top 50 Mulder&Scully scenes. part II
Here's the PART II of my TOP 50 Mulder&Scully scenes. Hope you'll like it :)
You can find PART I in here
26. In case we never meet again... (Triangle)
1939 SCULLY: What are you doing?!
MULDER: I'm going to tell you how to save this ship.
1939 SCULLY: Out here?
MULDER: I can't stay. I got to get back to history.
1939 SCULLY: What?
MULDER: And you got to rescue it. Wait. Listen to me. This ship's been caught in something called the devil's triangle. It's some kind of time warp - a rift in space.
1939 SCULLY: Are you crazy?
MULDER: You know Einstein, right? He predicts the theoretical possibility. He also predicts an atomic weapon that will destroy the world.
1939 SCULLY: Yeah? So what?
MULDER: If you don't go back and convince the crew of this ship to turn this ship around and head back into the devil's triangle everything Einstein predicted will become true - except for the outcome of history.
1939 SCULLY: So, if I don't turn this ship around...?
MULDER: In all likelihood, I won't exist.
1939 SCULLY: Oh...
MULDER: And neither will you.
1939 SCULLY: Okay...
MULDER: So, in case we never meet again...
(Mulder grabs her and kisses her long and hard.)
What's so good about it?
Okay, it wasn't even a real Scully. But screw that! :D He wanted to kiss her in case they would have never met. How frikkin awesome is that? :D It means that even though he wasn't ready to take another step with the real Scully, he wanted to know how does it feel to kiss her - ergo he thought about it sometimes. Of course he treated her with respect as an equal partner but this scene proves that he also saw her as a woman - a woman he wanted to (at least) kiss!
27. I got you a little something (How the Ghosts Stole Christmas)
SCULLY: I, uh... I couldn't sleep. I was, um...
MULDER: Come in. Aren't you supposed to be opening Christmas gifts with your family?
SCULLY: Mulder... None of that really happened out there tonight... That was all in our heads, right?
MULDER: I-it must have been.
SCULLY: Mmm. Not that, uh, my only joy in life is proving you wrong.
MULDER: When have you proved me wrong?
SCULLY: Well... Why else would you want me out there with you?
MULDER: You didn't want to be there? Oh, that's, um... That's self-righteous and... narcissistic of me to say, isn't it?
SCULLY: No, I mean... Maybe I did want to be out there with you.
MULDER: Now, um... I know we said that we weren't going to exchange gifts but, uh... I got you... a little something.
SCULLY: Mulder...
MULDER: Merry Christmas.
SCULLY: Well, I got you a little something, too.
What's so good about it?
I always get so sentimental when I watch this episode. And the last scene is so sweet. Taking this into consideration, Mulder was probably spending his Christmas alone. Maybe this present he got from Scully was the only one he got. So the fact that instead being with her family, she arrives at his place, it's just so touching. And they both got each other gifts thought they've decided not to - how cute is that? :)
28. TEH gaze (One son)
No dialogue.
What's so good about it?
Remember Rain King and famous "I do not GAZE at Scully"? Yeah, right! They totally glanced at each other in here. And hey! they were naked under a shower :D Of course Mulder's mind was all over Cassandra Spender and his case and Scully's mind was probably all about how to get and kill Diana Fowley but still - he was totally checking her out and she was totally checking him out. This was just hilarious!
29. You want to make that honeymoon video now? (Arcadia)
PAT VERLANDER: What do you do for a living Mr... Petrie? That's right, isn't it?
MULDER: (big grin, putting his arm around Scully's shoulders and hugging her) Yeah, I, uh... I work mostly at home which is great for Laura because she gets me all to herself.
PAT VERLANDER: Oh.
SCULLY: This place really is immaculate, Pat. I, uh, I wouldn't mind sending a thank-you note to the previous owners.
(...)
MULDER: Oh, yeah. Nothing weird going on around here. Hey... ooh, wait a minute. You didn't let me carry you over the threshold.
SCULLY: You ready?
MULDER: Let's get it on, honey.
SCULLY: All right, then.
SCULLY: Thanks to our friendly neighbors there will be no fluorescein bloodstain enhancement.
MULDER: Not that it makes much difference. This place is so clean you could build computer chips.
SCULLY: Okay. 6:01 p.m., February 24. Agents Scully and Mulder in the former home of David and Nancy Kline who disappeared without a trace last July. The Klines were the third such couple to disappear since this neighborhood was built in 1991. All were apparently stable professional people with no history of violence, domestic discord or mental illness and it took a family member or employee to realize that they were gone including their cars and a few personal items. What local police found in each case was nothing-- just impeccably-manicured homes and a community of neighbors who professed total ignorance that anyone had disappeared.
MULDER: That's pretty surprising considering how nutty this bunch is about being neighborly.
SCULLY: The local police departments were at a dead end so they turned to the FBI. AD Skinner, in assigning us this case thought a fruitful approach to the investigation would be if we went undercover posing as prospective home buyers as this planned community would seem to hide a dark, possibly murderous conspiracy of silence.
(Mulder comes very close into the video frame.)
MULDER: You want to make that honeymoon video now?
(Scully turns the camera off. Mulder sits on the kitchen counter and pulls his gloves off.)
SCULLY: Rob and Laura Petrie?
MULDER: "Pee-trie."
SCULLY: Mulder, if we ever go undercover again I get to choose the names, okay?
MULDER: Fine.
SCULLY: It just tells me that you're not taking this seriously.
MULDER: I'm taking it seriously. I just don't understand why we're on it. It's our first catch back on the X-Files. This isn't an X-File.
SCULLY: Sure it is. It's unexplained. What do you want, aliens? Tractor beams?
MULDER: Wow. Admit it: you just want to play house.
(Doorbell rings. Scully gives him a look and starts for the door.)
MULDER: Woman, get back in here and make me a sandwich!
(Scully stops, smiles slightly and snaps off her gloves and throws them at his head and continues on to the door.)
MULDER: Did I not make myself clear?
What's so good about it?
Probably the fact that Mulder&Scully go undercover as a marriage couple! Teasing in here is just the best. Really, this scene speaks for itself, I have nothing more to add ;)
30. Dear Diary: Today my heart leapt when Agent Scully suggested spontaneous human combustion (Trevor)
(Mulder and Scully in an autopsy bay. Scully in scrubs and mask pulls sheet off of the two halves of the body of Raybert Fellowes.)
SCULLY: Should we arrest David Copperfield?
MULDER: Yes, we should... but not for this. Now this is, uh, Raybert Fellowes superintendent of Road Farm Six, Mississippi Department of Corrections. One of his guards found him in his office. Not a drop of blood in the place.
SCULLY: Well, maybe he was killed elsewhere.
MULDER: No, I don't think so. Whoever did it took 40 minutes to do it in the middle of a tornado. What do you make of that?
SCULLY: I don't know. It's, uh... it's not a simple bisection. There's a considerable amount of his abdomen missing. I mean, it almost looks like a burning but it's too localized. Maybe an industrial acid.
MULDER: There's, um... no acid found in his office.
SCULLY: Oh. (long pause) Spontaneous human combustion.
MULDER: (grinning in disbelief) Scully...!
SCULLY: Well, isn't that where you're going with this?
MULDER: Dear Diary: Today my heart leapt when Agent Scully suggested spontaneous human combustion.
SCULLY: Mulder, there are one or two somewhat well-documented cases.
(Mulder says nothing, just sort of looks off to the side and nods thoughtfully.)
SCULLY: Mulder, shut up.
(Mulder has helpless "What did I do?" look on his face.)
SCULLY: Okay. What do you make of this?
MULDER: I don't have a theory. But I know of someone who does.
What's so good about it?
Another classic piece. Poor Scully - she just gave up at the very beginning and just went for spontaneous human combustion to save some time. And Mulder? Just LOL for his huge grin.
31. There can only be one true ending if it is to be perfect (Milagro)
No dialogue.
What's so good about it?
Milagro's one of my favourite episode in the whole show. It's perfect. And the last scene is like a cherry on top. I love authenticity of Scully's feelings. It's like the first time since Irresistible when we get to see her terrified like that. But once again Mulder is there to comfort her, to keep her safe. Yep, comfort scenes are one of the strongest sides of this show.
32. You're really Mr. Squeeze-every-last-drop-out-of-this-sweet-life aren't you? (The Unnatural)
SCULLY: Mulder, it is such a gorgeous day outside. Have you ever entertained the idea of trying to find life on this planet?
MULDER: I have seen the life on this planet, Scully and that is exactly why I am looking elsewhere.
(Scully opens a paper bag she is carrying and removes a paper-wrapped frozen dessert. This gets Mulder's attention.)
MULDER: Did you bring enough ice cream to share with the rest of the class?
SCULLY: It's not ice cream. It's a nonfat tofutti rice dreamsicle.
MULDER: Ugh. Bet the air in my mouth tastes better than that. You sure know how to live it up, Scully.
SCULLY: Oh, you're Mr. Live-it-up. Mulder, you're really Mr. Squeeze-every-last-drop-out-of-this-sweet-life aren't you? On this precious Saturday you've got us grabbing life by the testes stealing reference books from the FBI library in order to go through New Mexico newspaper obituaries for the years 1940 to 1949 and for what joyful purpose?
MULDER: Looking for anomalies, Scully. Do you know how many so-called "flying disc" reports there were in New Mexico in the 1940s?
SCULLY: I don't care. Mulder, this is a needle in a haystack. These poor souls have been dead for 50 years. Let them rest in peace. Let sleeping dogs lie.
MULDER: No, I won't sit idly by as you hurl cliches at me. Preparation is the father of inspiration.
SCULLY: Necessity is the mother of invention.
MULDER: The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
SCULLY: Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we may die.
MULDER: I scream, you scream, we all scream for nonfat tofutti rice dreamsicles.
(Mulder sets the book down and lunges for Scully. He grabs her arm and takes a bite of the dreamsicle. The cone breaks and pieces of the dessert splatter down on the book.)
SCULLY: Mulder!
(She looks closely at the dairy-product-smeared page.)
SCULLY: (accusing) Mulder!? You cheat. I can't believe that you've been reading about baseball this whole time.
MULDER: Reading the box scores, Scully. You'd like it. It's like the Pythagorean Theorem for jocks. It distills all the chaos and action of any game in the history of all baseball games into one tiny, perfect, rectangular sequence of numbers. I can look at this box and I can recreate exactly what happened on some sunny summer day back in 1947. It's like the numbers talk to me, they comfort me. They tell me that even though lots of things can change some things do remain the same. It's...
