Mulder’s face.
“Well, let’s just say it ends with you doing the ‘naked pretzel’ with The Stranger on a bed in a unfurnished fourth floor apartment.”
Milagro ~ The X-Files
Mulder: I think she just wants us to think she’s strong, independent. It’s important to her.
This is among many other things what I love so much about this show. Only a brief look can tell us much more than any words could ever do. Mulder makes a small reference to Scully while discussing a case, they exchange looks for a moment and it’s still enough to make me replay the scene over and over again. God, this show, these characters…I can’t even.
I feel time like a heartbeat, the seconds pumping in my breast like a reckoning. The luminous mysteries that once seemed so distant and unreal, threatening clarity in the presence of a truth entertained not in youth, but only in it’s passage. I feel these words as if their meaning were weight being lifted from me, knowing that you will read them and share my burden, as I have come to trust no other. That you should know my heart, look into it, finding there the memory and experience that belong to you, that are you, is a comfort to me now as I feel the tethers loose and the prospects darken for the continuance of a journey that began not so long ago, and which began again with a faith shakened and strengthened by your convictions, if not for which I might never have been so strong now. As I cross to face you and look at you incomplete, hoping that you will forgive me for not making the rest of the journey with you.
No one makes TV shows like this anymore.
Even now, as she pushed an errant strand of titian hair behind her ear she worried her partner would know instinctively what she could only guess. To be thought of as simply a beautiful woman was bridling, unthinkable. But she was beautiful… fatally, stunningly prepossessing. Yet the compensatory respect she commanded only deepened the yearnings of her heart… to let it open, to let someone in.
Can you really blame Padgett for being infatuated with Scully? REALLY?
