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8x02

8-02darkness.wav
SCULLY: We live in a darkness of our own making... blind to a habitant world all but unseen by us. A world of beings traveling through time and space imaginable to us only as flights of fancy. Who are these beings we dare to imagine but fear to accept? What dark work goes on inside their impossible machines... cloaked from us by invisible forces? If they know our secrets, why can't we know theirs?

8-02stand_off.wav
DOGGETT: Let him go, or I will be compelled to use my weapon. Now, I don't want to do that, Agent Mulder. I don't want to shoot. Now, are you armed? Come on, damn it. This is just stupid, Agent Mulder. Don't turn this into a movie. Just tell me if you've got a gun. It's too hot for this B.S.

8-02cant_be.wav
SCULLY: Where is he? Where's Mulder?
DOGGETT: I don't know.
SCULLY: You don't know? I heard an agent say over the radio that you saw him.
DOGGETT: Oh, yeah, I saw him. I saw him back right off that cliff there and I saw him fall right over there.
SKINNER: Then where is he?
DOGGETT: He's gone.
SKINNER: Come on, he can't be gone.
DOGGETT: Yeah, he can't be, but he is.

8-02running.wav
DOGGETT: A cop sees things. A man drops five stories, dusts his head off and goes back to work. An old lady gets shot point-blank in a Chinese restaurant, plucks the slug out of her egg foo yung. But even if Mulder survives this, what he does then is too much. You got your point of impact there where Agent Scully is standing... clear and identifiable. And a set of tracks here leading down to the wash. Look at these tracks. What do you see? Mulder was running.

8-02mulder.wav
SCULLY: It wasn't Mulder.
DOGGETT: That's the one thing I'm sure of.
SCULLY: It may have looked like Mulder, but it wasn't Mulder.
DOGGETT: I told you I knew Mulder. Okay, maybe I didn't know him that well. But I know who it was up there, and it was Fox Mulder.
SCULLY: I'm sure it did look like Mulder, and you have every reason to believe that it was him... but it was not Mulder.

8-02question.wav
SCULLY: I told you that I've seen things... things that I can't explain. Well, I have seen what looks like a man … transform into another man.
DOGGETT: What looks like a man, but who's not a man? So, what is he?
SCULLY: You don't want to know.
DOGGETT: He's not a man? What the hell is he? Hey, don't turn your back on me. I'm asking you a legitimate question.
SCULLY: He's alien.

8-02remind.wav
DOGGETT: You know, Agent Scully... you're, uh, you're starting to remind me a lot of Agent Mulder yourself.
SCULLY: Well then, you explain it to me.
SKINNER: If it's true or possible, what you're saying-- that there's someone like this out there, this bounty hunter-- he could just become anyone. You, me, any damn one of us.
SCULLY: I think that it is true. And possible. And wherever Mulder is right now... he better damn well be smiling.

8-02smiling.wav
SCULLY: And wherever Mulder is right now... he better damn well be smiling.

8-02wrong_person.wav
SKINNER: What I want to know is how Doggett got out here. How did he even know where we were going?
SCULLY: I don't know. But he's going to turn this place upside down looking for the wrong person.

8-02take_me.wav
GIBSON PRAISE: You shouldn't have come. You'll lead them to me.
SCULLY: I'm here to protect you, Gibson. I know you know that's the truth. I know you know my thoughts.
GIBSON PRAISE: I know they took the man you work with … Mulder. And now, they've come to take me.

8-02know_it.wav
GIBSON PRAISE: If they find me, they'll take me. I know it. I've always known it.

8-02once_before.wav
SCULLY: I'm going to come back for you. I promise. I'm not going to let anything bad happen to you.
GIBSON PRAISE: You said that to me once before.

8-02do_the_job.wav
DOGGETT: (on phone) Yeah, this is John Doggett.
KERSH: (on phone) Agent Doggett, I'm getting reports from Arizona...
DOGGETT: (on phone) Yes, sir.
KERSH: (on phone) ...That you found Agent Mulder.
DOGGETT: (on phone) I'm afraid somebody jumped the gun on that. I saw him, sir, but I...
KERSH: (on phone) What do you mean, you saw him? What the hell is going on out there?
DOGGETT: (on phone) Well, we're 'round the clock here. I've got local SAR, a rolling ground cordon and an eye in the sky. We're on top of the situation.
KERSH: (on phone) How does the FBI find a man and then lose him in the middle of the desert? 'Cause I'd like to know. Agent Doggett, are you there?
DOGGETT: (on phone) Yeah. I heard the question.
KERSH: (on phone) I put you in charge out there, Doggett. Now do the damn job.

8-02amuse.wav
DOGGETT: This amuse you? I amuse you?
SKINNER: No. It just made sense to me. How you found your way out here. Who led you to Gibson Praise.
DOGGETT: You think I was spying on you?
SKINNER: No, but I think our new Deputy Director was. You're being made a pawn in a rigged game.

