- Dana Scully: Do you know how much the human body is worth, Mulder?
- Fox Mulder: Depends on the body. I don't know, a few bucks?
- [while conducting an autopsy]
- Fox Mulder: You're saying that this guy was selling his body parts for money?
- Dana Scully: A kidney, a portion of the liver, a cornea, bone marrow - a person can lose these things and live to cash the social security checks.
- Fox Mulder: He won't be cashing any social security checks any time soon.
- [to Mulder and Scully]
- Det. Glen Chao: Look, you don't even know what the hell you're dealing with. This isn't some pretty little lacquer box you can just take the lid off and find out what's inside. You might see the face of a Chinese man here but let me tell you something: they don't see the same face. They see the face of a cop. American-born Chinese - A.B.C. To them, I'm just as white as you are.
- Det. Glen Chao: I find it hard to argue with 2,000 years of Chinese belief - the stuff my parents and grandparents believe in. But the truth is, I'm more haunted by the size of my mortgage payments.
- Fox Mulder: [Finds body in newly dug grave] Looks like somebody was trying to get two burials for the price of one.
- Fox Mulder: Ghosts or ancestral spirits have been central to Chinese spiritual life for centuries.
- Dana Scully: So you're saying that the ancestral spirits pushed Johnny Lo into the oven and turned on the gas?
- Fox Mulder: That would sure teach him to respect his elders, wouldn't it?