All Souls

Mrs. Kernof to Scully: "[Lance] will never understand how God could...forsake the life of an innocent girl. How God, in his mercy, could let this happen to our Dara."

Scully: "Mrs. Kernof was talking about her husband, but she might as well have been talking about me."
Father: "You too were angry at God."
Scully: "I felt drawn to these people, Father...in a very personal way. I was determined to help them understand why their daughter had been taken."
Father: "And did you?"
Scully: "As much as I have my faith, Father, I am a scientist trained to weigh evidence...but science only teaches us how...not why."

Woman Doctor to Scully: "It's as if God himself struck her down."

Scully: "Hi, um...something's come up. I was, uh, hoping that you could do me a favor."
Mulder: "Why? What's going on?"
Scully: "This isn't official F.B.I. business, so I was hoping that we could keep this outside of work."
Mulder: "Hey, look, I'm, uh...kind of tailing a possible suspect right now. So, I'm kind of rushed, so, uh..."
-Nice excuse Mulder-

Mulder: "Scully? Aren't you the secret squirrel."
Scully: "What do you mean?"
Mulder: "Just got a look at that body they wheeled out of here. You've been holding out on me."
Scully: "Mulder, it's not what you think. I, I didn't want to involve you. I got asked to look into this as a favor for a family."

Mulder: "Was this cross found like this?"
Scully: "Uh, yes. As far as I know. Why?"
Mulder: "It's inverted. Upside-down. That's a protest, a sacrilage against the church."
Scully: "Put there by whom?"
Mulder: "It's your case, remember, Scully? Do you have any suspects?"

Mulder: "And they both died the same way?"
Scully: "It appears that their eyes were burnt out. Their bodies frozen in a position of prayer."
Mulder: "Their physical deformities could account for that."
Scully: "They might."
Mulder: "Look, Scully, I know you don't really want my help on this, but can I offer you my professional opinion? You got a bona fide super-crazy religious wacko on your hands."
Scully: "What makes you so sure?"
Mulder: "Well, the mote in the eye, the eyes as the windows to the soul, an eye for an eye. He's working from ancient scripture...ancient text...maybe even the Bible. He may even think he's doing God's work."

Father Gregory to S&M: "Whatever your intentions...your secular prejudices blind you from seeing what's really happening here. Two girls are dead...not by the hand of man. Unless you accept the truth of God's teachings, that there is a struggle between good and evil for all souls and that we are loosing that struggle, you're but fools rushing in. You put your own lives in danger, as well as the lives of the messengers."

Scully: "I brought Agent Mulder on the case to help temper my feelings, to keep them from clouding my judgement. I wouldn't admit it to him, but...as we stood there, I felt as if Father Gregory were speaking directly to me, in a language only I could understand."

Mulder to Scully referring to Father Gregory: "I know people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones blah, blah, blah, but that guy is PARANOID."

Scully: "But, basiclly, you're ruling out any element of the supernatural?"
Mulder: "What do you mean?"
Scully: "Well, Dara Kernof was baptized on the day of her death. She was sanctified by the ritual sacrament...submerged in the spirit."
Mulder: "And why would God allow this to happen and why do bad things happen to good people? Religion has masqueraded as the paranormal since the dawn of time to justify some of the most horrible acts in history."
Scully: "I was raised to believe that God has his reasons, however mysterious."
Mulder: "He may well have his reasons, but he seems to use a lot of psychotics to carry out his job order."

Scully: "I told myself that it was all in my head...a hallucination brought on by my emotional connection to the case."
Father: "That would seen to be a reasonable explaination."
Scully: "But, that's not what it was, Father. I was meant to see Emily...for a purpose."
Father: "Which was?"
Scully: "To save these girls."

Mulder to FGreg: "You know, they say when you talk to God, it's prayer. But when God talks to you, it's schizophrenia."

Father: "You believed [FGreg]?"
Scully: "Yes."
Father: "But you didn't tell your colleague."
Scully: "He believed that he could find the last girl. But I already knew that I was meant to save her."
Father: "How?"
Scully: "I wasn't sure. Father Gregory said that the devil claimed the lives of the first three girls."
Father: "You don't believe that?"
Scully: "I know now that Father Gregory was mistaken. The devil didn't take their souls, but the threat to those girls was real, and Father Gregory gave his life to protect them."

Scully: "You're not going to find her. I think you're being misled."
Mulder: "By who? Scully, I think you're the one being who's being misled, not just willing, but willfully. I've never seen you more vunerable or susceptible or more easily manipulated and it scares me because I don't know why."
Scully: "I saw Emily. She came to me in a vision." Mulder puts his hand on her shoulder and moves his head close to hers.
Mulder: "I think you should step away. Personal issues are making you lose your objectivity, clouding your judgement."
Scully: "You go. Go find the girl."

Scully: "I've seen things. Things that have made me question if there aren't...larger forces at work here."
Father McCue: "What have you seen?"
Scully: "Visions...of my daughter Emily, for one."
Father McCue: "I think that's understandable. I'm sure you identified with the loss."
Scully: "I considered that, um...but then I saw something last night. Which I...which I can't explain. I saw a man...in dark clothes...but he had four faces. They werent human." Father McCue tells that what she had just described was a seraphim. He tells her that it is an angel with four faces, that of a man, a lion, an eagle, and a bull. He continue to tell her that the seraphim's offspring are disformed quadruplets called the nephilim or 'fallen ones.' "Do you think that's what I saw?"
Father McCue: "No. I think what you saw was a figment of your imagination. A half-remembered story from your childhood that surfaced because of this case."
Scully: "But I saw it, Father."
Father McCue: "Dana, the nephilim is a story. THe text in which it appears isn't even recognized by the church."

Scully: "Father, do you believe that God has his reasons?"
Father: "Yes, I'm certain of it. It's how he rewards our faith."

Father: "You believed that you were releasing her soul to heaven."
Scully: "I felt sure of it."
Father: "But you still can't reconcile this belief with the physical fact of her death?"
Scully: "No. I thought I could, Father, but I can't."
Father: "Do you believe there is a life after this one?"
Scully: "Yes."
Father: "Are you sure? Has it occured to you that maybe this, too, is part of what you were meant to understand?"
Scully: "You mean, accepting my loss?"
Father: "Can you accept it?"
Scully: "Maybe that's what faith is."

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