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8x17 "Empedocles"

"Trying to quit the habit."

"It's Marilyn Manson. Your kids listen to him. They probably buy his CDs at Kmart."

"You're taller than I thought."

"It was the hardest case I've ever had. As in stealing-into-the-bathroom-to-cry-my-eyes-out kind of hard."

"I don't know if it was a psychic experience or what, but when we found his son, I had a vision. It was as if for just a moment the body was changed."

"Something that I saw connected back to Luke. A vision."

REYES: "You're wrong."
MULDER: "I think I know these files."
REYES: "And I know what I saw."

"You'd rather blind yourself to the connections, but I can't."

"What if this is a thread of evil connecting through time, through men, through opportunity, connecting back to you."

"Maybe saving this girl was the reason. Maybe that's what this was all about. Maybe that's what I saw and why I saw it. For that kid."

"It's never over."

At the beginning of the episode, Moninca is leaving the office in New Orleans and she stops by the dead body and sees it turn to ashes. I love this scene because she's connecting back to the vision she had with Luke Doggett's case.

I love the scene where Doggett yells at Mulder for looking into his son's case and then Monica shows up, telling Doggett what she saw in New Orleans and how there's a connection to Luke. Doggett says their's no connection and that she and Mulder should leave it alone. The whole scene is so intense and powerful. I love how Monica doesn't back down from her beliefs.

Monica and Mulder discuss visions of death at crime scenes. Monica pushes the reason why Mulder won't help on this case and he just shrugs her off pulling the "sick friend in the hospital" card. Monica doesn't back down at all. "The office down here needs at least one person with an open mind." She says to him, knowing that she's got him on the case now. I just love this scene because it shows her as a very strong person.

When Doggett comes out to the newest crime scene in South Carolina, the dead woman killed by Jeb Dukes, and Monica confronts him that he has visions too, only he's afraid to "go there". She tells him about how some cultures see evil in death like "we see God in a rose." I just love that scene because she's challenging Doggett.

"I got to believe that I did everything I could to find my son." This has got to be the most powerful scene between Monica and Doggett. She finally gets him to admit why he's so scared to believe in these other possiblities. Very powerful moment.

Teamwork! Doggett and Reyes take down Jeb Duke's at Katha's home. Doggett is the distraction at the bottom of the stairs who 'let's his guard down' so he can try to get little Mia away from him. But Monica is positioned up stairs and armed. There is no escape for Jeb. Great FBI teamwork between them. I just absolutely love this scene.

I love the moment where Monica tries to comfort Katha after Jeb is pronounced dead. It shows that she's a very carring person and feels bad for Katha for the loss of her brother.

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