 Since the closure of the X @-@ Files , the FBI has reassigned Mulder to a low @-@ level wiretap while his former partner , Dana Scully , has returned to teaching at the FBI Academy . The two have a discreet meeting at the parking lot of the Watergate Hotel , where Mulder admits that he has been doubting his belief in the paranormal since Deep Throat 's assassination . Mulder flashes back to the night when his sister , Samantha , was abducted . 
