Mulder, when a terrorist bomb threat is called in, the rational purpose of providing that information is to allow us to find the bomb. The rational object of terrorism is to promote terror. If you'd study the statistics, you'd find the model behavioral pattern for virtually every case where a threat has turned up an explosive device; and if we don't act in accordance with that data, if you ignore it as we have done, the chances are great that if there actually is a bomb, we might not find it. Lives could be lost .... Mulder. Mulder?
Whatever happened to playing a hunch, Scully? The element of surprise, random acts of unpredictability? If we fail to anticipate the unforeseen or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite possibilities, we may find ourselves at the mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categorized or easily referenced. (eats a sunflower seed) What are we doing up here, Scully? It's hotter than hell.
I know you're bored in this assignment, Mulder, but unconventional thinking is only gonna get you in trouble now.
What makes you think I'm bored?
You've gotta quit looking for what isn't there. They've closed the X-files. There's procedure to be followed now ... protocol.
Maybe we should call in a bomb threat to Houston. I think it's free beer night at the Astrodome.
It's locked?
So much for anticipating the unforeseen.
No, you didn't.
Oh, yeah. I had you big time.
You had nothing. Come on, I saw you jiggle the handle.
