Dmitri: Why is this always my job?
Russian Engineer: Because you are young. And because it is terrible, smelly work.
(In the sewers)
Detective: Watch yourself.
Mulder: Yeah, wouldn't want to step in anything.
Norman: They say it cuts the smell if you don't breathe through your mouth.
Mulder: They lied.
Norman: Would you like us to turn him over for you?
Mulder: No, I'll take your word on that.
(He starts back towards where they came from.)
Norman: Hey, Agent Mulder. What would you like us to do with the body?
Mulder: (keeps walking) Wrap it up and send it to the F.B.I., care of Assistant Director Skinner.
(Mulder's very pissed waiting to speak to Skinner)
Skinner: Is there a problem, Agent Mulder?
Mulder: Yeah, there is.
Skinner: Then make an appointment.
Mulder: It's kind of hard to make an appointment when you're up to your ass in raw sewage, being jerked around from one meaningless assignment to another.
Skinner: Excuse me?
Mulder: What's my next punishment, scrubbing the bathroom floors with a toothbrush?
Skinner: You're way out of line, Agent Mulder.
Mulder: So I gathered . . .
Scully: Is this seat taken?
Mulder: No. But I should warn you, I'm experiencing violent impulses.
Scully: Well, I'm armed, so I'll take my chances. I hear you really endeared yourself to Assistant Director Skinner today.
Mulder: You know, sometimes, it just gets really hard to smile through it when they ask you to bend down and grab your ankles. You know?
Mulder: They don't want us working together, Scully . . . and right now, that's the only reason I can think of to stay.
Mulder: This was living inside the body?
Scully: Apparently, it had attached itself to the bile duct and was feeding off the liver.
Mulder: Lovely.
Scully: Believe it or not, something like forty million people are infected worldwide.
Mulder: This isn't where you tell me some terrible story about sushi, is it?
Scully: Well, maybe you'd rather hear what you can catch from a nice, rare steak.
Mulder: So, what, the murder weapon was a top sirloin?
Mulder: How big can these things get?
Scully: (she starts to laugh) Mulder, I . . . I'm sorry, felt like old times there for a second.
Scully: They are not creatures that go around attacking people.
Mulder: Well, that's good. I didn't want to have to tell Skinner that his murder suspect was a giant, blood-sucking worm.
Mulder: Scully, it's me. You know that fluke you caught?
Scully: Yeah.
Mulder: It must have been the runt of the litter.
Scully: Platyhelminthis are often hermaphroditic. Mulder, this is amazing. It's vestigial features appear to be parasitic, but it has primate physiology. Where the hell did it come from?
Mulder: I don't know, but it looks like I'm going to have to tell Skinner that his suspect is a giant, blood-sucking worm after all.
Scully: And, Mulder . . . when you see Skinner to hand in your field report, I know that it's your decision, but I hope that you know that I'd consider it more than a professional loss if you decided to leave.
Skinner: The justice department has asked that the suspect be transferred to an institution for a full psychiatric evaluation.
Mulder: This is not a man. It's a monster. You can't put it in an institution.
Skinner: Then what do you do with it, Agent Mulder, put it in a zoo?
Mulder: You know, you had a pair of agents that could have handled a case like this. Agent Scully and I might have been able to save that man's life, but you shut us down.
Skinner: I know. This should have been an X-File.
Scully: Is this seat taken?
Mulder: No. But I should warn you, I may reek a bit out of the sewer.
Scully: I'll take my chances.
Scully: Mulder, nature didn't make this thing. We did . . .
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