Scully... talk to me."
Scully: "You got to cut it out. Cut it out. Oh... Oh... Now it's going to come to my brain. Cut it out of me now!"

Scully: "They believe they worshipped Christ. That that thing was the second coming. Look, I, uh... I wanted to apologise. I left you out of this case, and that was a mistake on my part. It was almost a fatal mistake."
Doggett: "It was. You screwed up."
Scully: "And I won't do it again."
Doggett: "I appreciate it."


Invocation
Why does Scully get so upset about Doggett breaking the law? She and Mulder did it all the time, breaking into houses without a warrant, stealing evidence,...
Trying to stay open minded Scully calls in a psychic, I bet Mulder would have a field day.
Why didn't Scully know about Doggett's son, she checked out his file after they first met, you'd think it would mention something like that.
Nice casting. that kid is really creepy.

Scully: "Count to ten, Agent Doggett."

Doggett: "I don't believe it."
Scully: "Okay, the clothes, the age and condition of the bones, the location of the grave. There is no doubt that that is Billy Underwood's skeleton that is in that grave."
Doggett: "We spent time with this boy. Doctors took Billy's blood. You examined him yourself. Now, I can't accept it. I can't believe we're asking them to."
Scully: "I know, but the forensic evidence is going to come out, and what then? What if I'm right?"
Doggett: "Well, what then, Agent Scully? What we do? We move on, let it go, case closed?"
Scully: "Look, I know where you are with this. I have been there. I know what you're feeling — that you've failed and that you have to explain this somehow. And maybe you can."
Doggett: "Not if that's Billy's body, I can't."
Scully: "But maybe that's explanation enough. That that's not Billy's brother lying in that grave, too. That that man who did this is never going to be able to do it again. Isn't that what you wanted, Agent Doggett?"
Doggett: "Agent Scully, don't ask me to believe that this is some kind of justice from beyond the grave."
Scully: "All I'm saying is that maybe you succeeded... whether you're willing to see that or not."


Redrum
Reminded me of Monday with a twist.
The phrase "This is not happening" is once again used.
First no Mulder, and now hardly any Scully...The X-files is going downhill.


Via negativa
Doggett covered for Scully when Skinner asked him where she was and again during the meeting with Kersh.
Skinner giving an X-File explanation was quite funny.
Doggett dreaming he's holding Scully's severed head. That man has some twisted dreams, at least all Mulder dreamt about was his sister being abducted by aliens.
Doggett doesn't know the "I'm fine" line yet, though I'm sure he will soon enough.
Langley's flicking pencils at the ceiling in the basement office after Scully called the Gunmen in to help Doggett. He looks really scared when he's telling Skinner he's not sure he's awake. The whole thing reminded me a bit of the Twin Peaks dream scenes.

Scully: "An Agent is dead. Um, Skinner had him surveilling a religious cult in Pittsburgh. And all the followers are dead, as well."
Doggett: "What happened?"
Scully: "He's having difficulty determining that."
Doggett: "I'll pick you up."
Scully: "I'm sorry, Agent Doggett. I can't go."
Doggett: "Agent Scully?"
Scully: "Um, something unexpected has come up."
Doggett: "You all right?"
Scully: "Yeah, I'm, I'm fine."
Doggett: "Will I see you later?"
Scully: "Uh, as soon as I can."

Scully: "Skinner told me about the case. I know that you covered for me. You didn't have to do that."
Doggett: "It's all right."
Scully: "I appreciate your discretion."
Doggett: "Yeah, well, it's easy to be discreet when you don't know what's going on. Are you okay?"
Scully: "I'm fine. Skinner says that you're on the clock on this thing. You need to get your rest."
Doggett: "Yeah, I just grabbed a few winks."
Scully: "I asked him to contact some friends of Mulder's. I think they'll be able to help."
Doggett: "I appreciate all the help I can get."
Scully: "Doggett, you're a good agent. Trust your instincts."


Surekill
Dogggett mentions Elvis.
Scully 's quick to catch on when she's talking to Randall, looks like she's getting the hang of those Mulder leaps.
Doggett implies Peyton and Chase were having an affair because they called eachother a lot at night. Mulder called Scully all the time at night to talk about work...

