A brass key hangs above a row of small wooden boxes, one with its lid open.

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Scully

The answers are there. You just have to know where to look.

— The X-Files · 1993

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What it means

Our interpretation.

Scully treats the existence of answers as settled and makes the difficulty one of finding them. The qualification changes the emphasis from whether a mystery can be resolved to how an investigation is directed. Knowing where to look becomes the missing piece of knowledge.

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