The truth is out there
First of all, I must thank my brother for bringing the joy of The X-Files into my life. He was at home visiting from Santa Barbara on the eve of November 22, 1998, which was the air date for the 6th season episode "Triangle." For some reason, even though I have always been an avid TV watcher, I had not watched the critically acclaimed show before that night. Of course, my brother was a huge fan, so we turned on the TV to channel 11 at 9:00 p.m. Actually, he didn't have to twist my arm - I wanted to watch because I heard from my co-worker that there was supposed to be this big kiss, plus my curiousity about the show had already been raised by the fact that the movie had done so well that summer. As I watched the show and the incredible performance Gillian Anderson gave in dual roles, I couldn't believe what I had been missing all those years. GA is just amazing, talented beyond belief. With her intensity and brilliance, she definitely is the best actress in my mind, and by far, Scully is my favorite character on the show. Actually I'm somewhat protective of her, so Chris Carter if you're listening, will you please give Scully some happiness - she deserves it, and will you get her that desk already for crying out loud.
The scene in Triangle where Scully is marching through the corridors of the FBI desperately trying to get the information she needs to save Mulder is so good, I had to include it here. The part where Scully, in obvious excitement, spontaneously kisses A.D. Skinner on the mouth still makes me laugh to this day. Anyways, after watching that one episode, my favorite still, I was hooked. I jumped on the internet to find out everything that had happened previously on the show, printed out the episode lists, and began my quest to watch every X-Files episode. I watched the FX marathons, seeing four eps in a row five days a week, rented The X-Files movie, and pretty much watched the show everyday as the show airs Saturday and Sunday on FOX as well. The series is too awesome to describe in words, you just have to watch it. It has everything I can possible ask for (Chris Carter is a genius!): drama, humor, romance, great acting, writing, directing, special effects, music, cinematography, etc. I got caught up in the great characters, the always dangerous investigations into the paranormal, and the mythology of the show - the ongoing government conspiracy, the plans for alien colonization, the human-alien hybrids and alien abductions, the viruses, and the different alien races. But most of all, I became involved in Mulder and Scully's quest for the truth, their undying trust and devotion in one another, their special bond and connection, and that incredible love that they so obviously share. It's beautiful! They are without a doubt the most romantic and sexiest couple on television. Unquestionably, they belong together and I know that they could never be complete without the other. So now I am one of the many dedicated fans of the show, called "shippers," who is greatly anticipating the moment when the two attractive agents finally do kiss and make passionate love. "I'd like it to finish with us in bed together," GA once told the Daily Mirror of a possible coupling between Scully and Mulder. "It's time she let loose with some of that hidden passion." My sentiments exactly! With the series nearing a close, how will it all end?
To tell you the truth, I don't know if I could have beared to wait out the span of six years to watch each breathtaking episode, especially with those cliffhangers. I'm just glad I was lucky enough to discover The X-Files before the end of its glorious run. My advice to those who don't already watch The X-Files, BEGIN WATCHING NOW! Better late than never at all. Don't miss out!
[WHAT WAS SAID REGARDING THE FILMING OF THE HALLWAY SCENE:
Rob Bowman: "...what's not on the film - is -- blast... they started the scene,
they got right into the drama - you know the whole time they knew --
coming closer and closer and closer - and then -- tongues came out
- and then they slapped up against the wall -- she drove him up
against the wall - his arms went up, his eyes opened up and then ...
they slipped right out of frame... so they did it again!"
David Duchovny: "We did it to our liking -- and then we said, let us
do one more... then I kind of pushed Gillian up against the wall ..."
Gillian Anderson let us know about the almost kiss: "I have to say
that shooting the hallway scene was probably one of my favorites...
It was really close, wasn't it. I mean that was like a millimeter away
- Yeah -- That was pretty hot wasn't it! It was pretty good."]
