“The truth, we both know.” -Mulder (Season 8, Episode 21, “Existence”) Translation: Fate can take a long walk off a short pier-I choose my work and friendship with you. “I wouldn’t change a day.” -Scully (Season 4, Episode 5, “The Field Where I Died”) I can’t even admit to myself that I love you yet, but I do. But I’m here.” -Mulder (Season 2, episode 8, “One Breath”) “I don’t know if my being here will help bring you back. Translation: I don’t know how this happened, but I’d do basically anything for you, including risk my reputation and career. “Mulder, I wouldn’t put myself on the line for anybody but you.” -Scully (Season 1, episode 20, “Tooms”)
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You just have to translate using your handy X-Files-to-English Translator.Īllow me to present, then, the ever-expanding, always incomplete guide How to Say “I Love You” in X-Files, as compiled and illustrated by Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully in 11+ seasons of The X-Files: You can read as much as much into what they don’t say as what they do. And yet, if you’re paying attention, you’ll notice that our favorite FBI partners, those paradigms of professionalism and Platonic Friendship, constantly express their feelings to one another in their own (emotionally constipated) way. In fact, by my count, Mulder has said “I love you” a single time while Scully has used “It’s why I fell in love with you” once in the middle of an argument.
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You don’t often hear Fox Mulder and Dana Scully utter those three little words in The X-Files.