The X-Files (TV Series)

Field Trip (1999)

Mitch Pileggi: Walter Skinner

Quotes 

• Scully : My role in the X-files have always been to provide a rational, scientific perspective to cases that would seem to defy explanation, a counterpoint to Agent Mulder.

  Walter Skinner : And you have done that. You have performed admirably.

  Scully : Have I? How many X-files have my scientific approach fully and satisfactorily explained?

  Walter Skinner : Your reports have consistently made sense of his conclusions.

• Mulder : Scully, how could we simply will ourselves out of a chemical hallucination?

  Scully : Well, the fact remains we did.

  Mulder : Did we? Can you name me one drug that loses its effect once the user realizes it's in his system?

  Walter Skinner : I assume the effects wore off to the point that you were both able to make your escape.

  Mulder : Scully, how long were we underground? Hours? Half a day? How come our bodies don't show any effects of being burned by the digestive fluids? We were covered in hydrochloric acid. Yet look at our skin. Nothing.

  Walter Skinner : Agent Mulder, where are you going with this?

  Mulder : Scully... we never escaped. We're still trapped underground!

• Scully : The lab results determined that the spores we were exposed to have a chemical structure similar to LSD. They also contain an alkaloid which induces a state of narcosis.

  Walter Skinner : It's a rare day when the two of you sign off on the same report. Agent Mulder?

  Mulder : I was just thinking. I'm... I'm not exactly clear on how we escaped.