SPENDER: My mother's been gone for almost a year. She turns up in a train car where she's been operated on by a group of doctors who were burned alive. I just want the truth.

MULDER: The truth is out there, Agent Spender. Maybe you should find it for yourself.

CASSANDRA SPENDER: I told you that the aliens were here to do good and that I was being used as an oracle to spread the word. Only now I know what the aliens are here for and it isn't good.

MULDER: What are they here for?

CASSANDRA SPENDER: To wipe us off the planet. They're taking over the universe. They're infecting all other life-forms with a black substance called Purity. It's their life force. It's what they're made of.

CIGARETTE SMOKING MAN: I gave you responsibility. I gave you a position. I gave you the things that you couldn't get yourself and you can't do the job!

SPENDER: Keeping Fox Mulder down is not a job. It's your dirty work!

CIGARETTE SMOKING MAN: You pale to Fox Mulder.

SCULLY: I bet you're curious about C.G.B.

MULDER: What's that?

SCULLY: C.G.B. Spender -- his name. Cigarette-Smoking Man?

MULDER: What's it stand for?

SCULLY: It's an alias, as far as I can figure. One of hundreds.

MULDER: Scully, you want to go one-on-one? We got nothing but time now that we're on administrative leave.

SCULLY: Aren't you curious what I've got in the box? Everything I could find on him.

MULDER: Nothing you could ever find would be accurate or credible.

KRYCEK: It's shocking at first. The acceptance of the idea, it's... it's something you thought only children and fools believed in. It undermines your beliefs -- in yourself, in the world... but then you come to understand.

CIGARETTE SMOKING MAN: I've trusted no one. Treachery is the inevitable result of all affairs. Every man believes he has his own good reason.