SCULLY: (interrupting) Boring. Mulder, can I ask you a personal question?
MULDER: Of course not.
SCULLY: Did your mother ever tell you to go outside and play? Mulder?
(Mulder is looking intently at a picture in the book. He wipes away the ice cream. It is a picture of two white men and one black man in a baseball jersey. They are standing in front of an old bus with "Roswell Grays" on the side. One of the white men is the Alien Bounty Hunter. Headline is "Local Roswell police officer Arthur Dales chats with Diamond Star Josh Exley.")
MULDER: (to himself) Is that Arthur Dales...
SCULLY: Mulder?
MULDER: Ah... Choo!
(As Mulder pretends to sneeze, he rips the page out of the book. Scully stares at him in disbelief.)
SCULLY: You just defaced property of the U.S. Government.
(Carrying the torn page, Mulder gets his leather jacket and runs out of the office. Scully watches him go.)
SCULLY: You rebel.
What's so good about it?
This scene is made of awesome! Their proverb-battle is absolutely hilarious! And they're so relaxed and casual and in a good mood. Plus - Scully is insanely adorable in here. There should be way much more scenes like this one.
33. Hips before hands (The Unnatural)
SCULLY: So, uh... I get this message marked "urgent" on my answering service from one Fox Mantle telling me to come down to the park for a very special very early or very late birthday present. And, Mulder... I don't see any nicely wrapped presents lying around so, what gives?
MULDER: You've never hit a baseball, have you, Scully?
SCULLY: No, I guess I have, uh... found more necessary things to do with my time than ... slap a piece of horsehide with a stick.
MULDER: Get over here, Scully.
(Mulder holds the bat out for her. Scully walks over and takes it. Mulder steps behind her and wraps his arms around her tightly, also holding the bat around her hands.)
SCULLY: This my birthday present, Mulder? You shouldn't have.
MULDER: This ain't cheap. I'm paying that kid ten bucks an hour to shag balls. Hey, it's not a bad piece of ash, huh?
(Scully gives him a "Look.")
MULDER: The bat - talking about the bat. Now, don't strangle it. You just want to shake hands with it. "Hello, Mr. Bat. It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance." "Oh, no, no, Ms. Scully. The pleasure's all mine."
(Scully laughs as their hands grip the bat.)
MULDER: Okay, now, we want to... we want to go hips before hands, okay? (holds his hand a few inches from her hip) We want to stride forward and turn. That's all we're thinking about. So, we go hips... before hands, all right?
(He touches her hip and with his hands and his own hips pressed against her, turns her the right way.)
SCULLY: Okay.
MULDER: One more time.
(He touches and turns her hips more confidently.)
MULDER: Hips... before hands, all right?
SCULLY: Yeah.
MULDER: What is it?
SCULLY: Hips before hands.
MULDER: Right. We're going to wait on the pitch. We're going to keep our eye on the ball. Then, we're just going to make contact. We're not going to think. We're just going to let it fly, Scully, okay?
SCULLY: Mm-hmm.
MULDER: Ready?
(Mulder tries to readjust their grips on the bat. Momentary hand struggle between them.)
SCULLY: I'm in the middle.
(She gets her hands back between his.)
MULDER: All right, fire away, Poorboy.
(A ball comes to them and they hit it. It goes way foul.)
MULDER: Ooh! That's good. All right, what you may find is you concentrate on hitting that little ball... The rest of the world just fades away - all your everyday, nagging concerns. The ticking of your biological clock. How you probably couldn't afford that nice, new suede coat on a G-Woman's salary. How you threw away a promising career in medicine... to hunt aliens with a crackpot, albeit brilliant, partner.
(He gets another "Look.")
MULDER: Getting into the heart of a global conspiracy. Your obscenely overdue triple-X bill. Oh, I... I'm sorry, Scully. Those last two problems are mine, not yours.
SCULLY: Shut up, Mulder. I'm playing baseball.
What's so good about it?
I don't know how about you, but I think that this is the sexiest scene in the whole show. Definitely. The part where he touches her hip - OMG! how hot is that?! Everything is so sensual in here - just look how close to each other they are! And they're having such a great time together. I know, this show is officially about paranormal phenomenons, aliens, conspiracies and therefore it's dark, mysterious and serious but really, let me say this one more time, there should be more scenes like that! Is there anybody who wouldn't just love them together playing baseball?
34. Even when the world was falling apart... (Amor Fati)
MULDER: Scully, what are you doing here? Actually, I was just getting dressed to come see you but I... I couldn't find a tie to go with my victory cap.
SCULLY: Mulder, no work. You have to go back to bed.
MULDER: Oh, wait. Tie goes to the runner. Scully, I, um... I was coming down... to work to tell you that Albert Hosteen is dead. He died last night in New Mexico. He'd been in a coma for two weeks. There was... no way he could have been in your apartment.
SCULLY: He was there - we... we prayed together. Mulder, I don't believe that. I... I don't believe it. It's impossible.
MULDER: Is it any more impossible than what you saw in Africa or what you saw in me?
SCULLY: I don't know what to believe anymore. Mulder, I was so determined to find a cure to save you that I could deny what it was that I saw and now I don't even know... I don't know... I don't know what the truth is... I don't know who to listen to. I don't know who to trust... Diana Fowley was found murdered this morning. I never trusted her... but she helped save your life just as much as I did. She gave me that book. It was her key that led me to you. I'm sorry... I'm so sorry. I know she was your friend.
(She puts her arms around his shoulders and they hold each other.)
MULDER: Scully, I was like you once - I didn't know who to trust. Then I... I chose another path... another life, another fate, where I found my sister. The end of my world was unrecognizable and upside down. There was one thing that remained the same.
(He holds her face and gazes at her.)
MULDER: You... were my friend, and you told me the truth. Even when the world was falling apart, you were my constant... my touchstone.
SCULLY: And you are mine.
What's so good about it?
It's one of my absolutely favourite scenes in the whole show - srsly, like top three or something. I don't think there could be any more beautiful and powerful way of saying how much you love and care for another person than the one that was shown in this scene. You were my constant... my touchstone is the most beautiful line ever. It's exactly why I love these two. Even though this relationship is a little twisted (well, not a little, really) and dark and full of angst, I think it's like the most perfect relationship in the whole world.
35. The world didn't end (Millennium)
MULDER: The world didn't end.
SCULLY: No, it didn't.
What's so good about it?
Besides Mulder&Scully finally getting a kiss after 7 years?! Yeah, not much. I thought I was going to choke when I saw it for the first time. It was so many years ago and I wasn't even aware that things like spoilers exist so I had no idea this will happen. It was a total surprise and shock for me. It was so sweet, so amazing and yet so natural. Though it was only a New Year's kiss, completely innocent and stuff, I consider it as a perfect first kiss for them. And the way they look at each other after the kiss. They smile and you can see that they liked it, liked it a lot and that somewhere in their minds this thought about maybe try to get something more shyly emerges. It's the cutest kiss ever :)
36. She was just trying to take away your pain (Sein und Zeit)
MULDER: I'm glad you're here. My mother was trying to tell me something. I think I figured it out. It's something about my sister that she was never able to tell me.
(He plays the tape for her.)
TEENA MULDER: So much that I've left unsaid for reasons I hope one day you'll understand.
MULDER: She knew what I'd find with this case out in California.
SCULLY: How could she know that, Mulder?
MULDER: A child disappearing without a trace - without evidence - in defiance of all logical explanation? She knew because of what's driven me - what I've always believed.
SCULLY: Mulder...
MULDER: Scully, these parents who've lost... who've lost their children... They've had visions of their sons and daughters in scenarios that never happened but which they describe in notes that came through them as automatic writing and words that came through them psychically from old souls protecting the children. My mother must have written a note like that herself. Describing the scenario of my sister's disappearance of her, of her abduction by aliens. Don't you see, Scully? It never happened. All these visions that I've had have just been... they've been to help me cope, to help me deal with the loss but... I've been looking for my sister in the wrong place. That's... what my mother was trying to tell me. That's what she was trying to warn me about. That's why they killed her.
SCULLY: Your mother killed herself, Mulder. I conducted the autopsy. She was dying of an incurable disease. An untreatable and horribly disfiguring disease called Paget's Carcinoma. She knew it. There were doctor's records. She didn't want to live.
(Mulder stares at her a moment, then puts his face in his hands. Suddenly he stands and shakes the desk violently. Scully touches his arm to calm him down. He pulls away in agony, starting to break down.)
SCULLY: Mulder...
MULDER: She was trying to tell me something. She was... (voice breaking as he cries) ...trying to tell me something.
SCULLY: Mulder, she was trying to tell you to stop. To stop looking for your sister. She was just trying to take away your pain.
(Mulder turns to her desperately and holds her tightly around her waist and cries.)
What's so good about it?
Damn, this scene is so emotional. It's not often when we get to see Mulder being in such a despair. Once again it's about support - this time Scully's support. Don't you find this so moving that seeing him breaking down like that makes her almost cry? At this stage they share each other feelings and emotions so much, they become unity. His pain is hers, hers is his. And how desperately he needs her at this moment, how tightly he holds on to her. Beautiful.
37. This very moment (All things)
MULDER: I just find it hard to believe.
SCULLY: What part?
MULDER: The part where I go away for two days and your whole life changes.
SCULLY: Mmm, I didn't say my whole life changed.
MULDER: You speaking to God in a Buddhist temple. God speaking back.
SCULLY: Mmm, and I didn't say that God spoke back. I said that I had some kind of a vision.
MULDER: Well, for you, that's like saying you're having David Crosby's baby.
MULDER: What is it?
SCULLY: I once considered spending my whole life with this man. What I would have missed?
MULDER: I don't think you can know. I mean, how many different lives would we be leading if we made different choices. We... We don't know.
SCULLY: What if there was only one choice and all the other ones were wrong? And there were signs along the way to pay attention to.
MULDER: Mmm. And all the... choices would then lead to this very moment. One wrong turn, and... we wouldn't be sitting here together. Well, that says a lot. That says a lot, a lot, a lot. That's probably more than we should be getting into at this late hour.
What's so good about it?
