 Fox Mulder ( David Duchovny ) remembers his experiences on the alien ship as he touches the scars on his face and chest . Dana Scully ( Gillian Anderson ) enters with Dr. Lim and they give him surprisingly good news : The neurological condition that was killing him , before his disappearance , is gone and he is in perfect health . Mulder returns to his apartment with Scully and he congratulates her on the pregnancy she had sought for a long time . Meanwhile , in prison , an inmate librarian gives Absalom — the former leader of a doomsday UFO " group " last seen in " DeadAlive " — a book about the apocalypse . Hidden inside is a newspaper article about the man who jumped the fence . Absalom later escapes during a work detail by attacking a guard with a board with a nail in it . 
