The X Files (1998)

John Neville: The Well-Manicured Man

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• Well-Manicured Man : Trust no one, Mr. Mulder.

• Special Agent Fox Mulder : [looking at a vile of serum with a syringe and a note with map coordinates]  What is it?

  Well-Manicured Man : A weak vaccine against the virus Agent Scully has been infected with. It must be administrated within 96 hours. That leaves you little time to reach those coordinates.

  Special Agent Fox Mulder : You're lying.

  Well-Manicured Man : No. Though I have no means to prove otherwise. The virus is extraterrestrial. We know very little about it except that it was the original inhabitant of this planet.

  Special Agent Fox Mulder : A virus.

  Well-Manicured Man : What is a virus but a colonizing force that cannot be defeated, living in a cave underground until it mutates and attacks.

  Special Agent Fox Mulder : This is what you've been conspiring to conceal? A disease?

  Well-Manicured Man : No, for God's sake! You've got it all backwards! AIDS, the Ebola virus... on an evolutionary scale they are newborns. This virus walked the planet long before the dinosaurs.

  Special Agent Fox Mulder : What do you mean "walked"?

  Well-Manicured Man : Your aliens, Agent Mulder, your little green men, arrived here millions of years ago. Those that didn't leave have been lying dormant underground since the last ice age in the form of an evolved pathogen waiting to be reconstituted by the alien race when it comes to colonize the planet using us as hosts. Against this we have no defense. Nothing but a weak vaccine.

• [after shooting the driver in the head] 

  Well-Manicured Man : Get out of the car.

  Special Agent Fox Mulder : [expecting to be next]  Why? The upholstery is already ruined.

• Well-Manicured Man : You have precious little time. What I've given you, the alien colonists don't yet know exists. The vaccine you hold is the only defense against the virus. It's introduction into an alien environment may have the power to destroy the delicate plans we have so assiduously protected for the last 50 years.

  Special Agent Fox Mulder : What do you mean "may have"?

  Well-Manicured Man : Find Agent Scully. Only then you will realize the scope and grandeur of the project. Go. Go now!

• Well-Manicured Man : Survival is the ultimate ideology.