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Season 6 · Episode 6

How the Ghosts Stole Christmas

Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official DVD subtitle track.

Production code6ABX08Original airdate · December 13, 1998
363 dialogue entries
Scene 01

Opening scene

♪♪ [ organ ]

Music

♪ have yourself a merry little christmas ♪ ♪ let yourself be light ♪ ♪ from now on our troubles will be out of sight ♪

Fox Mulder

I almost gave up on you.

Dana Scully

Sorry. Checkout lines were worse than rush hour on the 95. If I heard "silent night" one more time, I was gonna start taking hostages. What are we doing here?

Fox Mulder

Stakeout.

Dana Scully

On christmas eve?

Fox Mulder

It's an important date.

Dana Scully

No kidding.

Fox Mulder

Important to why we're here. Turn off your car and I'll fill you in on the details.

Dana Scully

Mulder, I've got wrapping to do. It's the night before christmas.

Fox Mulder

Oh.

Music

♪ happy golden days of yore ♪♪

Dana Scully

Let's hear it. Give me the details.

Fox Mulder

Look, if you've got christmas stuff to do, I don't want to, you know--

Dana Scully

I drove out here. I might as well know why, right?

Fox Mulder

I just thought you'd be more... Curious.

Dana Scully

Who lives in the house?

Fox Mulder

No one.

Dana Scully

Then who are we staking out?

Fox Mulder

The former occupants.

Dana Scully

They've come back?

Fox Mulder

That's the story.

Dana Scully

I see. The dark, gothic manor. The omnipresent low fog, hugging the thicket of overgrowth. Wait. Is that a hound I hear baying out in the moors?

Fox Mulder

No. Actually, that was a left cheek sneak.

Dana Scully

Mulder, tell me you didn't call me out here on christmas eve... To go ghostbusting with you.

Fox Mulder

Technically speaking, they're called apparitions.

Dana Scully

Mulder, call it what you want. I've got holiday cheer to spread. I've got a family roll call under the tree at 6:00 a.m.

Fox Mulder

I'll make it fast. I'll just give you the details.

Dana Scully

Okay.

Fox Mulder

Christmas, 1917. It was a time of dark, dark despair. American soldiers were dying at an ungodly rate in a war-torn europe, while at home, a deadly flu virus attacked young and old alike. Tragedy was a visitor on every doorstep, while a creeping hopelessness set in with every man, woman and child. It was a time of dark, dark despair.

Dana Scully

You said that.

Fox Mulder

But here at 1501 larkspur lane, for a pair of star-crossed lovers, tragedy came not from war or pestilence, not by the boot heel or the bombardier, but by their own innocent hand.

Dana Scully

Go on.

Fox Mulder

His name was maurice. He was a brooding but heroic young man... Beloved of lyda, a beauty with a light that followed her wherever she went. They were likened to two angels descended from heaven, whom the gods could not protect from the horrors... Being visited upon this cold, gray earth.

Dana Scully

And what happened to them?

Fox Mulder

Driven by a tragic fear of separation, they forged a lovers' pact... So that they might spend eternity together... And not spend one precious christmas apart.

Dana Scully

They killed themselves?

Fox Mulder

And their ghosts haunt this house every christmas eve. I just gave myself chills.

Dana Scully

It's a good story, Mulder, and very well told, but I don't believe it.

Fox Mulder

You don't believe in ghosts?

Dana Scully

That surprises you?

Fox Mulder

Well, yeah. I thought everybody believed in ghosts.

Dana Scully

Mulder, if it were any other night, I might let you talk me into it, but the halls are decked, and I got to go.

Fox Mulder

My best to the family.

Dana Scully

What are you doing? Mulder, don't you have somewhere to be?

Fox Mulder

Just gonna take a look.

Dana Scully

I'm not going to do it. My new year's resolution.

[ thunder crashing ]

Dana Scully

Mulder?

Fox Mulder

Change your mind?

Dana Scully

Did you take my car keys?

Fox Mulder

No.

Dana Scully

Come on, Mulder. Don't kid around.

Fox Mulder

Why would I take your car keys?

Dana Scully

Maybe you, uh-- maybe you grabbed them by mistake.

Fox Mulder

Maybe it was a ghost.

[ thumping ]

[ clock chiming ]

[ wind howling ]

Fox Mulder

Cold wind.

