The X-Files (TV Series)

Grotesque (1996)

David Duchovny: Fox Mulder

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Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Mulder : We work in the dark. We do what we can to battle the evil that would otherwise destroy us. But if a man's character is his fate, this fight is not a choice but a calling. Yet sometimes the weight of this burden causes us to falter, breaching the frazzled fortress of our mind, allowing the monsters without to turn within. We are left alone staring into the abyss; into the laughing face of madness.

• [about Mulder's encounter with a gargoyle] 

  Scully : Maybe you're just seeing what you wanted to see.

  Mulder : What makes you think I'd want to see that?

• Mulder : Using psychology to solve a crime was something like...

  Scully : Believing in the paranormal?

• Mulder : Patterson had this saying about tracking a killer: If you want to know an artist, you had to look at his work. What he really meant was, If you wanted to catch a monster, you had to become one yourself.