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FBI Agent: Fox Mulder
Fox Mulder was 12 when his 8 year-old sister, Samantha, disappeared. That one
incident shaped his life. He tells Scully, in the pilot, that it tore his family apart, no
one would talk about it, there were no facts to confront, nothing to offer any hope.
As an adult, Mulder underwent hypo-regression therapy and remembered a bright
light and a presence in the room on the night his sister disappeared. He remember-
ed being paralysed, unable to respond to her cries for help. She was, it would seem,
abducted by aliens. That's where his obsession started and almost everything goes
back to that moment.
In the third season episode Oubliette, Mulder tells Scully that she can't attribute
everything about him from just one childhood incident. But even as he is denying
it, it is obvious that Scully is right. Mulder escaped the troubles in his family by
going to England where he studied psychology at Oxford. When he came back, he
was recruited by the FBI and attended the academy where he earned the nickname
'Spooky' Mulder. He developed a talent for psychological profiles and this success
allowed him the freedom to pursue his interests.
He discovered the X-Files and became fascinated with
the UFO and paranormal cases filed away in there, read-
ing everything he could get his hands on. He made the
X-Files his own and was given a basement office with no
windows from which to work. It's the home, he tells Scully,
of the FBI's most unwanted.
Mulder's crusade to find out what the government is
hiding and expose it has become a singular passion. "N-
othing else matters," he once said and that probably ex-
plains why he is pretty much a loner, spending much of
his free time alone in his apartment. He prefers people
to use his surname, he says he even told his parents to
call him "Mulder". No one, it seems, is allowed to get
close to Fox Mulder.
After the death of Deep Throat, Mulder felt the only person he could trust is Scully.
Their relationship never ventures beyond the professional, but it goes deep than mutual
respect. He feels guilty when she is abducted and his care for her is so great that he
forgot the opportunity to confront the men who know about it in order to be with Scully
in hospital.
On the surface, this FBI agent would appear to be just a regular guy. Like every ot-
her kid he wanted to be astronaut when he grew up, he has a sense of humour, he likes
football and doesn't look like the sort of weirdo you would cross the street to avoid.
But that doesn't stop him pursuing his cause with occasionally foolish obsession: walk-
ing across a mine field because he believes it's protecting government UFO technology
(Deep Throat), risking off a bridge onto a speeding train (Nisel).
And now, with the death of his father (Anasazi), his work has become even more pers-
onal. His father was murdered before he could explain his involvement with the govern-
ment cover-up. It has only made Mulder more determined to uncover the truth.
**The above material is by Jane Killick and is taken from Starburst, issue 211.
© Visual Imagination, 1996
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