Dana Scully

There must be a window open upstairs. The weather report said that there was an 80% chance of rain. Maybe even a-- maybe even a white christmas.

[ thunderclap ]

[ thunder crashing ]

Scene 02

Scene 02

Fox Mulder

I think the spirits are among us.

Dana Scully

Quit trying to scare me and help me get these doors open.

Fox Mulder

Sounds like there's somebody walking around upstairs.

[ thump ]

Fox Mulder

There. You hear that?

Dana Scully

Mulder, I really have to go.

Fox Mulder

There's nothing to be afraid of.

Dana Scully

I'm not afraid, okay?

Fox Mulder

Ghosts are benevolent entities. [ thumping continues ] mostly.

Dana Scully

You are not scaring me, Mulder. Look, I really have to get home.

[ thunderclap ]

Dana Scully

Mulder--

Fox Mulder

Shh! What was that?

Dana Scully

These are tricks that the mind plays. They are ingrained cliches from a thousand different horror films. When we hear a sound, we get a chill. We see a shadow, and we allow ourselves to imagine something... That an otherwise rational person would discount out of hand. The whole-- Mulder? The whole idea of a benevolent entity fits perfectly with what I'm saying. That a spirit would materialize or return... For no other purpose than to show itself is silly and ridiculous. What it really shows is how silly and ridiculous we have become... In believing such things. I mean, that we can ignore all natural laws about the corporeal body, that we witness these spirits clad in their own shabby outfits, with the same old haircuts and hairstyles, never aging, never in search of more comfortable surroundings. It actually ends up saying more about the living than it does about the dead. Mulder, it doesn't take an advanced degree in psychology to understand... The unconscious yearnings that these imaginings satisfy. You know, the longing for immortality, the hope that there is something beyond this mortal coil, that we might never belong without our loved ones. These are powerful, powerful desires. I mean, they're the very essence of what make us human. The very essence of christmas, actually.

[ door creaks open ]

Fox Mulder

Tell me you're not afraid.

Dana Scully

All right. I'm afraid. But it's an irrational fear. [ thunderclap ]

Fox Mulder

I got your back.

Dana Scully

Thank you. Mulder, did it occur to you that there aren't ghosts here, but that somebody actually might be living in this house?

Fox Mulder

No one lives here.

Dana Scully

But when you and I were sitting out in the car, there was not a light on, and look at this.

[ thunder crashing ]

Fox Mulder

Must have been some kind of electrical surge.

Dana Scully

Mulder, did you happen to notice the clock downstairs is keeping perfect time?

Fox Mulder

Is it?

Dana Scully

And how do you explain that? This fire has just gone out.

Fox Mulder

Yeah.

Dana Scully

Don't look so disappointed.

Fox Mulder

Why would anyone want to live in a cursed house?

Dana Scully

Mulder, it's not enough that it's haunted, it has to be cursed?

Fox Mulder

Every couple that's ever lived here has met a tragic end. Three double murders in the last 80 years, all on christmas eve.

[ thunder crashing ]

Fox Mulder

Whoa. [ thumping ] there's that sound again.

[ thumping continues ]

Dana Scully

Mulder?

[ screams ]

Dana Scully

[ laughs ] that's not funny!

Fox Mulder

I think there's a hiding space under the floorboards.

Dana Scully

What are you going to do?

Fox Mulder

There may be somebody trapped. I got to get them out. Mulder, don't.

Dana Scully

Not now.

Fox Mulder

Hey, you have a gun, right? Rationally, you've been in much more dangerous situations. Well, I was half right.

Dana Scully

Oh, my god.

Fox Mulder

Hey, Scully. Look at this.

Dana Scully

It's a woman. Mulder, it looks like they were shot to death. You know what's weird?

Fox Mulder

What?

Dana Scully

Mulder, she's wearing my outfit.

Fox Mulder

How embarrassing.

Dana Scully

Yeah, well, you know what? He's wearing yours.

Fox Mulder

Oh, Scully.

Dana Scully

That's us.

Fox Mulder

Hey, Scully.

Dana Scully

This is the same room.

Fox Mulder

All right. I'm beginning to get this. Yeah.

Dana Scully

You go through that door, and I--

Fox Mulder

I should come out this door.

Dana Scully

Right. Mulder?

Fox Mulder

Scully! Scully!

