In the first episode of season 10, "My Struggle" (2016), it is shown that Scully is still working as a doctor for "Our Lady of Sorrows" hospital, now performing surgeries on children with severe birth defects. It is revealed that Scully has extraterrestrial DNA, as the test that she performs on herself confirms. After the FBI reopens the X-Files, fourteen years after their closure, she rejoins the bureau. In "Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster", Scully jokes that she often enters dangerous situations alone due to the immortality she obtained during "Tithonus", episode in which the protagonist was immortal, but desperate to die, and devised a situation to meet Death, thus "stealing" Scully's "time to die". At the end of "Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster", Scully steals a dog from an animal control center, named Daggoo, which is named after yet another character from "Moby-Dick". In "Home Again" Dana's mother, Margaret Scully, dies after suffering a heart attack. In the show's tenth season finale, "My Struggle II", Scully is in a race against time to save humankind, creating a vaccine from her own extraterrestrial DNA.