Turns out she's polite, even as she's stubborn and argumentative. If nothing else is true, this first little interview suggests that Dana Scully's going to be interesting to work with. Even if she's here on assassination duty, she's willing to bring her own ideas to the fore - and who knows? Maybe he can convince her.

Even if he can't, he has the feeling the next few days are going to be interesting.

In the morning, he slings his overnight bag over a shoulder and heads out to Dulles, meeting up with his new partner at the gate.

"Morning, Scully." Mulder has the irritatingly chipper manner of someone who woke up at two in the morning and made his peace with exhaustion. (It's a long ride to the other side of the country. Maybe he'll sleep then.) He holds out a sizeable foam cup of coffee to her. There's another in his other hand, already half drunk. "Ready to look at some extremely pedestrian and definitely terrestrial phenomena?"