- [Meeting the Cigarette Smoking Man in the hospital where Scully is]
- Mulder: Please tell me you're here with severe chest pains.
- Mulder: [answering the phone after a confrontation with Scully's brother at the hospital] One sorry son of a bitch speaking.
- Senior Agent: Agent Mulder, the Section Chief asked you a question you are going to answer!
- Mulder: I can't do that!
- Senior Agent: You can and you will!
- Mulder: I can't do that sir, because the Section Chief is the man I'm about to name!
- [Blevins eyes shoot wide open. All look at him. Skinner looks at Mulder. Mulder sits back in his chair, there, he's done it]
- Mulder: [the Cigarette Smoking Man stares, depressed, at a photograph of Samantha and Mulder as kids. He looks out the window just as a shot is fired from across the street]
- [Blevins rushes in and shuts the door behind him. There's a man in at his desk on the phone. He hangs up and stands. Blevins rushes to the desk to confront him, he's confronted with a bullet to the chest instead. The shooter puts the gun in Blevins hand after wiping off the fingerprints with a ShamWow cloth and leaves]
- Mulder: [Cigarette Smoking Man lies on the floor presumably bleeding to death, holding the photograph of Samantha and Mullder as he falls unconscious]
- [Scene fades out to black]
- Scully: Have you ever witnessed a miracle, Dr. Zuckerman?
- Dr. Zuckerman: I don't know that I have. But I have seen people make recoveries, come back from so far gone I can't explain it.
- Scully: Isn't that a miracle?
- Dr. Zuckerman: Maybe they are miracles... But I don't dare call them that.
- Skinner: The Smoking Man's dead.
- Mulder: How?
- Skinner: Shot through his window.
- [he hands Mulder an blood-splattered old photo of him with Samantha]
- Skinner: Forensics found it at the scene. We're assuming it's his blood.
- Mulder: Assuming?
- Skinner: Well, no body was found. Although there was too much blood loss for anyone to have survived.