- 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?
- [repeated line]
- Several characters: He had to go.