- The Cigarette Smoking Man: You can kill a man but you can't kill what he stands for. Not unless you first break his spirit. That's a beautiful thing to see.
- Gibson Andrew Praise: [as Scully removes the bandages from Gibson's skull] Frankenstein? Really?
- Dana Scully: No. No, you've been worked on by some good doctors. They did a fine job with your stitches.
- Gibson Andrew Praise: You think they were butchers.
- Fox Mulder: How did you get in our car?
- Gibson Andrew Praise: When they weren't looking, I snuck away. It's easy when you know what they're thinking.
- Fox Mulder: Are you saying Gibson Praise is infected with the virus?
- Dana Scully: No, it's a part of his DNA. In fact, it's a part of all of our DNA. It's called a genetic remnant. It's inactive junk DNA, except in Gibson, it's turned on.
- Dana Scully: You're a very special boy. You know that yourself.
- Gibson Andrew Praise: I'm a very special lab rat.