- Scully: First of all, if the family of Ronnie Strickland does indeed decide to sue the FBI for, I think the figure is $446 million, then you and I both will most certainly be co-defendants. And second of all... I don't even have a second of all, Mulder! $446 million! I'm in this as deep as you are, and I'm not even the one that overreacted! I didn't do the...
- [makes jabbing motion with fist]
- Scully: with the thing!
- Mulder: I did not overreact, Ronnie Strickland was a vampire!
- Scully: Where's your proof?
- Mulder: You're my proof! You were there! Okay, now you're scaring me. I want to hear exactly what you're going to tell Skinner.
- Scully: Oh, you want our stories straight.
- Mulder: No, no, no, I didn't say that! I just want to hear it the way you saw it.
- Scully: I don't feel comfortable with that.
- Mulder: Prison, Scully! Your cellmate's nickname is going to be Large Marge. She's gonna read a lot of Gertrude Stein.
- Scully: [waiting to speak to Skinner about Mulder's "staking" a suspect] Mulder, please just keep reminding him you were drugged.
- Mulder: [impatiently] Would you stop that.
- Scully: It couldn't hurt.
- Mulder: [impatiently] Stop it.
- Walter Skinner: [enters room] Scully... Mulder...
- Mulder: [interrupting] I was drugged!
- Scully: Why would a real vampire need fake fangs? I mean, for the sake of argument.
- Mulder: Fangs are very rarely mentioned in the folklore. Real vampires aren't actually thought to have them. It's more an invention of Bram Stoker's. I think maybe you were right before when you said that this is just a guy who's watched too many Dracula movies. He just happens to be a real vampire.
- Walter Skinner: Ronnie Strickland's body's disappeared from the morgue. Apparently in conjunction with this, the coroner's been attacked. His throat was bitten.
- Mulder: The coroner's dead?
- Walter Skinner: [uncomfortably] No, his... throat was bitten. It was sort of... gnawed... on.
- Mulder: Historically, cemeteries were thought to be a haven for vampires, as are castles, catacombs and swamps, but unfortunately, you don't have any of those.
- Sheriff Hartwell: We used to have swamps, only the EPA made us take to calling 'em "wetlands".
- Mulder: So we're out here looking for any signs of vampire activity.
- Sheriff Hartwell: Which would be like, a...
- Mulder: Broken or shifted tombstones, the absence of birds singing.
- Sheriff Hartwell: There you go, 'cause I ain't - I aint hearin' any birds singin'. Right? 'Course it's winter and we ain't got no birds.
- Sheriff Hartwell: [Mulder's version of Sheriff Hartwell with buck teeth] Y'all must be the gummint people.