Patience
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8-04morning.wav
SCULLY: Good morning.
DOGGETT: Morning.
8-04curiosity.wav
DOGGETT: Some friends... they're just curious.
SCULLY: I'm not here to be a curiosity, Agent
Doggett. I'm here to work.
DOGGETT: I am, too, Agent Scully. I've been here all
weekend and early this morning went over every X-File in the
cabinet there. Just left to get some coffee.
SCULLY: Well... do you have any questions?
DOGGETT: Just a few.
8-04area.wav
DOGGETT: Maybe first you could tell me where your
area is here and… uh…where mine's going to be.
SCULLY: This is my partner's office, Agent Doggett.
You and I will just be using it for a while.
8-04a_loss.wav
DOGGETT: I have to admit, Agent Scully, I'm at a
loss.
SCULLY: Well, that's a good place to start.
8-04baffling.wav
DOGGETT: I have to admit I'm a little baffled by
what I've seen.
DETECTIVE
ABBOTT: Oh, really?
SCULLY: Understand, Detective, that we've seen
cases like yours regularly on our unit. Agent Doggett has only
just been assigned to the X-Files. I can assure you that there's
nothing baffling about human bite marks.
8-04assumption.wav
SCULLY: That's not an unheard of birth defect. Uh,
no more rare than polydactylism.
DETECTIVE
ABBOTT: What did she just say?
DOGGETT: I assume she means it could be human. Is
that a fair assumption?
SCULLY: I say that assumption is the problem here.
A strange print is found and immediately the most important piece
of evidence is just thrown out to try and force an explanation.
Maybe this print can help explain those bite marks.
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SCULLY: I'm not quite sure yet.
DETECTIVE
ABBOTT: She's not quite sure
yet.
DOGGETT: Well, I have to say I've worked a lot of
homicides but if the victims laid out here for any time at all in
a setting like this, it'd be pretty remarkable if they didn't
attract animals.
SCULLY: I think that post-mortem predation is
definitely a consideration here, but I only see one print and if
it were an animal there would be numerous prints all over here
and in the yard.
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SCULLY: I'm sure your explanation will mollify all
those hotshots down at the county seat, Detective and relieve any
general anxiety about what this thing might be … but only
until it strikes again. And one more thing: I never said that
what you're looking for is a man.
8-04limited_imagination.wav
DOGGETT: You know, there is a more obvious
explanation.
SCULLY: Mm-hmm.
DOGGETT: The more basic answer is what we're dealing
with here is simply a man. A psychotic killer with a deformed
foot. You're familiar with the principle of Occam's Razor?
SCULLY: Yeah. You take every possible explanation
and you choose the simplest one. Agent Mulder used to refer to it
as "Occam's Principle of Limited Imagination."
8-04victory.wav
DOGGETT: "V" for victory.
8-04far-fetched.wav
DETECTIVE
ABBOTT: Honest to god. You
just jump at whatever explanation is the wildest and most
far-fetched, don't you?
8-04suspicious.wav
SCULLY: What did you say to him?
DOGGETT: Well, I told him to dig up the body. Isn't
that what you wanted?
SCULLY: What else did you say to him?
DOGGETT: Well, I told him that you were … um
… a... leading authority on paranormal phenomena and who are
we to argue with an expert.
SCULLY: Look, I am not an expert. I am a scientist
who happens to have seen a lot. I am just making a leap here.
DOGGETT: Well, I am sure you have your reasons.
SCULLY: Look, so, so, what, you told him to exhume
the body when you don't even necessarily believe me yourself?
DOGGETT: I told you I spent the weekend looking
through that cabinet full of X-Files and I saw how pretty much
every X-File broke-- with a leap. Now, maybe I'm just an
old-fashioned cop but I don't take leaps. In my experience leaps
only get people killed.
SCULLY: Well, I'd say that you're taking a pretty
big leap believing in that article... about a human bat.
8-04leap.wav
DOGGETT: Well, I told him that you were … um
… a... leading authority on paranormal phenomena and who are
we to argue with an expert.
SCULLY: Look, I am not an expert. I am a scientist
who happens to have seen a lot. I am just making a leap here.
8-04far_out_theories.wav
SHERIFF'S
DEPUTY: Look, we listened to
you. The Detective listened to you. We could have been out
hunting this thing down, Agent Doggett.
DOGGETT: You should be doing that now.
SHERIFF'S
DEPUTY: Now? Now's too late
for the Detective, isn't it? Look, we don't need you telling us
what to do or your partner. She's the one responsible for this.
DOGGETT: Nobody's responsible for this except for
whatever did it.
SHERIFF'S
DEPUTY: Look, I don't care who
she is or what she is, she's not touching that body. We don't
need her far-out theories. She's not welcome here.
8-04lynch_mob.wav
SCULLY: What happened to the lynch mob?
DOGGETT: You hear all that?
SCULLY: I heard enough.
DOGGETT: Things have taken a little turn.
SCULLY: I don't think so, Agent Doggett.
DOGGETT: Well, you can think what you want but I
think this looks bad for the FBI.
SCULLY: It was unavoidable.
8-04loneliness.wav
SCULLY: You know, we've been out here for nine
hours. The only thing this man seems to be in danger of is
terminal loneliness.
8-04to_be_mulder.wav
SCULLY: Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe this is all just
a... a grand coincidence and we're wasting our time out here.
DOGGETT: You were so sure before.
SCULLY: Yeah, I was sure of the facts as I had
deduced them scientifically. Maybe I'm... I'm trying to force
them into shape. Maybe I'm manufacturing a theory.
DOGGETT: Well, what happened to taking a leap?
SCULLY: Maybe I'm just trying too hard.
DOGGETT: To do what? To be Mulder?
8-04mars_venus.wav
DOGGETT: You know, I'm not Oxford educated. About
all I know about the paranormal is men are from Mars and women
are from Venus. But I don't think you're wrong, Agent Scully.
SCULLY: What makes you say that?
DOGGETT: Well, I'm no Fox Mulder, but I can tell
when a man's hiding something.
8-04fear.wav
ERNIE
STEFANIUK: How's a man
supposed to live when his fear becomes obsession?
8-04except_that.wav
ERNIE
STEFANIUK: But your partner,
he believed it?
SCULLY: I think he does now.
ERNIE
STEFANIUK: So it was you who
figured it.
SCULLY: Well, I … I made the connections but
it was Agent Doggett that got us out here.
ERNIE
STEFANIUK: You ought to be
wishing he hadn't.
SCULLY: Excuse me?
ERNIE
STEFANIUK: The moment you
stepped foot here... You're marked now, you know that.
SCULLY: Sir, I'm here to protect you.
ERNIE
STEFANIUK: And how are you
going to do that? You thought of everything... Except that.
8-04hit_it.wav
SCULLY: Do you believe it, Agent Doggett?
DOGGETT: Believe it?
SCULLY: That this thing is still out there and
someday it's going to come after us?
DOGGETT: I'm pretty sure I hit it, Agent Scully.
Pretty sure you hit it, too.
8-04get_used2it.wav
DOGGETT: The guys upstairs were making some noise
about this case-- about what's in our field report.
SCULLY: Yeah. You'll get used to it.
8-04desk4doggett.wav
SCULLY: I, uh... I never had a desk in here, Agent
Doggett but I'll see that you get one.
DOGGETT: All right.
8-04not_option.wav
SCULLY: And I just want to say, um... thank you for
watching my back.
DOGGETT: Well, I never saw it as an option. I'm sure
you don't either.
"Kites
rise highest against the wind -- not with it."
-Winston Churchill-