Scene 03

Scene 03

Fox Mulder

Hey, Scully! Scully, can you hear me? Hey! Who are you?

Maurice

That's a question I should be asking, being this is my house you're standing in. This isn't one of those home invasions, is it?

Fox Mulder

No.

Maurice

Good. Would you like me to show you the door?

Fox Mulder

That's very funny.

Maurice

I wasn't making a joke.

Fox Mulder

Have you looked at the door?

Maurice

Uh-huh. I'm looking at it now.

Fox Mulder

Tell me what you see.

Maurice

I see a door with the lock shot off it. You gonna pay for that?

Fox Mulder

That's a door with a brick wall behind it.

Maurice

Okay, sure.

Fox Mulder

You're playing tricks on me.

Maurice

If I am, I'm sorry, but I don't know any tricks.

Fox Mulder

Yeah? That's a trick in itself, isn't it? You've been playing tricks on us since we got here.

Maurice

Am I to take it we're not alone?

[ laughs ]

Fox Mulder

That's very funny, coming from a ghost.

Maurice

[ laughing ] yeah, yeah! Oh, the gun fooled me a little at first. You're a ghost hunter, huh? And-- and you think I'm a ghost, huh? I've seen a lot of strange folks come around here... With a lot of strange equipment, but I think you must be the first I've seen come armed.

Fox Mulder

Strange folks?

Maurice

Mm-hmm.

Fox Mulder

Like those folks under the floor-- how did you do that?

Maurice

I didn't do anything.

Fox Mulder

There were corpses here. Bodies buried in the floorboards.

Maurice

Why don't you have a seat, son? You drink? Take drugs? No.

Fox Mulder

No.

Maurice

Get high?

Fox Mulder

No.

Maurice

Are you overcome by the impulse to make everyone believe you? I'm in the field of mental health. I specialize in disorders and manias... Related to pathological behavior as it pertains to the paranormal.

Fox Mulder

Wow. I didn't know such a thing existed.

Maurice

My specialty is in what I call "soul prospectors." a cross axial classification I've codified... By extensive interaction with visitors like yourself. I've found you all tend to fall into pretty much the same category.

Fox Mulder

What category is that?

Maurice

Narcissistic, overzealous, self-righteous egomaniac.

Fox Mulder

Wow. That's a category?

Maurice

You kindly think of yourself as single-minded, but you're prone to obsessive compulsiveness, workaholism, antisocialism. Fertile fields for the descent into... Total wacko breakdown.

Fox Mulder

I don't think that pegs me, exactly.

Maurice

Oh, really? Waving a gun around my house, huh? Raving like a lunatic about some imaginary brick wall? You've probably convinced yourself you've seen aliens. You know why you think you see the things you do?

Fox Mulder

Because I have seen them?

Maurice

'cause you're a lonely man. A lonely man... Chasing paramasturbatory illusions... That you believe will give your life meaning and significance, which your pathetic social maladjustment... Makes impossible for you to find elsewhere. You probably consider yourself... Passionate, serious, misunderstood, am I right?

Fox Mulder

Paramasturbatory?

Maurice

Most people would rather stick their fingers in a wall socket than spend a minute with you.

Fox Mulder

All right, now, just back off for a second.

Maurice

You spend every christmas this way-- alone?

Fox Mulder

I'm not alone.

Maurice

More self-delusion.

Fox Mulder

No, I came here with my partner. She's somewhere in the house.

Maurice

Behind a brick wall? How'd you get her to come with you? Steal her car keys? You know why you do it-- listen endlessly to her droning rationalizations. 'cause you're afraid. Afraid of the loneliness. Am I right?

Fox Mulder

I'd just like to find my partner.

Maurice

Good. Easy. Piece of cake. Brick wall... Or brick wall? Go ahead, change your life.

[ thunder crashing ]

Dana Scully

Mulder?

[ screaming ]

[ screaming ]

Lyda

No! I won't hurt you.

Dana Scully

I'm a federal agent! I'm armed!

Lyda

You're what?

Dana Scully

I'm armed. I'm armed!

Lyda

You're a federal agent?

Dana Scully

Please, I'm a little on edge. Don't come any closer. My name is special agent Dana Scully. And, uh, I can-- I can show you my ID

Lyda

My goodness. I thought you were a ghost.

