I mean, what did happen to Mulder when he went missing for an entire series?....re-incarnated as the Pope, I shouldn't wonder!!
What's that you say?.... its a work of fiction? No no I am certain in my world view, its those pesky space aliens I tell you.

You really shouldn't take the Da Vinci Code as anything but a big work of fiction, or I and my Illuminati colleagues will silence you! Whao. Ha ha :D

I don't go to mythical places with strange men.
-- Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul.