The X-Files, Season 6

Mulder:
I know. I missed the meeting.

Scully:
Well, not yet, but, uh, only because it's the longest in FBI history.

Mulder:
What are you doing down here, then?

Scully:
Well, I came looking for you. We took a five-minute break (looks at watch) three minutes ago. Mulder, your cell phone's not working. (He glances up at her.) Did you oversleep?

Mulder:
Scully, did you ever have one of those days you wish you could rewind and start all over again from the beginning?

Scully:
Yes. Frequently. But, I mean, who's... who's to say that if you did rewind it and start over again that it wouldn't end up exactly the same way?

Mulder:
So you think it's all just fate? We have no free will?

Scully:
No, I think that we're free to be the people that we are - good, bad or indifferent. I think that it's our character that determines our fate.

Mulder:
And all the rest is just preordained? I don't buy that. There's too many variables. Too many forks in the road. I meant to be on time to work this morning but my waterbed springs a leak flooding my apartment (Scully looks surprised) and the apartment below me so that makes me late for the meeting. Then I realize I got to write a check to cover the damages to my landlord but, as I'm walking to work, I realize that that's gonna bounce unless I deposit my pay. So now I got to go to the bank, which makes me even later.

Scully:
(curious) Since when did you get a waterbed?

Mulder:
I might just as easily not have a waterbed then I'd be on time for this meeting. You might just as easily have stayed in medicine and not gone into the FBI, and then we would never have met. Blah, blah, blah...

Scully:
Fate.

Mulder:
Free will. With every choice, you change your fate.