The agents continue this sprawling Piper Maru/Aphocrypha mythology case separated from each other and on different journeys as usual in their pursuit of the truth (see also: Terma/Tunguska two parter in 4th season). Cross reference an oft-expressed message of the XF: the truth Scully expresses, "Maybe we bury the dead alive." That justice is meted out through the living through conscious. See Momento Mori, Gethsemane, Amor Fati, and All Things for more ruminations on death, plus series finale The Truth, in which Mulder reiterates the sentiment of a more realistic kind of life after death for those who are remembered by the living (also filed under A for Afterlife is Improbable and Closure).