Mulder rescues a naked Scully from alien tank, dresses her in his snow suit, and carries her off. Mulder performs mouth to mouth resuscitation on Scully before she responds w/ "I had you big time." Later, Scully snuggles close to him for body heat - Movie, Fight the Future
Mulder and Scully walk off holding hands - Movie, Fight the Future
MULDER: There's an interesting work of fiction on page 24. Mysteriously, our names have been omitted. They're burying this thing, Scully. They're just going to dig a new hole and cover it up. SCULLY: I told OPR everything I know. What I experienced, the virus, how it's spread by the bees from pollen in transgenic crops. MULDER: You're wasting your time, Scully. They'll never believe you, not unless your story can be programmed, categorized, or easily referenced. SCULLY: Well, then we'll go over their heads. MULDER: No. No. How many times have we been here before, Scully? Right here. So close to the truth and now with what we've seen and what we know to be right back at the beginning with nothing. SCULLY: This is different, Mulder. MULDER: No it isn't! You were right to want to quit! You were right to want to leave me! You should get as far away from me as you can! I'm not going to watch you die, Scully, because of some hollow personal cause of mine. Go be a doctor. Go be a doctor while you still can. SCULLY: I can't. I won't. Mulder, I'll be a doctor, but my work is here with you now. That virus that I was exposed to, whatever it is, it has a cure. You held it in your hand. How many other lives can we save? Look ... If I quit now, they win.
2. Mulder gets trapped on a ship in the Bermuda Triangle back in 1939, and meets a woman who he believes is Scully. He later kisses her before she punches him in the face. Back in the present - Mulder tells Scully he loves her, but she doesn't take him seriously. After she leaves his hospital room, Mulder breaks into a big smile as he thinks about their kiss - Triangle (6th season)
1939 SCULLY: So, if I don't turn this ship around...? MULDER: In all likelihood, I won't exist. And neither will you. So, in case we never meet again...
MULDER: I would've never seen you again. But you believed me. SCULLY: In your dreams. Mulder, I want you to close your eyes and I want you to think to yourself "there's no place like home." MULDER: Hey, Scully.
SCULLY: Yes?
MULDER: I love you.
SCULLY: Oh, brother...
3. Decontamination Shower Scene (Mulder and Scully's wandering eyes) - One Son (6th season)
4. Scully's Journal Entries and Hallway Scene - Memento Mori (4th season)
MULDER: The truth will save you, Scully. I think it'll save both of us.
5. Scully discovers Mulder sitting naked in tub, hands him a towel, and then plays doctor - Demons (4th season)
6. Mulder and Scully sensuously examine each other's nape region to check for parasitic infection - Ice (1st season)
SCULLY: If that’s true, then why didn’t you let us inspect you? MULDER: I would have but you pulled a gun on me. Now I don’t trust them. I want to trust you. SCULLY: Okay. But now they’re not here.
7. Mulder's hand reaches towards Scully's breasts to center her necklace as she looks on - Squeeze (1st season)
SCULLY: It seems like you were acting very territorial, I don't know, forget it. MULDER: Of course I was.
8. Eddie Van Blundt (disguised as relaxed Mulder) wines and sweet talks Scully into perhaps sharing a kiss, until the real Mulder busts through the door and stares in shock, probably wishing that it was him about to kiss Scully on the couch - Small Potatoes (4th season)
SCULLY: So there we are at two o'clock in the morning, me and my moire taffeta dress and Marcus in whatever the hell it was he was wearing - (faux Mulder pounds at the bottom of the wine bottle to get the last drop out) thank you very much. It had a um... a kelly green cummerbund on it. Anyway, so, I know that Marcus is thinking that it's now or never, and I'm thinking... EDDIE as MULDER: What are you thinking? SCULLY: I'm thinking "what is that siren I hear getting louder?" EDDIE as MULDER: No way! Who called the cops? SCULLY: It wasn't the cops it was the fire department. My friend Sylvia and her idiot prom date ... EDDIE as MULDER: Berwood? SCULLY: ... had built this campfire that went totally out of control and so we all had to ride back on the um... what do you call it? The um, the pumper truck. Yeah. Marcus was the twelfth grade love of my life. I can't believe I'm telling you this! EDDIE as MULDER: I don't believe you haven't told me before. SCULLY: No, I'm seeing a whole new side of you, Mulder. EDDIE as MULDER: Is that a good thing? SCULLY: I like it. EDDIE as MULDER: Do you ever wish things were different? SCULLY: What do you mean? EDDIE as MULDER: The person you wanted to be when you grew up, when you were in high school. How far off from that did you end up? SCULLY: Career wise? Miles off target. EDDIE as MULDER: No, no, not just that. Do you ever wish...that you could go back and do it all differently? SCULLY: Do you? (faux Mulder nods sadly, then slowly begins to make his move on Scully)...
