April Air Force Base in California. Once there, she was held captive along with Jeffrey Spender, and was the subject of many torturous hybrid tests at the hands of the Cigarette Smoking Man, who she was brainwashed to believe was her father. Over time, Samantha grew to hate the tests and the scientists who mercilessly performed them on her. Unable to bear the pain of the testing any longer, in 1979 at age 14, six years after being taken from her original home, Samantha ran away. She believed that all those performing the tests had erased most of her memories, as she had only vague memories of a brother, and nothing else. Eventually, she was picked up by police as a wandering runaway and taken to Dominic Savio Memorial Hospital, suffering from paranoia and what authorities considered to be self-inflicted wounds. She gave no name or personal information and allowed no one but the emergency room nurse, Arbutus Ray, to touch her. Decades later, Ray informs Scully and Harold Pillar, the psychic, about the mysterious young girl (while Mulder stands nearby). Ray adds that a group of men (who seemed to be working for Cigarette Smoking Man) came to the hospital to claim the girl, only to find out upon their arrival that she was gone, despite being locked in her hospital room. Samantha had suddenly vanished into thin air, never to be seen or heard from again. Ray also describes how she had a vision that was eerily similar to those of others who lost children in a similar fashion. It is revealed that Samantha was consumed by "spiritual intervention" beings called "Walk-ins", which try to save the innocent souls of children who are unfairly doomed to live unhappy lives or suffer terrible fates. When Cigarette Smoking Man and his team found out where Samantha was located, the Walk-Ins took pity on the girl and turned her into an energy form called starlight, which made her die a painless death, and without leaving behind a body. While in the nearby woods later, Mulder has a paranormal experience and is briefly reunited with Samantha's ghostly spirit, which is finally at peace among all the other starlight children. After Mulder returns, Scully asks if he is all right. Finally at peace, Mulder replies, "I'm fine. I'm free," suggesting that he, like several of the other parents whose children have disappeared, accepts