The X-Files, Season 5

[Mulder is sitting on a chair in the hospital. Skinner approaches and sits next to him.]

Skinner:
The Smoking Man's dead.

Mulder:
How?

Skinner:
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.

Mulder:
Assuming?

Skinner:
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?

Mulder:
I didn't. I just guessed.

Skinner:
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.

Mulder:
Well, I'm sure whatever connections there were, they're being erased right now.

Skinner:
They're cleaning up, taking everything away.

Mulder:
Not everything. Scully's cancer's gone into remission.

Skinner:
(looks shocked) That's unbelievable news.

Mulder:
(grins) It's the best news I could have ever heard.

Skinner:
What turned it around?

Mulder:
I don't know. I don't think we'll ever know.

Skinner:
Can I see her?

Mulder:
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.]