Mulder’s Answering Machine

At the top of Act One of Agua Mala the phone rings in Mulder’s empty apartment and his machine picks up, before Arthur Dales leaves the message about the hurricane. This is the recording made for that machine: David Duchovny reading the outgoing message three times, with a false start and the sound mixer’s slate in between.

It is a wild track, which means sound recorded on its own with no camera rolling. Nothing here has been trimmed or cleaned up.

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The sentence that airedThe sentence that was cutRepeats, false start and slate

Agua Mala · 6ABX14 · production sound0:36

On the recording

1. 0:01Take 1Hi, this is Fox Mulder. You can leave me a message after the beep. If this is you, Scully, call me on my cell phone. I think you know the number.
2. 0:09False start“Hi, this is Fox Mulder.” He stops, and there is a short exchange with the sound mixer.
3. 0:14SlateThe sound mixer: “This will be take two, channel two.”
4. 0:18Take 2Hi, this is Fox Mulder. You can leave me a message after the beep. If this is you, Scully, call me on my cell phone. I think you know the number.
5. 0:27Take 3Hi, this is Fox Mulder. You can leave me a message after the beep. If this is you, Scully, call me on my cell phone. I think you know the number.

In the episode