Quotes for
The Well-Manicured Man (Character)
from The X Files (1998)

The X Files (1998)

[after shooting the driver in the head]
Well-Manicured Man: Get out of the car.
Mulder: [expecting to be next] Why? The upholstery is already ruined.

Mulder: [looking at a vile of serum with a syringe] What's this?
Well-Manicured Man: A weak vaccine against the virus Agent Scully has been infected with. It must be administrated within 96 hours after first contact or she will be beyond saving.
Mulder: A virus?
Well-Manicured Man: What is a virus, Mr. Mulder? A rare certain strain of Purity that has been lying dormant in a cave in Texas since the end of the last great Ice Age waiting to be unleashed upon this world?
Mulder: Is this what you and your consortium have been covering up all this time? A virus? A disease?
Well-Manicured Man: No, no, no, you've got it all backwards! AIDS, the Ebola virus, the common cold... on an evolutionary scale they are newborns. This virus walked the Earth long before the first dinosaurs appeared.
Mulder: What do you mean "walked"?
Well-Manicured Man: Your aliens, Agent Mulder, your little green men arrived here millions of years ago.

Well-Manicured Man: Trust no one, Mr. Mulder.

Well-Manicured Man: Survival is the ultimate ideology.

Well-Manicured Man: You have precious little time Agent Mulder. What I have given you to save Agent Scully, the alien colonists living amongst us do not yet know exists. It's introduction into an alien environment may have the capability to destroy all the delicate plans to fight the alien re-colonization of Earth that we have so delicately protected for the last 50 years.
Mulder: What do you mean "may have"?
Well-Manicured Man: Find Agent Scully. Only then you will know the grand scope of things.

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"The X-Files: The Blessing Way (#3.1)" (1995)

Scully: What kind of business are you in?
Well Manicured Man: We predict the future. And the best way to predict it, is to invent it.

Scully: Who are you?
Well Manicured Man: I'm a member of a kind of consortium. We represent certain global interests.
Scully: What kind of interests?
Well Manicured Man: Interests that would be severely threatened if the contents of the digital tape you are all pursuing were to come to light.
Scully: Threatened enough to murder?
Well Manicured Man: Oh my, yes.

Scully: You're not protecting me, you're protecting yourself.
Well Manicured Man: Why should that surprise you? Motives are rarely unselfish.

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"The X-Files: Patient X (#5.13)" (1998)

Alex Krycek: Well, look who's answering the bat-phone.
The Well-Manicured Man: Alex Krycek.
Alex Krycek: Those guys too cheap to offer you a pension plan?
The Well-Manicured Man: Where are you?
Alex Krycek: I'm in town, actually. New York City.
The Well-Manicured Man: Just tell us what you want.
Alex Krycek: You've been working on a vaccine, against the Black Oil.
The Well-Manicured Man: Unsuccessfuly, you know?
Alex Krycek: Yeah, well. I figured you and your buddies must have been busy while I've been gone.
The Well-Manicured Man: Our research continues.
Alex Krycek: I'll take everything you've got.
The Well-Manicured Man: In exchange for...
Alex Krycek: The boy.
The Well-Manicured Man: Why is that in our interest?
Alex Krycek: Because, without what he knows, you're ain't gonna need any vaccine.
The Well-Manicured Man: And what does he know?
Alex Krycek: That's my opening offer. The longer you wait, the skinnier this kid gets.

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"The X-Files: Apocrypha (#3.16)" (1996)

Well Manicured Man: Mr. Mulder... ANYONE can be gotten to. Certainly you've no doubt of that!

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"The X-Files: Paper Clip (#3.2)" (1995)

[at a meeting of the Syndicate Elders]
The Cigarette Smoking Man: [on the killing of Scully's sister] This was a mistake. It will be rectified.
Well Manicured Man: By whom? By whom will this be rectified? Your ridiculously ineffectual assassins?
The Cigarette Smoking Man: These men are professionals!
Well Manicured Man: This is NOT a profession for men who make mistakes! My God! You presume to make us believe that you can simply fix it with enough bullets?
The Cigarette Smoking Man: [slumps in his chair uncomfortably] No.

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