Probably I'm the only shipper/Scully fan who in general doesn't like this episode. But that's how it looks like with me. I think that Scully from All things wasn't a *real* Scully. Plus I don't really believe they've spent this night together. Anyway, last scene...? Yeah, last scene I love with all my heart. It's partially because of the things they've talked about - destiny and free will. And how every choice they've made lead them where they are now - together. But what captures my heart the most in here is this amazing tenderness - the way Mulder looks at Scully when she falls asleep, the way he brushes her hair of her face, the way he covers her. He's so caring and full of love. Like he's fully aware that what's really important in his life lies right next to him. That's just made of sweetness.
38. I'm in love with Associate Producer Walter Skinner (Hollywood A.D.)
SCULLY: Been looking all over for you.
MULDER: They got it so wrong, Scully.
SCULLY: I got a page from the Washington Bureau. Micah Hoffman was murdered tonight. Murdered in his own home by Cardinal O'Fallon who then hanged himself. A murder-suicide.
MULDER: It's Jesus and Judas, Scully.
SCULLY: Wow... It's all over now.
MULDER: No, no, it's just beginning. Hoffman and O'Fallon were these complicated, flawed, beautiful people and now they'll just be remembered as jokes because of this movie. The character based on O'Fallon is listed in the credits as "Cigarette-Smoking Pontiff." How silly is that?
SCULLY: Pretty silly.
MULDER: Yeah, what about us? How are we going to be remembered now 'cause of this movie?
SCULLY: Well, hopefully, the movie will tank.
MULDER: What about all the dead people who are forever silent and can't tell their stories anymore? They're all going to have to rely on Hollywood to show the future how we lived and it'll all become... oversimplified and trivialized and Cigarette-Smoking Pontificized and become as plastic and meaningless as this stupid plastic Lazarus Bowl.
SCULLY: I think the dead are beyond caring what people think about them. Hopefully we can adopt the same attitude. You do know that there aren't real dead people out there, right? That this is a movie set?
MULDER: The dead are everywhere, Scully.
SCULLY: Well... We're alive. And we're relatively young and Skinner was so tickled by the movie..
MULDER: I bet he was...
SCULLY: That he has given us a Bureau credit card to use for the evening.
(She holds up the card and giggles. He smiles.)
SCULLY: Come on.
(She takes his arm and helps him up. Together, they run down the steep slope of the hill to a path.)
SCULLY: Mulder, I have something to confess.
MULDER: What's that?
SCULLY: I'm in love with Associate Producer Walter Skinner.
MULDER: Ah... Me, too.
What's so good about it?
They're so cute in here. And I'd die to know what they have done that evening! It's so awesome to see them having fun like that - being relaxed and laughing. And they're walking away holding hands - how incredible sweet is that?!
39. I'm fairly happy. That's something (Je Souhaite)
MULDER: I can't believe you don't want butter on your popcorn. Uggh. It's un-American.
(Scully looks at the video tape case.)
SCULLY: Caddyshack, Mulder?
MULDER: It's a classic American movie.
(Scully slumps back against the couch and opens her Shiner Bock beer.)
SCULLY: That's what every guy says. It's a guy movie.
MULDER: Okay, when you invite me over to your place we can watch Steel Magnolias.
(Scully tosses her beer cap across the room and with a "clink" it lands in whatever it was she was aiming for. Mulder, having also opened a beer, tosses his cap in the same direction. Scully giggles into her beer as we hear the cap thud to the ground.)
SCULLY: So, uh... What's the occasion?
MULDER: I don't know. Just felt like the thing to do. Cheers.
SCULLY: Cheers.
(They tap bottles and take a sip of beer.)
MULDER: I don't know if you noticed but, um, I never made the world a happier place.
SCULLY: Well, I'm fairly happy. That's something.
SCULLY: So what was your final wish, anyway?
(Mulder looks at her for a long moment. Then he smiles happily and takes another swig of his beer as the Kenny Loggins movie theme starts.)
What's so good about it?
Basically it's Mulder&Scully drinking beers and watching a movie. Isn't it a classic date or something? ;) Scenes like that at the end of S7 were all just screaming: "It's time to take another step, to change things, to finally cross this thin line!". They've not only spent their work time together. They've also spent their spare time together. The only thing they still have done separately at this time was sleeping probably. And Scully... you're just "fairly happy"? Who're trying to fool?
40. There so much more you need to do with your life. There's so much more than this (Requiem)
MULDER: What's wrong, Scully? You look sick.
SCULLY: I don't know what's wrong.
MULDER: Come in.
SCULLY: I, um... I was starting to get ready for bed and I started to feel really dizzy - vertigo or something - and then I just... I started to get chills.
(Mulder turns down the sheets and blankets on his bed.)
MULDER: You want me to call a doctor?
SCULLY: No, I just... I just want to get warm.
(Scully climbs onto the bed, pausing as Mulder takes off her shoes and drops them to the floor. She gets under the covers and Mulder tucks her in, then lies behind her and embraces her.)
SCULLY: Thank you.
MULDER: It's not worth it, Scully.
SCULLY: What?
MULDER: I want you to go home.
SCULLY: Oh, Mulder, I'm going to be fine.
MULDER: No, I've been thinking about it. Looking at you tonight, holding that baby... knowing everything that's been taken away from you. A chance for motherhood and your health and that baby. I think that... I don't know, maybe they're right.
SCULLY: Who's right?
MULDER: The FBI. Maybe what they say is true, though for all the wrong reasons. It's the personal costs that are too high. There so much more you need to do with your life. There's so much more than this. There has to be an end, Scully.
(He softly kisses her cheek and leans his head on her shoulder.)
What's so good about it?
It's one of the most intimate scene between these two. And things Mulder says! It proves so clearly how much he loves her. And it's like the first time since Christmas Carol/Emily they talk about Scully's infertility. Finally we see that Mulder was aware how important it was for her, how much she wanted to have a baby. And of course he felt guilty that she couldn't. I don't know how about you but I love him so much for all his constant guilt. He's like the hugest martyr ever and it's so beautiful and tragic and just epic... This scene has also a spooning cuddle and I'm pretty much obsessed about spooning ;) And you know what's also cool in here? They've probably spent whole night like that.
41. I'm not going to risk losing you (Requiem)
SCULLY: Mulder, if any of this is true...
MULDER: If it is, or if it isn't I want you to forget about it, Scully.
SCULLY: Forget about it?
MULDER: You're not going back out there. I'm not going to let you go back out there.
SCULLY: What are you talking about?
MULDER: It has to end sometime. That time is now.
SCULLY: Mulder...
MULDER: Scully, you have to understand that they're taking abductees. You're an abductee. I'm not going to risk... losing you.
SCULLY: I won't let you go alone.
What's so good about it?
Seriously, his I'm not going to risk losing you was SO much more than just a simple care about a friend. This episode was incredibly meaningful. I really believe that it was crucial for Mulder's way of thinking about life and stuff that are really important. He finally found out the truth about Samantha so X-Files wasn't no longer the most pivotal thing in his life. Seeing Scully holding that baby earlier (remember that Per Manum flashbacks were probably taking place somewhere near that time so he had already gave a serious thoughts about Scully having a baby) probably made him realize at some level that there is some kind of happiness and normality he never tried before but could have if only wanted to. I think that if he hadn't been abducted in the end of this epi, he would have finally done something about his relationship with Scully. Being ready for that was just all over his face.
42. The answer is "yes" (Per Manum)
SCULLY: Hi.
MULDER: Hi.
SCULLY: Come on in.
MULDER: Thanks.
SCULLY: Can I take your coat?
MULDER: No, I can't stay. I gotta get back to the office for a while.
SCULLY: Obviously you've had some time to think about my request.
MULDER: Um, it's... it's not something that I get asked to do every day. Um, but I am absolutely flattered. No, honestly.
SCULLY: Okay, if... if you're trying to politely say "no," it's okay. I, I understand.
MULDER: See what's weird is... this sounds, and this sounds really weird, I know, but I, I just wouldn't want this to come between us.
SCULLY: Yeah. I know... I, I understand. I do.
MULDER: Well... the answer is "yes."
(About 18 emotions cross Scully's face in four seconds. She is happy. They smile at each other. She comes into his arms and they hold each other for a moment.)
SCULLY: Um... Well, I'll call Dr. Parenti and... I assume that he'll want to meet you and go through the, uh, the donor procedure.
MULDER: At that part, I'm a pro.
What's so good about it?
My God! I cried while watching this scene for the first time. I still find it so amazingly beautiful and touching. There were times when I accused Mulder of being insensitive and just blind for all the things Scully must have been through because of him. But agreeing to become a father of her child was a full absolution. He did something so incredibly unselfish only to make her happy. He was aware that this baby thing may change things between them. And he obviously love the way things between them were. He knew that if it works, he'll recede into the background in Scully's heart. But he wanted to do this anyway - because it was her biggest dream. It's such an amazing gesture! And Scully! Damn, how the hell she found a guts to ask him for that?! Think about it - she told him that she wants him to be a father of her child, that she wants to have HIS baby. My God, that is so huge. It gets me every time - it's just SO HUGE!
43. Never give up on a miracle (Per Manum)
MULDER: Scully? I must have dozed off. I was waiting for you to get back. It didn't take, did it?
SCULLY: I guess it was too much to hope for.
(He opens his arms for her. She walks into them and lets him hold her. She sobs.)
SCULLY: It was my last chance.
(He holds her tightly, then kisses her on the forehead. He presses his forehead against hers.)
MULDER: Never give up on a miracle.
(She kisses his cheek and neck, then embraces him again.)
What's so good about it?
I strongly believe that this was this one night they really have spent together. Not the one from All things or any other. THIS ONE. I think that when it turned out that in vitro didn't work, it wasn't only a blow for Scully, but for Mulder as well. I believe that he wanted this baby - not only for her, maybe at some level also for himself. And when it didn't work out, they both needed support, they needed to be together as close to each other as they could get. That's why I love this scene. This and the amazing care and tenderness of course.
44. Anybody miss me? (DeadAlive)
SCULLY: Mulder... Hi.
(She smiles at him. Mulder stares at her without recognition. His voice is scratchy.)
MULDER: Who are you?
(Scully's face falls. Then Mulder gives her a small smile, his eyes warm. He is teasing her. Scully sobs in relief, tears streaming down her face.)
SCULLY: Oh, my god. Don't do that to me.
(They look at each other. He smiles gently.)
SCULLY: Do you know...? Do you have any idea what you've been through?
MULDER: Only what I see in your face.
(She strokes his hair, then presses her face to his chest and lays her head down on his shoulder and holds him.)
