As a second group of armed men arrive, Scully calls Walter Skinner (Mitch Pileggi) for help, only to be told to surrender.
After solving a questionably convoluted puzzle, they come upon the tombstone of Deep Throat, whose name is revealed to be Ronald Pakula.
The agents scan the code to find images of the Long Lines Building in New York City, the home of an NSA program called Titanpointe and a project codenamed Blarney.
Before she can finish explaining how to contact Langly's consciousness within the simulation, she is killed by the Russian assassin, who is shot by Scully in response.
He tells them that the great minds of the world within the virtual reality have been reduced to digital slaves, and the agents need to shut it down.
Mulder is led to a room with Erika Price (Barbara Hershey), revealing that she is the one responsible for devising the simulation.
Price insists she's able to painlessly copy a person's consciousness anytime they use a cellphone, and advises Mulder to change the way he looks at the world.
[1] Besides main cast members David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson and Mitch Pileggi, the episode features guest stars, Barbara Hershey, and the return of Dean Haglund, originally killed off in Season 9.