Red Museum

Scully: Not one of Wisconsin’s more remarkable kids, but still the apple of his mother’s eye.

Scully: What’s your interest in this?
Mulder: Well the local sheriff in Delta Glen, Wisconsin, thinks he knows what’s been happening to these kids.
Scully: What’s that?
Mulder: He thinks they’ve been possessed.

Sheriff Mazeroski (Steve Eastin): There’s something I think you ought to see first. They call themselves the Church of the Red Museum. They’re followers of a guy named Odin that moved out here from California three years ago, bought a ranch.
Scully: What’s the significance of the name Red Museum?
Sheriff Mazeroski: Well Odin and the rest of them are a bunch of vegetarians. They drove the ranch right into the ground. Turned 500 head of beef cattle into pets. Calls it a monument to barbarism.
Mulder: Probably went over big with the local ranchers.
Sheriff Mazeroski: Well you gotta admit it takes some big ones to set down in the middle of cow country and start a church like his.

Mulder: According to the literature, Abe Lincoln was a walk-in. And Mikhail Gorbachev. And Charles Colson, Nixon’s advisor.
Scully: Not Nixon?
Mulder: No. Not even they want to claim Nixon.

Rick: Why don’t you run along with the little wife. You’re gonna miss the tour bus.
Katie (Elisabeth Rosen): She’s got a gun.
Rick: Well what’s she gonna do, shoot us? Go call my dad, Katie. I think he’d like to hear about this.
Mulder: Who’s your dad?
Rick: He’s the sheriff.
Mulder: Yeah, I think he would like to hear about this.

Scully: Getting hard to tell the villains without a score card.

Mulder: You know for a holy man you got quite a knack for pissing people off.

Old Farmer: That fracas in the town this afternoon. Ten…. five years ago, never would have happened. People around here have changed. Gotten mean. Spiteful. Dog eat dog. We had seven rapes here last year. By high school boys. All that damn… this business of the kids being found in the woods. Well I think that you’re going to find it all comes from the same root source.
Mulder: The growth hormone.
Old Farmer: Yes sir.
Scully: But those hormones have been proven safe. They’ve been cleared by the FDA.
Old Farmer: Says who? The government?

Scully: Are you thinking it might be bovine growth hormone?
Mulder: I know that was the first thing through both of our minds, Scully, but it just doesn’t track. Not with the briefcase full of cash.
Scully: I know. And it still doesn’t answer the question about who’s marking these kids. Or why.

Mulder: Was Gary sick often?
Beth: No. Actually Gary’s never been sick a day in his life.
Scully: Gary was never sick?
Beth: No.

Mulder: What is it?
Scully: I know that face.
Mulder: What?

Mulder: Did you kidnap Rick Mazeroski? Did you write this on his back?
Gerd Thomas: Oh my god.
Mulder: Answer the questions!
Gerd: I never killed him. I never killed anybody. I really loved those kids.
Mulder: Is this how you express your love for him?

Mulder: Did you kidnap Rick Mazeroski? Did you write this on his back?
Gerd: Yes!
Mulder: Why?
Gerd: Because of what he’d become.
Mulder: What did he become?
Gerd: Because those kids have become monsters.
Mulder: You’re not making any sense. Make sense to me!
Gerd: Because of Dr. Larssen. Because of the tests.

Scully: I think he’s telling the truth. I don’t think he killed anyone.
Mulder: How can you be sure?
Scully: I just got the toxicology back on the broken vial. The residual substance couldn’t be analyzed because it contains synthetic corticosteroids and unidentified amino acids. It’s purity control, Mulder.

Mulder: Do you know what you’re saying, Scully?
Scully: The man who died in that plane crash was inoculating those kids with antibodies derived from what may have been an extraterrestrial source.
Mulder: He’s been injecting those kids with alien DNA.

Scully: That man that I recognized on the road today. That’s the same man that executed Deep Throat.
Mulder: Whoever’s behind this, he’s here covering their tracks. He’s going to go after the kids.

Scully: To date, none of the congregants or the members of the Church of the Red Museum have contracted this illness. I suspect whoever was doing this may have been using them as a control group.