missing "paper hearts" reveals that two are still missing, for a total of sixteen. Roche manipulates Mulder into believing that Samantha is one of his victims, taking him to the scene of the abduction to explain it. However, Mulder took him to the wrong house and catches him in the lie. At the end of the episode Roche gives the location of one of the missing victims, but is shot and killed by Mulder during a standoff before revealing the location of the last body. At the beginning of the fifth season, The Smoking Man introduced Mulder to a woman who he claims is, and who herself believes to be, Samantha. She tells Mulder that she has children of her own, thought that her mother had died some time ago, and believed Cigarette Smoking Man to be her father. She leaves abruptly during the meeting, and is never seen again. According to Cassandra Spender, she was indeed another clone, but not the real Samantha. Samantha's true storyline is revealed and resolved in the seventh season episode, Closure. In that episode, Dana Scully watches a 1989 tape in which Mulder undergoes hypnotic regression therapy, which another agent describes as "garden-variety compensatory abduction fantasy" which feeds Mulder's "unconscious hope that his sister is still alive". Later, with the help of a medium, Mulder discovers that Samantha was neither abducted nor murdered. She was actually given up by their own father, who had made a secret deal with the aliens and gave them special permission to take his child. When the Syndicate formed in 1973 to work with the aliens, the aliens decided to make an arrangement to take one human member from each main Syndicate family as "collateral". William Mulder discussed this deal with his wife Teena, as to which child they would give up, but she refused to make a choice. William later decided to choose Fox, as he was the eldest. However, that decision was superseded by the Cigarette Smoking Man who forced them to take Samantha instead because he wanted the aliens to test on at least one adolescent female. The medium also helps Mulder find Samantha's old diary, which states that after she had been kidnapped by the extraterrestrials in 1973, she was constantly experimented on and then somehow returned shortly after the aliens no longer considered her valuable. She was immediately taken to an isolated place called