He watches in awe as figures walk out of the light. Scully finds a copy of the Goochland Guardian newspaper on her doorstep. An article about the young boy is on the front page. Although his family had refused medical treatment for him because of their beliefs, the boy had miraculously been cured. At the office, Mulder receives an anonymous email from someone at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency about the same incident.
Someone is insistent that they investigate the case.
The McPeck family is grateful for their son's miracle cure. Scully sees that he has a mark similar to her own implant scar. The Cigarette-Smoking Man waits outside the McPeck home in Scully's car. He claims that he was responsible for saving the boy's life, as well as hers. He questions why she is not curious about his technology since he went to considerable trouble to prove his intentions.