MULDER: Anybody miss me?
What's so good about it?
First of all it's a reunion. After all those episodes without Mulder, we finally see him back - alive and with Scully. What's not to love? Also there's a thing about Scully's look in here. Even though it was Mulder who decided to do a first move (i.e. Existence), it was Scully who first said I love you - only she did not used any words for that. But when you look in here at her face you have no doubts. She's not glad to see her friend again. She's not even glad to see the father of her child again. She's crying for joy because she got the love of her life back. That's what I see in this scene.
45. The pizza man? (Empedocles)
SCULLY: Mulder?
MULDER: What?
SCULLY: I was just about to jump in the shower but I was waiting for the pizza man.
MULDER: You got something going on with the pizza man I should know about?
SCULLY: The pizza man?
MULDER: Well, correct me if I'm wrong but you just said you were waiting for the pizza man to jump in the shower.
SCULLY: No, what I mean was the pizza man's usually late, and so... You want to come in?
MULDER: Thank you.
SCULLY: I feel like I'm stuck in an episode of Mad About You.
MULDER: Well, uh, yeah, but small technicality. Mad About You was about a married couple and we just work together.
SCULLY: Yeah, well, you know what I'm talking about.
MULDER: I do, I do. What-what I'm trying to say is that, uh... we have no good reliable information on this man. I mean, what I am saying is the pizza man... is not above suspicion.
SCULLY: Ah, I see.
(Scully looks up at him. He smiles and glances significantly to the couch beside him. She follows his gaze and notices the almost hidden present on the couch. Her eyes light up.)
SCULLY: Is that for me?
MULDER: Yeah.
SCULLY: Nice package.
MULDER: Thank you.
SCULLY: What's the occasion?
MULDER: Oh, uh, I was going through some stuff after my mother died and, um, it's just an old family keepsake and I wanted you to have it.
SCULLY: Well, I'm touched.
(There is knocking at the door.)
MULDER: Little Caesar, I presume?
(Mulder answers the door.)
SCULLY: Hi... just, uh, give it to the man with the funny look on his face.
What's so good about it?
I love Empedocles. The case in here is like one of the stupidest cases ever but M&S scenes are way beyond awesome. Mulder being jealous over a pizza man? How cool is that? We just work together - yeah, right! This scene is all about being cute and sweet and just normal between them. And the look Mulder gave Scully after he sees the pizza man? Priceless!
46. The hospital scene (Empedocles)
MULDER: You awake?
SCULLY: Yeah.
MULDER: What did the doctor say?
SCULLY: That I had a partial abruption. Which means that my placenta started to tear away from the uterine wall. They're going to need to monitor me for awhile.
MULDER: But you're going to be fine?
SCULLY: Yeah.
(Mulder reaches out and rests his hand on her swollen belly for a moment.)
What's so good about it?
It's another Empedocles scene I absolutely adore. This one isn't really about things they say to each other. It's about Mulder's face when he touches Scully's belly. How astonished and amazed he is when he feels the baby moving inside. I love everything in here. Their intimacy - the fact that he just reaches out and touch her belly without being shy or weird about it. I feel like this is the moment when he fully realize that Scully's going to have a real baby. And you know what's the best part about it? It's his baby :)
47. Oprah. I watch a lot of Oprah (Alone)
MULDER: Hey. Ready to roll?
SCULLY: Yeah. I'll just get my keys.
MULDER: Hey, don't forget this. (He picks up a cushion and stuffs it under his shirt). Relax the back, breathe in, breathe out (makes panting noises).
SCULLY: How do you know all these things, Mulder?
MULDER: I'm unemployed. I have a lot of time on my hands. Oprah. I watch a lot of Oprah.
SCULLY: Thank you for doing this with me.
MULDER: What's the matter?
SCULLY: I don't know, I, uh, maybe it's hormones, or, I just, it's just, I'm just feeling so strange about all this.
MULDER: This having-a-baby this?
SCULLY: No, no, leaving work, I guess. I mean, I, I walked out of that office today feeling like a deserter.
MULDER: You paid your dues there, Scully. More than paid them. You're concerned about Agent Doggett?
SCULLY: You know, the entire time that I was down there I had someone to watch my back.
MULDER: I'm betting that Agent Doggett can take care of himself. He's a big boy. You gotta worry about the little boy. Or little girl. Boy? Or girl?
What's so good about it?
I love all those sweet random moments in S8 after Mulder's back and cares so much for Scully because of her pregnancy. It's so sweet. And idea of them going together to birth school makes me wanna squee so hard! Why, oh why they didn't show us this?! This scene also have little boy/little girl thing which is so cute of Mulder :) What a shame it wasn't a girl! Can you imagine Mulder with baby-girl? The image totally melts my heart.
48. The truth we both know (Existence)
MULDER: How's everybody doing?
SCULLY: We're doing just fine.
(Scully rises from the bed and carries the baby to Mulder. He gently pushes the blanket away from the baby's face.)
MULDER: Hey, now.
(Scully smiles, looks up at Mulder and then gently transfers the baby to Mulder's arms.)
MULDER: Hi.
MULDER: What are you going to call him?
SCULLY: William. After your father.
MULDER: Well, I don't know. He's... he's got your coloring and your eyes. But he looks suspiciously like Assistant Director Skinner.
SCULLY: I don't understand, Mulder - they came to take him from us - why they didn't.
MULDER: I don't quite understand that either. Except that maybe he isn't what they thought he was. That doesn't make him any less of a miracle though, does it?
SCULLY: From the moment I became pregnant, I feared the truth... about how... and why. And I know that you feared it, too.
MULDER: I think what we feared were the possibilities. The truth we both know.
SCULLY: Which is what?
(Still holding the baby between them, Mulder leans down and kisses Scully.)
What's so good about it?
I remember watching this for the first time. It was 8 years ago. And back then I didn't really use Internet and I wasn't aware of existing things like fansites with spoilers and stuff. Back then it was basically me and the fandom. I was completely unaware of what's going to happen in this episode. Also for the first time I had to watch it in German which I didn't fully understand. I've got a little less than half of dialogues so I was pretty much confused about the plot. I was totally freaked out about this epi. And then it turned out that not only Scully gave a birth to a healthy and normal (at least that's what we thought at the moment) baby but also last scene happened. I remember crying for like an hour or so after the episode ended. No other fandom made me feel like that before. My fangirl dreams came true. I was shipping this couple with all my heart and finally it become real. This scene was perfect. This kiss wasn't spontaneous and caused by some kind rush of emotions like almost-kiss from FTF. It was totally well-considered move, a result of being sure and ready to finally be honest with own feelings. That's why I love it. Because finally after 8 years they were ready to do this. Even after all those years sometimes when I watch it I'm so shocked that it happened and can't really believe in something as good as this scene.
49. I smelled you coming, Clarice (The Truth)
SCULLY: Mulder!
MULDER: I smelled you coming, Clarice.
SCULLY: Oh, my... Damn it, Mulder. It's not funny to see you putting on that act.
MULDER: No, that is funny. What's not funny is what they do to you in here if you don't put on that act.
(Mulder reaches for Scully, cups the back of her head with both hands, and draws her to him. He kisses her.)
(Mulder and Scully pull away from each other. Mulder humorously turns to Skinner.)
MULDER: Come here, you big, bald, beautiful man.
SKINNER: The only thing you're going to be kissing, Mulder, is your sweet ass good-bye, with the trouble your in.
MULDER: Uh-huh, I kind of gathered that right around the 50th brainwashing session.
(Mulder inches a little closer to Scully, he's holding her hand and lifts it to his lips.)
SCULLY: Mulder, why are they doing this to you?
MULDER: They think that they're preparing me for my trial. For my testimony.
SKINNER: Your testimony's not going to matter. Not with the case they're building.
MULDER: Not building. Rigging.
What's so good about it?
Well, it's their true reunion after whole S9 without Mulder. And the second real kiss we get to see on the screen. I think it's pretty much enough.
50. Maybe there' hope (The Truth)
SCULLY: What are you thinking? Mulder?
MULDER: I'm thinking... I'm a guilty man. I've failed in every respect. I deserve the harshest punishment for my crimes.
SCULLY: You don't believe that.
MULDER: I believe that I sat in a motel room like this with you when we first met and I tried to convince you of the truth. And in that respect, I succeeded, but... in every other way... I've failed.
SCULLY: You don't believe that, either.
MULDER: I've been chasing after monsters with a butterfly net. You heard the man - the date's set. I can't change that.
SCULLY: You wouldn't tell me. Not because you were afraid or broken... but because you didn't want to accept defeat.
MULDER: Well, I was afraid of what knowing would do to you. I was afraid that it would crush your spirit.
SCULLY: Why would I accept defeat? Why would I accept it, if you won't? Mulder, you say that you've failed but you only fail if you give up. And I know you - you can't give up. It's what I saw in you when we first met. It's what made me follow you... why I'd do it all over again.
MULDER: And look what it's gotten you.
SCULLY: And what has it gotten you? Not your sister. Nothing that you've set out for. But you won't give up, even now.
(Scully reaches out and takes hold of Mulder's hand.)
SCULLY: You've always said that you want to believe. But believe in what Mulder? If this is the truth that you've been looking for then what is left to believe in?
MULDER: I want to believe that the dead are not lost to us. That they speak to us as part of something greater than us - greater than any alien force. And if you and I are powerless now, I want to believe that if we listen to what's speaking, it can give us the power to save ourselves.
SCULLY: Then we believe the same thing.
(Scully watches Mulder intently. She smiles at him. Mulder reaches over and lightly picks up Scully's cross. He reaches up and caresses her lips. Mulder gets off of the floor and settles himself in bed next to Scully. He wraps himself around her, so that they are now holding each other closely.)
MULDER: Maybe there's hope.
What's so good about?
It's their last scene in the show. To be honest I wasn't particularly happy about how the show has ended. Mulder&Scully running away and hiding with the awareness of the end of the world being so close? C'mon that's just not the ending I wanted for them after all those years. But as a single scene this one was beautiful. Parallels between this scene and the one from Pilot were brilliant. And the things Scully told Mulder, the things about their journey were just perfect. Last capture of them lying together in a motel bed is just epic - it shows what was most important in this show. Not aliens and government conspiracies, no. It was about the most amazing relationship between two people, relationship based on respect, trust and love that are stronger than anything else. This show was and always will be a pure perfection.
