The X-Files, Season 6

AD Kersh:
The way these people died... the loss of life here - it is beyond words. I can't imagine how it must be for you - losing your mother.

Spender:
Yes, sir. But that's not why I asked for this meeting.

AD Kersh:
Why did you ask for it?

Spender:
Because I'm responsible for the deaths of those people at the Air Base hangar in no small way. I certainly didn't prevent them.

AD Kersh:
I can assume then you can explain how they died? Because I have yet to hear any explanation.

Spender:
Agent Mulder can explain it. I think Agent Scully, to an extent. They might have even prevented what you see in those photos.

AD Kersh:
Agents Scully and Mulder have been suspended by the FBI.

Spender:
Also my doing... and my mistake.

AD Kersh:
I would ask...

Spender:
I'd ask, sir - before you tell me that it's not my business - that you do everything you can to get them back on the X-Files. Far worse can happen... and it will.

AD Kersh:
Where are you going?

Spender:
To pack up my office.

AD Kersh:
Agent Spender... (Spender leaves; Kersh turns to Mulder, angrily) You have answers now? Why didn't I hear about those answers before?

Mulder:
I've had answers for years.

AD Kersh:
Then why didn't we hear about them?

Mulder:
No one would ever listen.

AD Kersh:
Who burned those people?

Mulder:
They burned themselves. With a choice made long ago by a conspiracy of men who thought they could sleep with the enemy. Only to awaken another enemy.

AD Kersh:
What the hell does that mean?

Mulder:
It means the future is here, and all bets are off.

AD Kersh:
Agent Scully, make some sense.

Scully:
Sir, I wouldn't bet against him.