A couple of weeks later, Billy Miles is put under hypnosis. He recalls how he was abducted in the forest as he and some classmates celebrated their graduation. Over time, the classmates were subjected to tests by the aliens, and later killed when the tests failed. Scully provides Blevins with the metal implant, the only remaining piece of evidence. She later learns from Mulder that Billy's case files are missing. Meanwhile, The Smoking Man stores the implant away, amongst other identical implants, in a vast evidence room within the Pentagon.