- Mulder: Scully, you're making this personal.
- Dana Scully: Because it is personal, Mulder. Because without the FBI personal interest is all that I have. And if you take that away than there is no reason for me to continue.
- FBI Deputy Director Alvin Kersh: Who burned those people?
- Mulder: They burned themselves. With a choice made long ago by a conspiracy of men who thought they could sleep with the enemy. Only to awaken another enemy.
- FBI Deputy Director Alvin Kersh: What the hell does that mean?
- Mulder: It means the future is here, and all bets are off.
- [being decontaminated for unknown reasons]
- Mulder: There must be some kind of mistake, I signed up for the aromatherapy treatment.
- FBI Deputy Director Alvin Kersh: Agent Scully, make some sense.
- Dana Scully: Sir, I wouldn't bet against him.
- [coincidentally meeting at Agent Fowley's apartment]
- Mulder: What are you doing here?
- The Cigarette-Smoking Man: Door was open; I came in.
- Mulder: Interesting company you keep.
- The Cigarette-Smoking Man: No more interesting than your apparent lingerie fetish.
- Mulder: At one point you have to accept that... the only way those you love are going to survive... is if you give up...
- Dana Scully: They've burned our clothes.
- Mulder: Hey, I heard grey is the new black.
- Dana Scully: Mulder, this stinks. And not just because I think that woman is a... Well, I think you know what I think that woman is.
- Mulder: [sarcastic] No, actually you hide your feelings pretty well.
- Cassandra Spender: There's only one way... to save him... Only one thing you must do...
- The Cigarette-Smoking Man: [on the verge of tears] I can't do it to you... I can't...
- Cassandra Spender: I must die... or they all die!
- [CSM scurries out of room]
- Cassandra Spender: No!
- [sobbing]
- Cassandra Spender: No...
- Mulder: [Mulder pointing gun at CSM] You gave them your children. You gave them your wife. You sent them away... like they were things
- The Cigarette-Smoking Man: We sent them away agent Mulder because it was the right thing to do