Scully: "Unless he could see. The light our eyes can register is only one small portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. Other wavelengths from infra-red to gamma have other properties. X-rays, for instance, can pass through solid objects."
Doggett: "Walls, for example. So, you're saying this guy used some kind of x-ray machine. Wait, you're not saying this guy has x-ray vision?"
Scully: "I am remarking that these wavelengths exist and the only thing that is stopping us from seeing them, if you will, is the biochemical structure of our eyes. I am conjecturing that if this structure were somehow different we'd have the ability to see things that we don't."
Doggett: "Calling Clark Kent."

Doggett: "I hate twins. Twins never rat each other out."


Salvage
"ipso facto" sounded ridiculous coming from Doggett.
Wade Williams who plays Bellick in Prison Break takes on the role of "the man of steel" (who even eats tinfoil).
It's a bit like the Terminator. Doggett should know about that ;-)
Doggett whips out his knife again.
Do you think Ray could be the prototype of a supersoldier?
Why don't they use a huge magnet to stop him?


Badlaa
So before the Oompa Loompa started working in a chocolate factory they were beggars with supernatural powers who liked to travel for free.
You really cannot go to the toilet on the X-Files and expect to survive it.
The autopsy reminded me of the elephant autopsy in Fearful Symmetry.
Scully looks really reluctant to explain her theory to Doggett.
Chuck is back, with hippie hair.
So it takes a 5th and 6th grader to solve an X-Files these days?
In the end, after shooting who she thought was just a kid, Scully breakds down about not being able to think like Mulder.

Doggett: "You going to be okay, Agent Scully? I got a drift of what happened in there... to you. I mean, sort of."
Scully: "I shot a young boy."
Doggett: "The good news is, you're wrong."
Scully: "But it's what I saw. With my eyes, anyway. Do you know what it's like not to be able to trust your own eyes?"
Doggett: "Then why'd you shoot him?"
Scully: "Because it's what the boy saw. And in an instant I realised that it's what Mulder would have seen or understood. Because that's just how he came at things... without judgement and without prejudice and with an open mind that I am just not capable of."
Doggett: "It's been a long night. Give yourself a break. This whole thing doesn't make any sense."
Scully: "No... it did. In some way, it did."


The gift
I still don't believe Mulder was dying and didn't tell Scully about it. Not after everything they've been through. On top of that, it's obvious they were spending a lot more time together in the last episodes, you'd think Scully would know if he went "missing" every weekend. I mean, he never seemed to let a weekend go by without "harassing" Scully in her free time before, wouldn't Scully be suspicious if he stopped doing that all of a sudden?
Wow, so Doggett sees three plastered holes in the wall and automatically assumes they're from gunshots? I wonder what he would think happened in my house if he saw the way the walls are plastered here.
Doggett's feeding Mulder's fish again. Not quite sure why Scully wouldn't just move them over to her apartment...
So Mulder's gun is a Walther PPK, did he like to play James Bond? I'm having a hard time believing Mulder doesn't clean his gun regularly, especially after shooting it.
Funny scene where Skinner and Doggett wake up the gunmen to get help.
Why does every male FBI agent seem to have the tendency to touch unidentified goo with his bare hands? I thought it was just a Mulder trademark, but now I'm guessing it's an FBI guideline or something.
Doggett gets shot and burried, good thing he's not on an official case, wouldn't look good on his field report.



Medusa
Another member of the 24 cast; Penny Johnson.
I really liked this episode, despite chronic lack of Mulder.
Doggett telling Scully he's just a tagalong proves how valuable he thinks Scully is to an investigation.
If they think they have a contagion, why weren't they wearing bio hazard suits to begin with?
Bossy Scully is back and being accused of being irrational.
Scully is genuinely concerned about Doggett, I'm guessing partly because she send him out there on his own.
With all the running around and carrying Bianco, Doggett must've worked up quite a sweat and yet not a spark of him.
Poor Doggett, he doesn't have Scully waiting by his bedside like Mulder always had. Otherwise he probably wouldn't be so eager to get out of there.
I almost missed it, but the way he walked backwards away from Scully to get dressed was hilarious. Scully gets quite emotional again when she says they've got Doggett to thank. Mulder is in for a surprise when he gets back and finds Scully openly talking about feelings.

