Nobody Talks Like That!
The first official episode of the X-Files has our favourite FBI agents investigating the mysterious disappearance of a military test pilot, one Lt. Col. Robert Buderhas . Having done the rounds of interviewing anyone they can get to speak to, Mulder and Scully, after Buderhas is returned as mysteriously as he disappeared, and after an encounter with National Security in the form of a bunch of guys wearing black, back at their motel, have the following conversation: SCULLY: Did you ever stop to think that what we saw was simply an experimental plane. Like the stealth bomber or, this Aurora Project. Doesn't the government have a right and a responsibility, to protect its secrets? MULDER: Yes, but at what cost, when does the human cost become too high for the building of a better machine? SCULLY: Look, these are questions we have no business asking. Darren Mooney, of them0vieblog.com , states bluntly, “That’s not the way that people talk to one another” a...