A sensor alerts the Cigarette-Smoking Man to their presence, and he manages to kill one of them before making his escape into the woods. Skinner briefs Mulder on the death of the Russian chess player. It turns out that the sniper is a former member of the National Security Agency. The case was assigned to Agent Spender, who specified that Mulder be excluded from the investigation. Despite this, Mulder and Skinner crash Spender's briefing.
Spender disagrees with the theory.
Agent Diana Fowley, an attractive woman in her thirties, opines that Mulder is correct. The Cigarette-Smoking Man meets with the Syndicate Elders. Mulder, Scully and Diana Fowley visit Gibson inside a psychiatric hospital. Tests on the child's brain reveal that Gibson is, indeed, clairvoyant. Later, Mulder visits the shooter in his cell.