Doggett: "Nurse! Nurse!"
Scully: "Where do you think you're going?"
Doggett: "Find the nurse. She said she was going to talk to the doctor about me going home. I could be dying in here for all she knows."


Per manum
Sad Scully music again while Scully is checking the mirror to see if she's showing. I bet she's wishing Mulder was there with her.
So Doggett did read Scully's file, I was wondering about that.
Three cheers for the Mulder flashbacks. And such nice shippy flashbacks too :-)
Of course Scully's ova weren't viable Mulder, you walked around with them in your pocket for half a day. That look Scully gave Mulder when he tried to hold the elevator.
You know I frequently forget to push the button when I get into the elevator at work. Or I push the button of the floor I'm on. The way I sleepwalk through work I'm surprised they haven't fired me yet.
Zeus Genetics sure love Apple computers. They even decorated their entire office in the shiny white plastic look. Makes Scully really stand out all dressed in black.
See why I don't like going to the doctor? You never know what freaky creepy things they're up to.
Needless to say I love all the Mulder and Scully scenes. Though I would've really loved to have seen the conversation where Scully asks Mulder to be the father.
When Skinner is telling Doggett Scully is leaving she can't even look at Doggett. Kinda proves how much she respects Doggett I think.
So why did Knowle Rohrer sedate Scully?
Is it me or does Doggett look completely smitten with Scully when she wakes up in the hospital.
Just wondering why Mulder was waiting at Scully's apartment for her to get back, instead of joining her to the doctor. At least they're not in a hallway.
Now that I'm recovering from all the shippy scenes, I'm starting to wonder about the storyline in this episode; who's up to no good with alien embryos these days, considering the consortium and CSM are out of the picture?


This is not happening
Finally, the ultimate "this is not happening" episode. It goes without saying, but again great performance by Gillian Anderson.
So despite all the X-files knowledge, Lone Gunmen, FBI resources, ... they don't know where to look for Mulder, yet that kid Richie knows exactly where the spaceship was going to be.
Scully has another nightmare about Mulder and wakes up Skinner afraid they'll find Mulder dead. Which results in a very emotional conversation between Scully and Skinner about starlight. Looks like Scully fell asleep with all her clothes on again.
Monica Reyes is seriously confusing Scully, telling her to stay open minded.
The look on Reyes' face when her engine stalls and she sees the ufo is priceless.
Why do cops/FBI agents always yell at a suspect to stop when they're still too far away to reach the suspect, why not sneak up on them or follow them...
Scully is having a lot of trouble with the autopsy of Gary, even upsetting Skinner.
Scully has another vision of Mulder right before they find out where they might be keeping him.
Good call from Scully picking out Jeremiah Smith, did the Nikes give him away?
A first for the X-Files; Frantic Scully. This is the most desperate I've ever seen her. Doggett trying to shield her from Mulder's body was really touching as well. Although he's not very good at it, even being twice her size.
Once again great music from Mark Snow.
Gotta love that frantic "how bad is he" and heartwrenched "Noooooo" at the end.

Scully: "Hi."
Doggett: "Hi."
Scully: "You said on the phone you'd received something urgent."
Doggett: "You're right, I did. And I think it's really important you got right down here, Agent Scully. Thanks."
Scully: "You going to tell me what it is?"
Doggett: "I passed it on to AD Skinner. I'd like for him to tell you."

Doggett: "What we've got is hope. But let's be honest, Agent Scully, about what no one wants to say. Bad as you want to find Mulder, you're afraid to find him, too."

Scully: "What if he's dead? I'm sorry. I just had a bad dream."
Skinner: "Let me get some clothes on."
Scully: "I once had a talk with Mulder about starlight. How it's billions of years old. Stars that are now long dead whose light is still travelling through time. It won't die, that light. Maybe that's the only thing that never does. He said that's where souls reside. I hope he's right."
Skinner: "If you're trying to prepare yourself I want you to stop. Nothing says that we're going to stumble over him in some field. Nothing says he won't be fine."

