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SCULLY: Nature's calling. I think we should pull over soon.
MULDER: Did you really have to bring that thing?
SCULLY: You wake me up on a Saturday morning, tell me to be ready in five minutes, my mother is out of town,
all of the dog sitters are booked, and you know how I feel about kennels.
So unless you want to lose your security deposit on the car, I suggest you pull over.
MULDER: I think I'm lost anyway. I've got to stop and ask for directions.
SCULLY: I know I'm lost as to why you're so interested in this missing persons case
_____________________
MULDER: The operative word being large.
SCULLY: What are you leaving out?
MULDER: What makes you think I'm leaving anything out?
SCULLY: Most missing persons cases are not that uncommon, Mulder. Why this one warrants us flying halfway
across the country and driving for two hours is a total mystery. Oh, tell me you're not serious?
MULDER: Aside from that, is there a creature that comes to mind...
FARRADAY: Has anyone ever told you two you have a great problem coming to the point?
MULDER: Okay then. In your work have you come across any evidence that lends support to the existance of this creature they call Big Blue?
FARRADAY: See, this is what always happens. This is how it starts.
MULDER: What?
FARRADAY: The deflection, sleight of hand. See, whenever an issue requires any real thought, any serious mental effort,
people turn to UFO's, and sea serpents and sasquatch. Afternoon talk shows and tabloid TV. They've reduced our attention
span to the length of a sound byte. So that soon our ability to think will be as extinct as a ranas sanasephela frog.
MULDER: I'll take that rambling diatribe to mean that you don't believe in the existance of such a creature.
FARRADAY: I'm not even going to grace that statement with a reply.
MULDER: It's been reported for centuries in dozens of countries. From the monsters in Loch Ness, Nessie, to the Ogopogo in Lake Okonagan.
SCULLY: And Lake Champagne, Lalavack Iceland...
MULDER: Sounds like you know a little something about the subject.
SCULLY: I did as a kid. But, then I grew up, and became a scientist.
MULDER: Well some very grown up crypto-zoologist believed it could be an evolutionary throwback, quite possibly prehistoric.
SCULLY: An aquatic dinosaur.
MULDER: A pleosaur, acutualluy. Though admittedly, there's not a lot of hard evidence to back that up.
SCULLY: You know why? Because those creatures don't exist, Mulder. They're folk tales born out of some collective fear of the unknown.
MULDER: Well how many folk tales do you know that could eat a boy scout leader and a biologist?
SHERIFF: What you got?
SCULLY: There's your lake monster Mulder.
MULDER: That's what it looks like.
SCULLY: It's all a hoax?
SHERIFF: I'll be dammed.
MULDER: Yeah, but what happened to the hoaxer?
SCULLY: I agree with you, I just wish that he gave us something more.
MULDER: Look at this, could this be a tooth?
SCULLY: Yeah, it could be a lot of things, Mulder. Fifteen years of fruitless hinting and the only thing the guy
comes up with is a blurry picture of the monster's tooth?
MULDER: There's thousands of pictures here, Scully. There's got to be some evidence here somewhere. Take a look at these.
SCULLY: Mulder, they're just a bunch of poorly composed tory shots.
MULDER: That could be something.
SCULLY: A tooth? I'm taking Queequeg for a walk.
SCULLY: Come on, Queequeg. Queequeg, we're not going to go into the woods. Come on, do your business.
I thought you had to go. Queequeg! What is it? Queequeg! Where are you going?
Queequeg! Come back here! Queequeg! Queequeg? Queequeg! Quee...
___________________________
MULDER: I'm sorry about Queequeg. You know, I think I've learned something from these photos.
SCULLY: Mulder...
MULDER: They're not pictures of the lake monster, they're pictures of the lake. Locations where the fish has been sighted over the
past several years. Look, five years ago, all the sightings occured in the centre of the lake. But progressively the sightings
have moved closer and closer to shore, until this year, they're practically on the shore.
