THE X-FILES
Detour (5x04)


episodes

Home

Season 1
Pilot
Deep Throat
Squeeze
Conduit
Jersey Devil
Shadows
Ghost in the Machine
Ice
Space
Fallen Angel
Eve
Fire
Beyond The Sea
Genderbender
Lazarus
Young At Heart
E. B. E.
Miracle Man
Shapes
Darkness Falls
Tooms
Born Again
Roland
The Erlenmeyer Flask

Season 2
Little Green Men
The Host
Blood
Sleepless
Duana Barry
Ascension
3
One Breath
Firewalker
Red Museum
Excelsius Dei
Aubrey
Irresistible
Die Hand Die Verletzt
Fresh Bones
Colony
End Game
Fearful Symmetry
Dod Kalm
Humbug
The Calusari
F. Emasculate
Soft Light
Our Town
Anasazi

Season 3
The Blessing Way
Paper Clip
DPO
Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose
The List
2 Shy
The Walk
Oubliette
Nisei
731
Revelations
War of the Coprophrages
Syzygy
Grotesque
Piper Maru
Apocrypha
Pusher
Teso dos Bichos
Hell Money
Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space'
Avatar
Quagmire
Wetwired
Talitha Cumi

Season 4
Herrenvolk
Unruhe
Home
Teliko
The Field Where I Died
Sanguinarium
Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man
Paper Hearts
Tunguska
Terma
El Mundo Gira
Kaddish
Never Again
Leonard Betts
Memento Mori
Unrequited
Tempus Fugit
Max
Synchrony
Small Potatoes
Zero Sums
Elegy
Demons
Gesthemane

Season 5
Unusual Suspects
Redux
Redux 2
Detour
Post-Modern Prometheus
Christmas Carol
Emily
Kitsunegari
Schizogeny
Chinga
Kill Switch
Bad Blood
Patient "X"
The Red And The Black
Travelers
Mind’s Eye
All Souls
Pine Bluff Variant
Folie A Deux
The End

Season 6
The Beginning
Drive
Triangle
Dreamland 1
Dreamland 2
Terms of Endearment
Rain King
How The Ghosts Stole Christmas
Tithonus
S.R. 819
Two Fathers
One Son
Arcadia
Agua Mala
Monday
Alpha
Trevor
Milagro
Three of a Kind
The Unnatural
Field Trip
Biogenesis

Season 7
Hungry
The Goldberg Variation
Sixth Extinction
Sixth Extinction 2: Amor Fati
Millennium
Rush
Orison
The Amazing Maleeni
Signs and Wonders
Sein und Zeit
Closure
X-Cops
First Person Shooter
Theef
En Ami
Chimera
All Things
Hollywood AD
Brand X
Fight Club
Je Souhaite
Requiem

Fight The Future

SCULLY: Mulder? We've got this conference. They're waiting.

MULDER: Yeah. How do I say this without using any negative words, Scully?

SCULLY: You want me to tell them that you're not going to make it to this year's teamwork seminar.

MULDER: Yeah, you see that? We don't need that conference. We have communication like that, unspoken. You know what I'm thinking.


SCULLY: I must remind you this goes against the Bureau's policy of male and female agents consorting in the same motel room while on assignment.

MULDER: Try any of that Tailhook crap on me, Scully, I'll kick your ass. Pop quiz. What animal will attack the strongest leaving the weakest to escape? The answer is none. Not one of the over 4,000 species native to North America will attack the strongest when the weak is vulnerable.


MULDER: Scully, and we may be looking for two individuals.

SCULLY: Why do you say that?

MULDER: Well, that thing lured that woman out of the house last night to separate her from her son.

SCULLY: But for what purpose?

MULDER: Divide and conquer. If your enemy has greater numbers than you, you divide and conquer it to diminish those numbers.


SCULLY: What do you think killed those men?

JEFF: Nature is populated by creatures either trying to kill something they need to survive, or trying to avoid being killed by something that needs them to survive. If we become blinded by the beauty of nature, we may fail to see its cruelty and violence.

SCULLY: Walt Whitman?

JEFF: No. "When Animals Attack" on the Fox Network.


MULDER: Maybe it can regulate its temperature. Do you know of any animal that can?

SCULLY: Ticks. I've heard that they can halt their metabolism for up to 18 years, essentially going into suspended animation until something warm-blooded comes along.

MULDER: That's interesting.

SCULLY: Why is that interesting?

MULDER: 30 years ago, the, uh, the town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia was terrorized for over a year by something - killing livestock and terrorizing the people. Witnesses described them as primitive looking men with red piercing eyes. Became known as the "moth men." I've got an X-File dating back to 1952 on it.

SCULLY: What would that be filed next to - - "The Cockroach That Ate Cincinnati?"

MULDER: No, "The Cockroach That Ate Cincinnati" is in the C's. "Moth Men"'s over in the M's.


MULDER: What are you doing.

SCULLY: Trying to open my gun. If I can separate the shell from the casing maybe I can get the powder to ignite.

MULDER: Oh. And maybe it'll start raining weenies and marshmallows.

SCULLY: Do I detect a hint of negativity?

MULDER: No. Yes ... actually. Yeah.

SCULLY: Mulder, you need to keep warm. Your body's still in shock.

MULDER: I was told once that the best way to regenerate body heat was to crawl naked into a sleeping bag with somebody else who's already naked.

SCULLY: Well, maybe if it rains sleeping bags, you'll get lucky.


SCULLY: Have you thought seriously about dying?

MULDER: Yeah, once, when I was at the Ice Capades.

SCULLY: When I was fighting my cancer, I was angry at the injustice of it and its meaninglessness. And then I realized that that was the struggle - to give it meaning. To make sense of it. It's like life.

MULDER: I think Nature is supremely indifferent to whether we live or die. I mean, if you're lucky you get 75 years. If you're really lucky you get 80 years. And if you're extraordinarily lucky, you get to have 50 of those years with a decent head of hair.


MULDER: One of us has got to stay awake, Scully.

SCULLY: You sleep, Mulder.

MULDER: If you get tired, you wake me.

SCULLY: I'm not going to get tired.

MULDER: Why don't you sing... something.

SCULLY: No... Mulder.

MULDER: Well, if you sing something, I'll know you're awake.

SCULLY: Mulder, you don't want me to sing. I can't carry a tune.

MULDER: It doesn't matter. Just sing anything.

SCULLY: Jeremiah was a bull frog... was a good friend of mine. Never understood a single word he said... but I helped him drink his wine....



This production has not been approved, endorsed or authorized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Copyright (c) Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation


taken from the X-Files transcript by CarriKendl - CarriKendl@aol.com