Doggett: "What are you walking away for? It makes some kind of sense."
Scully: "I'm glad you agree with her, Agent Doggett, because I'm not even sure that she agrees with you. Nor has she made any sense for me of how the doctor who removed Teresa Hoese from the hospital last night seems, by all accounts, to have been in two places at once."
Doggett: "I know where you're going with this, Agent Scully, but if you're going to tell me this is another alien bounty hunter this is where we part company."
Scully: "Enjoy your new company."

Agent Reyes: "Right. Satanic ritual abuse. Or, I should say claims of it. We never found any hard evidence."
Scully: "We should talk sometime."

Skinner: "Dana..."
Scully: "I'm okay. There's work to do here."

Scully: "Where is he?"
Doggett: "Agent Scully, he's over there."
Scully: "How bad is he? How bad is he? How bad is he hurt? "No. No. No. No. He needs help."
Doggett: "It's too late."
Scully: "He needs help!"
Doggett: "Agent Scully."

Scully: "Jeremiah. No... no. This is not happening! No!"


Deadalive
Was Bill Scully jr. not invited to the Mulder's funeral? Maybe they were afraid he'd dance on Mulder's grave or something. Skinner says he doesn't believe Mulder's the last, I'm assuming Scully told her about her and Mulder then?
Talk about spooky; Kersh is smiling. Doggett is taken of the X-files, but he says he has to think about it because Scully goes on maternity leave in 6 weeks.
Billy Miles' body is found floating in the sea (that's why I don't like to eat fish, they throw anything in the sea).
Mulder looks pretty good for someone's who's been dead and burried for 3 months.
By now Scully has perfected that incredibly desperate look and voice. And Doggett's protectiveness of Scully is starting to get on my nerves.
Scully while talking to the nurse slips up and says that Mulder was, is her partner. Can't blame a girl for being confused.
Skinner's having trouble with his nanobugs again, which means Krycek 's back.
The make-up artists sure had their work cut out for them with Billy Miles.
Scully was actually speechless when Doggett questioned her beliefs, how many times has that happened in 8 years.
And why didn't Scully call Skinner? Not really fair after everything that he did for them.
There's quite a spectacular chase when Doggett goes after Krycek. Surely they could've sucked up some of the vaccine with a syringe?
In the end Skinner saved the day trying to kill Mulder.
Doggett looks a bit beaten up when he's called into Kersh's office. He should've listened to Scully and got out of the X-files when he had a chance.
So how much time has passed until Mulder wakes up?
I'm really hoping Mulder wouldn't have made the "who are you" joke if he had known what Scully had gone through, cause she looked as though she was about to have a heartattack. Is that his panic face after Scully asks him whether he knows what he's been through?
I have to admit his voice sounds really strong after being dead for 3 months.
Felt a bit sad for Doggett at the end.

Scully: "He was the last. His father and mother... his sister... all gone. I think the real tragedy... is that for all of his pain and searching... the truth that he worked so hard to find was never truly revealed to him. I can't truly believe that I'm really standing here."
Skinner: "I know. And I don't truly believe that... Mulder's the last."

Doggett: "Hey, good morning, Agent Scully. How you feeling today?"
Scully: "I'm fine. How are you feeling?"
Doggett: "Me? Good. But then I don't got a little J Edgar to lug around."
Scully: "AD Skinner just called. He told me about your meeting with Kersh."
Doggett: "Well, whatever he told you I'm still going to be here to drive you crazy with questions and nagging doubt."
Scully: "You'd be crazy to stay, Agent Doggett. This is a huge career opportunity for you."
Doggett: "It's not my career he's got in mind."
Scully: "What do you mean?"
Doggett: "In six weeks, you go on maternity leave. Kersh transfers me out, guess what? He gets to lock that door over there for good."
Scully: "You don't owe me anything, Agent Doggett."
Doggett: "They put me down here to find Mulder. I found him. So what? We still got an open file on this case and I got big questions. What?"
Scully: "I heard the same speech come out of my mouth seven years ago. Get out while you can, Agent Doggett... or you may never get out at all."

