- Mr. Burt: [held at gunpoint by Scully for the second time] So, you're saying I didn't have anything to do with it?
- Dana Scully: [Mr Burt puts down his hands] Hey, keep you hands up!
- Mr. Burt: Why?
- Dana Scully: I don't know.
- Mr. Burt: What's this about numbers?
- Dana Scully: Will you just...!
- Mr. Burt: I'm very good with numbers.
- Monica Reyes: The killer is driven by an impulse we believe is numerological.
- Mr. Burt: Of course, he's a serial killer.
- Dana Scully: What time is your friend coming?
- Mr. Burt: [looks at his wrist with no watch] Soon.
- Monica Reyes: What do you want to do?
- Dana Scully: I don't know. I don't know.
- Mr. Burt: I have some nice dance music.
- Dana Scully: We happen to be here, sir, because there is a serial killer on the loose.
- Mr. Burt: How many did he kill?
- Dana Scully: Seven women now.
- Mr. Burt: How you gonna catch him?
- Dana Scully: We're not, stuck down here.
- Mr. Burt: You sure there's nothing I can do?
- Dana Scully: Do you have the combination to the door?
- Mr. Burt: No...
- Dana Scully: Do you have a cell phone that works?
- Mr. Burt: I wish I did. There's always checkers.
- [we cut to Scully playing checkers with Mr. Burt, she's loses against him]
- Mr. Burt: Next victim?
- Dana Scully: [exasperated] How did we get ourselves into this?
- Mr. Burt: So, it's a kind of a game.
- Dana Scully: No, it's not.
- Monica Reyes: No, maybe it is. Maybe that's what this is about - who wins the game.
- Mr. Burt: I think she's on to something!
- Dana Scully: Agent Reyes, you can't reduce a complex factor's physical and psychological into a game.
- Monica Reyes: You're a scientist, Agent Scully, your world is ruled by numbers. Atoms, molecules, periodicity...
- Mr. Burt: Wow!
- Monica Reyes: And wouldn't it follow that everything you've made from those things is ruled by numbers, too? Genes, chromosomes, us... the universe!
- Mr. Burt: Go, girl!