tHe BrIeF ProFilE sTorY of
FBI Agent:Dana Scully
WHEN FBI Agent Fox Mulder engineered the re-opening of the X-Files, the bureau's
cases of the paranormal and the unexplained, the forces working to keep these cases
from becoming public knowledge chose to team Mulder with a partner who would file
reports on the investigations.
They chose Dana Scully, a medical doctor who had been teaching forensic medicine
at the FBI's Quantico training faculty, in the hope that her skeptical nature and
scientific perspective would discredit Mulder's theories and lead to the closing of
the X-Files once and for all. But it has been precisely these qualities-Scully's de-
termination to subject all evidence to the cold light of reason, her insistence upon
explanations grounded firmly in the realm of science-which have brought these inves-
tigations closer to proving Mulder's theories than they ever could have in his hands
alone.
Mulder was initially wary of Scully's participation 
in the X-Files. But he soon developed a special trust
in Scully's commitment to uncovering the truth. Scully
was originally motivated only by her intellectual cur-
iousity and a deep empathy and compassion for the inn-
ocent victims of the mysterious horrors she witnessed
in these cases.
After the death of her beloved father, Scully expe-
rienced an unexplained visitation from the dead man's
spirit. While this encounter did not shake her faith
in science, Scully did begin to treat Mulder's theori-
es with somewhat respect.
When Duane Barry, a man who claimed to have been
abducted by aliens, took a group of innocent civilians
hostage in an attempt to prevent another abduction,
Mulder was called in to help negotiate with Barry and defuse the situation. After
the hostages were released, Barry escaped and kidnapped Scully to offer her to
the abductors in his place.
By the time Mulder caught up with Barry, Scully was already gone. She remained
missing for weeks, during which time Mulder despaired over his inability to rescue
her in time. She reappeared mysteriously, lingering near death in the Intensive
Care Unit. When she finally reawakened, she could remember nothing of her abducti-
on. But the trauma of the experience would linger in her subconscious for a long
time to come.
When the agents come into possession of a digital tape containing records of the
government's knowledge of UFO activity, the conspirators decided that they had come
too close to the truth and took steps to eliminate Scully. But their plan backfired
and Scully's sister, Melissa, was accidentally killed instead.
Knowing that the only way to bring the men who killed her sister to justice was
to expose the conspiracy. When the agents investigated the origins of an alien aut-
opsy videotape, Scully discovered a group of women who had been through similar ab-
duction experiences, each bearing a tiny metallic microchip like the one extracted
from Scully's neck after her abduction.
Despite her experiences, Scully remains commited to the application of rational
scientific inquiry to the X-Files investigations. Her experiences may have opened
her mind to possibilities more extreme than those conceived in traditional science,
but she remains determined to prove that even paranormal phenomena can have logical
explanations. In this way, Dana Scully's contribution to The X-Files is as crucial
as Fox Mulder's faith in the existence of things unseen and unexplained.
The material above had been adjusted and was taken from Xposé #6.
It was originally written by Jesse James Garrett.
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