 The Bounty Hunter claims that Samantha is still alive before dumping Mulder off the sail and submerging the "Allegiance"; Mulder is nearly cut in half with the sub's diving plane in the process.Mulder is discovered and rushed to the field hospital seen at the beginning of "Colony", where Scully—having learned that the alien blood contains a retrovirus that dies in cold temperatures—convinces the doctors to take him out of the bath that would warm his body up.As Mulder's condition stabilizes, Scully writes a field report crediting science with detecting the retrovirus and saving Mulder.