 At a postal routing center in Vienna , Virginia a woman is killed by a swarm of bees in the bathroom while taking a cigarette break . Assistant Director Walter Skinner ( Mitch Pileggi ) , working for The Smoking Man ( William B. Davis ) , covers up the death by deleting the file on the case from agent Fox Mulder 's ( David Duchovny ) computer , cleaning up all the evidence at the scene , burning the woman 's body in an incinerator and replacing the police 's blood sample for the case by posing as Mulder . As he leaves the police station , Skinner is chased down by Detective Ray Thomas , who believes he is Mulder . Skinner tells him there is nothing on the case warranting his involvement , and leaves . 
