[season 4, episode 15]

Scully to Mulder:

(voiceover): I feel time like a heartbeat, the seconds pumping in my breast like a reckoning. The numinous mysteries that once seemed so distant and unreal, threatening clarity in the presence of a truth entertained not in youth, but only in its 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.

Memento mori is a Latin phrase that may be translated as “Remember that you are mortal.” Scully was diagnosed with an untreatable form of cancer and is coming to terms with it.

It seems that no matter how many new shows pop up and no matter how much I enjoy watching them, nothing can ever replace what The X-Files has meant to me. So I’m starting this new category – bits and pieces of episode recaps, random quotes, real-life analogies, and eveything I want to discuss about a show that has long been gone but will never be forgotten. I think my hosting space can contain it – be prepared to read everything from Mulder and Scully’s gazes to William’s (their son) baby bedding; from alien green goo and monsters of the week to science vs faith debates. If I can get you at all curious, I dare you watch it on DVD, everything from start to finish, and let me do my share in pushing for a third movie.

If you haven’t discovered it yet, also try to double-click any word in this post and in this whole blog. It may come in handy with some of the passages I plan to quote in the future.