THE X-FILES Wetwired (3x23) |
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SCULLY: This outside source, Mulder, what's his interest in this case? What does he want us to uncover? MULDER: I don't know. SCULLY: And you're not suspicious that we're being used? MULDER: We've got dead bodies and confessed murderers. If we're being used, it's to find out the connection. That's what I'm interested in. MULDER: I just watched thirty-six hours of Bernard Shaw and Bobbie Batista. I'm about ready to kill somebody too. MULDER: So you think that because Patnik saw this war criminal on television, he was somehow inspired to go out and murder these people? SCULLY: Well, recent studies have linked violence on television to violent behavior. MULDER: Yeah, but those studies are based on the assumption that Americans are just empty vessels ready to be filled with any idea or image that's fed to them like a bunch of Pavlov dogs and go out and act on it. SCULLY: But they believe that the causal connections are there, Mulder. MULDER: They, studies have also shown causal connections between cow flatulence and the depletion of the ozone layer. What you're talking about is pseudo-science used to make political book. SCULLY: The doctor suggested amphetamine abuse. Maybe that coupled with, with the disturbing images he was watching, pushed him over the edge. MULDER: All I know is television does not make a previously sane man go out and kill five people, thinking they're all the same guy. Not even "Must-See TV" could do that to you. SCULLY: I think television plays a large part in both of these murderers' lives. MULDER: As it does in almost every American home, but television does not equal violence. BYERS: You know the way television works? MULDER: Yeah, you click it on, you have a picture. LANGLY: It's a rapid series of still pictures fired against the tube. MULDER: I'm red-green color blind. SCULLY: I was so sure, Mulder. I saw things and I heard things, and... it was just like the world was turned upside-down. Everybody was out to get me. MULDER: Now you know how I feel most of the time. MULDER: Why kill them if you wanted me to expose them? X: Those were always my orders, Agent Mulder. I was just hoping you'd get to them first. MULDER: And uncover what? What were they trying to do, manipulate people's behavior? Alter their decision making-process? What to buy, who to vote for? X: You think they'll stop at commerce and politics?
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