Scully: "Is it true?"
Skinner: "Slow down."
Scully: "No. I want to see him."
Skinner: "I know you do..."
Scully: "No, I need to see him, damn it!"
Skinner: "You're not going in there. Scully, you can't."
Scully: "Tell me it's true. Tell me."

Scully: "What did they say? I need to see him."
Doggett: "I know... but I wish you wouldn't."

Nurse: "Who are you, and what are you doing?"
Scully: "Nothing. I was just looking in on the patient and he started to go into grand mal seizure. I think he's all right now. It's okay. I'm sorry... I'm a doctor. My name is Scully, and I'm with the FBI."
Nurse: "You're here to treat him?"
Scully: "No. No, I... the man down the hall was my... is my partner and we knew Billy and I guess I was just hoping that there might be some indication that he was getting better... somehow.

Doggett: "You can't do this to yourself."
Scully: "You asked me not to come in here, Agent Doggett. I hope you're not asking me to leave."
Doggett: "Concern's for your well being, Agent Scully. That's all it's ever for. I felt this was a bad idea from the start. I told the Assistant Director so. Worrying about the effect it might have on you."
Scully: "You mean finding Mulder alive?"
Doggett: "I know you came in here with the doctors. I'm sure you must have asked them what his chances are. "
Scully: "Agent Doggett... However I felt about you when we first met, you changed my opinion, with the quality of your character and of your work. Now, I am thankful to know you and I am thankful for your concern... But no matter what Mulder's chances are, the choice not to open up that grave was wrong. And not because of me personally, but as my partner on the X-Files. Now, the truth may hurt but it's all that matters."

Skinner: "What are the chances this could be due to an alien influence? Could it be a virus?"
Scully: "Why are you asking me this? Sir, if you know something... look, we're working against the clock here. This, this could happen to Mulder. And until we know what it is we have to do everything to control it."
Skinner: "There may be a vaccine."
Scully: "Where?"
Skinner: "It doesn't come without a price."
Scully: "This is about saving a man's life."
Skinner: "Yes. It is."

Scully: "Mulder... Hi."
Mulder: "Who are you?"
Scully: "Oh, my god. Don't do that to me. Do you know...? Do you have any idea what you've been through?"
Mulder: "Only what I see in your face. Anybody miss me?"


Three words
Would you really get that far without being shot if you climbed over the gates of the White House?
Mulder is having flashbacks, but at least he's in perfect health. Doesn't look to happy though.
So did Scully keep paying for his apartment because she didn't have any room for his fish tank at her place? Mulder gave his fish names? How...normal...
And what happened to his black leather jacket, looked better than the brown one.
Good thing Mulder says he's happy for Scully, cause he sure could've fooled me.
I'm by no means a fashion guru, but what the hell were they wearing when they got to his apartment and what happened to Mulder's black leather jacket? Looks like Scully has a panic face as well, after Mulder tells her he's having trouble processing everything.
Meanwhile Doggett looks as though he'd like to shoot Kersh.
Never noticed this before, but apparently Mulder has a bicycle hanging on his wall/ceiling.
Why was that train blowing its horn long before Absolom even got close to it?
Apples are all the rage this season on the X-Files; Doggett 's got an iMac.
Mulder seems to be reconnecting with his jerk-side again as he basically tells Scully she can't run the X-Files.
Mulder almost looks happier to meet the gunmen than Scully. Why exactly didn't they visit him in hospital, I'm assuming if you wake up after being burried for 3 months they keep you in there for over a day.
Mulder looks surprised that the Gunmen have questions concerning Scully's pregnancy.
Where was Scully going with the cab and why was Mulder still at her place?
Doggett runs out to find Mulder despite the fact that he attacked him in Skinner's office. Why do all these paranoid FBI agents leave their home with someone else still there? They really have given up on home security on the X-Files.

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."

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."

