Mulder: So which one of us gets to use the stun gun on Bruno Houtman back there?
Mulder: So why would she stab her boyfriend through the ear? The magic was gone?
Scully: Mulder, take a look at this. You see this smeariness here? I'm thinking that it's heat damage. With the uh heater sitting under the film right there that the emulsion probably melted.
Mulder: So you think that might make it look like she posed, screaming, for a passport photo?
Scully: Plus the film is two years out of date . . . that . . .
Mulder: Oh . . .
Scully: . . that the photographic chemistry could have changed . . .
Mulder: Yeah . . .
Scully: . . . the dyes fade . . . they . . . (gives up) all right, so what's your theory?
Mulder: I'm not sure I have a theory.
Scully: So you're thinking the woman planted the photo of herself in the drugstore?
Mulder: Why would she do that?
Scully: I . . .
Mulder: (Finds camera) Here it is. Stand back, Scully. It's loaded.
Mulder: He claimed that by concentrating on an unexposed film negative he could create a photographic representation of what he saw in his mind. He did landscapes . . . uh cathedrals . . . the Queen of England.
Scully: Thoughtographs.
Mulder: Then those photos wouldn't be his fantasies, they would be his nightmares.
Scully: What the hell does it matter now?
Mulder: Because I want to know.
Scully: I don't.
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