Tonight's special. Nothing about it has to carry forward beyond this moment (though if it does, he certainly won't complain). Scully curled up beside him, murmuring that she loves him, the child she's carrying resting against his side - he couldn't ask for more.

"Terrible," he agrees. He's slumped down some, his feet on the coffee table, and onscreen, Torgo's theme music plays. "One of the worst I've ever seen, if you want to know."