It's a good question, one he doesn't really have an answer for. "If we get desperate. I don't think anyone at the FBI misses having Spooky Mulder around."

Skinner still gives a damn, and Mulder knows it; he could see it in the way he'd looked at them both. But it's easier to stew in misery than try to reach out. As he cracks a couple of eggs into a pan - last clean one, clearly not actually for eggs - he adds, "It'd probably sound better coming from you. Might give us a little more to work with."