THE END.
credits:
screencaps taken from: chrisnu and TXF Screen Grab Archive
parts of transcripts taken from: TXF Transcripts Archive
You can find PART I in here
26. In case we never meet again... (Triangle)
1939 SCULLY: What are you doing?!
MULDER: I'm going to tell you how to save this ship.
1939 SCULLY: Out here?
MULDER: I can't stay. I got to get back to history.
1939 SCULLY: What?
MULDER: And you got to rescue it. Wait. Listen to me. This ship's been caught in something called the devil's triangle. It's some kind of time warp - a rift in space.
1939 SCULLY: Are you crazy?
MULDER: You know Einstein, right? He predicts the theoretical possibility. He also predicts an atomic weapon that will destroy the world.
1939 SCULLY: Yeah? So what?
MULDER: If you don't go back and convince the crew of this ship to turn this ship around and head back into the devil's triangle everything Einstein predicted will become true - except for the outcome of history.
1939 SCULLY: So, if I don't turn this ship around...?
MULDER: In all likelihood, I won't exist.
1939 SCULLY: Oh...
MULDER: And neither will you.
1939 SCULLY: Okay...
MULDER: So, in case we never meet again...
(Mulder grabs her and kisses her long and hard.)
What's so good about it?
Okay, it wasn't even a real Scully. But screw that! :D He wanted to kiss her in case they would have never met. How frikkin awesome is that? :D It means that even though he wasn't ready to take another step with the real Scully, he wanted to know how does it feel to kiss her - ergo he thought about it sometimes. Of course he treated her with respect as an equal partner but this scene proves that he also saw her as a woman - a woman he wanted to (at least) kiss!
27. I got you a little something (How the Ghosts Stole Christmas)
SCULLY: I, uh... I couldn't sleep. I was, um...
MULDER: Come in. Aren't you supposed to be opening Christmas gifts with your family?
SCULLY: Mulder... None of that really happened out there tonight... That was all in our heads, right?
MULDER: I-it must have been.
SCULLY: Mmm. Not that, uh, my only joy in life is proving you wrong.
MULDER: When have you proved me wrong?
SCULLY: Well... Why else would you want me out there with you?
MULDER: You didn't want to be there? Oh, that's, um... That's self-righteous and... narcissistic of me to say, isn't it?
SCULLY: No, I mean... Maybe I did want to be out there with you.
MULDER: Now, um... I know we said that we weren't going to exchange gifts but, uh... I got you... a little something.
SCULLY: Mulder...
MULDER: Merry Christmas.
SCULLY: Well, I got you a little something, too.
What's so good about it?
I always get so sentimental when I watch this episode. And the last scene is so sweet. Taking this into consideration, Mulder was probably spending his Christmas alone. Maybe this present he got from Scully was the only one he got. So the fact that instead being with her family, she arrives at his place, it's just so touching. And they both got each other gifts thought they've decided not to - how cute is that? :)
28. TEH gaze (One son)
No dialogue.
What's so good about it?
Remember Rain King and famous "I do not GAZE at Scully"? Yeah, right! They totally glanced at each other in here. And hey! they were naked under a shower :D Of course Mulder's mind was all over Cassandra Spender and his case and Scully's mind was probably all about how to get and kill Diana Fowley but still - he was totally checking her out and she was totally checking him out. This was just hilarious!
29. You want to make that honeymoon video now? (Arcadia)
PAT VERLANDER: What do you do for a living Mr... Petrie? That's right, isn't it?
MULDER: (big grin, putting his arm around Scully's shoulders and hugging her) Yeah, I, uh... I work mostly at home which is great for Laura because she gets me all to herself.
PAT VERLANDER: Oh.
SCULLY: This place really is immaculate, Pat. I, uh, I wouldn't mind sending a thank-you note to the previous owners.
(...)
MULDER: Oh, yeah. Nothing weird going on around here. Hey... ooh, wait a minute. You didn't let me carry you over the threshold.
SCULLY: You ready?
MULDER: Let's get it on, honey.
SCULLY: All right, then.
SCULLY: Thanks to our friendly neighbors there will be no fluorescein bloodstain enhancement.
MULDER: Not that it makes much difference. This place is so clean you could build computer chips.
SCULLY: Okay. 6:01 p.m., February 24. Agents Scully and Mulder in the former home of David and Nancy Kline who disappeared without a trace last July. The Klines were the third such couple to disappear since this neighborhood was built in 1991. All were apparently stable professional people with no history of violence, domestic discord or mental illness and it took a family member or employee to realize that they were gone including their cars and a few personal items. What local police found in each case was nothing-- just impeccably-manicured homes and a community of neighbors who professed total ignorance that anyone had disappeared.
MULDER: That's pretty surprising considering how nutty this bunch is about being neighborly.
SCULLY: The local police departments were at a dead end so they turned to the FBI. AD Skinner, in assigning us this case thought a fruitful approach to the investigation would be if we went undercover posing as prospective home buyers as this planned community would seem to hide a dark, possibly murderous conspiracy of silence.
(Mulder comes very close into the video frame.)
MULDER: You want to make that honeymoon video now?
(Scully turns the camera off. Mulder sits on the kitchen counter and pulls his gloves off.)
SCULLY: Rob and Laura Petrie?
MULDER: "Pee-trie."
SCULLY: Mulder, if we ever go undercover again I get to choose the names, okay?
MULDER: Fine.
SCULLY: It just tells me that you're not taking this seriously.
MULDER: I'm taking it seriously. I just don't understand why we're on it. It's our first catch back on the X-Files. This isn't an X-File.
SCULLY: Sure it is. It's unexplained. What do you want, aliens? Tractor beams?
MULDER: Wow. Admit it: you just want to play house.
(Doorbell rings. Scully gives him a look and starts for the door.)
MULDER: Woman, get back in here and make me a sandwich!
(Scully stops, smiles slightly and snaps off her gloves and throws them at his head and continues on to the door.)
MULDER: Did I not make myself clear?
What's so good about it?
Probably the fact that Mulder&Scully go undercover as a marriage couple! Teasing in here is just the best. Really, this scene speaks for itself, I have nothing more to add ;)
30. Dear Diary: Today my heart leapt when Agent Scully suggested spontaneous human combustion (Trevor)
(Mulder and Scully in an autopsy bay. Scully in scrubs and mask pulls sheet off of the two halves of the body of Raybert Fellowes.)
SCULLY: Should we arrest David Copperfield?
MULDER: Yes, we should... but not for this. Now this is, uh, Raybert Fellowes superintendent of Road Farm Six, Mississippi Department of Corrections. One of his guards found him in his office. Not a drop of blood in the place.
SCULLY: Well, maybe he was killed elsewhere.
MULDER: No, I don't think so. Whoever did it took 40 minutes to do it in the middle of a tornado. What do you make of that?
SCULLY: I don't know. It's, uh... it's not a simple bisection. There's a considerable amount of his abdomen missing. I mean, it almost looks like a burning but it's too localized. Maybe an industrial acid.
MULDER: There's, um... no acid found in his office.
SCULLY: Oh. (long pause) Spontaneous human combustion.
MULDER: (grinning in disbelief) Scully...!
SCULLY: Well, isn't that where you're going with this?
MULDER: Dear Diary: Today my heart leapt when Agent Scully suggested spontaneous human combustion.
SCULLY: Mulder, there are one or two somewhat well-documented cases.
(Mulder says nothing, just sort of looks off to the side and nods thoughtfully.)
SCULLY: Mulder, shut up.
(Mulder has helpless "What did I do?" look on his face.)
SCULLY: Okay. What do you make of this?
MULDER: I don't have a theory. But I know of someone who does.
What's so good about it?
Another classic piece. Poor Scully - she just gave up at the very beginning and just went for spontaneous human combustion to save some time. And Mulder? Just LOL for his huge grin.
31. There can only be one true ending if it is to be perfect (Milagro)
No dialogue.
What's so good about it?
Milagro's one of my favourite episode in the whole show. It's perfect. And the last scene is like a cherry on top. I love authenticity of Scully's feelings. It's like the first time since Irresistible when we get to see her terrified like that. But once again Mulder is there to comfort her, to keep her safe. Yep, comfort scenes are one of the strongest sides of this show.
32. You're really Mr. Squeeze-every-last-drop-out-of-this-sweet-life aren't you? (The Unnatural)
SCULLY: Mulder, it is such a gorgeous day outside. Have you ever entertained the idea of trying to find life on this planet?
MULDER: I have seen the life on this planet, Scully and that is exactly why I am looking elsewhere.
(Scully opens a paper bag she is carrying and removes a paper-wrapped frozen dessert. This gets Mulder's attention.)
MULDER: Did you bring enough ice cream to share with the rest of the class?
SCULLY: It's not ice cream. It's a nonfat tofutti rice dreamsicle.
MULDER: Ugh. Bet the air in my mouth tastes better than that. You sure know how to live it up, Scully.
SCULLY: Oh, you're Mr. Live-it-up. Mulder, you're really Mr. Squeeze-every-last-drop-out-of-this-sweet-life aren't you? On this precious Saturday you've got us grabbing life by the testes stealing reference books from the FBI library in order to go through New Mexico newspaper obituaries for the years 1940 to 1949 and for what joyful purpose?
MULDER: Looking for anomalies, Scully. Do you know how many so-called "flying disc" reports there were in New Mexico in the 1940s?
SCULLY: I don't care. Mulder, this is a needle in a haystack. These poor souls have been dead for 50 years. Let them rest in peace. Let sleeping dogs lie.
MULDER: No, I won't sit idly by as you hurl cliches at me. Preparation is the father of inspiration.
SCULLY: Necessity is the mother of invention.
MULDER: The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
SCULLY: Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we may die.
MULDER: I scream, you scream, we all scream for nonfat tofutti rice dreamsicles.
(Mulder sets the book down and lunges for Scully. He grabs her arm and takes a bite of the dreamsicle. The cone breaks and pieces of the dessert splatter down on the book.)
SCULLY: Mulder!
(She looks closely at the dairy-product-smeared page.)
SCULLY: (accusing) Mulder!? You cheat. I can't believe that you've been reading about baseball this whole time.
MULDER: Reading the box scores, Scully. You'd like it. It's like the Pythagorean Theorem for jocks. It distills all the chaos and action of any game in the history of all baseball games into one tiny, perfect, rectangular sequence of numbers. I can look at this box and I can recreate exactly what happened on some sunny summer day back in 1947. It's like the numbers talk to me, they comfort me. They tell me that even though lots of things can change some things do remain the same. It's...