Dana Scully

I can assure you that I'm not. I got stuck in this room looking for my partner.

Lyda

Oh, the gangly fellow with the distinguished profile.

Dana Scully

You've seen him?

Lyda

With you in the foyer. I thought he was a ghost too.

Dana Scully

Oh. That was you.

Lyda

I sleepwalk sometimes. I thought maybe I'd dreamed it. But then here you were again.

Dana Scully

I am sorry. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to scare you. I, uh-- it's just that we found bodies.

Lyda

Bodies? Where?

Dana Scully

Right--

Lyda

You look like you saw a ghost. There are ghosts in this house, you know.

[ thunder rumbling ]

Dana Scully

Who are you?

Lyda

I live here, thank you very much.

Dana Scully

Where's my partner?

Lyda

Why are you pointing that gun?

Dana Scully

There were corpses right there underneath the floor!

[ chuckling ]

Lyda

I think maybe the ghosts have been playing tricks on you.

Dana Scully

I don't believe in ghosts.

Lyda

Then what are you doing here?

Dana Scully

It's my partner.

Lyda

He believes in ghosts?

Dana Scully

Yeah.

Lyda

Oh, you poor child. You must have an awful small life, spending your christmas eve with him... And running around chasing things you don't even believe in.

Dana Scully

Don't come any closer.

Lyda

I can see it in your face: the fear, the conflicted yearnings, a subconscious desire to find fulfillment through another. Intimacy through codependency.

Dana Scully

What?

Lyda

Maybe you repress the truth about why you're really here, pretending it's out of duty or loyalty, unable to admit your dirty little secret. Your only joy in life is proving him wrong.

Dana Scully

You don't know me. And you don't live here. This isn't your house.

Lyda

You wouldn't think so, the way I'm being treated.

Dana Scully

Well, then why is all the furniture covered?

Lyda

We're having the house painted.

Dana Scully

Where's your christmas tree?

Lyda

We're jewish. Boo!

[ door opens ]

Dana Scully

Hold it right there! Don't make me shoot you! Just stay where you are!

Maurice

We really attract them, don't we?

[ chuckling ]

Dana Scully

Where's Mulder?

Maurice

Mulder? Is that his name?

Dana Scully

Where is he?

Maurice

He'll be along.

Dana Scully

Move over there. Both of you, move. Move over there. Move over there!

Maurice

This violates our civil rights. I have friends at the aclu.

Dana Scully

Put your hands up.

Maurice

You see what we've resorted to? Gimmicks and cheap tricks. We used to be so good at this.

Lyda

We used to have years to drive them mad. Now we get one night.

Maurice

This pop psychology approach is crap. All it does is annoy them. When's the last time we actually haunted anyone?

Lyda

When was the last time we had a good double murder? Not since the house was condemned.

Maurice

This is embarrassing. Amateur kid stuff.

Lyda

Look, if we let our reputations slip, they're going to take us off the tourist literature. Last year no one even showed up.

Maurice

Oh-- of all days, why did you pick christmas? Why not Halloween?

Lyda

Now, who is filled with hopelessness and futility on Halloween? Christmas comes but once a year.

Maurice

You're right. And these two do seem pretty miserable. We need to show them just how lonely christmas can be.

Lyda

Now that's the old yuletide spirit.

[ thunder crashing ]

[ laughing ]

Scene 04

Scene 04

Lyda

Are you agent Mulder?

Fox Mulder

Who are you, now?

Lyda

What are you doing using my chair for a ladder?

Fox Mulder

I'm trying to get out of this room.

Lyda

Trying to get out?

Fox Mulder

Excuse me.

Lyda

No, no. You can't get out that way. Masher.

Fox Mulder

Frump.

Lyda

I don't know who you're calling a frump, but I don't appreciate that, being manhandled or called names. Certainly not at this hour.

Fox Mulder

You're a ghost.

Lyda

More names!

Fox Mulder

What happened to the star-crossed lovers?

Lyda

Let me tell you, the romance is the first thing to go.

Fox Mulder

It's you. You're lyda, and that was maurice. But you've... Aged.

Lyda

I hope your partner finds you a lot more charming than I do.

[ thunderclap ]

Lyda

Let's see. Where is it? No, no, no, no, no, no,

Unidentified speaker

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no no, no, no, no, no, no.

