- Fox Mulder: I've seen too many things not to believe
- Scully: I've seen things, too. But there are answers to be found now. We have hope that there's a place to start. That's what I believe.
- Fox Mulder: [sighing] You put such faith in your science, Scully, but... from the things I've seen, science provides no place to start.
- Scully: Nothing happens in contradiction to nature, only in contradiction to what we know of it. And that's a place to start. That's where the hope is.
- Alien Bounty Hunter: [opens the door to Mrs. Mulder's room and walks over to the bed, looking at the respirator. He looks over to the Cigarette-Smoking Man on the other side of the bed] I need to know the reasons why this should be.
- The Cigarette Smoking Man: So that the work may continue. So that the project may proceed unabated by removing an unnecessary obstacle.
- Alien Bounty Hunter: What obstacle?
- The Cigarette Smoking Man: Agent Mulder, actually.
- [stares down at Ms. Mulder and holds his unlit cigarette]
- The Cigarette Smoking Man: If his mother were to die, he would...
- Alien Bounty Hunter: He what?
- The Cigarette Smoking Man: You see... the fiercest enemy is the man who has nothing left to lose. And you know how important Agent Mulder is to the equation.
- Alien Bounty Hunter: [nods slightly, then closes the door, then places his hand on Mrs. Mulder's forehead and closes his eyes. Mrs. Mulder's eyes open and she looks at The Cigarette Smoking Man]
- Elder: He isn't coming.
- The Cigarette Smoking Man: I told you.
- Elder: Then where is he?
- The Cigarette Smoking Man: I don't know. Certainly he anticipated we'd be here waiting.
- Elder: [the door opens and the Gray-Haired Man walks in. The Elder closes the door] Unless we have a security leak.
- The Cigarette Smoking Man: Who?
- Elder: I've come in receipt of some pictures... of your visit to Mrs. Mulder's summer house.
- [He hands Cigarette Smoking Man a picture of him and Ms. Mulder arguing on the porch]
- Elder: Were you aware you were being photographed?
- The Cigarette Smoking Man: By whom?
- Elder: I believe that can be determined by a simple planting of information... to see where that information flows.
- The Cigarette Smoking Man: What information?
- Elder: That Mrs. Mulder's life is in danger... that left unprotected... she may come to an unnatural end.
- The Cigarette Smoking Man: [looks down at Mrs. Mulder]