SCULLY: (interrupting) Boring. Mulder, can I ask you a personal question?
MULDER: Of course not.
SCULLY: Did your mother ever tell you to go outside and play? Mulder?
(Mulder is looking intently at a picture in the book. He wipes away the ice cream. It is a picture of two white men and one black man in a baseball jersey. They are standing in front of an old bus with "Roswell Grays" on the side. One of the white men is the Alien Bounty Hunter. Headline is "Local Roswell police officer Arthur Dales chats with Diamond Star Josh Exley.")
MULDER: (to himself) Is that Arthur Dales...
SCULLY: Mulder?
MULDER: Ah... Choo!
(As Mulder pretends to sneeze, he rips the page out of the book. Scully stares at him in disbelief.)
SCULLY: You just defaced property of the U.S. Government.
(Carrying the torn page, Mulder gets his leather jacket and runs out of the office. Scully watches him go.)
SCULLY: You rebel.
What's so good about it?
This scene is made of awesome! Their proverb-battle is absolutely hilarious! And they're so relaxed and casual and in a good mood. Plus - Scully is insanely adorable in here. There should be way much more scenes like this one.
33. Hips before hands (The Unnatural)
SCULLY: So, uh... I get this message marked "urgent" on my answering service from one Fox Mantle telling me to come down to the park for a very special very early or very late birthday present. And, Mulder... I don't see any nicely wrapped presents lying around so, what gives?
MULDER: You've never hit a baseball, have you, Scully?
SCULLY: No, I guess I have, uh... found more necessary things to do with my time than ... slap a piece of horsehide with a stick.
MULDER: Get over here, Scully.
(Mulder holds the bat out for her. Scully walks over and takes it. Mulder steps behind her and wraps his arms around her tightly, also holding the bat around her hands.)
SCULLY: This my birthday present, Mulder? You shouldn't have.
MULDER: This ain't cheap. I'm paying that kid ten bucks an hour to shag balls. Hey, it's not a bad piece of ash, huh?
(Scully gives him a "Look.")
MULDER: The bat - talking about the bat. Now, don't strangle it. You just want to shake hands with it. "Hello, Mr. Bat. It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance." "Oh, no, no, Ms. Scully. The pleasure's all mine."
(Scully laughs as their hands grip the bat.)
MULDER: Okay, now, we want to... we want to go hips before hands, okay? (holds his hand a few inches from her hip) We want to stride forward and turn. That's all we're thinking about. So, we go hips... before hands, all right?
(He touches her hip and with his hands and his own hips pressed against her, turns her the right way.)
SCULLY: Okay.
MULDER: One more time.
(He touches and turns her hips more confidently.)
MULDER: Hips... before hands, all right?
SCULLY: Yeah.
MULDER: What is it?
SCULLY: Hips before hands.
MULDER: Right. We're going to wait on the pitch. We're going to keep our eye on the ball. Then, we're just going to make contact. We're not going to think. We're just going to let it fly, Scully, okay?
SCULLY: Mm-hmm.
MULDER: Ready?
(Mulder tries to readjust their grips on the bat. Momentary hand struggle between them.)
SCULLY: I'm in the middle.
(She gets her hands back between his.)
MULDER: All right, fire away, Poorboy.
(A ball comes to them and they hit it. It goes way foul.)
MULDER: Ooh! That's good. All right, what you may find is you concentrate on hitting that little ball... The rest of the world just fades away - all your everyday, nagging concerns. The ticking of your biological clock. How you probably couldn't afford that nice, new suede coat on a G-Woman's salary. How you threw away a promising career in medicine... to hunt aliens with a crackpot, albeit brilliant, partner.
(He gets another "Look.")
MULDER: Getting into the heart of a global conspiracy. Your obscenely overdue triple-X bill. Oh, I... I'm sorry, Scully. Those last two problems are mine, not yours.
SCULLY: Shut up, Mulder. I'm playing baseball.
What's so good about it?
I don't know how about you, but I think that this is the sexiest scene in the whole show. Definitely. The part where he touches her hip - OMG! how hot is that?! Everything is so sensual in here - just look how close to each other they are! And they're having such a great time together. I know, this show is officially about paranormal phenomenons, aliens, conspiracies and therefore it's dark, mysterious and serious but really, let me say this one more time, there should be more scenes like that! Is there anybody who wouldn't just love them together playing baseball?
34. Even when the world was falling apart... (Amor Fati)
MULDER: Scully, what are you doing here? Actually, I was just getting dressed to come see you but I... I couldn't find a tie to go with my victory cap.
SCULLY: Mulder, no work. You have to go back to bed.
MULDER: Oh, wait. Tie goes to the runner. Scully, I, um... I was coming down... to work to tell you that Albert Hosteen is dead. He died last night in New Mexico. He'd been in a coma for two weeks. There was... no way he could have been in your apartment.
SCULLY: He was there - we... we prayed together. Mulder, I don't believe that. I... I don't believe it. It's impossible.
MULDER: Is it any more impossible than what you saw in Africa or what you saw in me?
SCULLY: I don't know what to believe anymore. Mulder, I was so determined to find a cure to save you that I could deny what it was that I saw and now I don't even know... I don't know... I don't know what the truth is... I don't know who to listen to. I don't know who to trust... Diana Fowley was found murdered this morning. I never trusted her... but she helped save your life just as much as I did. She gave me that book. It was her key that led me to you. I'm sorry... I'm so sorry. I know she was your friend.
(She puts her arms around his shoulders and they hold each other.)
MULDER: Scully, I was like you once - I didn't know who to trust. Then I... I chose another path... another life, another fate, where I found my sister. The end of my world was unrecognizable and upside down. There was one thing that remained the same.
(He holds her face and gazes at her.)
MULDER: You... were my friend, and you told me the truth. Even when the world was falling apart, you were my constant... my touchstone.
SCULLY: And you are mine.
What's so good about it?
It's one of my absolutely favourite scenes in the whole show - srsly, like top three or something. I don't think there could be any more beautiful and powerful way of saying how much you love and care for another person than the one that was shown in this scene. You were my constant... my touchstone is the most beautiful line ever. It's exactly why I love these two. Even though this relationship is a little twisted (well, not a little, really) and dark and full of angst, I think it's like the most perfect relationship in the whole world.
35. The world didn't end (Millennium)
MULDER: The world didn't end.
SCULLY: No, it didn't.
What's so good about it?
Besides Mulder&Scully finally getting a kiss after 7 years?! Yeah, not much. I thought I was going to choke when I saw it for the first time. It was so many years ago and I wasn't even aware that things like spoilers exist so I had no idea this will happen. It was a total surprise and shock for me. It was so sweet, so amazing and yet so natural. Though it was only a New Year's kiss, completely innocent and stuff, I consider it as a perfect first kiss for them. And the way they look at each other after the kiss. They smile and you can see that they liked it, liked it a lot and that somewhere in their minds this thought about maybe try to get something more shyly emerges. It's the cutest kiss ever :)
36. She was just trying to take away your pain (Sein und Zeit)
MULDER: I'm glad you're here. My mother was trying to tell me something. I think I figured it out. It's something about my sister that she was never able to tell me.
(He plays the tape for her.)
TEENA MULDER: So much that I've left unsaid for reasons I hope one day you'll understand.
MULDER: She knew what I'd find with this case out in California.
SCULLY: How could she know that, Mulder?
MULDER: A child disappearing without a trace - without evidence - in defiance of all logical explanation? She knew because of what's driven me - what I've always believed.
SCULLY: Mulder...
MULDER: Scully, these parents who've lost... who've lost their children... They've had visions of their sons and daughters in scenarios that never happened but which they describe in notes that came through them as automatic writing and words that came through them psychically from old souls protecting the children. My mother must have written a note like that herself. Describing the scenario of my sister's disappearance of her, of her abduction by aliens. Don't you see, Scully? It never happened. All these visions that I've had have just been... they've been to help me cope, to help me deal with the loss but... I've been looking for my sister in the wrong place. That's... what my mother was trying to tell me. That's what she was trying to warn me about. That's why they killed her.
SCULLY: Your mother killed herself, Mulder. I conducted the autopsy. She was dying of an incurable disease. An untreatable and horribly disfiguring disease called Paget's Carcinoma. She knew it. There were doctor's records. She didn't want to live.
(Mulder stares at her a moment, then puts his face in his hands. Suddenly he stands and shakes the desk violently. Scully touches his arm to calm him down. He pulls away in agony, starting to break down.)
SCULLY: Mulder...
MULDER: She was trying to tell me something. She was... (voice breaking as he cries) ...trying to tell me something.
SCULLY: Mulder, she was trying to tell you to stop. To stop looking for your sister. She was just trying to take away your pain.
(Mulder turns to her desperately and holds her tightly around her waist and cries.)
What's so good about it?
Damn, this scene is so emotional. It's not often when we get to see Mulder being in such a despair. Once again it's about support - this time Scully's support. Don't you find this so moving that seeing him breaking down like that makes her almost cry? At this stage they share each other feelings and emotions so much, they become unity. His pain is hers, hers is his. And how desperately he needs her at this moment, how tightly he holds on to her. Beautiful.
37. This very moment (All things)
MULDER: I just find it hard to believe.
SCULLY: What part?
MULDER: The part where I go away for two days and your whole life changes.
SCULLY: Mmm, I didn't say my whole life changed.
MULDER: You speaking to God in a Buddhist temple. God speaking back.
SCULLY: Mmm, and I didn't say that God spoke back. I said that I had some kind of a vision.
MULDER: Well, for you, that's like saying you're having David Crosby's baby.
MULDER: What is it?
SCULLY: I once considered spending my whole life with this man. What I would have missed?
MULDER: I don't think you can know. I mean, how many different lives would we be leading if we made different choices. We... We don't know.
SCULLY: What if there was only one choice and all the other ones were wrong? And there were signs along the way to pay attention to.
MULDER: Mmm. And all the... choices would then lead to this very moment. One wrong turn, and... we wouldn't be sitting here together. Well, that says a lot. That says a lot, a lot, a lot. That's probably more than we should be getting into at this late hour.
What's so good about it?
