*Mulder and Scully find the Cigarette-Smoking Man, long thought dead, living among the ruins of ancient Anasazi Indian pueblos. He tells them that here he is protected from the alien Super Soldiers because of the magnetite in the surrounding rocks.
Mulder learns that it was the CSM who led him to the underground facility where he discovered the truth from which he has tried to protect Scully. CSM delights in telling her that the date of the final alien colonization, a date that signals the end of mankind, is 12.22.12. He concludes that sharing this knowledge with Mulder is why he protected the agent for so many years; not content with simply killing Mulder, the CSM wanted to see him broken by the realization that he is powerless to stop the impending colonization. Mulder and Scully leave him to die as helicopters fire bomb the dwellings. *Source: Back of card