"So I won't get arrested." Evenly, good-humored, with the kind of confidence they both know he probably shouldn't use to make promises. "Unless they haul me in for looking for work."

Of course, it always starts out simple - but he's already expecting to be turned away from anything interesting, and he doesn't know the place well enough yet to know what he isn't being told. Job-hunting is simple reconnaissance at most.

In the meanwhile, Scully doesn't say this isn't burning my tongue, Mulder, so he's probably not experiencing anaphylactic shock. Always good to know.