Probably I'm the only shipper/Scully fan who in general doesn't like this episode. But that's how it looks like with me. I think that Scully from All things wasn't a *real* Scully. Plus I don't really believe they've spent this night together. Anyway, last scene...? Yeah, last scene I love with all my heart. It's partially because of the things they've talked about - destiny and free will. And how every choice they've made lead them where they are now - together. But what captures my heart the most in here is this amazing tenderness - the way Mulder looks at Scully when she falls asleep, the way he brushes her hair of her face, the way he covers her. He's so caring and full of love. Like he's fully aware that what's really important in his life lies right next to him. That's just made of sweetness.
38. I'm in love with Associate Producer Walter Skinner (Hollywood A.D.)
SCULLY: Been looking all over for you.
MULDER: They got it so wrong, Scully.
SCULLY: I got a page from the Washington Bureau. Micah Hoffman was murdered tonight. Murdered in his own home by Cardinal O'Fallon who then hanged himself. A murder-suicide.
MULDER: It's Jesus and Judas, Scully.
SCULLY: Wow... It's all over now.
MULDER: No, no, it's just beginning. Hoffman and O'Fallon were these complicated, flawed, beautiful people and now they'll just be remembered as jokes because of this movie. The character based on O'Fallon is listed in the credits as "Cigarette-Smoking Pontiff." How silly is that?
SCULLY: Pretty silly.
MULDER: Yeah, what about us? How are we going to be remembered now 'cause of this movie?
SCULLY: Well, hopefully, the movie will tank.
MULDER: What about all the dead people who are forever silent and can't tell their stories anymore? They're all going to have to rely on Hollywood to show the future how we lived and it'll all become... oversimplified and trivialized and Cigarette-Smoking Pontificized and become as plastic and meaningless as this stupid plastic Lazarus Bowl.
SCULLY: I think the dead are beyond caring what people think about them. Hopefully we can adopt the same attitude. You do know that there aren't real dead people out there, right? That this is a movie set?
MULDER: The dead are everywhere, Scully.
SCULLY: Well... We're alive. And we're relatively young and Skinner was so tickled by the movie..
MULDER: I bet he was...
SCULLY: That he has given us a Bureau credit card to use for the evening.
(She holds up the card and giggles. He smiles.)
SCULLY: Come on.
(She takes his arm and helps him up. Together, they run down the steep slope of the hill to a path.)
SCULLY: Mulder, I have something to confess.
MULDER: What's that?
SCULLY: I'm in love with Associate Producer Walter Skinner.
MULDER: Ah... Me, too.
What's so good about it?
They're so cute in here. And I'd die to know what they have done that evening! It's so awesome to see them having fun like that - being relaxed and laughing. And they're walking away holding hands - how incredible sweet is that?!
39. I'm fairly happy. That's something (Je Souhaite)
MULDER: I can't believe you don't want butter on your popcorn. Uggh. It's un-American.
(Scully looks at the video tape case.)
SCULLY: Caddyshack, Mulder?
MULDER: It's a classic American movie.
(Scully slumps back against the couch and opens her Shiner Bock beer.)
SCULLY: That's what every guy says. It's a guy movie.
MULDER: Okay, when you invite me over to your place we can watch Steel Magnolias.
(Scully tosses her beer cap across the room and with a "clink" it lands in whatever it was she was aiming for. Mulder, having also opened a beer, tosses his cap in the same direction. Scully giggles into her beer as we hear the cap thud to the ground.)
SCULLY: So, uh... What's the occasion?
MULDER: I don't know. Just felt like the thing to do. Cheers.
SCULLY: Cheers.
(They tap bottles and take a sip of beer.)
MULDER: I don't know if you noticed but, um, I never made the world a happier place.
SCULLY: Well, I'm fairly happy. That's something.
SCULLY: So what was your final wish, anyway?
(Mulder looks at her for a long moment. Then he smiles happily and takes another swig of his beer as the Kenny Loggins movie theme starts.)
What's so good about it?
Basically it's Mulder&Scully drinking beers and watching a movie. Isn't it a classic date or something? ;) Scenes like that at the end of S7 were all just screaming: "It's time to take another step, to change things, to finally cross this thin line!". They've not only spent their work time together. They've also spent their spare time together. The only thing they still have done separately at this time was sleeping probably. And Scully... you're just "fairly happy"? Who're trying to fool?
40. There so much more you need to do with your life. There's so much more than this (Requiem)
MULDER: What's wrong, Scully? You look sick.
SCULLY: I don't know what's wrong.
MULDER: Come in.
SCULLY: I, um... I was starting to get ready for bed and I started to feel really dizzy - vertigo or something - and then I just... I started to get chills.
(Mulder turns down the sheets and blankets on his bed.)
MULDER: You want me to call a doctor?
SCULLY: No, I just... I just want to get warm.
(Scully climbs onto the bed, pausing as Mulder takes off her shoes and drops them to the floor. She gets under the covers and Mulder tucks her in, then lies behind her and embraces her.)
SCULLY: Thank you.
MULDER: It's not worth it, Scully.
SCULLY: What?
MULDER: I want you to go home.
SCULLY: Oh, Mulder, I'm going to be fine.
MULDER: No, I've been thinking about it. Looking at you tonight, holding that baby... knowing everything that's been taken away from you. A chance for motherhood and your health and that baby. I think that... I don't know, maybe they're right.
SCULLY: Who's right?
MULDER: The FBI. Maybe what they say is true, though for all the wrong reasons. It's the personal costs that are too high. There so much more you need to do with your life. There's so much more than this. There has to be an end, Scully.
(He softly kisses her cheek and leans his head on her shoulder.)
What's so good about it?
It's one of the most intimate scene between these two. And things Mulder says! It proves so clearly how much he loves her. And it's like the first time since Christmas Carol/Emily they talk about Scully's infertility. Finally we see that Mulder was aware how important it was for her, how much she wanted to have a baby. And of course he felt guilty that she couldn't. I don't know how about you but I love him so much for all his constant guilt. He's like the hugest martyr ever and it's so beautiful and tragic and just epic... This scene has also a spooning cuddle and I'm pretty much obsessed about spooning ;) And you know what's also cool in here? They've probably spent whole night like that.
41. I'm not going to risk losing you (Requiem)
SCULLY: Mulder, if any of this is true...
MULDER: If it is, or if it isn't I want you to forget about it, Scully.
SCULLY: Forget about it?
MULDER: You're not going back out there. I'm not going to let you go back out there.
SCULLY: What are you talking about?
MULDER: It has to end sometime. That time is now.
SCULLY: Mulder...
MULDER: Scully, you have to understand that they're taking abductees. You're an abductee. I'm not going to risk... losing you.
SCULLY: I won't let you go alone.
What's so good about it?
Seriously, his I'm not going to risk losing you was SO much more than just a simple care about a friend. This episode was incredibly meaningful. I really believe that it was crucial for Mulder's way of thinking about life and stuff that are really important. He finally found out the truth about Samantha so X-Files wasn't no longer the most pivotal thing in his life. Seeing Scully holding that baby earlier (remember that Per Manum flashbacks were probably taking place somewhere near that time so he had already gave a serious thoughts about Scully having a baby) probably made him realize at some level that there is some kind of happiness and normality he never tried before but could have if only wanted to. I think that if he hadn't been abducted in the end of this epi, he would have finally done something about his relationship with Scully. Being ready for that was just all over his face.
42. The answer is "yes" (Per Manum)
SCULLY: Hi.
MULDER: Hi.
SCULLY: Come on in.
MULDER: Thanks.
SCULLY: Can I take your coat?
MULDER: No, I can't stay. I gotta get back to the office for a while.
SCULLY: Obviously you've had some time to think about my request.
MULDER: Um, it's... it's not something that I get asked to do every day. Um, but I am absolutely flattered. No, honestly.
SCULLY: Okay, if... if you're trying to politely say "no," it's okay. I, I understand.
MULDER: See what's weird is... this sounds, and this sounds really weird, I know, but I, I just wouldn't want this to come between us.
SCULLY: Yeah. I know... I, I understand. I do.
MULDER: Well... the answer is "yes."
(About 18 emotions cross Scully's face in four seconds. She is happy. They smile at each other. She comes into his arms and they hold each other for a moment.)
SCULLY: Um... Well, I'll call Dr. Parenti and... I assume that he'll want to meet you and go through the, uh, the donor procedure.
MULDER: At that part, I'm a pro.
What's so good about it?
My God! I cried while watching this scene for the first time. I still find it so amazingly beautiful and touching. There were times when I accused Mulder of being insensitive and just blind for all the things Scully must have been through because of him. But agreeing to become a father of her child was a full absolution. He did something so incredibly unselfish only to make her happy. He was aware that this baby thing may change things between them. And he obviously love the way things between them were. He knew that if it works, he'll recede into the background in Scully's heart. But he wanted to do this anyway - because it was her biggest dream. It's such an amazing gesture! And Scully! Damn, how the hell she found a guts to ask him for that?! Think about it - she told him that she wants him to be a father of her child, that she wants to have HIS baby. My God, that is so huge. It gets me every time - it's just SO HUGE!
43. Never give up on a miracle (Per Manum)
MULDER: Scully? I must have dozed off. I was waiting for you to get back. It didn't take, did it?
SCULLY: I guess it was too much to hope for.
(He opens his arms for her. She walks into them and lets him hold her. She sobs.)
SCULLY: It was my last chance.
(He holds her tightly, then kisses her on the forehead. He presses his forehead against hers.)
MULDER: Never give up on a miracle.
(She kisses his cheek and neck, then embraces him again.)
What's so good about it?
I strongly believe that this was this one night they really have spent together. Not the one from All things or any other. THIS ONE. I think that when it turned out that in vitro didn't work, it wasn't only a blow for Scully, but for Mulder as well. I believe that he wanted this baby - not only for her, maybe at some level also for himself. And when it didn't work out, they both needed support, they needed to be together as close to each other as they could get. That's why I love this scene. This and the amazing care and tenderness of course.
44. Anybody miss me? (DeadAlive)
SCULLY: Mulder... Hi.
(She smiles at him. Mulder stares at her without recognition. His voice is scratchy.)
MULDER: Who are you?
(Scully's face falls. Then Mulder gives her a small smile, his eyes warm. He is teasing her. Scully sobs in relief, tears streaming down her face.)
SCULLY: Oh, my god. Don't do that to me.
(They look at each other. He smiles gently.)
SCULLY: Do you know...? Do you have any idea what you've been through?
MULDER: Only what I see in your face.
(She strokes his hair, then presses her face to his chest and lays her head down on his shoulder and holds him.)
MULDER: Anybody miss me?
What's so good about it?
