- Fox Mulder: [the three men on the expedition are undressing to check each other's bodies for signs of infection] Before anyone passes judgment, may I remind you, we are in the Arctic.
- Fox Mulder: This is Agent Mulder. We have a serious biological hazard. Request air pick-up and quarantine procedures. Over.
- [static]
- Fox Mulder: Come in, Doolittle Airfield.
- Doolittle Airfield: We copy, Agent Mulder. This area is under a heavy storm and no aircraft can get out for the next day. Maybe the military base in Kotzebue can set up a quarantine. Advise immediate evacuation. The arctic storm is bearing in your direction. Over.
- Fox Mulder: We were told we'd have three clear days of weather. Over.
- Doolittle Airfield: Welcome to the top of the world, sir.
- Dana Scully: This organism might be lying dormant in another crater. lf we don't kill it now, we run the risk of becoming Richter and Campbell with guns to our heads.
- Fox Mulder: lf we kill it, we won't know how to stop anything like it in the future.
- Fox Mulder: Is Bear in any condition to fly? We don't get out in an hour, we don't get out for days.
- Dana Scully: [Scully and Hodge look at each other. They are wiping the blood off their hands. Scully looks back at Mulder] He's dead.
- Bear: [after being told he is required to give a blood and stool sample] I ain't dropping my cargo for no one!
- Dr. Hodge: 45 minutes after they evacuated us, they torched the place. There's nothing left.
- Dana Scully: Who did that?
- Dr. Hodge: The military, centers for disease control... you oughta know. They're your people.