034. "Maybe there's hope." / The final scene from 'The X Files'
*WARNING: HERE THERE BE SPOILERS*
I have been a fan of the X Files since I was a wee one and the X Files is the reason why I love space/aliens/supernatural type things. I was trying to figure out which scene/episode to picspam and I really couldn't figure it out, there are so many amazing scenes and episodes that it was really hard to pick so I just went for the fail-proof option and picked the very last scene in the series because it ended how it should have - Mulder and Scully together (greatest OTP? I think so!).
SCENE 29
ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO
(Night. Outside a motel room, it's raining. Thunder rumbles. )
(Inside, MULDER is sitting on the floor, leaning back against the bed and his head resting back.)
SCULLY (o.s.): What are you thinking?
(MULDER is silent. Thoughtful.)
SCULLY: 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: (softly) You don't believe that.
(Mulder sighs.)
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 ...
(MULDER turns to look at SCULLY)
MULDER: ... I've failed.
SCULLY: You don't believe that, either.
MULDER: Mmmm.
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.
(MULDER turns to look at SCULLY and confesses one of his greatest fears.)
MULDER: 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 in a firm grip.)
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 . MULDER looks like he Believes. SCULLY smiles at MULDER. 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: (whispers) Maybe there's hope.
[Fade to black]
[THE *END*]
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