Lyda

[ gasps ] there it is. I was young and beautiful once, just like your partner. Look at us. Maurice was so handsome. He didn't have a gut. I hope you're not expecting any great advantages to all this.

Fox Mulder

To all what?

Lyda

I'm assuming you came here with similar misconceptions.

Fox Mulder

We came here looking for you.

Lyda

Oh, yeah? You didn't come here to be together for eternity?

Fox Mulder

No.

Lyda

Because you're filled with despair and woeful christmas melancholy?

Fox Mulder

Why?

Lyda

[ sighs ] maybe it was your partner, then.

Fox Mulder

What about her?

Lyda

You knew this house was haunted.

Fox Mulder

Yeah.

Lyda

Maybe you two should've discussed your real feelings before you came out here. I'm speaking from experience.

Fox Mulder

What experience?

Lyda

I'm not gonna get into semantics. A murder-suicide is all about trust.

Fox Mulder

I thought you had a lovers' pact. [ laughs ]

Lyda

Poetic illusions aside, the outcome, Mulder, is pretty much the same.

Unidentified speaker

Ohh!

Lyda

I don't show my hole to just anyone.

Fox Mulder

Why are you showing it to me?

Lyda

It isn't like you're gonna be eating any christmas ham, is it?

Fox Mulder

Oh, you're trying to tell me that Scully's going to shoot me. Scully is not going to shoot me.

Lyda

Suit yourself, but if you shoot first, for her, the rest is an act of faith.

Fox Mulder

I wouldn't shoot her.

Lyda

Maybe she shoots herself.

Fox Mulder

I wouldn't let her.

Lyda

The bodies under the floor, maybe that was just some kind of jungian symbolism. Or maybe there's a secret lovers' pact.

Fox Mulder

[ sighs ] we're not lovers.

Lyda

And this isn't a pure science. But you're both so attractive, and there'll be a lot of time to work that out. Go ahead, take it. Take it.

[ thunderclap ]

Lyda

Think of it as the last christmas you'll ever spend alone.

[ rattles doorknob ]

Maurice

I locked it. For your protection.

Dana Scully

Stay away from me. Look, I want you to get me out of here. I am quite capable of pulling this trigger.

Maurice

Glad to hear it. You may well have to defend yourself... Against that crazy partner of yours.

Dana Scully

What have you done with him?

Maurice

Kept him safe from his own mad devices, at least for now. Do you have any idea why he brought you here to this house?

Dana Scully

Look, all I know is this is just some bad dream. This is all in my head.

Maurice

Yet here you are waving a gun at me, like your partner.

Fox Mulder

Scully!

Maurice

Do you realize how seriously disturbed that man is? How dark and lonely? What he's capable of?

Fox Mulder

Scully!

Dana Scully

Mulder!

Maurice

Want your car keys?

[ thunderclap ]

Dana Scully

Where did you get those?

Maurice

He's got nowhere to go this christmas. No one to go with. Did he happen to mention a story about a lovers' pact?

Dana Scully

Where did you get those keys?

Maurice

The man is acting out an unconscious yearning. The deep-seated terror of being alone.

Fox Mulder

Scully! Scully, are you there?

Dana Scully

I'm here, Mulder!

Fox Mulder

Open the door, Scully! [ doorknob rattling ]

Dana Scully

Open the door.

Maurice

I've seen it happen too many times in this house.

Dana Scully

I don't believe you. Just open the door. Open the door!

Fox Mulder

Where's Scully?

Dana Scully

Mulder.

Scene 05

Scene 05

Dana Scully

Mulder, what are you doing? Mulder!

Fox Mulder

There's no getting out of here, Scully. There's no way home.

Dana Scully

Mulder, come on. Mulder, don't come any closer. You're scaring me. Put the gun down!

Fox Mulder

You gonna shoot me?

Dana Scully

I'm not gonna shoot you! I don't want to shoot you!

Fox Mulder

It's me or you. You or me. One of us has to do it.

Dana Scully

Mulder, look, we don't have to do this.

Fox Mulder

Oh, yes, we do!

Dana Scully

We can get out of here.

Fox Mulder

Even if we could, what's waiting for us? More loneliness! And then 365 more shopping days till even more loneliness!

Dana Scully

I don't believe what you're saying. I don't believe a word of it.

Fox Mulder

Merry christmas, Scully.