SCULLY: Could you repeat the last part again? I kind of faded out.
MULDER: Which part?
SCULLY: After you said I'm sorry?
MULDER: Can you drive a boat?
SCULLY: You really expect to find this thing, don't you Mulder?
MULDER: You want to head right...here.
SCULLY: I'll take that as a yes.
MULDER: I know the difference between expectation and hope. Seek and ye shall find, Scully.
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SCULLY: What is that? What is that, Mulder?
MULDER: Here be monsters, Scully.
SCULLY: It looks like it's coming straight at us.
MULDER: Yep, that's what it looks like.
SCULLY: There goes our five hundred dollar deposit.
MULDER: I say we swim to shore.
SCULLY: Swim?
MULDER: Yeah, the shore can't be too far from here.
SCULLY: In which direction?
MULDER: When you're living in the city you forget that night is actually so...dark.
SCULLY: Living in the city you forget a lot of things. You know what I was just thinking about, being mugged or
hit by a car, It's not until you get back to nature that you realize that everything is out to get you. So my father always told
me to respect nature, because it has no respect for you.
MULDER: That was him Scully, that was Big Blue.
SCULLY: Poor Queequeg.
MULDER: Why did you name your dog Queequeg?
SCULLY: It was the name of the harpoonist in Moby Dick. My father used to read to me from Moby Dick when I was a little girl,
I called him Ahab and he called me Starbuck. So I named my dog Queequeg. It's funny, I just realized something.
MULDER: It's a bizarre name for a dog, huh?
SCULLY: No, how much you're like Ahab. You're so consumed by your personal vengeance against life, whether it be its inherent
cruelties or mysteries, everything takes on a warped significance to fit your megalomaniacal cosmology.
MULDER: Scully, are you coming on to me?
SCULLY: It's the truth or a white whale. What difference does it make? I mean, both obsessions are impossible to capture, and
trying to do so will only leave you dead along with everyone else you bring with you. You know Mulder, you are Ahab.
MULDER: You know, its interesting you should say that, because I've always wanted a peg leg. It's a boyhood thing I never grew out of.
I'm not being flippant, I've given this a lot of thought. I mean. if you have a peg leg or hooks for hands then maybe its enough to simply
keep on living. You know, braving facing life with your disability. But without these things you're actually meant to make something
of your life, achieve something earn a raise, wear a necktie. So if anything I'm actually the antithesis of Ahab, because if I did
have a peg leg I'd quite possibly be more happy and more content not to be chasing after these creatures of the unknown.
SCULLY: And that's not flippant?
MULDER: No, flippant is my favourite line from Moby Dick. 'Hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple dumpling', huh?
MULDER: This creature lives here in this cove. That explains the disappearance of these frogs,
for which you have no explanation, ludicrous or not. As well as the recent human attacks.
FARRADAY: That's crazy. If something was living in these waters, you don't think I would have seen it?
I've been conducting research here for three years.
MULDER: I'm talking about a prehistoric creature that's gone unnoticed for virtually thousands of years. If it knows how do anything,
it knows how to hide. They say that the Loch Ness monster doesn't even live in the water, that it lives in the surrounding cliffs.
Maybe Big Blue has an inland habitat, somewhere in the rocks, or in this dense forest here.
FARRADAY: I have no time for these absurdities. If you'll exuse me, I have some amphibians to release.
SCULLY: Well captain, what now?
SCULLY: He'll be fine. How are you?
MULDER: I'm fine.
SCULLY: Well, you slued the big white whale, Ahab.
MULDER: Yeah, but I still don't have that peg leg.
SCULLY: How can you be disappointed? That alligator would have gone through half
the local population if you hadn't killed it.
MULDER: I know. I guess I just wanted Big Blue to be real. I guess I see hope in such a possibility.
SCULLY: Well, there's still hope. That's why these missing stories have endured. People want to believe.
