The X-Files (TV Series)

S.R. 819 (1999)

Mitch Pileggi: Walter Skinner

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• Skinner : Every minute of every day, we choose. Who we are. Who we forgive. Who we defend and protect. To choose a side or to walk the line. To play the middle. To straddle the fence between what is and what should be. This was the course I chose. Trying to find the delicate balance of interests that can never exist. Choosing by not choosing. Defending a center which cannot hold. So death chose for me.

• Scully : Sir, if this man poisoned you, you should be off your feet and under doctor's care.

  Skinner : If this man poisoned me, I'm going to put a gun to his head, find out why, and ask him how he's going to make me well.

• Scully : You've been our ally more times than I can say.

  Skinner : Not the kind of ally that I could have been.