The fictional sleuths who solve crime are more fun when there’s an element of surprise about who they really are. What better surprise for a reader than to find out that the savvy sleuth in your new book is “not of this earthly realm?” A witch, a vampire, a ghost, or ghostly animal; all have…
Plenty have talked about the impact The X-Files has had on the pop culture and TV landscapes. There's no denying that it has, in one way or another, shaped the genre television that has followed in its wake. The “monster of the week” format has been emulated by numerous shows (Supernatural, Sleepy Hollow, Teen Wolf,…
REYES: You don't care what these people have sacrificed over the last nine years, what's been lost to their cause! You make a mockery of it, gladdened it proves your point. What is the point of all of this? To destroy a man who seeks the truth… Or to destroy the truth so no man…
CIGARETTE SMOKING MAN: It's too late for your heroics now. MULDER: I don't believe that! CIGARETTE SMOKING MAN: You don't want to believe. Six weeks—and five episodes—ago, rabble-rouser Tad O'Malley (Joel McHale) went off the air. He picks a helluva time to resume broadcasting. It all starts with Mulder pulling yet another disappearing act. At…
MULDER: The end of my world was unrecognizable and upside down. There was one thing that remained the same. You were my friend, and you told me the truth. Even when the world was falling apart, you were my constant… My touchstone. SCULLY: And you are mine. If there's one thing The X-Files has taught…
MILLER: Hello? Anyone down here? SCULLY: Nobody but the FBI's most unwanted! MULDER: *stare* SCULLY: I've been waiting twenty-three years to say that. MULDER: How did it feel? SCULLY: Pretty good! It's a sad, upsetting fact that when an American program opens with a Muslim man praying, you immediately expect the worse. Since 9/11, countless…
MULDER: “Dear Diary, today my heart leapt when Agent Scully suggested spontaneous human combustion…” SCULLY: Shut up! For all that The X-Files is a show about the crazy, the unpredictable, and the inexplicable, it's funny how many things stay the same. Six seasons in, and Mulder still can't make decent life…
SCULLY: Back in the day, didn't we ever come across the ability to wish someone back to life? MULDER: I invented it. When you were in the hospital like this. SCULLY: You're a dark wizard, Mulder. MULDER: What else is new? There's a cost for gentrification. And I'm not just talking money—when cities decide to…
MULDER: Well, maybe you don't know what you're looking for. SCULLY: Like evidence of conjury or the black arts? Or shamanism, divination, Wicca, or any kind of pagan or neo-pagan practice? Charms, cards, familiars, bloodstones, or hex signs, or any kind of the ritual tableau associated with the occult; Santeria, Voudun, Macumba, or any high…
MULDER: So we're looking for a man-sized horned lizard—with human teeth! SCULLY: *stare* MULDER: …Sounds a bit silly, doesn't it? I can die happy now. I hadn't realized my life was lacking quite so much joy before this episode—I know better now. Oh my lord—I haven't laughed that hard in ages. Bless Darin Morgan for…