Lyda

And a happy new year.

Mulder/Lyda

Let me go!

Lyda

Let me go! Come on back! Let me go!

Mulder/Lyda

Let me go!

Fox Mulder

Scully! Hey, Scully.

Dana Scully

Mulder. Is that you?

Fox Mulder

What did you do?

Dana Scully

I didn't believe it, Mulder.

Fox Mulder

You didn't believe what?

Dana Scully

I didn't believe that you'd do it. That I would-- merry christmas, Mulder.

Fox Mulder

What are you doing?

[ gunshot ]

Fox Mulder

Scu-- scul--

[ laughing ]

♪♪

Music

♪ have yourself a merry little christmas ♪ ♪ let yourself be light ♪ ♪ from now on your troubles will be out of sight ♪

[ groans ]

Music

♪ have yourself a merry little christmas ♪ ♪ make the yuletide gay ♪ ♪ from now on our troubles will be Miles away ♪

[ thunderclap ]

Music

♪ here we are as in olden days ♪

Fox Mulder

Scully? ♪ happy golden days of yore ♪

Music

♪ faithful friends who are dear to us ♪ ♪ gather near to us ♪

Fox Mulder

Scully! ♪ once more ♪

Music

♪ through the years we all will be together ♪ ♪ until then we'll have to muddle through somehow ♪

Dana Scully

I'm not gonna make it.

Fox Mulder

No, you're not. Not without me, you're not.

Dana Scully

Are you afraid, Mulder?

[ groans ]

Dana Scully

I am.

Fox Mulder

I am too.

Music

♪ faithful friends who are dear to us ♪ ♪ gather near to us ♪

Fox Mulder

You should have thought of this.

Dana Scully

You should have.

Fox Mulder

You shot me first!

Dana Scully

I didn't shoot you. You shot me.

Music

♪ if the fates allow ♪ ♪ until then we'll have to muddle through somehow ♪

[ thunderclap ]

Fox Mulder

Scully.

Dana Scully

What?

Fox Mulder

Get up.

Dana Scully

I can't.

Fox Mulder

Get up. You're not shot.

Dana Scully

What?

Fox Mulder

Come on. It's a trick. It's all in your head.

Music

♪ faithful friends who are dear to us ♪ ♪ gather near to us once more ♪ ♪ through the years we all will be together ♪ ♪ if the fates allow ♪ ♪ hang a shining star upon the highest bough ♪ ♪ and have yourself ♪ ♪ a merry little christmas ♪

Fox Mulder

♪ now ♪♪

Lyda

You hear that? It's christmas.

Maurice

One for the books.

Lyda

We almost had those two, didn't we?

Maurice

Almost had 'em.

Lyda

Two such lonely souls.

Maurice

Can't let our failures haunt us.

Lyda

You wonder what they were really out here looking for.

Maurice

Hard to say. People now, this is just another joyless day of the year.

Lyda

Not for us.

Maurice

No. We haven't forgotten the meaning of christmas.

[ man chuckling ]

[ continues chuckling ]

Tv Scrooge

I don't deserve to be so happy. I can't help it. I just can't help it.

Tv Narrator

Scrooge was better than his word. He became as good a friend, as good a master... And as good a man as the good old city ever knew, [ knocking continues ] or any other good old city, town or borough in the good old world. And to tiny tim--

Dana Scully

I, uh-- I couldn't sleep. I was, um--

Fox Mulder

Can I come in? Yeah. Aren't you supposed to be opening christmas gifts with your family?

Dana Scully

Mulder, none of that really happened out there tonight. That was all in our heads, right?

Fox Mulder

It must have been.

Dana Scully

Not that my only joy in life is proving you wrong.

Fox Mulder

When have you proved me wrong?

Dana Scully

Well, why else would you want me out there with you?

Fox Mulder

You didn't want to be there? Oh, that's, um, self-righteous and... Narcissistic of me to say, isn't it?

Dana Scully

No, I mean, maybe I did want to be out there with you.

Unidentified speaker

You know,

Fox Mulder

I know we said that we weren't going to exchange gifts, but, uh, I got you a little something.

Dana Scully

Mulder.

Fox Mulder

Merry christmas.

Dana Scully

Well, I got you a little something too.

Music

♪ and have yourself ♪ ♪ a merry little christmas ♪ ♪ now ♪♪

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