Perplexistan

VINCE GILLIGAN: I hate AI. (Variety; Deadline)

Mulder was making a documentary. "It's 8:34 pm of February 24th," he said, standing in the kitchen with the little camcorder. He recalled, without nostalgia, the video cameras of yore that you had to ride around on your shoulder like a Roman wine jug. "Special Agent In Charge Dana Scully, tireless in her quest to run to ground the mystery of the Klines' disappearance,appears to be cutting up a cantaloupe." Scully pitched him a warning look, turning her shoulder to him. "She slays the unsuspecting melon with rapid downward slashes," Mulder narrated tonelessly. "Her weapon of choice appears to be a large and deadly bread knife…" Scully turned, hissing "Mulder - damnit!" with a look of undisguised venom. "She gently admonishes her partner with a fondness born of years of endearing proximity," said Mulder. He began to back away. "Agent Scully advances upon her unarmed partner wielding the bread knife with obvious malice aforethought…" Scully reached out, her palm filling the tiny screen, and clicked off the camera. She relieved him of it and set it aside, and reached around his waist, lightly frisking him. Mulder made an 'Oooh!' face, but kept quiet. "You are too packin'," said Scully. "Why did you say you weren't?" She returned her attentions to the cantaloupe. Mulder decided against a joke about what he was packing, and turned to a newspaper lying on the counter. "Plot device," he said, suddenly bored. "I'm going to take a shower. Can I use your hair stuff?" "Which hair stuff? Conditioner?" "Naw. The stuff that makes my hair stick up and feel crispy. That you had in Kroner." "Sure. It's in the bathroom." She turned around, licking juice from under her lip. "You picked a good cantaloupe." "Good." He grabbed a cube as he loped out of the room. When Scully heard him clanging around in the bathroom upstairs she rewound the movie he'd made of her and watched it, sardonically amused. This was how he saw her. She didn't erase it.

It’s me. I’m bitches.

happy belated anniversary to one of the movies ever. cinema was born 25 years ago

“You’ve been requested specifically,” Kersh says, and the disgust in his voice is evident. Why anyone with the clout to make requests of the FBI should request Mulder is clearly baffling, like asking a genie for a urinary tract infection.

THE X-FILES | Schizogeny (5.09) 🍁🍂

with Dana Scully