SKINNER: What is it, Agent Mulder?

MULDER: I just, uh... I thought I'd poke my head in and say hey.

SKINNER: Hey.

SENATOR MATHESON: I don't have to tell you how late it is, do I, Agent Mulder? But I suspect that wasn't even a consideration of yours.

MULDER: Actually, time is my only consideration, Senator.

SCULLY: I think I've found it. I think I found what the carbon's doing. It's, uh...it's not just reproducing itself. It has behavior. It's creating something, a-a matrix stimulated by blood flow in response to movement. It's multiplying and solidifying in an orderly fashion. It's building valves or-or dams in the vascular system.

DR. PLANT: It's building a heart attack.

MULDER: Don't hate me 'cause I'm beautiful.

SKINNER: I think I owe you an apology, Scully. You and Mulder.

SCULLY: Sir?

SKINNER: I've been lying here thinking. Your quest... it should have been mine.

SCULLY: What do you mean?

SKINNER: If I die now, I die in vain. I have nothing to show for myself. My life...

SCULLY: Sir, you know that's not true.

SKINNER: It is. I can see now that... I always played it safe. I wouldn't take sides. Wouldn't let you and Mulder... pull me in.

SCULLY: You've been our ally more times than I can say.

SKINNER: Not the kind of ally that I could have been.