The X-Files (TV Series)

Tooms (1994)

David Duchovny: Fox Mulder

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• Fox Mulder : Do you have that sandwich I asked you to bring?

  Dana Scully : It's liverwurst.

  Dana Scully : Mulder, you know that proper surveillance requires two pairs of agents, one pair relieving the other after 12 hours.

  Fox Mulder : Article 30, paragraph 8.7?

  Dana Scully : This isn't about doing it by the book. This is about you not having slept for three days. Mulder, you're gonna get sloppy and you're gonna get hurt. It's inevitable at this point.

  Fox Mulder : A request for other agents to stake out Tooms would be denied. 'Til then, we have no grounds.

  Dana Scully : Well then, I'll stay here. You go home.

  Fox Mulder : They're out to put an end to the X-Files, Scully. I don't know why, but any excuse will do. I don't really care about my record, but you'd be in trouble just sitting in this car. And I'd hate to see you carry an official reprimand in your career file because of me.

  Dana Scully : Fox...

  Fox Mulder : [Rueful laughing]  I... I... even made my parents call me Mulder. So... Mulder.

  Dana Scully : Mulder, I wouldn't put myself on the line for anybody but you.

  Fox Mulder : If there's an iced tea in that bag, it could be love.

  Dana Scully : Must be fate, Mulder. Root beer.

• Mulder : You can get the next mutant.

• [trying to distract Eugene Tooms] 

  Mulder : Excuse me. Could you help me find my dog? He's a Norwegian Elkhound. His name is Heinrick. I use him to hunt moose!

• [Skinner talks to Mulder in private] 

  Walter Skinner : Agent Scully, may I have a word with Agent Mulder, please?

  [Scully leaves the room; the Cigarette Smoking Man stubs out a cigarette and lights a new one. Skinner takes off his glasses and sits next to Mulder] 

  Walter Skinner : Fox... you are one of the finest, most unique agents in the nearly sixty-year history of this institution. I mean, we were talking about you when you were in the academy. Now, most of us, including the director, feel that your talents are wasted on the X-Files. But we respect that you're deeply invested in those areas. But if these areas are creating such stress as to not only cause you to act inappropriately, but those agents close to you as well, then may I advise you to step away... for a while. Clear your head, take an extended vacation.

  Fox Mulder : That's a good idea. Thanks for your concern.

  [realizing he's not getting through, Skinner goes back to his desk and puts his glasses back on] 

  Walter Skinner : [quietly]  You're forbidden to go near Eugene Tooms.

  [Mulder gets up and prepares to leave] 

  Walter Skinner : Mulder...

  [Mulder stops] 

  Walter Skinner : This was close. Any closer and a thousand friends at the Capitol won't be able to help you.