The X-Files (TV Series)

Familiar (2018)

Sean Campbell: Officer Sean

Quotes 

• Dana Scully : What is it, Mulder?

  Fox Mulder : It's salt.

  Dana Scully : Oh, there's some here, too.

  Fox Mulder : You seeing this, Scully?

  Dana Scully : Mulder, it's a crime scene.

  Fox Mulder : No, you know what this is? - This is a magic circle.

  Dana Scully : Mulder

  Fox Mulder : In witchcraft, magic circles are used - to summon spirits and demons.

  Dana Scully : Mulder, stop.

  Fox Mulder : When casting spells or curses, the salt protects the caster from the demons unleashed.

  Dana Scully : Mulder, this is protecting no one and you can't do this.

  Fox Mulder : In the 16th and 17th century, witches were said to conjure spirits called familiars, which usually took the form of-of animals. But sometimes could take human shape in the guise...

  Officer Sean : Hey, what are you doing?

  Fox Mulder : ...of the victims' ardent desires or a beautiful woman luring a man to his death, or a TV character.

  Officer Sean : Hey, I asked you a question.

  Dana Scully : ...a TV character.

  Dana Scully : What do you mean a TV character?

  Officer Sean : Mind telling me what you're doing?

  Fox Mulder : Scully. This is a Puritan graveyard. This is ground where spirits and demons have been unleashed. I think there's someone who's not telling us everything they know.

• Fox Mulder : You closed the case because you didn't want it looked into further. You knew there was salt on that young boy's body, but you hid that fact, a fact you knew would reveal that someone was practicing witchcraft.

  Dana Scully : Mulder

  Chief Strong : No, it's It's okay. He's right.

  Officer Sean : You ought to take a beat, Chief, before you say anything else.

  Dana Scully : Did you kill those children?

  Chief Strong : I have let the devil into my soul and I have sinned against God, broken a sacred commandment, but I did not kill anyone, especially not Emily.

  Fox Mulder : Then what's your part in all this?

  Chief Strong : I am a lustful man. An adulterer. She wanted to end the relationship, but I wouldn't let her; I kept pushing and pushing. I was on the phone with her when Andrew went missing.And now my own daughter. God. What have I done? See, I'm being punished. I've opened the gates of hell. Oh, God.

  Officer Sean : Let's all give him some room.

  Dana Scully : How did you know, Mulder?

  Fox Mulder : I did not see that coming.

  Dana Scully : But you knew something.

  Fox Mulder : Yeah. In his library, there are all these books on the town's history folklore, witchcraft.

  Dana Scully : Well, that's circumstantial at best. I'm sure lots of libraries in this town have those books.

  Fox Mulder : Yes, but he would have known about magic salt circles and familiars and hellhounds.

  Dana Scully : So you think Chief Strong unleashed something?

  Fox Mulder : I think someone has put a curse on this town, Scully, and maybe unwittingly opened the gates of hell.