an isolation unit being loaded onto a plane. An unconscious Mulder is picked up by another ambulance. Not severely injured, he slips out of the hospital with the help of The Lone Gunmen and FBI Assistant Director Walter Skinner. He then meets a former adversary, the Well-Manicured Man, who gives him Scully's location, along with a vaccine against the virus that has infected her. As Mulder leaves, the Well-Manicured Man kills himself in a car bomb, before his betrayal of The Syndicate is discovered. In Antarctica 48 hours later, Mulder finds Scully in a large underground facility containing many humans suspended in ice-like enclosures. He breaks Scully's confinement and uses the vaccine to revive her, but this disrupts the facility and the cocooned aliens begin trying to escape. After Mulder and Scully escape to the surface, a huge alien vessel emerges from beneath the ice and travels into the sky. Mulder watches it disappear into the distance as Scully regains full consciousness. Later, at another hearing, Scully's testimony is disregarded and evidence in Texas is destroyed. To the hearing moderator, she hands over the only remaining proof of their ordeal—the bee that stung her—noting that the FBI is not currently capable of investigating this evidence. Outside, Mulder reads an article that has covered up the domes and crop field in Texas. Scully informs Mulder that she is willing to continue working with him: "If I quit now, they win." At another crop outpost in Tunisia, the Cigarette Smoking Man warns Conrad Strughold that Mulder remains a threat, as he explains what Mulder has found out about the virus. He then hands him a telegram revealing that the X-files unit has been re-opened. Cast David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully Martin Landau as Alvin Kurtzweil Blythe Danner as Jana Cassidy Armin Mueller-Stahl as Conrad Strughold Mitch Pileggi as Assistant Director Walter Skinner William B. Davis as Cigarette-Smoking Man John Neville as Well-Manicured Man Dean Haglund as Richard "Ringo" Langly Bruce Harwood as John Fitzgerald Byers Tom Braidwood as Melvin Frohike Jeffrey DeMunn as Ben Bronschweig Jason Beghe as FBI Man at Bomb Site Michael Shamus Wiles as Black-Haired Man Terry O'Quinn as Special Agent in Charge Darius Michaud Lucas Black as Stevie Gary Grubbs as Fire Captain Cooles Nick Lashaway as Young Fox Mulder Don S. Williams as First Elder George Murdock as