Twenty @-@ four hours earlier , Skinner lose a boxing match after experiencing a dizzy spell . He is discharged from the hospital but Fox Mulder ( David Duchovny ) and Dana Scully ( Gillian Anderson ) witness a bruise on his ribs growing . After trawling through security footage from the entrance to the J. Edgar Hoover Building , Scully recognize a physicist by the name of Dr. Kenneth Orgel , who advise the Senate subcommittee on ethics and new technology , who stopped Skinner in the hall that same morning . Mulder and Skinner travel to the physicist 's house but find he is being held hostage . Mulder apprehend one of the kidnappers , who do not speak English . They release him since he have papers showing diplomatic immunity . Mulder do a background check on him anyway .