Clothes, and then a phone, and onward to the real world again. (Nothing about malls is real. They're all relics of another, flashier era, when nobody needed a phone in their pocket and everyone's hair was a little too big.) And Scully asks the magic question - rather, she asks a normal question in exactly the right way, using we.

It's been a while. He tries not to let his face light up the way it wants to.

"We have a bottle of Tide in the laundry room," he answers, pretending she isn't just saying Mulder, what's wrong with you? with a different set of words. "But if you want groceries, we can get groceries."