X files movie marathon:

Millenium
The X-files and Millenium crossover episode with Frank Black. I never watched Millenium but right now I have this urge to go out and buy the DVD box.
I really wish they would've mentioned Scully's ouroborus tattoo, pretty sure Mulder could've made some sarcastic/jealous reference to it.
Scully believes in zombies for a change. Though I have to admit she doesn't seem to have as much trouble believing what she sees anymore lately.
In the end, Scully saves Mulder and Frank Black from more zombies (and possibly the end of the world). I was a bit surprised to see how big Mulder's circle of salt was, he must have really big hands...
Mulder finally has the guts to kiss Scully on the lips. After rewinding it a couple of times, I still can't figure out what they were thinking. They both seemed surprised and happy right after the kiss and then Mulder opens his mouth says the world didn't end and they both look sort of dissapointed. Why couldn't Mulder open his mouth during the kiss and kept it closed afterwards ;-)


Rush
Mulder looks extremely happy to see Scully (maybe I interpreted the reaction after the Millenium kiss completely wrong after all?). Didn't find the episode all that interesting apart from some Mulder and Scully interactions. At least Chuck's back again. I like Chuck, he's like Mulder and Scully rolled into one (he just doesn't look that good).


The Goldberg Variation
Mulder laughs at Scully's joke. He seems to be doing that a lot more lately, or maybe Scully is just joking more again.
One of my favourite scenes in this episode is Mulder trying to do some plumbing and failing miserably, eventually falling through the floor.
He also looks a bit queesy when Weems puts his fake eye in again.
Scully says she likes baseball too (I'd like baseball too after some private coaching from Mulder).


Orison
I quite like this episode and I love that song (then again, I'm a bit of an 80s freak when it comes to music). There are a few weird twists as well, like why do they suddenly stop looking for Pfaster after Orison turns up dead. You'd think after all Scully went through with Pfaster, they would both be pretty determined to lock him up again.
Although there's quite a bit of angst it has a few funny moments as wel, like Mulder waving his hand trying to make Scully do something.
On top of all Pfaster's other freaky fetishes he now has a red-hair fetish as well. When Pfaster was attacking Scully and she got away, why did she run for the phone, why not just run outside. I'm pretty sure she could've outrun him. And what's up with her neighbours? Are they all deaf or something, why didn't they call the cops?
I really wish she hadn't shot Pfaster though, it's just not something she would do (I know I know, that's the whole point, but still). In my opinion, if anybody was going to shoot Pfaster it would have to have been Mulder, right after he walked into the apartment. You know, just enter, shoot and look for Scully, not waisting precious time keeping Pfaster at gunpoint instead of trying to find out if Scully was ok.


The amazing Maleeni
It's an amusing episode with a few funny scenes, but that's about it.
There is of course the part where Scully calls Mulder a skeptic.
And how did Scully do that trick? I think I knew how to do that when I was a kid but I can't seem to remember anymore now.

Signs and wonders
Another religiously tinted episode. Now all of a sudden believes in the devil? Maybe because of all the snakes. Story didn't make a lot of sense though.

Sein und Zeit
Finally they put an end to the Samantha mytharc. Don't quite understand why Mulder's mother had to commit suicide. What's the point, to make Mulder even more miserable? And why is Mulder's mother burning their photographs?
Mulder acting weirder than usual; he is actually asking for some time off, can't be a good sign. Scully comforting Mulder after his mother's suicide.
Scully in full protective mode when Skinner knocks on Mulder's door.

Closure
Scully breaks into Mulder's moms house. CSM breaks into Scully's apartment.
Why doesn't Scully tell Mulder CSM came to talk to her? For two people who are so eager to find the truth, Mulder and Scully sure keep a lot of secrets from eachother.
I just love the ending where Mulder says he's free.
Really like that music with the scene with all the walk-ins, very fitting.
Still don't understand why the walk-ins made the parents write those weird notes after their child had been taken in Sein und Zeit.
Although I really liked these two episodes and how they solve the mystery surrounding Samantha, it does leave a bit of a bad taste after 7 years of everybody claiming she was still alive. I'm also finding it hard to believe Mulder's mom knew about what happened to Samantha all these years. I mean, she obviously wasn't the world's best mom, but not telling Mulder would be downright cruel.


X-cops
The storyline isn't very interesting, but not as bad as I thought it was. And there are some pretty funny scenes in there. Like Scully trying to hide for the camera, Mulder and Scully in the middle of a domestic disturbance, all the bleeping and blurred faces.
And if looks could kill, those cameramen would be dead from the "Scully-glare".