The X Files (1998)

William B. Davis: The Cigarette-Smoking Man

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Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Conrad Strughold : Oh, you look hot and miserable. Why have you traveled all this way?

  Cigarette Smoking Man : We have business to discuss.

  Conrad Strughold : You have regular channels.

  Cigarette Smoking Man : This involves Mulder.

  Conrad Strughold : Ah, that name. Again and again.

  Cigarette Smoking Man : He's seen more than he should.

  Conrad Strughold : What has he seen? Of the whole, he has seen but pieces.

  Cigarette Smoking Man : He's determined now, reinvested.

  Conrad Strughold : He's but one man. One man alone cannot fight the future.

  Cigarette Smoking Man : Yesterday, I received this.

  [hands him a telegram] 

  Conrad Strughold : [reads it, then drops it with a worried look]  Oh...

  [we see that it reads: "X-Files reopened. Stop. Please advise. Stop"] 

• Cigarette Smoking Man : Secure the station. I want everybody else down below. If you're not armed, arm yourselves! We may have a breach.

• Ben Bronschweig, M.D. : [the Cigarette Smoking Man and Dr. Bronschweig climb down a ladder into the cave while wearing bio-haz-mats suits]  We brought the atmosphere back down to freezing in order to control the development, which is like nothing we've ever seen.

  Cigarette Smoking Man : Brought on by what?

  Ben Bronschweig, M.D. : Heat, I think. The coincident invasion of a host, the fireman, in an environment that raised his body temperate above 98.6.

  Cigarette Smoking Man : [they walk into an isolation chamber where one of the infected firemen is lying on a gurney, breathing heavily, his skin gelatinous, and hooked up to various I.V. drips]  This man's still alive.

  Ben Bronschweig, M.D. : Technically... and biologically. But he'll never recover.

  Cigarette Smoking Man : How can this be?

  Ben Bronschweig, M.D. : [he points to the alien embryo forming in the fireman's chest seen through the skin which is pulsating]  The developing organism is using his life energy, digesting bone and tissue. We've just slowed the process.

  [pause] 

  Ben Bronschweig, M.D. : Do you want us to destroy this one too before it gestates?

  Cigarette Smoking Man : Uh, no. No. We need to try our vaccine on it.

  Ben Bronschweig, M.D. : And if it's unsuccessfull?

  Cigarette Smoking Man : Burn it... like the others.