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Name: Fox Mulder Rank: Special Agent, FBI Background: Oxford University, FBI Violent Crimes Section Specialty: Alien abductions, occult beliefs and mysteries, genetic mutants, abnormal psychology. |
To many agents of the FBI, behaviorial science is a means to an end: the capture of deranged criminals. For Fox Mulder, science is but a tool to unlock the mystery that has haunted him since childhood: the fate of his younger sister Samantha.
Mulder started in the Violent Crimes Unit of the FBI, catching an important killer in 1989. He transferred to his own one-man unit, the X-Files section, in 1991, under the direction of Section Chief Scott Blevins. Blevins wasn't sure what to make of the soft-spoken young man who calmly talked about alien abduction and memory-altering conspiracies, so in 1992, he assigned Dana Scully to work with Mulder on the X-Files to make sure Mulder wasn't wasting government funds along with his own time. ("Pilot").
For a time, Mulder got information from a government insider called Deep Throat (played by Jerry Hardin), who would alert him to hidden events transpiring around the country. Deep Throat intimated that aliens had been associated with the U.S. government for some time, and that many in the government knew a great deal about them. Eventually, Deep Throat was murdered by the mysterious Cigarette-Smoking Man, whom Mulder calls Cancer Man ("The Erlenmeyer Flask").
Later, another government agent called X started passing Mulder information ("Sleepless). X was not willing to risk his life, as Deep Throat had; he would only appear when Mulder made an X on the window with tape, or with objects near where he was staying. Eventually X became concerned for the fate of Mulder's mother and tried to warn him without waiting for the X to be placed, and was killed, presumably by members of the Cancer Man's conspiracy ("Herrenvolk").
Mulder worked on his own for a short while after the X-Files were shut down ("Little Green Men", "The Host", "Blood", "Sleepless", "3" and "Duane Barry"), not officially assigned to the X-Files but still being handed the weird assignments that crossed the desk of his new supervisor, Assistant Director Walter S. Skinner. At the end of the Duane Barry affair, Skinner reopened the X-Files and paired Scully with Mulder again ("Duane Barry").
Mulder became aware of Cancer Man during the period when Scully was abducted; he holds him at gunpoint and forces Cancer Man to admit his complicity in the alien-government conspiracy ("One Breath"). But Mulder is not out to clean up the world, he's out to find answers, so he lets Cancer Man go.
Over the course of the series, Mulder has become aware that aliens, possibly with government assistance, have been cloning humans and human-alien hybrids for some years ("Eve", "Colony" and "Herrenvolk"). He believes they are colonizing the Earth, and that Samantha was taken as part of the cloning experiments. He has even met clones of Samantha, both as a grown woman ("Colony") and as a child ("Herrenvolk").
Among Mulder's other allies are the Calusari, a mystical religious sect who occasionally warn him of occult dangers ("The Calusari") and the Lone Gunmen, a trio of conspiracy buffs who publish the "Magic Bullet" newsletter ("E.B.E.", "Fearful Symmetry", "Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man").
He has had one romantic interlude, with Kirsten Kilar ("3") and had an old flame from his Oxford days, Inspector Phoebe Green of Scotland Yard ("Fire"), but has no girlfriend or steady romantic interest. He was immediately attracted to Melissa Ephisian, the reincarnation of a soul he has loved through many lives, but lost her after the briefest of meetings ("In The Field Where I Died").
.Mulder has undergone hypnotic regression three times to seek buried memories of his sister. The first two times, he remembered her kidnapping differently; in one, he and she were asleep in their respective beds, while in the other, they were playing Stratego. But in both memories, Mulder was paralyzed and a beam of light took Samanatha away.
His desire to find Samantha haunts every day of Mulder's life ("Conduit").Mulder has undergone hypnotic regression three times to seek buried memories of his sister. The first two times, ("Conduit" and "Little Green Men") he remembered her kidnapping differently; in one, he and she were asleep in their respective beds, while in the other, they were playing Stratego. But in both memories, Mulder was paralyzed and a beam of light took Samanatha away.
The third time he was hypnotically regressed, Mulder recalled past lives, in which he and Samantha were always together, in different guises. In one life, they were in World War II Poland; Mulder was a woman, Samantha was his son, and Melissa, his soulmate, was his husband. A Gestapo officer was the Cancer Man. In another life, during the Civil War, Mulder and Scully were soldiers together, fighting the Yankees ("In the Field Where I Died").
Text by Steve Johnson
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