"And after a few minutes I took the gun out of his mouth, and I say 'So help me if you ever touch her again I will such and such and such and such and blah blah blah blah blah...'"
-- the way Mike delivered that line you already knew exactly how the story was gonna end. GOAT scene/performance. Mike was such a complex character, he operated like a machine but there was a certain melancholy to him that was inescapable yet hard to pin down. The rare scene like this is where you get a glimpse into what makes him who he is by the time he gets to Breaking Bad.
And the X-Files Dod Kalm episode. I can't find a vid clip of it but here's the promo spot and the transcript from the closing scene:
SCENE 9
14 HOURS LATER
(Mulder, trembling badly, sits to the side as Scully writes in her journal.)
MULDER: I always thought when I got older I'd maybe take a cruise somewhere. This isn't exactly what I had in mind. The service on this ship is terrible, Scully. (she smiles) It's not fair. It's not our time. We still have work to do.
(Scully puts down her pen and turns toward him.)
SCULLY: Mulder ... When they found me, after the doctors and even my family had given up, I experienced something that I never told you about. Even now it's hard to find the words. But there's one thing I'm certain of. As certain as I am of this life, we have nothing to fear when it's over.
(Mulder has slumped over to his side.)
MULDER: I'm so tired.
SCULLY: You should sleep.
(She strokes his forehead.)
(Later, Scully writes in her journal.)
SCULLY: (voice-over) Agent Fox Mulder lost consciousness at approximately 4:30 this morning, the 12th of March. There is nothing more I can do for him, or for myself. Supplies are exhausted, no food or liquid consumed for over 24 hours. The outer hull most probably flooded, though for now the inner hull is supporting the ship's mass. Among Halverson's belongings, I found a children's book of Norse legends. From what I can tell, the pictures show the end of the world - not in a sudden firestorm of damnation as the Bible teaches us, but in a slow covering blanket of snow. First the moon and the stars will be lost in a dense white fog, then the rivers and the lakes and the sea will freeze over. And finally a wolf named Skoll will open his jaws and eat the sun, sending the world into an everlasting night.
I think I hear the wolf at the door...
(Scully drops her pen and her eyes close.)
It's a pretty obscure episode, but probably the closest Mulder and Scully have ever legitimately been to actually dying