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Outside the locker, Hodge and Da Silva have convinced each other that Mulder and Scully are going to come out a united front (how well they know them already) and that they need a contingency plan in case Mulder doesn't volunteer. Mulder and Scully emerge, both looking thoroughly disheveled. "I just examined him," Scully tells them. Sure you did. I bet it was a - eh-hem – very thorough examination. "He's uninfected", she continues. Yea, three guesses as to whether they buy that. Scully insists that it must be one of them, and Hodge fakes like they're going back to the lab to get blood samples, then grabs Mulder around the waist as he and Da Silva throws Scully back into the storage locker and locks the door. When she did that, she let out this weird screech, which was so high I'm sure the dog in the other room was barking like wild. Mulder wrestles with Hodge as Scully finds some sort of… drill bit? to try and break the lock. Mulder's on the ground with Hodge holding him, as Da Silva brings the worm ever closer to his ear. Am I gonna have to close my eyes again? Ew, ew, ew, ew… Okay, before she can put the worm in, Hodge notices a ripple along Da Silva's neck. Oh, my God! She's infected! It's totally not Evil Xander! It's awesome Other Dana from Sports Night! That sucks! So, Hodge, taken aback by this, freaks out and shoves her to the ground. The worm falls to the floor, squirming (as they tend to do) while Mulder releases Scully. Da Silva freaks out and runs out of the room, knocking over bottles and breaking all sorts of glass. She pulls a gun from an evidence bag and tries to shoot Mulder, but he tackles her and the gun goes off in the air. I'm surprised there wasn't any falling plaster. As Hodge comes closer with the worm in his forceps, Scully shouts over Da Silva's screeches, "Mulder! After this there won't be any left! They're all gonna be dead!" "Do it!" he screams to Hodge, who puts the worm in hear ear in a blessed long shot so we don't have to see it again. She twitches like the dog, and is still, but alive.

Back on the ground in Nome, with the blizzard that was going to last three days suddenly a thing of the past, Da Silva is wheeled into an ambulance in full protective gear, while the rest of the group watch on. Hodge tells Mulder and Scully that she'll be in quarantine with the dog, while the three of them will be released. Mulder wants to go back to the site, "fully prepared and with the proper equipment" because he wants to study the worm. He means, of course, that he wants Scully to study the worm, since last I heard he got his degree in Psychology, not entomology. But whatever. Neither does she. She's got a medical degree, but she's examined everything from an elephant to a boa constrictor, so I'd say that makes her qualified. But before Mulder can say, "let's spend some more of the government's money," Hodge bursts his bubble by informing him that the entire station has been torched by the government ops people, and sucks to be you, Mulder, because that worm will have to remain our little secret. Mulder's all pissed now. "It's still there, Scully. 200,000 years down in the ice." While staring off into the middle distance that Gillian's become so good at in the ensuing years, Scully sighs, "Leave it there." She walks away from Mulder, in her big, fluffy white coat with the Burlington Coat Factory hood, and the credits roll.