The X-Files (TV Series)
Je Souhaite (2000)
Paula Sorge: Jenn
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Quotes
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Jenn : The only thing you people are cursed with is stupidity. All of you. Everybody. Mankind. Everyone I have ever come into contact with without fail. Always asking for the wrong thing.
Mulder : You mean making the wrong wishes.
Jenn : Yeah, it's always: "Give me money." "Give me big boobs." "Give me a big hoo-hoo." "Make me cool like the Fonz" or whoever's the big name now.
Mulder : You been out of circulation a long time.
Jenn : So what? In 500 years, people have not changed a bit.
Dana Scully : 500 years.
Jenn : Granted, they smell better now generally speaking, but human greed still reigns... shallowness... a propensity for self-destruction.
Dana Scully : You're saying that you have been a firsthand witness to 500 years of human history.
Jenn : I used to be human. I was born in 15th-century France, and then, one day, an old Moor came to my village peddling rugs, and I unrolled one that an Ifrit had taken residence in.
Dana Scully : An "Ifrit."
Jenn : A very... powerful class of jinni. He offered me three wishes. For the first I asked for a stouthearted mule. For the second, a magic sack that was always full of turnips... Did I mention this was 15th-century France?
Mulder : What was your third wish?
Jenn : My third... I pondered for a great while. I didn't want to waste it. So, finally, feeling very intelligent I spoke up and I said "Je souhaite un grand pouvoir et une longue vie." "I wish for great power and long life."
Mulder : And thus became a jinni yourself.
Jenn : Gave me the mark of the jinn... right there. It's forever. Sort of like a prison tattoo.
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Mulder : You say that most people make the wrong wishes, right?
Jenn : Without fail. It's like giving a chimpanzee a revolver.
Mulder : This is because they make their wishes solely for personal gain.
Jenn : Could be.
Mulder : So the trick would be to make a wish that's totally altruistic, that's for everyone. So, um, I wish for peace on Earth.
Jenn : Peace on Earth? That's it
Mulder : What the hell's wrong with that? You can't do it?
Jenn : No, I can. It's done.
Mulder : Oh crap.
[Mulder runs through empty streets with all the people gone]
Mulder : I guess I should have seen this coming.
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Mulder : You don't have to wipe out the entire population of the whole planet just to effect a little peace on Earth and goodwill towards men.
Jenn : Mmm, you didn't say goodwill towards men. So you expect me to change the hearts of 6 billion people. No religion in history has been able to pull that off.
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Leslie Stokes : That's my - that's my next wish. Wish number 2: I wish Anson could talk.
Jenn : No you don't.
Leslie Stokes : Yes I do and that's final. I wish Anson could talk.
Jenn : Done.
[Anson screams continuously]
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Mulder : What would your wish be if you were in my place?
Jenn : I'm not you. It doesn't matter.
Mulder : No, but I just, you know, I'd like to know.
Jenn : I wish that I'd never heard the word "wish" before. I'd wish that I could live my life moment by moment, enjoying it for what it is instead of worrying about what it isn't. I'd sit down somewhere with a great cup of coffee, and I'd watch the world go by.
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Jenn : What are you, a lawyer?
Mulder : I have to be, with you. I'm gonna get this last wish perfect. I'm not gonna leave you any loopholes. I'm not gonna let you interpret this as an edict to bring back the Third Reich or to make everyone's eyes grow on stalks.
Jenn : Oh geez, and I was so looking forward to that.
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Jenn : So, am I under arrest?
Dana Scully : I can't think of anything we have to hold you on. Not surprisingly, we don't have any evidence of any of this. So, I think she's free to go.
Jenn : No, I'm not. He unrolled me.
Mulder : I get three wishes.
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Leslie Stokes : Wish for money.
Anson Stokes : Yeah, okay, that's not bad, that's not bad, buy don't you think maybe we should think of something that would kinda, I don't know, generate money instead of the actual the money, itself?
Jenn : Brains? Talent? Hard work?
[Anson glares at her]
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Leslie Stokes : He's creeping me out. This isn't what I asked for. He's all weird and messed up.
Jenn : He's been hit by a truck.
Leslie Stokes : Yeah.
Jenn : What did you expect?
Leslie Stokes : I asked you to bring him back to normal.
Jenn : You asked me to bring him back.
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Anson Stokes : Don't you think maybe you could have found some frickin' water?
Jenn : You didn't specify water.
Anson Stokes : I gotta specify that you put a boat in frickin' water?
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Jenn : You could always give that guy his mouth back.
Anson Stokes : Hey, all I said was that I wish Jay would shut the hell up. If you feel bad about what you did to him, fix it on your own dime.
