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Let it never be said that you wouldn’t walk through a fire for a woman, Mulder.
— The X-Files • 1993
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Scully turns the familiar image of walking through fire for someone into a teasing comment directed at Mulder. Her formal-sounding opening gives the remark a mock ceremonial air, mixing acknowledgment of a dangerous gesture with a pointed joke about whom it was for.
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