- John Doggett: Hey, good morning, Agent Scully. How you feeling today?
- Scully: I'm fine. How are *you* feeling?
- John Doggett: Me? Good. But then I don't got a little J. Edgar to lug around.
- Scully: A.D. Skinner just called. He told me about your meeting with Kersh.
- John Doggett: Well, whatever he told you I'm still going to be here to drive you crazy with questions and nagging doubt.
- Scully: You'd be crazy to stay, Agent Doggett. This is a huge career opportunity for you.
- John Doggett: It's not my career he's got in mind.
- Scully: What do you mean?
- John Doggett: In six weeks, you go on maternity leave. Kersh transfers me out, guess what? He gets to lock that door over there for good.
- Scully: You don't owe me anything, Agent Doggett.
- John Doggett: They put me down here to find Mulder. I found him. So what? We still got an open file on this case and I got big questions.
- [Scully laughs pitifully]
- John Doggett: What?
- Scully: I heard the same speech come out of my mouth 7 years ago.
- [she sits down in Mulder's chair]
- Scully: Get out while you can, Agent Doggett. Or you may never get out at all.
- Alvin Kersh: Smile, John. You look tense. I've asked you here to commend you.
- John Doggett: [Kersh hands him a letter] What's this?
- Alvin Kersh: A letter to the director citing your meritorious efforts in the recovery of Agent Fox Mulder. And a recommendation that you be considered for advancement.
- John Doggett: [Doggett turns to Skinner] Sir, the Assistant Director here deserves more credit than I...
- Walter Skinner: Deputy Director Kersh spoke to me at length before you came up. He thanked me and asked me to write you a letter, too...
- [pause]
- Walter Skinner: ... officially transferring you off the X-Files to a division more suited to your talents.
- Alvin Kersh: Man of my word, Agent Doggett.
- John Doggett: Thank you for your support, sir. But all things being equal, I... uuh... would like to give any transfer some thought.
- Alvin Kersh: Fish while they are biting, John.
- Scully: He was the last. His father and mother, his sister... all gone. I think the real tragedy... is that for all of his pain and searching... the truth that he worked so hard to find was never truly revealed to him.
- [her voice breaks]
- Scully: I can't truly believe that I'm really standing here.
- Walter Skinner: [comforting] I know. And I don't truly believe that... Mulder's the last.