- Fox Mulder: I can feel you thinking.
- Dana Scully: I'm sorry. I can't sleep.
- Fox Mulder: Actually, I have a little something for that.
- Dana Scully: Just a little something?
- Fox Mulder: Thank you.
- Assistant Director Walter Skinner: We will find him. I know Mulder. He'd get to a phone and call first. He wouldn't do anything crazy.
- [Scully stares at him]
- Assistant Director Walter Skinner: Not overly crazy.
- Fox Mulder: This is not an exact science. If it were me, I'd be on the guy 24/7. I'd be in bed with him kissing his holy ass.
- ASAC Dakota Whitney: Father Joe is a convicted pedophile.
- Fox Mulder: [surprised] ... Maybe I'd stay out of bed with him.
- Dana Scully: This stubbornness of yours, it's why I fell in love with you.
- Fox Mulder: It's like you said. That's why we can't be together.
- Fox Mulder: Scully? Why would he say that?
- [he pauses then follows Scully to her car]
- Fox Mulder: "Don't give up." Why would he say such a thing to you?
- Dana Scully: I think that was clearly meant for you, Mulder.
- Fox Mulder: He didn't say it to me. He said it to you.
- Dana Scully: Umm...
- Fox Mulder: If Father Joe were the devil, why would he say the opposite of what the devil might say?
- [she doesn't reply, though clearly attempting to rationalize]
- Fox Mulder: Maybe that's the answer. You know, the larger answer.
- Dana Scully: What do you mean?
- Fox Mulder: Don't give up.
- Dana Scully: Please don't make this any harder than it already is.
- Fox Mulder: It's OK... OK.
- Fox Mulder: [wrapping his arms around Scully, allowing her to rest her head on his chest] If you have any doubts, any doubts at all, just call off that surgery this morning. And then we'll get out of here.
- [he loosens his embrace enough to look into her eyes]
- Fox Mulder: Just me and you.
- Dana Scully: As far away from the darkness as we can get?
- Fox Mulder: I'm not sure it works that way. I think maybe the darkness finds you, and me.
- Dana Scully: [as a tear rolls down her cheek] I know it does.
- Fox Mulder: But let it try.
- [they embrace again, this time pulling together in a long, passionate kiss]
- Dana Scully: Listen to me! I need your help!
- Agent Mosley Drummy: I'm sorry. I - I can't help you.
- Dana Scully: Then let me talk to somebody there with some balls who can.
- Dana Scully: Yeah, well, it's been fun.
- Fox Mulder: Scully? Nobody's gonna make you sit next to him.
- Dana Scully: Thanks, but I've already been taken for a ride. Anyway, he doesn't want me there.
- Fox Mulder: I want you here.
- Dana Scully: This isn't my life anymore, Mulder. I'm done chasing monsters in the dark.
- [last lines]
- Assisting Nurse: Are you ready to begin, uh, Dr. Scully?
- Dana Scully: [Scully scans around the room at all the other medical personnel, finally pausing for several seconds to look at three nuns observing through a window] Yes.
- Fox Mulder: Are you asking me to give up?
- Dana Scully: No. I can't tell you to do that, Mulder. But I can tell you that I won't be coming home.
- Dana Scully: You know, the truth is, I worrry about you, and the effects of long-term isolation.
- Fox Mulder: [chuckling] I'm fine here. I'm happy as a clam.
- Father Joe: And where do they come from, these appetites, these uncontrollable urges of ours?
- Dana Scully: Not from God!
- Father Joe: Not from me. I castrated myself when I was twenty-six.
- Dana Scully: What was it you were praying for in there, sir?
- Father Joe: For the salvation of my immortal soul.
- Dana Scully: And do you think God hears your prayers?
- Father Joe: Do you think he hears yours?
- Dana Scully: I didn't bugger 37 altar boys.
- Father Joe: Oh.
- Fox Mulder: That's a colorful way of puttin' it.
- Dana Scully: Well, I have another word, if you'd like.
- Fox Mulder: I'm sure you do.
- Margaret Fearon: It's nothing against you.
- Dana Scully: No.
- Margaret Fearon: If you were a mother, you'd understand.
- Father Joe: Do you know why we live here, the men who call this vile box of monsters home? Because we hate each other, even as we hate ourselves, for our sickening appetites.