Scully: I shot a young boy.

Doggett: The good news is, you're wrong.

Scully: But it's what I saw. With my eyes, anyway. Do you know what it's like not to be able to trust your own eyes?

Doggett: Then why'd you shoot him?

Scully: Because it's what the boy saw. And in an instant I realized that it's what Mulder would have seen or understood. (She starts to cry) Because that's just how he came at things . . . without judgment and without prejudice and with an open mind that I am just not capable of.

Doggett: It's been a long night. Give yourself a break. This whole thing doesn't make any sense.

Scully: No . . . it did. In some way, it did.

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