8-02approach.wav
DOGGETT: All right, you've painted me the picture, now put it in a frame.
SKINNER: All right. You've got a good rep, Agent Doggett. You don't compromise, you don't quit. You're a damned good FBI agent-- best of the best. Lot of guys put you in the Director's chair one day. Which is why you've been set up to fail. There's no amount of search and rescue or rolling cordons or eyes in the sky that are going to turn up Mulder. It's just the wrong approach.
DOGGETT: It's not a question of approach. It's the only approach I got.
SKINNER: The only way you're going to find Mulder is to give into the truth. To listen to Scully. But even then... say you did find him, even then you lose. You put anything about aliens or UFOs or alien bounty hunters in your report... Kersh will ruin you. I'm betting that was his plan.

8-02pointing.wav
SKINNER: I don't like pointing guns at pregnant women any more than I like them pointing guns at me.

8-02enough.wav
SKINNER: This has gone too far, Scully.
SCULLY: No. That's what's wrong here. It hasn't gone far enough.

8-02first.wav
SCULLY: We are being hampered here by the FBI, by John Doggett, by doubt, by our own mistrust. Whatever it is, it is working... as long as we let it.
SKINNER: You told me Mulder wouldn't allow it. Wouldn't let me ruin my career over this. Over him. But what about you, Scully? I mean, my god, you've got even more at stake.
SCULLY: I-I can't take the chance that I'm never going to see him again.
SKINNER: Mulder could just come walking out of the dark-- we don't know.
SCULLY: Look... we've got one last chance here waiting for us out there in the desert-- Gibson Praise. It may just be who gets to him first.

8-02call_it.wav
SCULLY: For someone who claims he's not following me, you sure have a knack.
DOGGETT: Hey, you're where the action is.
SCULLY: What does that tell you? That I'm crazy or that I'm right?
DOGGETT: Wandering around in the desert in the dead of night, you call it.

8-02crap.wav
SCULLY: You say you want to find Mulder but you won't do what it takes. You're afraid that I'm right.
DOGGETT: I'm not afraid of anything. Except that maybe Mulder's got even you believing in this crap now.
SCULLY: You've seen this crap for yourself now. How do you explain what took place today?
DOGGETT: Let me ask you something hypothetically. Now, if you were to find him out here or this ship or this alien bounty hunter, what would you do then?
SCULLY: I know what Agent Mulder would do. He'd do whatever it took.
DOGGETT: You mean lie. Like you've been lying to me. And flout orders like you've done every step of the way on this thing. Is that what it takes, Agent Scully?
SCULLY: Give a little, get a little, Agent Doggett.
DOGGETT: You knew where the kid was, you knew where the kid was and you wouldn't tell me-- why?
SCULLY: What kid? I don't see any kid.
DOGGETT: You're lying to me again! Assistant Director Skinner took him from here to the hospital.
SCULLY: How do you know that?
DOGGETT: There's one thing I know for sure in this case and that's that Mulder is after this boy Gibson Praise. Why? It beats the hell out of me. But when he goes after that kid, my men are going to be waiting for him.

8-02controlled.wav
DOGGETT: Hey, where you going? Agent Scully, where you going?
SCULLY: Your men are at the hospital?
DOGGETT: They got it controlled. Nobody goes in or out of that building without them knowing about it.
SCULLY: How do you know that they're your men?

8-02yelling.wav
MULDER: Scully! Scully!

8-02rip_throat.wav
SCULLY: Hey, if something tries to rip your throat out, I got you covered.

8-02no_one.wav
DOGGETT: What the hell is this? What the hell is going on?!
SCULLY: There's no one in that room.

8-02answers.wav
KERSH: This reads like a piece of pot-boiled science fiction.
DOGGETT: You mean it reads like an X-File. But that's what you intended, wasn't it, Sir? When you assigned me to the case.
KERSH: I'll ask the questions, John. You just give me some damn answers. Don't come back until you do.

8-02beating.wav
DOGGETT: My dad always said it's not who wins or loses... it's who takes the worst beating that counts.

8-02never_will.wav
DOGGETT: My dad always said it's not who wins or loses... it's who takes the worst beating that counts.
SCULLY: That supposed to cheer me up?
DOGGETT: I thought so. But then I never did get to see your opponent.
SCULLY: And you never will.

8-02believe.wav
SCULLY: You still don't believe me.
DOGGETT: What I don't believe is how long they're keeping you here.
SCULLY: Oh, it's just some things they have to check out... make sure of.

8-02apprised.wav
DOGGETT: Well, I've got some things I thought you'd want checked out. A.D. Skinner is in stable condition, resting comfortably and awaiting diagnosis and further study. Ditto Agent Landau, his throat. Gibson Praise is right now a ward of the state but I asked for special protections, as I assumed you would yourself.
SCULLY: What are you doing here, Agent Doggett?
DOGGETT: Keeping you apprised of the case.
SCULLY: That's not your job.
DOGGETT: It is, actually. And officially. I'm... assigned now to the X-Files.

8-02assigned_x-files.wav
DOGGETT: It is, actually. And officially. I'm... assigned now to the X-Files.

8-02find_him.wav
DOGGETT: Whatever you and I may differ on, I'll find him, Agent Scully.

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