Scully: Mulder, have you been spreading rumors?
Mulder: Why? You hear any good ones lately?
Mulder: To answer your question -- no, I haven't been spreading any rumors. The local PD's been doing a pretty good job of that ever since they matched the fingerprints of the dead man to these.
Mulder: Merry Christmas, by the way, Scully.
Scully: Thank you. Merry Christmas to you, too.
Mulder: . . . He may also desire to wear the clothes of the dead man to create a bond between them. You would not want to be this man's dry cleaner.
Mulder: Well, go ahead, Scully, naysay me. The body of an FBI agent gets disinterred only to climb out on its own and disappear into the Yuletide night.
Scully: See, you had me up until there.
Mulder: Did I?
Scully: Single-minded.
Mulder: Yeah.
Scully: Sounds like someone I know.
Frank Black: It's first and 18. Just let me watch this game in peace.
(Mulder looks up at the football game. The score's 7 to 7, 3rd and 10.)
Mulder: (not happy) It's third and ten. It's third and ten, Notre Dame.
Frank: Happy New Year.
Mulder: (really not happy) Same to you.
Scully: Well, if you're going to tell me that he, uh stopped by the side of the road to raise the dead, which I hope you're not, I've got two things to say to you. One is that his previous circles were made of blood, not salt, and two . . .
Mulder: And they were large enough to contain a body. This is just a protective circle. It's just big enough for one man to stand inside.
Scully: Protecting himself against what?
(They look down a a patch of bloody ground.)
Mulder: Whatever it was that did that.
Mulder: "I am he that liveth and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, amen; And have the keys of hell and of death."
Cop: Book of Revelation chapter one, verse 18.
Mulder: Go Fighting Irish.
Scully: The year 2000 is just their artificial deadline and besides, 2001 is actually the start of the new millennium.
Mulder: Nobody likes a math geek, Scully.
Mulder: Oh, Scully, will you do me a favor? Don't let anybody remove the staples from the deputy's mouth, okay? Please? Just humor me. Thanks.
(Mulder tries to make a call, but his cell phone registers No Service.)
Mulder: Welcome to the boondocks.
("Auld lang syne" is playing, couples are kissing on the TV screen . . . Mulder looks at the kissing couples, then at Scully who is watching the TV. He looks at her lips. Mulder leans down toward her. She turns to him. They kiss. For about 7 seconds. Very sweet. They pull apart and look at each other and smile. Perfect.)
Mulder: The world didn't end.
Scully: No, it didn't.
Mulder: Happy New Year, Scully.
Scully: Happy New Year, Mulder.
(Mulder puts his arm around Scully's shoulders and they walk out of the waiting room together.)
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