Screencaps from here + here Episode quotes from here
SCULLY: Nature's calling. I think we should pull over soon.
MULDER: Did you really have to bring that thing?
SCULLY: You wake me up on a Saturday morning, tell me to be ready in five minutes, my mother is out of town,
all of the dog sitters are booked, and you know how I feel about kennels.
So unless you want to lose your security deposit on the car, I suggest you pull over.
MULDER: I think I'm lost anyway. I've got to stop and ask for directions.
SCULLY: I know I'm lost as to why you're so interested in this missing persons case
_____________________
MULDER: The operative word being large.
SCULLY: What are you leaving out?
MULDER: What makes you think I'm leaving anything out?
SCULLY: Most missing persons cases are not that uncommon, Mulder. Why this one warrants us flying halfway
across the country and driving for two hours is a total mystery. Oh, tell me you're not serious?
MULDER: Aside from that, is there a creature that comes to mind...
FARRADAY: Has anyone ever told you two you have a great problem coming to the point?
MULDER: Okay then. In your work have you come across any evidence that lends support to the existance of this creature they call Big Blue?
FARRADAY: See, this is what always happens. This is how it starts.
MULDER: What?
FARRADAY: The deflection, sleight of hand. See, whenever an issue requires any real thought, any serious mental effort,
people turn to UFO's, and sea serpents and sasquatch. Afternoon talk shows and tabloid TV. They've reduced our attention
span to the length of a sound byte. So that soon our ability to think will be as extinct as a ranas sanasephela frog.
MULDER: I'll take that rambling diatribe to mean that you don't believe in the existance of such a creature.
FARRADAY: I'm not even going to grace that statement with a reply.
MULDER: It's been reported for centuries in dozens of countries. From the monsters in Loch Ness, Nessie, to the Ogopogo in Lake Okonagan.
SCULLY: And Lake Champagne, Lalavack Iceland...
MULDER: Sounds like you know a little something about the subject.
SCULLY: I did as a kid. But, then I grew up, and became a scientist.
MULDER: Well some very grown up crypto-zoologist believed it could be an evolutionary throwback, quite possibly prehistoric.
SCULLY: An aquatic dinosaur.
MULDER: A pleosaur, acutualluy. Though admittedly, there's not a lot of hard evidence to back that up.
SCULLY: You know why? Because those creatures don't exist, Mulder. They're folk tales born out of some collective fear of the unknown.
MULDER: Well how many folk tales do you know that could eat a boy scout leader and a biologist?
SHERIFF: What you got?
SCULLY: There's your lake monster Mulder.
MULDER: That's what it looks like.
SCULLY: It's all a hoax?
SHERIFF: I'll be dammed.
MULDER: Yeah, but what happened to the hoaxer?
SCULLY: I agree with you, I just wish that he gave us something more.
MULDER: Look at this, could this be a tooth?
SCULLY: Yeah, it could be a lot of things, Mulder. Fifteen years of fruitless hinting and the only thing the guy
comes up with is a blurry picture of the monster's tooth?
MULDER: There's thousands of pictures here, Scully. There's got to be some evidence here somewhere. Take a look at these.
SCULLY: Mulder, they're just a bunch of poorly composed tory shots.
MULDER: That could be something.
SCULLY: A tooth? I'm taking Queequeg for a walk.
SCULLY: Come on, Queequeg. Queequeg, we're not going to go into the woods. Come on, do your business.
I thought you had to go. Queequeg! What is it? Queequeg! Where are you going?
Queequeg! Come back here! Queequeg! Queequeg? Queequeg! Quee...
___________________________
MULDER: I'm sorry about Queequeg. You know, I think I've learned something from these photos.
SCULLY: Mulder...
MULDER: They're not pictures of the lake monster, they're pictures of the lake. Locations where the fish has been sighted over the
past several years. Look, five years ago, all the sightings occured in the centre of the lake. But progressively the sightings
have moved closer and closer to shore, until this year, they're practically on the shore.
