The X-files
Quagmire
Episode: 3X22
First aired:5/3/96
Written by: Kim Newton
Directed by: Kim Manners
This episode marks the demise of
Queequeg, the beloved dog. Please,
a moment of silence....
Thank you.
Mulder and
Scully investigate
attacks near and in a
lake. Mulder claims that the attacks are from
Big Blue, a
Nessie-like water
monster.
Scully's dog,
Queequeg, is unfortunatly eaten by this animal.
Mulder and Scully go out on a
boat to search for this creature. Their boat is attacked and
sunk and the are left stranded in the middle of the night on a small
rock island.
As
daylight approaches they are "rescued" by a man only to find that they are barely 10 ft away from the
shore.
The next day Mulder is attacked by the creature and shoots it to find that it is an
alligator.
As they leave the lake, we see a Nessie-like creature emerge from the water...and neither Mulder nor Scully, nor anyone else, saw it.
Important Quotes:
Scully -- "We eat fish and fish eat us."
Mulder -- "Are fish also known for eating half and saving half for later?"
Scull -- "
Nature's calling (talking about Queequeg in the car), I think we should pull over soon."
Mulder -- "Did you really have to bring that thing?"
Scully -- "You wake me up on a
Saturday morning, tell me to be ready in five minutes, my mother's out of town, all of the dog sitters are booked and you know how I feel about
kennels. So, unless you want to lose your
security deposit on the car, I suggest you pull over."
Scully -- "Y'know, his fly's undone."
Mulder -- "Are you
insinuating something?"
Scully -- "Could you please repeat the last part again? I kinda faded out."
Mulder -- "Which... which part?"
Scully -- "After you said I'm sorry?"
Scully -- "Poor Queequeg."
Mulder -- "Why did you name your dog Queequeg?"
Scully -- "It was the name of the
harpoonist in
Moby Dick. My father used to read to me from Moby Dick when I was a little girl, I called him
Ahab and he called me
Starbuck. So I named my dog Queequeg. It's funny, I just realized something."
Mulder -- "It's a
bizarre name for a dog, huh?"
Scully -- "No, how much you're like Ahab. You're so consumed by your personal
vengeance against life, whether it be its inherent cruelties or mysteries, everything takes on a warped
significance to fit your
megalomaniacal cosmology."
Mulder -- "Scully, are you coming on to me?"
Scully -- "Well, you slew the big
white whale, Ahab."
Mulder -- "Yeah, but I still don't have that
pegleg."
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Note: This write up is so short because I wrote it before I started on my quest to node all episodes of The X-files so, in short, I'm lazy.