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Agent Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) is an expert in psychology, and has a leaning towards
the paranormal. He has a good understanding of the minds of serial
killers and paranormal entities. He graduated from Oxford University,
and was highly recruited for the F.B.I. Academy. Mulder wrote a
detailed monograph on serial killers. His preference for the paranormal
prevented him form landing a high-profile career in the Federal Bureau
of Investigation. Instead, he chose to work down in the F.B.I.'s basement of unexplained
cases, the X-Files. His traumatic experience at the age of 12 when his
sister was abducted by aliens has fueled his drive to uncover the truth
about extraterrestrials and the government. In 1989, he met a trio of computer hackers dubbed The Lone Gunmen, from whom he was told of a government conspiracy which started his paranoia about the government. Later on, his father Bill was gunned down. In the second season two-parter "Colony/End Game" his sister was apparently returned, only turning out to be an alien clone. Mulder's quest to uncover the
truth has earned him few allies, but many enemies. A few who were on his
side have been gunned down, such as
Deep Throat and the cryptic
Mr.X. But he has earned a few more, such as the three members of The Lone
Gunmen: Langly, Byers, and Frohike. In the season-one finale "The Erlenmeyer Flask", he was kidnapped by a covert government group, but was returned after Deep Throat gave them a parcel containing alien tissue. In the second season episode "One Breath" he received The Smoking Man's address from Assistant Director Skinner and barged in. He pointed a gun at The Smoking Man's head, but didn't shoot after he realized that killing The Smoking Man would also kill the truth. He then decided to resign from the Bureau but Skinner refused to accept it. In the second-season episode "Anasazi", he went to a buried traincar which contained the bodies of victims of smallpox experiments. The Smoking Man had the traincar set on fire, and Mulder was almost killed. Albert Hosteen and a tribe of Navajo brought him back to life in the season-three premiere "The Blessing Way". In the fourth season episode "Demons" Mulder was almost charged with a brutal double murder, but it was found that he was drugged and that it was a murder-suicide and Mulder was just a bystander. The drug almost caused Mulder to shoot Scully in the same episode. In the season 4 finale "Gethsemane", Mulder gunned down a man spying on him, and told his partner,
Agent Dana Scully, to lie for him in front of a committee of FBI directors. In "Redux II" he was given an offer by the Smoking Man to work for him and quit the FBI, but Mulder refused. In the same episode, Mulder's sister visited Mulder in The Smoking Man's car. Mulder tried to tell her about her abduction, but she refused because it was too much for her, and left again. In the fifth-season episode "Emily" he helped Scully investigate into the past of a girl named Emily who was supposedly a girl born from one of Scully's own ovum.
In "Patient X", Mulder became skeptical when he met an alien abductee who had hoped that he would believe her. He grew to believe that the government had hoaxed aliens all along. In "The Red and the Black", he pursued a threat to Agent Scully's life, and encountered an alien with a sewn-up face which could be the key to an alien war. At the end of the fifth season, Mulder and Scully were banished from the X-Files.
In the X-Files movie, Mulder met a man named Kurzweil who gave him information on a conspiracy having to do with the destruction of bodies infected with the black oil. Mulder discovered "quarantine camps" where the black oil creature was being studied. He met with the Well Manicured Man, who gave him major information on how the black oil came to be. Mulder almost kissed Scully. Later, he went to Antarctica to rescue Scully from being used as a host for the aliens. He and Scully barely escaped with their lives.
In season six, Mulder has continued his investigations despite of his reassignment away from the X-Files. In the episode "One Son", the Cigarette-Smoking Man told Agent Mulder that the conspiracy plan was ultimately succesful, and that both he and Mulder would survive to see Mulder's sister given back by the black oil aliens.
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