Scully: Aren't you going home?
Mulder: I am home. I'm just feathering the nest.
Scully: A dog? A "dog" dog?
Mulder: Yo quiero Taco Bell.
Scully: What happened to the dog?
Mulder: Dog gone . . . Dog gone . . . (proudly) Doggone.
Scully: Yeah, I got it.
Scully: You're not going to tell me that a dog did this.
Mulder: A bad dog.
Mulder: Cryptozoologist?
Officer: Yeah they deal with animals thought to be extinct.
Mulder: Animals that aren't supposed to exist like Sasquatch and the Ogopogo and the Abominable Snowman and . . .
Scully: Don't mind him. He'll go on forever.
Mulder: (to Detweiler) Loose? Sounds a little more than loose. It seems to have killed two people.
(Mulder carefully walks across the yard avoiding the piles of dog poo)
Mulder: (indicating the dog poo - to Scully) Watch your step.
Scully: In this case, it bit off the man's hand. There's some talk in the house that he may have been involved in the theft of the animal and that it turned on him.
Mulder: Talk about biting the hand that feeds you.
Mulder: I think we're speaking in too common terms about an animal we're calling a dog but which displays none of the behavior of man's best friend.
Scully: You mean covering up crime scenes?
Mulder: (smiles) You get a biscuit, Scully.
Stacy Muir: You two looking for Karin about boarding?
Mulder: No, it's actually more of a behavior problem.
Scully: (glancing up at Mulder) Yeah, he doesn't listen and he chews on the furniture.
Scully: Mulder . . . She's a friend of yours?
Mulder: We met online.
Scully: Online . . .
Mulder: Two professionals exchanging information.
Scully: How well do you know this woman, Mulder?
Mulder: How well do you know anybody you meet on the internet? She likes to talk.
Scully: Well, I question her motives.
Mulder: You're suggesting that this case was a way to get me out here, to meet me?
(Scully doesn't answer. Mulder smiles.)
Mulder: I'm flattered, but, no. I don't know this woman. I'd go out on a limb and say there's no way in hell she has anything to do with those four people being dead.
Scully: She's enamored of you, Mulder. Don't underestimate a woman. They can be tricksters, too.
(They share a look.)
Scully: No. This is my investigation.
Karin: Of . . .?
Scully: You.
Karin: I've ignored the symptoms for years. I've always felt more like a wolf than a person.
Scully: But not with Mulder. With Mulder, you found somebody you could communicate with . . . someone who challenged you . . . But that wasn't enough. You needed to lure him out here.
Karin: I lack your feminine wiles.
(Scully gives a package to Mulder and leaves the office. He opens the tube and removes a poster. He looks at it, then pins it to the wall. He sits in his chair and looks up at it. It's the "I Want to Believe" poster from Karin Berquist's office.)
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