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There used to be a mysterious man lurking in the shadows,
alternately warning and informing
Fox Mulder. He was much like
Deep Throat, never making the audience sure of his agenda of
either complex misinformation or exposure of the truth. One thing
different about Mr. X (Steven Williams) was his unwillingness to put himself in harm's
way to help Mulder. In the flashback fifth-season episode "Unusual Suspects" it was revealed that as early as 1989 he had encountered Agent Mulder, who back then was not assigned to The X-Files, instead to the Violent Crimes Section of the FBI. In the second-season episode "One Breath" he approached Mulder in the hospital parking lot and told him that he saw Deep Throat get killed and doesn't want the same thing to happen to him. He duked it out with
Walter Skinner in the
episode "Endgame" when he refused to divulge Mulder's whereabouts
to
Agent Scully. In the episode "Soft Light", Mr. X stuck his nose
into Scully and Mulder's case and hindered their investigation by
killing a key figure in the case, and kidnapping and putting
in captivity the man who had the deadly shadow. He was confronted
by Mulder, who told him that he never wanted them to meet ever
again. X responded by calling out to him, "You're choosing
a dangerous time to go it alone." Eventually it was discovered that
Mr. X had worked for the
Cigarette-Smoking Man. In "Wetwired",
he showed some of his dark side, gunning down two men under orders from The Cigarette Smoking Man. In "Talitha
Cumi", he took surveillance photographs of a meeting between
the Smoking Man and the mother of Mulder. Without X's knowledge,
the Smoking Man found out about the photos and set out to kill
this traitor to his organization by hiring an assasin, leaving X shot dead in
"Herrenvolk". As he lay dying, he left Mulder a note scrawled in blood with the initials
"SRSG". This clue then led Mulder to a woman from the UN named Marita
Covarrubias.
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