#2x08   -   One Breath
written by Glen Morgan and James Wong
directed by R.W. Goodwin
SUMMARY:
Scully is found alive but in a coma, and Mulder must fight to save her life.
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MISC:
--> RESOURCES:
  • The truth is out there: The official guide to The X-Files: p. 179 - 180
  • Unofficial X-Files companion: p. 147 - 149
  • Book of the Unexplained, Vol 2: p. 32 - 47, "Between two worlds"

    • --> TITLE DERIVATION:
    a phrase used in Captain Scully's monologue
    --> LINKS:
  • Tiny Dancer's X-Files Script archive
  • the official site summary 
  • X-review
  • Further X-Plorations: post-episodic fanfic
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    EPISODE INFO:
    Principle Location: Washington D.C.
    original airdate: 11/11/94
    German title: An der Grenze
    1995 Emmy nomination: John Bartley, nominee for individual achievement in cinematography for a series
    BACKGROUND INFO:
  • The part of Melissa Scully was written for Melinda McGraw, who worked with Glen Morgan and James Wong on "The Commish".
  • Nurse Owens is named after Glen Morgan's grandmother.
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    CAST LIST:
    DAVID DUCHOVNY Special Agent Fox Mulder
    GILLIAN ANDERSON Special Agent Dana Scully
    SHEILA LARKEN Margaret Scully
    MELINDA MCGRAW Melissa Scully
    TOM BRAIDWOOD Frohike
    JAY BRAZEAU Dr. Daly
    MITCH PILEGGI A.D. Skinner
    DEAN HAGLUND Langly
    BRUCE HARWOOD Byers
    NICOLA CAVENDISH Nurse Owens
    STEVEN WILLIAMS X
    DON DAVIS Captain William Scully
    WILLIAM B. DAVIS the Cigarette-Smoking Man
    LORENA GALE Nurse Wilkins
    RYAN MICHAEL Overcoat Man
    TEGAN MOSS Young Dana Scully
     
    QUOTES:
    "The spirit is the truth." --Inscription on Scully's tombstone (1 John 5:6)
    MELISSA: "Her soul is here. Dana's choosing whether to remain ... or move on."
    CANCER MAN: "I'm in the game because I believe what I'm doing is right." 
    MULDER: "Right? Who are you to decide what's right?"
    CANCER MAN: "Who are *you*?"
    LONE GUNMEN: "Mulder, you look down. You're welcome to come over on Saturday. We're going to jump on the internet and nitpick the scientific inaccuracies of Earth 2."
    MULDER: "I'm doing my laundry."
    X: "You're a damn schoolboy, Mulder. You have no idea, no idea."
    MULDER: "OK, then tell me. Tell me.
    X: "You're my tool, you understand? I come to you when I need you."
    MULDER: "That's very politically correct."
    MELISSA: "That's very human."
    X: "I used to be you; I was where you are now. But, you're not me, Mulder. I don't think you have the heart."
    CANCER MAN: "If you're having trouble sitting on Mulder, Assistant Director, Skinner, I'm sure you know that we would have no trouble."
    MULDER: "Since I am unfamiliar with any such incident, sir, no, how *would* I know that?"
    SKINNER: "Knock it off."
    MULDER: "How does it feel? Constant denial of everything, questions answered with a question."
    SKINNER: "I want to know what happened, dammit!"
    MELISSA: "Why is it so dark in here?"
    MULDER: "Because the lights aren't on."
    CANCER MAN: "Don't try and threaten me, Mulder. I've watched presidents die."
    SKINNER: "We all know the field we play on and we all know what can happen in the course of the game. If you were unprepared for all the potentials, then you shouldn't step on the field."
    CANCER MAN: "If people were to know of the things I know, it would all fall apart."
    CANCER MAN: "I have more respect for you, Mulder. You're becoming a player."
    CANCER MAN: "You can kill me now, but you'll never know the truth."
    SKINNER: "I'm afraid to look any further beyond that experience. You? You are not."
    SKINNER: "Agent Mulder, every day, every life is in danger. That's just life."
    MELISSA: "I don't have to be psychic to see that you're in a very dark place. Much darker than where my sister is. Willingly walking deeper into the darkness cannot help her at all."
    MELISSA: "Only the light..."
    MULDER: "Oh, enough with the harmonic convergence crap. You're not saying anything to me."
    MELISSA: "You know, just because it's positive and good, doesn't mean it's silly or trite."
    SCULLY: "Mulder... I had the strength of your beliefs."
    MULDER: "I brought you a present. Superstars of the Super Bowl."
    SCULLY: "I knew there was a reason to live."
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