[Mulder is sitting on a chair in the hospital. Skinner approaches and sits next to him.]
The Smoking Man's dead.
How?
Shot through his window. [Hands Mulder a photo of young Mulder and Samantha] Forensics found it at the scene. We're assuming it's his blood.
Assuming?
Well no body was found, though there was too much blood lost for anyone to have survived. (sighs) This afternoon when you named Blevins... how did you know?
I didn't. I just guessed.
Well it was a hell of a guess. Blevins had been on payroll for four years to a biotechnology company called Roush, which is somehow connected to all this.
Well, I'm sure whatever connections there were, they're being erased right now.
They're cleaning up, taking everything away.
Not everything.. Scully's cancer's gone into remission.
(looks shocked) That's unbelievable news.
(grins) It's the best news I could have ever heard.
What turned it around?
I don't know. I don't think we'll ever know.
Can I see her?
Yeah, she's in there with her family right now, but I'm sure she'd love to see you.
[Skinner heads in to her room, where Scully and her family are waiting. She smiles at him. He enters and shuts the door; Mulder sits outside staring at the picture of himself and Samantha and begins to cry.]
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