SCULLY: Could you repeat the last part again? I kind of faded out.
MULDER: Which part?
SCULLY: After you said I'm sorry?
MULDER: Can you drive a boat?
SCULLY: You really expect to find this thing, don't you Mulder?
MULDER: You want to head right...here.
SCULLY: I'll take that as a yes.
MULDER: I know the difference between expectation and hope. Seek and ye shall find, Scully.
________________________________________
SCULLY: What is that? What is that, Mulder?
MULDER: Here be monsters, Scully.
SCULLY: It looks like it's coming straight at us.
MULDER: Yep, that's what it looks like.
SCULLY: There goes our five hundred dollar deposit.
MULDER: I say we swim to shore.
SCULLY: Swim?
MULDER: Yeah, the shore can't be too far from here.
SCULLY: In which direction?
MULDER: When you're living in the city you forget that night is actually so...dark.
SCULLY: Living in the city you forget a lot of things. You know what I was just thinking about, being mugged or
hit by a car, It's not until you get back to nature that you realize that everything is out to get you. So my father always told
me to respect nature, because it has no respect for you.
MULDER: That was him Scully, that was Big Blue.
SCULLY: Poor Queequeg.
MULDER: Why did you name your dog Queequeg?
SCULLY: It was the name of the harpoonist in Moby Dick. My father used to read to me from Moby Dick when I was a little girl,
I called him Ahab and he called me Starbuck. So I named my dog Queequeg. It's funny, I just realized something.
MULDER: It's a bizarre name for a dog, huh?
SCULLY: No, how much you're like Ahab. You're so consumed by your personal vengeance against life, whether it be its inherent
cruelties or mysteries, everything takes on a warped significance to fit your megalomaniacal cosmology.
MULDER: Scully, are you coming on to me?
SCULLY: It's the truth or a white whale. What difference does it make? I mean, both obsessions are impossible to capture, and
trying to do so will only leave you dead along with everyone else you bring with you. You know Mulder, you are Ahab.
MULDER: You know, its interesting you should say that, because I've always wanted a peg leg. It's a boyhood thing I never grew out of.
I'm not being flippant, I've given this a lot of thought. I mean. if you have a peg leg or hooks for hands then maybe its enough to simply
keep on living. You know, braving facing life with your disability. But without these things you're actually meant to make something
of your life, achieve something earn a raise, wear a necktie. So if anything I'm actually the antithesis of Ahab, because if I did
have a peg leg I'd quite possibly be more happy and more content not to be chasing after these creatures of the unknown.
SCULLY: And that's not flippant?
MULDER: No, flippant is my favourite line from Moby Dick. 'Hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple dumpling', huh?
MULDER: This creature lives here in this cove. That explains the disappearance of these frogs,
for which you have no explanation, ludicrous or not. As well as the recent human attacks.
FARRADAY: That's crazy. If something was living in these waters, you don't think I would have seen it?
I've been conducting research here for three years.
MULDER: I'm talking about a prehistoric creature that's gone unnoticed for virtually thousands of years. If it knows how do anything,
it knows how to hide. They say that the Loch Ness monster doesn't even live in the water, that it lives in the surrounding cliffs.
Maybe Big Blue has an inland habitat, somewhere in the rocks, or in this dense forest here.
FARRADAY: I have no time for these absurdities. If you'll exuse me, I have some amphibians to release.
SCULLY: Well captain, what now?
SCULLY: He'll be fine. How are you?
MULDER: I'm fine.
SCULLY: Well, you slued the big white whale, Ahab.
MULDER: Yeah, but I still don't have that peg leg.
SCULLY: How can you be disappointed? That alligator would have gone through half
the local population if you hadn't killed it.
MULDER: I know. I guess I just wanted Big Blue to be real. I guess I see hope in such a possibility.
SCULLY: Well, there's still hope. That's why these missing stories have endured. People want to believe.