 Assistant Director Walter Skinner (Mitch Pileggi), working for The Smoking Man (William B. Davis), covers up the death by deleting the file on the case from agent Fox Mulder's (David Duchovny) computer, cleaning up all the evidence at the scene, burning the woman's body in an incinerator and replacing the police's blood sample for the case by impersonating Mulder.As he leaves the police station, Skinner is chased down by Detective Ray Thomas, who believes he is Mulder.Skinner tells him there is nothing on the case warranting his involvement, and leaves.