Fox Mulder Agent Fox William Mulder, an Oxford-trained psychologist with a photographic memory, is one of the FBI Violent Crimes division's best agents, although he is in disfavor with not only his superiors but also his colleagues because of his interest in the Bureau's X-Files. He stumbled upon these files, dealing with unexplained phenomena, during his first three years with the Bureau, as a crack analyst in the Bureau's behavioral sciences department. His fascination with the paranormal stems from a childhood incident where his sister Samantha disappeared from their home in Chilmark, Mass. (pop. 650) when he was 12 and she was 8. Mulder claims she was abducted by aliens; during regressions he recalled hearing his sister's cries for help, and a bright light which kept him paralyzed and told him that his sister would be all right. This memory differs from a dream sequence Mulder experienced one night. Mulder has come in contact with an alien hybrid who claimed to be Samantha and an alien bounty hunter who told him that his sister was alive. He has vowed to continue his search for her. Mulder is known around the Bureau by the nickname of "Spooky" both because of his uncanny ability to process information and leap ahead to logical conclusions, and because of his interest in paranormal phenomena. "He is considered a loose cannon, a person who is maybe wasting time and money, and also his expertise, on an area the Bureau thinks has very little value." Due to an incident on one of his first Bureau assignments (a fellow agent was killed), he eschews following investigations "by the book," opting instead for his own instincts and methods. He keeps notes for his field reports in a handwritten journal. His favorite alias is George Hale. We believe Mulder doesn't "have a life," as we have seen little of his off-duty activities. However, some of this may stem from a relationship he had at Oxford ten years ago with a woman who is now with Scotland Yard (Phoebe Green). He apparently was in love with her but she not with him. With the dissolution of the X Files division, however, Mulder may have been trying to revive his social life; an answering machine message berated him for missing a lunch date. Mulder's birthdate is Oct. 13, 1961. His parents appear to have been separated. His father, Bill, worked in an unknown capacity for the State Department, and was murdered by Krycek before telling Mulder about secrets in his past. Mulder's mother confirmed that Samantha had been kidnapped to insure her father's silence about his covert activities. He has a fear of fire, which may have been conquered during his rescue of the children of British MP Sir Malcolm Marsden (who also happened to be Phoebe's latest fling). He is also a fan of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). He has a habit of eating shelled sunflower seeds (a habit he shares with his father and which in one episode he claimed stopped vampires), and making droll comments which X-Philes have come to note as "Mulderisms." Mulder is red-and-green colorblind, enjoys wearing moderately wild ties to work, and seems to be a New York Knicks fan as well as a Washington Redskins fan. He appears to have a fondness for classic rock and classic science fiction movies, and iced tea seems to be his nonalcoholic beverage of choice. He also keeps himself physically fit by running and swimming. There are suggestions that Mulder has an interest in pornography. In the episode "Jersey Devil," we see Mulder looking at the centerfold of some "men's magazine" talking about how the woman claims she was abducted by aliens; in another episode Scully remarks that she hadn't seen Mulder that excited since she caught him going through the Adult Video News; a third episode mentions a subscription to Celebrity Skin, he appears to be viewing a porno video in a fourth, he makes comments about a video he purchased (not a porno video) in a fifth. He also appears to call sex hot lines. As a psychologist, he favors using hypnotic regression as a psychological healing tool, and hates the unnecessary use of medication. Dana Scully Dana Katherine Scully is a medical doctor with an undergraduate degree in physics from the University of Maryland. She was recruited for the FBI right out of medical school, and had been teaching at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Va. She was assigned by Section Chief Scott Blevins to be Mulder's partner in order to keep an eye on him and determine whether he is perhaps too obsessed with the X files. Scully is skeptical of anything paranormal, believing that everything has a logical, scientifically-quantified explanation. Though in most of the cases she and Mulder have been on she has not witnessed any overt paranormal activities, she has had brushes with unexplainable phenomena that may have her start questioning her beliefs. However, she is determined to uncover the science behind the phenomena. At the end of Season 1, the X Files division was shut down and Scully was reassigned, returning to the FBI academy at Quantico, Va. to instruct new agents on the basics of forensic medicine. However, Mulder called upon her expertise in violent crime cases to which he had been assigned. Scully, born Feb. 23, 1964, is a middle child; she has one older and one younger brother, and an older sister, Melissa, now deceased. Her father was a Navy Captain and died early in 1994; they were apparently close at one time (she called him Ahab after the character in Moby Dick; he called her Starbuck), but her family disapproved of her joining the Bureau. She had a yearlong relationship with an instructor at the Academy, Jack Willis, with whom she shared the same birthdate. She is just as much a workaholic as Mulder, and is currently not seeing anyone. Scully drinks her coffee with cream, no sugar. She was raised as a Catholic. She usually wears a necklace bearing a small cross, which was left behind in the car in which she was abducted and was returned to her by Mulder. The cross was given to her by her mother when Scully was 13 years old. In a spirit of rebellion, she got a tattoo on her back Walter S. Skinner Assistant Director Walter S. Skinner (Mitch Pileggi) is Mulder's and Scully's superior. He warned both Scully and Mulder that their unorthodox methods of investiation may have dire consequences, and followed through by shutting down the X Files division at an order from "the highest levels of government." He has since had second throughts and reopened the X Files. He has also overtly showed his support for Mulder, openly confronting Cigarette Smoking Man, and is trying (with no luck at all) to keep Mulder from going over the edge. The Cigarette-Smoking Man also tried to get Skinner removed from his office by framing him for murder, but was unsuccessful. He negotiated with Cigarette-Smoking Man for a cure of Scully's cancer, and was assigned the eradication of all evidence of a mistaken murder at the order of the CSM. Skinner is married and has no children. Cigarette-Smoking Man The Cigarette-Smoking Man aka CSM (William B. Davis) He has become one of the all time favorite bad guys -- one of those we love to hate. The one you never see without a cigarette in his hand; the evilist of villain on X-Files. He is likened to Darth Vader once the rumor started that he might be Mulder and/or Samantha's father. His denial and statement that he is Agent Spender's father has really thrown the imagination into high gear. He seems to be part of this conspiracy that's plotting... something. It's hard to say what. It is possibly a plan to create a race of human/alien hybrids, as mentioned in the movie. We finally find out the truth about his family - his wife is alien abductee Cassandra Spender, making his son, who else, Jeffery Spender. (And no, we haven't found out if he's Fox and Sam's father) The suspense builds!!! In real life William Davis is a non-smoker but smokes Clove cigarettes in his role. He clains they don't taste bad but....