David Duchovny credited as playing...
Fox Mulder
- Walter Skinner: Mulder, a moment please?
- [waits for Scully to leave the office]
- Walter Skinner: I just wanted to say you did a good job.
- Fox Mulder: How's that?
- Walter Skinner: Nobody could have figured this out but you. You knew it was Linda Bowman and not Modell. You were way ahead of me.
- Fox Mulder: I almost killed my partner.
- Walter Skinner: Mulder, despite that, you prevailed. You won her game.
- Fox Mulder: How come I feel like I lost?
- Linda Bowman: It's not like Nathan was impulsive or flighty. I don't want to paint him as that.
- Fox Mulder: He was true blue.
- Fox Mulder: I didn't find Modell, he sought me out. He wanted me to hear his message.
- Dana Scully: Which was what?
- Fox Mulder: "Don't play the game."
- Dana Scully: What game? His?
- Fox Mulder: I don't think so. I'm not even sure he's playing a game.
- Dana Scully: What are you talking about? Of course he is. You said yourself that he was gonna pick up where he left off.
- Fox Mulder: Then why didn't he kill the cops, or the prison guard? Or, hell, while we're at it, why didn't he kill me? Why didn't he make me eat a bullet out of my own gun? He could have.
- Fox Mulder: Just hear me out. Her husband's "brush" with greatness? She doesn't want to "Paint him" as being impulsive? Who the hell talks like that?
- Dana Scully: You tell me.
- Fox Mulder: She was waving it under our nose. She was playing with us. Modell told me. He warned me not to play the game. I think it was her game he was talking about.
- Walter Skinner: He had a gun. I saw it clearly. It was a revolver.
- Fox Mulder: He pointed a gun at you?
- Linda Bowman: We haven't found the gun yet.
- Fox Mulder: He said to you that he had a gun.
- Fox Mulder: Modell refers to himself as "Pusher". Technically speaking, all of his victims' wounds were self-inflicted. This man has a unique ability to force his will upon others, to push his victims into hurting or killing themselves.
- Fox Mulder: Why didn't Modell just kill those two cops? What was to stop him?
- Dana Scully: Well, hopefully, he was incapable.
- Fox Mulder: As in too tired?
- Dana Scully: Well, we've seen that before with him.
- Fox Mulder: Maybe. I don't know. Something just isn't making sense.
- Female Agent: Sir, it's not a manifesto. It's the same simple ideogram over and over.
- Walter Skinner: Which is what?
- Female Agent: Well the hand it's in is pretty sloppy, but I think it's supposed to be kitsunegari - fox hunt.
- Linda Bowman: Fox Mulder.
- Fox Mulder: That's a little on the nose, don't you think?