9. Nervous Scully straightens Mulder's tie as they await a meeting w/ Skinner - Bad Blood (5th season)
SCULLY: Mulder, please just keep reminding him you were drugged. MULDER: Would you stop that? SCULLY: It wouldn't hurt. MULDER: Stop it. SKINNER: Scully, Mulder ... MULDER: I was drugged!
10. Scully teases Mulder by eating a nonfat tofutti rice dreamsicle in front of him without sharing, so Mulder tackles her to get a bite of it. Later, Mulder gives Scully a baseball lesson - The Unnatural (6th season)
MULDER: Did you bring enough ice cream to share with the rest of the
class?
SCULLY: It's not ice cream. It's a nonfat
tofutti rice dreamsicle.
MULDER: Ugh. Bet the air in my mouth tastes
better than that. You sure know how to live it up, Scully.
SCULLY: Oh, you're Mr. Live-it-up.
Mulder, you're really Mr. Squeeze-every-last-drop-out-of-this-sweet-life,
aren't you? On this precious Saturday you've got us grabbing life by the
testes stealing reference books from the FBI library in order to go through
New Mexico newspaper obituaries for the years 1940 to 1949 and for what
joyful purpose?
MULDER: Looking for anomalies, Scully. Do you know how many
so-called "flying disc" reports there were in New Mexico in the 1940s?
SCULLY: I don't care. Mulder, this is a needle in a haystack.
These poor souls have been dead for 50 years. Let them rest in peace.
Let sleeping dogs lie.
MULDER: No, I won't sit idly by as you hurl cliches at me.
Preparation is the father of inspiration.
SCULLY: Necessity is the mother of invention.
MULDER: The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
SCULLY: Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow
we may die.
MULDER: I scream, you scream, we all scream for nonfat tofutti rice
dreamsicles.
SCULLY: So, uh... I get this message marked "urgent" on my
answering service from one Fox Mantle telling me to come down
to the park for a very special very early or very late birthday present.
And, Mulder... I don't see any nicely wrapped presents lying around
so, what gives?
MULDER: You've never hit a baseball, have you, Scully?
SCULLY: No, I guess I have, uh... found more necessary things to do
with my time than slap a piece of
horsehide with a stick.
MULDER: Get over here, Scully.
SCULLY: This my birthday present, Mulder?
You shouldn't have.
MULDER: This ain't cheap. I'm paying that kid ten bucks an hour
to shag balls. Hey, it's not a bad piece of ash, huh? The bat-talking about the bat. Now, don't strangle it.
You just want to shake hands with it. "Hello, Mr. Bat. It's a pleasure
to make your acquaintance." "Oh, no, no, Ms. Scully. The pleasure's
all mine." Okay, now, we want to... we want to go hips before hands,
okay? We want to stride
forward and turn. That's all we're thinking about. So, we go hips...
before hands, all right?
SCULLY: Okay.
MULDER: One more time. Hips... before hands, all right?
SCULLY: Yeah.
MULDER: What is it?
SCULLY: Hips before hands.
MULDER: Right. We're going to wait
on the pitch. We're going to keep our eye on the ball. Then, we're just
going to make contact. We're not going to think. We're just going to
let it fly, Scully, okay?
SCULLY: Mm-hmm.
MULDER: Ready?
SCULLY: I'm in the middle.
MULDER: All right, fire away, Poorboy. Ooh! That's good. All right, what you may find is you
concentrate on hitting that little ball... The rest of the world just fades
away-- all your everyday, nagging concerns. The ticking of your biological clock. How you probably couldn't afford that nice, new suede coat on a G-Woman's salary. How you threw away a promising career in medicine
to hunt aliens with a crackpot, albeit brilliant,
partner. Getting into the heart of a global conspiracy. Your
obscenely overdue triple-X bill. Oh, I... I'm sorry, Scully. Those last
two problems are mine, not yours.
SCULLY: Shut up, Mulder. I'm playing baseball.