THE X-FILES Jersey Devil (1x04) "The Truth Is Out There" written by Chris Carter |
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MULDER: You feeling lucky, Scully? SCULLY: Relative to whom? SCULLY: He was perfectly in his rights. The FBI has no overriding jurisdiction in a murder case. Anyway, you'd feel the same way if someone was horning in on your work. MULDER: Yeah, chances are he's without a clue. He'll probably be scratching his head when they bring the next body in. SCULLY: You missed your opening Mulder, you could've really humiliated him and er, told him who the perpetrator was, The Jersey Devil. MULDER: Hey whatta you say, we grab a hotel, take in a floor show, drop a few quarters in the slots, do a little digging on this case. SCULLY: You're kidding, right? MULDER: Ok, we can skip the floor show. SCULLY: Oooh, you're amazing. ELLEN: What? SCULLY: You're just such a natural at all this, I don't know how you keep it all together. ELLEN: Mommy radar. SCULLY: Mmmm, I don't think I'm cut out for this El. ELLEN: Dana, you went through the FBI academy, what better training could there be for motherhood. SCULLY: Yeah well, I have got to get back to Washington by 7:30, so er.. MULDER: Another birthday party? SCULLY: No. I have a date. MULDER: Can you cancel? SCULLY: Unlike you Mulder, I would like to have a life. MULDER: I have a life! DR. DIAMOND: Just about every culture has one. Yetis, Sasquatch, Russian Almas, Dsonoqua. MULDER: Why is that? DR. DIAMOND: Oh, it's a kind of universal wild man myth. A symbolic fear of our dual natures as humans, as creators of life and destroyers of it. MULDER: What's this chart? DR. DIAMOND: It shows the historic entry of man onto each continent and the effect it had on other animal species, which as you see has been disastrous. MULDER: Why? DR. DIAMOND: Well, we humans have retained hereditary traits through evolution that have proven to be extremely destructive. We tend to be tribal and aggressively territorial, oriented by selfish sexual and reproductive drives that make, co-operation beyond the family-a-tribe, extremely hard for us. MULDER: So we kill other species in order to survive. SCULLY: Yeah, humans are top carnivores, we sit at the top of the food chain and we, reduce other species' chance of survival. DR. DIAMOND: Nice to know Dana left here with more than a degree. MULDER: But what if something entered the food chain above us? DR. DIAMOND: It won't happen, see our intelligence virtually insures us, barring the introduction of some alien life-form, we will live out our days as rulers of the world. MULDER: But, but what if through some fluke of nature, a human was born, who reverted to its most animal instincts, a kind of carnivorous neanderthal. Wouldn't he occupy a space above us on the food chain? DR. DIAMOND: Oh sure, all he'd have to do is wait outside any fast-food restaurant and eat us on the way in. MULDER: What if it is a female, Scully? How close is she to you or me? Does she feel emotion? Or are her days just spent looking for food? SCULLY: Maybe, she spends her day shopping. MULDER: Eight million years out of Africa, I don't think we're all that different. SCULLY: Mulder, we've put men into space, we've built computers that work faster than the human mind. MULDER: While we over-populate the world and create new technologies to kill each other with. Maybe we're just beasts with big brains. SCULLY: Lay back. Oh, Mulder you're hurt. MULDER: You should've seen her, she was beautiful. SCULLY: Yeah well, she just about ripped your lungs out. SCULLY: I'm going with you to the Smithsonian. MULDER: Don't you have a life, Scully? SCULLY: Keep that up, Mulder, and I'll hurt you like that beast-woman. MULDER: Eight million years out of Africa. SCULLY: Look who's holding the door.
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