First of all it's a reunion. After all those episodes without Mulder, we finally see him back - alive and with Scully. What's not to love? Also there's a thing about Scully's look in here. Even though it was Mulder who decided to do a first move (i.e. Existence), it was Scully who first said I love you - only she did not used any words for that. But when you look in here at her face you have no doubts. She's not glad to see her friend again. She's not even glad to see the father of her child again. She's crying for joy because she got the love of her life back. That's what I see in this scene.
45. The pizza man? (Empedocles)
SCULLY: Mulder?
MULDER: What?
SCULLY: I was just about to jump in the shower but I was waiting for the pizza man.
MULDER: You got something going on with the pizza man I should know about?
SCULLY: The pizza man?
MULDER: Well, correct me if I'm wrong but you just said you were waiting for the pizza man to jump in the shower.
SCULLY: No, what I mean was the pizza man's usually late, and so... You want to come in?
MULDER: Thank you.
SCULLY: I feel like I'm stuck in an episode of Mad About You.
MULDER: Well, uh, yeah, but small technicality. Mad About You was about a married couple and we just work together.
SCULLY: Yeah, well, you know what I'm talking about.
MULDER: I do, I do. What-what I'm trying to say is that, uh... we have no good reliable information on this man. I mean, what I am saying is the pizza man... is not above suspicion.
SCULLY: Ah, I see.
(Scully looks up at him. He smiles and glances significantly to the couch beside him. She follows his gaze and notices the almost hidden present on the couch. Her eyes light up.)
SCULLY: Is that for me?
MULDER: Yeah.
SCULLY: Nice package.
MULDER: Thank you.
SCULLY: What's the occasion?
MULDER: Oh, uh, I was going through some stuff after my mother died and, um, it's just an old family keepsake and I wanted you to have it.
SCULLY: Well, I'm touched.
(There is knocking at the door.)
MULDER: Little Caesar, I presume?
(Mulder answers the door.)
SCULLY: Hi... just, uh, give it to the man with the funny look on his face.
What's so good about it?
I love Empedocles. The case in here is like one of the stupidest cases ever but M&S scenes are way beyond awesome. Mulder being jealous over a pizza man? How cool is that? We just work together - yeah, right! This scene is all about being cute and sweet and just normal between them. And the look Mulder gave Scully after he sees the pizza man? Priceless!
46. The hospital scene (Empedocles)
MULDER: You awake?
SCULLY: Yeah.
MULDER: What did the doctor say?
SCULLY: That I had a partial abruption. Which means that my placenta started to tear away from the uterine wall. They're going to need to monitor me for awhile.
MULDER: But you're going to be fine?
SCULLY: Yeah.
(Mulder reaches out and rests his hand on her swollen belly for a moment.)
What's so good about it?
It's another Empedocles scene I absolutely adore. This one isn't really about things they say to each other. It's about Mulder's face when he touches Scully's belly. How astonished and amazed he is when he feels the baby moving inside. I love everything in here. Their intimacy - the fact that he just reaches out and touch her belly without being shy or weird about it. I feel like this is the moment when he fully realize that Scully's going to have a real baby. And you know what's the best part about it? It's his baby :)
47. Oprah. I watch a lot of Oprah (Alone)
MULDER: Hey. Ready to roll?
SCULLY: Yeah. I'll just get my keys.
MULDER: Hey, don't forget this. (He picks up a cushion and stuffs it under his shirt). Relax the back, breathe in, breathe out (makes panting noises).
SCULLY: How do you know all these things, Mulder?
MULDER: I'm unemployed. I have a lot of time on my hands. Oprah. I watch a lot of Oprah.
SCULLY: Thank you for doing this with me.
MULDER: What's the matter?
SCULLY: I don't know, I, uh, maybe it's hormones, or, I just, it's just, I'm just feeling so strange about all this.
MULDER: This having-a-baby this?
SCULLY: No, no, leaving work, I guess. I mean, I, I walked out of that office today feeling like a deserter.
MULDER: You paid your dues there, Scully. More than paid them. You're concerned about Agent Doggett?
SCULLY: You know, the entire time that I was down there I had someone to watch my back.
MULDER: I'm betting that Agent Doggett can take care of himself. He's a big boy. You gotta worry about the little boy. Or little girl. Boy? Or girl?
What's so good about it?
I love all those sweet random moments in S8 after Mulder's back and cares so much for Scully because of her pregnancy. It's so sweet. And idea of them going together to birth school makes me wanna squee so hard! Why, oh why they didn't show us this?! This scene also have little boy/little girl thing which is so cute of Mulder :) What a shame it wasn't a girl! Can you imagine Mulder with baby-girl? The image totally melts my heart.
48. The truth we both know (Existence)
MULDER: How's everybody doing?
SCULLY: We're doing just fine.
(Scully rises from the bed and carries the baby to Mulder. He gently pushes the blanket away from the baby's face.)
MULDER: Hey, now.
(Scully smiles, looks up at Mulder and then gently transfers the baby to Mulder's arms.)
MULDER: Hi.
MULDER: What are you going to call him?
SCULLY: William. After your father.
MULDER: Well, I don't know. He's... he's got your coloring and your eyes. But he looks suspiciously like Assistant Director Skinner.
SCULLY: I don't understand, Mulder - they came to take him from us - why they didn't.
MULDER: I don't quite understand that either. Except that maybe he isn't what they thought he was. That doesn't make him any less of a miracle though, does it?
SCULLY: From the moment I became pregnant, I feared the truth... about how... and why. And I know that you feared it, too.
MULDER: I think what we feared were the possibilities. The truth we both know.
SCULLY: Which is what?
(Still holding the baby between them, Mulder leans down and kisses Scully.)
What's so good about it?
I remember watching this for the first time. It was 8 years ago. And back then I didn't really use Internet and I wasn't aware of existing things like fansites with spoilers and stuff. Back then it was basically me and the fandom. I was completely unaware of what's going to happen in this episode. Also for the first time I had to watch it in German which I didn't fully understand. I've got a little less than half of dialogues so I was pretty much confused about the plot. I was totally freaked out about this epi. And then it turned out that not only Scully gave a birth to a healthy and normal (at least that's what we thought at the moment) baby but also last scene happened. I remember crying for like an hour or so after the episode ended. No other fandom made me feel like that before. My fangirl dreams came true. I was shipping this couple with all my heart and finally it become real. This scene was perfect. This kiss wasn't spontaneous and caused by some kind rush of emotions like almost-kiss from FTF. It was totally well-considered move, a result of being sure and ready to finally be honest with own feelings. That's why I love it. Because finally after 8 years they were ready to do this. Even after all those years sometimes when I watch it I'm so shocked that it happened and can't really believe in something as good as this scene.
49. I smelled you coming, Clarice (The Truth)
SCULLY: Mulder!
MULDER: I smelled you coming, Clarice.
SCULLY: Oh, my... Damn it, Mulder. It's not funny to see you putting on that act.
MULDER: No, that is funny. What's not funny is what they do to you in here if you don't put on that act.
(Mulder reaches for Scully, cups the back of her head with both hands, and draws her to him. He kisses her.)
(Mulder and Scully pull away from each other. Mulder humorously turns to Skinner.)
MULDER: Come here, you big, bald, beautiful man.
SKINNER: The only thing you're going to be kissing, Mulder, is your sweet ass good-bye, with the trouble your in.
MULDER: Uh-huh, I kind of gathered that right around the 50th brainwashing session.
(Mulder inches a little closer to Scully, he's holding her hand and lifts it to his lips.)
SCULLY: Mulder, why are they doing this to you?
MULDER: They think that they're preparing me for my trial. For my testimony.
SKINNER: Your testimony's not going to matter. Not with the case they're building.
MULDER: Not building. Rigging.
What's so good about it?
Well, it's their true reunion after whole S9 without Mulder. And the second real kiss we get to see on the screen. I think it's pretty much enough.
50. Maybe there' hope (The Truth)
SCULLY: What are you thinking? Mulder?
MULDER: I'm thinking... I'm a guilty man. I've failed in every respect. I deserve the harshest punishment for my crimes.
SCULLY: You don't believe that.
MULDER: I believe that I sat in a motel room like this with you when we first met and I tried to convince you of the truth. And in that respect, I succeeded, but... in every other way... I've failed.
SCULLY: You don't believe that, either.
MULDER: I've been chasing after monsters with a butterfly net. You heard the man - the date's set. I can't change that.
SCULLY: You wouldn't tell me. Not because you were afraid or broken... but because you didn't want to accept defeat.
MULDER: Well, I was afraid of what knowing would do to you. I was afraid that it would crush your spirit.
SCULLY: Why would I accept defeat? Why would I accept it, if you won't? Mulder, you say that you've failed but you only fail if you give up. And I know you - you can't give up. It's what I saw in you when we first met. It's what made me follow you... why I'd do it all over again.
MULDER: And look what it's gotten you.
SCULLY: And what has it gotten you? Not your sister. Nothing that you've set out for. But you won't give up, even now.
(Scully reaches out and takes hold of Mulder's hand.)
SCULLY: You've always said that you want to believe. But believe in what Mulder? If this is the truth that you've been looking for then what is left to believe in?
MULDER: I want to believe that the dead are not lost to us. That they speak to us as part of something greater than us - greater than any alien force. And if you and I are powerless now, I want to believe that if we listen to what's speaking, it can give us the power to save ourselves.
SCULLY: Then we believe the same thing.
(Scully watches Mulder intently. She smiles at him. Mulder reaches over and lightly picks up Scully's cross. He reaches up and caresses her lips. Mulder gets off of the floor and settles himself in bed next to Scully. He wraps himself around her, so that they are now holding each other closely.)
MULDER: Maybe there's hope.
What's so good about?
It's their last scene in the show. To be honest I wasn't particularly happy about how the show has ended. Mulder&Scully running away and hiding with the awareness of the end of the world being so close? C'mon that's just not the ending I wanted for them after all those years. But as a single scene this one was beautiful. Parallels between this scene and the one from Pilot were brilliant. And the things Scully told Mulder, the things about their journey were just perfect. Last capture of them lying together in a motel bed is just epic - it shows what was most important in this show. Not aliens and government conspiracies, no. It was about the most amazing relationship between two people, relationship based on respect, trust and love that are stronger than anything else. This show was and always will be a pure perfection.
THE END.
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screencaps taken from: chrisnu and TXF Screen Grab Archive
parts of transcripts taken from: TXF Transcripts Archive