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Back at the Boys' parked car, Mulder gets in and goes searching for the original copy of the top-secret file X gave him that he had stashed under the floor mat. From that other scene it looked like Mulder stuck it under his seat. Anyway, it's gone of course, and Mulder registers this by banging the steering wheel.

We're back at FBI headquarters in D.C., (it looks as if it's in a storage area where files and things are kept) and we hear Scully's voice telling Mulder that "They" broke into her office and went through her files and her computer, and now that they don't have either copy of the file, Skinner won't authorize an investigation. Mulder then tells Scully about X and what he said about how things have never been more dangerous for them. She seems surprised that Mulder actually met with X. Scully wants to know if Mulder trusts X, but he looks away and just gives a sigh.

Somewhere in a darkened room lit only by a window, (and I suppose we could assume it's somewhere within the bowels of the FBI, but that's not necessarily true) the Cigarette Smoking Man and two other bad guys go through the top-secret file (and the CSM needs reading glasses, because he puts them down on the table) and ask an unseen person if he knows where Mulder got it. We hear Alex Krycek answer that either Mulder found another source, or another source found Mulder. Then Krycek leans forward on the table and asks if he can recommend something, because he's outlined several countermeasures. Always thinking ahead, Alex! He's such a go-getter of the underworld. He even changed his suit...he's now wearing a dark gray-on-gray pinstripe suit with a red, blue, and cream diagonally striped tie. The suits looks nice on him, but the tie needs some work. The CSM asks about Scully, and Krycek says that their reassignments only strengthened their determination, and that Scully's a problem -- a bigger problem than the CSM told Krycek she was. Then the CSM says that every problem has a solution, and stubs out his cigarette. Dun dun duuuuuuunnn!

This interesting development picks up in the next episode, "Duane Barry."